Suspected Murder: Coast Guard Returns to Bahamas With Dive Teams | Lynette Hooker Missing in Bahamas

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Sources confirm the Lynette Hooker case is now being treated as a suspected murder investigation, and the search is zeroing in on new areas tied to Brian Hooker’s timeline, GPS data, and the story he has told since the night Lynette "vanished." The Coast Guard is returning to the Sea of Abaco with a dive team, CGIS investigators, an ROV, and Maggie the cadaver dog. And now, new details from boatyard surveillance video are raising even more questions about Brian’s behavior the morning he says he washed ashore without his wife.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. I'm Ashley Bannfield. Welcome to the Northern Outpost. I'm up in Canada.
0:10.1	So get used to this. I have big news. It's official. This is a murder investigation. This is a
0:17.4	suspected murder. Lynette Hooker is no longer missing and you know a criminal investigation. This is a suspected murder. Lynette Hooker is no longer missing and, you know, a criminal investigation.
0:23.1	This is a suspected murder investigation.
0:25.7	My sources have confirmed this for me.
0:28.0	And let me tell you something else.
0:29.7	I think Brian knows it.
0:31.9	And the reason I think Brian knows it, Brian Hooker, if you're watching, the TikTok is catching up with you. And I think
0:38.6	maybe you're watching this podcast because he's hired himself a new lawyer. I always suspected
0:44.4	that the one he had before, the one that he got in Michigan, you know, when he did his
0:47.9	quick trip back to Michigan and was seen by our spies, that one might not have been
0:54.1	ready for prime time because this new one,
0:58.3	this new lawyer, is former DOJ. So now I think Brian suspects he might be having to fight
1:06.1	a federal battle and needed a federal lawyer, somebody who had some background in, you know,
1:13.1	federal litigation. So the TikTok, getting closer and closer and closer. And when I say that,
1:22.3	by the time you see this podcast, the Coast Guard cutter Margaret Norville is going to be heading out. First thing, Tuesday morning.
1:35.8	And so those dive teams could actually be in the water by Tuesday evening. I suspect, though,
1:42.5	actually that the Coast Guard cutters 154 feet. That's big.
1:48.4	It's like if you're not really familiar with ships or yachts and you watch below deck,
1:55.5	now you're getting into below deck yacht category with length, but it is not fancy like below deck. It has everything on it.
2:02.8	Like it's got a galley, it's got dining facilities, it's got sleeping facilities, but it's not
2:08.8	made for comfort. It's made for military-styled work because this is the Coast Guard, right?
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