Greater than two weeks after American Lynette Hooker went overboard and disappeared within the Bahamas, her daughter is talking out to ABC Information.
“It nonetheless feels surreal,” Karli Aylesworth stated. “… This looks like one thing you simply watch in a film, however it’s my life.”
Cadaver canines within the Bahamas to assist seek for lacking American Lynette Hooker, April 16, 2026.
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Aylesworth’s mom, Lynette Hooker, has been lacking for the reason that night of April 4 when Aylesworth’s stepfather, Brian Hooker, stated she went overboard. The couple had departed Hope City for his or her yacht, Soulmate, in Elbow Cay, when dangerous climate precipitated her to fall off their dinghy, Brian Hooker instructed authorities.
Brian Hooker, 58, was arrested on April 8 and questioned by police. He was released on April 13 with out prices.
Brian and Lynette Hooker in a photograph posted to their social media.
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Brian Hooker told ABC News on April 14 that he was staying within the Bahamas with a “sole focus” of discovering his spouse, “irrespective of how probably or unlikely that’s.”
However Brian Hooker then left the Bahamas, his lawyer stated on April 15, noting that his mom isn’t properly.
Aylesworth and her boyfriend stated they doubted Brian Hooker’s story from the start and at the moment are left with extra questions than solutions.
“I do not perceive how she drowned or obtained floated away,” Aylesworth stated. “It simply made me be extra, ‘Why did not he do that? Why did not you try this? Why did that occur?'”
Aylesworth stated she met with the Coast Guard and the Bahamian authorities, who allowed her to go to the sailboat her mom and stepfather referred to as dwelling.
“I went and obtained a few of her belongings, like a headscarf. I obtained her ‘L’ necklace that she used to at all times put on. I obtained an image body I made for her, one thing that my grandma sewed for her,” she stated.
“It was actually onerous as a result of it was virtually eerie, as a result of I felt like she was going to, like, come out of the nook or one thing,” she stated. “… Simply figuring out that she’ll by no means, I do not know, it is simply hit me like a freight practice that she’s not there.”
