Friend Releases Surprising Text Messages From Husband Arrested In Missing Wife Case
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🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
58-year-old Brian Hooker told a friend via text that his wife fell overboard in choppy seas and “swam towards the sailboat” the night she went missing in the Bahamas. Hooker’s texts to a friend reveal new and inconsistent information surrounding the disappearance of 55-year-old Lynette Hooker. Hooker remains behind bars, and has not yet been charged in his wife’s disappearance, but his attorney says he nearly drowned himself while being arrested and is “heartbroken and deeply distressed.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Friday, April 10th, and his own friend ain't buying his story. |
| 0:13.3 | With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Rose. |
| 0:15.9 | We've kept a close eye on this story from the moment we heard that a Michigan woman went overboard and a dingy |
| 0:21.3 | with her husband in the Bahamas. He's now been arrested. We heard from the woman's daughter |
| 0:28.5 | who raised some questions. Now we are hearing from his friend, the accused friends who, quite |
| 0:36.1 | frankly, robs, some of the stuff he said is more damning than |
| 0:38.6 | anything we've heard so far. Yes, this was fascinating. First of all, why his friend would |
| 0:43.9 | share these text messages he received from Brian Hooker, who yes, has been under arrest since |
| 0:51.0 | Wednesday in the disappearance of his wife, 55-year-old Lynette Hooker. He has not |
| 0:56.1 | been charged yet, we should point out. And police, it's a little interesting what the Bahamian |
| 1:01.7 | officials said, but they said they had 48 hours to either charge him or release him. That would be |
| 1:06.1 | at some point today. But then they added, they can also extend that for another 96 hours if they think it's |
| 1:12.5 | necessary. So he could be behind bars for a few more days before charges are filed. But these new text |
| 1:17.9 | messages, woo, they say a lot. And right now this case is a case of he said and she can't say |
| 1:24.8 | anything because she is presumed dead. This is a search and recovery at this point, |
| 1:29.4 | but this was last Saturday robes. Brian Hooker, 58. And Lynette Hooker, 55. 55. They've been married now. |
| 1:37.7 | How long? 25 years. All right. So they go out in a boat. These are avid boat. They know what they're |
| 1:41.6 | doing on the water. His story is they go out on the water |
| 1:45.6 | around sundown. She, some kind of way, falls over into the water. They get separated. He couldn't |
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