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Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Last Photo of Missing Wife Alive Raises Serious Questions In Husband's Story | Lynette Hooker

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Exclusive new photos from Lynette Hooker’s last night alive show are raising serious questions about Brian Hooker's original story that he told investigators. 

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0:00.0

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0:33.6

Hey everybody, I'm Ashley Vanfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious and I'm coming to you again

0:41.0

from the Bahamas, not just the Bahamas, the Abacos Islands. Not only that, Elbow Key. This is

0:46.9

Hope Town Inn and Marina where I'm coming to you from and I keep saying their name and they're not

0:50.9

sponsoring me. I'm not saying that. I only just want you to know that I'm at an inn that is a marina. So you'll hear people dining not far off. I'll just show you.

0:59.2

You might not see it, but the restaurant is right there. Super nice. So nice. And look at that candy

1:06.3

stripe lighthouse. I mentioned it before in another episode. I think it's one of the only or the

1:10.7

only lighthouse that's operational right now that lighthouse. I mentioned it before in another episode. I think it's one of the only or the only

1:11.1

lighthouse that's operational right now that operates on kerosene and hand-cranked. I love that.

1:18.4

I'd show it to you again because it's really pretty. And it's a thing. It's real tourist attraction.

1:22.6

So you'll hear some people dining and every so often the ferry will come in and like park right

1:26.6

there as well. So you might see that too. so i've got great stuff for you today on the uh case of Lynette Hooker she's

1:34.5

missing i mean i don't want to say presumed dead but they're using cadaver dogs so missing and

1:39.9

presumed dead at this point Brian Hooker and Lynette Hooker were having a lovely day of drinking

1:45.3

and fun off of their sailboat on land with a little dinghy to get them from the sailboat to land,

1:51.0

and she never made it back. And he didn't make it back to his keel boat, he says. She went overboard,

1:56.9

and he floated four miles to the nearest shore and ended up beaching at four o'clock in the

2:02.8

morning.

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