Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious.

It is Friday, April the 10th and I've just gotten off the phone and a very long interview

with Lynette Hooker's mother, Darlene Hamlet.

As you know, Lynette Hooker has now been missing for almost a week in the Bahamas.

Her husband is sitting in a detention cell right now, waiting to find out if he's going to be charged.

And as of this time, at 6.12 p.m. Eastern time, so far there haven't been any charges announced.

But that could change. And what we've

been told is that if they don't charge him by tonight, he'll spend the weekend in that detention

holding cell in Freeport in Grand Bahamas Island. And it's possible there may be charges next week.

But they would have to extend the 48-hour hold that they have on him right now.

He's facing a world of hurt right now, possibly, though, in the missing case of his wife, Lynette.

Because the story that he has told the Grand Bahamian police, according to what his lawyer says, according to news reports,

just weird, weird, and doesn't pass the smell test if you're a boater, which I am, and a sailor,

which I am, and if you've ever spent any time in bad weather, in a small inflatable rib

or a small inflatable hard bottom boat, a little

outboard, which I have. I'm just going over it and it's bizarre. And you've probably heard that

he claims, Brian Hooker claims that he and his wife had been out and were trying to get from mainland out to their yacht where they had been sailing because they were tired and they're sort of living out the dream on this 46-foot yacht called Soulmate.

And the tender, that little, you know, inflatable boat was taking them from the land out to the boat.

They were driving it.

It was theirs.

And she just bounced right out.

And then the current took her away. And she had the keys. And she had the boat. They were driving it. It was theirs. And she just bounced right out. And then the current took her away. And she had the keys to an outboard, which I thought was weird. I've since found out it's an electric motor, and there is sort of a key-like device with a string that hangs off it, but it's not wrapped around your wrist. It's not a kill switch. So that's, that's hinky to me. In any case, it's also hinky that when you're in safe harbor where mooring balls are all anchored so that yachts can come up and hook onto them

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