The disappearance of Amy Bradley has seen a major revelation in the situation surrounding photos found on a sex worker website.
Amy’s disappearance from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in 1998 has long been the focus of true crime sleuths, however, this became supercharged when Netflix released a new documentary on the case titled Amy Bradley is Missing.
While many believe that Amy simply went overboard, whether intentionally or by accident, the fact a body was never found has left her family insistent that she is still alive and had been kidnapped and trafficked off the boat.
Amy’s family’s suspicions seemed to be confirmed when pictures were anonymously sent to them of a woman on a sex worker website, who appeared to look like Amy.
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Image comparisons and even the judgement of an FBI forensic analyst seemed to ‘confirm’ it was her.
The website labelled the woman as ‘Jas’ and, while many believed it was proof Amy was alive, some came across extra images of her which appeared to ‘confirm’ it was not.
Amid all this there was one clear solution, find this so called ‘Jas’.
While no one has been able to track down the person in the pictures to confirm if they are Amy or not, even the FBI, one woman who allegedly met her has since come forward to give some clarity on the case.
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True Crime This Week previously spoke to Alister ‘Yellow’ Douglas, one of the last people seen with Amy who was interviewed by the FBI. He was released due to lack of evidence and the authorities have never accused him of being involved in the incident, despite initial rumours.
The true crime YouTube show has now interviewed a woman by the name of Rebekah Aliff who claims to have ‘met’ Jas, the woman in the photos believed to be Amy, two years before she went missing off the cruise ship.
Rebekah described in the interview spotting the photo of ‘Jas’ and was shocked to discover that it was linked to the story of a woman’s disappearance.
She said that, when living in Florida in 1996, she would regularly see Jas walking around their complex with a man but that she would never speak to anyone.
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Rebekah went on to allege that she confronted the man, asking why she ‘wasn’t allowed to talk to anyone’, and was let into their apartment.
She then explained that she would regularly go round to their place, claiming that the man in question had said her ‘real name’ was Susan but added: “Who wants a high price call girl named Susan?”
Rebekah claimed she was between 14 and 16 at the time and even stated that she had done her hair make-up for the pictures.
She stated that they were for ‘clients’ but claimed that in 1996 she lost contact because she had moved to Virginia from Florida. She also claimed that she was ‘100 percent certain’ it was the same person, though some in the comments were sceptical.
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One comment said: “I don’t buy this whatsoever.”
A second added: “I don’t believe any of this.”
Others however were convinced, with one stating that people trust eyewitness accounts ‘until it doesn’t fit their narrative’, suggesting that people were discrediting Rebekah as it went against the belief that the woman in the photos was Amy.
They went on to add: “People have been claiming that if the photos of Jas were not Amy, that someone would come out and say they know her. When someone does, they decide they don't believe her.”
Amy Bradley is Missing is available to watch on Netflix now. True Crime This Week’s interview with Rebekah is available to watch on YouTube.
Topics: Amy Bradley, True Crime, Netflix, Royal Caribbean, TV and Film, TV, Documentaries
Michael Slavin