April 8, 2026
Woman Overboard In Paradise: Tragic Accident Or Premeditated Violence?
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RSS Feed A 55-year-old Michigan wife and mother is missing in the Bahamas after her husband says she fell overboard in their 8 foot dinghy in rough seas. An intense search and recovery effort is underway to find Lynette Hooker. While authorities haven’t speculated on how and why she went missing at sea, her husband says the winds and currents drove them too far apart for him to save her. Hooker’s daughter is calling for a criminal investigation into her mother’s disappearance, telling media outlets her step-dad has a history of violence towards her mother.
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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Wednesday, April eighth, and a true crime story is playing out in front of our eyes in real life. However, they haven't confirmed yet whether or not a crime has been committed. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. It's very everybody has heard the story before. Husband and wife go out on a boat at night in the Caribbean. Only the husband comes back since the wife fell off the boat. This is where we are with the story. Robes Immediately, where does everybody's head go?
00:00:43
Speaker 2: Obviously, everyone thinks the husband always did it, so yes, the suspicion has to fall squarely on the husband at this point. But here's the deal. Lynette Hooker is the woman who's missing. She's fifty five years old, she's from Michigan, and she is supposed to be a strong swimmer, an avid woman of the seas. She and her husband have been documenting their travels on the seas on social media. This isn't somebody who doesn't know what she's doing on a boat, doesn't know what she's doing in the water, and they haven't found her. They haven't found her body.
00:01:19
Speaker 1: There's no accidents happen, right it's the sea. It's dangerous. So let's go back as we record this, Robes, we're sitting here on Wednesday. This happened back on Saturday, so to get everybody caught up, you might have been seeing these headlines and you're seeing them more because yes, there is an American woman, fifty five year old, the net Hoooker of Michigan, who went out on this boat with her husband, Bryan Brian on Saturday. He claims she fell off, they got separated. He came back hours later, reported her missing, and there a search and rescue is going on, which is now you said, Robes officially has moved.
00:01:57
Speaker 2: Into a recovery mission.
00:01:59
Speaker 1: A recovery. Yes, they don't think they're going to find her alive. So that is the story now, Robes, no matter how suspicious that might sound, or we all go back to other stories we've heard like this before. We might even say, come on, man, that's one thing, but it was elevated to a much higher profile and a much bigger headline when Lynette's daughter started speaking.
00:02:23
Speaker 2: That is correct, Carly Aylesworth, that is Lynette's daughter, and she has been speaking to Fox News, to CBS, to ABC, to NB She has talked to all the major news networks, and she has said that her stepfather's story quote just doesn't add up.
00:02:42
Speaker 1: That's key to say here as well, step father, this is not her dad. I don't know if you saw. I'm sorry, Robes will put you on the spot. I don't know how long these two have been together, how long they've been married, but I think they've been documenting their travels and being on the water for a decade or for years and years. They've been together for a while.
00:02:59
Speaker 2: I don't know the exact date of their marriage or how long they've been married. But she's fifty five, he's fifty eight, and yes, this is his stepdaughter, but she has been around them for long periods of time. Because she talks about some violent history between the two, I can go ahead and just read some of her quotes so that everyone is caught up as to why this story now is taking a potentially a very dark turn.
00:03:25
Speaker 1: So we now have is it fair to say, I think I stopped you before we even started recording. I said, wait a minute, is she flat out accusing her stepdad of killing her step mom. Your answer was like, yes, she's not exactly tiptoeing around that.
00:03:42
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, she hasn't flat out said it, but let's just listen to her. These are some of the comments she has been making over the past several days. There's a history of him choking her out and threatening to throw her overboard, so the fact that this is actually happening makes me believe there is more to the story. So, Okay, she didn't directly accuse him of doing it this time, but she certainly suggested she thinks that's highly likely. What Yes, she goes on to say to another news outlet, there have been prior issues brought to my attention which may be important for any thorough investigation. If this truly was an accident, I can understand and live with it. However, there needs to be an intensive review of the facts and circumstances of this tragic incident before that can be determined. She said that, and then when they were asking, reporters were asking her about how she would describe her mother's relationship with her stepfather, and she said, it's always been kind of rocky. Their relationship has been a lot of fighting and drinking lately, So I'm just actually questioning what went on in that dinghy. And her point is, because Brian's story is this, that it was Lynette who had the keys to the boat with her, that when she went overboard and fell over board because the seas were rough, there were high seas, she had the key with her. And when she fell overboard with the key, the motor stopped working on the dingy and so he had to paddle the boat back to shore. And her daughter pointed out something and she said, Brian is always driving. He is basically in charge of the key, So the fact that my mom had it doesn't make any sense.
00:05:24
Speaker 1: Okay, we agree with that. If we do agree, who knows what could have happened. Maybe she ended up with the key, maybe she ended up driving, Maybe he'd been drinking too much, and who knows, but she knows better than we do. And as a reminder to folks here rogues and we can describe this, and we've seen I think the dinghy in question. They were not on some big protective thing, but it's not exactly something you you're going to fall out of. You just don't fall out of the boat and can't get back in it necessarily. Look I think eight or bottom though.
00:05:59
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I've been in a boat like this, and I've actually been in high seas caught out unexpectedly. It's a little rocky, but it's stable and it's steady, and it's not as if it's something that you would easily fall out of. That's I think a key point here. And she had even talked about her mom being a strong swimmer. And we both listened to the voicemail that Brian, her stepfather, called and left her. It was so calm. It was so calm. He's calling his stepdaughter and telling her that the details surrounding her mom being missing and presumed dead at this point, and he's so calm. He says, honey to her. I think he says, hey, honey, and said basically kind of already putting out a defense. I tried to throw your mom a flotation device but she couldn't get it. And he said the flotation device was found, but your mom hasn't been so far, it just seems so matter of fact.
00:06:58
Speaker 1: I can't I don't know any in cases like this, and again, right now, we should have we if we haven't been clear. There is no one who has accused this man of a crime as far as authorities go, they have been searching. He at this point is a man who has lost his wife and that's all he's been treated as what robes I said to you, really, why someone, why do you think you're going to get away with this? Obviously the first thing everybody's going to think it was you or something happened, and you pointed out there is no evidence, there is no witness.
00:07:28
Speaker 2: What do you do exactly. It's not like he was on a cruise ship or on some sort of boat where there might have been surveillance cameras or other witnesses. If you're on an eight foot dinghy in the middle of the Caribbean sea in the middle of the night. By the way, because he said they were, they left shore at seven thirty pm and they were headed back to their yacht or to their larger boat. So this was a dinghy they had taken to get from one little site in the Caribbean back to their boat. And he claims, yes, that the the seas were high and he lost sight of her as she floated away because just a heavy current took her and they weren't wearing life vest so he tried to throw the flotation device out to her look let me just ask you this. I mean, I know everybody's different, babe, but if I fell out in a rocky water in the middle of the night, would you just be like I lost sight of her and then just start paddling to shore When you're in the you would jump out into the sea.
00:08:27
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to give him.
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Speaker 2: I thought you were saying you didn't know if you would come out.
00:08:31
Speaker 1: And say it. I don't.
00:08:33
Speaker 2: You would jump. I know you would.
00:08:35
Speaker 1: I damn. That is instinct. But maybe he's a he's a more seasoned man of the sea than I am, and he knows you should never do something like that. But instinct, I don't know how you get separated that. He's if you just fall out, how much of a split second does it take that you can't recover to just grab on or wow? Fell out? Oh god?
00:09:02
Speaker 2: I mean we jumped out of boats before and made it back just fine. Now here's the deal. We don't know how much they had been drinking. We don't know. Look they're there, I don't know.
00:09:13
Speaker 1: But all these things we're saying, babe, we're trying to find a way to make this make sense, and all the things we're coming up with are pretty last case scenario stuff where all these things have to go wrong for his story to be right. And that's possible, I guess, but it doesn't. As I'm talking to you, you're shaking your head none of this.
00:09:35
Speaker 2: I'm just going back to her daughter's statements. Their relationship has been a lot of fighting and drinking lately. How about the time where she said that he's threatened to throw her overboard.
00:09:48
Speaker 1: Before relationships can be volatile. What I am saying to your ropes take the daughter statements out.
00:09:56
Speaker 2: Of it, it still would be questionable.
00:09:59
Speaker 1: The suspicion is still there, but it doesn't make sense.
00:10:02
Speaker 2: But to your point, how are they going to actually prove a crime was committed? The only way would be potentially if they found her body and there was some evidence of obviously her being choked out or her suffering some sort of violence before drowning. That would be the only way. But obviously she has been in the water in the Caribbean Sea for days now, so we're talking at least four days now. What wildlife, it's awful, and just the sea itself does to a body, I would imagine would get rid of a lot of potential evidence The.
00:10:35
Speaker 1: Other evidence option was the boat, Like, what are the chances maybe something's in the boat? Are they examining that boat that could possibly be blood or any evidence of a struggle. I don't know, but how but again robs you damn we are taking this through. No, but the daughter put it out there, so it's fair. But you're going through these scenarios of potential. She is suggesting that her dad is responsible for the death of her mother. How so you go through how is something like this possibly pulled off? And ropes he had to of violently done something, because if you you can't just push her over, she's going to fight to get back on the book, I guess you could have done so and driven off and this left her, but she's a strong swimmer. How far out were they because she has made her way back. Would he have had to make sure she was dead? Is my question?
00:11:33
Speaker 2: Possibly, and that would be the only evidence if her body can be or will ever be recovered. And I don't know with ocean currents in that area what the likelihood of that is. But there have been search crews going on non stop looking for Lennette Hooker at this point, and so far nothing and no one has been found.
00:11:53
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we got his story at least as the one he told to authorities. But he is also speaking and had something to say publicly. Stay here, we will let you know what the husband has put out. He is telling his side of the media, excuse me, his side of the story on social media. Stay here, we'll let you hear.
00:12:11
Speaker 2: And welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ, where we are talking about a massive Bahamian mystery going on right now. A fifty five year old woman from Michigan went overboard over the weekend on an eight foot dinghy she was on with her husband. Her husband made it back to shore. She did not. Her husband says it was a tragic accident. She fell overboard, strong currents took her away, swept her away, and he had to make his way back to shore and without the love of his life. Now here's the deal, her daughter is telling investigators. Absolutely not. I do not believe this was an accident. He has a history of violence against my mother. He has a history of threatening to throw her overboard. This was a couple that had traveled this high seas had been documenting their journeys on social media. They had a larger boat they were heading back to at night over the weekend. And so yes, that search for Lynette Hooker has now turned into a recovery mission and we are now hearing officially from her husband, fifty eight year old Brian Hooker. He is going online and he has said put this announcement out today correct, So obviously he understands he's under suspicion. He's not being charged and police say he is not a suspect in this as of this recording. But here is what Brian Hooker has had to say about what happened. I am heartbroken over the recent boat accident in unpredictable seas and high winds that caused my beloved Lynette to fall from our small dinghy near Elbow k in the Bahamas. Despite desperate attempts to reach her, the winds and currents drove us further apart. We continue to search for her and that is my sole focus. Our family is deeply grateful for the Bahamian people's assistance, especially that of Hopetown Volunteer Fire and Rescue Team, Royal Bahamas Police Force, Royal Bahamas Defense Force, and the US Coast Guard who have worked tirelessly in an ongoing effort to bring Lynette back to us. Thank you to everyone for keeping Lynette in your thoughts and for your support of our family during this difficult time.
00:14:32
Speaker 1: I want to go back to the top, thought he was explaining too much to me.
00:14:36
Speaker 2: Yes, he was okay. Line again, he said, I am heartbroken over the recent boat accident in unpredictable seas and high winds. I mean, that is very descriptive.
00:14:51
Speaker 1: We need to give this dude some grace. This is a man who quite possibly just lost his wife, and it's upset at losing the woman he was married to and is planned to spend up the rest of his life with. I mean, you have to leave some space for that. They have to do their investigation, they have to do their thing. But you, again, Robes, as soon as we heard the story two or three days ago, I was like, there's one cooking. You're not going to believe the details. When you hear this, You're going to immediately say, oh, that's an episode of whatever show fill in the.
00:15:24
Speaker 2: Blank, true crime, fill in the blank.
00:15:26
Speaker 1: Whatever show. Yes, we'll see this episode later, Robes. These are the exact details. This is the exact layout of this type of story. But then when the daughter started speaking.
00:15:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, and suspicion obviously is pointed squarely at Brian Hooker. However, look again, we pointed out before we went to break there are no cameras, there's no surveillance monitoring equipment, there were no eyewitnesses, no other boats in the area. As far as we know, it was pitch black at night. The only two people who know what really happened are Brian and Lynette. And Lynette is no longer available, and Brian is telling a story. Who is going to refute it? How can they even how could they possibly bring charges, especially if they never find Lynnette's body. Now, all of this said, it is interesting. Look I always say, don't read the comments, but I had to know what people were saying. And Babe, not one person who left a comment on any news article thinks anything other than Brian is guilty as hell.
00:16:32
Speaker 1: I'm the only one that gave them great yes.
00:16:34
Speaker 2: Okay, So I wanted to read a few of these for you because I just thought this was just a little a little flavor of what most people's reactions have been to this story. Sounds a lot like a Lifetime movie in Scott Peterson. Lol, yeah, okay, buddy, have fun spending the rest of your life in jail. How long before we get the update that her husband is charged with murder?
00:16:56
Speaker 1: Okay, that's knew that was gone.
00:16:58
Speaker 2: Natalie would two point zh okay And guess what, Well, if people think Robert Robert I can't talk about Robert Wagner was behind that, well, guess what, he never got charged, So it could be the perfect crime if one has been committed. I have a feeling we'll be seeing his interrogation on YouTube.
00:17:17
Speaker 1: That's expected.
00:17:18
Speaker 2: And then and I'm Kim Kardashian. She's probably rich and he killed her. He's probably dating a twenty year old too. Just it's all so like fanciful.
00:17:27
Speaker 1: What was that?
00:17:30
Speaker 2: Well, the point being, he's claiming he's innocent and she fell overboard. So she's like, and I'm Kim Kardashian, She's probably rich and he killed her. He's probably dating a twenty year old too, meaning he probably killed his wife so he could get her money and dating younger.
00:17:44
Speaker 1: Because that's the way the story has often gone.
00:17:45
Speaker 2: Correct. Wonder what the last thing she said to him was before he went Bostal? What like going postal, But they said Bostal boatsol Sorry, Boatstal, that's what they said. I said, should I read these? Sorry I boat still, that's a weird word. Okay.
00:18:04
Speaker 1: But you said silly wabbit earlier as well.
00:18:06
Speaker 2: Okay. I tried to say Robert Wagner say that three times fast. It's not easy.
00:18:10
Speaker 1: It once. You only needed to say it once Wagner once. Okay, Robert Wagner is not a big deal. I it's hard to say Robert Wagner, especially when you're in the business where you should be able to say Robert Wagner.
00:18:20
Speaker 2: That's hilarious. Okay, all right, rabbit okay. And then this one just said, sounds like you took her on vacation to be killed. How sad, my condolences to her family. Wow, but yes, it just some were snarky, some were like heartfelt and serious, but not one of them thought that this was an accident.
00:18:39
Speaker 1: And you know what the daughter you spoke of, Robes. We've been sharing the words here. When you see her in the video during her interviews, your heart goes out to her. She is she is trying to balance grief with anger, and she's trying to find the right lane without being completely bitter and accusatory. But she needs some more answers than she's got right now. Your heart goes out there when you see her. This is yeah, you don't This isn't something you'd be snarky about or no, right, this is now. No matter what you're saying about true crime and how oftentimes true crime is entertainment, this is a young woman who's pissed and in pain. Yeah, trying to balance those emotions right now for all the public.
00:19:20
Speaker 2: She wants her mom back, and she wants to know what happened to her mom. And look, you know when there was a point in my life when I would have thought fifty five was you know over the hill. She's young. That is a young mom. Fifty five. She had a lot more life to live, a lot more love to give. It's just incredibly sad and was yeah she was. I mean she was living it up on a yacht in the Caribbean. So a what a horrific end. And we say that just because the Behaming officials have basically said they believe that there is no chance that she has survived after all of this time at sea, and we certainly hope that at least for the daughter's sake, she gets some answers, and only for Justice's sake that they find her and they can find out exactly what happened to Lynette Hooker. We will stay on top of the story for you as always, but thank you for listening to us. Everyone. I'm Amy Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes. We will talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Wednesday, April eighth, and a true crime story is playing out in front of our eyes in real life. However, they haven't confirmed yet whether or not a crime has been committed. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. It's very everybody has heard the story before. Husband and wife go out on a boat at night in the Caribbean. Only the husband comes back since the wife fell off the boat. This is where we are with the story. Robes Immediately, where does everybody's head go?
00:00:43
Speaker 2: Obviously, everyone thinks the husband always did it, so yes, the suspicion has to fall squarely on the husband at this point. But here's the deal. Lynette Hooker is the woman who's missing. She's fifty five years old, she's from Michigan, and she is supposed to be a strong swimmer, an avid woman of the seas. She and her husband have been documenting their travels on the seas on social media. This isn't somebody who doesn't know what she's doing on a boat, doesn't know what she's doing in the water, and they haven't found her. They haven't found her body.
00:01:19
Speaker 1: There's no accidents happen, right it's the sea. It's dangerous. So let's go back as we record this, Robes, we're sitting here on Wednesday. This happened back on Saturday, so to get everybody caught up, you might have been seeing these headlines and you're seeing them more because yes, there is an American woman, fifty five year old, the net Hoooker of Michigan, who went out on this boat with her husband, Bryan Brian on Saturday. He claims she fell off, they got separated. He came back hours later, reported her missing, and there a search and rescue is going on, which is now you said, Robes officially has moved.
00:01:57
Speaker 2: Into a recovery mission.
00:01:59
Speaker 1: A recovery. Yes, they don't think they're going to find her alive. So that is the story now, Robes, no matter how suspicious that might sound, or we all go back to other stories we've heard like this before. We might even say, come on, man, that's one thing, but it was elevated to a much higher profile and a much bigger headline when Lynette's daughter started speaking.
00:02:23
Speaker 2: That is correct, Carly Aylesworth, that is Lynette's daughter, and she has been speaking to Fox News, to CBS, to ABC, to NB She has talked to all the major news networks, and she has said that her stepfather's story quote just doesn't add up.
00:02:42
Speaker 1: That's key to say here as well, step father, this is not her dad. I don't know if you saw. I'm sorry, Robes will put you on the spot. I don't know how long these two have been together, how long they've been married, but I think they've been documenting their travels and being on the water for a decade or for years and years. They've been together for a while.
00:02:59
Speaker 2: I don't know the exact date of their marriage or how long they've been married. But she's fifty five, he's fifty eight, and yes, this is his stepdaughter, but she has been around them for long periods of time. Because she talks about some violent history between the two, I can go ahead and just read some of her quotes so that everyone is caught up as to why this story now is taking a potentially a very dark turn.
00:03:25
Speaker 1: So we now have is it fair to say, I think I stopped you before we even started recording. I said, wait a minute, is she flat out accusing her stepdad of killing her step mom. Your answer was like, yes, she's not exactly tiptoeing around that.
00:03:42
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, she hasn't flat out said it, but let's just listen to her. These are some of the comments she has been making over the past several days. There's a history of him choking her out and threatening to throw her overboard, so the fact that this is actually happening makes me believe there is more to the story. So, Okay, she didn't directly accuse him of doing it this time, but she certainly suggested she thinks that's highly likely. What Yes, she goes on to say to another news outlet, there have been prior issues brought to my attention which may be important for any thorough investigation. If this truly was an accident, I can understand and live with it. However, there needs to be an intensive review of the facts and circumstances of this tragic incident before that can be determined. She said that, and then when they were asking, reporters were asking her about how she would describe her mother's relationship with her stepfather, and she said, it's always been kind of rocky. Their relationship has been a lot of fighting and drinking lately, So I'm just actually questioning what went on in that dinghy. And her point is, because Brian's story is this, that it was Lynette who had the keys to the boat with her, that when she went overboard and fell over board because the seas were rough, there were high seas, she had the key with her. And when she fell overboard with the key, the motor stopped working on the dingy and so he had to paddle the boat back to shore. And her daughter pointed out something and she said, Brian is always driving. He is basically in charge of the key, So the fact that my mom had it doesn't make any sense.
00:05:24
Speaker 1: Okay, we agree with that. If we do agree, who knows what could have happened. Maybe she ended up with the key, maybe she ended up driving, Maybe he'd been drinking too much, and who knows, but she knows better than we do. And as a reminder to folks here rogues and we can describe this, and we've seen I think the dinghy in question. They were not on some big protective thing, but it's not exactly something you you're going to fall out of. You just don't fall out of the boat and can't get back in it necessarily. Look I think eight or bottom though.
00:05:59
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I've been in a boat like this, and I've actually been in high seas caught out unexpectedly. It's a little rocky, but it's stable and it's steady, and it's not as if it's something that you would easily fall out of. That's I think a key point here. And she had even talked about her mom being a strong swimmer. And we both listened to the voicemail that Brian, her stepfather, called and left her. It was so calm. It was so calm. He's calling his stepdaughter and telling her that the details surrounding her mom being missing and presumed dead at this point, and he's so calm. He says, honey to her. I think he says, hey, honey, and said basically kind of already putting out a defense. I tried to throw your mom a flotation device but she couldn't get it. And he said the flotation device was found, but your mom hasn't been so far, it just seems so matter of fact.
00:06:58
Speaker 1: I can't I don't know any in cases like this, and again, right now, we should have we if we haven't been clear. There is no one who has accused this man of a crime as far as authorities go, they have been searching. He at this point is a man who has lost his wife and that's all he's been treated as what robes I said to you, really, why someone, why do you think you're going to get away with this? Obviously the first thing everybody's going to think it was you or something happened, and you pointed out there is no evidence, there is no witness.
00:07:28
Speaker 2: What do you do exactly. It's not like he was on a cruise ship or on some sort of boat where there might have been surveillance cameras or other witnesses. If you're on an eight foot dinghy in the middle of the Caribbean sea in the middle of the night. By the way, because he said they were, they left shore at seven thirty pm and they were headed back to their yacht or to their larger boat. So this was a dinghy they had taken to get from one little site in the Caribbean back to their boat. And he claims, yes, that the the seas were high and he lost sight of her as she floated away because just a heavy current took her and they weren't wearing life vest so he tried to throw the flotation device out to her look let me just ask you this. I mean, I know everybody's different, babe, but if I fell out in a rocky water in the middle of the night, would you just be like I lost sight of her and then just start paddling to shore When you're in the you would jump out into the sea.
00:08:27
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to give him.
00:08:29
Speaker 2: I thought you were saying you didn't know if you would come out.
00:08:31
Speaker 1: And say it. I don't.
00:08:33
Speaker 2: You would jump. I know you would.
00:08:35
Speaker 1: I damn. That is instinct. But maybe he's a he's a more seasoned man of the sea than I am, and he knows you should never do something like that. But instinct, I don't know how you get separated that. He's if you just fall out, how much of a split second does it take that you can't recover to just grab on or wow? Fell out? Oh god?
00:09:02
Speaker 2: I mean we jumped out of boats before and made it back just fine. Now here's the deal. We don't know how much they had been drinking. We don't know. Look they're there, I don't know.
00:09:13
Speaker 1: But all these things we're saying, babe, we're trying to find a way to make this make sense, and all the things we're coming up with are pretty last case scenario stuff where all these things have to go wrong for his story to be right. And that's possible, I guess, but it doesn't. As I'm talking to you, you're shaking your head none of this.
00:09:35
Speaker 2: I'm just going back to her daughter's statements. Their relationship has been a lot of fighting and drinking lately. How about the time where she said that he's threatened to throw her overboard.
00:09:48
Speaker 1: Before relationships can be volatile. What I am saying to your ropes take the daughter statements out.
00:09:56
Speaker 2: Of it, it still would be questionable.
00:09:59
Speaker 1: The suspicion is still there, but it doesn't make sense.
00:10:02
Speaker 2: But to your point, how are they going to actually prove a crime was committed? The only way would be potentially if they found her body and there was some evidence of obviously her being choked out or her suffering some sort of violence before drowning. That would be the only way. But obviously she has been in the water in the Caribbean Sea for days now, so we're talking at least four days now. What wildlife, it's awful, and just the sea itself does to a body, I would imagine would get rid of a lot of potential evidence The.
00:10:35
Speaker 1: Other evidence option was the boat, Like, what are the chances maybe something's in the boat? Are they examining that boat that could possibly be blood or any evidence of a struggle. I don't know, but how but again robs you damn we are taking this through. No, but the daughter put it out there, so it's fair. But you're going through these scenarios of potential. She is suggesting that her dad is responsible for the death of her mother. How so you go through how is something like this possibly pulled off? And ropes he had to of violently done something, because if you you can't just push her over, she's going to fight to get back on the book, I guess you could have done so and driven off and this left her, but she's a strong swimmer. How far out were they because she has made her way back. Would he have had to make sure she was dead? Is my question?
00:11:33
Speaker 2: Possibly, and that would be the only evidence if her body can be or will ever be recovered. And I don't know with ocean currents in that area what the likelihood of that is. But there have been search crews going on non stop looking for Lennette Hooker at this point, and so far nothing and no one has been found.
00:11:53
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we got his story at least as the one he told to authorities. But he is also speaking and had something to say publicly. Stay here, we will let you know what the husband has put out. He is telling his side of the media, excuse me, his side of the story on social media. Stay here, we'll let you hear.
00:12:11
Speaker 2: And welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ, where we are talking about a massive Bahamian mystery going on right now. A fifty five year old woman from Michigan went overboard over the weekend on an eight foot dinghy she was on with her husband. Her husband made it back to shore. She did not. Her husband says it was a tragic accident. She fell overboard, strong currents took her away, swept her away, and he had to make his way back to shore and without the love of his life. Now here's the deal, her daughter is telling investigators. Absolutely not. I do not believe this was an accident. He has a history of violence against my mother. He has a history of threatening to throw her overboard. This was a couple that had traveled this high seas had been documenting their journeys on social media. They had a larger boat they were heading back to at night over the weekend. And so yes, that search for Lynette Hooker has now turned into a recovery mission and we are now hearing officially from her husband, fifty eight year old Brian Hooker. He is going online and he has said put this announcement out today correct, So obviously he understands he's under suspicion. He's not being charged and police say he is not a suspect in this as of this recording. But here is what Brian Hooker has had to say about what happened. I am heartbroken over the recent boat accident in unpredictable seas and high winds that caused my beloved Lynette to fall from our small dinghy near Elbow k in the Bahamas. Despite desperate attempts to reach her, the winds and currents drove us further apart. We continue to search for her and that is my sole focus. Our family is deeply grateful for the Bahamian people's assistance, especially that of Hopetown Volunteer Fire and Rescue Team, Royal Bahamas Police Force, Royal Bahamas Defense Force, and the US Coast Guard who have worked tirelessly in an ongoing effort to bring Lynette back to us. Thank you to everyone for keeping Lynette in your thoughts and for your support of our family during this difficult time.
00:14:32
Speaker 1: I want to go back to the top, thought he was explaining too much to me.
00:14:36
Speaker 2: Yes, he was okay. Line again, he said, I am heartbroken over the recent boat accident in unpredictable seas and high winds. I mean, that is very descriptive.
00:14:51
Speaker 1: We need to give this dude some grace. This is a man who quite possibly just lost his wife, and it's upset at losing the woman he was married to and is planned to spend up the rest of his life with. I mean, you have to leave some space for that. They have to do their investigation, they have to do their thing. But you, again, Robes, as soon as we heard the story two or three days ago, I was like, there's one cooking. You're not going to believe the details. When you hear this, You're going to immediately say, oh, that's an episode of whatever show fill in the.
00:15:24
Speaker 2: Blank, true crime, fill in the blank.
00:15:26
Speaker 1: Whatever show. Yes, we'll see this episode later, Robes. These are the exact details. This is the exact layout of this type of story. But then when the daughter started speaking.
00:15:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, and suspicion obviously is pointed squarely at Brian Hooker. However, look again, we pointed out before we went to break there are no cameras, there's no surveillance monitoring equipment, there were no eyewitnesses, no other boats in the area. As far as we know, it was pitch black at night. The only two people who know what really happened are Brian and Lynette. And Lynette is no longer available, and Brian is telling a story. Who is going to refute it? How can they even how could they possibly bring charges, especially if they never find Lynnette's body. Now, all of this said, it is interesting. Look I always say, don't read the comments, but I had to know what people were saying. And Babe, not one person who left a comment on any news article thinks anything other than Brian is guilty as hell.
00:16:32
Speaker 1: I'm the only one that gave them great yes.
00:16:34
Speaker 2: Okay, So I wanted to read a few of these for you because I just thought this was just a little a little flavor of what most people's reactions have been to this story. Sounds a lot like a Lifetime movie in Scott Peterson. Lol, yeah, okay, buddy, have fun spending the rest of your life in jail. How long before we get the update that her husband is charged with murder?
00:16:56
Speaker 1: Okay, that's knew that was gone.
00:16:58
Speaker 2: Natalie would two point zh okay And guess what, Well, if people think Robert Robert I can't talk about Robert Wagner was behind that, well, guess what, he never got charged, So it could be the perfect crime if one has been committed. I have a feeling we'll be seeing his interrogation on YouTube.
00:17:17
Speaker 1: That's expected.
00:17:18
Speaker 2: And then and I'm Kim Kardashian. She's probably rich and he killed her. He's probably dating a twenty year old too. Just it's all so like fanciful.
00:17:27
Speaker 1: What was that?
00:17:30
Speaker 2: Well, the point being, he's claiming he's innocent and she fell overboard. So she's like, and I'm Kim Kardashian, She's probably rich and he killed her. He's probably dating a twenty year old too, meaning he probably killed his wife so he could get her money and dating younger.
00:17:44
Speaker 1: Because that's the way the story has often gone.
00:17:45
Speaker 2: Correct. Wonder what the last thing she said to him was before he went Bostal? What like going postal, But they said Bostal boatsol Sorry, Boatstal, that's what they said. I said, should I read these? Sorry I boat still, that's a weird word. Okay.
00:18:04
Speaker 1: But you said silly wabbit earlier as well.
00:18:06
Speaker 2: Okay. I tried to say Robert Wagner say that three times fast. It's not easy.
00:18:10
Speaker 1: It once. You only needed to say it once Wagner once. Okay, Robert Wagner is not a big deal. I it's hard to say Robert Wagner, especially when you're in the business where you should be able to say Robert Wagner.
00:18:20
Speaker 2: That's hilarious. Okay, all right, rabbit okay. And then this one just said, sounds like you took her on vacation to be killed. How sad, my condolences to her family. Wow, but yes, it just some were snarky, some were like heartfelt and serious, but not one of them thought that this was an accident.
00:18:39
Speaker 1: And you know what the daughter you spoke of, Robes. We've been sharing the words here. When you see her in the video during her interviews, your heart goes out to her. She is she is trying to balance grief with anger, and she's trying to find the right lane without being completely bitter and accusatory. But she needs some more answers than she's got right now. Your heart goes out there when you see her. This is yeah, you don't This isn't something you'd be snarky about or no, right, this is now. No matter what you're saying about true crime and how oftentimes true crime is entertainment, this is a young woman who's pissed and in pain. Yeah, trying to balance those emotions right now for all the public.
00:19:20
Speaker 2: She wants her mom back, and she wants to know what happened to her mom. And look, you know when there was a point in my life when I would have thought fifty five was you know over the hill. She's young. That is a young mom. Fifty five. She had a lot more life to live, a lot more love to give. It's just incredibly sad and was yeah she was. I mean she was living it up on a yacht in the Caribbean. So a what a horrific end. And we say that just because the Behaming officials have basically said they believe that there is no chance that she has survived after all of this time at sea, and we certainly hope that at least for the daughter's sake, she gets some answers, and only for Justice's sake that they find her and they can find out exactly what happened to Lynette Hooker. We will stay on top of the story for you as always, but thank you for listening to us. Everyone. I'm Amy Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes. We will talk to you soon.