The FBI has increased the reward for information in Amy Bradley's disappearance from $25,000 to $100,000.

That's a fourfold increase — and it didn't happen on its own. In this special Monday mini-episode, host Kevin Hall breaks down what's behind the announcement, why this almost certainly reflects 28 years of sustained pressure from the Bradley family, and what a reward at this level actually means for a case that has gone unanswered since March 24, 1998.

This episode covers:

• What the FBI's reward increase signals about the current status of Amy's case and the ongoing involvement of the Washington D.C. field office
• Why this development is almost certainly the result of continued advocacy by Ron, Iva, and Brad Bradley — and what that says about a family that has never stopped fighting
• An honest look at what rewards do and don't guarantee — and why $100,000 changes the calculus for anyone sitting on information
• A direct call to action for anyone with knowledge of Amy's disappearance — however partial, however old
• A preview of what's ahead this week: Episode 3 "The Last Morning" on Tuesday, and the debut of Witness Wednesday on Wednesday with Chris Fenwick — the third-party video editor aboard the Rhapsody of the Seas who had footage of Amy dancing with Alistair Douglass on the morning she disappeared

If you have information about Amy Bradley's disappearance, contact the FBI Washington D.C. field office at 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov. Tips can be submitted anonymously. Both links are in the show notes.

The Midnight Mystery Archive Investigates: The Disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley is a 12-part investigative series produced in cooperation with Amy's family, launched March 24, 2026 — the 28th anniversary of her disappearance. New episodes release weekly.

During the full run of this series, 100% of commissions earned through our Invisawear personal safety partnership will be donated directly to the Bradley family's GoFundMe, supporting their ongoing search for Amy. Get 10% off your first order through the link in the show notes.

Links: amybradleyismissing.com | Amy Alerts petition | tips.fbi.gov | Invisawear | Bradley family GoFundMe

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To understand what happened to Amy Bradley on March 24, 1998, you first have to understand what the week before it felt like. The ease of being on a ship. The way routine takes hold by the second day. The quiet, almost unconscious trust you place in an environment that promises to take care of everything. That trust isn't naivety — it's by design. And it's the same trust the Bradley family carried with them when they boarded the Rhapsody of the Seas in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

In Episode 2, Kevin Hall walks you through the cruise experience from the inside. Drawing on his own time at sea to build the sensory and psychological context that makes the Bradleys' story land the way it's supposed to. Then Brad Bradley, Amy's brother, takes over.

Brad was there for all of it. The boarding day. The daily rhythms. The nightlife. The port stop in Aruba. The last normal evening as the ship sailed toward Curaçao. Hear his account of that week from the family together, Amy in her element, to the ordinary texture of a vacation that had no reason to feel significant..

This episode covers:

• What it feels like to board a cruise ship for the first time and how the environment works on you psychologically
• The daily rhythms of life at sea — meals, pool days, port stops, and the particular way time moves when you're on the water
• The cruise nightlife and the social atmosphere that defined Amy and Brad's evenings on the ship
• Brad Bradley's firsthand account of the Bradleys' cruise — from San Juan to Aruba, through the last full day at sea before March 24th
• The last normal evening — what March 23, 1998 felt like for a family that had no reason to think anything was wrong

This episode does not cross into the disappearance. That's Episode 3. This episode ends where it should — with a family still on vacation, still safe, still together. Hold onto that feeling. It matters for everything that follows.

The Midnight Mystery Archive Investigates: The Disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley is a 12-part investigative series produced in cooperation with Amy's family, launched March 24, 2026 — the 28th anniversary of her disappearance. New episodes release weekly.

During the full run of this series, 100% of commissions earned through our Invisawear personal safety partnership will be donated directly to the Bradley family's GoFundMe, supporting their ongoing search for Amy. Get 10% off your first order through the link in the show notes.

Links: amybradleyismissing.com | Amy Alerts petition | Invisawear | Bradley family GoFundMe

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Some cases find you. Amy Bradley's found Kevin Hall in 1998 — and never really let go.

In this mini-episode, Kevin steps away from the investigation to answer the question listeners ask about every serious true crime series: why this case? Why you? Why now?

The answer is personal. Kevin was close to Amy's age when she disappeared in March of 1998 — 23 years old, a family vacation, a cruise ship in the Caribbean, and then nothing. It didn't feel like a distant news story. It felt like someone he could have known. That proximity got into his head and stayed there for nearly three decades.

But the personal connection is only part of it. The other part is the Bradley family themselves — Ron, Iva, and Brad — who have spent 28 years refusing to let this case go quiet. Against institutional indifference, jurisdictional dead ends, and the slow erosion of public attention, they kept fighting. That kind of sustained, unrelenting refusal to give up doesn't just earn respect. It demands a response.

In this episode, Kevin talks about:

• Why Amy's story has stayed with him since 1998 and what it felt like to follow it from a distance for nearly three decades
• What the Bradley family's 28-year fight means to him as the person now telling their story
• Why he built this series in direct cooperation with the family — and what that cooperation changed about the project
• Why twelve episodes is the only format that does justice to a case this layered — the legal failures, the sightings, the theories, the people who never stopped looking
• What he wants this series to accomplish that previous coverage hasn't

This is not a summary episode. There are no case details, no timeline, no theory. Just an honest answer to an honest question — from someone who has been thinking about Amy Bradley for a very long time.

The Midnight Mystery Archive Investigates: The Disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley is a 12-part investigative series produced in cooperation with Amy's family, launched on March 24, 2026 — the 28th anniversary of her disappearance. New episodes release weekly.

During the full run of this series, 100% of commissions earned through our Invisawear personal safety partnership will be donated to the Bradley family's GoFundMe, supporting their ongoing search for Amy. Get 10% off your first order through the link in the show notes.

Links: amybradleyismissing.com | Amy Alerts petition | Invisawear | Bradley family GoFundMe

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