Netflix left out key Amy Bradley detail about ‘photos of her alive' on sex worker site
The case of Amy Bradley received massively renewed attention last year when Netflix released Amy Bradley is Missing, bringing the shocking missing persons case to a whole new generation.
According to an expert on the case however the Netflix doc left out one incredibly important detail about ‘photos of her alive’ discussed in the doc, with the expert even slamming the streamer for their framing of it.
Amy Bradley went missing on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship headed for Curacao in 1998. No body was ever found and in 2010 she was declared legally dead, though her family still maintain hope to this day that she is alive.
A major moment of hope was given to the family seven years after she went missing though when pictures appeared on a sex workers website based out of the Caribbean which appeared to resemble Amy but was listed under the name ‘Jas’.
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The family began posting the pictures in hope they would help bring her home as it fuelled theories that she was taken off the boat to be forced into sex trafficking. Netflix covered this extensively, using it to give weight to rumours that she was still alive, but not everyone is as convinced by them.
According to James Renner, a true crime author who wrote A Cruise to Nowhere: My Search for Amy Lynn Bradley about her disappearance, Netflix left out some pretty key details about these photos.
Netflix did not include key photos found of ‘Jas’ online, and he alleged they included false information about the FBI
Speaking exclusively to LADbible, Renner said: “It's not Amy. The family knows it's not Amy.
“There are a number of photographs of Jas that we were not given in the documentary or online that are able to be found online that clearly show that she does not have the tattoos that Amy Bradley has.”
Renner explained that the site was set up by a man named Alexis Zaglanitis who he called a ‘creep’, adding that he often would use pictures of adult entertainers and then say they ‘weren’t available’ when people would show up expecting to sleep with them.
When discussing the Netflix doc he added: “I'd say the biggest thing that I didn't like about the documentary was that they led the viewer to believe that the FBI concluded that photo of Jas was Amy. That is just simply not true.
“There was a forensic analyst of some sort who said that he believed it was Amy, but he was not a working or current FBI agent, and the FBI certainly has never said that.”
Erin Sheridan, a former FBI agent, speaks in the documentary where she states a forensic expert had determined that the photos were authentic and of Amy.
Renner pointed out one important detail which disproves theories she was trafficked
The author believes that Amy died at sea and, due to issues in her personal life, jumped off the side of the cruise.
When asked about the theory that she was taken off the cruise ship as part of a human trafficking ring, Renner stated that this was incredibly unlikely because white women are rarely trafficked in the Caribbean.
He explained: “White women are not kidnapped and trafficked in the Caribbean. There's not one verified case of anybody, any woman being kidnapped off a cruise ship and sold into human slavery.
“Human trafficking is a problem in the Caribbean, but it’s almost exclusively women of colour from poor countries like the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Haiti, you know, places like that.
“There’s no reason to kidnap a woman to force her into prostitution anyways, because prostitution is legal in Curacao.”
Ultimately, he stated that most signs point to the fact that she never made it off the cruise ship and, whether intentionally or not, died at sea.
A Cruise to Nowhere is available to buy now.
Topics: True Crime, Netflix, Amy Bradley, Cruise Ship, TV and Film
Michael Slavin