Netflix viewers point out major detail left out of documentary of woman who went missing onboard cruise ship
Netflix viewers have highlighted that a devastating detail is missing from a documentary about a woman who disappeared on a cruise almost three decades ago.
Amy Bradley was 23-years-old when she vanished from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in 1998.
The Virginia native - who had been on vacation with her mom, Iva, dad, Ron and brother Brad - was last seen on the balcony of her cabin in the early hours of March 24, 1998.
Despite extensive searches on board the ship and in the area it was sailing at the time, a body was never recovered.
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While some witnesses claim to have had encounters with women they believe to be Amy over the years, she's remained a missing person ever since.
Now, a Netflix series titled Amy Bradley is Missing examines her case, featuring both conspiracy theories and witness testimonies.
This week, Amy's brother Brad took to social media to share his thoughts on the documentary.
One Twitter user had asked whether his family supported the documentary, to which Brad confirmed that he and his family do 'support' the show.
He said the series 'was not a complete account and left out quite a bit of information,' but acknowledged it 'would have required 10 seasons to tell it all'.
He added his family 'thought the producers did an awesome job overall and are happy with the response so far'.
Discussing Amy Bradley is Missing over on Reddit, fans pointed out that another heartbreaking twist in the story was left out of the documentary.
Posting to the r/TrueCrimeDiscussion subreddit, one person said how there was 'tons left out', adding: "Like the PI scamming them- which points to the family looking desperate for any answer."
A second person said: “Yes! I couldn’t believe they left such a big piece out!”
What was left out of the Amy Bradley Netflix documentary?
Amy's devastated family were conned out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by Frank Jones, who claimed to be a former Navy SEAL. He investigated claims that Judith Margaritha, a cook in Curaçao, made about Amy.
She'd told the family their daughter was being held under guard by 'heavily armed Colombian men' in a barbed-wire-protected housing complex.
So, Frank said he'd send two men to Curaçao to investigate Margaritha’s claims, and later told the family his team had observed Amy in a dark green SUV driven by a blond-haired captor.
"He told me that he'd put Amy on his own back and swim her out of there," Iva told ABC News in 2002.
Over the following months, he told the family he was sending more operatives to attempt to retrieve Amy as the situation was proving increasingly dangerous.
He provided detailed - but fictitious - reports of sightings. Frank went as far as sending the family staged photographs showing a woman resembling Amy on a beach with a blond-haired man to swindle even more money out of the grieving family.
The Bradleys sent him a total of $210,000; around $25,000 of that from the family's own pocket and the rest from charity.
But Frank was exposed as a fraud when one of his operatives began to suspect foul play.
Frank pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 2002, was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to repay the $210,000.
Margaritha’s son also discredited her story, ABC reports, saying she fabricated the sightings to exploit the family.
Despite their heartbreak, the Bradleys felt they had no choice but to pursue any seemingly credible lead.
As Ron Bradley said: “If it was your child, what would you do? So I guess we took a chance. And I guess we lost.”
Amy Bradley is Missing is streaming now on Netflix.
Topics: Film and TV, Netflix, Streaming, True crime, US News, Amy Bradley
Ellie Kemp