Did Husband Shoot off Flares from Sailboat? New Video & Witnesses | Lynette Hooker Missing

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Did Brian Hooker and Lynette Hooker actually make it back to their sailboat, Soulmate, the night she vanished? In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down a stunning new development in the disappearance of Lynette Hooker in the Bahamas: multiple witnesses reportedly saw flares coming from the Hookers’ sailboat before 9 p.m., even though Brian has claimed he and Lynette never made it back to the boat. Ashleigh also reveals new surveillance video from Lubbers Quarters, looking across the Sea of Abaco toward Elbow Cay and the area where Soulmate was anchored, raising fresh questions about Brian’s timeline, the dinghy route, the wind direction, and whether a small dark object seen near the boats could be the Hookers’ dinghy returning to Soulmate. Plus, new details about Lynette’s Apple Watch, her blue headscarf, possible witness video from Elbow Cay, and the lingering question at the center of it all: if flares were fired from the sailboat, who fired them... and why?

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0:29.6	Hey everybody, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious. I have a whole lot more to tell you about tonight.
0:43.0	And if you've been following the case of Lynette Hooker, missing in the Bahamas, every day brings another huge surprise.
0:54.0	And today, two surprises. First and foremost. Every day brings another huge surprise.
0:56.0	And today, two surprises.
1:10.4	First and foremost, the issue of what happened and where did something happen to Lynette is unresolved, but it's becoming perhaps more clear. It is starting to feel very much like Brian Hooker
1:15.9	and Lynette Hooker actually made it from the Abaco Inn all the way to their yacht soulmate.
1:24.8	That there wasn't some catastrophic she bounced out the back and I couldn't get her
1:29.3	high waves and terrible weather and wind and oh no, little me. Yeah, it's starting to really feel
1:36.6	not only that that didn't happen, but that they made it back to soulmate. I can't say that for
1:44.0	sure, but all of the little spidey arrows are really pointing that way.
1:50.3	And today, another couple of pieces of information that seemed to be big blinking spidey arrows.
1:57.8	Let's start with what several witnesses apparently have now come forward and told authorities.
2:04.9	And that is that they saw flares going off of soulmate, Brian and Lynette's 46-foot kek.
2:17.1	Flares going off their sailboat, anchored, out in front of Aunt Pat's Bay, off elbow
2:24.2	key.
2:26.2	Flares.
2:28.4	The way Brian puts it, he was floating aimlessly with one paddle that he could barely struggle against the winds and the
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