A Texas man went missing more than 10 years ago from the same Bahamas yoga retreat where a Chicago woman vanished last month, a spokesperson for the retreat confirmed. Wesley Bell was last seen alive while attending a yoga retreat on Paradise Island in Nassau on Jan. 25, 2013, according to a missing persons flyer released by police at the time.
He was attending a retreat at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas, the same site from where Taylor Casey, 42, went missing last month, according to the retreat’s spokesperson, Jonathan Goldbloom. “After an extensive search, the Bahamian police determined that he had drowned,” Goldbloom said Wednesday. He then referred NBC News to the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
The Royal Bahamas Police Force has not responded to multiple requests for comment from NBC News Digital over a span of nearly two weeks. The U.S.
Embassy in the Bahamas did not return a request for comment on Bell’s missing person case. It appears there is no evidence of foul play in Bell’s case, though police have not commented on the matter. In a brief phone call, his father, Don Bell, said he believes his son “drowned in the water” and added that authorities “couldn’t find him.
” Bell’s mother, Marie Bell, said she had not heard about Taylor Casey going missing from the same retreat. The Bells declined to comment further and also referred NBC News to the Royal Bahamas Police Force and the U.S.
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