Three Witnesses. One System That Failed | Mini Episode: Between Seen and The File

Three people came forward voluntarily. None of them knew each other. None of them had anything to gain. All of them carried what they saw for years — in some cases decades — before speaking about it on the record in long form.

Before Episode 8 examines what happened when they did, host Kevin Hall takes a moment to name what each witness brought to this series and what they were met with.

Lori was 18 years old on her first vacation when she watched Amy and Alistair Douglass go up together in the ship's glass elevator — and watched him come back down alone. She reported it to ship security. She told the FBI. She was told she was nothing more than a drunk little rich white girl on vacation. She was not drunk. She has carried the glass elevator for 28 years with 100% certainty. She said so, on the record, for the first time in long form, in Episode 7.

David Carmichael was on a dive trip in Curaçao five months after Amy disappeared — no knowledge of the case, no reason to be looking for anything. He noticed a woman on an isolated beach. Her tattoos. Her watch — blue faced, silver, larger than her wrist, catching the sunlight. A man who stared him down and moved her along. He has thought about that beach every single day for 28 years. What he didn't know until this series: the watch was a blue-faced Dos Equis watch Amy's boyfriend Tom gave her before the cruise. That detail was never publicly released. Carmichael described it independently.

Judy Maurer was a tourist in Barbados in March 2005. She walked into a department store restroom and heard men's voices. A phone call: the deal's at 10 o'clock, and tomorrow we make our way back to Curaçao. When the men left, a woman was there. Judy asked her name. The woman looked away — like she was going back in time — and said it softly: Amy. Judy had never heard of Amy Bradley.

Three witnesses. Three separate moments. A glass elevator at dawn. A beach in August. A restroom in Barbados seven years after the ship.

And then there is what they were met with.

That's what Episode 8 is about. Not a conspiracy. Not corruption in the dramatic sense. Something more mundane and in some ways more troubling: an investigation that appears to have decided what happened to Amy Bradley before the evidence was fully examined — and then processed everything that followed through that lens.

Episode 8 drops Tuesday.

If you have information about Amy's disappearance — 1-800-CALL-FBI or tips.fbi.gov. Tips can be submitted anonymously. The FBI reward is now $100,000.

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