LYNETTE HOOKER SHOCK GPS, HUBBY ‘IN THE WATER” WHEN WIFE VANISHES
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 15 June 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
GPS evidence now contradicts Brian Hooker's account in the disappearance of his wife, Lynette Hooker, in the Bahamas. Hooker told authorities that Lynette fell from their 8-foot dinghy into the water during bad weather on the evening of April 4 and was swept away. He claims Lynette had the electronic motor keys with her leaving him stranded in the dinghy. He says he had to paddle for hours to reach shore. Investigators reviewed electronic tracking data from Brian Hooker's devices, finding significant discrepancies.
GPS data shows the dinghy moving across the water, stopping in the Sea of Abaco, and then returning. Hooker’s account lead investigators to search “in the wrong area” for Lynette.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Daniel Danforth - former friend of Brian Hooker
- Josh Kolsrud - criminal defense attorney and former Assistant U.S. Attorney, founder of Kolsrud Law Offices, website: kolsrudlawoffices.com, Facebook and YouTube @KolsrudLawOffices
- Brian Fitzgibbons - Director of Operations for USPA Nationwide Security, website: www.uspasecurity.com, Instagram: @uspa_nationwide_security
- Vanessa Walsh - host: Unmasked True Crime, Facebook and YouTube: UnmaskedTrueCrime, X: CrimeUnmasked
- Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories'
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:12.5 | Overboard, Lynette Hooker tonight, damning GPS evidence emerges. |
| 0:18.6 | This, as her husband, Brian Hooker, seems to be tangled up in his own words, |
| 0:24.6 | where he states he was, quote, in the water trying to get back into the boat with his wife |
| 0:33.9 | when she vanishes. What? That's the first I've heard of that. Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:40.8 | This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:48.3 | It was windy, yes, but not to the point where someone can just bounce out. |
| 0:56.6 | I did talk to a captain, and he said he was working that night, and he doesn't remember the waves being that bad. |
| 1:03.2 | I'm just wondering, why was she swimming away from the dinghy, and why didn't she try to get back on it? |
| 1:08.2 | Why did she grab the key on her way out? |
| 1:12.3 | It doesn't make any sense. Bombshell tonight. Does Lynette Hooker's husband, Brian Hooker, who, according to some |
| 1:19.0 | reports, has left the country, I'm not sure about that, does he place himself in the water |
| 1:25.4 | with his wife Lynette the night she falls overboard? |
| 1:31.0 | Seemingly, he seems to admit he was in the water with her and trying to get back into the boat. |
| 1:39.1 | But first, damning GPS evidence emerging. |
| 1:43.1 | Straight out to special guest Vanessa W Walsh, joining us. |
| 1:46.2 | She's the star of unmasked true crime. |
| 1:48.8 | Vanessa, what about the GPS evidence? |
| 1:53.3 | Do you consider to be damning? |
| 1:56.8 | Well, Nancy, what I think is so important is that people lie and GPS evidence is objective. |
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