OVERBOARD: HUSBAND CAUGHT ON TAPE, LYNETTE HOOKER LOST AT SEA
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Brian Hooker, the husband of missing Lynette Hooker, caught on tape, speaking to a friend in a recorded call about the incident. The U.S. Coast Guard has opened a criminal investigation into Lynette's disappearance. Brian Hooker taken in for questioning, but now authorities must decide whether to charge him in connection with her disappearance or release him. That deadline is tonight. Brian Hooker's attorney says he “categorically denies any wrongdoing. ”
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.
Authorities from the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Royal Bahamas Defence Force, and U.S. Coast Guard conducted an extensive search of the area. Now days later the search has officially shifted from a rescue to a recovery mission. Lynette has not been found.
Lynette’s daughter, Karli Aylesworth, says her step-father's story “doesn’t add up” and points to past marital problems between him and her mother.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Eric Faddis - Founder of The Law Offices of Eric Faddis, “The Mile High Lion,” former felony prosecutor and current criminal defense and civil litigation attorney; website: EricFaddisLaw.com,
- Janine Driver - Body Language Expert and CEO of the Body Language Institute, New York Times Bestselling Author of “You Say More Than You Think,” Host of podcast “In The Driver’s Seat with Janine Driver” website: JanineDriver.com, Instagram: NewBodyLanguage
- Vanessa Walsh - Host of the podcast, Unmasked True Crime. She obtained a phone call from Brian Hooker to a friend a day after Lynette vanished. Facebook and YouTube: UnmaskedTrueCrime, X: Crime Unmasked
- Jordan Plentz - Neighbor
- Sydney Silvagni - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories'
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:12.0 | Overboard in the Bahamas. |
| 0:13.9 | As we all know by now, a loving mother and wife falls overboard on a sailing trip with her husband. |
| 0:22.6 | Tonight, husband Brian Hooker caught on tape as his wife, Lynette, remains lost at sea. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:35.5 | Lynette Hooker falls overboard. |
| 0:38.3 | My initial thought is if he could paddle to shore, |
| 0:41.3 | why didn't he paddle to her and save her? |
| 0:43.3 | They were not able to find her in the water or anywhere else. |
| 0:47.3 | A lot of people are questioning his story and have questioned his story |
| 0:51.3 | because why would she not be wearing a personal flotation device |
| 0:56.2 | or a life vest? |
| 0:57.2 | She basically just bounced off the dinghy in the middle of a little blow, like 20-some-knit |
| 1:03.6 | they popped up and on a pretty cool half mile maybe trip back to the dinghy and single thing failed uh every single thing we weren't |
| 1:16.5 | wearing life jackets uh pipsy uh it was sundown and the sunset like basically 10 minutes after |
| 1:26.7 | she fell over. |
| 1:30.3 | Um, Dini Koe were with her because it wasn't clipped to anything or anybody. |
| 1:33.3 | And she had the spare Dini Kee in her dry bag, which was with her. |
| 1:38.3 | Yeah, it was inflated. |
| 1:40.3 | Um, I mean, inflated because it was folded, but, uh but the wind blew us apart so fast that I think she tried to swim back to the sailboat, back to our sailboat, which was probably, I don't know, thousand yards or something. |
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