
The husband of missing boater Lynette Hooker has been arrested in connection with the Michigan mom’s disappearance from a boat in the Bahamas after her concerned daughter raised the alarm.
The Royal Bahamas Police Force said they took a 59-year-old man, believed to be Brian Hooker, into custody in Marsh Harbour, Abaco, on Wednesday evening in connection with his wife’s disappearance from an 8-foot hard-bottom dinghy en route to Elbow Cay.
The cops did not provide an ID for the man in custody, but his age matches Brian’s. Police are currently questioning him and have not announced any charges. The Post has reached out for confirmation.
The development comes after Lynette’s heartbroken daughter, Karli Aylesworth, said she believes “something might have happened” involving her mom and her stepfather when the avid boaters vanished at sea Saturday night.
“I do believe something might have happened to her,” she told Fox News.
“There’s history of him choking her out and threatening to throw her overboard. So the fact that this is actually happening makes me believe there’s more to the story.”
Aylesworth also revealed that her stepdad didn’t tell her that her mom was missing until around 24 hours after she vanished in the sea.
Brian denied the accusations in a statement to the Daily Beast.
“I categorically deny the allegations made by Karli Aylesworth,” Brian said in the statement. “At this time, I have retained local counsel, Terrel Butler, and I am acting on her strict advice not to provide further comment to the press, as there is currently an ongoing investigation.”
Police said an initial investigation revealed that Lynette, 55, was swept away by currents after falling into the sea from the dinghy she was in with Brian while trying to reach their yacht, Soulmate.
During the couple’s excursion from Hope Town to Elbow Cay, Lynette reportedly tumbled overboard with the boat’s keys — causing the vessel’s engine to shut off, police said.
Brian told cops that he lost sight of his wife during the rough surf and paddled the small boat back to shore, eventually arriving at Marsh Harbour Boat Yard around 4 a.m. Sunday.
Upon arriving at the boat yard, he informed an individual of the harrowing ordeal. That person then reported the incident to the police.
Authorities have since conducted extensive marine, land, and aerial searches in hopes of finding Lynette.
Just hours before he was taken into custody, Brian broke his silence in a Facebook post to say he was “heartbroken” over his wife’s disappearance.
“I am heartbroken over the recent boat accident in unpredictable seas and high winds that caused my beloved Lynette to fall from our small dinghy near Elbow Cay in the Bahamas,” he wrote online.
“Despite desperate attempts to reach her, the winds and currents drove us further apart. We continue to search for her, and that is my sole focus.”
The couple had been married for more than two decades and lived in Onsted, Michigan. They had documented their yachting excursions online for the past three years under the amusing moniker “the Sailing Hookers.”
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