So far there's not much new info but I have high hopes.

This message is flashed onscreen during the credits of S1E6:

In Loving Memory of Sam Willetts

Can anyone tell me who he is or give any context? I searched the subs but haven't found anything. Thanks.

From the original post:

>Stacie and Amy would regularly go to a gay bar in Richmond called “Babes of Carytown” The first time they went, Stacie, who was not out at the time, was nervous about being seen going into a “gay bar”. Not Amy. She did not give a rat’s ass what anyone thought about her. Stacie states: ''I have always envied this about her—her “I don’t give a f&@k” attitude.''

>Brad even came along to ''Babes'' once. Flattered by the attention he received, he would play along and then politely turn the guys down. Just like his big sister, he didn’t care what people thought of him either.

That wording. Usually when you say "would" when referring to the past, you're referring to repeated events. Not a one-time gay bar visit. And usually straight guys don't flirt with men.

FBI Poster

>The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to the recovery of Amy Lynn Bradley and information that leads to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person(s) responsible for her disappearance.

Interpretation

I did some research to verify that I'm reading the above text correctly. I think the below interpretation is correct, but lmk if you have evidence that it's not.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to:

1. Recovery of Amy Lynn Bradley or any of her remains.
2. Identification of those responsible for her disappearance.
3. Arrest of those responsible for her disappearance.
4. Conviction of those responsible for her disappearance.

Your information has to meet all 4 of the above criteria.

No Reward

I think there would be no reward in any of the following circumstances:

1. Amy ran away and is found alive. Since she wasn't abducted, no one can be identified, arrested, and convicted.

2. Amy was abducted and is found alive:

--- You can't identify those responsible.

--- You can identify those responsible but doesn't know their current location so they can't be arrested.

--- Her abductors can be found but jurisdiction issues, lack of witnesses willing to testify, or not enough probable cause, etc. prevent their arrest.

--- Her abductors were arrested but weren't convicted (due to lack of evidence, mistrial, etc.)

--- Her abductors are dead so they can't be arrested or convicted.

3. Amy drowned:

--- Accidentally.

--- Purposely threw herself overboard.

--- No cause of her drowning could be determined.

4. Someone drowned or killed Amy as part of her disappearance:

--- You can't identify those responsible.

--- You can identify them but not locate them so they can't be arrested.

--- They can be arrested but can't be convicted.

--- The perpetrators are dead.

5. Amy died later:

--- It's determined that there was no foul play involved in her disappearance. For example, she ran away.

--- No one could determine if foul play was involved in her disappearance. (Even if foul play was involved in her later death, it wasn't necessarily committed by the same people. For example, she ran away and years later someone gave her an overdose of drugs.)

--- There's evidence that foul play was involved in her disappearance, but you can't identify the perpetrators.

--- You can identify but not locate them, so there's no arrest.

--- They're arrested but not convicted.

--- The perpetrators are dead.

6. Amy or her remains are found, foul play was involved in her disappearance, they were identified, arrested, and convicted — but your info only led to one or some of those outcomes. For example, you found the remains but someone else figured out that foul play was involved. Maybe another person identified them. Another knew their location. Another provided info that was used to convict them. Maybe your info led to all except one of these things. Still no reward.

7. Neither Amy nor her remains are ever found.

--- Even if all the other conditions are met.

Conclusion

There are an awful lot of situations wherein no reward would be paid.

We've already been presented with the evidence that Shane isn't a bad liar.

Counterpoint:

"So, uh, look. We can forget about that happened in there, okay?"

"Four kids, man, that's great."

"I know you're an asshole."

"Why, cause I don't want wine?"

"For sure."

"Sorry, man, I just had se... I have to run, someone's at the door."

"Let's think about London. Maybe it could be fun."

"Team meeting. I forgot."

The evidence:

• After nine years of mutual jogging, showering together, sharing a hotel room, and holding each other's baby, Shane's very best friend on earth is still hoping to do couple stuff with a mommy-yoga teacher who is seriously hot and also funny.
• Shane concocted a fake Hollywood romance that was so convincing even Ilya Rozanov fell for it.
• Except for a single micro eyebrow twitch, he was able to maintain a veneer of nonchalance through, "Fuck him. I'm sorry, I mean it. Fuck! Him! Right up the butt."
• A Swedish prince princess.
• Up until the last minute, Yuna Hollander was openly orchestrating a Rose Landry reconciliation, code-named "Operation Summer Cottage Kidnap" because her son was definitely into women and not just queening out.
• Scott Hunter was right next door.
• For two solid months, Shane was able to fool a woman who went to theatre school.
• Yuna doesn't want him to lie. That's not who he is.
• "I mean, he didn't seem sick."
• As Shane's eyes well up with tears while gazing at Ilya on TV, his oblivious teammates surround him shouting,"You hate Rozanov" and "Shane hates him the most!"
• Just offering his condolences.
• Ilya is so thoroughly convinced by Shane's previous lies that when Shane finally confesses his true feelings, Ilya's response is, "You don't like me."
• Chill out, man. Hayden knows he texts some girl named Lily.

Counter-evidence? List your examples below.

Was that supposedly another Life Insurance company employee's cabin? Wayne Briet- something or other? Was he ever questioned about that?

NOTE: I'll try to add to this gradually so it encompasses all the timelines.

The Bradleys have reported various timelines for when:

• Ron last saw Amy
• Ron first noticed Amy missing.
• He first reported Amy missing.
• The ship entering the canal, docking, and disembarking.

Although he's said that the first two discrepancies were mistakes made by Amy's aunt, he reported those same times to the Curacao officials. (I'll have to look for the news articles but you can also search the sub.) So Amy's aunt didn't make a mistake.

I wanted to see if the timeline discrepancies were caused by Ron being on Virginia time and Virginia time differing from Curacao time by an hour.

The result is: On March 24, 1998, Virginia and Curacao were on the same time.

The second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November: Virginia  is on Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDT) and Barbados is on Atlantic Standard Time (AST). Both are on the same time.

The remainder of the year: Virginia is on Eastern Standard Time (EST) and Barbados is on Atlantic Standard Time (AST), which is one hour ahead.

In 1998, the second Sunday in March was March 8th. Amy disappeared on Tuesday, March 24th, which was after the fourth Sunday in March.

The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) compared a jawbone that was found on Aruba to missing person Natalee Holloway's dental records and determined that the jawbone was not Natalee's.

Brad claims that the jawbone was later compared to Amy's dental records and found not to be a match. There is, however, very little evidence that the jawbone was actually compared.

Holloway vs Bradley

The NFI published an article about Holloway on their website as well as their annual report. They didn't publish anything about Bradley.

Here's the link to the Netherlands Forensic Institute archives:
https://forensischinstituut.sitearchief.nl/#archive

You can enter "Holloway" to search for the list of articles they published about comparing the jawbone to Natalee Holloway's dental records. I copied the English translation of one of the articles below.

You can enter "Bradley" to see that there are zero articles about comparing the jawbone to Amy Bradley's dental records.

Molar vs Wisdom Tooth

Brad tweeted that Amy's dental records didn't match the jawbone because the jawbone has a wisdom tooth and Amy's wisdom teeth were removed. According to the NFI, the jawbone contains a molar, not necessarily a wisdom tooth.

Some media outlets reported that the jawbone tooth is a wisdom tooth. That confusion seems to stem from a sentence in the NFI article that says they compared the location of Holloway's wisdom teeth and fillings with the jawbone.

In other words, the NFI never said the molar is a wisdom tooth. They could've simply found that the location of the molar in the jawbone conflicted with the location of her wisdom teeth. Or possibly that she had a filling in that molar but the jawbone didn't.

Brad may have only read the media accounts and thought that he could simply say that Amy's wisdom teeth were removed so the jawbone couldn't have been hers. The FBI email he tweeted doesn't contain any info about how Amy's dental records were ruled out, so Idk where Brad would've gotten this info.

Timing

The jawbone was found on November 12, 2010, and officially ruled out as belonging to Natalee Holloway eleven days later, on November 23, 2010.

See:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/natalee-holloway-update-aruba-bone-announcement-planned-for-today/

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna40334542

On Twitter, Brad posted an email that was supposedly from the FBI. Yet the FBI email is dated February 3, 2012, more than a year later.

I could understand if it were dated February 3, 2011. But 2012? It only took the NFI eleven days to compare Holloway's records. It took them over 14 months to compare Bradley's?

Bradley Sentiment

Before any comparison was done, the Bradleys told the Richmond-Times Dispatch (without any evidence whatsoever) that they didn't think the jawbone was Amy's. The article, by Mark Bowes, Jan 4, 2011, is now paywalled but a copy is here.

The above article quotes Ron Bradley as saying they sent in the dental records for comparison. However, I couldn't find a single media article that published any results of that comparison.

I did, however, find a few articles from 2025 that said the jawbone was never "tested" re Amy Bradley. But they don't state their source for that info and it's unclear if they mean the DNA was never tested (which is true) or that the dental records were never compared.

FBI Email

The email Brad tweeted was from Thomas.Drummond2@ic.fbi.gov. The "ic" stands for "intelligence community."

I thought it was odd that there was a "2" after his name. That seems to suggest that there were two people with the exact same name in the exact same department during the same time period, and there were no middle initials or any other way to distinguish them except by adding a "2" to the second one. Despite the fact that the email is signed "Tom" so one would think his email address could just use the name "Tom" to differentiate him from "Thomas."

I tried that address as well as one without the "2" in 2026, but got a delivery failure message for both. Of course, that could simply be because Drummond no longer works there or because they don't accept emails from people they haven't emailed first. The address could be legitimate. This only means that I just couldn't prove that it was legitimate.

The email itself seems unnaturally brief.

It has no salutation. It has no closing line such as, "If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me." There's no contact info to cross out in Drummond's signature. There's not even a title or departmental information. It just says "FBI."

The subject line, instead of saying something like "NFI results" simply says "Re: Amy Lynn Bradley." There's no "re: re: re:" that would indicate an email conversation (which might only be a gmail thing).

The NFI isn't mentioned. There's no info about which institution did the analysis. Drummond doesn't explain how the determination was made. For example, he doesn't say that Amy's wisdom teeth were removed and the jawbone has a wisdom tooth. So where did Brad get the info that this was the reason they didn't match?

It seems odd to me that the dental records are being sent back. Like: a) the records aren't copies instead of originals and b) the FBI doesn't want to keep them on file for future comparisons in case other remains are found.

It's also interesting that the email isn't from the NFI itself, or from the Aruban Public Prosecution Service, which is the agency the NFI mentions in the Holloway case. Not exactly odd — just yet another thing that piques my curiosity.

The last three things I noticed, which is probably way-over-the-top overanalysis, is that a) would a professional write "FedEx" that way? All caps? and b) do emails have top and bottom borderlines like that? If you take a screenshot of a gmail, the border would go to each end of the screenshot. It wouldn't stop and leave a margin.

And c) the time stamp is weird, but that could just be the military's email software. Obviously, it's written in military time (24 hour clock) but it's also down to the second and also tells us it's "-0500" - in other words, 5 hours behind UTC time. Instead of just saying "EST" for Eastern Standard Time. Actually, all that seems believable. It strikes me as odd but then again I've never gotten an email from the FBI and I have no idea what their email software and settings are like. (In gmail, you can set the time to be in 24-hour format, but you can't add seconds or the UTC qualifier.) This probably means nothing, though. Or could even point toward it being legitimate.

The FBI email Brad tweeted.

Conclusion

The only evidence we have that the Bradleys sent Amy's dental records for comparison to the jawbone is Brad's word and the FBI email he tweeted. There's no explanation about where Brad got the info that Amy wasn't a match because the jawbone has a wisdom tooth and Amy's were removed. The FBI email he tweeted doesn't say that.

In contrast to that evidence, there are no published media articles from that time period (2012) that say Amy's dental records were compared. There's no info from the NFI that they were compared even though the NFI did publish that info for Holloway.

The Bradleys said, even before comparison, that they didn't think the jawbone was Amy's. They have a vested interest in keeping the "Amy is alive" narrative going. If the jawbone were a match, it would end that narrative. For that reason, it's possible they never had it compared.

NFI Article (English Translation)

The Dutch Forensic Institute has examined bone material, a piece of jawbone with a molar, at the request of the Aruban Public Prosecution Service, forensically anthropologically and for DNA. These investigations were started simultaneously. Extensive research by the NFI rules out that the bone material found in Aruba belongs to Natalee Holloway.

Exclusion after comparison of dental data

First of all, it had to be established that it was human material. This is the case. Subsequently, forensic anthropological research was expanded to include research by forensic dentists (odontologists). Using dental data from Natalee Holloway, such as the location of wisdom teeth and fillings, a comparison was made with the found jaw. Based on these comparisons, it could be ruled out that the bone material and the molar found came from Natalee Holloway.

DNA research

At the same time as the forensic anthropological and odontological research, the NFI started forensic DNA research. However, this concerns a very small amount of DNA material that is also of low quality. The bone material has suffered severely from all kinds of (weather) influences and turned out to be porous. DNA researchers at the NFI have therefore applied far-reaching and highly refined techniques to examine the DNA present in the bone.

Now that the comparison of dental data has ruled out that the bone material comes from Natalee Holloway, the DNA research has been stopped. It is still possible to use the molar from the jawbone for further attempts to create a DNA profile. Such follow-up examination of the tooth also complicates future research into identifying the person from whom the bone did come.

Since it can already be ruled out on the basis of the dental records that the bone fragment belongs to Natalee Holloway, the Public Prosecution Service in Aruba has decided not to have this follow-up investigation carried out for the time being. The Public Prosecution Service is still deciding which steps will be taken to identify the bone material.

Investigating Natalee Holloway

The Public Prosecution Service in Aruba has been investigating the disappearance of Natalee Holloway since she went missing. The case continues to receive the continuous attention of the judiciary and police on the island.

I was at a birthday party years ago when a woman sang this hilarious birthday song. It went by so fast that I don't remember a single lyric but I've Googled just to find funny birthday songs and haven't found it.

It's not a new song or a pop song — it's probably older than the 1970s. It's not short. In fact, it goes on for a while, with several verses. Iirc, she learned it as a child.

Do any of you know any alternate birthday songs that fit that description? Thank you in advance for your help.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Reddit won't save images in drafts so I'm posting this while it’s still in progress in order to make sure I save the images.

Summary

This post has a lot of detailed info. If you don't want to read it all, the summary is:

• There's no evidence that the amybradleyismissing website has ever been visited from Barbados, Curaçao, or anyplace else on holidays, family birthdays, or anniversaries.
• David Carmichael makes this claim, but the IP reports he provides as evidence contradict his claim.
• His IP reports also contain easily-discoverable errors that seem to indicate a deliberate attempt to deceive documentary viewers.

The IP Pings Claim

In the Netflix documentary Amy Bradley is Missing, David Carmichael (who claims he saw Amy on Playa Porto Marie beach in Curaçao in August 1998) states that he is a network and telecommunications specialist (E3 22:40).

Carmichael says that he collaborated with Anthony Willis of Sydney, Australia, who has run the amybradleyismissing website since 2018, (E3 21:20) to track the locations of visitors to the site.

He claims that their records show that someone in Bridgetown, Barbados has regularly visited the site on holidays, family birthdays, and anniversaries.

At E3 24:35, the screen displays the text below:

• Thanksgiving 15 hits, average 38 minutes
• Christmas 16 hits, average 48 minutes
• Iva's Birthday 18 hits, average 43 minutes

In the documentary, Carmichael says,

"Why? Why, why, why? On birthdays, anniversaries, and Christmas, does somebody keep hitting that site?... And hitting it from Curacao, hitting it from Barbados, and sit on there for 45 minutes or something. It doesn't make sense."

Additional IP Pings

At E3 23:30, some additional IPs flash on screen. Two of the addresses are incomplete. Only one of the IP pings that flashes on screen shows that it's from St. Michael, Barbados (which is where Bridgetown is located). Other IP addresses appear too briefly to really see, but they seem to be just illustrations rather than actual data from the site. 

Significant Dates

This table lists family birthdays, Ron & Iva’s anniversary, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Mother’s Day for the 2019-2022 period shown in the IP records.

Occasion	Date	Source
Iva Bradley's Birthday	March 19, 1953	IMDB
Amy Bradley's Birthday	May 12, 1974	Wikipedia
Ron & Iva's Wedding Anniversary	July 23	Instagram
Ron Bradley's Birthday	December 2, 1951	IMDB
Brad Bradley's Birthday	December 9, 1976	Iva's 12/09/25 Instagram Post
Mother's Day, 2020	May 10, 2020	print-a-calendar.com
Thanksgiving, 2020	November 26, 2020	print-a-calendar.com
Mother's Day, 2021	May 9, 2021	print-a-calendar.com
Thanksgiving, 2021	November 25, 2021	print-a-calendar.com
Mother's Day, 2022	May 8, 2022	print-a-calendar.com
Thanksgiving, 2022	November 24, 2022	print-a-calendar.com

— Analysis

Actual Evidence

The actual IP records shown in the documentary show:

• None of the pings listed at E3 24:35.
• No pings from Curacao.
• No pings on Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any other holiday, including Iva’s or any other family member’s birthdays or anniversaries.

Carmichael has never produced any evidence that his claims are true. Instead, he provided Netflix with evidence that directly contradicts his claim.

Time Span

The list at E3 24:35 doesn't state the time span (in other words, which years) the pings occurred. The site was created in 2018 and the documentary debuted on July 16, 2025. One can assume that Carmichael was interviewed within the year leading up to that date. So the possible time span was, approximately, from 2018 - 2024, a period of 6 years. (Although if there were any new IP pings in the 2 years since then, Carmichael could’ve made us aware of them.)

The IP records shown in the documentary only show the period between December 2019 and November 2022, a period of 24 months. Did the claimed pattern of IP pings begin before then or persist afterward? Or... 

Is Carmichal basing his claims on only the 9 IP pings from Barbados shown over the course of 24 months, ending 4 years ago? 

Interpretation

Even if Carmichael’s claims were true, his data, in isolation, gives us no meaningful information. In other words, there is no control group. 

We can’t determine if the IP pings are anomalous because there are no other dates or locations to compare this information to. There may be a much larger number of hits spanning a much longer period of average time on the site on other dates and from other locations.

IP Records

At <Add time stamp and captions>, the documentary shows these IP records:

https://preview.redd.it/0fd080xv7wfh1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=b96077e99007aa19c46d23b5e4823c06869f90d2

https://preview.redd.it/t60qbzwv7wfh1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=690c0eafa1947da9014d6ea758ee7d087afacbc4

Actual Locations and Dates

The table below lists the IP addresses as shown in the IP records. You can click the addresses to see where the pings originated. They also appear on the map below.

Note: Two IP pings are in red text in the screenshots, so I put them in bold text in the table. Per the screenshot, the last hit (on 11/19/2022) was to the Amy Lynn Bradley thread.

IP Address	Location	Date	Time	Barbados Possible Time	# of Pings
64.210.40.41	VPN set to appear as Hopewell, St. Thomas	Blurred	Blurred	Blurred	Blurred
69.73.233.215	Redmans, St. Thomas	12/24/19	Blurred /  10:55 am?	8:55 pm 12/23/19	Blurred
64.119.199.173	Lower Estate Heights, St. Michael	01/29/20	06:58 am	5:58 pm 01/28/20	44
23.236.4.101	Bridgetown, St. Michael	04/04/20	17:15 (5:15 pm)	3:15 am	44
72.51.109.242	Oistins, Christ Church	06/30/20	13:39 (1:39 pm)	11:39 pm 06/28/20	3
65.48.253.193	Oistins, Christ Church	06/28/21	16:16 (4:16 pm)	2:16 am	40
23.236.11.75	Bridgetown, St. Michael	06/09/22	16:34 (4:34 pm)	2:34 am	24
72.51.105.200	Melverton, St. George	11/17/22	13:08 (1:08 pm)	11:08 pm 11/16/22	28
Blurred	Unknown	11/19/22	02:18 am	12:18 pm 11/18/22	22

— Analysis

The list at E3 24:35 claimed there were IP pings on Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Iva's birthday. Carmichael also claimed there were pings on anniversaries. The IP records show that there were no pings on any holiday, family birthday, or anniversary.

The documentary screenshot says that all the locations were in Bridgetown. However, only 2 of the 9 pings were from there. There is no evidence that there were increased hits from Bridgetown.

Carmichael said that some IP pings were from Curaçao. The IP records show no pings from Curaçao.

Carmichael mentions a duration of “45 minutes” and the list at E3 24:35 claims average durations of 38, 48, and 43 minutes. The IP records don't list the duration of any site visit.

Map of Locations

This map shows the 6 different locations of the IP addresses shown in the IP records.

https://preview.redd.it/kasklzwv7wfh1.png?width=1556&format=png&auto=webp&s=04000c909fb407757fa7f11d4bd1057f288ee36b

Distances Between Locations

The table below lists the distances between IP ping locations.

Start Point	End Point	Distance (Miles)
Hopewell	Redmans	4.5
Redmans	Lower Estate Heights	3.5
Lower Estate Heights	Bridgetown	3.5
Bridgetown	Oistins	7.2
Oistins	Melverton	5.5
Melverton	Hopewell	10.5

IP Geolocation Accuracy

According to MAXMIND, mapping a location from an IP address is accurate to the percentage listed below:

• Country level: 95% to 99% accuracy
• State/Region level: 55% to 80% accuracy
• City level: 50% to 75% accuracy, often within a 50 km (31 miles) radius

— Analysis

• Only 2 pings came from Bridgetown. The records list Bridgetown (where Judy Maurer claims she saw Amy) as the city all the pings came from, even though the IP addresses listed in the same records show that there were 6 possible cities where they could’ve originated, separated by distances from 3.5 to 10.5 miles.
• Actually, it’s not even possible to determine that the pings came from those 6 cities or within 31 miles of those cities or even within those regions. The only location we can determine with 95% - 99% accuracy is Barbados.
• Neither the doc nor Carmichael (or the Bradleys or Willis) have ever explained that there was only a 50% - 75% chance that the IP address locations are accurate, let alone how or why they assigned the IP addresses to Bridgetown.
• IP pings coming from 6 different locations over the course of 24 months doesn't constitute a pattern.

Times and Dates

Barbados and Virginia Time

Bridgetown, Barbados is on Atlantic Standard Time (AST) year-round.

Chesterfield County, Virginia is on Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDT) from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, and on Eastern Standard Time (EST) for the remainder of the year.

March - November: Barbados and Virginia are on the same time.

November - March: Barbados is one hour ahead of Virginia.

Sydney, Australia Time

Anthony Willis, who runs the site, lives in Sydney, Australia. Per WHOIS, the site is hosted by cloudflare.com, which has servers all over the world, including Sydney. That doesn't necessarily mean the site's server is in Sydney, but usually servers are near the site owner's location.

Times shown are the times that the IPs pinged the server location, not the times in the place where the pings originated. Sydney is 14 hours ahead of Bridgetown, Barbados. If the server is in Sydney, you can subtract 14 hours to see what time it was in Bridgetown. Keep in mind that the server might not be in Sydney.

Source: worldometers.info

— Analysis

• There's a good chance that even the Christmas Eve IP ping actually happened at 8:55 pm on the 23rd, not on Christmas Eve. If so, there weren’t even any pings on Christmas Eve, let alone Christmas.
• According to the IP records, that ping probably originated in or near Redmans, which is 5.5 miles away from Bridgetown. All we can determine with over 80% accuracy is that the ping came from Barbados.

VPNs

A Virtual Private Network (VPN) works by creating an encrypted connection called a "tunnel", hiding your real IP address, and routing your internet traffic through a remote server. [1, 2, 3]

The Steps of a VPN Connection

• Connect: You open an app on your device and tap connect to choose a server.
• Scramble (Encrypt): Your device scrambles your data into a secret code so nobody else can read it.
• Tunnel: Your data moves through a safe, hidden path (the tunnel) past your internet provider.
• Swap IP Address: The VPN server opens the code, replaces your real home IP address with its own IP address, and sends the request to the website.
• Return Path: The website sends data back to the VPN server, which codes it again and sends it safely back to your device.

Note: Only one of the IP addresses in the IP records is a known VPN. I include info about VPNs in case Carmichael presents more records in the future.

IP Address is a VPN

Of the nine IP addresses listed in the IP records, one is a VPN. Per WHOIS:

IP Address: 64.210.40.41

OrgName: Level 3 Parent, LLC

100 CenturyLink Drive, Monroe, LA 71203, US

Level 3 Parent, LLC is owned by Lumen. Per Scamalytics, 64.210.40.41 (and all the other IP addresses listed in the IP records) is a low fraud risk. Also per Scamalytics: 64.210.40.41 is a commercial server which could be proxying traffic from another geographical location. It's location is Barbados, however the geographical location of the user could be anywhere in the world.

Scammers

Scammers use VPNs and bots to hide their real locations, automate attacks at scale, and bypass security blocks. [1, 2]

How Scammers Use VPNs

• Hiding Identity: Route traffic through remote servers to disguise their true IP address and country.
• Bypassing Blocks: Switch IP addresses instantly when an old address gets banned.
• Fake Geotargeting: Make international traffic look local to fool regional security rules. [1, 2]

Bots

Scammers use automated bots to visit websites to generate fake ad revenue, steal data, and break into user accounts at a massive scale. By automating these visits, criminals can mimic human behavior without the high cost and slow speed of real people. [1, 2, 3]

Malicious bots constantly probe the internet, often accounting for roughly 35% to 40% of all global web traffic, meaning a regular, non-monetary website will still receive dozens to hundreds of automated malicious hits every single day. [1, 2]

Why Malicious Bots Visit Small Sites

• Content Scraping: Stealing text or images to feed AI models or duplicate content sites.
• Vulnerability Scanning: Looking for outdated plugins, weak login portals, or exposed admin panels.
• Spam Injection: Attempting to post automated spam in comment sections or contact forms. [1, 2, 3]

Note: Any of the pings in the IP records could've been bots.

— Analysis

It's common for a website — even a site that doesn't sell anything and doesn't have ads — to be visited by bots that are deployed by scammers who may also be using VPNs. After all, the bot doesn't know in advance that a website has nothing the scammer wants. Its job is only to scan as many sites as possible for vulnerabilities.

Which means, using a VPN, the site visitor could be anywhere in the world instead of Barbados. The site visitor might not even be human. It might just be a bot.

VPNs are also used by pranksters or anyone who wants to remain private for any reason. Like people who might know the Bradleys but don't want them to see that they've visited the site. Or journalists. Or really anyone.

Barbados as a Fake Location

You can use a VPN to make it appear as though you are visiting a site from Barbados.

By connecting to a VPN server physically located in Barbados, your real IP address is hidden and replaced with a Barbadian IP address to make it appear as though you are physically located there. [1, 2, 3]

Only a few major international VPN companies offer Barbados as a server location. Instead of physical offices in Barbados, those companies usually route traffic through Bridgetown. That doesn't mean the site visitor is in Bridgetown. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Anyone who wanted to pull a prank could use a service like NordVPN or Surfshark to appear visit the amybradleyismissing website from Barbados.

Curaçao as a Fake Location

There are no major, locally-headquartered commercial VPN corporations based directly on Curaçao. Major mainstream VPN brands like NordVPN, ExpressVPN, and Surfshark do NOT offer server locations in Curaçao.

Niche or smaller providers such as VPN Nederland or specialized services like Stellar VPN do provide IP addresses for Curaçao. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. VPN Nederland features a strict no-logs policy. [1, 2]

Although it's possible to use a VPN to appear as though you're in Curaçao, it isn't as easy as pretending you're in Barbados.

A possible reason the IP records show only pings from Barbados and none from Curaçao is that major VPN companies don't feature Curaçao as a location that users can choose.

FBI Investigation

<Agent's name, E3 timestamp, previous quote that "anything is possible.">

"You can track those that, you know, come to the site. But you have to go through a legal process to get the subscriber information. If people are international and they're not from a US carrier, we're not going to at all obtain, you know, any information on who could be hitting that site.

Government and law enforcement agencies. They can approach ISPs or online service providers to obtain data about you. They may also use other tracking methods, depending on the situation and applicable laws.

https://nordvpn.com/blog/can-you-be-tracked-with-a-vpn/?srsltid=AfmBOoq6gkprMRxsWD2CSWhywRa227VfjGqIhV3-rTCZ4le1s2JY2iHu

Police can’t track live, encrypted VPN traffic, but if they have a court order, they can go to your ISP (Internet Service Provider) and request connection or usage logs. Since your ISP knows you’re using a VPN, they can direct the police to them. Whether your VPN provider gives up that information depends on factors such as the jurisdiction and the VPN’s privacy policy.

https://surfshark.com/blog/can-police-track-vpn?srsltid=AfmBOooSJWfK3_9fKh-7lHtgRIa4JqYqqLEoYp9hPu-NJFx3RLms9vWI

When law enforcement investigates online activity, they follow a standard digital trail to unmask your provider. [1]

How the Process Works

• IP Address Capture: Police obtain the IP address used during a suspected crime from website logs, email headers, or online service providers. [1, 2, 3, 4]
• IP Lookup Databases: Investigators run that IP address through public WHOIS databases or tools like ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) to instantly see which ISP owns that block of numbers. [1, 2, 3]
• Subpoenas: Once the police identify the ISP (e.g., Comcast, AT&T, Spectrum), they issue a legal subpoena or warrant to that specific provider to demand the subscriber's billing name and physical address. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Your ISP sees that you connect to a VPN server's IP address and the exact time you do it, but they cannot see the encrypted data or websites you visit inside that tunnel. If police get a court order, the ISP can only show that you used a specific VPN at a specific time. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Yes, Lumen Technologies offers enterprise-grade Lumen IP VPN and IP VPN On-Demand services, rather than consumer privacy VPNs. These corporate network solutions connect business locations, data centers, and cloud providers securely. [1, 2, 3, 4]

PI Investigation

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FAQs

What about the boat?

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/amy-bradley-alive-new-evidence-fbi-investigation-exclusive-1236397971/

What about the casino?

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/amy-bradley-is-missing-update-ari-mark-investigation-clues-1236537179/

What about the baby?

https://www.newsnationnow.com/missing/amy-bradley-investigation-new-leads-family/

Was the search impeded by making the information public?

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In summer 2025, the Bradleys complained that the documentary foiled their IP search because now the traffickers know that the Bradleys are onto them. At one point, they said they tracked them to a boat in the harbor of Barbados. At another time they said they tracked them to a casino, but the manager clammed up when they asked about Amy.

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In the Netflix documentary Amy Bradley is Missing, David Carmichael (who claims he saw Amy on Playa Porto Marie beach in Curaçao in August 1998) states that he is a network and telecommunications specialist (E3 22:40).

Carmichael says that he collaborated with Anthony Willis of Sydney, Australia, who has run the amybradleyismissing website since 2018, (E3 21:20) to track the locations of visitors to the site.

He claims that their records show that someone in Bridgetown, Barbados has regularly visited the amybradleyismissing.com site on holidays, anniversaries, and family birthdays.

The records that flashed on the screen in the Netflix doc, however, directly contradict Carmichael's claims. He's never made the complete records public, which he could easily do without compromising any investigation simply by blocking out the IP addresses in question. The records he chose to show, however, don't support his claims.

In the documentary, Carmichael says,

"Why? Why, why, why? On birthdays, anniversaries, and Christmas, does somebody keep hitting that site?"

"And hitting it from Curacao, hitting it from Barbados, and sit on there for 45 minutes or something. It doesn't make sense."

IP Pings

At E3 24:35, the screen displays the text below:

• Thanksgiving 15 hits, average 38 minutes
• Christmas 16 hits, average 48 minutes
• Iva's Birthday 18 hits, average 43 minutes

Notes

• The information above doesn't state which years the hits occurred.
• The records shown later on the screen do not match this information.
• There is no "control" group. In other words, there are no other dates or locations to compare this information to in order to determine if it's anomalous. There may be 100 hits spanning an average of 5 hours on other, random dates. Or there may be a similar number of hits and average times from other locations all around the world. This data, in isolation, gives us no meaningful information.

Additional IP Pings

At E3 23:30, some additional IP info flashes on screen. Two of the addresses are incomplete, and the third says it's from St. Michaels. Other IP addresses appear too briefly to really see, but they seem to be just illustrations rather than actual data from the site.

• 102.129...
• 104.153.128.5 - St. Michaels
• 102.229.102.0...

VPNs

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IP Geolocation Accuracy

According to MAXMIND, mapping a location from an IP address is accurate to the percentage listed below:

• Country level: 95% to 99% accuracy
• State/Region level: 55% to 80% accuracy
• City level: 50% to 75% accuracy, often within a 50 km (31 miles) radius

Did the Documentary Interfere With the Search?

In summer 2025, the Bradleys complained that the documentary foiled their IP search because now the traffickers know that the Bradleys are onto them. At one point, they said they tracked them to a boat in the harbor of Barbados. At another time they said they tracked them to a casino, but the manager clammed up when they asked about Amy.

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Boat

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Casino

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FBI

<Agent's name, E3 timestamp, previous quote that "anything is possible.">

"You can track those that, you know, come to the site. But you have to go through a legal process to get the subscriber information. If people are international and they're not from a US carrier, we're not going to at all obtain, you know, any information on who could be hitting that site.

PI

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Significant Dates

Occasion	Date	Source
Iva Bradley's Birthday	March 19, 1953	IMDB
Amy Bradley's Birthday	May 12, 1974	Wikipedia
Ron & Iva's Wedding Anniversary	July 23	amybradleyismissing Instagram
Ron Bradley's Birthday	December 2, 1951	IMDB
Brad Bradley's Birthday	December 9, 1976	Iva's 12/09/25 Instagram Post
Mother's Day, 2020	May 10, 2020	print-a-calendar.com
Thanksgiving, 2020	November 26, 2020	print-a-calendar.com
Mother's Day, 2021	May 9, 2021	print-a-calendar.com
Thanksgiving, 2021	November 25, 2021	print-a-calendar.com
Mother's Day, 2022	May 8, 2022	print-a-calendar.com
Thanksgiving, 2022	November 24, 2022	print-a-calendar.com

IP Pings From Barbados

This is the record of IP pings shown in the Netflix documentary. None of them are on any holiday or family anniversary, or family birthday.

You can click the IP address in the table below to see the where the pings originated. They also appear on the map below. The documentary screenshot says that all the locations were in Bridgetown, but only 2 of the 8 pings were from there.

Note: The first and last IP pings are in bold text here and in red text in the screenshots below. Per the screenshot, the last hit (on 11/19/2022) was to the Amy Lynn Bradley thread.

IP Address	Location	Date	Time	Bridgetown Possible Time	# of Hits
64.210.40.41	Hopewell, St. Thomas	Blurred	Blurred	Blurred	Blurred
69.73.233.215	Redmans, St. Thomas	12/24/19	Blurred / 10:55 am?	8:55 pm 12/23/19	Blurred
64.119.199.173	Lower Estate Heights, St. Michael	01/29/20	06:58 am	5:58 pm 01/28/20	44
23.236.4.101	Bridgetown, St. Michael	04/04/20	17:15 (5:15 pm)	3:15 am	44
72.51.109.242	Oistins, Christ Church	06/30/20	13:39 (1:39 pm)	11:39 pm 06/28/20	3
65.48.253.193	Oistins, Christ Church	06/28/21	16:16 (4:16 pm)	2:16 am	40
23.236.11.75	Bridgetown, St. Michael	06/09/22	16:34 (4:34 pm)	2:34 am	24
72.51.105.200	Melverton, St. George	11/17/22	13:08 (1:08 pm)	11:08 pm 11/16/22	28
Blurred	Unknown	11/19/22	02:18 am	12:18 pm 11/18/22	22

Map of Locations

Locations of IP pings to the Amy Bradley Is Missing website from about 12/2019 to 11/2022.

IP Pings Shown in the Netflix Documentary

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Eight IP hits from 12/24/2019 to 11/17/2022 (1 of 2 shown in the Netflix documentary \"Amy Bradley is Missing\")

One additional IP hit to an Amy Lynn Bradley thread on 11/19/2022 (2 of 2 shown in the Netflix documentary \"Amy Bradley is Missing\")

Times and Dates

Bridgetown, Barbados is on Atlantic Standard Time (AST) year-round.

Chesterfield County, Virginia is on Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDT) from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, and on Eastern Standard Time (EST) for the remainder of the year.

• March - November: Barbados and Virginia are on the same time.
• November - March: Barbados is one hour ahead of Virginia.

Sydney, Australia Time

In E3 of the Netflix documentary, Anthony Willis of Sydney, Australia states that he has run the amybradleyismissing website since 2018. Per WhoIs, the site is hosted by cloudflare.com, which has servers all over the world, including Sydney. That doesn't necessarily mean the site's server is in Sydney, but usually servers are near the site owner's location.

Times shown are the times that the IPs pinged the server location. Sydney is 14 hours ahead of Bridgetown, Barbados. If the server is in Sydney, you can subtract 14 hours to see what time it was in Bridgetown. Keep in mind that the server might not be in Sydney.

Source: worldometers.info

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Posts will be titled "Knowledge Center: [Topic Name]" and be tagged with the Resources flair to make it easier for members (especially new members) to search the sub for topics that have already been canvassed.

James Renner is the author of A Cruise to Nowhere: My Search for Amy Lynn Bradley, an account of Amy Bradley's disappearance. A Cruise to Nowhere will release on July 28th and is available for pre-order on Amazon now.

Renner will be here for an AMA on Monday, August 3rd starting at 9:00 am PST (noon EST). I'll post again a couple of days before the AMA so you can comment with your questions for him on that thread.

About the author

James Renner is a journalist and former reporter for Cleveland Scene. His true crime stories have been published in the Best American Crime Reporting and Best Creative Nonfiction anthologies. More recently, he has contributed to online sites such as Cracked, Boing Boing, and BookRiot.

He is the author of two novels, The Man from Primrose Lane and The Great Forgetting, as well as the new nonfiction thriller, True Crime Addict.

More about James Renner at his website here.

A Cruise to Nowhere: My Search for Amy Lynn Bradley by James Renner

Welcome to the AmyBradleyIsMissing subreddit!

This is the subreddit for people who question the Bradley’s narrative that Amy was taken from or left the ship. The overwhelming majority of sub members believe that Amy went overboard and drowned on March 24, 1998. Most discussion here is about how or why that occurred, about debunking trafficking/abduction theories, or about marveling at the phenomenon of the Bradley believers.

If you want to pray for Amy’s safe return so Iva (America’s Best Mom ™) and Brad (World’s Best Brother ™) can go back to being the All-American family that they were 1998, then the other sub is for you.

New Members

If you are new to this case or this subreddit, please familiarize yourself with the research about the case available here. Many of us have had to explain this case numerous times already, so some members might become impatient with a new member who does not seem to want to put in the work. Scan and search the sub to see if an article that is new to you has not already been addressed and posted weeks or months earlier. Most of all, please be respectful to others who are trying to help you. 

Most of our active sub members came here after being banned from the AmyLynnBradley sub for questioning the trafficking theory or the mod. In fact, this sub was founded by one of those people. As a result, sometimes the AmyLynnBradley mod, Brad, or some of their supporters have shown up here to insult people, accuse innocent people of crimes, and make debunked or unfounded claims. Our members have every right to be vigilant for people not of good faith.

We don’t want to over moderate, but we don’t want this subreddit overrun with people pushing the Bradley’s narrative. Most of the internet is already overwhelmed with that version of the events. Questions are welcome. Antagonistic pushback on already-settled facts is not.