Amy Bradley: Her Boyfriend on Who She Was and Why She Would Have Fought | Witness Wednesday

Most tellings of Amy Bradley's story begin on the ship. This one begins three months earlier — in Richmond, Virginia, at a holiday work party in December 1997, where Amy handed Tom her phone number and gave him a kiss goodnight.

They dated from that night until she went on the cruise. Three months. Long enough for Tom to meet her family, become close to Ron and Iva, make plans for her birthday in New York, and understand exactly who Amy was — not as a missing person, but as a person.

In this Witness Wednesday episode, Tom joins host Kevin Hall for a conversation that fills in the part of Amy's story that gets compressed or skipped entirely in most accounts: the life she was building in the months before she disappeared.

This interview covers:

— How Tom and Amy met, how their relationship developed, and what he says made her unlike anyone he'd dated before — her independence, her strength, the fact that she didn't need anything from him except his time — The life Amy was building: a new apartment she was still decorating, a promotion to server at one of Richmond's top restaurants, a dog named Bailey who structured her entire schedule, plans to go back to school for a master's degree — Why the suicide theory has never made any sense to anyone who knew her — and what Tom says about the specific plans they had together in the weeks after the cruise — What Tom was doing when he got the call, how he found out, and what it was like to be at the Bradley home when the family walked through the door — The trip back to Curaçao: why Tom went, what the island was actually like beyond the tourist areas, and what he came to understand about how someone could have taken Amy — Why he still believes Amy is alive — and why, if she hasn't reached out, it's because she's protecting the people she loves — What he says to Ron and Iva when they talk, and why after 28 years he thinks about Amy every single day

Tom's perspective is one this series couldn't have had any other way. He knew Amy as a person — not a case, not a headline, not a disappearance. And what he describes is someone with every reason to fight to survive.

If you have information about Amy Bradley'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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