Netflix’s newest documentary about the disappearance of Amy Bradley remains third in the worldwide charts a week on from its release - but some viewers have been shocked to discover that a major detail was left out of the story.
The doc focuses on Amy Bradley’s disappearance from aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in 1998 with no body having been found in that time.
Her family also spoke in the documentary having said to the show’s director that they were essentially relying on the increased focus from the doc to help them find her after 27 years.
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Amy’s brother, Brad, has broken his silence on the documentary to give his verdict.
He was largely supportive, stating on X that the family ‘support’ the doc and said that producers had done an ‘awesome job’.
Despite this though he issued one complaint, saying that while they support it, the doc ‘was not a complete account and left out quite a bit of information’.
One major aspect left out which he may be referring to was picked up by viewers discussing the doc on Reddit.
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One user posted to the r/TrueCrimeDiscussion subreddit praising the documentary, however one popular comment retorted saying: “I disagree about the doc being fantastic. A good documentary would look at all scenarios. These guys obviously had a favourite narrative to sell.”
This led to another comment agreeing, saying: “Yep and tons left out (like the PI scamming them- which points to the family looking desperate for any answer).”
Another commenter agreed saying: “Yes! I couldn’t believe they left such a big piece out!”
This referred to Frank Jones, a man who claimed to be a former U.S. Navy Seal in an email to the Bradley family in 1999.
He claimed to have a team of ex-Navy Seals and ex-Army Rangers at his disposal, a crack team who could aid him in finding Amy.
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This came after rumours that she had been trafficked to Curaçao by Columbian mercenaries and so the family leapt at the opportunity for someone to take a team to the Caribbean and search for her, with the FBI investigation making little progress.
Jones was indeed a fraud however, taking regular payments from the Bradley family and claiming that he needed more funds to surveil the island and keep tabs on her.
He claimed he had men who had seen her regularly, even sending a fake photograph to the family and telling them he was set to carry out an ‘operation’ to save Amy and that they should await his call.
One of Jones’ men who he had been paying to surveil a random house in Curaçao overheard the phone call and informed the Bradley family, who had been awaiting a phone call saying their daughter was alive and coming home.
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In the time he sent conning them Jones received $24,444 of their personal savings and $186,416 from a fund set up by a nonprofit called the Nation’s Missing Children Organization.
Jones was found guilty of mail fraud in 2002 and was sentenced to five years in prison and to repay the money.
Her father Ron later said: “If there’s a chance — I mean, what else do you do? If it was your child, what would you do? So I guess we took a chance. And I guess we lost.”
Leaving out the detail was a major omission according to viewers, with one commenting: “Amazing they left that out. He billed them out of close to 100k. A lot of the ‘pictures’ of Amy were ones he manipulated.
“They did eventually prosecute him. Real dirt bag that guy.”
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AMY BRADLEY IS MISSING is available to watch on Netflix now.
Topics: Netflix, True Crime, Amy Bradley, Royal Caribbean, TV and Film, TV, Documentaries
Michael Slavin