Amy Bradley: Vanished At Sea
Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.2 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In Part Three of Amy Bradley: Vanished at Sea, Dr. Phil sits down with Amy’s younger brother, Brad Bradley, the last person to see her alive for a deeply personal examination of what really happened in the final hours before she disappeared.
Brad revisits the night on board the Rhapsody of the Seas, clarifying long-misreported details about Amy’s state of mind, her fear of the ocean, and the precise 30-minute window in which she vanished. He challenges the long-standing “overboard” theory with ship-speed calculations, docking procedures, and firsthand observations that place the vessel at Curaçao, not open sea, when Amy went missing.
From missing photographs and unexplained crew behavior to critical details about the cabin scene that were altered before investigators arrived, this episode reframes the case through the eyes of someone who lived it and raises unsettling questions about what was known, when it was known, and who may have known more than they admitted.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on a special bonus episode of mystery and murder analysis by Dr. Phil, we're taking you deeper inside the case of Amy Lynn Bradley. |
| 0:18.7 | For more than 25 years, her disappearance from the Royal Caribbean Cruise ship |
| 0:23.8 | Rhapsody of the Seas has haunted her family. In this episode, we're sitting down with Amy's younger |
| 0:31.4 | brother, Brad Bradley. Now, Brad was one of the last people to see, Amy. He was on that ship. |
| 0:39.4 | He remembers the timeline, the atmosphere, the search, and the way this investigation |
| 0:45.6 | unfolded in a way no one else can. |
| 0:49.8 | And today he's opening up about what he saw and what he believes happened. |
| 0:56.2 | Brad, how are you? |
| 0:58.0 | I'm doing well, sir. |
| 0:58.8 | How are you doing? |
| 0:59.9 | Well, I'm good and I'm very pleased to meet you. |
| 1:03.9 | I'm very sorry for the circumstance, however. |
| 1:06.5 | I wish we were talking about a thousand other things besides this, but I'm very glad to talk to you, |
| 1:12.6 | and I understand that you've listened to what I've had to say about this so far, |
| 1:18.5 | and my goal is to just keep a bright light on over this story and do anything I can to help |
| 1:26.2 | you and your family find out what has happened |
| 1:29.5 | to your sister. I appreciate it very much. I agree a lot of other things I'd rather be talking |
| 1:36.4 | to you about. But we're very thankful and grateful to you for shining the light and continuing to |
| 1:43.0 | let people know and spread awareness. |
| 1:46.3 | And my parents wanted me to tell you hello. |
| 1:48.4 | And, you know, a long time, you know, been a long time since you guys spoke. |
| 1:53.7 | But they actually shared pictures of you guys with me from that show that you taped way back in 205. And yeah, they've always thought a lot of you, |
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