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Brian Hooker Flies Out of Bahamas 48 Hours After Release | Crime Alert 04.16.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, breaking crime news. Now, I'm Sidney Silvanni.
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  Speaker 1: The search for missing Michigan mother Lynette Hooker takes another
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  Speaker 1: confusing turn as her husband, Brian Hooker, has officially left
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  Speaker 1: the Bahamas, just twenty four hours after claiming his sole
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  Speaker 1: focus was finding his wife. Brian Hooker, fifty nine, boarded
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  Speaker 1: a commercial flight out of the Caribbean on Wednesday. According
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  Speaker 1: to his attorney, Terrell Butler, the move wasn't an escape,
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  Speaker 1: but a response to another family crisis. In a statement,
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  Speaker 1: Butler said that Hooker's mother is very ill and he
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  Speaker 1: has traveled to the US to be at her bedside.
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  Speaker 1: While his legal team insists he plans to return, The
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  Speaker 1: timing is raising eyebrows. It was only Monday that Hooker
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  Speaker 1: was released from Bahaman custody after investigators failed to file
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  Speaker 1: charges within the legal time frame Following his detention last week.
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  Speaker 1: Hooker spoke with several outlets for the first time Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: proclaiming he would never harm Lynette and would not stop
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  Speaker 1: searching for her.
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  Speaker 2: I won't be able to stop looking.
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  Speaker 1: You want to keep looking for Lynette.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to need somebody with more authority to tell
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  Speaker 3: me to stop.
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  Speaker 2: I said, I've never harmed Lynette, and I never would
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  Speaker 2: harm Lynette, and I want to find Lynette. No one
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  Speaker 2: has told me not to stop looking, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: keep looking. My one job. My one job was to
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  Speaker 2: look out for her, and that has not happened. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to keep looking out for her. Now it's
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  Speaker 2: best baking.
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  Speaker 1: It was April fourth, near Elbow k when Hooker claims
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  Speaker 1: Lynette fell overboard from their dinghy while they were heading
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  Speaker 1: back to their anchored yacht.
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  Speaker 3: She basically just bounced off the dinghy in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of a little blow like twenty some not winds that
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  Speaker 3: popped up on a preco half mile maybe tripped back
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  Speaker 3: to the dinghy and angle thing failed every single thing.
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  Speaker 3: We weren't wearing my jackets. It was sundown, and the
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  Speaker 3: sun said like basically ten minutes after she fell over,
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  Speaker 3: dingy kilber her because it wasn't clicked to anything or anybody,
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  Speaker 3: and she had the spare dingy key in her dry bag,
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  Speaker 3: which was with her. The wind blew us apart so
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  Speaker 3: fast that I think she tried to swim back to
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  Speaker 3: the sailboat. Back to our sailboat.
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  Speaker 1: Lynette's family is painting a much darker picture. Her mother
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  Speaker 1: describes Hooker as a mean and hateful drunk, alleging Lynette
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  Speaker 1: had considered leaving him several times. The most chilling details
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  Speaker 1: come from Lynette's daughter, who claims Hooker has a history
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  Speaker 1: of violence, including a previous incident where he allegedly choked
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  Speaker 1: Lynette and threatened to throw her overboard. Public records back
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  Speaker 1: up a pattern of volatile behavior. In two thousand and five,
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  Speaker 1: Brian was charged with child abuse for allegedly choking his
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  Speaker 1: daughter from a previous relationship. Stepdaughter Carly Aylesworth, remembering the
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  Speaker 1: incident vividly, I've seen him choke out one of his
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  Speaker 1: daughters before and we had to go to court for that,
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  Speaker 1: and I was only in third grade.
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  Speaker 3: So he's just.
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  Speaker 1: Repeating patterns. Ten years later, a domestic dispute where Lynette
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  Speaker 1: claimed Brian choked her and punched her in the forehead
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  Speaker 1: during a drunken rage. Meanwhile, Hooker's attorney says Carly is
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  Speaker 1: not to be believed. She has a medical history that
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  Speaker 1: needs to be looked in.
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  Speaker 3: She's on certain medication, she can be easily influenced and
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  Speaker 3: that may be affecting what she's seeing as well as
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  Speaker 3: her grief at this time.
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  Speaker 1: As of today, the search for Lynette Hooker has officially
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  Speaker 1: shifted from a rescue to a recovery mission. With Hooker's
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  Speaker 1: departure from the islands. In a history of domestic allegation surfacing,
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  Speaker 1: many are left wondering if local authorities have made a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and Justice news after this A tragedy in
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  Speaker 1: downtown Wilmington, North Carolina has left a community mourning in
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  Speaker 1: a military family seeking answers. A twenty one year old
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  Speaker 1: US Marine is dead and the man charged with his
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  Speaker 1: murder is a career criminal with a record span over
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  Speaker 1: thirty years. Early Easter Sunday, around two am, the one
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  Speaker 1: hundred block of North Front Street, a popular spot for
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  Speaker 1: Marines stationed at nearby Camp La June devaulved into a
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  Speaker 1: scene of chaotic brawling. Wilmington police arrived to find a nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: Video circulating online shows officers using pepper sprite to disperse
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  Speaker 1: the crowd before finding Lance Corporal Daniel Montano. Montano, assigned
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  Speaker 1: to the first Battalion, Second Marines, was standing on the sidewalk,
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  Speaker 1: bent over and bleeding heavily from a stab wound to
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  Speaker 1: the neck. Despite efforts to save him, the young marine
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  Speaker 1: succumbed to his injuries. Officers found a second stabbing victim
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  Speaker 1: with injuries he ultimately survived. Police have arrested forty seven
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  Speaker 1: year old Davy Spencer, charging him with second degree murder
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  Speaker 1: in two counts of assault with the deadly weapon. His
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  Speaker 1: criminal record dates back to nineteen ninety five, starting when
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  Speaker 1: he was just sixteen years old. Over three decades, his
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  Speaker 1: rap sheet grew to include felony hit and runs and
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  Speaker 1: drug trafficking, multiple counts of assaults on a female in
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  Speaker 1: a twenty fifteen conviction as a habitual felon, Spencer serves
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  Speaker 1: several years in state prison following that habitual felon status,
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  Speaker 1: only to be released in January twenty twenty one. Since
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  Speaker 1: his release, the arrests haven't stopped. In twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: he was arrested twice, and as recently as last summer,
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  Speaker 1: he served twenty seven days for resisting an officer and
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  Speaker 1: drug possession. Now he stands accused of ending a young life.
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  Speaker 1: While a legal case against Spencer moves forward, the focus
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  Speaker 1: remains on the victim. Daniel Montano was more than just
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  Speaker 1: his uniform. His family describes him as a source of light,
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  Speaker 1: a devoted son and brother who served his country with pride.
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  Speaker 1: A GoFundMe has been established by his family to help
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  Speaker 1: bring the young marine home for his final rest. Authorities
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  Speaker 1: have yet to confirm what sparked the initial fight that
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  Speaker 1: led to this fatal encounter, A life of service cut
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  Speaker 1: short by a man who spent his life in and
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  Speaker 1: out of the system. For the latest crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: favorite podcast app with this crime Olie, I'm Sidney Silvanni.