n March 1998, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley set sail with her family aboard the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas for a week-long vacation in the Caribbean. But just as the ship prepared to dock in Curaçao, Amy vanished from her cabin balcony into thin air—leaving behind her shoes, her cigarettes, and a trail of unsettling questions.
In this episode of Coast Files, we dive deep into one of the most perplexing and haunting missing persons cases in modern history. Was it a tragic accident at sea, or was Amy targeted and abducted right under everyone’s eyes?
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Amy Bradley is Missing. (2025). https://www.netflix.com/title/81741332
Cornell Law School. (n.d.). 46 U.S. Code § 3507—Passenger vessel security and safety requirements. Legal Information Institute. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/46/3507
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Wikipedia contributors. (n.d.). Amy Lynn Bradley [Photograph]. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Amy_Lynn_Bradley#/media/File:Amy_Lynn_Bradley.jpg
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