Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / LYNETTE HOOKER'S ONLY DAUGHTER SPEAKS OUT AFTER GRISLY UPDATE
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace overboard, A beautiful young mom,
- 0:10Speaker 1: Lynette Hooker, disappears at sea with her husband Tonight. Lynette
- 0:16Speaker 1: Hooker's only daughter speaks out after a grizzly update regarding
- 0:24Speaker 1: her mother. I means he graces. This is Crime Stories.
- 0:27Speaker 1: I want to thank you for being with us. He
- 0:30Speaker 1: was going, I don't have a wife. That's all performative.
- 0:37Speaker 1: That's all performative. Your wife dies, drowns, that is missing,
- 0:42Speaker 1: and you act like that.
- 0:43Speaker 2: You go from being sad to like normal and talking normal.
- 0:46Speaker 3: That's not right.
- 0:47Speaker 2: Humans don't work that way.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Joining us tonight is a very special guest that we
- 0:55Speaker 1: have seen from Afar, we have prayed for, we have
- 0:58Speaker 1: thought about during all these days that her mother, Lynette
- 1:04Speaker 1: has been missing. Carly Aylesworth joining us tonight, Carly, thank
- 1:11Speaker 1: you for being with us.
- 1:12Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for having me.
- 1:14Speaker 1: I've got so many questions for you, but I'll just
- 1:17Speaker 1: start at the beginning. When did you learn your mom
- 1:22Speaker 1: was missing? How did you find that out?
- 1:27Speaker 3: Brian texting me saying call me at around nine eight
- 1:32Speaker 3: thirty at night. My grandma called me prior to that,
- 1:37Speaker 3: but I was napping so I.
- 1:38Speaker 2: Didn't pick up, but then he said call me.
- 1:41Speaker 3: I said, oh, two of my family members need me
- 1:44Speaker 3: to call them.
- 1:45Speaker 2: Something is happening.
- 1:46Speaker 3: So I answered, and I put it on speakerphone, and
- 1:49Speaker 3: Steve was right next to me and he heard the
- 1:51Speaker 3: whole thing too, And Brian just said, hey, your mom
- 1:54Speaker 3: fell overboard. I threw her a life preserver, but she
- 2:00Speaker 3: I don't know if she got it. She's been missing
- 2:03Speaker 3: since last night around seven thirty. And Steve immediately stood
- 2:08Speaker 3: up and was like, something is off, something is sketchy
- 2:10Speaker 3: from that phone call.
- 2:12Speaker 2: And I was still in shock.
- 2:14Speaker 3: I was just sitting there, like, what how do you
- 2:17Speaker 3: lose my mom?
- 2:19Speaker 1: Carly. You stated just then that hey, Brian Hooker, your
- 2:27Speaker 1: mom's husband. It's your stepfather, right, yep, you stated, he
- 2:33Speaker 1: said he threw her a life preserver.
- 2:37Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's not even a life preserver. It's something
- 2:40Speaker 3: that you kneel on or sit on. It's like for gardening,
- 2:43Speaker 3: you something you kneel on, and it doesn't keep one
- 2:46Speaker 3: hundred and fifty pound person afloat, so it's not technically
- 2:50Speaker 3: a life preserver.
- 2:52Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and that's why when you said he
- 2:55Speaker 1: said he threw her a life preserver, because to my memory,
- 2:58Speaker 1: and I don't have any notes about it in front
- 3:00Speaker 1: of me. He said he threw her a seat cushion,
- 3:03Speaker 1: but he told you he threw her a life preserver. Yeah,
- 3:07Speaker 1: and look, I've dived all over the world before I
- 3:10Speaker 1: had the twins. I gave it up because I thought
- 3:12Speaker 1: it was too dangerous. But you're right, Carly. A seat
- 3:16Speaker 1: cushion can be that thick that is not going to
- 3:19Speaker 1: hold anybody up in the water, much less in waves.
- 3:22Speaker 1: He said had started, Yeah, exactly, but he told you
- 3:27Speaker 1: life preserver when we're talking.
- 3:30Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was supposedly found like four hundred feet
- 3:33Speaker 3: from the dinghy when it washed up to short when
- 3:35Speaker 3: he washed up to shore in Marsh Harbor.
- 3:39Speaker 1: So I don't know.
- 3:40Speaker 2: It's just all subjective at the moment.
- 3:42Speaker 1: That's really interesting, Carly. Now I understand what you're saying,
- 3:47Speaker 1: and I agree with you, But could you explain why
- 3:51Speaker 1: you don't think that's true.
- 3:53Speaker 3: I don't believe that it would wash up right next
- 3:56Speaker 3: to you, but my mom suddenly washed the other way.
- 4:00Speaker 2: It just doesn't make.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Sense exactly, that's my thinking. I'm not tied in wave
- 4:06Speaker 1: and current expert. But if he washed that way and
- 4:10Speaker 1: the dinghy washed that way, and the seat cushion washed
- 4:16Speaker 1: that way. Then why didn't she wash that way? And
- 4:21Speaker 1: your mom was an experienced sailor, she knew what to
- 4:26Speaker 1: do if she fell overboard.
- 4:30Speaker 3: Yeah, and where she fell in at we Steve and
- 4:33Speaker 3: I went and like retrace their steps.
- 4:37Speaker 2: That day, and she could have swim a couple.
- 4:40Speaker 3: Of feet to the side, up to shore and stood
- 4:43Speaker 3: up in the water. It was really shallow. It's like
- 4:46Speaker 3: a giant sandbar in between the islands. So I'm just wondering,
- 4:51Speaker 3: why was she swimming away from the dinghy and why
- 4:53Speaker 3: didn't she try to get back on it. Why did
- 4:55Speaker 3: she grab the key on her way out? It doesn't
- 4:59Speaker 3: make any sense.
- 5:00Speaker 1: They see. That's another thing we've been talking about, and
- 5:04Speaker 1: I'm so glad you brought it up, Curly. So let's
- 5:07Speaker 1: just go with your stepfather's story, Brian Hooker's story that
- 5:12Speaker 1: she quote bounced off the dinghy. I still don't know
- 5:16Speaker 1: how she bounced off, but I'll get to that. You're
- 5:19Speaker 1: saying if she fell in in the spot where he described, Hey,
- 5:23Speaker 1: let's see that control and let's see that Matt that
- 5:28Speaker 1: he sent instead of outing being out looking for Lynette
- 5:32Speaker 1: he was on the phone gabbing with friends for hours
- 5:34Speaker 1: on end, putting his story out there and sending maps.
- 5:38Speaker 1: I mean, if my child or husband fell overboard, I
- 5:43Speaker 1: would not be on a conference call on speaker with
- 5:46Speaker 1: my friends trying to get my story. I'd be looking.
- 5:49Speaker 1: But you're hearing Curly Illsworth. This is Lynette's daughter, her
- 5:54Speaker 1: only biological daughter, and she's speaking there. Look, Carly's saying
- 6:01Speaker 1: that where her mom allegedly fell off the dinghy, she
- 6:06Speaker 1: only would have to swim a few feet and stand
- 6:09Speaker 1: up on a sandbar. That's all she had to do.
- 6:13Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying, Carly?
- 6:15Speaker 2: Yep? Pretty much.
- 6:16Speaker 3: And they found two life jackets in the dinghy when
- 6:20Speaker 3: he washed up the shore, So why he didn't put
- 6:22Speaker 3: one on and then jump.
- 6:23Speaker 2: In to go give her the other one doesn't make
- 6:26Speaker 2: sense to me either.
- 6:27Speaker 1: See I did not know that, Carly. That's important. There
- 6:31Speaker 1: were two life jackets still on the dinghy unused.
- 6:35Speaker 2: Yep.
- 6:37Speaker 1: Do you know where they were? Were they in Plaine View?
- 6:40Speaker 1: They were they in a chest, a safety chest? Where
- 6:44Speaker 1: were they?
- 6:45Speaker 3: Eric?
- 6:45Speaker 2: Just out on the floor.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Oh my stars? Oh okay, wait, there's two life this
- 6:55Speaker 1: lying in the floor and he did not throw one
- 6:59Speaker 1: to her and put one on and jump in.
- 7:04Speaker 3: Yeah, his thought was to throw the seat cushion to her.
- 7:08Speaker 3: He's an ex marine. I feel like he should be
- 7:10Speaker 3: more on his toes of when these type of situations.
- 7:15Speaker 1: I'm just trying to take in. You know, in three minutes,
- 7:17Speaker 1: I've already learned more from you than I have from
- 7:20Speaker 1: him in weeks. Okay, let me get back to You're
- 7:25Speaker 1: just giving me so much information and none of it
- 7:28Speaker 1: is good for him. Two. Why fast? Right there in
- 7:32Speaker 1: the dinghy.
- 7:33Speaker 3: My stepsister, his daughter, Rosie, told me, asked. She told
- 7:38Speaker 3: me that she asked him if they were fighting when
- 7:41Speaker 3: this all happened, and he didn't respond.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Okay, hold on, I'm gonna have to start a flow chart.
- 7:47Speaker 1: I'm getting so much information. Hold on, So, Brian Hooker
- 7:51Speaker 1: tells his bio child Rosie, Well, he didn't tell her anything.
- 7:56Speaker 1: She asked her, you arguing at the time, and he
- 7:58Speaker 1: said nothing.
- 8:00Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:03Speaker 1: What else did you say to Rosie?
- 8:06Speaker 2: Uh? He didn't.
- 8:08Speaker 3: I don't think he said much to her. He mostly talked.
- 8:12Speaker 3: He talked to us in a group chat with her,
- 8:15Speaker 3: just to us three and was like, I wish I
- 8:17Speaker 3: could be there for you guys, but I.
- 8:19Speaker 2: Have to be here searching for her. This lady can
- 8:21Speaker 2: take care of you guys, So that's she.
- 8:25Speaker 3: I don't know how much she's talked to him because
- 8:27Speaker 3: she's still distraught because she was close to my mom too,
- 8:31Speaker 3: so she's.
- 8:33Speaker 2: Doesn't She doesn't want to believe any he did anything
- 8:36Speaker 2: to her because that's her dad. So I get that.
- 8:40Speaker 2: But at the same time, with what we know, it's
- 8:43Speaker 2: just not adding note.
- 8:46Speaker 1: With us tonight, carly Aylsworth, this is Lynette Hooker's only
- 8:51Speaker 1: biological daughter. I do not know how you have the
- 8:55Speaker 1: composure I admire it to speak. I wonder, if you're
- 9:02Speaker 1: in a state of shock, do you believe there's any
- 9:05Speaker 1: chance your mom is still alive.
- 9:08Speaker 3: There's still a string of hope that she's just on
- 9:10Speaker 3: an island somewhere living it up, needing a break from life.
- 9:15Speaker 3: So without a body, it's kind of hard to like
- 9:18Speaker 3: for me to have much closure right now. I still
- 9:21Speaker 3: have so many questions as to what happened, a lot
- 9:26Speaker 3: of what ifs.
- 9:28Speaker 2: Why did that happen? Why did not this happen? It's
- 9:32Speaker 2: just hard.
- 9:34Speaker 1: I'm glad you have your boyfriend stayed with you. What
- 9:37Speaker 1: was his reaction when your dad, your stepfather, called and
- 9:43Speaker 1: told you your mom's missing. And let's see, he said
- 9:48Speaker 1: that happened at seven thirty the night before. And when
- 9:51Speaker 1: did he call.
- 9:51Speaker 2: You nine thirty the next day at night.
- 9:58Speaker 1: Nine thirty am? M oh my goodness. Okay, hold on,
- 10:03Speaker 1: So we're talking about twenty six hours later.
- 10:08Speaker 2: Yep?
- 10:10Speaker 1: Did you ask him why he waited over a day
- 10:13Speaker 1: to let you know?
- 10:16Speaker 3: I was in shock when he called me, so I
- 10:18Speaker 3: didn't really say much. I was like, okay, just trying
- 10:22Speaker 3: to soak it all in. But as soon as I
- 10:25Speaker 3: go off the phone, Steve got up and was like,
- 10:27Speaker 3: that was sketchy.
- 10:28Speaker 2: Something's off.
- 10:35Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace. Tell me one more time
- 10:43Speaker 1: exactly what he said on that nine point thirty PM
- 10:46Speaker 1: call the day after your mom went overboard? What exactly
- 10:50Speaker 1: did he say?
- 10:51Speaker 2: He called me and was like, hey, your mom fell overboard.
- 10:55Speaker 3: I try to throw a life to preserve birds or her,
- 10:59Speaker 3: but I don't know if she got it.
- 11:00Speaker 2: She drifted the other way.
- 11:02Speaker 3: So I paddled to shore, and he said he washed
- 11:06Speaker 3: up to shore at like four thirty in the morning
- 11:09Speaker 3: the next morning. And so then he's like, but we're
- 11:12Speaker 3: gonna come up and see you soon. So we're hoping
- 11:16Speaker 3: that we're gonna see you. And I was like okay,
- 11:20Speaker 3: and then he started talking about it again and quickly
- 11:23Speaker 3: hung up, hung up on the phone, and I was like,
- 11:27Speaker 3: what just happened? And Steve got up like that was Sketchyes,
- 11:30Speaker 3: that was like that doesn't add up, like, and he
- 11:33Speaker 3: was also trying to console me, but he was also
- 11:35Speaker 3: like that, I don't believe the story as soon as
- 11:38Speaker 3: you said it, so it was sketchy from the start.
- 11:43Speaker 1: So he says she fell in. He threw her a
- 11:47Speaker 1: life preserver. She went one way, and he paddled the
- 11:52Speaker 1: other way.
- 11:54Speaker 2: Yeah, and it took him nine hours to get to shore.
- 11:58Speaker 2: To Mart's harber.
- 12:01Speaker 1: He said, he paddled the other way away from your mother.
- 12:05Speaker 2: Because the wind was pushing it.
- 12:07Speaker 1: I guess, okay, I just want to make sure, he
- 12:12Speaker 1: said he paddled the other way.
- 12:15Speaker 3: He just paddled with the wind, which is the other
- 12:18Speaker 3: direction that she supposedly drifted away.
- 12:23Speaker 2: I guess.
- 12:23Speaker 1: And it took him nine hours.
- 12:26Speaker 3: Yeah, So to him, the current was going one way,
- 12:28Speaker 3: but the wind was going the other way. But I've
- 12:32Speaker 3: talked to a captain there and when I went to
- 12:34Speaker 3: the Bahamas and they said that they swam where he
- 12:38Speaker 3: paddled in two and a half hours, So the fact
- 12:41Speaker 3: that it took him nine hours doesn't add up.
- 12:46Speaker 1: What happened after that phone call with your stepfather? When
- 12:50Speaker 1: did you hear from him again? Uh?
- 12:54Speaker 3: Immediately after the phone call, I called my dad and
- 12:57Speaker 3: I was like, you will never believe the news I
- 12:59Speaker 3: just got. He's like, I'm sure I can't because my
- 13:01Speaker 3: grandma called him because she.
- 13:03Speaker 2: Couldn't get a hold of me.
- 13:05Speaker 3: And he's like, I was like, my mom's missing, and
- 13:08Speaker 3: he goes, I know. We talked about it for a
- 13:11Speaker 3: minute and he was like, I wasn't your number mom's
- 13:14Speaker 3: number one fan, but this is messed up, Like I
- 13:17Speaker 3: care about her because that's your mom.
- 13:20Speaker 2: So it was yeah, that's immediately what I did after.
- 13:25Speaker 1: When did you hear from him again? Cary?
- 13:28Speaker 2: Oh?
- 13:29Speaker 3: He left me some voicemails and that they found the
- 13:32Speaker 3: life preserver that he threw to her and that they
- 13:35Speaker 3: can search a smaller area now and left me a
- 13:40Speaker 3: couple texts brought the group chats with Rosie and I,
- 13:43Speaker 3: but I haven't responded. I don't plan to respond right
- 13:47Speaker 3: now with the facts that I have and my gut feeling.
- 13:50Speaker 1: So after that, you were included on some grape texts,
- 13:53Speaker 1: What did they have to say.
- 13:56Speaker 3: He was just saying how he wishes he could be
- 13:58Speaker 3: there for us and we'll get through this this lady
- 14:02Speaker 3: to take care of us if we need.
- 14:04Speaker 2: To, and just that he needs to be there right now.
- 14:07Speaker 1: Searching, what do you make of that evening's events. I
- 14:13Speaker 1: guess that you're learning about through the media, that they
- 14:16Speaker 1: went to have dinner at the inn, that they had
- 14:21Speaker 1: drinks there, that they left around seven seven point thirty.
- 14:25Speaker 1: Almost immediately when they got in the dinghy, the waves
- 14:30Speaker 1: kicked up to two or three foot swells, and that
- 14:34Speaker 1: shallow area that she quote bounced off the dinghy and
- 14:39Speaker 1: was never seen again. What part of that does or
- 14:43Speaker 1: does not make sense to you?
- 14:47Speaker 3: Well, the Atlantic side, I can see you having that
- 14:50Speaker 3: big old waves because I was there and I saw
- 14:52Speaker 3: the waves are pretty big.
- 14:54Speaker 2: But on the leeward side it's like glass.
- 14:56Speaker 3: It's not even no waves, And there's a channel that
- 15:01Speaker 3: you go down because the boats need to be deep
- 15:04Speaker 3: enough and so and then it's only like so wide.
- 15:08Speaker 2: It's like fifty feet wide.
- 15:09Speaker 3: Twenties. I don't know, not that wide, and she could
- 15:13Speaker 3: have swam to the side and stood up.
- 15:15Speaker 2: It's only a couple of feet outside the channel, so
- 15:18Speaker 2: I don't see how their condition swim. Yes, and she
- 15:23Speaker 2: used to run all the.
- 15:24Speaker 3: Time, ran half marathon in a twenty five k so
- 15:28Speaker 3: she was pretty fit.
- 15:29Speaker 2: She could swim. They've done this for ten years, so
- 15:32Speaker 2: she knows all about the water.
- 15:33Speaker 1: So when was the last time you actually spoke to.
- 15:36Speaker 2: Your mom Friday around dinner time?
- 15:41Speaker 1: And what did she have to say? What was her
- 15:43Speaker 1: frame of mind?
- 15:44Speaker 2: She seemed fine to me.
- 15:47Speaker 3: I asked her for advice and she was helping me
- 15:49Speaker 3: with that, so she you were just Yeah, she'd more
- 15:54Speaker 3: confide in my grandma about like relationship problems.
- 15:57Speaker 2: And money and all that.
- 16:00Speaker 3: So she just she only tells me like when she
- 16:02Speaker 3: thinks she's going to break up with him and leave him.
- 16:06Speaker 1: But yeah, Carly, tell me about if you know about them,
- 16:11Speaker 1: their relationship and money problems.
- 16:13Speaker 3: So I know that they don't touch my mom's retirement
- 16:16Speaker 3: right now because she's not fifty nine and a half.
- 16:19Speaker 3: So they've been taking out of Brian's so I don't
- 16:21Speaker 3: know how much he has. I don't know, like what
- 16:25Speaker 3: his financials are. I know my mom has life insurance,
- 16:28Speaker 3: but it's only fifteen thousand from AT and T where
- 16:31Speaker 3: she retired, So I don't know if they took out
- 16:33Speaker 3: another life insurance. I ask my lawyer, but he's looking
- 16:37Speaker 3: into it.
- 16:38Speaker 1: So so they're living all of your mom's retirement is
- 16:43Speaker 1: sitting there.
- 16:45Speaker 2: Yeah, she has like well over six.
- 16:47Speaker 1: Hundred k, yeah, that she has built up over all
- 16:53Speaker 1: the time that she worked at AT and T.
- 16:56Speaker 3: Yeah, And like the fact past last two years she
- 16:59Speaker 3: was working a few years she was dumping like one
- 17:01Speaker 3: thousand dollars each.
- 17:02Speaker 2: Paycheck every other week into her retirement.
- 17:05Speaker 3: So I know it's pretty high.
- 17:09Speaker 1: And you know another thing about that, Curly is I
- 17:12Speaker 1: think AT and T has a plan where they match
- 17:17Speaker 1: not the full amount you put in, but up to
- 17:20Speaker 1: a certain percentage, like five percent or ten percent, they
- 17:24Speaker 1: match what you saved. A lot of big corporations have that.
- 17:27Speaker 1: So what she was putting in there was matched to
- 17:31Speaker 1: some extent, most likely by AT and T. And that
- 17:34Speaker 1: really adds up two grand a month from her and
- 17:38Speaker 1: then just let's say eight hundred two a grand from
- 17:41Speaker 1: AT and T a month the whole time she's banking
- 17:46Speaker 1: it in that retirement plan. That's a lot of money
- 17:48Speaker 1: saved up, so well over half a million dollars yep.
- 17:54Speaker 1: And I assume that he, Brian Hooker, is the benefit
- 18:00Speaker 1: as the recipient of that upon her death.
- 18:04Speaker 2: So my grandma said, my mom wanted hurt.
- 18:08Speaker 3: My mom wanted to change the beneficiary to me the
- 18:11Speaker 3: last time they broke up two years ago, but she
- 18:14Speaker 3: doesn't know.
- 18:14Speaker 2: If my mom ever got around to doing that.
- 18:17Speaker 1: There have been reports that he took out a quarter
- 18:21Speaker 1: of a million dollar life insurance policy before your mom
- 18:24Speaker 1: went missing. Do you know anything about that?
- 18:27Speaker 2: I do not.
- 18:28Speaker 3: I asked my lawyer if you could look into it,
- 18:30Speaker 3: but I haven't heard from him yet because I asked
- 18:34Speaker 3: him on the weekend, so I think he's still looking
- 18:36Speaker 3: into it.
- 18:37Speaker 2: I still have to check back up with him.
- 18:39Speaker 1: Let that Hooker's only daughter, Carly Aylesworth joining us tonight. Carly,
- 18:46Speaker 1: when and why did you decide you had to go
- 18:49Speaker 1: to the Mahamas yourself?
- 18:51Speaker 3: I just wanted to retrace their steps, get more answers.
- 18:54Speaker 2: On like what happened, and I felt like that was.
- 18:58Speaker 3: A very I answered a lot of questions, but like
- 19:02Speaker 3: it just arose more questions.
- 19:04Speaker 2: Of why did that happen? Why didn't this happen?
- 19:07Speaker 3: This, it's like a cascade of coincidences happened.
- 19:12Speaker 1: Let me ask you, Carling, when you went down to
- 19:14Speaker 1: the Bahamas, what did you do.
- 19:17Speaker 2: The first day we flew to Nassauce.
- 19:19Speaker 3: We stayed the night there and I got my hair
- 19:21Speaker 3: braided by a lady in the streets. And then the
- 19:23Speaker 3: next day we flew to marsh Harbor. I did an
- 19:26Speaker 3: interview with Dateline and then I talked to the Bahamian
- 19:29Speaker 3: police for about three and a half hours. They hand
- 19:32Speaker 3: write everything, so it took a while, but I was
- 19:36Speaker 3: happy to either answer any questions. They didn't tell me anything.
- 19:41Speaker 3: They just wanted to know my side of their relationship
- 19:44Speaker 3: and what I knew. And then I went and then
- 19:48Speaker 3: somebody offered us a boat ride to go on to
- 19:51Speaker 3: soulmate their sailboat.
- 19:53Speaker 2: And then I got a couple of items that's so
- 19:56Speaker 2: I can remember my mom.
- 19:57Speaker 3: I had her l necklace on right now that she
- 19:59Speaker 3: used to weigh all the time.
- 20:02Speaker 2: I got some of her headbands.
- 20:04Speaker 3: I got a picture frame I painted for her, and
- 20:06Speaker 3: something that was sewn for her.
- 20:08Speaker 2: In a Buddha so she loves Buddha.
- 20:12Speaker 3: Then I went to bed like right after that exit
- 20:14Speaker 3: that day exhausted me.
- 20:15Speaker 2: I got fourteen hours of sleep, and.
- 20:18Speaker 3: Then the next day we took a ferry to Hopetown
- 20:21Speaker 3: where she was last seen and we went to the
- 20:24Speaker 3: Abaco Inn and the general manager did show us videos
- 20:28Speaker 3: of her last moments there, but they didn't send He
- 20:32Speaker 3: didn't send them to me because he wants to respect
- 20:34Speaker 3: the investigation.
- 20:35Speaker 2: So I said okay, And so I just have.
- 20:38Speaker 3: A faint memory of the videos. The videos aren't in
- 20:41Speaker 3: four K or anything, so it was fuzzy. You couldn't
- 20:45Speaker 3: really see details. And there is a picture of them
- 20:48Speaker 3: at the pool at six thirty four pm. That was
- 20:52Speaker 3: the last like noted thing about them. So we talked
- 20:57Speaker 3: to the lady there at the Abaco In and she
- 21:01Speaker 3: was really nice.
- 21:02Speaker 2: She helped a lot.
- 21:03Speaker 3: She asked somebody if they had cameras on their house
- 21:07Speaker 3: that was right next to Abaco In. They said no,
- 21:10Speaker 3: and then she got us a boat ride and so
- 21:12Speaker 3: we went to the floating bar that they went earlier
- 21:16Speaker 3: in that day and we asked questions and they said
- 21:19Speaker 3: nothing was unusual about them, just getting drinks. And then
- 21:24Speaker 3: there's rumors that they went to Firefly, so we didn't
- 21:27Speaker 3: go there.
- 21:28Speaker 2: There's nothing. Nobody remembers them. There's no cameras there.
- 21:32Speaker 3: And then we went to and then we looked where
- 21:36Speaker 3: she fell in. The whole thing is like a giant samdbar.
- 21:39Speaker 3: She could have swam a couple of feet and then
- 21:41Speaker 3: stood up, so I don't see how she could have
- 21:45Speaker 3: flown away and drowned.
- 21:48Speaker 1: Is it true that your stepdad, Brian Hooker knew you
- 21:52Speaker 1: were coming down and he left anyway just before you
- 21:56Speaker 1: got I'm sure.
- 21:57Speaker 3: He did because I told the reporters that I was
- 22:00Speaker 3: coming down there, So I'm sure he knew and he
- 22:04Speaker 3: bolted right before I got there.
- 22:06Speaker 1: What do you mean by right before you got there?
- 22:08Speaker 3: I don't remember if it was a couple hours before
- 22:11Speaker 3: I landed in the Bahamas or it was the day before.
- 22:14Speaker 2: It's a little blurry right now. A lots happens, but
- 22:17Speaker 2: I do know right before I got there, he left,
- 22:19Speaker 2: and I he called my dad and I was like,
- 22:22Speaker 2: he left? Can you believe that? And he's like, no,
- 22:26Speaker 2: I cannot guess. Is wild.
- 22:29Speaker 1: Were you surprised he left?
- 22:32Speaker 2: Yes?
- 22:32Speaker 3: Because one day he's saying, I'll never stop searching for
- 22:35Speaker 3: her and crying on camera, and then leaves the very
- 22:38Speaker 3: next day, which to me, that just shows his character
- 22:42Speaker 3: on how much his word means and just who he
- 22:45Speaker 3: is as a person. You're gonna go see your mom
- 22:49Speaker 3: who's been ill. She's been ill for a while with
- 22:51Speaker 3: chronic kidney failure. So I'm not saying like, don't see
- 22:55Speaker 3: your mom, but with what's going on right now, why
- 22:59Speaker 3: leave now?
- 23:02Speaker 1: I've got a question about that, and then I'm going
- 23:04Speaker 1: to circle back to everything that you did in retracing
- 23:07Speaker 1: the steps of your mom. I find that very odd
- 23:11Speaker 1: because my mom, who lives with me, she's ninety four,
- 23:14Speaker 1: has been in chronic kidney failure. I know for a
- 23:18Speaker 1: fact since twenty sixteen. Sometimes when we take her to
- 23:22Speaker 1: the kidney doctor, her kidney function is like forty seven,
- 23:26Speaker 1: which is good, really good if you're ninety four. Sometimes
- 23:29Speaker 1: it's twenty seven, and I make her special food that's
- 23:33Speaker 1: supposed to help your kidneys, and it goes right back up.
- 23:36Speaker 1: So you can be in chronic kidney failure for a
- 23:39Speaker 1: really long time. I know, for ten years. Did he
- 23:43Speaker 1: really go to her bedside?
- 23:46Speaker 3: I know he flew her to Atlanta, but where you
- 23:49Speaker 3: went after that is I don't know for certain, but
- 23:52Speaker 3: I think it's in California.
- 23:55Speaker 2: Where's mom?
- 23:57Speaker 1: Okay, you think the mom is in California. Do you
- 24:00Speaker 1: have any indication she's in the hospital.
- 24:04Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think he's in the hospital because she
- 24:06Speaker 3: was going to get a kidney transplant, but she declined,
- 24:09Speaker 3: so I don't think she's going to the hospital.
- 24:12Speaker 1: Okay. Have you spoken to him since he turned tail
- 24:17Speaker 1: and left?
- 24:18Speaker 2: No, he hasn't even reach showed either.
- 24:21Speaker 1: Okay, you mentioned that he was crying on camera. I looked.
- 24:24Speaker 1: I replayed it over and over and over. I heard
- 24:26Speaker 1: a lot of sniveling and when he would act like
- 24:29Speaker 1: he was crying and suddenly have a coughing fit. But
- 24:32Speaker 1: I never saw a single tear.
- 24:34Speaker 2: Yeah, neither to die.
- 24:38Speaker 1: Okay. I was wondering if is that just me? You
- 24:41Speaker 1: mentioned that your mom, Lynette, spoke to your grandmother, her
- 24:48Speaker 1: mother about their relationship problems. You told me about them.
- 24:52Speaker 1: You mentioned money problems too. What were their money problems
- 24:55Speaker 1: and what were their relationship problems? And why did they
- 24:58Speaker 1: stay together?
- 25:01Speaker 3: I don't know why they stay together. I do know
- 25:04Speaker 3: that my mom bought a plane ticket like five days
- 25:07Speaker 3: after I was visiting them to go all one way
- 25:12Speaker 3: ticket to Florida to my grandma she's in the middle there,
- 25:16Speaker 3: to go back to her house. I didn't know that
- 25:18Speaker 3: she bought the plane ticket until all of this happened,
- 25:21Speaker 3: but she.
- 25:21Speaker 2: Never got on the plane. She stayed. I don't think
- 25:25Speaker 2: she wanted to go through another divorce.
- 25:28Speaker 3: I think she loved him, but she didn't love that
- 25:30Speaker 3: side of him that he can get.
- 25:34Speaker 2: Very anarchy and smart, assy and just like kicking on
- 25:41Speaker 2: her kind of.
- 25:42Speaker 3: And she even mentioned to me when I was there,
- 25:44Speaker 3: she didn't like how he gets twenty drinks and gets very.
- 25:49Speaker 1: Emotional, remain very emotional.
- 25:54Speaker 3: I just think like when you're drinking, your emotions get
- 25:58Speaker 3: amplified a little more like spiral. Like she bought like
- 26:03Speaker 3: a bath set like a rug and a curtain with
- 26:06Speaker 3: the little holders on it, and he was like making
- 26:10Speaker 3: fun of her kind.
- 26:11Speaker 2: Of about it, and why did you buy that?
- 26:13Speaker 3: Blah blah blah, and she's like, what do you mean,
- 26:16Speaker 3: And that's when she mentioned she didn't like how he
- 26:19Speaker 3: gets when he drinks. But he can be really great
- 26:23Speaker 3: and a great and he talks to everybody and very uncharming,
- 26:28Speaker 3: or he can beat that, so he's just like two
- 26:32Speaker 3: sides to him.
- 26:33Speaker 1: What do you make of claims of domestic abuse of
- 26:36Speaker 1: him beating her?
- 26:39Speaker 3: I do believe that happened because she told me two
- 26:42Speaker 3: years ago that he choked her and was threatening to
- 26:46Speaker 3: kill her and throw her overboard, and she said he
- 26:48Speaker 3: choked her so bad that she felt something like pop
- 26:52Speaker 3: in her neck. So and then that's when she packed
- 26:56Speaker 3: her bag and left, and that she only left him
- 26:59Speaker 3: for like a couple of months. She went back to him, sadly.
- 27:04Speaker 3: I don't know why she went back. I think she's
- 27:06Speaker 3: always known that she needs to leave him, but she
- 27:09Speaker 3: cares about him a lot, and he can be a
- 27:11Speaker 3: great person. Like he's been there a lot for me
- 27:14Speaker 3: and always gave me advice too, because I was in
- 27:18Speaker 3: a group chat with him and my mom, so I
- 27:21Speaker 3: got along with him for my mom. Really, I always
- 27:25Speaker 3: didn't want her to be with him. Every time they
- 27:27Speaker 3: broke up, I was like advocating for her to stay
- 27:30Speaker 3: away because it feels like he like tried to like
- 27:34Speaker 3: take her away and like made herself the house. And
- 27:37Speaker 3: I know that she wanted to do that eventually, but
- 27:39Speaker 3: I don't think that she was like ready to do
- 27:42Speaker 3: it yet. I think it was just like she was
- 27:44Speaker 3: tired of being bored at work because nobody has phones anymore.
- 27:47Speaker 1: So it's just, Yeah, did you see the photo of
- 27:54Speaker 1: the bruises all along her lower back?
- 27:58Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 27:58Speaker 3: I know her friend had that picture. I didn't see
- 28:01Speaker 3: that until after all this happened. Like, she doesn't really
- 28:04Speaker 3: tell me much about what goes on in the relationship
- 28:09Speaker 3: until after she thinks she's gonna leave him. So I
- 28:13Speaker 3: just hear from my grandma and from Rachel, her friend.
- 28:18Speaker 1: Why were they having so many money problems?
- 28:20Speaker 3: Carly, I think like since he was taken out of
- 28:25Speaker 3: there his retirement, but not hers, I think maybe that
- 28:30Speaker 3: might be it. I know when she left him, she
- 28:32Speaker 3: was going to go back to work at the post office.
- 28:35Speaker 2: Maybe she was thinking about it. She was applying, she says.
- 28:40Speaker 3: When she's not with him, she feels like she needs
- 28:43Speaker 3: to go back to work for a little bit.
- 28:45Speaker 2: Because she retired at forty nine.
- 28:47Speaker 3: So she could have stayed a little harder.
- 28:50Speaker 2: But yeah, it's just.
- 28:54Speaker 1: Why did he retire? Why isn't he working?
- 28:58Speaker 3: He got fired from at and t Uh. The bosses
- 29:01Speaker 3: didn't really cared for him because he was a union
- 29:04Speaker 3: Steward and just like to yell at them and make
- 29:07Speaker 3: him cry. He was bragged about making them cry a lot.
- 29:12Speaker 3: So I don't think the managers there really cared for him,
- 29:17Speaker 3: and then they started micromanaging him and eventually got him fired.
- 29:22Speaker 1: Okay, question to you, do you believe he left to
- 29:29Speaker 1: go see his mother.
- 29:32Speaker 3: I do believe he did, but I don't think she's
- 29:37Speaker 3: like passing away anytime soon.
- 29:42Speaker 1: So was that a way for him to get out
- 29:45Speaker 1: of the Bahamas.
- 29:46Speaker 3: I don't think he wanted. A part of me feels
- 29:48Speaker 3: like he didn't want to face Steve and I I'm
- 29:51Speaker 3: glad he left those because I did not want to
- 29:53Speaker 3: run into him.
- 29:54Speaker 2: I did not. I didn't want to say something and
- 29:57Speaker 2: I regret or something.
- 29:59Speaker 1: You said. You got to go on to the soulmate.
- 30:02Speaker 1: What did you observe? And where is the boat now?
- 30:06Speaker 2: It's still on the morning ball at Conkin.
- 30:08Speaker 3: It's a hotel there and they have morning balls out
- 30:11Speaker 3: in the water, and they they originally put their boat
- 30:15Speaker 3: there so they could use the bathrooms.
- 30:17Speaker 2: In the pool and the bar.
- 30:20Speaker 3: There's great and so then they moved their boat next
- 30:25Speaker 3: to elbow Keep and then after she disappeared, he moved
- 30:30Speaker 3: the sailboat back to Conkin, so that was confusing why
- 30:34Speaker 3: he didn't leave the boat right where it was so
- 30:36Speaker 3: his missing wife knew where to look.
- 30:44Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace. What do you make of
- 30:51Speaker 1: the police decision in the Bahamas to let him go?
- 30:54Speaker 3: I wish they would have kept them longer, but I
- 30:59Speaker 3: guess they have to follow their rules. There's just not
- 31:04Speaker 3: enough evidence right now, especially without finding the body. I
- 31:08Speaker 3: guess when he was in custody, he would only answer
- 31:11Speaker 3: four out of ninety four questions, so he didn't really
- 31:15Speaker 3: give out any information.
- 31:18Speaker 1: Okay, hold on, he only answered four out of ninety
- 31:22Speaker 1: four questions. Please put to him.
- 31:26Speaker 2: Yep.
- 31:27Speaker 1: How did you find that out?
- 31:30Speaker 3: A reporter asked people, and she told me so, it's
- 31:35Speaker 3: not definite. I don't know for sure. It's just hearsay,
- 31:39Speaker 3: but that's what I was called.
- 31:41Speaker 1: I still don't understand, Carly, how your mom quote bounced
- 31:45Speaker 1: off the dinghy? Did he explain that he didn't really?
- 31:49Speaker 3: I didn't really talk to him. I just heard the
- 31:51Speaker 3: recording that somebody else posted about how he dropped the
- 31:56Speaker 3: anchor and let off a flare, which was funny because
- 31:59Speaker 3: he only met that after I brought.
- 32:01Speaker 2: It up, like, why didn't he do that?
- 32:03Speaker 3: And I guess one flare was expended, but it just
- 32:08Speaker 3: nobody saw it. So and all the captains that we
- 32:11Speaker 3: talked to said, if we see a flair, we are
- 32:13Speaker 3: there in less than five minutes. So and it was
- 32:16Speaker 3: a Saturday night and everybody's out on their boat, out
- 32:19Speaker 3: in the water on their boat. So it's just confusing
- 32:23Speaker 3: that nobody saw it.
- 32:25Speaker 2: Somehow.
- 32:27Speaker 3: In on the leeward side, it's not very it's very calm,
- 32:31Speaker 3: there's not much wind.
- 32:32Speaker 2: It's all on the Atlantic side.
- 32:34Speaker 3: So the fact that there was that big old waves
- 32:37Speaker 3: on that side of the island, I don't believe it's true.
- 32:41Speaker 3: I did talk to a captain and he said he
- 32:43Speaker 3: was working that night and he doesn't remember the waves
- 32:46Speaker 3: being that bad. He said it was windy, yes, but
- 32:50Speaker 3: not to the point where someone can just bounce out.
- 32:54Speaker 1: How do you know one flare was expanded?
- 32:58Speaker 3: I saw an interview from with Ken with another reporter
- 33:02Speaker 3: or a podcaster, and he said that one flare was
- 33:05Speaker 3: expended in the.
- 33:06Speaker 1: Dinghy because some reports are that none of the safety
- 33:11Speaker 1: equipment had been used at all, including the flares, and
- 33:16Speaker 1: he stated he put off two flares.
- 33:18Speaker 3: Yeah, there's so many different variations of this story that
- 33:22Speaker 3: he keeps saying, So.
- 33:25Speaker 2: I think I hope he just messes up one time.
- 33:28Speaker 1: And I don't know how far away from the shore,
- 33:32Speaker 1: Carly did your mom allegedly fall off the dinghy.
- 33:37Speaker 3: She fell off right at the end of the channel,
- 33:41Speaker 3: so it's pretty like maybe fifty feet.
- 33:46Speaker 2: She only had to swim a couple of feet to
- 33:47Speaker 2: stand up.
- 33:49Speaker 1: And fifty feet in all, five zero fifty feet from
- 33:53Speaker 1: sure just about and just a few feet to stand
- 33:57Speaker 1: up on the sandbar.
- 33:59Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 34:00Speaker 1: Do you think there is any way under the sun
- 34:04Speaker 1: your mother would be alive somewhere hiding from you.
- 34:11Speaker 2: That's what I'm hoping for. I hope she's still alive.
- 34:13Speaker 2: I hope she's happy, and I hope she's okay.
- 34:16Speaker 1: But do you think that makes any sense? Would she
- 34:19Speaker 1: hide from you maybe as a way to hide from him.
- 34:23Speaker 3: No, I feel like she would at least reach out
- 34:25Speaker 3: to my grandma because her they're really close, So I
- 34:29Speaker 3: feel like she would have at least contacted my grandma,
- 34:33Speaker 3: And I know my grandma would have told I don't
- 34:35Speaker 3: honestly know. Maybe they would have kept it a secret,
- 34:38Speaker 3: but I know my grandma wouldn't be this distraught also
- 34:42Speaker 3: if she knew her daughter was alive.
- 34:45Speaker 1: So I don't when you say your grandma would not
- 34:50Speaker 1: be this distraught if she believed Lynette was still alive.
- 34:54Speaker 1: What do you mean, like.
- 34:57Speaker 2: If my mom contacted her.
- 34:58Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like my grandma would let
- 35:01Speaker 3: me know because this is like a big deal.
- 35:05Speaker 2: I don't think she would want me to be burting
- 35:06Speaker 2: this bad if she knew that she was alive. But
- 35:11Speaker 2: I don't.
- 35:12Speaker 3: None of us have heard from her. I sometimes even
- 35:14Speaker 3: call her just this see if she would pick up.
- 35:16Speaker 3: But nothing, there's nothing.
- 35:20Speaker 1: You still call her number sometimes I do that too.
- 35:24Speaker 1: Sometimes I call my dad's cell number. It's not going
- 35:27Speaker 1: to pick up, I know that, but I do it anyway.
- 35:29Speaker 1: I don't know why we do that.
- 35:30Speaker 2: Carly slowly to Hole.
- 35:35Speaker 1: I forgot to ask you something. What can you tell
- 35:39Speaker 1: me about your mom's Apple watch being found on the cellmate?
- 35:46Speaker 3: I don't she didn't really wear her watch when I
- 35:48Speaker 3: went out to visit in February. But what I heard
- 35:54Speaker 3: is that Brian handed the Coast Guard and the Bahamian
- 35:56Speaker 3: police the watch from the book.
- 35:59Speaker 1: How about her cell phone.
- 36:02Speaker 3: That was in the dry bag with the passports, and
- 36:06Speaker 3: they haven't found the dry bag.
- 36:08Speaker 1: And that was retrieved. They have not found the dry bag,
- 36:12Speaker 1: you know what. I heard that earlier, but it didn't
- 36:15Speaker 1: make sense to me that he could leave the country
- 36:17Speaker 1: without a passport.
- 36:19Speaker 2: I think he got an expedited one.
- 36:21Speaker 1: Well, that answers that. So both passports and her cell
- 36:26Speaker 1: phone were in the dry bag and that's lost.
- 36:33Speaker 3: Yeah, A part of me feels like it was around
- 36:35Speaker 3: her wrist or something and she disappeared with it.
- 36:41Speaker 1: Did that have the kill switch in it too?
- 36:45Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 36:45Speaker 3: He said that the spare one was in her dry bag,
- 36:50Speaker 3: but never mentions the one that they were using, or
- 36:54Speaker 3: she grabbed it on our way.
- 36:55Speaker 2: See, that's where I'm confused. Did they have two with
- 36:58Speaker 2: them or so? What happened to the original one?
- 37:03Speaker 3: If the spare one was in her dry bag, that's
- 37:07Speaker 3: I'm confused about that.
- 37:08Speaker 1: You're right, And why would she have her passport with
- 37:13Speaker 1: her and go overboard with it? Are you saying she
- 37:16Speaker 1: had it attached to her wrist?
- 37:18Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking.
- 37:20Speaker 3: Because they haven't found it, it would have been floating.
- 37:22Speaker 3: That's the use of what dry bags are for. But
- 37:26Speaker 3: I don't know if they haven't found.
- 37:27Speaker 1: It, guys, Carly has established a go fund me to
- 37:34Speaker 1: fund her own search for her mother and lawyer's fees. Carly,
- 37:39Speaker 1: where can we find your go fund me?
- 37:43Speaker 3: I posted it on all my social media platforms. I
- 37:46Speaker 3: made sure it was public on Facebook, so if you
- 37:48Speaker 3: search me on Facebook, you'll see it in my Instagram.
- 37:52Speaker 3: I have it in my TikTok a sleepy underdash ponyo.
- 37:56Speaker 3: If you want to look that up. I'm gonna have
- 37:59Speaker 3: to do it for either searching for my mom or
- 38:01Speaker 3: lawyer fees in the future because this is ridiculous.
- 38:06Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Carly for being with us tonight. Guys,
- 38:09Speaker 1: you can find her go fund me. If you want
- 38:11Speaker 1: to help, go to her go fundme. You can look
- 38:15Speaker 1: it up on Google. There it is Lynette Hooker, missing
- 38:17Speaker 1: in the Bahamas. Sleepy underscore panyo. Everyone. If you know
- 38:25Speaker 1: or think you know anything about the disappearance of this
- 38:28Speaker 1: beautiful mom, Lynette Hooker, please dial two four two three
- 38:34Speaker 1: hundred eight four seven seven repeat two four two three
- 38:39Speaker 1: hundred eight four seven seven. We remember an American hero,
- 38:45Speaker 1: Deputy Sheriff Douglas Hannah wassh dot County Sheriff's Oklahoma, killed
- 38:50Speaker 1: in the line of duty, leaving behind two sons without
- 38:54Speaker 1: a dad, Kellen and Kyler. American hero Deputy Sheriff Doug
- 39:00Speaker 1: was Hannah Nancy Grace, signing off goodbye friend. Mm hmm