‘I want that phone before I leave’: Mother of missing Taylor Casey wants answers and access
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After the cell phone belonging to missing American woman Taylor Casey was discovered in waters in the Bahamas, her mother Colette Seymore wants access to the phone.
Casey’s phone pinged in waters believed to be near the site where she went missing before attending classes at the Sivananda Asham Yoga Retreat Center on Paradise Island.
Seymore who met with investigators upon her arrival in the country to find her missing daughter, said the phone is in police custody but she has not been given access to it.
“They (Royal Bahamas Police Force) have the phone, but we have not been able to receive the phone or look into it. I think that’s gonna have a lot of our answers,” she told NewsNation Brian Entin. “They still have the phone. They haven’t given me the phone. But I want that phone before I leave.”
It is unknown when she will leave the Bahamas, only saying she hopes to carry Casey back to Chicago with her.
Seymore and a contingent of family and friends traveled to the Bahamas from Chicago, to find the missing 41-year-old woman, but to no avail.
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Police said they have used dogs, drones and divers to search for the woman and are still searching extensively to solve the unusual disappearance.
Minister of National Security Wayne Munroe said last week that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is advising the police in the ongoing search for Casey who arrived in the Bahamas on June 2 to become a certified yoga instructor.
June 19th was the last day anyone saw her. Reports are that she strolled to visit the coral reefs, 15 minutes from the retreat center.
Though Chief Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings told reporters last week that the family is “very, very pleased with the investigations thus far,” Seymore told Entin, “I do not feel as confident as I want to feel…I’m here right now. I need to know that they are taking this seriously and helping to bring our loved one home. I need to know that.
“And no, I’m not feeling that confident about that.”
Casey is described as a light-skinned African-American woman, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and 145 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
