I really hope she is alive. I am not sure what kind of life she would have been living though. If she is found I hope she gets the care and love she deserves. The healing she needs to live the rest of her days surrounded by people who love her. This is my hope for her and her family.

Amy Lynn Bradley was 23 and on a family cruise aboard Royal Caribbean’s Rhapsody of the Seas when she vanished in the early morning hours of March 24, 1998, as the ship sailed toward Curaçao. Her family last saw her on the cabin balcony between 5:15 and 5:30 a.m.; when her father checked again at 6:00 a.m. she was gone. Only her cigarettes and lighter were missing. Initial pleas to delay disembarkation and make a shipwide announcement were delayed, and by the time searches began many passengers had already left the ship. The Netherlands Antilles Coast Guard and ship searches found no trace of her.

Over the years the family has rejected theories that she fell or took her own life, noting she was a strong swimmer, a trained lifeguard, and afraid of heights, and they believe she was abducted. Several reported sightings followed: a Canadian tourist in Curaçao in August 1998, a U.S. Navy petty officer who in 1999 said he saw a woman in a Curaçao brothel claiming to be Amy, a 2005 Barbados sighting, and a 2005 photo on an adult website of a woman who resembled her. The FBI continues to investigate and is offering up to $100,000 for information leading to her recovery and the conviction of those responsible.

Does anyone have reliable information about Amy’s movements on that morning or about the reported sightings in Curaçao or Barbados?