| I watched. I believe she was drugged and taken off ship. |
| In 1998-cruise ships did NOT have scanners for checking out like they do now. |
This reminds me of when my kids asked me if phones had been invented when I was growing up. You don’t think there were scanners and cards with magnetic stripes on 1998? |
Same. I had never heard of this story before, and I fully expected that by the end of the last episode, they would have found her. |
Think back to what your library card looked like or your student ID in college. Of course this existed in 1998. |
| She was trafficked and killed |
I think it’s very likely that she ended up in the ocean, but the door leading from the balcony into the cabin was left 10-14” open, per Amy’s dad. Either she or her brother had left it open. Her dad also says “something” awoke him around 6am. The something could have been Amy exiting the cabin into a hallway. There were young women on the ship who had spent time talking to Amy and claim they saw her take an elevator going up with Yellow (the musician) around 6am, but only Yellow came back down. I’m not convinced she was smuggled off the ship, but there is no way that a scan card system is infallible. Shit happens and there isn’t 100% compliance with official procedures. A crew member would know how to sneak people or things off the ship. |
That just seems unlikely. The crew member in the band basically would have risked his entire career as well as his freedom for what? To traffic one white girl? The risk isn’t worth the reward. He earned more with his 6 month cruise contract (that allowed him to not work the rest of the year) than potential cash for trafficking someone who very easily would stick out like a sore thumb on any island filled with people who aren’t white. I’m still stumped as to why a lesbian who poured her heart out to a girl who ghosted her would hook up with an older black guy in the first place. Seems unlikely, which is why the theory of drugging her has caught on. But remember the DC intern who went missing and everyone wanted to pin it on the elected official she was having an affair with? That theory didn’t make sense either: risk wasn’t worth the reward (and it eventually came out that she was murdered by some random hood). |
The timeline isn’t exact. And there tend to be a decent number of crew and passengers up and about at 6am (especially on a port day). I think those girls might have seen them together earlier. Maybe. But how could they see them going off together and him returning alone? Were they just parked by the elevator? If that was the case, it would point towards a sexual assault and murder, not holding her prisoner someplace and finding a way to sneak her off a ship during a port day where they scan everyone getting off the boat. |
I didn’t think it was an elevator. … The two girls said after they left the bar they weren’t quite ready to go to bed so they went up on the top deck to hang out. They claim they saw Amy and Yellow walking around there, but remember this was in the middle of the night after drinking and they didn’t know Amy personally. |
| The woman in the picture is HER! She definitely got trafficked. |
The alleged witness specifically mentioned that she and her friend were sitting on the deck, chatting, and they saw Amy and Yellow enter a well lit glass elevator and go up, but only Yellow came back down that elevator a little while later. Supposedly, the girls headed to their cabin soon after. They didn’t use a key card to enter the cabin (the mother of one of them opened the door from the inside to let them in), so there’s no way to verify the time, but the witness recalled the mom asking why they were out so late and saying that it was almost 6am. |
His side gig might have been trafficking girls to order. Maybe that is why he took the photos (his “catalogue”). A band member who worked part time and had a family would have needed extra income. (Part of his compensation for the cruise was undoubtedly food and a cabin.The cash was probably limited.) Entry level musicians NOW—27 years later—make only $2400 a month. |
| I think they kept her drugged and under threat of death or death to her family. The whole thing is sad |
| When they had the crew search the entire ship, they were each responsible for searching their own private cabins, so if she was drugged by a crew member and being kept in their cabin until they could sneak her off the ship, she wouldn’t have been found during the search. |