Video shows the last time Southern California woman was seen alive before disappearing in Guatemala

Video of the last time a Southern California woman was seen alive before she disappeared on a yoga retreat in Guatemala was released as her family remains desperate for answers.

The family of Nancy Ng, a 29-year-old Monterey Park woman, said they are beyond distraught as they work to uncover the mystery of her disappearance.

Nancy, a former Cal State L.A. student who works for the Alhambra Unified School District, had planned to relax at a week-long yoga retreat at Lake Atitlán, something she had done for the second year in a row.

She left California on Oct. 14 and just a few days into her trip, her family said the retreat organizer called to say she had vanished.

She was reported missing on Oct. 19 and was last seen kayaking with a group of ten people on an excursion that day.

Since Nancy’s disappearance, law enforcement and her family have been searching for answers while dispatching air and land search crews along with divers and drones.

Guatemalan prosecutors said a woman who was reportedly kayaking with Nancy told them Nancy had drowned when she decided to go swimming. 

“We haven’t even gotten an update from the prosecutor’s office as far as where they got that information,” Nicky said of that detail. “What’s curious to us is that we don’t have that witness report in our police report.”

The Ng Family said no witnesses have actually spoken to them during the investigation.

The kayak company owners told KTLA that eight out of 10 people in the group that day returned from the excursion, except Nancy and another woman. The two women were allegedly seen paddling out further into the lake before only one woman returned without Nancy.

The owners said the group left the lake without saying a word and reportedly checked out of their hotel 12 hours later and never paid for the kayak excursion. 

“No one in the group was interested in talking to anybody,” said Lee Beal, owner of Kayak Guatemala, the company Nancy’s group used in their excursion. “It was almost like immediately clamming up.”

“I just don’t understand that part, the leaving within eight to 12 hours of the accident,” said Elaine Beal, co-owner of Kayak Guatemala.

In the meantime, the search for Nancy has come to a halt. The head of the private search crew the family had hired said they’ve scoured the lake using helicopters, boats and drones, but to no avail. In order to continue, they said they’ll need witnesses to come forward and reveal the last place Nancy was seen alive.

Nancy’s family has also been privately funding search efforts. They have created a GoFundMe page to help with search and rescue efforts. 

“Time is of the essence, and we are racing against the clock to bring Nancy home,” her family said in a statement to KTLA. “It has been an ongoing nightmare, not knowing what happened to Nancy or if we will ever get her back. All my family wants is to bring our sister/daughter home. Please help us do so.”