Soulmate Is Gone: Coast Guard Moves Brian Hooker’s Boat as Case Heats Up | Lynette Hooker Missing

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Soulmate is gone, and that may be the biggest signal yet that the Lynette Hooker case is moving into a new phase. The 46-foot sailboat Brian Hooker shared with his missing wife has now been moved from the Coast Guard station in Fort Pierce to Fort Lauderdale, after investigators spent days treating the vessel like a crime scene, removing items, bagging evidence, and keeping the boat under scrutiny. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield discusses growing questions around Brian Hooker’s timeline, and the stunning claim that he waited more than 14 hours before calling Lynette’s mother after she vanished. Ashleigh also walks through new search footage from Marsh Harbour that raises serious doubts about Brian’s story of walking through scrub, sludge, mangroves, and darkness before reaching help. With the Royal Bahamas Police Force and Coast Guard Investigative Service both investigating, the case of missing wife Lynette Hooker appears to be heating up fast.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious.
0:08.8	And guess what?
0:11.1	Soulmate's gone.
0:13.4	Gone.
0:14.9	Moved.
0:15.8	No longer at the Fort Pierce, Florida Coast Guard station.
0:21.4	I thought it would be there for a long time.
0:23.8	But nope.
0:25.4	Today in the morning, and I'm recording this on May 22nd,
0:29.1	it's the Friday of Memorial Day long weekend,
0:31.9	so I've had a couple drinks.
0:32.8	Again, I'm not a boozer,
0:34.1	but like the last episode in this one,
0:36.3	I just have to be honest, I've had a few drinks.
0:38.9	So I may be all over the map. But this morning, that boat, that sailboat was towed away from Fort Pierce, from the Coast Guard station, a hundred miles south, all the way to Fort Lauderdale,
0:56.6	the Coast Guard Station in Fort Lauderdale.
0:59.2	So look, no matter how hard I tried, I tried everything to get some pictures of it coming
1:06.4	into Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale, but it was like dark.
1:12.7	By that point, by the time it came in,
1:18.9	100 miles of towing is a long effing toe. I have towed so many boats in my time. And look,
1:24.2	if I'm going three miles, I'm like, oh, kill me now. This is so horrible. A hundred mile long tow. So that would take, you know, let's see, 12, 15 hours maybe. In any case,
1:32.0	too dark to get pictures of it when it was being pulled into Coast Guard Station, Fort Lauderdale.
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