Connecticut Newlywed Missing on Honeymoon Cruise?!

[bethnjim]

Has anyone heard about this story>?? I was watching it on MSN and they didn't have to much information. It all seems a bit odd!!

Supposedly, the couple in the room beside the newlyweds said they heard a good deal of commotion coming from the room and they found blood on the side of the cruise ship. They requested that family members step forward and donate samples to see if it is the guy's blood. His wife is acting very odd too....said she went to bed and when she woke up, he wasn't there... :confused:

[dionysia]

I bet the husband got into an argument with another passenger. Some sort of violence occurred and he was killed and then dumped overboard.

Di

[bethnjim]

Very odd story though...I mean who gets into an argument on a cruise...for their honeymoon and how the does the wife not know about it?? My hubby and I were pretty close on the honeymoon. Also, why won't his family submit a DNA sample?? Why are they not begging people to come forward to tell what happened?? Why is his wife being so close mouthed about the whole thing??

[Sposa06]

Very strange story ... why has neither family talked to the media? This guy has been missing for nearly a month ... why are his wife and the families not trying to get the word out, to find out what happened?

[Larissa]

I heard that the couple was trashed, trashed huge headache in the morning, can't remember anything trashed...which is why the wife isn't speaking.

[dionysia]

Yeah, alcohol was definitely a factor.

Maybe the wife went back to the cabin & passed out while the hubby stayed out and then got in an argument. He returned, bloodied, to the cabin and then tried to get to a different part of the ship without passing the 'bad guys' - hence the blood on the balcony to the lifeboats.

The articles I've read say that the families ARE giving blood samples and that the wife isn't a suspect.

Di

[guinevere]

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[LRL]

I think the wife is still acting strange from what I heard. I apparently the room service person found blood in the cabin after the wife had already woken up in the morning and gone to the gym. Did the wife not notice anything strange- like her husband gone, or blood in the room? I am sure she can't remember much if she was wasted, but still, you're on your honeymoon, and you can't find your husband?

I also wonder about why his family hasn't made more noise until now.

[lml41981]

Very strange story ... why has neither family talked to the media? This guy has been missing for nearly a month ... why are his wife and the families not trying to get the word out, to find out what happened?
I would imagine they know what happened...he either fell overboard or was thrown overboard. They're probably not talking to the media because they aren't finished mourning his loss and would like to grieve out of the public eye as much as possible.

[lawyerlee]

That's horrible! :( What a bizzarre story.

[Irish Elf]

you're on your honeymoon, and you can't find your husband?We took a cruise for our honeymoon and I usually got up before Dh and went for coffee. He'd wake up, I wasn't there so he'd do his thing until we had o meet. Yes, it was our honeymoon but I'd have gone stircrazy if I didn't have some alone time.

I saw this on CNN the other night and the report mentioned alcohol, other people, etc. The story though focused on cruise ships covering up crimes more than this particular crime itself. Very interesting (the cover-ups). Very sad about him being missing.

[chefker]

Does anyone have a link to the news article? I heard a very brief blurb about it on the news, but that was it.

[evagatesgreen2]

My mom mentioned this story to me a few weeks back. :( Here's a link to an article from courttv.com (http://www.courttv.com/news/2005/0726/cruise_ap.html) .

[guinevere]

The stories of people going missing on cruise ships are scary... I've heard a few. Unfortunately some are suspected to have fallen overboard. Others are still a mystery... (like the Amy Bradley case back in 1998).

Something doesn't seem right about this case. But who knows. He was reported to have been drinking, maybe he got into a fight and ended up overboard... It's just strange that the cleaners reported him missing and not his wife.

[evagatesgreen2]

It's just strange that the cleaners reported him missing and not his wife

The whole thing is fishy but the fact she got up and got dressed without noticing anything strange. I would think that she could have noticed if it looked like he had been in bed at all, or wet towels in the bathroom, anything to show that he had even come in. :confused:


The Amy Bradley case is so sad, my sister went to school with her. :(
Did anyone read what the P.I. that the family hired did? :mad:

[Sposa06]

Did anyone read what the P.I. that the family hired did?

No, but I'm guessing from your angry face icon that you do know. What happened?

[evagatesgreen2]

I need to find more info on it but what I can recall is that he was looking for her with no luck and he found a woman who had a similar build to Amy and he talked her into getting similar tattoos and doing her hair like the missing girl would and then he photographed her looking away from the camera and sent the family a message saying he may have found her(included the photos) and that he would need more money to continue his work.

[shopaholic]

this is a very bizzare case

[bethnjim]

Take a look at this article...how odd:

Holloway not only missing U.S. woman in Caribbean
Dan Abrams talks with family of Amy Bradley, missing since '98

MSNBC
Updated: 2:18 p.m. ET June 9, 2005



Natalee Holloway isn't the first young American woman to disappear in the Caribbean. Seven years ago, then-23-year-old Amy Bradley went missing while on a Caribbean cruise with her family. On March 24, 1998, Bradley was seen by her father at about 5:30 a.m. on her cabin balcony. At 6 a.m., her father awoke and Amy Bradley was gone.

Two women on the cruise reported seeing the woman riding the elevator to the top deck just before it docked at the island of Curacao. At 6 a.m., Amy Bradley was with a musician from the ship's band, they said. A Curacao cab driver told Bradley's father that Amy approached his cab the morning she went missing and said she urgently needed a phone. In addition, two strangers say they saw Amy on Curacao, one in August in 1998, the other in January of 1999.


Bradley remains missing. There's a $260,000 reward for any information leading to her whereabouts. On Tuesday, Dan Abrams talked to her parents, Iva and Ron Bradley, about the search for their daughter.

To read an excerpt of their conversation, continue to the text below.

Iva Bradley, mother of missing girl: We have fought for seven years to get the attention that Amy needs to be found. When we discovered Amy missing, we begged the ship's personnel to not put the gangway down, to not allow anybody to leave the ship. And we told them that, if Amy had left the room for any more than 15 minutes, she would have left us a note.

And they put the gangway down anyway. People left the ship in Curacao. And please keep in mind that Curacao is part of the Netherlands Antilles. It's the next island over from Aruba.

We spent the entire day in Aruba, the day before. We rented a Jeep. We went out all day long. One side of the island is for tourists, obviously. The other side of the island is destitute, as far as desert, and tumbleweeds, goats, dogs.

We get back on the boat. We're there that afternoon. That evening, one of the waiters came up to us as we were in the atrium. He specifically asked for Amy by name. I asked him why he wanted Amy. He said because we want to take her to a bar.

And I said, "She's with her brother in the casino." So when they came out, we told her about the waiter wanting to take her off of the ship. And she screwed her mouth up and said, "No way, that's too creepy." We suggested being in a foreign country that they not leave the ship. We came to find out that the same bar that they wanted to take Amy to was the same bar as Natalee Holloway was in.

Dan Abrams: And that struck me, Mr. Bradley, when I heard about that. I mean, when you heard about this story, obviously, the location, you know, must have made you sort of particularly attuned to this story. But then when you heard the name of the bar, you know...

Ron Bradley, father of the missing girl: Well, that's true. And we've maintained from the beginning that someone saw Amy and took Amy from that ship in some way, that several ways by boat, through cargo, the cargo doors that open and close.

And then, when I just recently heard you say about the possible kidnapping, it just brings everything home as to what we expected the whole time. And I certainly hope that that's not the case. And I certainly hope that Natalee will be found.

Abrams: What do you make, Ms. Bradley, of the reported sightings of her? How reliable do you think that they have been?

Iva Bradley: Well, I believe the reported sightings are from people that have come forward that have seen Amy. The two Canadians that saw Amy on the beach in 1998, they described her tattoos, her demeanor, and did not know she was missing.

The Naval person who went to a brothel on Curacao said that Amy asked him for help, told him her name. She said, "My name is Amy Bradley. Please help me." He didn't know anybody was missing. He told her there was a naval ship five minutes down the dock that she could leave.

And she said, "No, you don't understand. Please help me. My name is Amy Bradley." At that time, two men in the bar removed her, told her to move and go upstairs.

He did not report anything. He had been on the ship. And being a petty officer, there were certain unauthorized areas that he could not go into, and that's where he was. When he saw Amy on the front cover of a major magazine, he had since retired and he contacted us.

And he said, "I have seen your daughter. I have seen her. I have talked to her. And she was in trouble." And he said, "I apologize for not doing anything about that."

There's one thing I want to make clear here to parents and to people that are traveling. Venezuela, on a good day from Curacao or Aruba, is in sight. We have been told by locals and been told by investigators, there are boats incoming. They come and go freely.

We also know there's a tremendous amount of drug trade. That's not a secret from Venezuela through those islands, up through the United States, or wherever they're going with the drugs.

So we're putting our families and our children in danger, and because of the situation with the United States being in a position where they say they have no jurisdiction, it hurt us terribly, and it hurt Amy. And we've not gotten the help that we need.

Abrams: Well, I'm hoping that -- you know, it's hard to say this, but that this other story, which is a horrible, horrible tragedy that, you know, hopefully that both can somehow end in a positive way and that one may be able to help the other.

Iva Bradley: I certainly hope so.

If you have any information in the case of missing American Amy Bradley, please call (804) 276 8503.


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