LYNETTE HOOKER'S ONLY DAUGHTER SPEAKS OUT AFTER GRISLY UPDATE
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The U.S. Coast Guard opened a criminal investigation into the disappears of Michigan woman Lynette Hooker. The 55-year-old went missing while boating in the Bahamas.
Police say Lynette and husband Brian Hooker were using an 8‑foot dinghy to travel from Hope Town to their yacht, Soulmate, moored near Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands. Husband Brian says around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Lynette fell overboard, along with the boat’s engine key, which caused the motor to stop. He says strong currents carried her away, but he saw her swimming toward shore before losing sight of her. Brian reportedly paddled the boat to Marsh Harbour and contacted police around 4 a.m.
Bahamian police initially arrested Brian Hooker for further questioning, citing “probable cause,” although he was not charged. His attorney stated that he “categorically denies any wrongdoing” and is cooperating.
Lynette’s daughter, Karli Aylesworth, says her step-father's story “doesn’t add up” and joins Nancy Grace today to share thoughts on her mother's disappearance.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.0 | Overboard, a beautiful young mom, Lynette Hooker disappears at sea with her husband. |
| 0:19.7 | Tonight, Lynette Hooker's only daughter speaks out after a grisly update regarding |
| 0:28.1 | her mother. |
| 0:29.8 | I mean, Nancy Grace, this is crime stories. |
| 0:32.0 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:34.1 | He was going, I don't have a wife. That's all performative. That's all performative. |
| 0:42.9 | Your wife dies, drowns, and is missing, and you act like that. You go from being sad to like normal |
| 0:50.2 | and talking normal. That's not right. Humans don't work that way. Joining us tonight is a very special guest that we have seen from afar, we have prayed for, |
| 1:02.5 | we have thought about during all these days that her mother, Lynette, has been missing. |
| 1:10.9 | Carly Ellsworth joining us tonight. |
| 1:14.7 | Carly, thank you for being with us. |
| 1:17.2 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:18.7 | I've got so many questions for you. |
| 1:21.1 | But I'll just start at the beginning. |
| 1:24.3 | When did you learn your mom was missing? did you find that out uh brian texting me saying |
| 1:33.3 | call me at around 9 830 at night um my grandma called me prior to that but i was napping so i didn't |
| 1:43.3 | pick up but then he said call me i said oh, but I was napping, so I didn't pick up. But then he said, call me. I said, |
| 1:46.7 | oh, two of my family members need me to call them. Something is happening. So I answered, |
| 1:52.1 | and I put it on speakerphone, and Steve was right next to me. And he heard the whole thing, too. |
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