Ep 207 : Amy Bradley: The Unsolved Cruise Ship Disappearance

Mama Mystery with Kelly Evans

Kelly Evans

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.6 • 769 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Amy Bradley vanished without a trace from a Caribbean cruise in March 1998—and the chilling details suggest a sinister explanation. At just 23, Amy boarded Royal Caribbean’s Rhapsody of the Seas for a family vacation but mysteriously disappeared as the ship docked in Curaçao. Despite immediate pleas from her family, the cruise ship’s captain refused to halt disembarkation, allowing crucial evidence—and possibly Amy herself—to slip away unnoticed.

In this episode, I take an in-depth, investigative look at the baffling details surrounding Amy’s disappearance, including disturbing eyewitness sightings, suspicious crew interactions, and alarming connections to human trafficking operations in Curaçao. Did Amy Bradley become a victim of a Caribbean sex-trafficking ring, or is there another explanation hidden behind the cruise line’s troubling response?

Join me as I unravel this haunting case, explore compelling theories, and discuss why, more than two decades later, Amy Bradley’s disappearance continues to captivate and horrify the public.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Mama Mystery. I am your host, Kelly. It is so good to be back. Thank you so much for being so
0:07.0	patient with me last week. We were on vacation and I had brought my computer and my microphone with every
0:13.0	intent to record an episode or at least the weekly docket last week. But we were staying in a place
0:19.2	that had really painfully slow internet. And so I just
0:22.1	knew that it was not going to work out. And honestly, it was probably kind of a God thing that
0:27.0	happened. And, you know, it was kind of forced me to just let go of work, not immerse myself in any
0:33.7	kind of true crime. Because sometimes, you know, it can weigh on you and like feel really
0:38.9	heavy. And so anyway, I really appreciated last week getting to spend time with Austin and the
0:45.1	babies while my big kids were at Camp Canacuck. It was awesome. The place we stayed at was called
0:51.7	Tall Timbers Camp in Branson.
0:56.1	It's really close to Big Cedar.
0:59.8	So if you're in the area, I would highly recommend this camp.
1:07.1	We rented a cabin from Airbnb, but if you just search in like Tall Timbers Cabin, or I'm sorry, Tall Timbers Camp, then you could probably find a cabin.
1:10.5	They're really affordable.
1:11.9	They have great amenities. They had a huge, I think it was like 250,000 gallon pool. It was enormous.
1:19.8	And then they had an indoor pool as well, which was really great because obviously we have a three-year-old and a one-year-old, and I didn't really want my one-year-old, especially out in that extreme heat. We had an extreme heat advisory the entire week, and it was so, so hot. But anyway, I was very thankful for that indoor pool. And the place is just very well-maintained. It's fairly new, so there's still a lot of new construction. But with that, it's just not very busy.
1:46.4	So when you're at the pool, there's like maybe a handful of other families there, but it's not
1:52.1	busy at all. So anyway, that's my quick little two-minute spiel on our trip in Branson. If you
1:57.8	ever, you know, consider going, I highly recommend Tall Timbers Camp.
2:02.6	So today I want to talk about a case that is kind of being brought back into the public sphere,
2:08.7	which is the disappearance of Amy Bradley. So a three-part documentary series came out on Netflix
2:15.3	called Amy Bradley is Missing. And it really interviews her
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