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 mentioned. “… This looks like one thing you simply watch in a film, nevertheless 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 because the night of April 4 when Aylesworth’s stepfather, Brian Hooker, mentioned she went overboard. The couple had departed Hope City for his or her yacht, Soulmate, in Elbow Cay, when dangerous climate prompted 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 doubtless or unlikely that’s.”
However Brian Hooker then left the Bahamas, his legal professional mentioned on April 15, noting that his mom will not be nicely.
Aylesworth and her boyfriend mentioned 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 mentioned. “It simply made me be extra, ‘Why did not he do that? Why did not you do this? Why did that occur?'”
Aylesworth mentioned she met with the Coast Guard and the Bahamian authorities, who allowed her to go to the sailboat her mom and stepfather known as residence.
“I went and obtained a few of her belongings, like a headscarf. I obtained her ‘L’ necklace that she used to all the time put on. I obtained an image body I made for her, one thing that my grandma sewed for her,” she mentioned.
“It was actually laborious as a result of it was nearly eerie, as a result of I felt like she was going to, like, come out of the nook or one thing,” she mentioned. “… Simply figuring out that she’ll by no means, I do not know, it is simply hit me like a freight prepare that she’s not there.”
