Amy Lynn Bradley was 23 years old and a recent college graduate in 1998 when she went on a family vacation that turned into a complete nightmare. Amy would go missing while on board the Royal Caribbean cruise liner Rhapsody of the Sea. Amy’s family along with the FBI have spent the past 24 years trying to locate her within the sexually exploitation realm of human trafficking.

Today we give Amy Lynn Bradley the Last Word.

https://www.lastwordbysl.com/post/s1-e5-amy-lynn-bradley

Every year thousands of people go missing out of America’s capital, Washington DC. Which sadly is what happened to a second grader who was living in a homeless shelter with her family. After missing school and being unaccounted for over a month, police were behind the curve on locating her.   

Conflicting stories from her mother, a complete lack of accountability and finger pointing between school officials, social workers, police, and the main suspect dead, police are no closer today, then they were when she went missing in 2014, to locating her. Was she murdered or did she fall victim to human trafficking.  

Today we give Relisha Rudd the Last Word.

Blog: https://www.lastwordbysl.com/post/s1-e4-relisha-rudd

A talented and gift student who begins to experience hard times and struggles in her academics life, begins a mild teenager rebellious streak. She drops out of school for a period but re enrolls, and by all accounts is on track to graduate. Her family feels things are looking up. So when she simply doesn’t show up for a planned shopping trip with her sisters and friends, they being to worry. The story that unfolds and the truth behind what likely happened to her is hard to hear, hard to understand.

Tonight we give Danica Childs the Last Word.

Blog: https://www.lastwordbysl.com/post/s1-e4-relisha-rudd

A sophisticated yet naive 18 year old is spending time with her boyfriend at a nearby hotel. But when she doesn’t return home the following day, the search begins. Through a long and pain staking journey her family discovers hard facts about the man in her life leading some to believe he isnt being truthful and is responsible for her disappearance  What exactly happened that summer night in Austin is still - a-  mystery her family is trying to uncover. 

Tonight we give Roxanne Paultauf the Last Word.

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A 16-year-old honor student is preparing for big life changes, she has an internship lined up with a local hospital -  she has an upcoming job interview and by all accounts is leading a normal teenage life. So when she vanished from her home one July night the family is left wondering where she went and who she was going to meet. Leads, tips, and sightings all point to human trafficked. Where is she and what happened to her? 

Tonight we give Lashaya Stine the Last Word. 

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Sources 

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/lashaya-stine/@@download.pdf

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/07/15/lashaya-stine-missing-aurora-teen/

https://sites.psu.edu/onyxpassion/2021/03/12/the-case-of-lashaya-stine/ 

https://charleyproject.org/case/lashaya-nae-stine

https://www.trace-evidence.com/lashaya-stine

https://www.lauthmissingpersons.com/lashaya-stine-still-missing-after-4-years/

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/07/23/aurora-teen-lashaya-stine-missing-3-years-suspected-trafficking/

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/07/23/aurora-teen-lashaya-stine-missing-3-years-suspected-trafficking/

https://sites.psu.edu/onyxpassion/2021/03/12/the-case-of-lashaya-stine/

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