A massive splash and a seized sailboat that was interdicted off the shores of Florida.

And now it appears that federal authorities maybe, maybe are closing in on Brian Hooker, are his days numbered.

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Today, we're back on, as they call themselves the sailing hookers.

For those who are new to the story, Lynette Hooker, 55 of Michigan, she's been missing since April 4th.

Her husband, Brian Hooker, they lived on this sailboat out in the Bahamas that were sailing around the Caribbean.

They claimed that some bad weather came in. And as a result, she fell off her dinghy.

She went one way. He went the other way. It took him hours upon hours to get to shore.

She has not been seen since. And in that time, in between, he was actually questioned by authorities.

And he said, look, I'm going to stay here.

I'm going to search for my wife, Lynette Hooker.

I'm going nowhere.

And within a couple of hours' time, he was on a flight to Atlanta to get to Sacramento to quote unquote see his

ailing mother. And then now the daughter, Carly Ellsworth, who's Lynette's daughter,

is speaking out. Credit to Ashley Banfield and Drop Dead Series podcast. We're going to play a bunch

of clips from her today,

but she's been at the forefront of this with a lot of new purported evidence out there.

So we're going to dig into it with some investigators.

But before we get there, I just want to tell you because this is kind of serious.

I was out to dinner last night with my three kiddos, V, Z, and J. And we had a conversation about social media. You know, they're always on TikTok. And I get really worried that it is going to harm their self-image. They're going to get jealous of friends and all the crazy things that come along with social media. And now there's proof that all of this is true.

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