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Woman living in Netflix's Amy Bradley home keeping memory alive in touching way
A woman living in the former home of Amy Lynn Bradley who vanished from a cruise ship decades ago sparking a new Netflix series said she "wants to keep her memory alive". Mom-of-three Shelby Peers, 26, was initially unaware of her new home's history and link to the infamous 1998 missing persons case when she moved into it with her family in 2019. Peers later researched the case and connected with Bradley's family, who said they especially appreciated her efforts to maintain Amy's garden. Along with the release of the Amy Bradley is Missing docuseries on Netflix, her viral TikTok video sparked renewed interest in the unsolved disappearance and led Peers to form her own theory involving suspected sex trafficking. In spite of its tragic past, Peers says her family enjoys living in the home in Chesterfield County, Virginia. The stay-at-home mom to 23-month-old twin boys and a five-month-old daughter, lives at the home with her husband, Adam, 30, who works in logistics. Solve the daily Crossword
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17-07-2025
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Amy Bradley Went Missing on a Cruise Ship. The True Story & Top Theories
It was March 23, 1998, and Amy Lynn Bradley was vacationing on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship with her family. Rhapsody of the Seas was sailing "somewhere between Aruba and Curacao, Netherlands Antilles." The FBI page devoted to Bradley's story gives the following account. According to Special Agent Erin Sheridan, Amy and her brother Brad Bradley "had a night out." Her parents, Ron and Iva Bradley, were also on the cruise ship. She was a "talented basketball player and college graduate," just 23 years old. "So that evening, Amy was out at the disco with her brother, other passengers, and crew, socializing and having a great time. In the morning, when her parents and her brother woke, Amy was gone," Sheridan says on the website, noting that her brother, Brad, was the last person to see her. Where is Amy Bradley now? Is she dead, under duress, the victim of human trafficking, or did she leave on her own? Did she fall overboard, or was she murdered? A new Netflix documentary, Amy Bradley Is Missing, revisits the story of the missing woman. That has a lot of people wondering about the true story, as well as the top theories in the case. There's a $25,000 reward in the case, according to the FBI. "Myself and my parents have had to endure a lot of sadness, but the last thing that I ever said to Amy was, 'I love you,' before I went to sleep that night. Knowing that that's the last thing I said to her has always been very comforting to me," Brad Bradley says on the FBI page. According to the FBI, Amy has "several tattoos, including a sun, a gecko lizard, and a Tasmanian devil spinning a basketball." "On Saturday, March 21, 1998, the vessel departed San Juan, Puerto Rico, and traveled to its first port of call, the island of Aruba," the FBI explained."On Monday, March 23, 1998, Rhapsody of the Seas departed Aruba and was traveling in international waters to its next island port of Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. During the early morning hours of Tuesday," it says. "March 24, 1998, Amy Lynn Bradley went missing. The vessel later departed Curacao and continued on to the island of St. Martin (Sint Maarten) and further traveled to St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, before returning to San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Saturday, March 28, 1998." According to TODAY, Bradley was "last seen asleep on her chair on the balcony of the ship's eighth deck at 4:30 a.m." She has never been seen by her loved ones again, and it's not clear whether she is dead or alive. "I'm telling you, if she came off the ship or fell off the ship, we would get a body,' Adtzere 'John' Mentar, who was Harbor police chief at the time, said on the Netflix show. 'She would have washed ashore …' The series also shows Sheridan explaining the family's cabin was cleaned before investigators could search it, one of the challenges of investigating a crime on a cruise ship. The series entertains various theories about Bradley's disappearance. One woman interviewed, Lori Thompson, "claims she saw Amy with Alister 'Yellow' Douglas, an entertainer on the ship, shortly before Amy vanished," Netflix writes. "Earlier that night, Douglas had been seen dancing with Amy in the nightclub, a detail backed by video footage." The series also does not rule out the possibility that Bradley fell or jumped overboard. The series also explores the claim that Bradley might have been human trafficked. US Navy seaman Bill Hefner "believes he met a distressed Amy in a bar after his ship arrived in Curaçao in January 1999, 10 months after she went missing," Netflix reports, adding that another theory has Bradley vanishing on her own, buttressed by a "pattern" of logins to the family's missing person website on key dates from IP addresses in Barbados. According to Netflix, Douglas took a polygraph test, but it was inconclusive; he says he's innocent, and he's never been accused by authorities of any wrongdoing in connection with Bradley's disappearance. Various people have claimed they saw Bradley since she vanished, but none of those claims has been authenticated, USA Today reported. . Another twist in the case came in 2005, when an "anonymous source allegedly sent the Bradleys photos of a woman whom they claimed was Amy that they found online," People reported. Despite differences in the woman's appearance, Iva Bradley "believed it could have been her daughter," according to People, which reported the photos came from "an adult website based in the Caribbean." There was never enough evidence to trace the photo's origin or the woman. A Coast Guard lieutenant initially said that authorities believed she fell from the balcony in the family's room on the 8th deck into the water, according to a 1998 Associated Press article. One tantalizing clue: The door to that balcony was open, the AP reported. Her uncle John Noblin said in that article that the family didn't think Bradley fell overboard because she was afraid of heights and would have been cautious around the railing. Noblin said at that time that he believed someone had "grabbed" Bradley in the corridor. FBI agents searched the ship to no avail, and her flyer was distributed in nearby ports. Bradley was a "trained lifeguard," that story says, adding that authorities found no evidence of foul play on the Bradley Went Missing on a Cruise Ship. The True Story & Top Theories first appeared on Men's Journal on Jul 16, 2025
