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Amy Bradley Is Missing Season 1 Episode 2
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00:00I'm on a vacation with a friend.
00:20I went from Calgary to Curacao to do this diving trip.
00:26The site that we agreed on was the best.
00:29And we kept going back there was Port-au-Marie.
00:33Port-au-Marie, it was kind of set up for locals.
00:37You have to know where this is and you have to want to go there.
00:43If you saw more than half a dozen people, you'd be lucky.
00:55The reef is great.
00:57The water's warm.
00:59It's got good visibility.
01:01There's lots of sea life in it.
01:07We had just come out of the water.
01:10We were washing our equipment in the wash area.
01:14I look down the beach and I see three people walking towards us.
01:18There's one guy, there's a girl in the middle, and then there's another person who looked like he was from the island.
01:26As they came closer to me, she comes right up to me, she was in good shape, she was tan, she was a smoker.
01:36And she's just about to say something to me when the person who was on the inside comes up.
01:52I'm looking right at him, he stared at me, doesn't say a word, and motions her away.
02:00If he had not stared at me, I would have forgotten everything, but I can't.
02:09I think about this every day, there isn't a day that goes by that I don't.
02:16And I think if I had ten seconds more, what would I have done?
02:21About two and a half weeks after Amy's disappearance, we decided to go back down to Curacao to have a press conference.
02:44The purpose of this press conference is to not only let people know what happened and how we feel, but it's to try to find Amy, to get our plea out.
03:00We asked the captain of the ship to please notify the passengers that she was missing, and he said that he could not do that because it would disturb the passengers.
03:12We went back to Curacao because I felt like I had to do something.
03:17Who was the member of the family that last saw Amy alive?
03:24It was me.
03:26You?
03:28You know, it's very difficult to talk about the last time I saw her.
03:34You don't believe that she fell overboard?
03:37Absolutely not.
03:38What clothing she had on?
03:42She had on a white top.
03:44Silver wax and silver earrings.
03:46Was she intoxicated?
03:48She had been drinking.
03:50Everyone on the ship had been drinking.
03:52We checked the bar tab, and she had had seven light beers from starting at about 6 p.m.
03:59I tried to hold back my feelings.
04:04Why?
04:07I don't know.
04:08I guess just, even though she's 23 years old, you still try to protect her, and sometimes I think I didn't do enough.
04:19I stayed back, man, the phones, because I didn't think I could go to Curacao and not come home with her a second time.
04:32I don't remember eating, I don't remember showering, I don't remember sleeping.
04:39I was hoping and praying someone would call with information.
04:47The reward has been raised to $260,000.
04:52It's been raised, and we're still trying to get more and more money from associates and friends and family.
04:58If someone has her, please let her go.
05:02Leave her somewhere in the middle of the night blindfolded.
05:05We won't ask any questions.
05:08You can remain anonymous.
05:11We just need her back.
05:13After the press conference was over, we were out standing in a lobby area outside, hanging flyers, talking to officials, newspaper people.
05:25And we saw this gentleman come up to us.
05:29He introduced himself.
05:31His name was Deshi, and he was a taxi driver.
05:35And he had one of Amy's flyers in his hand.
05:39And he said, are you the father of the girl that's missing?
05:43And I said, yes, I am.
05:44And he pulled me to the side, and he said, I want you to know that your daughter did not fall from the ship.
05:52Your daughter did not jump from the ship.
05:55Your daughter was not thrown from the ship.
05:58She's on this island, and I hope you can find her.
06:00My heart started beating.
06:05And he said, she approached my taxi.
06:09She seemed like she was a little frantic.
06:11He said, I never will forget her green eyes.
06:13And he said, she was wearing a white top with jeans, which is what she had on underneath that yellow shirt, and the jeans that were missing.
06:24She says, I need to use a phone.
06:27And he said, I pointed in the direction of the phones.
06:30And he said, Amy went the other way.
06:34It was the first indication that she's alive.
06:44And she's out there.
06:46He said, you need to go to a place called Coral Cliffs, which is a resort.
06:52You need to go to a place called Kadushi Cliffs.
06:55And he said, when you go to these places, he said, you want to look around.
06:59You don't want to talk to anybody.
07:01Just look, observe.
07:05We met a fellow named John Mentor with the Harbor Police.
07:09April of 1998, the family came down to see if you could see anything.
07:14The taxi driver was positive that he had seen Amy Bradley and that she had gotten off the ship.
07:20You know, it struck me.
07:22It struck me.
07:22They were not that familiar with the island, so I went with them.
07:29He said it was dangerous, and he needed to be with us.
07:33They cannot be there by themselves.
07:35Locals will attack them or mess them up.
07:38As a policeman, it won't be a problem, but by themselves, no.
07:45And we were told in these places that they were owned and controlled by different mafia groups.
07:52A couple of them had open water access, you know, that obviously you could come and go from and not be checked by authorities and that kind of thing.
08:02Some of those areas we were looking, there were makeshift kind of landing strips that could have been drug trafficking trade or maybe even sex trade.
08:13Curacao is a very lovely island.
08:15But the crime we have here is drug-related because we're not too far from Venezuela, and we also have some prostitution on the island, and sometimes sex trafficking.
08:24We went down one particular road, and we came upon it like a junkyard kind of thing.
08:42Old cars, old shacks.
08:48And there was one shack that we went in, and one thing that stood out to me was there was a container of Tic Tacs that were laid up on the bed.
08:59And my first thought is, I wonder if Amy was here, because Amy loved Tic Tacs, and this is where they maybe brought her.
09:10You know, somebody got her off the ship, and they brought her here.
09:12So that's, that was what my mental state was.
09:18And I remember driving through these thorn or briar patches were basically on this little five-foot-wide dirt path with thorns two, three inches long, scraping down both sides of the vehicles at one o'clock in the morning.
09:36And I distinctly hear what was obvious to me was Amy's voice say, Brad, in what seemed like a vehicle that was passing us.
09:48And I freaked out.
09:50I mean, I spun around and, like, asked everybody if they hear that, and, you know, they did.
09:55And so we whipped around, followed them all up into the hills and these backstreet neighborhoods, fully expecting we're going to pull the guy over.
10:06And she's going to be in the car.
10:08And then car pulled over.
10:14Then ended up just an old dude by himself.
10:18Brad, Brad, Brad.
10:20Say goodbye, Brad.
10:22I know what it sounds like when Amy calls me, and it was very distinct.
10:26Here comes a car.
10:28I've never been so sure of anything in my life that that's, that's what I heard and what that was.
10:34What, Brad?
10:35We didn't find her anywhere.
10:41But with this, I know that she's still out there somewhere.
10:46We have the taxi driver coming forward saying that they saw her.
10:51It really changes everything.
10:54We have to try our best to find any other individuals that might have seen her.
10:59to try to get the public or anybody to report information.
11:03Our next case involves a mystery on a cruise ship.
11:15The mystery of a passenger who vanished.
11:17We contacted America's Most Wanted.
11:21She's our life.
11:22She's our heart.
11:23She's one of us.
11:24We wanted to get Amy's face out there.
11:27She may have reappeared hundreds of miles away.
11:33Off to a tropical paradise for some R&R.
11:37That's what the Bradley family was after.
11:39America's Most Wanted was on.
11:41The focus was a missing girl from a cruise ship line and missing on the island of the Curso.
11:46Amy Bradley has a tattoo of the Tasmanian devil with a basketball on her left shoulder blade.
11:54There's a picture of the Bradleys standing on a gangway or something.
11:59The minute I saw the picture, I went like, are you kidding me?
12:04That girl was the girl on the beach in Curso.
12:08It was.
12:12The tattoos and the piercings, they were the same.
12:15I'm 100% sure.
12:17Not 99% sure.
12:19100% sure.
12:22I spoke to the FBI.
12:24I recounted in detail my story of my sighting and the people that were with her at the time.
12:32Now, one of the two men stared at me.
12:36And he's a big guy.
12:37He's got a very distinctive face to me.
12:41I see that same face on America's Most Wanted.
12:49Amy was with two men.
12:51And the one that I could identify was Alistair Douglas.
12:56We have a witness saying that they saw Amy on the beach with some individuals.
13:04This witness identified one of them as Alistair Douglas, the band leader from the cruise.
13:10And you also have the taxi driver saying that he saw Amy and spoke to Amy.
13:16And we can't confirm these sightings.
13:18But we have to ask, if Amy was still alive and on Curacao, did she walk off the ship?
13:26Or was she smuggled off the ship?
13:28If Amy was abducted or taken off the ship, they'd have had their hands full.
13:35I mean, she is a fighter.
13:37Amy was strong, super athletic.
13:42If somebody took her off the boat, Amy put up a fight.
13:47Yes!
13:48Two good players in the trash pile.
13:50Certainly, I feel like she could hold her own.
13:53You know, she was a star basketball player.
13:56Amy was the first female to ever get a full college scholarship to Longwood.
14:01She was very mentally and physically strong.
14:03But, although Amy was strong, Amy was not large.
14:09I mean, they could have put her in something.
14:12And, you know, disguised it as luggage and taken her off the ship.
14:19Amy was pretty tiny.
14:22And, you know, she drank.
14:24She liked to party.
14:25I mean, she could throw down.
14:28She could handle alcohol.
14:30We're thinking, did she meet the wrong person?
14:33Did someone buy her a drink?
14:36I mean, I don't know.
14:37Could that have happened?
14:40I think she was so much more complicated and textured and layered than people really can even understand.
14:48Amy always knew who she was.
14:50I'm gonna get a call on my 16th birthday.
14:53By a college, she was ready to share it with everybody.
15:00The best memory I had of Amy was probably when she came out to me.
15:08And she said, I'm gay.
15:09And I said, well, what about me?
15:13And she said, I'm not your, you're not my type, Sarah.
15:15I mean, that still makes me laugh because, you know, I was 17, 18 years old.
15:20Well, why the hell am I not your type?
15:22What's wrong with me?
15:23At Longwood, a feeling between the two of us just started to evolve, and she kissed me one night, and that was my clue.
15:36Junior year, we were suite mates.
15:40We sat on the bathroom floor, and she said, can you help me tell my parents?
15:45Can you come with me?
15:47I remember the drive home with her.
15:51That scared her.
15:54Because she never wanted to disappoint her parents.
15:57I've never seen anybody as close to their family as Amy was.
16:01Come on!
16:02Amen!
16:03The Bradleys, they're a very special family.
16:06They love hard.
16:08I don't think they missed a single sporting event or activity that they ever did.
16:14Ever.
16:20She did tell her parents about us specifically, and they were not happy.
16:29They were surprised and disappointed.
16:33Her dad wrote a letter to me that was very clear on how he felt.
16:40It was a, you know, a three-page letter outlining in all the ways in which he was disappointed.
16:50It's Amy's life.
16:51It wasn't what we would choose for her, but it's her life, and we love to run conditionally.
16:58And I remember putting that in the letter.
17:00It just put a lot of stress and strain on us.
17:06I think we all drank a lot in college.
17:08But I think Amy used it as a tool to kind of numb some of those big feelings.
17:18And I think she carried a heaviness that not all of us carried.
17:23I do think that it weighed heavy on her, that her parents were still processing it and didn't quite understand it.
17:32As parents, we were concerned that in 1995, those feelings would not be welcomed by the general population.
17:44It was the 90s, we're crying out loud.
17:47That was taboo.
17:50You know, it's difficult for a parent to say, I have a child that's gay, but they loved her regardless.
17:56The Bradley family, right from the beginning, was very honest, and they spoke to investigators about her relationships and, you know, the challenges that she had.
18:14When we went to the cabin to take a look, search it and all that, then we see shoes and a small table pushed up against the balcony and so forth.
18:26We have to look at the potentiality of suicide.
18:30We did, you know, many interviews with, you know, numerous friends and family.
18:35And also, you know, outside that immediate bubble, just to have a better understanding of Amy's state of mind, the headspace of the victim.
18:44I do believe that we should be looking at every possibility.
18:52The notion of suicide, I thought that.
18:55But I also thought, man, that Amy loved to be, she would not want to not be here.
19:07I do not believe that Amy committed suicide.
19:13There's no room for me to believe that.
19:17And by the time they went on the trip, she was excited about life.
19:21She had just gotten a new job.
19:25She had gotten this new bulldog, got an adorable apartment that we were all so excited about because Amy was going to have this space that we could all hang out the second day.
19:34They called home from the cruise and they were having a blast.
19:39And she sounded so upbeat.
19:42And she and Brad had gone shopping, saying, I'll see you when I get back home.
19:45Can't wait to tell you all about my trip.
19:47I got you this gift.
19:48I mean, to me, that's not somebody who is wanting to commit suicide.
19:56Amy was very confident, you know, very happy individual.
20:00She definitely felt like her life was moving forward.
20:04I do believe in my, you know, in my being that I don't believe she committed suicide.
20:09But, you know, the door is still open on any of these possibilities, any of these scenarios.
20:12If you didn't have any of these sightings, would you be thinking something different?
20:16Possibly.
20:16My name is Bill Heftner.
20:25I live in Fowl, Nevada.
20:27I was in the Navy 20 years.
20:34I was on the USS Chandler.
20:38My ship pulled into Curacao.
20:41I think we were just there for an overnight.
20:42When I went out that night, I was a long ways from the harbor.
20:48And I stopped in a bar I wasn't supposed to be in.
20:52I saw the hotel above, and it looked like a bar on the bottom.
20:56So I stopped in there, and there's a guy with a stub-nosed 38 in his belt and says,
21:01What are you going?
21:02I said, I thought I'd go in and have a beer.
21:03And he said, Oh, okay.
21:07So I went in there, and four people come down the stairs, two guys, two girls.
21:12And I see the two guys got guns.
21:15I sat down with the two girls, and the guys went over to the bar.
21:20It was a white girl and a Hispanic girl.
21:22White girl was petite, dark hair, some tattoos on her.
21:28And then one of the girls got up, went over to the bar.
21:33And I should have just turned around right then and left.
21:37Because that's when the other girl, she said, Hey, they're holding me against my will.
21:42I need help.
21:44She says, I owe them $200, and I can't get my freedom.
21:48This was my 18th year in the Navy.
21:51I've heard all kinds of stories from working girls.
21:55Singapore, Thailand.
21:58I've heard it before, you know.
22:00And that's when she said, with a southern accent,
22:03My name is Amy Bradley.
22:05She pronounced it Brantley.
22:10Not too southern, but southern accent.
22:14And then she told me she got off that ship,
22:17and she left on her own because she was going to score drugs.
22:22She said, Mommy and my brother are partying,
22:24and I want to shore to go get drugs,
22:26and now I'm stuck here with these guys.
22:30She was trying to keep it on the down low that she told me anything.
22:33She didn't want the guys or the other girl to know that she told me.
22:37So when the other girl came back, she shut up again.
22:42I didn't know what it was.
22:45I just kind of took it with a pinch of salt, and I left.
22:48You know, I knew there was a guy out front with a gun.
22:51I didn't want to try and cause no trouble.
22:57It wasn't until, like, 2001.
22:59It was three or four years before I even got reminded of it
23:04and said, whoa, you know.
23:07I saw the picture and connected the dots.
23:13There was a lead that came in from a Navy serviceman,
23:15but it had come in years later after he had been on the island.
23:19He never reported it originally
23:20because he was obviously in the military,
23:22and that was, you know, frowned upon.
23:24Agents back then tried to confirm that
23:28or tried to at least see if the brothel, you know,
23:30had any kind of connection.
23:33But the information, you know, you're talking years and years later,
23:35and it's not something that could be corroborated
23:38and could be confirmed.
23:40But it does make you wonder, could trafficking have occurred?
23:43I didn't report it because I didn't want to get busted,
23:48restricted to the ship.
23:50I didn't want to know that I went to the illegal bar.
23:54I was two years away from retirement.
23:58If I would have got busted down,
24:00I would have been, you know, retired lower rank.
24:03So I didn't want to do that.
24:06How sure are you that the person you saw was Amy Lambradley?
24:13She said she was.
24:16And she looked like the picture I saw.
24:19So, yeah.
24:23The FBI put me in for an interview,
24:26a lie detector test.
24:30They asked if I could identify the guys from pictures.
24:32The picture that they showed me, I think, was yellow
24:36when they said, is that the guy that was at the bar?
24:40And I couldn't be sure, so.
24:44And why should people believe you?
24:46You don't have to believe me, but the FBI did,
24:49and they did a lie detector test on me.
24:52So, yeah, I had nothing to gain.
24:56I came forward because it's the right thing to do.
24:58So, yeah, you know, so nothing more than that.
25:06Amy and I, I mean, we were together the whole cruise.
25:09I don't know what she could have gotten into
25:11to, you know, be in this type of situation
25:14where she's owing people money for drugs.
25:16That's just Miller Lite and Marlboro Lite.
25:19That was kind of her M.O.
25:22To get off of a boat to score a drug deal,
25:26none of that made any sense to me.
25:29But on the other hand,
25:31you've got yourself a really legitimate witness.
25:36Everything lines up.
25:38So if she was being used in a brothel situation,
25:42we thought, well, how did she get there?
25:47What happened?
25:49How did it happen?
25:50We're thinking about the cruise over and over and over.
25:54Did we miss anything?
25:56And, you know, when we go back
25:58and take a look at the different things
25:59that happened prior to her disappearance,
26:03it's like, whoa, what about this?
26:06What about that?
26:09The thing that sticks out the most, I think,
26:11to me anyway, is the attention
26:14that the wait staff seemed to pay to Amy.
26:17But then at some point,
26:19the waiter walked right up to us
26:22and looks at me and says,
26:24where's Amy?
26:25We want to take her to Carlos and Charlie's.
26:29At the time, all I knew it was a bar.
26:31That was on Aruba.
26:33When I told Amy, she went,
26:34we're not getting off the boat.
26:36No way.
26:38Later, I did notice a man a couple decks up
26:41that I caught eye contact with a couple times.
26:45I couldn't figure out what this fellow was looking at.
26:48I'm wondering if he's looking at Amy or looking at us.
26:51At one point, I just kind of did this.
26:55Can I help you?
26:55And then I looked down to get my things,
26:58and when I looked up, he was gone.
27:01After dinner, I told Amy, I said,
27:04hey, let's go get our pictures.
27:06So we go into the gallery,
27:08and there's pictures hanging on the boards
27:11for passengers to purchase from the gallery guy.
27:15He recognized her immediately and said,
27:18oh, you're over here.
27:20So he went over and looked,
27:21and he took some out and looked behind him
27:24and looked again, then he looked into a box,
27:26and he said, well, I put them there.
27:29Would anybody from your group have come in here
27:32and purchased those pictures?
27:35I said, no.
27:38I didn't think much of it, except I said to him,
27:41can you redo those pictures?
27:43And he goes, well, sure.
27:48Who was looking at Amy?
27:51Why did they try to get her off the boat?
27:54Why are Amy's photos missing?
27:59Somebody saw her and wanted her and took her.
28:09I took over the case in 2001,
28:11and talking to the Bradleys,
28:14you could hear the pain in their voices
28:15and their desperation to try to get some answers.
28:18People will do anything for their kids, right?
28:20They'll do anything for their daughter.
28:21So they were doing everything they could
28:24to try to solve the mystery.
28:27We checked embassies, hospitals, prisons.
28:30We talked to anybody that would talk to us
28:34about what was going on in that region of the world.
28:38And we had a hotline.
28:40We started calling the news.
28:42And we told the story hundreds of times.
28:46Joining us are Amy's parents,
28:47Iva and Ron Bradley.
28:48Iva and Ron Bradley.
28:50Iva and Ron Bradley.
28:51Her parents have never given up the search.
28:53I remember the phones ringing
28:55all times of the night.
28:57You know, people calling from different places.
29:00There's no way that I could ever explain
29:03what it would feel like
29:04to not bring one of your children home.
29:07It's reliving it every time we tell it a year.
29:13Amy's very responsible.
29:15She's very conscientious.
29:17After a year,
29:18if she was going to leave
29:19for more than 10 or 15 minutes,
29:20she would have absolutely left us a note.
29:22After a year.
29:23Go to bed every night thinking about her.
29:25She's never off our mind.
29:28Any time the computer would ding,
29:31we'd all run to the computer
29:32to check what the email was.
29:34Some of them were about torture.
29:40Amy's feet were cut with razor blades
29:42so she couldn't escape.
29:44Amy's being tied to a tree.
29:47Your daughter's been hitting the head with a hatchet
29:50and she's buried in a shallow grave in Venezuela
29:53and here are the coordinates.
29:56And so what you do at that moment
29:57is you take a deep breath
29:59and you check it out
30:01and you're able to determine
30:03there are no such coordinates.
30:09It was frustrating.
30:13And then one day we get an email.
30:15In 2005,
30:25there was a series of photos
30:26that the family received
30:27allegedly from a website
30:31where people would meet for free sex
30:36or to engage with prostitutes.
30:39When I got the case,
30:40I was recently assigned
30:42to the San Juan division
30:43and I was responsible for
30:45from Puerto Rico
30:46all through the West Indies
30:47down to Trinidad and Tobago.
30:50It's a hotbed for human trafficking.
30:53There's lots of people
30:54going through that area
30:55and lots of money going out
30:56to places it shouldn't go.
31:00Seeing the photos,
31:02that's a terrible thing.
31:04It's a panic.
31:13It's a level of panic.
31:16All I could keep thinking
31:17is, is that my daughter?
31:20It's a pretty unsettling set of images.
31:23Just sickening.
31:24I mean, it's certainly not
31:27somewhere Amy would want any part of.
31:31We don't know what Amy looks like
31:34at this point.
31:36You know, seven years
31:37can change a person's appearance.
31:41We all looked at it.
31:43The nose, the chin, the hair.
31:48It took my breath away.
31:50I thought,
31:52that could be Amy.
31:54It's a huge, tangible lead.
32:01Our job is to figure out
32:03where it came from,
32:04where it was taken.
32:06The photograph itself
32:08has been on a particular website
32:10that dealt with prostitution
32:11down in the Caribbean
32:12and in Venezuela area.
32:14The individuals in the photographs
32:16are of women
32:17in their risque attire.
32:19The FBI had a forensic analysis
32:23done of this photo.
32:27We have several photos,
32:28of course, of Amy,
32:29where we have her side profile,
32:31where she's looking straight on.
32:34We did measurements
32:35with the ear.
32:40We did measurements
32:41with, you know, the chin.
32:45We looked at the shoulder,
32:47the arm.
32:49A forensic analyst
32:50looked at the photo
32:52and believed
32:58that it was Amy Bradley.
33:08It is like a stab in the heart.
33:13I've never thought
33:14that she wasn't out there.
33:15Neither has her dad.
33:17Neither has her brother.
33:18We've got to get to her.
33:22Woo!
33:22Hey, Jackie!
33:27Amy Bradley
33:28disappeared seven years ago.
33:31Now, Iva and Ron
33:32were forwarded
33:34a picture via email
33:35by someone
33:36who wants to remain anonymous.
33:38I want to show you
33:39this picture
33:40of who may very well
33:42be Amy Bradley
33:43seven years
33:44after her disappearance.
33:46Why don't we go through
33:49the features
33:50that the experts
33:51have picked out?
33:52What they do
33:53is they measure things
33:54that don't change in time.
33:56And you can see
33:57the cheekbones here
33:58that have some similarity.
34:00Now, look at her chin
34:01and even her hair widow's peak,
34:04which doesn't change.
34:05And if you look at it,
34:06it is dramatically similar.
34:08We know that Amy
34:09has four distinctive tattoos.
34:12Now, the picture,
34:13she was positioned
34:14in such a way
34:16as to cover
34:16every one of those areas.
34:19We want to look at...
34:20After work one day,
34:21I was just watching
34:24the Dr. Phil show,
34:25and I'm watching it,
34:28and a couple comes on,
34:30and they show this picture
34:32of this girl
34:34that went missing
34:35in the Caribbean.
34:37And I couldn't believe it.
34:39Couldn't believe it.
34:39I said,
34:40that's the girl
34:40I saw in Barbados.
34:42I saw her.
34:44I saw her.
34:50My husband and I,
34:52we were on a cruise.
34:53One of the stops
34:56was Ridgetown, Barbados.
34:58I wanted to get
34:59some souvenirs
35:00for my family.
35:02So we went to this store.
35:04It was downtown.
35:07And we were looking around,
35:08and I said,
35:08oh, there's really nothing here
35:09I want to buy.
35:10He goes,
35:11well, it's hot.
35:12Let's go back to the ship
35:13and eat.
35:13And I said, okay,
35:15but I need to use
35:16the restroom first.
35:21So I went in there.
35:23And I wasn't in there
35:24maybe three or four minutes.
35:27And all of a sudden,
35:27I heard people coming in.
35:30They were talking.
35:32And I thought,
35:33men are in this restroom.
35:35There was a man
35:36over by the door talking.
35:39I can't remember
35:40everything he said,
35:41but I heard him say,
35:42the deal's at 11 o'clock.
35:44And I'm warning you,
35:46you better be ready to go.
35:50I didn't know
35:51what actually it was.
35:53Maybe a drug deal.
35:54I didn't know
35:55what was going on.
35:57And then all of a sudden,
35:58the men left.
36:00And I opened the door,
36:01and there's this young woman
36:04standing by the sinks.
36:06She had real long, dark hair,
36:08and it was kind of wild and crazy.
36:12Had a skirt on,
36:13a straight skirt,
36:14and a sleeveless top.
36:15She had this awful look on her face,
36:18kind of crying.
36:22I walked over to the sink
36:24to wash my hands,
36:27and I said,
36:28hi.
36:30Are you on vacation here?
36:32And she just shook her head,
36:33no.
36:34Do you live here?
36:36She shook her head,
36:37no.
36:37Wouldn't talk.
36:40And then I says,
36:41well, what's your name?
36:44She said,
36:45Amy.
36:47I could tell she had
36:48a Southern American accent.
36:51So I said to her,
36:53well, where are you from?
36:55She was talking so low,
36:56I thought she said
36:57West Virginia.
37:00I went,
37:01oh.
37:02I thought I was cheering her up.
37:04I'm from near where you're from,
37:06and I have a daughter
37:07named Amy,
37:08and she's just about your age.
37:11And when I said that,
37:13she starts walking
37:16towards me,
37:17getting up in my face,
37:18and she backs me into a wall.
37:21And I just froze.
37:22So I'm talking a little fast,
37:23and I'm going,
37:24oh, it's so nice meeting you.
37:25I hope you have a good time,
37:27whatever you're doing.
37:29And she watches me.
37:31She never moves.
37:32It's like she's frozen.
37:33Her back is to the door.
37:34So I open the door,
37:36and here's this man
37:37standing in the door,
37:38blocking my exit.
37:40So I play dumb tourist.
37:42I go, excuse me.
37:44I'm sorry.
37:45I got to get out.
37:46Excuse me, like that.
37:47And I just kept inching.
37:50Her back was to the door
37:52the whole time I'm leaving.
37:56And I get up to my husband,
37:58and he says,
37:59gosh, you were in there
37:59a long time.
38:01And I'm telling him,
38:02there's something going on.
38:03They're forcing that girl
38:04to do something
38:05she doesn't want to do.
38:08They all came out
38:09with their arms
38:11through her arms.
38:13I stood there and watched them
38:14until they disappeared.
38:17My husband's saying,
38:18well, there's nothing
38:19you can do, Judy.
38:20So we got it back
38:22on the ship.
38:23And I remember we went
38:24to get something to eat.
38:26The cafeteria
38:27where we were sitting,
38:28they had windows,
38:29and I could see Barbados,
38:30and all I could think about
38:31was that girl.
38:33And that was all I could
38:34think about for weeks.
38:36But I didn't know what to do.
38:37I didn't know who she was.
38:40All I knew was that
38:42her name's Amy.
38:43She's got an American accent,
38:45and she said she's from
38:45West Virginia.
38:46I thought it was
38:47West Virginia.
38:48I tried to just put it
38:49out of my mind
38:50until I saw that
38:52on Dr. Phil.
38:54I called the FBI,
38:56and I said,
38:57it was her.
38:58It was Zath.
38:58And they showed the picture.
38:59It was her.
39:00It was the same girl.
39:01That's what she looks like.
39:04Our agents in Barbados
39:06went out trying to figure out
39:07could it have been Amy?
39:09Could she have been
39:09in that restroom?
39:11They spoke to those folks.
39:14There's no cameras.
39:15There's no video.
39:16And tried to track down
39:17as best as possible,
39:19but it did not
39:19furnish anything.
39:21We looked at everything
39:23in that picture
39:24and anything that could
39:25be identified.
39:26Pieces of furniture
39:27that had markings on them.
39:29You know,
39:30you look at the bed.
39:31Could we possibly find out
39:33the manufacturer?
39:34Anything that could
39:36possibly give us a lead
39:37to where this photo
39:38was taken?
39:40Everything under the sun
39:41comes into play,
39:43but victims of human
39:44trafficking can be very,
39:46very difficult to find.
39:47Survivors after they've
39:48been rescued have told us
39:50that the traffickers
39:51said that their entire
39:52families would be killed
39:53back in their home country
39:54if they didn't continue
39:56to do what they had to do.
39:57Do you remember leads coming in?
40:02In all those grains of sand
40:03that come in,
40:04there may be,
40:04you know,
40:05something that actually
40:07solves the mystery.
40:10But to look at it
40:12as an investigative lead,
40:13you need something else.
40:16You need somebody
40:18that knew that person,
40:19that was close
40:20to that person.
40:23Message one.
40:25Hi,
40:26my name is Amika Douglas.
40:29I'm the daughter
40:30of Alistair Douglas.
40:34I was just wondering
40:35if we can talk
40:36for Amy Bradley.
40:40I'm not really good at this,
40:42but I have information.
40:45I would really,
40:47really love to talk to you.
40:49I would really like
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