"Wolfenbarger's Serial Killer Mother-in-Law EXPOSED | Menendez Brothers' Freedom Hours Away | Amy Bradley: Kim Kardashian Joins Hunt"

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media, Good morning, I'm read Carter. Day three of the Christopher Wolfenbarger trial gave us exactly what we expected. A grandmother who helped her serial killer husband dispose of bodies, trying to convince a jury she was the real victim. Here let's dive in. Okay, a quick update from Atlanta, where Christopher Wolfenbarger stands accused of murdering his ex wife, Melissa Wolfenbarger, daughter of convicted serial killer Carl Patten. Monday's testimony brought us Norma Patten, Melissa's mother and Karl's devoted wife of fifty six years. And Folks, if you thought this family tree couldn't get more twisted, buckle up. This woman admitted under immunity, of course, to helping her husband dispose of multiple bodies, but now she wants us to believe she was desperately trying to save her daughter from Christopher.

0:56 The prosecution star witness claims she saw meanness in Christ's eyes. The defense they're painting her as an unreliable narrator who can't keep her timeline straight. When you've spent decades covering up murders with your husband credibility tends to be an issue. We also heard from Thomas Dixon, Melissa's waffle house coworker who became intimate with her in late ninety eight. He testified about seeing physical signs of abuse. The defense's response attack his character by bringing up his bank robbery conviction. Classic move. When you can't dispute the evidence, shoot the messenger. But the most heartbreaking testimony came from Christina Garrett, Melissa and Christopher's daughter, who was raised believing Christopher's parents were her biological parents. Imagine finding out your entire childhood was a lie built on your mother's bones. The prosecution continues building their case methodically. We'll have more updates as this trial continues. Now, let's turned to the story that captivated America for decades and is happening again this week. Eric and Lyle Menendez are set to make their cases for parole starting tomorrow, marking the closest they've been to winning freedom from prison since their convictions almost thirty years ago for murdering their parents. Eric is set to appear before the parole board tomorrow, Thursday, August twenty first, while Lyle's hearing is set for Friday, August twenty second, both brothers

2:28 will appear via video conference from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. For those who want the full story, go back and listen to our weekend episodes from August second and third, where we did a deep dive into this case. But here's what you need to know now. In May, these brothers were resentance to fifty years to life, making them immediately eligible for parole under California law because they were under twenty six at the time of the crimes. The board will assess whether the brothers pose an unreasonable risk of danger to society if released, considering factors like criminal history, motivation for the crime, signs of remorse behavior while in prison, and plans for the future.

3:09 But here's the kicker. Even if the Parole Board says yes, Governor Gavin Newsom has thirty days to affirm or deny the parole. He holds an unusual power that allows him to affirm, modify, or reverse the decision of the parole authority, and Newsom has been playing this close to the vest. He won't even watch the Netflix series because he doesn't want to be influenced. The New DA Nathan Hotchman is fighting tooth and nail to keep them locked up. He created a chart comparing factors considered by the parole board for Syrian, Syrian and each Menendez brother, arguing they don't qualify for release as they have more prison rules violations and haven't exhibited full insight into their crimes. Meanwhile, multiple members of the Menendez family have voiced support for the brother's release, in addition to members of the public and some celebrities like Kim Kardashian. We'll have updates as these hearings unfold tomorrow and Friday. We'll be right back with the cold case that Netflix just turned into America's newest obsession, the disappearance of Amy Bradley. Welcome Back. Netflix just dropped a documentary that's got everyone asking the same question they've been asking for twenty seven years. What happened to Amy Bradley.

4:44 On March twenty fourth, nineteen ninety eight, twenty three year old Amy Bradley vanished from the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas while on vacation with her family. Her father Ron last saw her asleep on their cabin's balcony around five thirty am. When he checked again at six am, she was gone. But let me paint you the full picture here, because the details matter. Amy was a twenty three year old recent college graduate, accompanied by her parents, Ron and Iva Bradley, and her younger brother Brad. This wasn't some wild spring break trip. This was a family vacation. Brad described Amy as the life of the party and a multi sport athlete in high school who received a full basketball scholarship the night before she disappeared.

5:30 Tells us everything about how normal this all seemed. After spending the evening dancing at the ship's nightclub, Amy was last seen resting in the balcony of her cabin. By the time her father went to check on her early the next morning, she had vanished, leaving no trace but a polo shirt and a pair of sandals. Now here's where the cruise line screwed up royally. The crew agreed to issue an announcement at seven fifty am, after a majority of the passengers had left the ship, announcing will Amy Bradley please come to the purser's desk Between twelve fifteen pm and one pm, The cruise staff searched through the ship but could not find Bradley. Think about that timing. She disappears around six am, and they don't make an announcement until almost eight am, after most passengers have disembarked in Corrosaw. The delay in launching an immediate search has been called a mistake that could have hurt chances of finding Bradley. But the most damning detail brad recalled that Douglas came up to him shortly after Bradley disappeared and said, hey, man, I'm sorry to hear about your sister. No announcement had been made by that time, and brad said the timing of the conversation was suspicious. Let's talk about this. Allister Douglas character nicknamed Yellow for his dyed hair. He was an entertainer on the Rhapsody of the Seas the night Amy disappeared. Amy was dancing with him. The FBI found no evidence to charge him with Amy's disappearance, and his polygraph test was inconclusive. But here's what Netflix showed that's

7:01 absolutely chilling. Douglas's own daughter, Amika Douglas, appears in the dock saying she's not convinced he had nothing to do with the case, she says. When he returned from that cruise, her mother divorced him because of Amy's case. Amika says he grew more distant and had a bag full of photos of white women who weren't her mother. Laurie Thompson, a passenger who was eighteen at the time of the cruise, says she and a friend saw Douglas and Amy together sometime between five and six am, before noticing Douglas walking by again minutes later, but without Amy. Three witnesses three people who put Amy with this man in her final moments now. The Netflix documentary spent a lot of time on Amy's sexuality, suggesting family conflict, but Amy's brother, Brad, is setting the record straight. Brad said that at the time of the cruise, Amy was dating a guy. He emphasized there was no family conflict over Amy's sexuality. Amy came out to myself and my parents in nineteen ninety five, about three years prior to the cruise. Her girlfriends and boyfriends came to the house. Her girlfriend spent the night, girlfriends went on vacation with us. The sightings over the years are where this case gets truly haunting. One month after Bradley's disappearance, her family traveled to Curasau and were approached by a cab driver who claimed to have seen Bradley while the ship was docking on March twenty fourth.

8:28 He said Bradley was running through the parking lot in search of a phone. He stated he remembered her green eyes, which were described in the reward poster. Then there's Navy vet Bill Hefner. Hefner says he met a girl at a bar in Curasaw who said her name was Amy Bradley and told him she had hopped off a cruise ship to score drugs and was now being held against her will. But Hefner said it took him at least two years to report the incident to the FBI because he was afraid of being demoted in the Navy. David Carmichaels says he was walking along a beach in Kurosau when he saw a woman with a tattoo of the Tasmanian Devil walking towards him. She looked like she was about to say something, but then kept walking with the two men who were with her. He thinks one of the men was Alister Douglas. Amy had a Tasmanian devil tattoo.

9:18 In two thousand and five, a woman on vacation also reported seeing someone who looked like Amy in Bridgetown, Barbados, but FBI couldn't confirm her statement. But the most disturbing potential evidence, an anonymous source sent a photo from a website that appeared to be promoting prostitution and included a photo of one of the women on the site. After the FBI studied it, they believed it could possibly be Amy, but had no means of reliably tracking down where the photo was from or who took it. Brad said about this photo, I do believe with all the characteristics that have been compared through analysis of those photos and many other photos of Amy, that it's a high probability, but one hundred percent number. He noted that the FBI's analysis indicated a high probability it was Amy. He also found it significant that in the twenty seven years the photo has circulated online and in news reports, no one has come forward to identify themselves as the person in the image.

10:21 The family tried to hold Royal Caribbean accountable one year after Bradley's death, her parents filed two lawsuits against Royal Caribbean. The family claimed the cruise line acted negligently in the handling of their daughter's disappearance. The lawsuits were subsequently dismissed in two thousand. Here's what really gets me about cruise ship crimes. Jamie Barnett, a cruise safety advocate interviewed in the show whose daughter died on a cruise, says, most people have no idea when they bored a cruise ship the dangers that are inherent there. But the things that have happened to me, things that have happened to Amy Bradley and her family, can happen to anyone. Much of the confusion around Amy's disappearance came from the slow speed at which outside police were involved. This is a common problem with crimes on cruise ships, as a majority of the journey is spent in international water and it takes time for US specific authorities to come brad Bradley is absolutely convinced of what happened. We know she didn't jump, She was never willing to go near the rail at any point during that cruise. We know she didn't accidentally fall.

11:26 We have three eyewitnesses that put her with Yellow that morning, two from outside the club that saw her go up the elevator with him, and one from inside the club that wasn't shared on the documentary. I know for a fact she didn't run away to start a new life. The fact that she didn't fall, didn't jump, didn't run away leaves only one possibility that she was taken and removed from the ship for whatever reason. And about that glass table pushed against the balcony railing that suggests she might have climbed over, brad believes it was moved to support a narrative that the crew Ru's line would like everyone to believe. Now here's where twenty twenty five meets nineteen ninety eight. Brad Bradley has reached out to celebrities, including Kim Kardashian and Rihanna. In his message to Kardashian, brad wrote, the FBI agents in charge of Amy's case dropped the ball from day one and have been sitting on their hands for years and years. Amy deserves justice.

12:29 Kardashian watched the Netflix documentary and called it mind blowing and a must see, adding we must find Amy. This is so crazy and it's working. Brad told TMZ. There have been thousands of emails and phone calls that we've gotten that we're going through one at a time. We have people fielding emails and calls constantly. Some of the new tips could blow the case wide open, but it's too early to say. The documentary directors Eric Mark and Phil Lott said the documentary has generated new tips since it's Netflix release, though they declined to share details publicly. They emphasized the importance of carefully vetting information and involving law enforcement in any potential leads. Let me tell you what I think happened, based on twenty seven years of evidence.

13:15 Amy Bradley didn't fall overboard, she didn't jump, she didn't run away to start a new life. Peter Valentine, chair of the forensic Science department at the University of New Haven and a former Connecticut State Police detective, told Fox News there is decidedly little evidence of a fall or push, nor would there be. There would be next to no evidence unless there would be a struggle prior to the push. This was either an opportunistic crime by someone on that ship who saw a vulnerable young woman, or something more sinister a trafficking operation that used cruise ships as hunting grounds. The fact that multiple people claim to have seen her alive years later, the photo on what appears to be a trafficking website, the way the cruise line bungled the initial response. It all points to a cover up. The cruise industry doesn't want you to know how dangerous these floating cities can be. International waters mean jurisdictional nightmares, limited security cameras. In nineteen ninety eight, thousands of strangers packed together staff from all over the world with minimal background checks.

14:17 It's a perfect storm for predators. These are people who are living with such pain every single day. Director Phil Lott said, it's a very real hope and possibility every single day that they could bring Amy home. If you have any information about Amy Bradley, contact the family at Amy Bradley is Missing at gmail dot com or call eight zero four seven eight nine four two sixt nine, because after twenty seven years, somebody knows something and maybe, just maybe Netflix and Kim Kardashian can do what the FBI couldn't. That's celebrity trials for Wednesday, August twentieth, Tomorrow, The Menendez brothers face the role board. Will thirty five years be enough? We'll have complete coverage and hey, if you want more of my unfiltered takes on these cases, join our community. You can search for celebrity trials on Facebook and Instagram, or just click the links in the show notes. That's where the real conversations happen. Your theories, heated debates about verdicts, and yes, my reactions that are too hot for the podcast. We're building something special with thousands of true crime fanatics who get the justice isn't just about verdicts. It's about the stories we tell. I'm read Carter. Remember in America, justice isn't just blind. Sometimes it needs a Netflix documentary and a Kardashian to open its eyes. Until tomorrow