S3 Ep328: Amy Bradley: The Surveillance Footage That Never Existed (Part 2)

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In the early morning hours of March 24, 1998, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley vanished from the balcony of her family’s cabin aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. Just a few hours earlier, she had been at a party, joking with her brother, dancing with the ship’s band, and planning out the next day’s adventure in Curaçao. By sunrise, Amy was gone. Her sandals were still on the balcony. Her cigarettes were missing. Her key card and license were gone too, but everything else had been left behind.
What began as a family vacation quickly turned into a nightmare, and the moments leading up to Amy’s disappearance would raise questions that remain unanswered to this day.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. And I'm Derek
0:16.2	Lavasar. And we are diving in to part two of the Amy Bradley series.
0:22.2	So I'm going to give a quick little recap.
0:26.8	March 24th, 1998 was the day the Bradley family was supposed to dock in Curacao, enjoy a day on the island, and return to the cruise ship in time for dinner.
0:35.4	But when Ron Bradley woke up just after 6 a.m., his 23-year-old
0:39.7	daughter, Amy Lynn Bradley, was gone. The sliding glass door to their cabin's balcony had been left
0:44.8	open, and the pack of cigarettes that sat beside her just 30 minutes earlier had vanished too.
0:49.9	Her sandals were still there, along with the yellow polo shirt she had worn the night before, but her keycard and ID were missing.
0:56.9	Ron searched the ship, expecting to find her with a coffee or a camera.
1:00.8	Instead, he found nothing.
1:02.6	Amy had vanished without a trace, and the search that followed would raise more questions than answers.
1:08.5	Now, on that note, before we dive into new information, I wanted to highlight a comment that
1:13.2	somebody made on YouTube on the first part of this series.
1:17.9	Because remember, we were talking about how when Amy's parents woke up, they said the
1:24.0	sliding glass door leading to the balcony had been left open.
1:27.3	Yeah. And they assumed that she had left the balcony had been left open. Yeah.
1:27.5	And they assumed that she had left the room because she wasn't there anymore.
1:32.3	Now, somebody wrote, and this person is Allison Chapel.
1:36.7	She said, as someone who cruises a lot, I find it hard to believe.
1:39.4	She opened to the cabin door with the balcony door open, and no one woke up.
1:43.7	Having them both open would have created a wind tunnel that made a mess and woke everyone up. And somebody said, just commented the exact same thing. It never occurred to me until they said that this time it clicked. I swear the cabin door would cut your arm off if you weren't quick on your feet when you leave the balcony door open. A lot of people said, great point. They think she never left the room, et cetera, et cetera.
2:02.2	I've never been on a cruise, as we know. You have. You concur. Well, remember I kind of brought this up
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