A jawbone washed up on a shore near where Amy Bradley went missing but wasn’t DNA tested

It was confirmed to not be another missing girl, but no DNA tests for Amy were done


A jawbone washed up on a shore, near the area where Amy Bradley went missing. But, crucially, it was never tested against her DNA.

Amy Bradley went missing whilst she was on a Royal Caribbean cruise, and was last seen in March 1998, when the ship was on its way to Curaçao. Amy was last seen in the early hours of March 24th 1998, as the cruise sailed from Oranjestad, Aruba, to Curaçao.

Last known footage of Amy shows her hanging out with Alister “Yellow” Douglas, a musician on board. She then went back to the family cabin. When her father went to check on her when he woke up, Amy was no longer there.

There have been loads of “sightings” of Amy Bradley since her disappearance, and countless theories about what might have happened. But, one huge detail was missed out of the Netflix series, Amy Bradley Is Missing. That is that a jawbone washed up on shore near where Amy Bradley was last seen.

Amy Bradley

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In 2010, local authorities discovered a jawbone that washed up on a beach in Aruba. It was believed to belong to a Caucasian.

There was another missing persons case around the same time as this discovery, and that was 18-year-old Natalee Holloway. She had gone missing five years prior, in 2005. The jawbone was tested and found to not belong to Natalee, but no such testing was carried out to see if it belonged to Amy Bradley.

The discovery awoke the Amy Bradley case at the time. Many publications, including CNN, questioned if the bone could have belonged to Amy. It was noted that similarly to the Bradley family, Natalee’s parents complained of a lack of urgency by the authorities in the area.

The prime suspect in the Natalee Holloway case has since admitted to killing her, but details of what happened weren’t known until over 15 years after she went missing.

To this day, the Amy Bradley case remains unsolved. She has been declared legally dead, but the FBI is still asking for tips and offering a reward for information.

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