May 28, 2026
UPDATE: Why Divers Are Searching NEW Area For Missing Michigan Woman In Bahamas
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RSS Feed U.S. investigators are asking Bahamian authorities for permission to search a new area for missing Michigan mom, Lynette Hooker. Authorities say GPS data from Brian Hooker’s device has revealed he wasn’t where he said he was the night he told police his wife fell overboard in rough seas. Hooker was arrested and held for 5 days, but ultimately released after officials didn’t have enough evidence to charge him in connection with Lynette’s disappearance.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Thursday, May twenty eighth. Then we have a significant update in the case of Lynette Hucker, the missing Michigan woman missing after she fell off a dinghy in the Bahamas. Well, there is a renewed effort, a new search to find her body because turns out authorities might have been looking in the wrong spot. You know, the spot her husband told them to look and without welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Rohobs. I don't want to overstate this. I'm not going too far her here, am I when I say this is the most significant investigative update we have had in this case.
00:00:42
Speaker 2: Oh, without a doubt.
00:00:43
Speaker 3: I think the we knew that the US Coast Guard was continuing to investigate. They had not stopped their investigation into whether or not Brian Hooker baird any response or bore any responsibility to the disappearance of his wife, but they had stopped searching. They had exhaustively searched the areas where Brian Hooker told investigators and authorities that his wife fell overboard. If you recall, he even printed out a map and made markings of where the boat was, where she fell overboard, where his boat ended up. He ended up being able to paddle it to and he gave this all to the Behaman authorities and the Coastguard turns out his GPS, his electronic devices aren't matching what he told police.
00:01:33
Speaker 1: No, and this is where we are, folks, with this investigation that we're just getting from the update from the coast Guard. The Coastguard has now asked for permission from the Behamian authorities to come and send dive teams to go into their waters and look in a different spot. This is new, This is just happening. The search hasn't happened yet. They're waiting to get their ducks in a row, heroes. But the point of this all is that they were now about to go look in an area that they don't believe they've checked. Wow, that is significant. Robes, because it's a it's not even a he said, she said, This is just a he said. There is no other account of what happened out there other than from him because he's the only one that survived it. So robes we've talked about from the very beginning. The only chance of possible evidence of something would be what on that boat or on that body and robes. They seem like this is the best investigative lead they've had in terms of pinpointing where her body might be.
00:02:33
Speaker 3: Yes, And if they can find her body, they can hopefully determine cause of death and if it was anything other than drowning, if there were any other injuries, if there was anything else that pointed to foul play, obviously this would be damning evidence against Brian Hooker, and certainly he has been questioned. He was detained, as we pointed out, for five days by Bohemian police. He was interrogated multiple times, and by all accounts, he's stuck to his story. He's an innocent man. His wife fell overboard in rough seas. He tried to throw a flotation device towards her. She had the keys to the dinghy and it cut off his engine so he couldn't go get her.
00:03:15
Speaker 2: She he assumes, drowned.
00:03:16
Speaker 3: But he actually has even said he still believes she could be alive somewhere.
00:03:20
Speaker 2: He has said this in an interview.
00:03:22
Speaker 1: He did, yeah, yes, and then he left, So.
00:03:26
Speaker 3: Yes, he's where he said he was never going to leave until he found her and left the next day.
00:03:30
Speaker 1: He left. So yes, that incident, everything that will sound familiar to a lot of folks rogues. This story certainly make headlines, not just in the United States but all over the world. But it was on April fourth, we go back that far is when she actually disappeared. So remember doing this story right off the bat when you hear about the disappearance. And I'm sorry here, but it's just things don't add. It's like we've seen this movie before. Two of them go out, only one comes back. She falls out of the boat. Wait, she has the keys. Why does she have the keys? And then he has to paddle to another area. Wait a minute. Now you're saying she was swimming towards the other yacht. Why didn't you paddle that direction she was going. Wait a minute, It wasn't quite dark. It was just sunset. You could still see. Wait a minute. He said the weather was bad. They checked the weather reports. It wasn't as chopping ropes, all these things, and you're trying to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. It never added up. So now robes the maps you speak of, or at the center of where we are, crude little maps that he forwarded to what his friends and he gave to authorities it's literal, folks, if you see it, it's a screenshot and he scribbled on it to try to point to this is where the dinghy was and this is where she might be and robes that lings leads us to Now because authorities used his information that he told them to search in those areas. But now robes, they've gone through his devices, they've gone through the boats GPS turns out.
00:05:02
Speaker 3: It's not where he said he was, even though he made those detailed maps.
00:05:06
Speaker 1: That's enormous, it's huge.
00:05:08
Speaker 2: Here's my question, and I don't know that.
00:05:11
Speaker 3: I don't mean to put you on the spot, but I haven't seen this, but I have a major question. If they are talking about getting GPS data from his phone, that would imply he had his phone on him while he was in the dinghy.
00:05:27
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and that is a part. Why didn't we know this earlier? Why did't you know this previously? Why is that not the first thing they actually checked that we don't know?
00:05:39
Speaker 3: Why didn't he call nine one one would be my other question.
00:05:42
Speaker 1: That hasn't been well, that was asked the very beginning. But they are also looking at ROBES data, GPS data from their yacht apparently, which is say what soulmate was the.
00:05:54
Speaker 2: Name made Ooh the irony of that.
00:05:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they are the who has that. It's in Florida. Yes, that is in custody right now of the authorities who are checking that thing out. So Robes, things are starting to come together in a different way that goes beyond just his word, because now they are able, possibly ropes to show he's either mistaken or he's lying. Wow, Robes, he's mistaken or he is lying.
00:06:21
Speaker 3: I guess he can always say that it was so traumatic. He thought he was one place and he was turned around because he didn't have his navigational system but to make if you actually and that would be understandable to be turned around, to be unsure where you were. If your wife just floated off and you couldn't get to her, and you were distraught, I can understand why your brain may be clouded or foggy. However, if that were the case, why would you then feel so certain enough to make a detailed map.
00:06:51
Speaker 1: Ah misdirection.
00:06:53
Speaker 3: You're trying to put search crews in the wrong area because you don't want your wife's body to be found. Because if your wife's body is found that would suggest perhaps there are clues on her body that would implicate him. That's the only conclusion you can draw. If he drew these maps and they were in the complete wrong area of where his GPS shows he actually was. To me, that is the most damning bit of evidence we have seen to date that would imply Ryan Hooker had something to do with his wife's disappearance.
00:07:28
Speaker 1: Well, this it hit from the beginning robes, It just didn't and this is possible. It is an awful tragedy. Why did he say choppy seas that night?
00:07:36
Speaker 2: Yep?
00:07:37
Speaker 1: She is an avid, an avid boats boater, both of them are, and her was. Her daughter said, this woman could swim. She's not going to fall out of anything and struggle to She's not going to get swept away in a matter of seconds if she just falls out of a.
00:07:54
Speaker 3: See, especially if he flew a float, excuse me, especially if he threw a flotation device towards her. How Yes, Well, he told his stepdaughter, Lynette's daughter, that he did that. But you're telling me she's an avid swimmer and she can't get to the flotation device, she can't get to the dinghy, and he can't paddle towards her.
00:08:17
Speaker 2: He's got a paddle. He can't paddle towards her.
00:08:20
Speaker 1: That was the pint. Why would you pass Because this didn't come out initially, we didn't find out till late. Wait a minute, she was swimming. He saw her swimming.
00:08:28
Speaker 3: He said he saw her swimming towards their sailboat. But why would she swim further away towards a sailboat rather than getting back in the dinghy. Basically what he said doesn't make logical sense, and that's a big question mark. But now to think that he took all this effort to show searchers and search teams exactly where to look, and it appears now he was not in the same area that he told searchers to look. That is incredibly damning. I thought it was also interesting her daughter. Lynette's daughter said that police recently, I think I believe it was Wednesday. It was yesterday she handed over DNA, So that just to me, that suggests they believe, Wow, we may find her body, and we're gonna need to have DNA confirmation so to get it ready upon perhaps finding Lynette's body. Finally, after two months, they have now taken her daughter's DNA to have it ready to go to identify remains if they find them now in this new search area.
00:09:29
Speaker 1: Robes. This is just what a turn, what an enormous turn in this story, a story that we thought and has been a lot of headlines about the investigation. It has continued, but it hasn't It hasn't been a major development. Robes, and look, after a story like this, we kind of all knew there's a possibility. It's heartbreaking, she's lost at sea and will never be found.
00:09:51
Speaker 3: Yes, and it's possible if he in fact did have something to do with her death, that he was gonna get away with it. It did appear that both could be true.
00:09:59
Speaker 1: But now something else appears to be happening. Again, we have to say this is an innocent man until otherwise proven in some court of law. But they Robes. They arrested him for a reason, they are now doing this for a reason. Authorities have a theory of some kind, Robes, and it's not that this was an accident.
00:10:21
Speaker 3: Absolutely for the US Coast Guard to officially ask Bahamian authorities permission to send their dive teams to these dive teams to these new search areas based on scientific GPS data showing exactly where Brian actually was that night.
00:10:41
Speaker 2: I am we are going to be.
00:10:43
Speaker 3: Refreshing, refreshing, refreshing the Google search, waiting to see what the Coastguard may find in the days to come.
00:10:50
Speaker 1: But stay here a reminder in just a moment of what Lynette's daughter has said, what other family members have said, and will also remind you of this relationship. Yes, they had been married for twenty five years, Lynette and Brian, but according to family members, it was not all incense and candles.
00:11:09
Speaker 3: Stay here, Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are talking about a potential major break in the search for Lynette Hooker. She was the fifty five year old Michigan mom who her husband said fell overboard in their eight foot dinghy in rough seas Well. Turns out where Brian Hooker told authorities to search, where Brian Hooker told authorities his dinghy was that night, Well GPS suggests otherwise. And now a new search is underway for Lynette Hooker in the area where police now know their boat actually was.
00:11:56
Speaker 1: Is it not something real? They've been looking for this woman and didn't know to look where they're about to go.
00:12:01
Speaker 2: Look, why did it take so long?
00:12:04
Speaker 3: I always have this and I don't know, and I'm sure there's a real reason for it. But if they've had his cell phones and they've had his data for this long, why only now are they able to find this GPS data.
00:12:17
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that have been one of the first things you searched. And I know they.
00:12:21
Speaker 3: Seized this boat a couple of weeks ago. I'm just curious why it takes so long.
00:12:25
Speaker 1: I'm reminded, and you're saw. I'm looking at the headlines that we're sitting here now. There was a back and forth about who had a phone, Why didn't they have phone? Why didn't they have signal? He has given different accounts about it, right, because the signal and couldn't get a signal?
00:12:40
Speaker 2: Oh, that's what it.
00:12:41
Speaker 3: Because initially we were I was under the belief that neither one of them had their phones, which was suspicious because folks who knew them said, these are people who documented their sailing adventures on social media NonStop. They always had their phones with them, They always had their phones out. Why would Lynette not have had her phone? Why would Brian not have had his phone? So it turns out Brian did have his phone.
00:13:04
Speaker 1: And again, how many hours did it take him? Right? He said he paddled for hours, So in eight hours he didn't get a signal.
00:13:11
Speaker 2: That's tough to it's hard to imagine.
00:13:13
Speaker 3: You and I have been out on boats, not maybe in that exact area, but sure the signal could come in and out, but it's not just and if you see where they are on the map, it wasn't like he was out in the middle of nowhere.
00:13:25
Speaker 2: It wasn't far at all from land.
00:13:27
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, not at all. Rob was one of the beautiful things about being out in the water. Now you can get a signal if you feel better about not getting lost because you can you know exactly where you are.
00:13:37
Speaker 3: Yees. So that's really hard to imagine that he couldn't have called for help.
00:13:41
Speaker 1: For eight hours. As you mentioned that he's out there. That doesn't make sense. So Robes now got a hold of this phone, got a hold of this information. They also have GPS data from the uh, the other boat. This is fascinating to me. So the daughter initially right, then she went back and forth. She came out pretty strong initially saying something's up and then she kind of seemed like she was trying to just accept maybe that it was an accident.
00:14:09
Speaker 3: Well, look, I would think as anyone would want to believe. You would never want to think a man who you had been partially raised by, or at least grew up to call step dad, had something to do with deliberately ending your mother's life.
00:14:24
Speaker 2: I think, and I think she's made this very clear.
00:14:25
Speaker 3: She would much prefer to believe that her mother, that this was just a tragic accident, that nothing sinister happened. But she kept saying, as much as I want to believe it, and I leave space for it, none of it adds up. I know my mom's an avid swimmer, and I know that my mom and stepdad fought horrifically, especially when they were drinking, that there had been episodes of violence, that he had threatened, according to the daughter, to throw Lynnette off the boat. So she had heard enough and seen enough that she couldn't rule it out. And I thought that was a really fair way to talk about it.
00:15:00
Speaker 1: The accounts from some of them, some of the family members. In the history these two, it's been volatile at times. I can't remember the particular incident that you might where she actually said, I can't be out.
00:15:13
Speaker 3: Here with him, yes, So she actually texted that to her mother. So this was just maybe a month before her death, but she said, I can't be out here with him anymore. She also texted friends something similar, so she to several people who knew her and who were close to her. They referenced the fact that Lynnette was wanting to leave Brian and they had been estranged in periods like they had broken up and gotten back together. It was a volatle rocky relationship, but recently she was saying she wanted to leave.
00:15:45
Speaker 1: And again, all that does not a murderer make right. So it's they're looking into the rogue. Just things are coming together and a story like this, and it does seem weird to say, wow, we've seen this movie before. We have seen there been exact cases like this. Two people go out, only one comes back.
00:16:04
Speaker 3: Yes, and you see this happen, And look, these types of situations, if in fact Brian Hooker is responsible, do tend to be premeditated because they think, okay, international waters, no witnesses, and it's possible that anyone.
00:16:21
Speaker 2: Could fall overboard and drown.
00:16:23
Speaker 3: So you've got those things going for you if you're trying to get away with murder man Ah.
00:16:30
Speaker 1: We are expecting updates on this in the coming days for sure, because they are just waiting to get essentially paperwork done, get the okay, and then get teams in place and divers are going back in the water in the search for the Nett hooker. As always, we appreciate you spending some time here with us on TJ. I'll behe with my dear Amy robot. We'll talk to you also
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Thursday, May twenty eighth. Then we have a significant update in the case of Lynette Hucker, the missing Michigan woman missing after she fell off a dinghy in the Bahamas. Well, there is a renewed effort, a new search to find her body because turns out authorities might have been looking in the wrong spot. You know, the spot her husband told them to look and without welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Rohobs. I don't want to overstate this. I'm not going too far her here, am I when I say this is the most significant investigative update we have had in this case.
00:00:42
Speaker 2: Oh, without a doubt.
00:00:43
Speaker 3: I think the we knew that the US Coast Guard was continuing to investigate. They had not stopped their investigation into whether or not Brian Hooker baird any response or bore any responsibility to the disappearance of his wife, but they had stopped searching. They had exhaustively searched the areas where Brian Hooker told investigators and authorities that his wife fell overboard. If you recall, he even printed out a map and made markings of where the boat was, where she fell overboard, where his boat ended up. He ended up being able to paddle it to and he gave this all to the Behaman authorities and the Coastguard turns out his GPS, his electronic devices aren't matching what he told police.
00:01:33
Speaker 1: No, and this is where we are, folks, with this investigation that we're just getting from the update from the coast Guard. The Coastguard has now asked for permission from the Behamian authorities to come and send dive teams to go into their waters and look in a different spot. This is new, This is just happening. The search hasn't happened yet. They're waiting to get their ducks in a row, heroes. But the point of this all is that they were now about to go look in an area that they don't believe they've checked. Wow, that is significant. Robes, because it's a it's not even a he said, she said, This is just a he said. There is no other account of what happened out there other than from him because he's the only one that survived it. So robes we've talked about from the very beginning. The only chance of possible evidence of something would be what on that boat or on that body and robes. They seem like this is the best investigative lead they've had in terms of pinpointing where her body might be.
00:02:33
Speaker 3: Yes, And if they can find her body, they can hopefully determine cause of death and if it was anything other than drowning, if there were any other injuries, if there was anything else that pointed to foul play, obviously this would be damning evidence against Brian Hooker, and certainly he has been questioned. He was detained, as we pointed out, for five days by Bohemian police. He was interrogated multiple times, and by all accounts, he's stuck to his story. He's an innocent man. His wife fell overboard in rough seas. He tried to throw a flotation device towards her. She had the keys to the dinghy and it cut off his engine so he couldn't go get her.
00:03:15
Speaker 2: She he assumes, drowned.
00:03:16
Speaker 3: But he actually has even said he still believes she could be alive somewhere.
00:03:20
Speaker 2: He has said this in an interview.
00:03:22
Speaker 1: He did, yeah, yes, and then he left, So.
00:03:26
Speaker 3: Yes, he's where he said he was never going to leave until he found her and left the next day.
00:03:30
Speaker 1: He left. So yes, that incident, everything that will sound familiar to a lot of folks rogues. This story certainly make headlines, not just in the United States but all over the world. But it was on April fourth, we go back that far is when she actually disappeared. So remember doing this story right off the bat when you hear about the disappearance. And I'm sorry here, but it's just things don't add. It's like we've seen this movie before. Two of them go out, only one comes back. She falls out of the boat. Wait, she has the keys. Why does she have the keys? And then he has to paddle to another area. Wait a minute. Now you're saying she was swimming towards the other yacht. Why didn't you paddle that direction she was going. Wait a minute, It wasn't quite dark. It was just sunset. You could still see. Wait a minute. He said the weather was bad. They checked the weather reports. It wasn't as chopping ropes, all these things, and you're trying to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. It never added up. So now robes the maps you speak of, or at the center of where we are, crude little maps that he forwarded to what his friends and he gave to authorities it's literal, folks, if you see it, it's a screenshot and he scribbled on it to try to point to this is where the dinghy was and this is where she might be and robes that lings leads us to Now because authorities used his information that he told them to search in those areas. But now robes, they've gone through his devices, they've gone through the boats GPS turns out.
00:05:02
Speaker 3: It's not where he said he was, even though he made those detailed maps.
00:05:06
Speaker 1: That's enormous, it's huge.
00:05:08
Speaker 2: Here's my question, and I don't know that.
00:05:11
Speaker 3: I don't mean to put you on the spot, but I haven't seen this, but I have a major question. If they are talking about getting GPS data from his phone, that would imply he had his phone on him while he was in the dinghy.
00:05:27
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and that is a part. Why didn't we know this earlier? Why did't you know this previously? Why is that not the first thing they actually checked that we don't know?
00:05:39
Speaker 3: Why didn't he call nine one one would be my other question.
00:05:42
Speaker 1: That hasn't been well, that was asked the very beginning. But they are also looking at ROBES data, GPS data from their yacht apparently, which is say what soulmate was the.
00:05:54
Speaker 2: Name made Ooh the irony of that.
00:05:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they are the who has that. It's in Florida. Yes, that is in custody right now of the authorities who are checking that thing out. So Robes, things are starting to come together in a different way that goes beyond just his word, because now they are able, possibly ropes to show he's either mistaken or he's lying. Wow, Robes, he's mistaken or he is lying.
00:06:21
Speaker 3: I guess he can always say that it was so traumatic. He thought he was one place and he was turned around because he didn't have his navigational system but to make if you actually and that would be understandable to be turned around, to be unsure where you were. If your wife just floated off and you couldn't get to her, and you were distraught, I can understand why your brain may be clouded or foggy. However, if that were the case, why would you then feel so certain enough to make a detailed map.
00:06:51
Speaker 1: Ah misdirection.
00:06:53
Speaker 3: You're trying to put search crews in the wrong area because you don't want your wife's body to be found. Because if your wife's body is found that would suggest perhaps there are clues on her body that would implicate him. That's the only conclusion you can draw. If he drew these maps and they were in the complete wrong area of where his GPS shows he actually was. To me, that is the most damning bit of evidence we have seen to date that would imply Ryan Hooker had something to do with his wife's disappearance.
00:07:28
Speaker 1: Well, this it hit from the beginning robes, It just didn't and this is possible. It is an awful tragedy. Why did he say choppy seas that night?
00:07:36
Speaker 2: Yep?
00:07:37
Speaker 1: She is an avid, an avid boats boater, both of them are, and her was. Her daughter said, this woman could swim. She's not going to fall out of anything and struggle to She's not going to get swept away in a matter of seconds if she just falls out of a.
00:07:54
Speaker 3: See, especially if he flew a float, excuse me, especially if he threw a flotation device towards her. How Yes, Well, he told his stepdaughter, Lynette's daughter, that he did that. But you're telling me she's an avid swimmer and she can't get to the flotation device, she can't get to the dinghy, and he can't paddle towards her.
00:08:17
Speaker 2: He's got a paddle. He can't paddle towards her.
00:08:20
Speaker 1: That was the pint. Why would you pass Because this didn't come out initially, we didn't find out till late. Wait a minute, she was swimming. He saw her swimming.
00:08:28
Speaker 3: He said he saw her swimming towards their sailboat. But why would she swim further away towards a sailboat rather than getting back in the dinghy. Basically what he said doesn't make logical sense, and that's a big question mark. But now to think that he took all this effort to show searchers and search teams exactly where to look, and it appears now he was not in the same area that he told searchers to look. That is incredibly damning. I thought it was also interesting her daughter. Lynette's daughter said that police recently, I think I believe it was Wednesday. It was yesterday she handed over DNA, So that just to me, that suggests they believe, Wow, we may find her body, and we're gonna need to have DNA confirmation so to get it ready upon perhaps finding Lynette's body. Finally, after two months, they have now taken her daughter's DNA to have it ready to go to identify remains if they find them now in this new search area.
00:09:29
Speaker 1: Robes. This is just what a turn, what an enormous turn in this story, a story that we thought and has been a lot of headlines about the investigation. It has continued, but it hasn't It hasn't been a major development. Robes, and look, after a story like this, we kind of all knew there's a possibility. It's heartbreaking, she's lost at sea and will never be found.
00:09:51
Speaker 3: Yes, and it's possible if he in fact did have something to do with her death, that he was gonna get away with it. It did appear that both could be true.
00:09:59
Speaker 1: But now something else appears to be happening. Again, we have to say this is an innocent man until otherwise proven in some court of law. But they Robes. They arrested him for a reason, they are now doing this for a reason. Authorities have a theory of some kind, Robes, and it's not that this was an accident.
00:10:21
Speaker 3: Absolutely for the US Coast Guard to officially ask Bahamian authorities permission to send their dive teams to these dive teams to these new search areas based on scientific GPS data showing exactly where Brian actually was that night.
00:10:41
Speaker 2: I am we are going to be.
00:10:43
Speaker 3: Refreshing, refreshing, refreshing the Google search, waiting to see what the Coastguard may find in the days to come.
00:10:50
Speaker 1: But stay here a reminder in just a moment of what Lynette's daughter has said, what other family members have said, and will also remind you of this relationship. Yes, they had been married for twenty five years, Lynette and Brian, but according to family members, it was not all incense and candles.
00:11:09
Speaker 3: Stay here, Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are talking about a potential major break in the search for Lynette Hooker. She was the fifty five year old Michigan mom who her husband said fell overboard in their eight foot dinghy in rough seas Well. Turns out where Brian Hooker told authorities to search, where Brian Hooker told authorities his dinghy was that night, Well GPS suggests otherwise. And now a new search is underway for Lynette Hooker in the area where police now know their boat actually was.
00:11:56
Speaker 1: Is it not something real? They've been looking for this woman and didn't know to look where they're about to go.
00:12:01
Speaker 2: Look, why did it take so long?
00:12:04
Speaker 3: I always have this and I don't know, and I'm sure there's a real reason for it. But if they've had his cell phones and they've had his data for this long, why only now are they able to find this GPS data.
00:12:17
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that have been one of the first things you searched. And I know they.
00:12:21
Speaker 3: Seized this boat a couple of weeks ago. I'm just curious why it takes so long.
00:12:25
Speaker 1: I'm reminded, and you're saw. I'm looking at the headlines that we're sitting here now. There was a back and forth about who had a phone, Why didn't they have phone? Why didn't they have signal? He has given different accounts about it, right, because the signal and couldn't get a signal?
00:12:40
Speaker 2: Oh, that's what it.
00:12:41
Speaker 3: Because initially we were I was under the belief that neither one of them had their phones, which was suspicious because folks who knew them said, these are people who documented their sailing adventures on social media NonStop. They always had their phones with them, They always had their phones out. Why would Lynette not have had her phone? Why would Brian not have had his phone? So it turns out Brian did have his phone.
00:13:04
Speaker 1: And again, how many hours did it take him? Right? He said he paddled for hours, So in eight hours he didn't get a signal.
00:13:11
Speaker 2: That's tough to it's hard to imagine.
00:13:13
Speaker 3: You and I have been out on boats, not maybe in that exact area, but sure the signal could come in and out, but it's not just and if you see where they are on the map, it wasn't like he was out in the middle of nowhere.
00:13:25
Speaker 2: It wasn't far at all from land.
00:13:27
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, not at all. Rob was one of the beautiful things about being out in the water. Now you can get a signal if you feel better about not getting lost because you can you know exactly where you are.
00:13:37
Speaker 3: Yees. So that's really hard to imagine that he couldn't have called for help.
00:13:41
Speaker 1: For eight hours. As you mentioned that he's out there. That doesn't make sense. So Robes now got a hold of this phone, got a hold of this information. They also have GPS data from the uh, the other boat. This is fascinating to me. So the daughter initially right, then she went back and forth. She came out pretty strong initially saying something's up and then she kind of seemed like she was trying to just accept maybe that it was an accident.
00:14:09
Speaker 3: Well, look, I would think as anyone would want to believe. You would never want to think a man who you had been partially raised by, or at least grew up to call step dad, had something to do with deliberately ending your mother's life.
00:14:24
Speaker 2: I think, and I think she's made this very clear.
00:14:25
Speaker 3: She would much prefer to believe that her mother, that this was just a tragic accident, that nothing sinister happened. But she kept saying, as much as I want to believe it, and I leave space for it, none of it adds up. I know my mom's an avid swimmer, and I know that my mom and stepdad fought horrifically, especially when they were drinking, that there had been episodes of violence, that he had threatened, according to the daughter, to throw Lynnette off the boat. So she had heard enough and seen enough that she couldn't rule it out. And I thought that was a really fair way to talk about it.
00:15:00
Speaker 1: The accounts from some of them, some of the family members. In the history these two, it's been volatile at times. I can't remember the particular incident that you might where she actually said, I can't be out.
00:15:13
Speaker 3: Here with him, yes, So she actually texted that to her mother. So this was just maybe a month before her death, but she said, I can't be out here with him anymore. She also texted friends something similar, so she to several people who knew her and who were close to her. They referenced the fact that Lynnette was wanting to leave Brian and they had been estranged in periods like they had broken up and gotten back together. It was a volatle rocky relationship, but recently she was saying she wanted to leave.
00:15:45
Speaker 1: And again, all that does not a murderer make right. So it's they're looking into the rogue. Just things are coming together and a story like this, and it does seem weird to say, wow, we've seen this movie before. We have seen there been exact cases like this. Two people go out, only one comes back.
00:16:04
Speaker 3: Yes, and you see this happen, And look, these types of situations, if in fact Brian Hooker is responsible, do tend to be premeditated because they think, okay, international waters, no witnesses, and it's possible that anyone.
00:16:21
Speaker 2: Could fall overboard and drown.
00:16:23
Speaker 3: So you've got those things going for you if you're trying to get away with murder man Ah.
00:16:30
Speaker 1: We are expecting updates on this in the coming days for sure, because they are just waiting to get essentially paperwork done, get the okay, and then get teams in place and divers are going back in the water in the search for the Nett hooker. As always, we appreciate you spending some time here with us on TJ. I'll behe with my dear Amy robot. We'll talk to you also