Netflix is steering straight into one of the most confounding cold cases of the last 30 years with Amy Bradley Is Missing, a three-part documentary dropping Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
Directed by Ari Mark and Phil Lott, the team behind Ample Entertainment, the series reopens the case of 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley, who vanished in March 1998 while vacationing aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise with her family. One moment she was relaxing on a balcony, the next she was gone without a trace. The ship docked in Curaçao that morning. By then, Amy had already disappeared.
No body. No definitive answers. Just a mounting pile of dead ends, alleged sightings, and long-held suspicions. This wasn’t an overboard incident that sparked a swift rescue effort. This was the start of a decades-long mystery that still haunts investigators, cruise operators, and the Bradley family to this day.
The series walks viewers through every stage of the timeline, from the early morning hours of Amy’s disappearance to the subsequent FBI investigation and the dozens of unconfirmed reports placing her in various locations across the Caribbean and beyond.
Each of the 60-minute episodes uses a mix of archive footage, family testimony, and newly uncovered details to test the dominant theories: was Amy kidnapped? Trafficked? Did she leave of her own accord? Or was it something far more calculated, hiding in plain sight?
Netflix has seen consistent success with true crime titles that dig into unsolved cases, especially those with international implications and high viewer recall. This one hits all the marks. It’s gripping, globally relevant, and still painfully unresolved.
For fans of The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann and Don’t F**k With Cats, this latest entry will sit right in the centre of Netflix’s dark documentary lane.
