01x02 - I Saw Her

[bunniefuu]

[wave crashing]

[intriguing music playing]

[seagulls squawking]

[man] I'm on a vacation with a friend.

I went from Calgary to Curaçao

to do this diving trip.

The site that we agreed on was the best,

and we kept going back there,
was Porto Marie.

[waves gently lapping]

[David] Porto Marie,
it was kinda set up for locals.

You have to know where this is

and you have to want to go there.

If you saw more than half a dozen people,
you'd be lucky.

[water splashing]

[bubbles foaming]

[intriguing music continues]

[water gurgling]

[David] The reef is great.
The water's warm.

It's got good visibility.

There's lots of sea life in it.

We'd just come out of the water.

We were washing our equipment
in the wash area.

I look down the beach, and I see
three people walking towards us.

There's one guy,
there's a girl in the middle,

and then there's another person
who looked like he was from the island.

As they came closer to me,

she comes right up to me.

She was in good shape.
She was tan. She was a smoker.

I see a tattoo that looks like a…

Tasmanian Devil.

And she's just about
to say something to me

when the person who
was on the inside comes up.

I'm looking right at him.

He stared at me.

Doesn't say a word

and motions her away.

[mysterious music playing]

If he had not stared at me,
I would have forgotten everything.

But I can't.

I think about this every day.

There isn't a day that goes by
that I don't.

[clock ticking]

And I think, "If I had ten seconds more,
what would I have done?"

[darkly intriguing music playing]

[waves breaking]

[suspenseful music playing]

About two and a half weeks
after Amy's disappearance,

we decided to go back down
to Curaçao to have a press conference.

[Brad on video] The purpose
of this press conference is to…

not only let people know
what happened and how we feel,

but it's to try to find Amy,
to get our plea out.

We asked the captain of the ship

to please notify the passengers
that she was missing.

And he said that he could not do that
because it would disturb the passengers.

We went back to Curaçao because
I felt like I had to do something.

[man on video] Who was the member
of the family that last saw Amy alive?

[Ron] It was me.

[man] You?

[Ron] You know, it's very difficult
to talk about the last time I saw her.

[mysterious music plays]

[man] You don't believe
that she fell overboard?

[Ron] Absolutely not.

[man] What color clothing she had on?

-[wind howling]
-[sea spray hissing]

[Ron] She had on a white top.

Silver watch and silver earrings.

[man] Was she intoxicated?

She had been drinking.
Everyone on the ship had been drinking.

We checked the bar tab,

and she had had seven light beers
from starting at about 6:00 p.m.

[pensive music plays]

I try to hold back my feelings.

[producer] Why?

I don't know. I guess just…
even though she's 23 years old,

you still try to protect her.

And sometimes I think I didn't do enough.

-[ominous music playing]
-[clock ticking]

[Iva] I stayed back, manned the phones

because I didn't think
I could go to Curaçao

and not come home with her a second time.

I don't remember eating.
I don't remember showering.

[crying] I don't remember sleeping.

[soft music plays]

I was hoping and praying
someone would call with information.

[sniffles]

[Brad on video] The reward
has been raised to $260,000.

It's been raised, and we're still
trying to get more and more money

from associates, and friends, and family.

And if someone has her, please let her go.

Um…

Leave her somewhere
in the middle of the night, blindfolded.

We won't ask any questions.

Um…

You can remain anonymous.

Uh…

Whatever, we just need her back.

[intriguing music plays]

After the press conference was over,

we were out
standing in a lobby area outside,

hanging flyers, talking to officials,
newspaper people.

And we saw this gentleman come up to us.

He introduced himself.

His name was Deshi
and he was a taxi driver.

And he had
one of Amy's flyers in his hand.

And he said, "Are you the father
of the girl that's missing?"

And I said, "Yes, I am."

And he pulled me to the side, and he said,

"I want you to know

that your daughter
did not fall from the ship."

"Your daughter
did not jump from the ship."

[breathes shakily]

"Your daughter was not
thrown from the ship."

"She's on this island,
and I hope you can find her."

[suspenseful music playing]

[Ron] My heart started beating.

[heartbeat pounding]

[Ron] And he said,
"She approached my taxi."

"She seemed like
she was a little frantic."

He said,
"I never will forget her green eyes."

And he said she was wearing
a white top with jeans,

which is what she had on
underneath that yellow shirt,

and the jeans that were missing.

[Ron] She says, "I need to use a phone."

And he said, "I pointed
in the direction of the phones,"

and he said, "Amy went the other way."

[suspenseful music continues]

It was the first indication
that she's alive.

-And she's out there.
-[dramatic music plays]

He said, "You need to go to a place
called Coral Cliffs, which is a resort."

"You need to go to a place
called Kadushi Cliffs."

And he said,
"When you go to these places," he said,

"You want to look around,
don't talk to anybody,

just look, observe."

-[indistinct chatter]
-[seagulls squawking]

[Ron] We met a fellow named John Mentar
with the harbor police.

[Adtzere "John" Mentar] April of 1998,

the family came down
to see if we could see anything.

Taxi driver was positive
that he had seen Amy Bradley

and that she had gotten off the ship.

You know, it struck me, it struck me.

They were not that familiar
with the island, so I went with them.

[car motor rattling]

[Ron] He said it was dangerous
and he needed to be with us.

[John] They cannot be there by themselves.
Locals will attack them or mess them up.

As a policeman, it won't be a problem,
but by themselves, no.

[waves lapping]

[Brad] We were told, in these places,

that they were owned and controlled
by different mafia groups.

Couple of 'em had open water access.

You know, that you could come and go from

and not be checked by authorities
and that kind of thing.

Some of those areas we were looking,

there were makeshift kind of
landing strips that could have been

drug trafficking trade
or maybe even sex trade.

[John] Curaçao is a very lovely island,

but the crime we have here
are drug-related

because we are not too far from Venezuela.

And we also have
some prostitution on the island,

and sometimes sex trafficking.

She could have been lured off the ship.

Someone might be able to sweet-talk her.

[Ron] We went down
one particular road and…

[mysterious music playing]

…we came upon like a junkyard kinda thing.

-[ominous music playing]
-[dog barking]

[Ron] Old cars, old shacks.

And there was one shack that we went in…

[door creaks]

…and one thing that stood out to me

was there was a container of Tic Tacs
that were laid up on the bed.

[ominous music continues]

And my first thought is,
"I wonder if Amy was here,"

'cause Amy loved Tic Tacs.

And this is where they maybe brought her.

Somebody got her off the ship
and they brought her here.

So, that was what my mental state was.

[van motor rattling]

And I remember driving through

these thorn or briar patches.

We're basically on this little

five-foot-wide dirt path

with thorns two, three inches long
scraping down both sides of the vehicles

at one o'clock in the morning.

And I distinctly hear

what was obvious to me
was Amy's voice say, "Brad!"

In what seemed like
a vehicle that was passing us.

And I freaked out.

I mean, I spun around and, like,
asked everybody, "Did they hear that?"

And, you know, they did.

And so we whipped around…

[tires squeaking, engine revving]

[Brad] followed 'em all up into the hills
and these backstreet neighborhoods

fully expecting we're gonna pull the guy
over and she's gonna be in the car.

And then car pulled over.

[car door shuts]

[Brad] It ended up
just an old dude by himself.

[Amy on video] Brad, Brad, Brad.

Say goodbye, Brad.

[Brad] I know what it sounds like
when Amy calls me,

and it was very distinct.

[Amy on video] Here comes a car!

Never been so sure of anything in my life

that that's what I heard
and what that was.

-[Amy on video] What, Brad?
-[Brad] Amy!

-[mysterious music playing]
-[Ron] We didn't find her anywhere.

[stirring music plays]

[Ron] But with this, I know that
she's still out there somewhere.

[Erin S] We have the taxi driver
coming forward saying that they saw her.

It really changes everything.

We have to try our best to find

any other individuals
that might have seen her,

to try to get the public
or anybody to report information.

[exciting theme music plays]

[theme music fades]

Our next case involves
a mystery on a cruise ship.

The mystery of a passenger who vanished.

[Iva] We contacted America's Most Wanted.

She's our life.
She's our heart. She's one of us.

[tense music plays]

We wanted to get Amy's face out there.

[host on TV] …she may have reappeared
hundreds of miles away.

[upbeat tropical music plays]

[host] Off to a tropical paradise
for some R&R.

That's what the Bradley family was after.

[David] America's Most Wanted was on.

The focus was a missing girl
from a cruise ship line,

and missing on the island of Curaçao.

[host on TV] Amy Bradley has a tattoo
of the Tasmanian Devil

with a basketball
on her left shoulder blade.

[dramatic music plays]

[David] There's a picture of the Bradleys
standing on a gangway or something.

The minute I saw the picture,
I went like, "Are you kidding me?"

That girl was the girl
on the beach in Curaçao. It was.

[David] The tattoos and the piercings,
they were the same.

I'm 100% sure. Not 99% sure, 100% sure.

-[pensive music playing]
-[seagulls squawking]

[David] I spoke to the FBI.

I recounted in detail
my story of my sighting

and the people
that were with her at the time.

Now, one of the two men stared at me,

and he's a big guy.

He's got a very distinctive face to me.

I see that same face
on America's Most Wanted.

[musical sting]

[ominous music plays]

[David] Amy was with two men,

and the one that I could identify
was Alister Douglas.

[dramatic music plays]

We have a witness saying that they saw
Amy on the beach with some individuals.

This witness identified one of them
as Alister Douglas,

the bandleader from the cruise.

You also have the taxi driver
saying that he saw Amy and spoke to Amy,

and we can't confirm these sightings,

but we have to ask,
if Amy was still alive and on Curaçao,

did she walk off the ship…

[foghorn blaring]

…or was she smuggled off?

[woman] If Amy was abducted
or taken off the ship,

they'd have had their hands full.

I mean, she is a fighter.

[announcer on video] Amy Bradley!

[cheering]

[Sarah] Amy was strong, super athletic.

If somebody took her off the boat,
Amy put up a fight.

[Amy on video] Yes!
Two big plays in the trash pile.

Certainly,
I feel like she could hold her own.

You know,
she was a star basketball player.

[Erin C] Amy was the first female to get
a full college scholarship to Longwood.

She was very mentally
and physically strong.

[Sarah] But although Amy was strong,
Amy was not large.

I mean, they could have
put her in something

and, you know, disguised it as luggage
and taken her off the ship.

[Julia] Amy was pretty tiny.

And, you know, she drank.
She liked to party.

I mean, she could throw down.

She could handle alcohol.

We're thinking,
"Did she meet the wrong person?"

"Did someone buy her a drink?"

I mean, I don't know.
Could that have happened?

-[intriguing music plays]
-[indistinct chatter]

[woman] I think she was
so much more complicated,

and textured, and layered
than people really can even understand.

Amy always knew who she was.

I didn't get a car on my 16th birthday.

By college, she was ready
to share it with everybody.

[intriguing music plays]

The best memory I have of Amy
was probably when she came out to me.

And she said, "I'm g*y."
And I said, "Well, what about me?"

And she said, "I'm not your…
You're not my type, Sarah."

I mean, that still makes me laugh
because, you know, I was 17, 18 years old.

Well, why the hell am I not your type?
What's wrong with me?

[woman] At Longwood,
a feeling between the two of us

just started to evolve.

And she kissed me one night,
and that was my clue.

[intriguing music intensifies]

[Sarah] Junior year, we were suite mates.

We sat on the bathroom floor,

and she said,
"Can you help me tell my parents?"

"Can you come with me?"

I remember the drive home with her.

That scared her…

because she never wanted
to disappoint her parents.

I've never seen anybody
as close to their family as Amy was.

-[indistinct chatter]
-[Iva on video] Amy!

[Erin C] The Bradleys,
they're a very special family.

They love hard.

I don't think they missed
a single sporting event or activity

that they ever did, ever.

[cheering and whooping]

[pensive music playing]

She did tell her parents
about us specifically,

and they were not happy.

They were surprised and disappointed.

Her dad wrote a letter to me
that was very clear on how he felt.

It was a, you know, a three-page letter

outlining in all the ways
in which he was disappointed.

[pensive music continues]

[Ron] It's Amy's life. It wasn't…

It wasn't what we would choose for her,

but it's her life,
and we loved her unconditionally,

and I remember putting that in the letter.

[Kat] It just put a lot of stress
and strain on us.

I think we all drank a lot in college.

But I think Amy used it as a tool

to kind of numb
some of those big feelings.

And I think she carried a heaviness

that not all of us carried.

[Sarah] I do think that
it weighed heavy on her

that her parents were still processing it
and didn't quite understand it.

[Iva] As parents,
we were concerned that in 1995,

those feelings would not be welcomed

by the general population.

[Sarah] It was the '90s,
for crying out loud.

That was taboo.

It's difficult for a parent to say,
"I have a child that's g*y."

But they loved her regardless.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Erin S] The Bradley family,
from the beginning, was very honest,

and they spoke to investigators
about her relationships and,

you know, the challenges that she had.

[suspenseful music intensifies]

When we went to the cabin to take a look,
search it and all that,

then we see shoes and a small table

pushed up against the balcony
and so forth,

we have to look at
the potentiality of suicide.

[Erin S] We did many interviews with,
you know, numerous friends and family,

and also, you know,
outside that immediate bubble,

just to have a better understanding
of Amy's state of mind,

the headspace of the victim.

[Kat] I do believe that we should be
looking at every possibility.

The notion of suicide, I thought that.

But I also thought,

"Man, but Amy loved to be."

"She would not want to not be here."

[soft piano music plays]

I do not believe
that Amy committed suicide.

There's no room for me to believe that.

And by the time they went on the trip,

she was excited about life.

She had just gotten a new job.

[Erin C] She had gotten this new bulldog,

got an adorable apartment

that we were all so excited about

because Amy was gonna have this space
that we could hang out.

The second day,
they called home from the cruise,

and they were having a blast.

And she sounded so upbeat,

and she and Brad had gone shopping,
saying, "See you when I get back home."

"Can't wait to tell you all about my trip.
I got you this gift."

I mean, to me, that's not somebody
who is wanting to commit suicide.

[indistinct chatter and laughter]

[Erin S] Amy was very confident,
you know, very happy individual.

She definitely felt like
her life was moving forward.

I do believe in my, you know, in my being

that I don't believe
she committed suicide,

but the door is still open
on any of these possibilities,

any of these scenarios.

If you didn't have these sightings,

would you think something different?
Possibly.

[dramatic music playing]

My name is Bill Hefner.
I live in Fallon, Nevada.

I was in the Navy 20 years.

[foghorn blowing]

[Bill] I was on the USS Chandler.

My ship pulled into Curaçao.

I think we were there for an overnight.

When I went out that night,
I was a long ways from the harbor.

And I stopped in a bar
I wasn't supposed to be in.

I saw the hotel up above,
and it looked like a bar on the bottom.

So, I stop in there, and there's a guy

with a snub-nosed .38 in his belt,
and says, "Where are you going?"

Said, "Thought I'd go in to have a beer,"
and he said, "Oh, okay."

And so I went in there, and four people
come down the stairs, two guys, two girls.

And I see the two guys got g*ns.

I sat down with the two girls,
and the guys went over to the bar.

It was a white girl and a Hispanic girl.

White girl was petite, dark hair,

some tattoos on her.

And then one of the girls got up,
went over to the bar.

I should have just turned around and left…

[ominous music plays]

…because that's when the other girl,
she said,

"Hey, you know, they're holding me
against my will. I need help."

She says, "I owe 'em $200,
and I can't… I can't get my freedom."

This was my 18th year in the Navy.

I've heard all kinds of stories
from working girls…

Singapore, Thailand.

[chuckling] I've heard it before,
you know?

And that's when she said,
with a Southern accent,

"My name is Amy Bradley."

[dramatic violin music plays]

[Bill] She pronounced it "Bradley."

Not too Southern, but Southern accent.

And then she had told me
she got off that ship,

and she left on her own
'cause she was going to score drugs.

She said, "Well,
me and my brother were partying,

and I went ashore to go get drugs,
and now I'm stuck here with these guys."

She was trying to keep it on the down-low
that she'd told me anything.

She didn't want the guys or the other girl

to know that she'd told me.

So, when the other girl came back, she…
she shut up again.

I didn't know what it was.

I just kinda took it with a pinch of salt,
and I left, you know.

I knew there was
a guy out front with a g*n.

[chuckling] I didn't want to try and…
try and cause no trouble.

[suspenseful music plays]

[Bill] It wasn't until, like, 2001.

It was three or four years
before I even got reminded of it

and said, "Whoa," you know?

I saw the picture and connected the dots.

[thunder rumbles]

[Erin S] There was a lead that came
from a Navy serviceman,

but it had come in years later
after he had been on the island.

He never reported it originally
because he was obviously in the military,

and that was, you know, frowned upon.

Agents back then tried to confirm that
or tried to at least see if the brothel,

you know, had any kind of connection.

But the information…
You're talking years and years later.

And it's not something
that could be corroborated

and could be confirmed.

But it does make you wonder,
could trafficking have occurred?

[foghorn blaring]

[Bill] I didn't report it
'cause I didn't want to get busted,

restricted to the ship.

I didn't want anyone to know
that I went to the ill*gal bar.

I was two years away from retirement.

If I would have got busted down,
I would have been,

you know, retired lower rank.

So, I didn't want to do that.

[somber music plays]

[producer] How sure are you
that the person you saw

was Amy Lynn Bradley?

She said she was.

And she looked like the picture I saw.

So, yeah.

[mysterious music plays]

The FBI put me in for an interview,
a lie detector test.

They asked if I could identify
the guys from pictures.

The picture that they showed me,
I think, was Yellow.

When they said,
"Is that the guy that was at the bar?"

And I couldn't be sure, so…

[producer] And why
should people believe you?

You don't have to believe me,
but the FBI did,

and they did a lie detector test on me.
So…

Yeah, I have nothing to gain.

I came forward
'cause it's the right thing to do.

[grunts]

You know, so nothing more than that.

[somber music continues playing]

Amy and I,
we were together the whole cruise.

I don't know what the hell…
what she could have gotten into to,

you know, be in this type of situation

where she's owing people money for drugs.
That's just…

Miller Lite and Marlboro Light,
that was kind of her MO.

To get off of a boat to score a drug deal,

none of that made any sense to me.

But on the other hand, you've got
yourself a really legitimate witness.

Everything lines up.

So, if she was being used
in a brothel situation,

we thought, "Well, how did she get there?"

"What happened?"

"How did it happen?"

We're thinking about the cruise

over and over and over.

"Did we miss anything?"

And, you know, when we go back
and take a look at the different things

that happen prior to her disappearance,

it's like, "Whoa! What about this?
What about that?"

[dramatic music playing]

[Brad] The thing that sticks out the most,
I think to me anyway,

is the attention that the waitstaff
seemed to pay to Amy.

[Iva] But then at some point,
the waiter walked right up to us

and looks at me and says, "Where's Amy?"

"We want to take her
to Carlos'n Charlie's."

At the time, all I knew,
it was a bar that was on Aruba.

When I told Amy, she went,
"We're not getting off the boat. No way."

Later, I did notice a man
a couple decks up

that I caught eye contact with
a couple times.

I couldn't figure out
what this fellow was looking at.

I'm wondering if he's looking at Amy
or looking at us.

At one point, I just kinda did this.

"Can I help you?"

And then I looked down to get my things,
and when I looked up, he was gone.

After dinner, I told Amy, I said,
"Hey, let's go get our pictures."

So, we go into the gallery,
and there's pictures hanging on the boards

for passengers to purchase
from the gallery guy.

He recognized her immediately and said,
"Oh, you're over here."

So, he went over and looked,
and he took some out and looked behind him

and looked again,
then he looked into a box,

and he said, "Well, I put 'em there."

"Would anybody from your group

have come in here
and purchased those pictures?"

We said, "No."

[dramatic music continues]

[Iva] I didn't think much of it,
except I said to him,

"Can you redo those pictures?"
And he goes, "Well, sure."

Who was looking at Amy?

Why did they try to get her off the boat?

Why are Amy's photos missing?

[dramatic music crescendos, fades]

Somebody saw her
and wanted her and took her.

[musical sting]

[somber music playing]

[man] I took over the case in 2001.

And talking to the Bradleys,

you could hear the pain in their voices
and their desperation to get some answers.

People will do anything
for their kids, right?

They'll do anything for their daughter.

So, they were doing everything they could
to try to solve the mystery.

[Iva] We checked embassies,
hospitals, prisons.

We talked to anybody that would talk to us

about what was going on
in that region of the world.

And we had a hotline,
we started calling the news,

and we told the story hundreds of times.

[reporter 1] Joining us are Amy's parents,
Iva and Ron Bradley.

-[reporter 2] Iva and Ron Bradley.
-[reporter 3] Iva and Ron Bradley.

Her parents have never given up
the search.

I remember the phones ringing
all times of the night,

you know,
people calling from different places.

[Iva crying on video] There's no way
I could ever explain

what it would feel like
to not bring one of your children home.

It's reliving it every time we tell it,
year…

Amy's very responsible.
She's very conscientious.

[Iva] …after year…

If she was leaving for more than ten
or 15 minutes, she would've left a note.

[Iva] …after year.

Go to bed every night thinking about her.
She's never off our mind.

[Iva] Any time the computer would ding,

we'd all run to the computer
to check what the email was.

[ominous music playing]

[Iva] Some of 'em were about t*rture.

"Amy's feet were cut with razor blades
so she couldn't escape."

"Amy's being tied to a tree."

[Iva] "Your daughter's been hit
in the head with a hatchet,

and she's buried in
a shallow grave in Venezuela,

and here are the coordinates."

And so what you do at that moment
is you take a deep breath

and you check it out,

and you're able to determine
there are no such coordinates.

[ominous whooshing]

[Iva] It was frustrating.

And then one day we get an email.

[suspenseful music plays]

[mouse clicking]

[musical sting]

In 2005, there was a series of photos
that the family received,

allegedly from a website

where people would meet for free sex
or to engage with prostit*tes.

When I got the case, I was recently
assigned to the San Juan Division,

and I was responsible for from Puerto Rico

all through the West Indies
down to Trinidad and Tobago.

It's a hotbed for human trafficking.

There's lots of people
going through that area

and lots of money going out
to places it shouldn't go.

[tense music playing]

[mouse clicking]

[Iva] Seeing the photos…

that's a terrible thing.

[inhales shakily]

[crying] It's a…

It's a panic. It's a level of panic.

All I can keep thinking is,
"Is that my daughter?"

[Brad] It's a pretty unsettling
set of images.

Just sickening.

I mean, it's, you know,
certainly not somewhere

Amy would want any part of.

We don't know
what Amy looks like at this point.

You know, seven years
can change a person's appearance.

[dramatic music playing]

[Iva] We all looked at it.

The nose, the chin, and the hair.

It took my breath away.

I thought…

-"That could be Amy."
-[tense music playing]

[Michael] It's a huge, tangible lead.

Our job is to figure out
where it came from, where it was taken.

[Erin S] The photograph itself has been on

a particular website
that dealt with prostitution

down in the Caribbean and Venezuela area.

The individuals in the photographs,
they're women,

and they're in risqué attire.

The FBI had a forensic analysis
done of this photo.

[tense music intensifies]

[Erin S] We have several photos of Amy
where we have her side profile,

where she's looking straight on.

We did measurements with the ear.

We did measurements with,
you know, the chin.

We looked at the shoulder, the arm.

A forensic analyst looked at the photo…

[tense music crescendos, fades]

and believed that that was Amy Bradley.

[suspenseful music playing]

It is like a stab in the heart.

I've never thought
that she wasn't out there.

Neither has her dad.

Neither has her brother.

We gotta get to her.

-[applause]
-[upbeat theme music]

[applause subsides]

Amy Bradley disappeared seven years ago.

Now, Iva and Ron
were forwarded a picture via e-mail

by someone who wants to remain anonymous.

I want to show you this picture
of who may very well be Amy Bradley

seven years after her disappearance.

Why don't we go through the features
that the experts have picked out?

What they do is they measure things
that don't change in time.

And you can see the cheekbones here
that have some similarity.

Now look at her chin
and even her hair widow's peak,

which doesn't change.

And if you look at it,
it is dramatically similar.

We know that Amy has
four distinctive tattoos.

Now, the picture,
she was positioned in such a way

as to cover every one of those areas.
We want to look…

[woman] After work one day,

I was just watching the Dr. Phil show.

[intriguing music plays]

[woman] And I'm watching it,
and a couple comes on.

And they show this picture of this girl
that went missing in the Caribbean,

and I couldn't believe it.

Couldn't believe it. I said,
"That's the girl I saw in Barbados."

I saw her.

I saw her.

-[suspenseful music plays]
-[clock ticking]

[Judy] My husband and I,
we were on a cruise.

One of the stops was Bridgetown, Barbados.

I wanted to get some souvenirs
for my family.

So we went into this store,
it was downtown.

We were looking around, I said,

"There's nothing here I want to buy."

He goes, "Well, it's hot.
Let's go back to the ship and eat."

And I said, "Okay,
but I need to use the restroom first."

[ominous music plays]

[Judy] So, I went in there,

and I wasn't in there
maybe three or four minutes,

and all of a sudden
I heard people coming in.

[door opening]

They were talking. And I thought,

"Men are in this restroom."

There was a man over by the door talking.

I can't remember everything he said,

but I heard him say,
"The deal's at eleven o'clock,

and I'm warning you,
you better be ready to go."

[indistinct talking]

[Judy] I didn't know what actually it was.

Maybe a drug deal.
I didn't know what was going on.

And then all of a sudden, the men left.

And I open the door,
and there's this young woman

standing by the sinks.

[water running]

[Judy] She had real long, dark hair,
and it was kind of wild and crazy.

Had a skirt on, a straight skirt
and a sleeveless top.

She had this awful look on her face,
kinda crying.

I walked over to the sink
to wash my hands, and I said, "Hi."

[water running]

[Judy] "Are you on vacation here?"
And she just shook her head no.

"Do you live here?"
She shook her head no, wouldn't talk.

And then I says, "Well, what's your name?"

She said, "Amy."

I could tell she had
a Southern American accent.

So, I said to her, "Where are you from?"

She was talking so low,
I thought she said West Virginia.

I went, "Oh!"
I thought I was cheering her up.

"I'm from near where you're from,
and I have a daughter named Amy,

and she's just about your age."

And when I said that…

[running water stops]

…she starts walking towards me,
getting up in my face,

and she backs me into a wall,

and I just froze.

So, I'm talking real fast, I'm going,
"Oh, it's so nice meeting you."

"I hope you have a good time
whatever you're doing."

And she just watches me. She never moves.

It's like she's frozen,
her back is to the door.

So, I open the door,
and here's this man standing in the door,

blocking my exit.

So, I play dumb tourist.

I go, "Excuse me!
I'm sorry, I gotta get out. Excuse me!"

Like that, and I just kept inchin'.

Her back was to the door
the whole time I'm leaving.

[dramatic music crescendos, fades]

And I get up to my husband, and he says,
"Gosh, you were in there a long time."

And I'm telling him,
"There's something going on."

"They're forcing that girl to do
something she doesn't want to do."

They all came out
with their arms through her arms.

I stood there and watched them
until they disappeared.

My husband's saying,
"Well, there's nothing you can do, Judy."

So, we got back on the ship,

and I remember we went
to get something to eat.

The cafeteria where we were sitting,

they had windows,
and I could see Barbados,

and all I could think about was that girl.

[water trickling]

It was all I could think about for weeks,

but I didn't know what to do,
I didn't know who she was.

All I knew was that her name's Amy,

she's got an American accent,

and she said she's from West Virginia.
I thought it was West Virginia.

I tried to just put it out of my mind

until I saw that on Dr. Phil.

I called the FBI.

And I said it was her. Exactly.
When they showed the picture, it was her.

It was the same girl,
that's what she looks like.

[Erin S] Our agents in Barbados
went out trying to figure out,

"Could it have been Amy?
Could she have been in that restroom?"

They spoke to those folks.

There's no cameras, there's no video,
and tried to track down

as best as possible,
but it did not furnish anything.

We looked at everything in that picture,
and anything that could be identified,

pieces of furniture
that had markings on them.

You know, you look at the bed,

could we possibly
find out the manufacturer?

Anything that could possibly give us
a lead to where this photo was taken.

Everything under the sun comes into play,

but victims of human trafficking
can be very, very difficult to find.

Survivors, after they've been rescued,
have told us that the trafficker said

that their entire families would be k*lled
back in their home country

if they didn't continue to do
what they had to do.

I do remember leads coming in.

In all those grains of sand that come in,
there may be, you know, something

that actually solves the mystery.

But to look at it as an investigative
lead, you need something else.

You need somebody that knew that person,
that was close to that person.

[crickets chirping]

-[automated voice] Message one.
-[beep]

[on recording] Hi,
my name is Amica Douglas.

I'm the daughter of Alister Douglas.

[ominous music plays]

[Amica] I was just wondering
if we can talk about Amy Bradley.

Um…

I'm not really good at this,
but I have information.

I would really,
really love to talk to you.

[mysterious music playing]