The FBI is now involved in the urgent search for Nancy Ng, a Southern California woman whose family says she disappeared while on a yoga retreat in Guatemala around Oct. 19.
last month, drowned while kayaking in the Central American country. But her parents say that explanation conflicts with information they've received from their attorney.
"My dad, he ... I know this sounds terrible but he keeps his phone next to him at night," Nancy's sister Nicky Ng said in an emotional interview. "He's hoping for a ransom call, you know, something that will prove that Nancy might still be alive and that she's out there, that she's waiting for us to find her."
Her family says Ng went on the kayaking excursion in the remote area of Lake Atitlán but she never returned.Nancy Ng of Monterey Park hasn't been seen since she went kayaking in Guatemala Oct. 19. Why it took that woman and the tour group 24 hours to report the incident to authorities remains a mystery.
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