Midnight Mystery Archive

In August 1998 — five months after Amy Bradley disappeared — David Carmichael was on a dive trip on an isolated beach in Curaçao. Five people total. He noticed a woman with tattoos, a navel piercing, and a watch with a blue face. A man beside her stared him down and moved her along. Carmichael had no knowledge of Amy’s case. He flew home. Four months later he watched America’s Most Wanted and knew. What he didn’t know until this series: the blue-faced watch was a Dos Equis watch Amy’s boyfriend Tom gave her before the cruise. That detail had never been publicly released. David Carmichael described it independently. He has thought about that beach every single day for 28 years. This is his account, in long form, for the first time. A 12-part investigative series from Midnight Mystery Archive, produced in cooperation with the Bradley family.

Episode 7 gave you three witnesses who came forward voluntarily, with nothing to gain, carrying specific details for decades. Before Episode 8 examines what the institution that was supposed to find Amy actually did with that — host Kevin Hall takes a moment to name what each witness brought and what they were met with. Lori, dismissed as a drunk girl on vacation. David Carmichael, who described a watch no one had publicly disclosed. Judy Maurer, who asked a woman her name in a Barbados restroom and heard it come back softly: Amy. That’s what Episode 8 is about. A 12-part investigative series from Midnight Mystery Archive, produced in cooperation with the Bradley family.

After March 24, 1998, four separate accounts placed Amy Bradley alive — on a beach in Curaçao, in a department store restroom in Barbados, and in a photograph on an escort website that an FBI forensic analyst concluded matched her facial dimensions. In Episode 7, three witnesses speak in long form for the first time: Lori, who watched Amy and Alistair Douglass go up in the glass elevator and never come back down together; David Carmichael, who saw a woman on a beach in Curaçao five months later and independently described a blue-faced watch that had never been publicly disclosed — a watch Amy’s boyfriend Tom gave her before the cruise; and Judy Maurer, who in March 2005 was backed into a wall in a Barbados restroom by a woman who said her name was Amy. Each account evaluated carefully and honestly. A 12-part investigative series from Midnight Mystery Archive, produced in cooperation with the Bradley family.

Lori was 18 years old when she boarded the Rhapsody of the Seas in March 1998. She knew Amy. She knew Alistair Douglass. And in the early morning hours of March 24th, she watched them go up together in a glass elevator — and watched him come back down alone. In this Witness Wednesday episode, Lori speaks in long form for the first time about what she saw that morning, what happened when she reported it to ship security, and what it meant to be dismissed by the FBI as nothing more than a drunk girl on vacation. She will go to her grave with 100% certainty. This is her account. A 12-part investigative series from Midnight Mystery Archive, produced in cooperation with the Bradley family.

In December 2005, the Bradley family signed a legal agreement with Royal Caribbean. In exchange for the cruise line withdrawing a significant financial motion against them, the Bradleys agreed to never publicly name the cruise line or the ship in any interview or public statement about Amy’s disappearance. For nearly twenty years, they’ve spoken about what happened to their daughter under that constraint. This mini episode addresses that agreement directly — and then looks ahead to Episode 7, where three witnesses share what they saw. David Carmichael. Judy Maurer. And Lori, one of the eyewitnesses from the ship on March 24th, in her first long-form interview. A 12-part investigative series from Midnight Mystery Archive, produced in cooperation with the Bradley family.