Amy Bradley: The Man Who Captured the Last Known Footage | Witness Wednesday

Chris Fenwick was the third-party video editor working aboard the Rhapsody of the Seas during Amy Bradley’s cruise. He captured the last known footage of Amy — dancing with Alistair Douglass in the ship’s nightclub in the early hours of March 24, 1998. In this debut Witness Wednesday episode, Chris tells the full story: how he discovered he had the footage, the moment watching Iva Bradley’s anguish that made him go look for it, how he handed it to the family — and how Royal Caribbean’s head of ship security called his room and tried to take his master tapes. Plus: why the Netflix documentary got his account wrong, and what he says is actually the most important thing about that video. Produced in cooperation with the Bradley family.

On the morning Amy Bradley disappeared, one person aboard the Rhapsody of the Seas had something no one else had — video footage of Amy dancing with Alistair Douglass in the early hours of March 24, 1998.

That person was Chris Fenwick. A film and television professional with four decades of experience, Chris was on board that week as a third-party video editor for a corporate incentives trip. He wasn't there as an investigator. He was doing his job.

But what he witnessed, documented, and chose to do with that footage — and what Royal Caribbean tried to do about it — is one of the most significant and least understood chapters in Amy's story.

In this debut Witness Wednesday, Chris tells it all:

— How he learned about Amy's disappearance through a series of escalating updates from the ship's own videographer — suicide, then kidnapping, then the bass player — The moment watching Iva Bradley's anguish in the middle of the night that made him go look for the footage — How he got the tape to the family — and why the family had no idea it existed — The phone call from Royal Caribbean's head of ship security demanding his master tapes, claiming FBI authority — and why Chris said no — Why he believes that call was an attempt to suppress evidence — How the Netflix series misrepresented his account — and what he says actually matters most about the tape — 28 years of friendship with the Bradley family, and what he still carries from that week

If you have information about Amy Bradley's disappearance, contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit a tip at tips.fbi.gov. Tips can be submitted anonymously.

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