Missing woman Taylor Casey’s last phone ping was in water: Family | Banfield 

That statement from the retreat is BS, they need to shut down for an investigation, it’s an active crime scene! If they care about inner peace, what about the inner peace of this missing persons’ family??

I'm from the Bahamas...a few years ago my 14 yr old son went on a trip to Belize with his school.... hours after they landed he lost his life and was found at the bottom of a river. I never got a an opportunity to meet with the chaperones until 2 months later... in addition I was told NOT TO COME to his school, and I later learned that parents and his classmates were instructed NOT TO SPEAK to me. I'm sharing this because... even those we hold to a high moral standard...decided to protect themselves despite such a grotesque situation. It was more than a slap in the face... clearly they didn't give 2 F'ks as to what our family was going through. To this day.. I'm appalled at how things were handled... and even more appalled that no one was held accountable for his demise. With that said.. please note that the Bahamas isn't unsafe.. people are just f'kd up. Yes there is crime in the Bahamas like everywhere else. I think that people have a false sense of security when they're in the islands or a place deemed beautiful and peaceful. It's unfortunate that Taylor's family is experiencing this and I pray for their comfort at this time... and that Taylor is found and they get the answers and respect they deserve. When I finally met with my son's chaperone's... according to them.. no one knew anything..and. NO ONE saw what happened to my son. A year later I received a call from the US Embassy in Belize that someone had turned in my son's go pro..........they asked if I wanted it.... (THE FN AUDACITY!!) of course I wanted it... They sent it via regular mail... it took a month for me to receive it... once I watched the recording... the truth was finally revealed...............................they watched my son drown...................................further.............he attempted to get help more than once.........no one extended a hand to save him. In Taylor's case.. I feel like the yoga retreat and those associated requires a full and thorough investigation. However... other people have access to the beach as well and it's tough to figure out who and what occured. I hate these types of situations because people are just straight up dishonest or just tight lipped..and it's unfortunate. As for the family being 'strangely quiet'... personally when my situation occured...I truly didn't have the mental or emotional capacity to speak to anyone I didn't have to. It literally took me 4 years to speak about my son's situation without breaking down. People must understand... you're truly not yourself when you're going through these types of situations. My prayer is that regardless of where we all are.....................situational awareness is your best friend. Don't allow beautiful surroundings to give you a false sense of security.................and sadly ............... TRUST NO ONE (especially when traveling alone). Also PLEASE take self defense classes... consider it a gift to yourself. Blessings to Taylor's family... my heart breaks for you... #muchlove

She wouldn't go into the ocean with her phone. Suspect threw it.

The phone was more than likely thrown in the ocean buy the perpetrator

Wasn’t there another woman who went on a yoga retreat or something like that who disappeared while she was canoeing with a group and nothing was said to her family when it happened ⁉️

A human being is MISSING and those mammals are concerned about being " interrupted"!? How inhumane can they be!? #Namaste

I wish more young ladies would use the buddy system like we all did years ago. Too many people disappearing. ☹️

Outrageous, the "ashram" doesn't want to be bothered by reporters 😮 However, a person who came to them for a retreat is missing 😞

The same thing happened to a woman on a yoga retreat in Guatemala. Her body has not been found but she was last seen on a kayak.

Omg. They're still able to operate with a missing woman. If I was there when this was happening, I would be packing my bags so quickly to get the hell out of there. Wtf

Thank you Brian for your Professional Journalism to keep this story alive. We are praying for the family.

Unbelievable these people dont want to be bothered and there’s a woman missing!😡they shoukd want to help find her! The world we live in now just very sad💔

It’s sad that people can’t go on vacation and feel safe anymore.

I worked at one of these places up in the mountains of Northern Italy. Trust me when I say the guests should be looked at. I actually had a couple from Sweden try and get me to leave and go with them back to Sweden. It was really creepy and weird especially since they started off very friendly and then just switched.

Well, either she went for a swim and drowned or she was abducted, and they threw her phone in the ocean.

they need to check the people who were in that yoga class

They need to stop that Yoga retreat number one... what the hell

Ugh. As if I would be able to meditate after someone disappears like that

I honestly believe everybody in that resort need to be questioned and do a deep dive. Oh, and everyone who checked in before and after her.

I just read their website of the retreat and many of the rooms do not have bathroom facilities and you have to leave your room and go to a bathroom facility. I am wondering if that is a safety issue and something happened to her going to a facility when it was dark out, just a thought. The retreat is so isolated and out at night to use those facilities, I would be scared myself. Nothing has been said whether her belongings were in her room still. Also from their website, the place looks bohemian to me and wonder if there is any security. If there are no roads, anyone stranger not staying there can walk along that beach at night and cause harm. And strange they don’t like the publicity of the missing woman. I get a strange feeling about that place, being isolated, no roads, have to take THEIR Boat to get there and they don’t want it states in their website, customers going into Nassau from the retreat. Odd too. Looks like a cult.

She's a victim of foul play! So sad! O

I'm praying that this is not the case, but to me, with her phone being found in the ocean. That it could have been a possible abduction.

That ashram should be closed for this investigation. The fact that they are still able to operate as bizarre.

Her last FB post is eerie. It is a poem titled When the Waves Come. It was posted in March. Praying her family finds answers soon. 🙏🏾

Took a cruise here seven years ago my excursion was for a public beach. I felt so unsafe just walking to the beach. Praying for her family

Brian thanks for your service 💔✌️

Your so-called meditation is in vain when you do not care about a fellow human being! how dare they cop an attitude with the reporter when someone that was at their retreat is missing and possibly dead.

This is so sad

What business would not want to close for a little to help this young women be found! So sad!

The family are strangely quiet??? They don't have to talk to you at all. As for that resort...their clients are meditating, we are teaching. What the hell is wrong with them. The hypocracy !

Solo vacationing is always dangerous ….

Shameful response from that retreat, I hope future patrons pay attention, hopefully they are accomodating the police investigators.

Wow and im a female that really wants to start doing solo traveling all over the world. Things like this definitely give me pause.

People taking aim at an entire country that is looking for Taylor LGB(T)QIA and not at the Ashram retreat on an island that's off of another island, that's off of the mainland. That isn't owned nor operated by locals. And those people are refusing to talk or assist with the investigation. They have or don't want to share camera/surveillance footage. Investigate the ashram, the workers, the other clients. They know something and keeping quiet, until they take their next private flight out of the country.

True….why would she go in the ocean with her phone. Since people don’t usually take the phone in the water to swim with it…..it was either thrown in or she was on a boat with it and if someone abducted her they could have carried her off on a boat. Of course there’s always the possibility she walked out into the water just to get a picture….and somehow drowned or got bit by a shark or something. What’s even more odd is that no one at that yoga place saw or heard anything and act like they have no clue what’s going on around them…..or they are in on it….you never know.

Women don’t just disappear! Find her. Someone has done something . People aren’t happy to be asked about a missing woman because they are meditating? Seriously? What if this was your daughter/ mother sister/ friend? Aholes!

I stayed at the Sivananda retreat space for a week one time. Loved it, but there were definitely some sketchy people there who were basically drifter-types who stayed on the grounds for free in exchange for doing some work. One of those guys was trying to pick me up when I was eating lunch near the beach…

I wouldnt go anywhere out of the country, too many things happening. Prayers for her return and family 🙏♥️

The only reason those cops from the Bahamas are even doing anything right now, is because of your report yesterday. I'm glad they are finally getting off their lazy a**es! When you guys went on site yesterday, there was no one out there looking for this young lady. Prayers for this family.

Jet ski guys come by the beach and offer to rent them and take people for rides. An example of how her phone could have fallen off when she was riding on a jet ski. Or she was taking a ride and went on a boat . She wouldn’t swim with it but jet ski with it . Definitely .

Lord help please

God forbid reporters and investigators should disrupt the ashram. They should have immediately shut down operations for a full investigation. Surely they value human life.

😔it sounds like unfortunately this woman may possibly be deceased and the island refuses to tell the truth as to what happened.

What time did her phone ping in the ocean? If it was in the daytime, did anyone see her on the beach or in a boat? If at night.... that's a more complicated situation.

Everyone’s quiet. 🤫

That Yoga Retreat OMG how uncoorportive and insensitve. wow

They need to search every room in that retreat. Very strange.

REMEMBER - the islands have their own laws and “enforcement”. Look out for yourselves.

These day you have to travel in a group, more than two, I’d say at least five, and never leave each other alone. Traveling like this even to a retreat, a school, whatever has gotten way too dangerous. I’ve traveled abroad alone and had the best time, but I wouldn’t do it again. Not in today’s day and age. So sad…… I hope she’s found.

Leave that yoga crap alone!

Common sense tells us that she didn’t take a swim with her phone. I’m so very concerned because I don’t believe she would just walk away from her life and torture her mom.

WHY go there?

Dumb as hell to say the family is strangly quite. What is that is suppose to me.

The Bahama’s needs to get it together. So your financial well being depends on tourism. So take accountability. Crime happens everywhere, that’s a fact. So get top notch investigators and make sure you bring justice for every single person that is the victim of a crime on your island. Then you won’t need to worry about your reputation, because it will be a rep of getting things taken care of when they happen.

Meditation 🧘‍♀️ oh well they are going to have to put that aside to help the investigation there is lady thats missing hello god please 🙏 bring her home home safe 🙏

Not STRANGE to not want to talk to YOU 🤨

How deep is the water where her phone pinged?

Gwyneth Paltrow needs to do something. Doubt she will. Shes so selish. She doesn’t care about this lady.

Everyone at resort should have been interviewed. Anyone who left around the time this lady went missing needs to be tracked down and interviewed. Taylor's movements need to be retraced (using phone data). As for those who are "not happy" about folks looking for Taylor, and feel their "vibe" is being interrupted - maybe they need to rethink their empathy and status as a human. I wonder how their attitudes would change if it was their family member that was missing and no one at the facility gave a toss. Just my 2 cents.

this is a eye opening situation very sad

The beautiful person who loved life and went to this Yoga retreat to gain knowledge and bring it back to her clients was obviously snatched up by an evil person or persons. And the lack of investigation from the Bahamian government and the retreat speak volumes. As a tourist who has visited the Bahamas numerous times in the past, my advise is to stay out of countries and territories that only care about $$$$.

Please God protect this woman out there, if shes in trouble help her escape and find safety ..

Prayer for Taylor Casey and all of her family and friends

Praying for her family and friends May good be with them ❤😢😢

I don't understand why people think is safe to go to the Bahamas.

It's a terrible feeling believing she'll never be found and no one will ever know what happened.

Nice to see some coverage about missing minorities

Who were the “people” she was on the retreat with…… Not everyone is your friend or cares about you! Be careful who you mingle with!

Does anyone else think it’s weird that yoga retreat called the family to ask of they have heard anything of her?

Is the retreat still operating???!!!That’s nonsense! How could she be with them in then disappear without them knowing anything!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️✝️

Isn’t this the second woman who went missing in a yoga retreat?

There meditating is more important than a woman’s life, I see why people go there

How far from land in the water. Did they find the phone

Everyone that goes to that retreat from here on better be concerned if they go missing because that retreat obviously don't give a darn about their customers.WOW

they did something to that girl at that yoga retreat and they threw her phone in the water. Those Yoga retreat people should be questioned. I see too many movies of how these yoga retreat places are some form of cult and people find things out wanting to leave and they shut them up. Those people did something to that woman. Her phone in the water no..

Very Strange 🙏 🤲

Yup shut the retreat down

People that are on vacation sometimes take their phone in the water for a quick video or selfie if they are alone so that’s not unusual. Wonder if any rip tides in that area. 😢😢😢

Let me get this right, she went to a Yoga retreat in the Bahamas and was last seen on June 19th. An the Yoga people kept doing Yoga.

They're more concerned about meditation than the whereabouts of a missing woman who was part of their retreat. This is just SICKENING. She was so excited about being there and this is how they treat her.

Wow crazy 😢

It is dangerous to go to any place by yourself. Some of these islands are not getting involved with crimes .

This hurts prayer for the family

How can a phone ping inside an ocean? Or is it an estimate by the shore?

What time was she last @ the Beach?? No one witnessed her there - What she was doing?

Stay away from the Bahamas.. Natalie Galloway 😢and many others RIP

2 highly likely possibilities: #1: Deceased #2: Human trafficking

If im on a yoga/meditation retreat & i see reporters asking about a missing woman, then i hear that statement that they put out im going to be looking at them side ways & im definitely not going to be able to relax the rest of the trip!

Blessings💜🙏….

Dear Heavely father. Please return this lady to her family in good health. ❤

Everyone Taylor came in contact with at the retreat should be questioned, thoroughly. She's at the retreat and suddenly disappears, I'm not buying their crap!

Can't go anywhere these days with so many whack jobs out there. Especially out of the country where you are not familiar with the people or surroundings. No more Yoga retreats with 2 people missing now.

Where are the cameras to help protect guests if the Retreat says that the beach is unsafe.

Good enough reason not to go there they don’t care if you go missing

Have there been others go missing recently?

The police should shut the centre down whilst investigations are underway. I can’t believe the centre sounds like it doesn’t care and don’t want any interruptions. Weird people

Thinking of Taylor and her loved ones. How scary.

OMGOODNESS she was murdered and discarded in ocean 🌊 this is absolutely disgusting and trifling! I hope the family can get closure swiftly! I hate seeing women vacationing on these islands without male companionship.

“Strangely quiet” umm not everyone wants to speak on camera especially since emotions are high.

Thank you for mentioning the response from the Retreat, the meditator's annoyance (douchbags) & the name of Retreat. I think anyone & everyone should reconsidered going there, like boycott. Doesn't seem like an authentic place, more so a vacation spot for entitlement Vs. kindness & awareness.