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Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Lynette Hooker's Apple Watch Was on Her Wrist, Then Found on the Yacht? | Missing in Bahamas

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

A haunting new clue in the disappearance of Lynette Hooker is putting the yacht timeline under a microscope: the Apple Watch she was seen wearing the day she vanished ended up back on the Soulmate. In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the mystery of Lynette’s Apple Watch, the new photo from the day she disappeared, and the questions it raises about Brian Hooker’s account of what happened in the waters off the Bahamas. If Lynette was wearing that watch before she vanished, how did it get back to the yacht? 

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1:08.7

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

1:11.4

I got a couple more things to tell you about this mystery in the Bahamas. I keep calling it in my head, Paradise Lost, because when I was there,

1:18.8

Lindsay and I spent five days, like I would say pounding the pavement, except that it was this

1:23.1

beautiful Aquiline, you know, Halcyon environment in the Bahamas. And it was so lovely and so

1:31.1

pretty. We were kind of bummed we were working because everyone was having such a good time and

1:35.3

enjoying themselves and so laid back and so kind that it was hard to believe that this terrible,

1:42.2

shall we say incident because at this point we can't say murder,

1:46.3

uh, Brian Hooker swears up and down that his wife just bounced off the back of the dinghy,

1:51.8

just, you know, whoops, and says the waves were so rough. It was two to four foot

1:58.4

seas and the wind was howling and we've discovered, that's not true.

2:01.7

And now we've discovered something else tonight. And it is big. It's really big. It's one of those

2:09.5

things like Brian Coburger, you know, left DNA on the knife sheath big or took his own car

2:15.6

to a murder scene big, right? I think we all kind of get it in this

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