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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Coast Guard Witnesses Refuse to Talk Here's Why

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Why This Missing Person Case Has Coast Guard Witnesses Refusing to Speak Good morning, everyone. Bill Cannon here from Police Off the Cuff. We're discussing a complex true crime story that has become a baffling mystery. This incident is a real crime that will be analyzed as a true crime show, focusing on the missing person mystery and the ongoing investigation to bring justice, set against the backdrop of palm beach florida.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good afternoon. Bill Cannon here from Police Off the Cuff live from Jupiter, Florida.

0:06.0

Yeah, I flew all the way to Jupiter, Florida. Give you guys that sort of tropical feeling,

0:12.0

much like in the Bahamas, much like the story that we've been covering. You know, the Lynette Hooker case, again, she's been missing since April 4th.

0:21.6

New information? There is new information, but yet not new information.

0:26.6

We know that the Coast Guard, the United States Coast Guard, has been processing the sailboat, the 46-foot sailboat, the sole mate that was owned by Lynette Hooker and her husband, Brian.

0:41.6

And since she allegedly went on that eight-foot dingy on April 4th, she's been missing since.

0:50.8

And we can't explain the actions of Brian Hooker.

0:57.0

We know he's no longer in the Bahamas.

1:00.0

We know he was held in custody by the Bahamian police for five days, released, and then

1:07.0

he went back to the U.S. mainland to Michigan to visit his sick mother.

1:13.1

And then, as we know, I'm recounting the story.

1:17.5

He hired two captains, local captains, to sail the boat to the U.S. mainland to Florida.

1:24.8

Right.

1:26.6

And it was seized off 40 nautical miles off the coast

1:32.9

of Melbourne, Florida. And now it's being held in a Coast Guard facility and being treated

1:40.9

as a crime scene. Yes, a crime scene.

1:46.1

And what has the Coast Guard recovered?

1:48.9

We don't know yet.

1:50.4

It hasn't been reported yet.

1:52.5

And anyone says that they do know is not telling the truth.

1:56.0

However, the possibilities of what they may have recovered,

2:03.2

the Apple Watch that was on Lynette's wrist, apparently, that was seen. And the outside the Abaco Inn at about 6.30 p.m. on April 4th

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