Amy Bradley's family was prepared to pay $50,000 ransom to locate missing woman

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( NewsNation ) — A private investigator is sharing details of a $50,000 deal to locate Amy Bradley that he says collapsed when the man claiming to know her whereabouts balked at taking a check.

Bradley, a 23-year-old Virginia woman, vanished in March 1998 during a Caribbean cruise with her family on the way to Curaçao. The unsolved disappearance, the subject of a Netflix docuseries, has spawned several theories, including speculation she was kidnapped and trafficked. Over the years, witnesses have said t