Disney cruise ship worker vanished 14 years ago and was never seen again
As the Netflix documentary continues to drum up fresh interest in the disappearance of Amy Bradley, who went missing on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship 27 years ago, the fate of another young woman who vanished from a cruise remains unknown.
Rebecca Coriam from Chester was working as a crew member on the Disney Wonder when she went missing in 2011 and to this day, she has never been found.
The 24-year-old was last seen on ship CCTV at around 5.45am pacific daylight time (PDT) of 22 March 2011, speaking on the phone to a woman in what appeared to be an emotional and tense conversation. Several hours later, she failed to turn up to her shift as a youth worker.
The previous day, Rebecca, who was known to family and friends as Bex, told mum Ann Coriam that she would phone her the next day, but that call never came.
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According to reports, the ship, which was off the coast of Mexico at the time of Bex's disappearance, was searched, but she could not be found.
Another crew member later claimed they had seen Bex go overboard at around 3am but this claim doesn't fit with the timeline of the CCTV phone call.
Bex's parents flew out to the ship's port in Los Angeles three days later and have heavily criticised the handling of their daughter's disappearance, particularly for the amount of time it took for crew officials to report the disappearance to the US Coastguard, the Mexican navy and and the Bahamas police.
Ships from both the US Coastguard and Mexican navy searched the waters where the ship had traveled during the hours Bex could've gone overboard, but nothing was found.
Six months after her disappearance, journalist Jon Ronson decided to take the same cruise on the Disney Wonder and undertake his own investigations, which he documented in the Guardian.
He spoke to several crew members who had been on the ship at the time Bex was last seen, and all appeared to have been guided into the narrative that the youth worker had been washed overboard while visiting the crew pool.
However, Ronson and Bex's parents remain unconvinced by this theory, given the height of the pool area walls and the fact that Disney's so-called evidence was a pair of flip flops which were later proven not to belong to Bex.
Many crew members suggested Disney knew a lot more about the disappearance than they had let on to Bex's family, citing the fact that the entire ship is covered in cameras that are rolling 24 hours a day.
LADbible has approached Disney for comment.
In recent years there has been suggestions Bex was involved in a 'love triangle' with an older man and another young woman, both working on the ship, though this has never been proven.
Lord John Prescott even weighed in on the case at the time, putting weight behind the theory Bex could've been murdered and calling for laws to allow British authorities to investigate cases involving British citizens regardless of location.
Topics: Cruise Ship, Disney, Crime, Amy Bradley
Emma Rosemurgey