Crime alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. I'm Sidney Silvani. The search for missing

Michigan mother, Lynette Hooker, takes another confusing turn as her husband, Brian Hooker,

has officially left the Bahamas just 24 hours after claiming his sole focus was finding his wife.

Brian Hooker, 59, boarded a commercial flight out of the Caribbean on Wednesday.

According to his attorney, Terrell Butler, the move wasn't an escape, but a response to another

family crisis.

In a statement, Butler said that Hooker's mother is very ill, and he has traveled to the U.S.

to be at her bedside.

While his legal team insists he plans to return, the timing is raising eyebrows.

It was only Monday that Hooker was released from Bahamian custody after investigators failed to file charges within the legal time frame following his detention last week.

Hooker spoke with several outlets for the first time Tuesday, proclaiming he would never

harm Lynette and would not stop searching for her. I won't be able to stop looking. You want to keep

looking for Lynette. I'm going to need somebody with more authority to tell me to stop. I said I've never

harmed Lynette and I never would harm Lynette and I want to find Lynette.

No one has told me not to stop looking and I'm going to keep looking.

My one job was to look out for her and that has not happened and I'm going to keep looking out for her now.

It was April 4th near Elbow K when that has not happened. And I'm gonna keep looking out for her now. Best I can.

It was April 4th near Elbow K

when Hooker claims Lynette fell overboard

from their dinghy while they were heading back

to their anchored yacht.

She basically just bounced off the dinghy

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