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How Men Think

NEW! Husbands Behaving Badly (Part 1): Brian Hooker Arrested In Connection With Wife Missing At Sea

How Men Think

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Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Royal Bahamas Police say they’ve made an arrest in the disappearance of 55-year-old Michigan wife and mother, Lynette Hooker. Her 59-year-old husband, Brian Hooker has been taken into custody after he told police high winds and rough seas threw his wife overboard from their 8 foot dinghy. Lynette’s daughter has been making the rounds, letting media and police know her step-dad has been violent with her mom before her disappearance.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:06.0

Hey there, folks.

0:07.2

It is Thursday, April 9th, and well, I guess we saw this one coming.

0:14.0

Woman falls off a boat, goes missing.

0:19.1

Husband comes back to shore, says, my wife went overboard. And wouldn't you know,

0:25.1

that husband has now been arrested. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J.

0:29.4

Robes. This has been days and days of building. You hear the story. You hear the details.

0:34.4

And we all thought, yeah, this is a true crime story episode waiting to happen.

0:38.9

And sure enough, here we are.

0:40.3

Yes, this unfortunately wasn't too hard to see coming, especially when you have the daughter of the missing woman speaking out about her stepfather and getting very specific about her suspicions based on past behavior where she claims he had

0:56.9

been violent towards his mother and even had threatened to throw her overboard. So yes, she went on a

1:04.9

media campaign of sorts, which honestly, very commendable and brave of her. She just, once her mom went missing,

1:12.7

she actually showed and let a lot of folks listen to this voicemail from her stepdad

1:17.4

and said, yeah, this I don't believe is an accident.

1:21.3

And she actually called for the investigation that had taken place.

1:26.0

And now, yes, it looks like her stepfather is

1:29.3

officially under arrest. So we'll take you back here. What we're talking about is Lynette Hooker.

1:34.4

This is a 55-year-old woman from Michigan who has been missing since last Saturday. And the story

1:38.8

was that she had gone out with her husband, Brian. They'd gone out in a dingy, a eight-foot dingy, so a small boat, but hard bottom

1:47.2

boat.

1:47.7

And this was a, both of them experienced folks who were out there on the sea.

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