Mother of missing Chicago woman Taylor Casey pleads for her safe return [Video]

Police in the Bahamas are investigating the disappearance of a Chicago woman named Taylor Casey whose family says she was last seen a week ago while attending a monthlong yoga retreat.

“Oh my God, I miss Taylor. Taylor should not be missing as far as I’m concerned,” Casey’s mother, Colette Seymore, said in an interview with CBS News.

Seymore said she received a troubling call last week when the retreat’s organizers asked if she had heard from her 41-year-old daughter.

“I heard from Taylor Tuesday, that was the last time Taylor had sent me pictures of Taylor in the Atlantic ocean, saying, ‘I miss you, mom. I miss you. Look, I’m at the beach.'” 

The organization hosting the retreat, Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas, told CBS News they alerted the U.S. embassy and Casey’s family after she failed to show up …