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Bahamian Police Running Out of Time to Charge Brian Hooker | Crime Alert 04.13.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney SALMANI. An American man remains in Bahamian custody
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  Speaker 2: today as investigators scrambled to piece together what happened to
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  Speaker 2: his wife in the rough waters off Elbow que. Brian
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  Speaker 2: Hooker has been detained since Wednesday following his report that
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  Speaker 2: his fifty five year old wife, Lynette, fell overboard and
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  Speaker 2: was swept away by strong currents. While the Royal Bahamas
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  Speaker 2: Police Force says they have probable cause for the detention,
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  Speaker 2: Hooker's attorney, Terrell Butler is pushing back, describing a man
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  Speaker 2: who is emotionally shattered. He's heartbroken, and then to be
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  Speaker 2: arrested while assistant police with their investigation. It is very
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  Speaker 2: traumatic for him. Despite the attention, no charges have been filed.
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  Speaker 2: Attorney Butler revealed that Friday's questioning didn't focus on forensic
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  Speaker 2: evidence from the boat or digital devices, but rather on
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  Speaker 2: the couple's personal life. She's also questioning the very foundation
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  Speaker 2: of the police investigation speculation droumas things about what happened
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  Speaker 2: in the past.
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  Speaker 3: You know what they should be focusing on is the
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  Speaker 3: incident that up and what happened on that day. That
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  Speaker 3: is where they.
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  Speaker 1: Would get evidence from to determining what happened that day.
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  Speaker 2: I think dear relying on the evidence and personally right.
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  Speaker 3: Now I don't see it, but my parents katziberically denied
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  Speaker 3: any actization of wrongdoing.
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  Speaker 2: While the legal battle plays out in the Bahamas, Lynette's daughter,
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  Speaker 2: Carly Aylesworth says the math just isn't adding up. She
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  Speaker 2: describes a jarring phone call from her stepfather almost twenty
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  Speaker 2: four hours after the disappearance, where he reportedly told her
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  Speaker 2: her mother was missing in a matter of fact tone,
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  Speaker 2: before abruptly hanging up. Hooker later left Carly a similar
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  Speaker 2: short voicemail obtained by CBS.
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  Speaker 1: Hello Line and got all book concert and rescue, and they.
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  Speaker 2: Found the potation device that I threw to mom when
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  Speaker 2: she fell overboard.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't.
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  Speaker 2: Aylesworth is asking the questions many investigators are likely weighing.
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  Speaker 2: Why wasn't an anchor dropped? Why did the boat move
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  Speaker 2: in the opposite direction. The search, which saw assistance from
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  Speaker 2: the US Coastguard, has now officially shifted from a rescue
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  Speaker 2: to a recovery mission. The Coastguard has also confirmed they've
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  Speaker 2: opened a criminal investigation in the case. For now, Brian
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  Speaker 2: Hooker's time is running out. Under Bahamian law, police can
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  Speaker 2: seek extensions to hold suspects for up to ninety six
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  Speaker 2: additional hours. As the sun rises today, he remains behind
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  Speaker 2: bars and Lynette Hooker remains missing. More Crime and Justice news.
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  Speaker 3: After this, this situation went from a civil order of
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  Speaker 3: removal to where our officer was shot and killed. This
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  Speaker 3: is senseless.
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  Speaker 2: A routine civil service call in Porterville, California, turned into
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  Speaker 2: a deadly ambush, resulting in the death of a Tulare
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  Speaker 2: County Sheriff's detective. It started around ten forty Thursday morning.
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  Speaker 2: Deputy Randy Hoppert was serving a final eviction notice on
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  Speaker 2: a thirty five day old unpaid rent, but authority say
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  Speaker 2: the tenant, David Eric Morales, was waiting. Sheriff Mike Boudreau
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  Speaker 2: describes a lie in weaight scenario where Morales opened fire
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  Speaker 2: with a high powered rifle the moment deputies arrived. The
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  Speaker 2: situation spiraled into an hour's long standoff. Morales allegedly barricaded himself,
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  Speaker 2: shooting down a police drone and peppering tactical vehicles with gunfire. Eventually,
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  Speaker 2: the suspect crawled out of a window and took a
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  Speaker 2: prone position in the brush, wearing camouflage and refusing to surrender.
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  Speaker 1: The suspect was laying prone on the ground in camouflage clothing,
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  Speaker 1: continuing to pose a threat. This situation's resolved. The suspect
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  Speaker 1: is now dead. He was not shot. One of the
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  Speaker 1: bear cats ran over him and killed him with any questions.
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  Speaker 2: Deputy Hoppert was a Navy corman before joining the Sheriff's
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  Speaker 2: office in twenty twenty. He was rushed to Sierra View
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  Speaker 2: District Hospital, but despite life saving efforts, he passed away
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  Speaker 2: just before noon. The Sheriff's reaction to the suspect's death
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  Speaker 2: was blunt and uncompromising.
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  Speaker 3: We intentionally ran him over. Don't shoot at Pops, You
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  Speaker 3: shoot it pop for going to run you over.
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  Speaker 1: He got run over.
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  Speaker 3: He got what he deserved.
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  Speaker 2: Sheriff Boudreau spent time with Hoppert's wife and mother before
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  Speaker 2: calling a press conference on the incident, describing their devastation at.
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  Speaker 3: Sare of you hospital and I met with the wife,
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  Speaker 3: and I met with his mom, and I can tell
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  Speaker 3: you that there is no consoling that family at this point.
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  Speaker 3: A tax on law enforcement of this nature must stop.
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  Speaker 3: This is absolutely ridiculous and my heart and prayers go
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  Speaker 3: out to the family of this fallen officer.
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  Speaker 2: A breakthrough nearly a decade in the making. After ten
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  Speaker 2: years of questions, an arrest has finally been made in
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  Speaker 2: one of Illinois's most haunting cold cases. On Wednesday, police
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  Speaker 2: in Peck In, Illinois announced the arrest of forty eight
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  Speaker 2: year old Keith Brackett. Brackett is facing two counts of
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  Speaker 2: first degree murder and one count of concealment of a
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  Speaker 2: homicide in connection with the death of thirteen year old
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  Speaker 2: Robert b. Robert vanished in November twenty sixteen. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: until July of the following year that his remains were
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  Speaker 2: discovered in a wooded area. Peck And Police Chief Seth
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  Speaker 2: Ranny told the public this week that crimes against children
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  Speaker 2: remained the department's highest priority no matter how much time
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  Speaker 2: has passed. Investigators say Robert and Brackett had a close,
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  Speaker 2: unusual relationship despite their age gap, with Robert often skipping
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  Speaker 2: school to spend time at Brackett's home. When Robert's remains
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  Speaker 2: were finally found in twenty seventeen, they were located on
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  Speaker 2: a property owned by Brackett's aunt. Detectives reportedly found rope
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  Speaker 2: and tape near the remains that match materials later found
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  Speaker 2: during a search of Brackett's own residence. While a definitive
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  Speaker 2: cause of death was difficult to determine, more than a
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  Speaker 2: year later, an autopsy has now pointed toward homicidal violence,
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  Speaker 2: specifically noting that the teenager likely died from asphyxiation. This
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  Speaker 2: arrest brings a somber sense of closure to a community
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  Speaker 2: that has spent years wondering how and why. Brackett is
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  Speaker 2: currently being held in the Tazewell County Jail and is
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  Speaker 2: scheduled for an arraignment on April twenty third, where the
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  Speaker 2: accused killer is expected to enter a formal plea. For
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  Speaker 2: app with this Crime Alert, I'm Sidney Silvani.