 But Javale worked in movies and TV for decades. Her partner confirms she died of complications from diabetes. A family has renewed their pleas for the safe return of a woman from Chicago. Taylor Casey, a black transgender woman from Chicago, disappeared June 19th in the Bahamas while on a month-long yoga retreat. Her mother, Colette Seymour, is anguished. The pain, the hurt, the agony is practically killing me.