Breaking: GPS Data Sparks New Coast Guard Dive Search, DNA Collected | Lynette Hooker Missing

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

New GPS data tied to Brian Hooker’s movements after Lynette Hooker vanished has triggered a major new development in the Bahamas investigation: a potential Coast Guard dive search in the Sea of Abaco and DNA collection from Lynette’s immediate family. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the latest reporting in the Lynette Hooker case, including the new GPS data, the search areas now under scrutiny, missing gear from Soulmate, and why investigators may be closing in on whether Brian Hooker’s account of drifting for hours in the water can hold up.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious.
0:08.0	And yes, I have a new backdrop.
0:10.0	I am up in Canada.
0:11.0	Finally, made the big pilgrimage.
0:13.0	It took four days to drive here.
0:15.0	But welcome to the Northern Outpost.
0:18.0	You've probably seen Vermont.
0:19.0	Now you're going to see Canada. But do I ever
0:21.3	have news for you in the Lynette Hooker investigation? Things are firing up, baby, because guess what?
0:29.5	Finally, Brian's cell phone data has been coming in. All the analytics seem to be coming back now. And I don't think Brian was telling
0:39.2	us the truth about his little floating for nine hours without any propulsion, you know, lost at sea
0:46.1	till he washed up on Marsh Harbor. Bullshit, now we can prove it. And here's why. The Coast Guard
0:52.0	is going to be sending divers. Yeah, like any minute now, sending
0:58.0	divers to the Bahamas because they have pinpointed multiple locations of places they need to investigate
1:06.6	real close, aka two different locations in the Sea of Abaco.
1:12.6	Now, how would they have that?
1:14.5	Let me break it down for you, because through all of the sources that we've been talking to,
1:18.4	not just in the Bahamas, but also with law enforcement and sources on the America side,
1:27.0	the confluence of information has given us a clear picture of what
1:31.4	Brian Hooker thinks is a smart way to evade detection. Shall we say that Brian Hooker, we know this.
1:41.5	We've known it for a long time. It has lots of backup devices.
1:45.2	Like he had a backup engine, right? Because that dingy got a brand new engine, the NT300,
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