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beer. Let's talk some true crime. >> Where we left off, guys, we got around 6:00ish is when Ron says he he wakes up,
notices Amy's gone, and then soon he's going to start conducting his own search looking for his daughter. Eventually, he
will return after not finding Amy, wake up his wife and his son, and they're trying to alert the ship staff, as they
say, begging the staff to make an announcement to help them find their daughter, especially because they're
getting ready or about around the same time, they're pulling into port. And a whole bunch of passengers, like almost
like it's the Titanic, are going to be rushing off of this boat to get off of the boat. and they're worried that if if
something's happened to their daughter that somebody could move her off of the boat or she's going to get lost in the
shuffle. They really feel like if they're going to be able to find her locator that this is the time. Now,
while all this is going on, we have witnesses who claim to have seen Amy after the time that her father believes
her to be missing, right? Or at least missing from their room. Some reports I've seen have suggested or said as many
as three separate witnesses later told authorities that they saw Amy on the upper deck with yellow. She's, you know,
he hands her a drink. I I I want to be clear on this because one thing I didn't love about when this goes from your TV
screen and then somebody plugs it into the internet. Everybody always says, "Well, there were two people that saw
her. They were stand two women that were standing together. they saw Amy with this guy at this time. I say nay because
all I remember seeing on the documentary was one person sitting on camera. So she
can say all day and night that she was standing with somebody else, but we don't have that other person to step in
front of the camera and say the the same thing. So I lean more toward we got one
person giving this statement. I I can clear up some of this um because I have talked to the two girls who were there
were girls at the time um who saw Amy with yellow. Um now these are two young women who met uh Brad and Amy actually
at the airport in Miami when they were on their way to Puerto Rico. And so they were about the same age. One of them had
kind of a crush on uh Brad or thought he was attractive. So, you know, they they hung out with
Brad and Amy. So, they they knew them on, you know, on site and they were also at the disco that night dancing late
into the into the morning. And these two women uh decided not to go back to the room after the disco closed because they
didn't want to wake up their family. and they and it was so late already, they decided to stay out on the on the deck
until around 6:00 in the morning before they could uh go back. So, they they exist. I've t I've talked to them and
they claim that they saw uh Amy go up that glass elevator back up to the disco with Yellow. Now, the documentary makes
it seem like they saw them for sure after Amy left her cabin at 5:30 or whenever it was the next morning and
that it was, you know, after that that they saw them go back up to the disco. Now, I disagree with that um because one
of the one of the girls that I talked to um says that she can't be sure that uh it was that late in the morning and that
it could be as early as 3:30 in the morning. So, I think it's very possible she did see Amy and Yellow together, but
I really think it was before Amy went back to her cabin. Um but we can't be sure. They said that they saw Amy and
Yellow go up the elevator and then Yellow came walking across the deck alone and and walked by them. So, what
happened to Amy there? I think that's probably when Amy went back to her cabin. Um, but they they you know,
they're not entirely sure, but they do suggest that they saw her after she came out the next morning. I but it's it's
not it's not 100% like the documentary makes you think. And you did mention the there there's this rumor of a third
witness, this woman who would hang out at the disco because she was taking antibiotics and she had to stay out of
the sun. And she's she claimed at some point that she saw Yellow and Amy come up when nobody else was there and Yellow
gave her a drink. That witness, I think, is totally unreliable. Um, if she is in the disco because she's
trying to avoid the sun, what's she doing there at 5:30 in the morning when the sun's not up? Uh, the sunrise that
morning, I think, was around 6:30. Nothing about that witness makes sense. And it's my understanding nobody can
locate that witness anymore. the witnesses aren't as reliable as as the documentary would make you think. And
there were a number of other witnesses that claimed that they saw Amy on Curissowl months after she went missing,
suggesting that she did get off the ship, that maybe she was involved in human trafficking. But you got to
remember that these are eyewitnesses that are coming at it in reverse. You know, they didn't know who Amy was. They
encountered a woman that kind of looked like her and then months later they saw her picture on America's Most Wanted.
The human mind is built to create narratives that that make sense, that tell a story. Um, and memory is not
something like you see in TV and film where suddenly there's this flashback in 4K and it's exactly how it happened.
That's not how it works. Every time you access a memory, you change it a little bit. You rewrite it a little bit. Um,
it's not static. So, I do believe that the witnesses believe they saw Amy, but I don't know. I'm not convinced that the
the woman they saw was actually Amy. >> The three of us, we get to see kind of how the sausage is made, right? James
may be more than myself and the captain, but James, you've been involved in different documentaries as have I. True
Crime Garage, and I can't say this was everyone's experience, but the studio or Netflix, whoever is putting out the
documentary, certainly has >> skin in the game, right? And I have experienced a a particular situation
where I'm sitting in front of a camera and they're getting ready to hit record and they say, "Hey, uh, why don't you
say this?" And I go, "Well, why would I say that?" They go, "Well, because, you know, of what was going on at the time."
I go, "Well, that wasn't the situation. That that wasn't the case at all." Well,
how about you just say it for the for the camera real quick? Real quick shot here. Just go ahead and say it. And I
go, "No, I'm not saying that because it doesn't Good for you. It's not true." And and and maybe
Maybe some people will do that because some people just want to be on camera and and in that moment I'll defend
people that say things that are untrue because I think that the way that I would I thought they were making me feel
was that I had to say it or I was going to be, you know, asked to leave the room.
>> But I I didn't give it I didn't give a [ __ ] Like I I I know I know the story.
I know I know the facts of the story. And you can ask me all day and night to say something. If you want to find
somebody else to say that for you, you can. Right. I'm sure there'll be a line out the door.
>> Yeah. Most people don't realize that on these documentaries, there's often a writer that's credited. And that's
that's what the writer's doing behind the scenes is they're thinking about the narrative they already want and they're
trying to put the words in the mouths of the people that are being interviewed. So, it's not this. You know, a lot of
times the documentaries you're watching, you're you're listening to these statements. A lot of times that's not
the statements that they made. It's the statements that were rewritten on the spot and then asked they they like you
said they go to the witness and say, "Can you say it like this or can you say this?"
>> I think that it gets difficult for the viewer to understand that when you're seeing somebody sit in front of the
camera and tell you something, it's completely different than if they were sitting on the stand, hand on the Bible.
Yeah. >> And testifying to something in court. It's completely completely different
>> for sure. >> Well, and that's why anybody that is interested in this case and is doing a
deep dive on Reddit, do yourself a favor. Go watch these interviews that James Rener has has done. I think it's
some of the best stuff that you're that you've been putting out. >> Thank you. >> But why has nobody mentioned this?
I was watching the documentary maybe 15 minutes in. I'm like, "This is a great documentary. It's shot well. There's
great be B-roll." It kind of made me miss the days of Paradise Lost and the grittiness to the original docu series,
but nobody I have not seen anybody mention this on the internet. Her brother's name is Brad Bradley.
>> Yeah. Don't don't trust a man with two first names. Don't trust a man with the
same name. Uh just slightly altered. >> And in all likelihood, his name is Bradford.
>> No, it's uh it's actually he's Ronald Bradley Jr. And the the story I got was
um so instead of calling him Ron Jr., They were looking for a nickname and they thought he looked like a Brad, so
they started calling him Brad Bradley or or he had friends that would just call him Brad for short. So it it stuck.
>> He does look like a Brad. Not going to argue that. >> I'm not trying to poo poo on the family.
Don't think I'm doing that. But I have seen a lot of online speculation that Brad might not be so great with the
truth at times. I I'd never caught I don't think that any I don't think that the family has outright lied about
anything. I think they've withheld some information which got them in trouble during the lawsuit against Royal
Caribbean 2, >> right? >> But I don't think they would outright lie about anything. And I certainly
don't think they're ultimately responsible for um you know doing anything to Amy. you know, they they in
their heart, you can tell that they believe that she's still alive and desperately want to um to find her. I
you know, I for me at this point, if I was if I was Brad, I would be deleting all of my social media history. You
know, the I mean, it's if Amy's alive and reading his his social media, I I can't it it would have to be very
painful, you know? So, that bothers me a little bit. I've said it before, they were a very tight family. There was a
lot of love there. >> What are your thoughts on the eyewitness that claims she saw Amy in the bathroom?
Um, so yeah, this woman went on a cruise and ended up in Barbados and has this story about how she uh encountered a
woman she believed to be Amy Bradley inside a bathroom and that she was being essentially guarded by three um black
men who were with her uh and trying to keep an eye on her. And that woman, uh, the the witness, she actually lives in
Ohio. So, I got to, you know, sit down with her. She lives in Columbus. And again, I think she believes that she
what she says that she believes what she saw. I don't know that it was Amy. um she has this story about the this woman
acting very bizarre in the bathroom and she went up to her and got a sense that she was in some sort of trouble and said
that the woman told her her name was um Amy and that she was from she thought she said West Virginia but in hindsight
you know she said well it could have been like a town in Virginia like Chesterfield Virginia and again she's
coming at that in reverse because you she has this encounter and then a couple months later sees Amy's picture on one
of the news programs like uh America's Most Wanted and then >> I think it was on Dr. Phil. But
>> Dr. Phil. Yeah. >> The thing I thought was interesting about her telling of the story and again
cuz I didn't talk to her face to face. I I I have to just go with what the documentary is saying, but it made it
sound like she didn't have a aha moment until it wasn't a picture of Amy. It was a
picture of this sex worker that was on a website that some people think is Amy's.
Can you >> Yeah. >> dive into that and are we are we learning any more about this individual
that was on a website? >> Yeah, it's a very interesting part of the story. So, I I think you're right. I
think it's possible that the woman that she encountered in Barbados was the woman from the escort pictures. And that
woman is in my mind very unlikely to be Amy. Um, so in around 2005, somebody sent the Bradley's a picture of a woman
from a an escort website that was running out of a brothel in Margarita Island. Now, Margarita Island is fairly
close to the ABC islands of of uh, you know, where Kurissau is. And Margarita Island is uh in fact on on a good day I
think you can see Margarita Island from Kurissau. Margarita Island is part of Venezuela Venezuela, which is um a very
very scary country. And uh uh there was a brothel on Margarita Island called um it was run by a business called
Affordable Adult Vacations, which was run by a Greek guy from Canada named Alexis Zaglanitis.
Um, and he was this weasel of a guy uh who always had his hand in prostitution down there. So, this picture shows a
woman who clearly has a resemblance to Amy Lynn Bradley and her but her hair is kind of um curly, frizzy. And uh to me,
the first time I looked at that picture, I immediately just thought that this this picture had to be taken in the late
80s or early 90s. Just kind of has that look. And um so, but there's definitely a resemblance there. And so they did a
lot of work trying to look into that brothel and the background of this guy. And um so when I set out to do my
research on this case, that was one of the main things I tried to focus on because either that is Amy or it's not.
And if it's not Amy, then who is that woman in the photograph? And if I can identify that woman, then it really it
really kind of puts um you know, it kind of takes away the idea that she was trafficked because at that point there'd
be no no evidence that she that she was. So um I set out to figure out who that woman was. Now I haven't been able to do
that for sure, although I think I'm getting close. Um, there are a number of other women whose photographs appeared
on that same uh escort website. And on that page, it's she's on a page that refers to visiting escorts, not escorts
that live on Margarita Island, but escorts that would come in for a weekend to meet up with clients and make some
money. And there are two other women on that page who I have been able to identify. And both of those women
starred in adult films in the '9s. And it and it appears they were never at Margarita Island. Had nothing to do with
it. So I believe what was happening is Alexis, the guy that ran the place, was taking still photographs of these these
white women from adult films saying that they were visiting escorts as a kind of
bait and switch. So these guys would come out to the island and they're like, "Hey, could I get a date with Jazz, the
name of the woman that looked like Amy, and he'd be like, "Oh, you know what? You just missed her, but we have these
lovely women from the Dominican Republic in Colombia." Because the women that were working in the brothel were um
women of color exclusively and be, you know, partly because it was easy to um to obtain them. Now, I do
think it was a bit of a human trafficking situation, although Alexis would have argued that, you know, the
the women had a choice to work there or not. Sure, they had a choice. Um, they had to come on the the island, but the
money that they would make in that brothel would be 10 times the amount they would get working for, you know,
any job at their, you know, in the Dominican Republic or Venezuela. So, yeah, they had a choice, but did they
really? They were all women from from those islands. And if you're in involved in a criminal activity of some sort, you
don't want to get the attention of the authorities. And a white woman in those brothel would have gotten a lot of
attention. And I don't think it's worth the risk for them. So, um I I don't think that Jazz is Amy. Um now, after
the documentary came out, I was contacted by a woman who claims to know who Jazz is and said that she was on
Facebook one day and this picture came up of of Jazz. Uh and this was a couple weeks before the documentary even. And
when it came up on her page, she's like, "Oh, that's my my old friend Susan." And
she assumed that she was seeing something like an obituary or whatever. And then she realized that this was
connected to Amy's case. And this woman claims that she knew the woman from the photo, her real name was Susan, and that
she lived in Daytona Beach, um, Florida in 1994, which is four years before Amy went missing. and that this woman claims
that she would do makeup for these photooots that her that Susan's boyfriend uh would use to kind of
promote her as a uh as an escort or call girl. Now, it's it's hard to verify that
story. Um this woman's given me the names of a couple of her friends who also met Susan. So, there is um you know
some circumstantial evidence there, but uh yeah, we're still trying to figure out
you know who the woman in the photo is, if in fact it's not Amy. I almost never think right anytime that we're seeing
documentary or datine 2020 when they show a missing person and then they show a photo of somebody that might
be or somebody thinks that it's a photo of the person when they compare them I almost never think that they look alike.
Here's the other thing too. There's a lot of people that haven't heard of this story until very recently because of the
documentary. But this story has been featured a lot of times on other shows years prior to this documentary. So I
remember things about this case and learning about this case from other shows way back when and seeing that
photo way back when on those shows. And I remember at the time not thinking that
it looked a whole lot like Amy, but for some reason watching it on Netflix, I saw a lot of similarities. But the other
vibe that I got was the picture. Let's pretend for a moment that it is Amy. It shows somebody that again I agree looks
a lot like Amy, but it would be somebody that's older, haggarded, right? That it
would be it would have to be a much more recent photo than when Amy went missing.
That's the impression I got. However, I thought it can't be Amy because everything about this picture other than
the person in it is telling me that it was taken probably prior to her going missing. Like that photo just screams
early 90s to me. Yeah, it like the the the everything in the background early 90s. Everything about the woman early
90s. And so if that is true, then it can't be Amy. I do want to touch on something though because
>> one thing that Let's talk about the the wrongful death lawsuit for a moment. >> Sure.
>> Because the family has they they make efforts to declare Amy Bradley dead so that they can take this wrongful death
lawsuit against the cruise line, which I can agree with that. However, your lawsuit isn't going to have any legs if
you are saying we are filing a wrongful death lawsuit, but at the same time saying that, well, she's still alive and
living on a an island somewhere, >> right? >> So, it it quickly is going to get tossed, right? You can't you can't be
saying the whole crux of your case is that it was a wrongful death, not that you know it was a wrongful she got off
at the wrong stop on your cruise line. >> Yeah. So that gets talked. >> They they actually filed two suits
against Royal Caribbean. One was the wrongful death and and one was for negligence I believe and um you know
they were kind of connected in that way and it forced them to I think part of the reason they they they filed the
lawsuit was to get some of the people from Royal Caribbean uh under oath in deposition which they were able to do.
Um, they also, uh, Iva and Ron and, uh, Brad were deposed. Unfortunately, it's been so long since they filed suit that
those depositions have been destroyed, but I was able to get um, some information about the the hearings and
the court cases and things like that. And the suits were ultimately dismissed for essentially the reason you you said.
And um the reason the that the court stated they were dismissing it was due to fraud on the part of the Bradley's.
And the reason they said that they were involved in fraud is because they um apparently had u over a hundred
sightings of Amy and they only um offered up the sightings that suggested she was under duress on the island and
did not share the witness statements that showed her alone on a beach or alone at a restaurant seemingly, you
know, not under control, seeming, you know, to just be um under her own power. So, you know, that that hurt them. And
the reason that they gave at the time for not sharing that info um is interesting because they they say they
weren't sharing it out of caution for her life because at the time >> they believe that Amy was being held by
uh Colombian basically uh criminal syndicate >> in Kurissau. And that has to do with
another part of the story, which is this uh guy named Frank Jones goes to them and and says, "Hey, I'm an ex special
forces guy. I have information that Amy's being held by Colombians on Curisowl. Uh I need you to, you know, if
you can fund my excursion there with my um a team, we'll go uh >> my my ex-Navy SEAL buddies,
>> we'll go rescue her." And so at the time they they really thought that by sharing
that info it might put her in danger um because this operation was kind of underway. That ultimately turns out to
be a con. Um Frank Jones conned um uh the Bradley's and um a missing person's organization out of over $200,000 before
he was ultimately caught and sent to prison. It was he receives like five years in prison I believe and it was
over it was like 28,000 and change from the Bradley's and about 180 to 190,000 from this missing person's fund that he
frauds them out of. Meanwhile, what we learn is it's really just funding this lavish vacation where he's just at a bar
and drunk all the time. And he even provides them with some photographs that he says is of Amy on a beach with a man
that's controlling her. And later we learn that he fabricated those photos. It was a a man that he knew and that
posed with a woman that they hired and they somehow put tattoos on this woman to make it look like cuz you don't see
the woman's face. >> Yeah. >> It implies that it's Amy because of these unique tattoos that Amy had and
the placement that they are seen on her body while she's sunning on the beach. One thing that I thought was shocking
because I was like I had no intention of watching the documentary because I like
I said I've seen the story covered several times before. We're so eyeballs deep in true crime stories and there's
so many cases that are in my head the space the room is not large enough. I need to purchase more real estate cuz
it's scrambling the brain at this point. And so I I choose not to watch certain things because it's overload. And
there's a place down the road that I frequent. A few of the people that work there and have worked there a long time.
They know what it is that I do for a living. So I I'm come walking in there the other day. I haven't watched the
documentary yet. I hear this conversation and overhear this conversation from afar and I can quickly
tell that they're probably talking about the missing woman from the cruise ship.
And the documentary has recently come out. So, they come over to me after they're having a lengthy discussion and
they said, "This family, this poor family, why didn't they just hire a private investigator and send him to the
island?" I'm like, "Oh." Right away, then I'm like, "Oh, now I have to watch the documentary because they clearly
left out a huge portion of this story." That was a large part of this. I mean, this guy frauded these people for months
and months and months. This was >> Yeah, >> this was ongoing for a long time. and
then they learn everything he's been telling them was complete [ __ ] Why do you think that that doesn't make it
to the to the Netflix documentary? Do you think that that's like egg on our face that the the family is embarrassed
that they believe this or do you think that it's Netflix trying to sell us a mystery that maybe it's not so
mysterious? >> I I think it it could be my personal thought is it's a it could be a number
of things. one that they had limited time and uh you know they only had three episodes for this series so they
concentrated on the the you know some of the more interesting things that might be connected with her disappearance. Um
I think it could be because they couldn't get anybody on record to give a little more information about him other
than the family. Obviously they you know um probably couldn't get Frank Jones himself. I I I have talked to him a
little bit. So, yeah, I I think it was time constraints and and lack of um finding decent interviews for that.
>> Well, but I mean, his situation's been adjudicated, right? You can go to >> you could get the court records. Yeah.
>> And use that. I'm just saying I thought it was a little irresponsible in the presentation because I get what you're
saying. There's only three episodes. you only have so much so much space and so much time, but at the same time, you
also spent 10 minutes showing us every podcaster that's talked about this case from their basement. Uh, which I I'm
sitting there on my couch watching it with another person and they're showing these different podcasters talking into
microphones and on YouTube and whatnot about this story and I'm going, "Holy [ __ ] those are my colleagues." Like I'm
like like how disappointing that those are those are my colleagues. They look like they haven't left the basement in
in in months. And meanwhile, I haven't left left the garage in 10 years. I say step out of the basement and into the
garage, my friends. But yet, no, this this story is huge. It's certainly huge right now. I love what you're doing with
digging deeper and talking to people more on this story because regardless of what you think happened, I I think it
would be negligent on anybody's part to to sit there and say I I'm sold on this one idea. I think there's so many
possibilities with what could have happened with this young woman. And I will I will agree absolutely with the
family. I'm so glad that they did file the lawsuit for the negligence >> of the the cruise ship because you are
given a false sense of security when you walk onto those ships. I tell you friends, it's not like going into a nice
hotel here. It's it's far more dangerous than any of that. And I think that the cruise ship did show a bit of a
disregard for this woman's safety and for her family's concerns. Right. They they delayed making any announcement.
They and and I thought, look, maybe the guy in real life is an absolute winner and and he would be my best friend if I
knew him off camera, but on camera that cruise director came off douchy as can be. He's like, "But the cruise goes on."
Yeah. Okay, good for you. Um, >> but the cruise goes on. And and look, Amy's not the first person to come up
missing on one of these ships. She's also not the first person that was missing for a period of time and then
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off. [Music] One thing that the documentary missed as well was the how thorough was this
search of the ship. They're like, "Well, you had all hands on deck. every crew member was searching every nook and
cranny of the ship. They weren't. We know that be from later statements that didn't make it onto camera from the FBI.
The FBI says as soon as they get onto the boat, they're talking to the captain. They're talking to the persons
in charge and they're like, "Yeah, we, you know, we looked around for her. We sent out some of our security personnel
and looked around for her." No, it wasn't all hands on deck. It wasn't every nook and cranny. It was a couple
guys looking for her. They didn't find her. I have a background security administrator for a very large property.
If you told me to go find something on that property back then, I would have looked at you, James, and captain, and
said with all of the confidence in the world, I'll find that for you. >> Yeah. >> But I can also say sit here and say,
"No, I remember one of our staff lost a a a set of keys, building keys. This is a high security issue."
>> Yeah. >> Right. This is east of the building. Dozens of keys on this key ring was lost
in that building and on that property. That key, those keys, at some point as the as the boss, I was convinced they
were gone. I was at some point convinced that somebody left with them, lost them
off of the property and we would never see them again. Nope. We found them two and a half months later.
>> Wow. >> Two and a half months later, we found those keys. Another situation uh in
property management many years later uh somebody had lost their clipboard. It was drywalled over and it wasn't until
like >> four or five years later when they were removing the drywall that that clipboard
was ever found. So I'm here to tell you that that that that search is not a thorough search. The FBI says it wasn't.
And I do think that there was some negligence on behalf of the the cruise ship and and disregard for this young
woman and their family's concerns. >> The documentary is just kind of the tip of the iceberg if you're going to dive
in this rabbit hole. And I think the first episode you start going, who is this yellow guy? And this he's a kind of
a creepy bass player, which we we know most bass players are, especially the ones that play on cruises are creeps.
The captain was a bass player that played on several cruise ships. So, if anybody can uh vouch for the character
of those stringed stringed players, it would be >> Well, we don't have a lot to do in the
band, so we have we have time to think and and and and look out into the crowd. But, so part one, you go, okay, we need
to know more about this individual. And then they kind of get away from it. And then episode three starts off with his
daughter calling the Bradley's. One of my issues with him even being that good of a suspect is he doesn't get off the
boat and he remains on the ship, remains in the band, still has to do his job for
the rest of the time that that boat is gone out at sea. So, did he sneak her off the boat and hand her off to some
handlers? And then all these eyewitness accounts, you go, "Well, can we track Yellow's whereabouts? And was he even
around? Or was he out?" Because, like you said, these contracts are sometimes for 6 months. Other than getting off at
a port, you live on that boat and you're on that boat for 6 months, sometimes a year at a time. Cuz some sometimes you
get to the end of your contract and you're like, "Hey, I'm I'm going home next week." And you get an offer. Hey,
we had a bass player back out. We'd like to have you renew your contract. And in
those cases, because I have several friends that have done this, if they're in a pickle, they up your pay.
>> And so there could have been six months, sometimes a year or more that he was on
cruise ships. So, how is he doing anything with Amy? >> Yeah, >> but like I said, it's just the tip of
the iceberg. I think your interview with him is great. I think it just adds more
details and gives you a better picture of everything that was going on. But what what are your thoughts on Yellow?
>> Yeah, I think the documentary did Yellow Dirty. Um, you know, they they didn't
get him uh on camera. they didn't get an interview with him. Um, and you know, for me sitting here in Ohio working on a
book, I thought, you know, I I realized how important it would be to talk to Alistister. He's very difficult to get
to, though. He lives in Grenada on Grenada, which is um, you know, its own its own separate island. And I realized
that I was going to have to try to find him there. Um, now Grenada, like Curisowl, it's hard to, you know, they
don't really have phone directories that you can access uh online. So, I was able
to find that he was working for a church and that they would meet every Sunday. Um, but you know, he would it's called
the Church of the Nazarene and they have a couple sites around Grenada and he would alternate around them. So I I
decided to go to Grenada to see if I could find him. Um and so I flew there last October and of all the places I
visited for this story, Grenada was the only place I felt that I was in danger. Um it's definitely like a third world
type of situation down there. Um not a lot of police oversight. Um there's a lot of corruption there.
um just the you know just the disparity of income is um you know the the people on the island are are making next to
nothing. Uh, everybody on that island. I was drive I was riding around in a taxi
and there were these by the way the taxis when I say taxi you're I think all these taxis are like over 250,000 miles
you know held together by duct tape and wishes and I was in the back of this cab
and we were driving through these neighborhoods and every house had a little wooden shack out front and I'm
like it almost kind of looked like bus stops and I'm like hey what what are these shacks all about? And the the
cabbie said, "Oh, that's uh everybody has their own little shop and they'll sell, you know, chips or soda or water
or or rum or beer because everybody's hustling. Everybody's got two or three different jobs because they're poor."
And so it was a it's a very different world down there. And I took this cab to the church, not knowing for sure that
yellow was even going to show up, but luckily he did. And he got out and I went up to him and I said, you know,
Alistister, you know, my name's James Rener. I said, I've come a very long way just to talk to you. Would you give me
10 minutes after your service? And he and he he nodded. He's like, I know. He's like, I know how how far you must
have come. He's like, "I'll give you some time after the service." So, I sat and watched his sermon and he talked
about working uh on the island as an exorcist uh which is interesting. And, you know, he had a very nice
congregation. They sang lots of songs and uh he has a beautiful wife and a son who I think is like 12 or 13 years old.
Uh then we talked after that. uh just he and I and he sent everybody else out of
the church and we sat there um and and spoke and I found Alistister to be very sincere and he has a lot of regrets
about the way he acted as a young man. Um, and you know the you know he he would call them sins, you know, trying
to hook up with these young women on the on the cruise ships and you know he takes responsibility for that but he's
like look I didn't I didn't traffic anybody. I didn't kill anybody. And I do think you know that so you've got the
witness that says that he saw Amy with yellow on a beach in Kurissowl months after she disappeared. And would
somebody under the theory that Alistister had something to do with putting Amy in a trafficking situation,
would he then go back to his victim months later in a in a public space where she's out and and free to ask for
help. He's just putting himself in danger in that situation. I I just I I don't see it. Um, and he has no history
of of violence, >> but also we don't know if he was on a cruise ship at that time.
>> Correct. Yeah. I'm sure the FBI has been able to piece together his, you know,
when he was on the ship and and when he and if he was even available to be on Curacal that day. And I think it's very
telling that the FBI has told the family, look, we have no evidence she ever left that room. Yeah, I think it's
it's highly unlikely. And and in that case, you know, look at look at what they've done to to him. I mean, not just
the documentary, but everything that the family has said on social media to this
day. I mean, he's there's so many people after watching that documentary that just assume, oh my
god, he's he's guilty of sin and and and he trafficked that poor woman. >> Like you guys are saying, Netflix, a
documentary is a bit of the tip of the iceberg, if you will. us talking about it here today while we were able to dig
into some other things and and really kind of dissect some pieces and parts of that documentary and things that James
has learned about this situation before the documentary came out and still exploring it. We could go on for hours.
We could go on for days. There's a lot of stuff we didn't get to. So, if there was something that your ears didn't hear
today, folks, don't get upset with us. We are just a few guys hanging out in a garage trying to make heads or tails of
a very difficult and mysterious situation. And like you know the reason why the story has to be that if Yellow
did something he most likely had to hand her off at port is because just like the
cruise director said the cruise goes on. The cruise has to go on and it did. Right. The boat continued on with or
without Amy. We we still don't know what happened to her, but we know that the the vessel later departed Carouso. It it
continued on to the island of St. Martin and then went to St. Thomas to the Virgin Islands before returning to San
Juan, Puerto Rico. This on Saturday, March 28th, 1998, and then creating this huge, huge mystery of what happened to
this young woman. James Rener, we appreciate your time. We appreciate you joining us once again here in the
garage. you are one of the most recommended true crime authors on our show and so
>> great true crime books but for this story for more on this story go to his wonderful podcast it's on YouTube as
well true crime this week you can check him out make sure you look into more of the Amy Bradley stuff he's got a lot of
it there for your ear balls and your eyeballs thank you James Rener for joining us this
[Music] Amy Lynn Bradley is missing. She's been missing since March 24th, 1998. She was
23 years old at the time of her disappearance. Amy would be 51 years old today. Her classification is endangered
missing. Her family suspects foul play. Amy is a Caucasian female. She is 5'7 in
tall with brown hair and green eyes. Sometimes Amy would dye her hair blonde and at times, especially when cut short,
her hair may appear to be almost black. At the time of the disappearance, Amy was approximately 115 lbs, ears pierced
multiple times, and her navl is pierced as well. She was a smoker and social drinker, mostly Marbor lights and Miller
Lightite beer. Amy has the following tattoos. A Tasmanian devil spinning a basketball on the back of her shoulder.
A green and blue gecko lizard around her navl. A Japanese symbol on her right ankle and a primitive Japanese sun
tattooed on her lower back. The FBI have age progressed photographs available showing what Amy may have looked like at
42 years of age. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the recovery of Amy Lynn
Bradley and information that leads to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person or persons
responsible for her disappearance. If you have any information concerning the disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley,
please contact your local FBI office or the nearest American embassy or consulate. A special thank you to
author, YouTuber, and podcaster, James Rener, for joining us in the garage this week. Please check out his show, True
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Amy Bradley has been missing for over 27 years. Her family and many others suspect foul play. During the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 24th, 1998 Amy went missing from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. She was only 23 years old at the time. Amy would be 51 years old today.

Amy is a caucasian female. She is 5 feet 7 inches tall with brown hair and green eyes. At the time of disappearance, Amy was approximately 115 pounds. Her ears were pierced multiple times and navel is pierced. Amy has the following tattoos: a Tasmanian devil spinning a basketball on the back of her shoulder, a green and blue gecko lizard around her navel, a Japanese symbol on her right ankle and a primitive Japanese sun tattooed on her lower back. The FBI have age progressed photographs available showing what Amy may have looked like at 42 years of age.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the recovery of Amy Lynn Bradley and information that leads to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person(s) responsible for her disappearance. If you have any information concerning the disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley, please contact your local FBI office, or the nearest American Embassy or Consulate.

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Brief Summary

This episode examines the disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley, featuring eyewitness accounts and the family's legal struggles against Royal Caribbean.

Key points

Introducing Literally with Rob Low. Rob Low shares insights about his podcast featuring intimate conversations with admired guests.
The Search for Amy. Ron wakes up to find his daughter missing and begins a frantic search.
Eyewitness Accounts. Conflicting witness statements complicate the timeline of Amy's disappearance.
The Mystery of Jazz. Discussion about a woman resembling Amy seen in a brothel photo raises questions.
The Wrongful Death Lawsuit. The family of Amy Bradley filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the cruise line, but faced challenges due to conflicting claims about her status.
Fraudulent Claims. The court dismissed the Bradley family's lawsuit due to fraud, as they only presented selective sightings of Amy.

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