Amy Bradley is Missing: 5 harrowing details about Amy Bradley's disappearance, revisited

Amy Bradley is Missing premiered on Netflix on July 16, 2025, and as per Rotten Tomatoes, the docuseries is

“Investigating the 1998 disappearance of a 23-year-old woman from a Caribbean cruise and her family's tireless search for answers.”

Amy’s disappearance remains one of the strangest unsolved mysteries. She disappeared on March 24, 1998, from the cruise Rhapsody of the Seas, on which she was with her family, consisting of her parents and her brother.

Let us now explore in detail some of the harrowing details of her case as shown in Amy Bradley is Missing.

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5 harrowing details from Amy Bradley is Missing

Amy was last seen by her father

Previous to the morning that she went missing, Amy had partied in the ship’s nightclub. After spending the night enjoying and dancing, she was seen on her cabin’s balcony by her father. However, when he came back to look for her in her cabin in the morning, Amy was nowhere to be found.

Her polo shirt and slippers were found in her room among some of her other belongings.

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There was no sign of struggle

One of the key shocking points of Amy’s disappearance remains the fact that investigators could not find signs of any struggle or forced entry to her cabin. It seemed like wherever she had gone, she had done so at her own will.

While her brother, Brad, had spent the night with her in her cabin, he had left in the morning, and therefore, no clarity could be found regarding how her cabin’s door was left open when she was nowhere present on the cruise.

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Amy’s family was not happy with the way the ship's authorities reacted to her disappearance

After Amy Bradley disappeared, the ship’s crew allegedly did not react promptly. Talking about their reaction, Amy’s parents, Ron and Iva, told NBC News in 2005,

“When we discovered Amy missing, we begged the ship's personnel to not put the gangway down, to not allow anybody to leave the ship. And we told them that if Amy had left the room for any more than 15 minutes, she would have left us a note. And they put the gangway down anyway. People left the ship in Curaçao.”

Amy’s parents also mentioned that despite their protests against letting all the passengers go, the ship’s crew did not pay any heed, which made their behavior rather suspicious.

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There were accusations of a cover-up

Given how the ship’s crew behaved, there were also suspicions about them hiding something. However, that line of investigation was not conducted properly because the authorities of the cruise were quite uncooperative and did not help in the search much.

Their decision to let go of the passengers also hinted at the possibility of key witnesses or someone involved in Amy’s disappearance being let go. This further complicated the case, and surprisingly, no strict actions were taken regarding the same.

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Troubling eyewitness accounts emerged about Amy

After her disappearance, as the investigation began, certain eyewitnesses came forward with disturbing details. Some claimed that they had seen someone like Amy Bradley on the cruise’s deck, and some other accounts referred to Amy being involved with a crew member, which essentially hinted at the possibility of the ship’s involvement in her disappearance.

However, none of these eyewitnesses’ accounts led to anything solid, and therefore, the case remains unsolved.

Amy Bradley is Missing is streaming on Netflix.

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