"OVERBOARD" LYNETTE HOOKER LAND-SEARCH, HUBBY LAWYERS UP
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 43 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 "bounced out of the dinghy", 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.
Now, the search for Lynette has turned inland. Royal Bahamian Police and the US Coast Guard say it's unlikely the Michigan mom fell overboard.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.0 | Overboard missing mom, Lynette Hooker's search has expanded. |
| 0:16.5 | No longer in the water only, now expanding to a land search, torpedoing the story her husband |
| 0:24.3 | gave when she went missing, claiming she bounced off the dinghy. |
| 0:29.1 | This as the husband seemingly leaves his bedside vigil with his mother and returns to Michigan |
| 0:35.9 | and immediately lawyers up. |
| 0:38.1 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:38.9 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:40.1 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:42.1 | Brian texted me saying call me at 8.30 at night. |
| 0:46.2 | Brian just said, hey, your mom's all overboard. |
| 0:49.3 | I threw her a life preserver, but I don't know if she got it. |
| 0:53.2 | She's been missing since last night around |
| 0:55.3 | 7.30. Something is off. Something is sketchy from that phone call. I think an interesting |
| 1:00.7 | development has taken place today. There's been some reports from the ground in that elbow |
| 1:07.9 | that the searchers, both from the Royal Bahamian police force, |
| 1:14.0 | as well as the U.S. Coast Guard, did not believe that Lynette is in the Sea of Abaco. |
| 1:20.1 | The depth there is too shallow, and that their search is being conducted extensively on land. |
| 1:29.7 | From our friends at Tree Crime and Justice on YouTube, but let's hear it straight from the |
| 1:33.7 | horse's mouth. |
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