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OVERBOARD LYNETTE HOOKER: OMINOUS SPLASH & LIGHTS FROM HUBBY'S YACHT · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Bombshell tonight so called Overboord missing mom Lynette Hooker in
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Speaker 1: the last hours we learn about a loud and ominous
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Speaker 1: splash and mysterious lights all from the vicinity of Lynette's
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Speaker 1: husband's yacht. He wasn't even supposed to be on the
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Speaker 1: yacht at that time. He was supposed to be, according
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Speaker 1: to him, out calling and calling into the dark night
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Speaker 1: air for his wife who bounced off the dinghy. Good evening,
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Speaker 1: I Nancy Grace, this is crime Stories. I want to
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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. The search has now
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Speaker 1: moved to the land.
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Speaker 2: There are torpedoes coming to his story over and over again.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, authorities do not believe Lynette is in the water.
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Speaker 1: Was she ever?
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Speaker 3: If her body's in water.
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Speaker 4: It could it could be anywhere in the Atlantic Ocean
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Speaker 4: by now.
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Speaker 1: Why were lights seen moving about on the husband's yacht
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Speaker 1: when he says he's out in the water calling for
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Speaker 1: his wife who bounced off their dinghy in according to him,
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Speaker 1: massive swells that suddenly came up off the edge of
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Speaker 1: the land, basically on a sandbar where you could stand up.
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Speaker 1: How did this happen? Why has her body never been found?
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Speaker 1: Lights and a very loud and ominous splash was heard.
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Speaker 1: A lot going on in the case and more joining
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Speaker 1: us tonight, a very dear friend of Lynette Hooker. But
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Speaker 1: first to Vanessa Waltz joining us. She's a star of
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Speaker 1: Unmasked True Crime. Vanessa, what do you make of the latest?
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Speaker 5: What?
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Speaker 1: Let let's start with the splash. What splash was heard?
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Speaker 1: By whom?
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Speaker 5: When?
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Speaker 1: And where?
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Speaker 6: Well, Nancy, that's a really interesting development meant because you know,
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Speaker 6: there's potential reports now of splashing in the water and
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Speaker 6: even lights that were flashing near the anchorage that night,
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Speaker 6: which does raise the possibility that someone nearby may have
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Speaker 6: unknowingly witnessed at least part of what happened in a
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Speaker 6: quiet anchorage that night. Unusual sounds or sun lights can
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Speaker 6: stand out dramatically, and that's why investigators appear to be
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Speaker 6: so interested in identifying the nearby voters.
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Speaker 1: You know. Josh Colesrude joining us. He's a veteran criminal
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Speaker 1: defense attorney and a former felony prosecutor with the US
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Speaker 1: Attorney's Office. He's the founder of the Coles Rood Law Offices.
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Speaker 1: We call them ear witnesses, and ear witnesses can be
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Speaker 1: invaluable at trial. What do you say to this, Do
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Speaker 1: we have an ear witness to Lynette Hooker going in
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Speaker 1: the water, and does it contradict the husband's entire story?
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Speaker 7: Well, the way that it's being described right now, I mean,
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Speaker 7: we don't even know who heard the splash, and you know,
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Speaker 7: when a boat is out on the water, you know
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Speaker 7: you're going to hear splashing and sounds, and you know,
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Speaker 7: without more evidence to corroborate and kind of describe exactly
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Speaker 7: what what was heard, you know, I don't see it
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Speaker 7: really having very much probative value. Now. You know what
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Speaker 7: everybody's doing right now is you know they're they're kind
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Speaker 7: of looking back and looking at all the suspicious activity.
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Speaker 7: Right You saw the the comments from the daughter. You
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Speaker 7: know that he looks guilty. The daughter suspects him. The
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Speaker 7: marriage have problems, you know. Now there's a splash outside
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Speaker 7: the boat. But you know what we don't have, like,
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Speaker 7: we don't have a body, we don't have a cause
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Speaker 7: of death. There's no crime scene, there's no forensic evidence,
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Speaker 7: there's no eyewitnesses, and there's no independent evidence that Lynette
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Speaker 7: Hooker died by criminal conduct. And what we do know
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Speaker 7: is that Brian said that he was out on an
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Speaker 7: eight foot dingy and did he described fifteen to twenty
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Speaker 7: two knot range of wins? And you know, I looked
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Speaker 7: up at the NOAA Weather data, that is the national
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Speaker 7: organization that keeps track of the waves and the winds
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Speaker 7: on the ocean, and it corroborates Brian's story about when
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Speaker 7: the waves came in. And when you're looking at you
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Speaker 7: know who's telling the truth, you have to look at
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Speaker 7: corroborating as stop.
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Speaker 1: Stop, please, good gravy man. I know what you're doing.
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Speaker 1: I ask you a question about a loud splash that
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Speaker 1: occurs not near the dinghy where it's supposed to be
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Speaker 1: away near the restaurant, but outside the soulmate the yacht
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Speaker 1: around nine thirty pm, and you are.
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Speaker 3: Throwing this stew, this stinky stew of other facts to
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Speaker 3: get me off my question. In court, I would say objection,
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Speaker 3: not responsive. I asked the court to direct the witness
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Speaker 3: to answer my question.
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Speaker 1: But I don't have a judge to force you to answer.
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Speaker 1: So I'm going to go to Dave Mack joining US
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories investigative reporter. What can you tell me? And
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Speaker 1: I've got to get to the lights. I've got to
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Speaker 1: get to the lights that we're seen on his the
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Speaker 1: husband's yacht, the Soulmate. At the same time, he says
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Speaker 1: he's out in the water looking for his wife on
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Speaker 1: the dinghy. Okay, I've got to get to that. But
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Speaker 1: first the splash, Dave mac what can you tell me
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Speaker 1: about the splash? And then maybe maybe we can get
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Speaker 1: Josh Colesrude to narrow his line of monologue and give
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Speaker 1: us a good answer. Hit it, Dave Mack.
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Speaker 8: As you start with, we've got Brian Hooker who is
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Speaker 8: supposedly on the dingy the entire time, from the moment
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Speaker 8: they leave the abbaco in and head back towards the yacht,
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Speaker 8: towards the soul Mate. They never make it. According to
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Speaker 8: Brian Hooker, they never make it back to the sew
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Speaker 8: boat the Soulmate. They're on the dinghy. But we're hearing
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Speaker 8: reports of a major splash, what is called a massive
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Speaker 8: splash and nine thirty PM. To hear a splash that
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Speaker 8: loud on the water, Nancy, it's got to be a
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Speaker 8: big splash. I mean, it's not just dropping a cup
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Speaker 8: of water over the side.
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Speaker 9: Here.
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Speaker 8: We're talking about something loud enough to be heard above
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Speaker 8: the normal sounds of the water. But again, remember this
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Speaker 8: is coming from the soul mate where nobody is on
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Speaker 8: the boat, and that encompasses the light you mentioned a
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Speaker 8: minute ago.
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Speaker 1: Okay, before I go to Blaine Stevenson, this is Brian Hooker,
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Speaker 1: the husband's friend. He's also a boating expert. His wife
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Speaker 1: very close to Lynette Hooker. I want to dispel something.
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Speaker 1: I think I can dispel it that Josh Colsrud said
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Speaker 1: that when you're out on a boat you hear splashes.
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Speaker 1: Well that's not entirely true. Let me see Colsrud really quickly.
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Speaker 1: Coles rude, I've had the joy and the pleasure. Did
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Speaker 1: you just take your glasses off?
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Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 1: I looked away from one moment. I see you yanking
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Speaker 1: off your glasses. Josh, you look just as good with
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Speaker 1: glasses on. Just know that feel confident about it. That said, Josh,
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Speaker 1: I just had the pleasure of sitting out on the
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Speaker 1: water for hours and hours on end, many many weekends
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Speaker 1: in a row, while my son competed in bass fishing championships. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's school has a fish team. Who knew that said, No,
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Speaker 1: you don't just hear loud splashes. We sat there in silence.
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Speaker 1: I was not on his boat. Nobody needs their mother
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Speaker 1: looming over their shoulder when they're trying to compete. But
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Speaker 1: I was out there on the water and everything was
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Speaker 1: dead silent. So hearing a loud splash in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the night, I mean, these witnesses thought it to
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Speaker 1: be uncharacteristic. So I'd like to hear your response to that.
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Speaker 1: Before he moved on to the lights that were spotted
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Speaker 1: on his yacht, not the dinghy where he said he
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Speaker 1: was at that time. In fact, he said I'm going
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Speaker 1: to go back to Vanessa in just a moment. That
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Speaker 1: it took him hours and hours I guess to what
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Speaker 1: paddle with his hands and two teacups to get to
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Speaker 1: the end of the island where he washed up. That's
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Speaker 1: where he says he was not on his yacht the
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Speaker 1: soulmate blinking lights. But first address the loud splash, please.
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Speaker 7: So, Nancy, that witness's account actually shows exactactly why this
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Speaker 7: case is still uncertain and why it's not solved, because
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Speaker 7: hearing a splash and seeing lights on the water at
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Speaker 7: nine p thirty at night in rough conditions does not
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Speaker 7: tell us what caused the splash or who was in
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Speaker 7: the water, whether it was accidental or whether any crime occurred.
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Speaker 7: And remember the timeline itself already involves a dinghy in
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Speaker 7: trouble after the dark and bad weather. So a witness
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Speaker 7: hearing a splash and that environment is completely consistent with
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Speaker 7: Brian Hooker's account that something went wrong on the water.
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Speaker 7: You know, and again remember you know, everybody is assuming
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Speaker 7: his guilt. So when they hear a splash, it must
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Speaker 7: be murder. They see lights, well, it must be staging,
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Speaker 7: you know, behavior. You know, his behavior must be guilt.
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Speaker 7: But there's another explanation staring at everybody in the face,
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Speaker 7: and that is his story is consistent with the NOAA
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Speaker 7: and their description of the water conditions. That wasn't an
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Speaker 7: environment that he was controlling. That's chaos. That's chaos. And
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Speaker 7: you know, I've handl cases like this in island jurisdictions
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Speaker 7: like Palau, and in rough water at night, people get
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Speaker 7: disoriented fast, you know, distances become impossible to judge. Lights, moves,
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Speaker 7: sounds carry strangely over the water. A single gust of
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Speaker 7: wind or a wave can separate people within seconds. So
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Speaker 7: the witnesses account may help establish that there was activity
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Speaker 7: on the water that night, but it does not establish homicide.
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Speaker 7: And that's the key point. Nobody has bridged the gap
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Speaker 7: between something bad happened and Brian Hooker committed murder because
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Speaker 7: we still have no body, no cause of death, no
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Speaker 7: forensic evidence, no confession, and no proof of criminal conduct.
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Speaker 7: And until somebody produces that proof, that evidence, like this
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Speaker 7: is a tragic case, and you know it is. The
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Speaker 7: homicide has not been proven or shown in any way whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: Joining me, Brian Fitzgibbons. He's Director Operations USPA Nationwide Security.
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Speaker 1: He leads a team of investigators around the world finding
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Speaker 1: and extracting missing people. He is a former marine and
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Speaker 1: an Iraqi war vet. Brian Fitzgibbons, you and I have
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Speaker 1: had many conversations with particularly in particular a death investigator
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Speaker 1: and two medical examiners regarding Lynette Hooker. And isn't it
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Speaker 1: true that we all concur had she gone underwater, unless
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Speaker 1: she was weighted down, her body would have emerged by now, because,
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Speaker 1: as you and I know from homicide investigations, the body
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Speaker 1: when it decomposes, fills up with gas. For instance, when
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Speaker 1: you have something in a plastic bag and it goes bad,
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Speaker 1: you forget about it in the fridge and the bag
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Speaker 1: starts swelling up. That's the same thing with human body.
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Speaker 1: Gases are created upon decomposure and the enclosure the sandwich
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Speaker 1: bag or the body begins to swell and if underwater,
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Speaker 1: that body will come to the surface. That's why we
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Speaker 1: don't have Lynett's body. If it had been in the water,
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Speaker 1: it would have come to surface. By now, agree or
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Speaker 1: disagreef Its Gibbons.
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Speaker 10: I agree, and that seems to be the consensus of
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Speaker 10: search and rescue experts from the area who has spoken
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Speaker 10: out publicly that they don't believe Lynette's body is in
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Speaker 10: the Sea of Abaco.
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Speaker 2: And I'm going to add one thing to jump on
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Speaker 2: what Attorney Coolser just said. I think that that probative
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Speaker 2: evidence is coming with the seizure of the vessel and
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Speaker 2: the data that's going to be generated from the systems
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Speaker 2: on that boat, that these eyewitness statements are now going
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Speaker 2: to mean something when it lines up to events that
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Speaker 2: took place on the Soulmate that directly contradict the story
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Speaker 2: that was given to police. I think that probative evidence
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Speaker 2: is walking us down right now.
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Speaker 1: I want to get to the lights that appeared on
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Speaker 1: the husband's yach the soulmate at the time he's supposed
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Speaker 1: to be out looking for his wife, Vanessa Walch Vanessa,
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear what Blaine Stevenson has to say.
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Speaker 1: But first before we go to mister Stevenson, who's so
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Speaker 1: kindly joining us tonight, I want to get it a
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Speaker 1: little refresher. As we say in court, let's refresh the
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Speaker 1: witness's recollection translation. The witness just screwed up on the stand,
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Speaker 1: and let me just jug their memory really quickly. Vanessa,
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Speaker 1: where does Brian Hooker say he was the entire night
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Speaker 1: after his wife bounced off the dinghy.
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Speaker 6: Brian has said, as we've heard many times in those
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Speaker 6: recorded statements, he was very adamant that he was on
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Speaker 6: the dinghy with his one or titling for eight hours
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Speaker 6: to marsh Harbor. He has never put himself on that boat,
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Speaker 6: so anything leading to that would be in direct conflict
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Speaker 6: with his own workds of what happened that night.
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Speaker 1: What was his explanation of what he did after his
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Speaker 1: wife bounced off the dinghy? What did he do?
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Speaker 6: According to Brian, he yelled for her for about an hour,
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Speaker 6: but she never responded. He threw the one flotation device
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Speaker 6: out to her that he wasn't sure if he got,
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Speaker 6: and then he just kind of hoped she swam towards
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Speaker 6: the boat, and then used his one order to go
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Speaker 6: paddle for help instead of getting out of the boat
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Speaker 6: in the four to eleven foot water and going to
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Speaker 6: try to save Lynnette.
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Speaker 11: We we bost Lynette over the side.
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Speaker 10: I paddled op he to marsh Island and I landed
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Speaker 10: a not so crazy shore there and we could get
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Speaker 10: yesterday eight.
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Speaker 12: Too.
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Speaker 1: So there you go. That's from our friend Harvey Levin
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Speaker 1: at TMZ, and we've got so much sound. Brian Hooker
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Speaker 1: locking himself into that story. He basically, you know, got
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Speaker 1: a teacup according to him, and paddled over and it
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Speaker 1: took him hours and hours and hours, and he washed
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Speaker 1: up far far away from the soulmate. Then how in
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Speaker 1: the hay are their mysterious lights and loud splashes outside
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Speaker 1: his yacht? Okay, before I again, before I get to
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Speaker 1: the lights that witnesses saw on his yacht when he's
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Speaker 1: supposed to be at the other end of the island
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Speaker 1: washing up to blame Stevenson. This is Brian Hooker's friend.
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Speaker 1: He is a boting expert and his wife is very
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Speaker 1: very close with Lynette. Mister Stevenson, thank you for being
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Speaker 1: with us. What do you make of this?
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Speaker 11: What I make from all of reports that have come
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Speaker 11: out is that there are people in the area. There
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Speaker 11: were people overlooking the area. I've gotten calls from people
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Speaker 11: who talk about different weather conditions in support and against
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Speaker 11: his claim. But what we do know is there were
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Speaker 11: people in the area. I do know that a human
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Speaker 11: yelling is louder than any splash I've ever heard. So
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Speaker 11: my problem is an hour of him yelling for his
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Speaker 11: wife isn't heard, but a splash is in the same
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Speaker 11: general vicinity. My problem is that he floated over to
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Speaker 11: marsh Harbor in the same weather conditions, within three hours
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Speaker 11: of the same amount of time of that floatation device,
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Speaker 11: which doesn't have the same windage as his boat, ending
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Speaker 11: up within three hundred feet of where he was, but
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Speaker 11: nothing from Lynette ends up in the same spot. It's
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Speaker 11: not the it's not the evidence that Brian did anything wrong.
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Speaker 11: It's the sense of evidence to support his story that's
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Speaker 11: puzzling me.
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Speaker 1: For those of you just joining us, Lynette hook her
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Speaker 1: sold everything she had used all of her savings for
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Speaker 1: herself and her husband, Brian Hooker, to go around the
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Speaker 1: world sailing on a yacht, the Soulmate, and then there
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Speaker 1: out in the water. She not far from in the
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Speaker 1: water at all, you could stand up on a sandbar,
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Speaker 1: he says. They leave a restaurant and yes they're confirmed
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Speaker 1: to have been there. That they get onto the dinghy
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Speaker 1: to go back to the yacht, and somehow between the
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Speaker 1: restaurant and the yacht a swell comes up. She not him,
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Speaker 1: she falls, bounces off the dinghy. He tries to save
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Speaker 1: her by throwing her a cushion that you sit on,
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Speaker 1: although there were life preservers in the dinghy, but she
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Speaker 1: apparently didn't get it and she's never been seen again.
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Speaker 1: Here's his story.
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Speaker 12: She basically just bounced off the dinghy in the middle
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Speaker 12: of a little blow like twenty some not winds that
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Speaker 12: popped up and on a precol half mile maybe tripped
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Speaker 12: back to.
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Speaker 4: The dinghy and angle thing failed. Uh, every single thing.
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Speaker 4: We weren't wearing mic jackets.
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Speaker 9: If she.
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Speaker 4: It was sundown and the sunset like basically ten minutes
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Speaker 4: after she fell over, dingy k over with her because
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Speaker 4: it wasn't clipped to anything or anybody, and she had
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Speaker 4: the spare dingey key in her dry bag which was
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Speaker 4: with her. Yeah, it was inflated. I mean inflated because
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Speaker 4: it was folded.
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Speaker 13: But uh, the wind blew us apart so fast that
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Speaker 13: I think I think she.
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Speaker 4: Tried to swim back to the sailboat, back to our sailboat,
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Speaker 4: which was probably I don't know I was or something,
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Speaker 4: but the ways was three foot and I was trying
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Speaker 4: to ship to oars and one of the pends on
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Speaker 4: the ars broken up, dropped over the side, and I
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Speaker 4: was yelling for her the whole time. And I yelled
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Speaker 4: to her that I lost the ar, and I threw
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Speaker 4: the anchor out and anchored the dinghy and Jesse, yeah,
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Speaker 4: I yelled. I couldn't see her anymore. It was it
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Speaker 4: was the moon has not raisen yet.
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Speaker 1: That is from our friend Vanessa Waltz, the star of
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Speaker 1: Unmasked True Crime Blaine Stevenson. Is that the yelling that
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Speaker 1: you're referring to that nobody heard that, but they did
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Speaker 1: hear a splash, correct?
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Speaker 11: I mean the time of night. He says it happened
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Speaker 11: at sunset in our community, that's when everybody's on the
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Speaker 11: back of their boat, if you're if you're home, if
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Speaker 11: you're a liver board, if you're in the area, that's
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Speaker 11: the best time to be outside because you're not getting
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Speaker 11: by the sun. You're not getting it's dinner time, that's
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Speaker 11: sundown er time. If you're out, you're out at that time.
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Speaker 11: The time if I had to pick a time for
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Speaker 11: a tragedy to happen on the water in an anchorage,
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Speaker 11: I would pick that time because you're most likely to
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Speaker 11: get help, you're most likely to be heard, you're most
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Speaker 11: likely to be seen. So the fact that he's screamed
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Speaker 11: for an hour and we have no reports of that
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Speaker 11: five weeks in, but we have reports of people who
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Speaker 11: are up and around and on land far enough away
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Speaker 11: from soulmate but could still hear it splash. I'm trying
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Speaker 11: to piece it together with the Brian I know, and
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Speaker 11: it's not working, and I really wish he would start
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Speaker 11: talking and explain it so that it makes sense to us.
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Speaker 1: Blain, have you asked him, No, he's.
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Speaker 11: He's blocked everything on social media. I mean I can
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Speaker 11: ask him right now, Brian, Let's go to the Bahamas
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Speaker 11: and look together, right.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 11: The easiest way to shut up all the haters, as
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Speaker 11: you call him in comments, is let's grab me you Dan,
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Speaker 11: Let's let's grab the whole team. Let's go find your wife,
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Speaker 11: Let's get closure. There's there's no reason, uh for me
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Speaker 11: to be on a computer and you to be where
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Speaker 11: you are. Let's be in the Bahamas and let's go find.
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Speaker 1: Lynette blank staves And do you think he'll take you
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Speaker 1: up on it?
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Speaker 11: I hope. So the Brian I knew what of this
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Speaker 11: guy I've seen for the last five weeks. I don't
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Speaker 11: know what that guy would do. But the Brian I
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Speaker 11: knew would bring the people together, go fight the cause,
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Speaker 11: and go get the answers. And if in the process
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Speaker 11: it clears his name, great, You know I don't. I
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Speaker 11: don't want Brian to be guilty. I just can't mathematically
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Speaker 11: make it work. And that I think that's the misconception
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Speaker 11: is nobody is going after Brian because they want to
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Speaker 11: go after Brian. Everyone's going after Brian's story because it's
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Speaker 11: not working. When was the last time a body went
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Speaker 11: missing in the water in the Bahamas and was not
22:16
Speaker 11: recovered in the Abco area. So yeah, the mathematics behind
22:22
Speaker 11: this is where Brian is a man of science. Brian
22:26
Speaker 11: taught me a lot about boating. The longer we go
22:32
Speaker 11: and a dry bag has not been found on shore.
22:34
Speaker 11: The longer we go and a blue Columbia jacket has
22:38
Speaker 11: not washed up. The longer we go, we get more information,
22:43
Speaker 11: we get more speculation. When we don't get is any
22:46
Speaker 11: more confirmation of his story?
22:49
Speaker 1: You mentioned twenty nineteen why, uh.
22:54
Speaker 11: So I was trying to figure out. I'm I want
22:57
Speaker 11: to believe Brian. I want to I want to understand
23:01
Speaker 11: so that I can keep my wife safe. I want
23:03
Speaker 11: to make sure that the cascade of failures that he
23:05
Speaker 11: went through we don't go through. But I can't find
23:09
Speaker 11: a scenario that fits anybody falling off a boat and
23:14
Speaker 11: their body not being recovered in that area. There is
23:17
Speaker 11: an instant in twenty nineteen where a gentleman left his
23:22
Speaker 11: fishing boat and was never found again. But even that
23:25
Speaker 11: report shows like the gas tanks were tampered with or something,
23:28
Speaker 11: so there was there was some jinky stuff with that one.
23:34
Speaker 11: But the search and rescue guys when they're being interviewed,
23:38
Speaker 11: everybody who's being talked to, this just doesn't happen there.
23:43
Speaker 11: And I do believe all the sailors who say anything
23:45
Speaker 11: can happen at see. I've been a part of it.
23:46
Speaker 11: Brian got me through a hurricane. But it doesn't fit
23:51
Speaker 11: the terrain, and it doesn't fit the night, and it
23:53
Speaker 11: doesn't fit the time of his story.
23:57
Speaker 1: You stated that you have a mathematical issue. You can't
24:00
Speaker 1: mathematically make his story work, and I agree with you.
24:05
Speaker 1: What I would like to happen is that we find
24:07
Speaker 1: Lynette alive. I don't think that's going to happen. I
24:12
Speaker 1: hate to put that out there, and in the search
24:16
Speaker 1: for her alive, but I think she would have been
24:18
Speaker 1: in contact with her daughter by now if she were
24:21
Speaker 1: alive and if she could reach her, Which makes me
24:26
Speaker 1: go to the next logical step is that she is dead.
24:31
Speaker 1: And I'm examining his story and I want him to
24:34
Speaker 1: be telling the truth. I don't want him to be
24:37
Speaker 1: guilty as well, but his story doesn't add up to me.
24:42
Speaker 1: So what about it? You can't mathematically make it work.
24:45
Speaker 1: Two and two is not equaling four. What is the
24:49
Speaker 1: issue that concerns you the most?
24:54
Speaker 11: The issue that concerns me the most is we do
24:59
Speaker 11: know that the weather, Like like the lawyer said at
25:01
Speaker 11: some point that evening got bad. We have people that
25:04
Speaker 11: I trust that we're boating in the area that report, Hey,
25:07
Speaker 11: the weather got squorely that night. But the Sea of
25:11
Speaker 11: Abaco and the ant Pat's anchorage and that area is
25:16
Speaker 11: completely different, right. So I talked to a gentleman who
25:19
Speaker 11: owns a house on Elbow k and it looks out
25:22
Speaker 11: over the Sea Abaco, and he said, yeah, you know,
25:24
Speaker 11: it got pretty choppy out there, but that's over where
25:26
Speaker 11: that yellow line is in your picture, not over where
25:29
Speaker 11: the red arrows are in between the two land masses.
25:33
Speaker 11: And if he if the weather and wind was that
25:37
Speaker 11: bad and he's in a deanie and the wind is
25:39
Speaker 11: blowing him to marsh Harbor, the timeframe to get to
25:42
Speaker 11: Marsh Harbor doesn't add up to me. And the fact
25:48
Speaker 11: that when search and Rescue was out three hours later
25:51
Speaker 11: they see the green float. He threw, how does the
25:54
Speaker 11: float float within three hour timeframe of the dean to
26:00
Speaker 11: end up within three hundred yards of each other or
26:02
Speaker 11: three hundred feet of each other? As he says, you know,
26:06
Speaker 11: I went out and I tried this. I threw a
26:07
Speaker 11: dry bag off of my boat, and I've seen how
26:09
Speaker 11: fast I separated from it, and a dry bag has
26:12
Speaker 11: more windage than that green float, and my DENI drifted
26:15
Speaker 11: away from it at a rapid pace, there for both
26:19
Speaker 11: of them to end up in Marsh Harbor within three
26:21
Speaker 11: hours of each other. The math isn't math.
26:27
Speaker 1: Two. Doctor Rachel Tolds joining us tonight, forensics psychologist, author
26:32
Speaker 1: of a book on the cusp of publication, Inventing the psychopath.
26:39
Speaker 1: Doctor Rachel, thank you for being with us. We know
26:42
Speaker 1: that Lynnette had taken all of her savings, everything, and
26:47
Speaker 1: it was all being used to fund this trip with
26:52
Speaker 1: her husband. We know that she had left him on
26:54
Speaker 1: multiple occasions, and we know there have been domestic violence
26:58
Speaker 1: in their past. What do you make of what you're hearing?
27:05
Speaker 14: Well, Nancy, I mean, in my opinion, the most damning
27:09
Speaker 14: evidence in this case is the fact that two years
27:12
Speaker 14: ago Brian allegedly choked her and threatened to kill her
27:16
Speaker 14: and throw her over board.
27:18
Speaker 11: Her daughter Carly.
27:19
Speaker 14: Said he threatened it multiple times. She describes him as
27:24
Speaker 14: kind of having a bit of a doctor Jekyl mister
27:26
Speaker 14: Hyde personality, which we see in a lot of homicide cases,
27:29
Speaker 14: meaning that in public with strangers, he was charming, he
27:33
Speaker 14: was nice, People liked him and they would never imagine
27:36
Speaker 14: that he would be like this, but behind closed doors
27:39
Speaker 14: he was a completely different person. So here's some facts
27:42
Speaker 14: to understand. Prior domestic violence is present in the majority
27:46
Speaker 14: of intimate partner homicides. Multiple studies have found prior abuse
27:51
Speaker 14: histories in roughly around eighty percent of homicide cases, so
27:56
Speaker 14: that's important. Non fatal choking is one of the strongest
28:01
Speaker 14: predictors of future lethal intimate partner violence, and one landmark
28:06
Speaker 14: study found that women who had previously been strangled by
28:10
Speaker 14: a partner were over seven times more likely to later
28:13
Speaker 14: become victims of attempted homicide by that partner and significantly
28:17
Speaker 14: more likely to become homicide victims. Okay, So strangulation is
28:21
Speaker 14: a demonstration that someone is willing to violate physical boundaries
28:26
Speaker 14: and dominate another person, threatening their life with their own hands.
28:30
Speaker 14: So there's a psychological willingness to cross that line, and
28:35
Speaker 14: the overwhelming majority of intimate partner homicides are preceded by
28:39
Speaker 14: prior violence, escalation patterns, coercive control threats, strangulation, or separation conflict,
28:46
Speaker 14: and every single one of these markers is allegedly present
28:49
Speaker 14: in this case. And of course, then there's the part
28:53
Speaker 14: where we hear about him allegedly joking his daughter in
28:57
Speaker 14: the past. I mean, he was acquitted for that, but
28:59
Speaker 14: are these women just making up the fact that he's
29:01
Speaker 14: choking them? And I mean even in the police reports
29:04
Speaker 14: they found that the daughter's neck, the marks on her
29:07
Speaker 14: neck were significant with strangulation or choking.
29:10
Speaker 5: She told me two years ago that he choked her and.
29:14
Speaker 1: Was threatening to kill her and throw her overboard.
29:16
Speaker 5: And she said he choked her so bad that she
29:20
Speaker 5: felt something like pop in her neck. So and then
29:23
Speaker 5: that's when she packed her bag and left, and that
29:27
Speaker 5: she only left her for like a couple of months.
29:29
Speaker 11: She went back.
29:30
Speaker 5: To him sadly. I don't know why she went back.
29:35
Speaker 5: I think she's always known that she needs to leave him,
29:37
Speaker 5: but she cares about him a lot, and he can
29:40
Speaker 5: be a great person, Like he's been there a lot
29:43
Speaker 5: for me and always gave me advice to to.
29:47
Speaker 1: Blaine Stevenson, this is mister Hooker's friend. His wife is
29:51
Speaker 1: very close to Lynette. Is that the Brian Hooker that
29:57
Speaker 1: you know? Were you aware of any of that?
30:02
Speaker 11: I was aware they broke up in late twenty twenty
30:07
Speaker 11: three early twenty twenty four, that she left, my wife
30:13
Speaker 11: was more aware of the intimate details. She gave me
30:16
Speaker 11: the man version, which is, hey, they're not together anymore.
30:19
Speaker 11: And then when we moved anchorages, then they were back together.
30:25
Speaker 11: And at that time, and before I've learned all I
30:28
Speaker 11: have about domestic violence, it was none of my business,
30:32
Speaker 11: you know, and so I didn't think anything of it.
30:37
Speaker 11: But what it does tell me is when he was
30:40
Speaker 11: doing his interview and I've never been away from my
30:44
Speaker 11: wife for more than ten days, it's it's not a
30:46
Speaker 11: crime to lie to your friends and lie to the
30:49
Speaker 11: the you know, the news and everything else like that,
30:53
Speaker 11: but it's pretty damning to us when we know you
30:55
Speaker 11: separated for over a month at least I think it
30:59
Speaker 11: was almost two months while you're voting with us, and
31:03
Speaker 11: yet then you're saying, I've never spent ten days away
31:05
Speaker 11: from my wife, Like he's choosing to lie. I don't
31:08
Speaker 11: know this guy. Uh, he's choosing to lie for no
31:12
Speaker 11: apparent reason. Why hold an interview if you're just gonna lie.
31:16
Speaker 9: There's history of him choking her out and threatening to
31:19
Speaker 9: throw her overboard. So the fact that this is actually
31:23
Speaker 9: happening makes me believe there's more to the story. I've
31:28
Speaker 9: seen him choke out one of his daughters before, and
31:31
Speaker 9: we had to go to court for that, and I
31:34
Speaker 9: was only in third grade. So he's just.
31:40
Speaker 1: Repeating patterns from our friends at thoughts and friends. That's
31:45
Speaker 1: daughter Carly speaking, and like doctor Toles told us, in
31:51
Speaker 1: one of those incidents, it actually actually went to court
31:54
Speaker 1: and he was acquitted on one of the choking incidents. Blaine, again,
31:59
Speaker 1: thank you for speaking out tonight. Your wife very close
32:02
Speaker 1: with Lynette. What is she making of all this new evidence?
32:09
Speaker 11: She is handling it in the way that Brian soulmate
32:17
Speaker 11: and the Coastguard are in Florida. That's one portion of this.
32:24
Speaker 11: Her friend is in the Bahamas, and so be it.
32:27
Speaker 11: Let the Coastguard do their job. Let Brian hide under
32:30
Speaker 11: wherever he wants to hide if he doesn't care. We
32:34
Speaker 11: want the permission, We want to be able to search
32:37
Speaker 11: the Bahamas. We want the closure. Brian doesn't want the
32:41
Speaker 11: closure he wanted with his mom, but doesn't want with
32:43
Speaker 11: his wife. That's what my wife wants.
32:45
Speaker 1: I say, that's a really good point, Blaine. Because he
32:48
Speaker 1: left just as Carly, the daughter was touching down. He
32:53
Speaker 1: left the Bahamas and came back to be with his
32:55
Speaker 1: ailing mom, who is apparently still alive. He has left
33:00
Speaker 1: her bedside pretty quickly, so he came to see her
33:04
Speaker 1: while his wife is still missing in the Bahamas.
33:07
Speaker 11: Which means closure is important to.
33:09
Speaker 1: Him, you would think. But his mom has not passed away,
33:13
Speaker 1: so I don't know what closure we're talking about when
33:17
Speaker 1: it comes to that.
33:18
Speaker 11: But then closure for Lynette would be just as important, exactly.
33:22
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Dave Matt what can you tell me about
33:25
Speaker 1: the lights aboard the Soulmate At the time, Brian Hooker
33:30
Speaker 1: was allegedly, according to him, out in the water desperately
33:34
Speaker 1: looking for.
33:34
Speaker 11: His wife Nancy.
33:37
Speaker 8: This is the part that is difficult to explain away. Remember,
33:42
Speaker 8: from the time that Lynette and Brian Hooker left Sure
33:47
Speaker 8: to head towards their Soulmate on the dinghy, nobody was
33:52
Speaker 8: on Soulmate. Nobody was on that boat from there on out,
33:55
Speaker 8: according to what Brian Hooker tells us. So lights are
34:00
Speaker 8: not just seen Nancy. These lights are actually part of
34:05
Speaker 8: a security video. Seventeen minutes after leaving Abaco, in security
34:15
Speaker 8: footage of the Soulmate captures a bright flash of light.
34:21
Speaker 11: That's flash of light number one.
34:23
Speaker 8: A second bright event occurred around midnight, and multiple witnesses
34:30
Speaker 8: subsequently reported seeing flares being fired off the sailboat around
34:36
Speaker 8: eight pm, A horizontal flare, not vertical. The stress signal
34:42
Speaker 8: goes up weapon horizontal around eight pm. So there's your
34:49
Speaker 8: shocking lights and flares. Nancy on the Soulmate.
34:53
Speaker 1: Vanessa Waltz, joining a store of unmasked true crime, who
34:56
Speaker 1: has dedicated weeks and weeks of investigation into Lynnett's disappearance. Vanessa,
35:03
Speaker 1: what more can you tell us about the lights that
35:05
Speaker 1: appeared on the Soulmate the yacht? When Brian Hooker says
35:10
Speaker 1: he's out far far away in the dinghy trying to
35:14
Speaker 1: save his wife who has disappeared in the water.
35:18
Speaker 6: Well, there's a lot of intriguing theories I've seen about this.
35:22
Speaker 6: It will be interesting to see if they can corroborate that,
35:24
Speaker 6: because it is an intriguing theory to think about the fact.
35:28
Speaker 6: Was there an argument on the boat that he said
35:31
Speaker 6: they never got back to was a flare gun shot
35:35
Speaker 6: in defense or as a potential just out of desperation
35:40
Speaker 6: and as a walker. We don't know the answers to
35:42
Speaker 6: these questions, but that has been floating around quite a
35:45
Speaker 6: bit online. But it'll be interesting to see what they
35:49
Speaker 6: can pull from those witnesses that they were trying to
35:51
Speaker 6: locate in the digital evidence on the boat either support
35:56
Speaker 6: or contradict Brand's story that night.
35:59
Speaker 1: Gibbs joining us Director Operations USPA Nationwide Security. They witnesses
36:07
Speaker 1: and there are more than one witness that states the
36:12
Speaker 1: lights being seen from the Soulmate while the husband says
36:17
Speaker 1: Brian Hooker that he was far away trying to save
36:20
Speaker 1: his wife who bounced off the dinghy. What would the
36:24
Speaker 1: working theory be that they were back on the Soulmate
36:29
Speaker 1: and that's where an argument took place.
36:32
Speaker 2: I believe so, And I want to point out one thing.
36:36
Speaker 2: Brian Hooker very quickly made a public statement in an included.
36:42
Speaker 10: Kind of casually.
36:44
Speaker 2: Included that he set off a flat an emergency flare. Okay,
36:49
Speaker 2: when witnesses are now coming forward, eyewitnesses saying that they
36:54
Speaker 2: saw a flare, not necessarily at the same time he
36:57
Speaker 2: said he shot it, and not in the same location.
37:01
Speaker 2: Right now we have we have two flare stories. This
37:06
Speaker 2: is something that I'm watching very closely, is if if
37:10
Speaker 2: the CGIs can verify that they indeed went back to
37:14
Speaker 2: that boat and the theory that you just mentioned was correct.
37:17
Speaker 2: That you know, they left the restaurant, they went to
37:20
Speaker 2: the boat. Whatever happened happened there, and then you know
37:23
Speaker 2: the cover up began. That's all going to be based
37:26
Speaker 2: on can CGIs pulled data from this boat? Is there
37:30
Speaker 2: security footage? Did somebody's phone or watch connect? The data
37:36
Speaker 2: here is going to be everything and the.
37:38
Speaker 13: Ways we're doing their thing.
37:39
Speaker 12: And you know I.
37:41
Speaker 4: Saw her, I think twice. I threw her a flotation
37:44
Speaker 4: cushion that we used to sit on the dingy, you know,
37:47
Speaker 4: right after she went in, but I didn't I couldn't
37:50
Speaker 4: tell if she got she got it or not. We've
37:52
Speaker 4: been looking for the cushion too, the search and rescue teams.
37:57
Speaker 4: How small the person is two and three floaters and
38:01
Speaker 4: twenty five don wins.
38:03
Speaker 15: And so after an.
38:07
Speaker 4: Hour of calling her, I could have never heard her voice.
38:12
Speaker 2: And uh.
38:14
Speaker 4: Powermo came by and I waved my flash night on
38:20
Speaker 4: my phone in the neighbor so fasted, you know, they
38:23
Speaker 4: didn't even see. And then as another one came by
38:26
Speaker 4: right behind it, sort of five minutes behind it, and
38:30
Speaker 4: I had I had grabbed the flayers by then I
38:33
Speaker 4: came with I had two flares, and uh uh, they
38:38
Speaker 4: didn't see the flares, I guess, and I after and
38:42
Speaker 4: then I didn't know what to do.
38:45
Speaker 12: I was basically.
38:47
Speaker 4: Were basically by the time I got the anchor set,
38:51
Speaker 4: I was probably a quarter to a half a mile
38:54
Speaker 4: away from her.
38:55
Speaker 1: And you Blaine Stevenson ran Hooker's friend. There. You hear
39:00
Speaker 1: him describing as Bryan Fitzgibbons recounted shooting off the flares,
39:07
Speaker 1: but according to other reports, when the dinghy was searched,
39:11
Speaker 1: no flares were missing and the life vests were right
39:18
Speaker 1: there in the floor. Now you've heard him talking about
39:22
Speaker 1: shooting off flares. What does that mean to you? And
39:27
Speaker 1: what do you make of multiple witnesses seeing lights and
39:32
Speaker 1: even flares, one being shot horizontally off the soulmate at
39:37
Speaker 1: the time, Hooker says he's out looking for his wife
39:40
Speaker 1: on the dinghy.
39:44
Speaker 11: Well, I've got kind of two separate thought processes on that.
39:48
Speaker 11: One is he talks about two boats coming, and he
39:52
Speaker 11: fired a flair for the first one and it didn't
39:54
Speaker 11: see it, and then he fired a flair for the
39:56
Speaker 11: second one after it passed me he didn't see it,
39:58
Speaker 11: And I can I can understand a boat going by
40:00
Speaker 11: and not seeing a flare if it was shot behind him,
40:02
Speaker 11: they're not looking behind him. The second boat that came
40:05
Speaker 11: five minutes later would have saw the flare. He fired
40:08
Speaker 11: for the first boat though, right because it would have
40:11
Speaker 11: been heading towards the flare. In his story. As far
40:16
Speaker 11: as lights and flares and the activity on his boat,
40:22
Speaker 11: I don't know what could have been. I mean, I
40:24
Speaker 11: don't know when his sister showed up. Was she on
40:26
Speaker 11: the boat that night? We got reports If he had
40:31
Speaker 11: family in town, he stayed with them, she's seen in
40:35
Speaker 11: a video. Maybe they were on the boat the whole
40:40
Speaker 11: time and that's okay. Or maybe Brian's just so unlucky
40:44
Speaker 11: that he got robbed at the same time he lost
40:46
Speaker 11: his wife. It makes as much sense that he got
40:49
Speaker 11: robbed while he lost his wife off the back of
40:53
Speaker 11: a Dinghi as it does his story.
40:56
Speaker 1: Where are you getting the rob theory If.
40:59
Speaker 11: He's not on his boat because he's on a Dane,
41:01
Speaker 11: somebody broke onto his boat to cause all those lights
41:04
Speaker 11: to shoot off a flare on his boat, He's just
41:08
Speaker 11: had a bad string of luck. Yeah, it's it's It's
41:12
Speaker 11: as probable as the second boat not seeing the first flare.
41:15
Speaker 4: At that point, I was slightly closer to something he
41:20
Speaker 4: which has a few houses on it, and I decided
41:22
Speaker 4: I had to go get help, but I could not
41:25
Speaker 4: get to the islands flood paddle and then the tight
41:27
Speaker 4: the type carried me right the first house and then
41:32
Speaker 4: the second house, and I ended up drifting and paddle
41:41
Speaker 4: many hours until I landed on the Marsh Islands about
41:45
Speaker 4: four miles away.
41:47
Speaker 15: The thing, a key, was not attached to me, you know,
41:49
Speaker 15: so when we were around trying to get back in
41:51
Speaker 15: the boat and some of the sun was falling, when
41:54
Speaker 15: it kind of dropped out, it was a magnet key,
41:57
Speaker 15: you know, for the electric motor.
41:58
Speaker 9: It was a.
41:59
Speaker 4: Cascade to fill. And there's funal thing I'm never going
42:03
Speaker 4: to forgive myself for.
42:04
Speaker 13: And then so this happened like Saturday night during all
42:08
Speaker 13: day at a place called Tahiti Beach, and they're gonna
42:11
Speaker 13: have a beach part that pulls up on a barge.
42:14
Speaker 13: And you know, we hit the next stop it, I mean,
42:18
Speaker 13: stay too long, we left too dark, all kinds of
42:22
Speaker 13: no life jackets. I had to the two that you stuff,
42:25
Speaker 13: you know under the seat, said nobody ever wears for
42:28
Speaker 13: coast Guard purposes.
42:29
Speaker 4: But we used to wear these life jackets all we
42:32
Speaker 4: had these other ones all the time.
42:34
Speaker 1: That is from our friend Vanessa Walt at Unmasked True Crime.
42:38
Speaker 1: But there's more.
42:40
Speaker 4: I said, I've never harmed Linette and I never would
42:42
Speaker 4: harm Lynette, and I want to find Lynnette. No one
42:45
Speaker 4: has told me not to stop looking, and I'm going
42:48
Speaker 4: to keep looking.
42:50
Speaker 1: From our friends at NBC, that is not what the
42:53
Speaker 1: daughter and when that's mother say back to Blaine Stevenson,
42:59
Speaker 1: this is a longtime friend of Brian Hooker's. Given the
43:06
Speaker 1: loud and I'm gonna splash that was heard, given the
43:11
Speaker 1: lights on the soulmate at the time, he says he's
43:14
Speaker 1: in another place. What is your message to Brian Hooker tonight.
43:23
Speaker 11: I feel like the world's painting you in a bad light.
43:25
Speaker 11: I feel like there is a bunch of information coming
43:31
Speaker 11: out that makes your story, myself included, makes your story
43:35
Speaker 11: not true. Let's get together, Let's go find Lynette. Let's
43:38
Speaker 11: prove your story right. Let's give finality to everybody. You're
43:42
Speaker 11: doing no good in Michigan. Let's go find Lynnette, and
43:47
Speaker 11: let's get the salved. That's what needs to happen.
43:50
Speaker 1: To Josh colesrud veteran, try a lawyer. What's your advice
43:54
Speaker 1: for Brian Hooker keep hiding under the bed.
43:58
Speaker 7: Well, I think that is attorney are doing the right thing,
44:02
Speaker 7: which is instructing him not to make any statements to
44:06
Speaker 7: the media and frankly to keep his mouth shut. You
44:09
Speaker 7: are under a microscope. All of your actions and words
44:13
Speaker 7: are going to be scrutinized to the very letter.
44:18
Speaker 9: Now.
44:18
Speaker 7: You know there are going to be pundits that say,
44:20
Speaker 7: why aren't you out there, you know, searching for your wife,
44:23
Speaker 7: But you know you have law enforcement doing that, and
44:27
Speaker 7: you know you're going to be blamed regardless of what
44:30
Speaker 7: you do right now. So you know his attorneys are
44:33
Speaker 7: doing a good job. They need to make sure that
44:35
Speaker 7: he doesn't incriminate himself and frankly needs to be prepared
44:40
Speaker 7: for an arrest and maybe charges down the road.
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. So you're not recommending that he go
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Speaker 1: post haste back to the Bahamas and try to find
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Speaker 1: his wife.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely not. No, it's a foreign jurisdiction. Bahamas have primary
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Speaker 7: jurisdiction in this case. It's a third world country. You
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Speaker 7: do not want to get stuff U and the justice
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Speaker 7: system in any country, especially one that's outside of the
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Speaker 7: United States.
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Speaker 1: And to you, doctor Rachel Tols, what is your advice
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Speaker 1: for Carly her daughter?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, this is incredibly tragic, and I'm sure
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Speaker 14: she's still in shock, and I think that for her
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Speaker 14: it's just again taking care of yourself. Mother's Day obviously
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Speaker 14: just passed recently, and so it's an incredibly hard time
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Speaker 14: for her. So just be kind. There's no obviously, you know,
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Speaker 14: when when your mother or someone you love is missing,
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Speaker 14: you can't really grieve it because you don't really have
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Speaker 14: that closure, and so you can't even say there's no
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Speaker 14: right or wrong way to grieve, because you know, but
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Speaker 14: it's unfortunately likely that she's she's she's passed, you know,
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Speaker 14: and so if she whatever she feels is totally normal.
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Speaker 14: She feels angry, you know, just do whatever it takes
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Speaker 14: to take care of yourself right now, because this is
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Speaker 14: an incredibly probably going to be the hardest time of
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Speaker 14: your life.
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Speaker 1: I do know. One team is trying to solve the
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Speaker 1: mystery of Lynnet's disappearance, Vanessa Walsh, star of Unmasked True Crime. Earlier,
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Speaker 1: we heard Brian Fitzgibbons referred to CGIs Coast Guard Investigation Services.
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Speaker 1: They have the boat, why and where is it?
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Speaker 9: So?
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Speaker 6: What we know about that is that you know, Brian
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Speaker 6: and Lynette's yacht was being surveilled by the US Coast
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Speaker 6: Guard and as it was en route from the Bahamas
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Speaker 6: headed back to the US, it was seized by the
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Speaker 6: coast Guard. There are reports that there were two unidentified
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Speaker 6: mails on the boat at the time. I don't think
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Speaker 6: it's been verified who they were, but it's been widely
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Speaker 6: assumed that those are people that Brian hired to bring
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Speaker 6: the boat back. The fact that the Coast Guard sees
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Speaker 6: this only tells us that the investigation this has moved
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Speaker 6: far beyond a routine missing person's investigation. That boat is
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Speaker 6: very possibly a crime scene and investigators clearly believe that
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Speaker 6: there may be evidence on the boat that's worth processing.
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Speaker 1: I'm preserving rive it's Gibbons USPA nationwide security. What do
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Speaker 1: you make of the Coastguard seizing the bout the yacht
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Speaker 1: the Soulmate as it's on its way back to the US.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're going to want to go through
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Speaker 2: with a fine toothed comb. Everything on that vessel that's
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Speaker 2: creating digital forensic evidence. You know, you're gonna have navigation systems.
47:36
Speaker 2: It's been reported now that there are multiple cameras on
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Speaker 2: the boat, So did those catch anything? You know, Wi Fi,
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Speaker 2: any type of communication device. And I've even heard that
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Speaker 2: these batteries, some of the batteries and power equipment generate
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Speaker 2: a log that will indicate when events took place on
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Speaker 2: the boat. So that's that's going to be the number
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Speaker 2: one thing. The second thing is obviously, you know, doing
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Speaker 2: a deeper dive on that vessel to see if there
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Speaker 2: were cleaning agents used to see if there was blood
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Speaker 2: spatter or any type of physical evidence of an altercation
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Speaker 2: taking place there.
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Speaker 1: If you know or think you know anything about Lynette's disappearance,
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Speaker 1: please call toll free eight hundred four two four eight
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Speaker 1: eight zero two repeat eight hundred four two four eight
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Speaker 1: eight zero two for the US Coastguards. We remember an
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Speaker 1: American hero, Detective Carrie Roscoe, Omaha PD, Nebraska, just twenty nine,
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Speaker 1: shot in the line of duty after seven years on
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Speaker 1: the force, leaving behind a husband turned widow, Hector, and
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Speaker 1: children Olivia, Natalia and Antiago. American hero Detective Carrie Roscoe.
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Speaker 1: Thank you to our guests, but especially to you for
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Speaker 1: being with us as we continue the search for Lynette.
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Speaker 1: Nancy Gray signing off for tonight, but I'll see you
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Speaker 1: tomorrow night, and until then, good night, friend,