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Legally Brunette Presents: ‘Til Death Do Us Part - D4VD, Ashlee Jenae & Brian Hooker · Legally Brunette

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Speaker 1: Hi, guys, welcome to an episode of Till Death Do
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Speaker 1: Us Part. I will be your host, Emily Simpson with Shane.
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Speaker 1: We're going to end up talking about the couple in
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Speaker 1: the Bahamas because that's in the news and I feel
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Speaker 1: like we should go into.
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Speaker 2: That couple's name.
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Speaker 1: It's Brian Hooker and his wife Lynette, who has disappeared
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Speaker 1: within the Bahamas. We're going to talk about that, but
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Speaker 1: before we do that, let's us go into some This
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Speaker 1: is actually breaking news. So in April of twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 1: Celeste Revas Ernandez is a California teen. She's fourteen years
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Speaker 1: old at the time of her disappearance, and she's first
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Speaker 1: reported missing from her hometown of Lake Elsinore. She reportedly
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Speaker 1: vanished multiple times throughout twenty twenty four, returning home before
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Speaker 1: disappearing again later then. I don't know if you guys
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Speaker 1: remember this. This was all over the news and September eighth,
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five, a decomposed body is discovered inside
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Speaker 1: the front trunk of a Tesla at an impound lot
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Speaker 1: in the Hollywood Hills. The car was registered to singer d.
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Speaker 1: His name is David Burke, who was twenty years old
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Speaker 1: at the time. Around this time, the Tesla had been
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Speaker 1: abandoned in the neighborhood. In that neighborhood, I guess where
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Speaker 1: he lived for weeks before being towed due to inactivity.
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Speaker 1: If you had a body in your tesla, would you
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Speaker 1: just abandon it?
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Speaker 2: I mean, well, you have a testa am I going
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Speaker 2: to do with it? I don't know.
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Speaker 3: If there's a body in my car, I'm not going
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Speaker 3: to gravitate towards I'm going to get away from you.
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Speaker 2: You're just I'm not going to put a continue to
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Speaker 2: drive it around. No, I would put it in someone
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Speaker 2: else's car, not my car.
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Speaker 1: Around this time, the Tesla had been abandoned in the
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Speaker 1: neighborhood for weeks before being towed due to nactivity.
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Speaker 2: Then, September sixteenth.
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Speaker 1: Of twenty twenty five, the La County Medical Examiner identified
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Speaker 1: the remains as Celeste Rivas.
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Speaker 3: The car was taken in just for the sake of
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Speaker 3: it being left on public property or whatever, right, and
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Speaker 3: then they find they take it, they do an inventory.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like, oh, they're like young female in the trunk.
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Speaker 1: The medical examiner confirms that she died sometime prior to
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Speaker 1: discovery and just after her fifteenth birthday. Well, of course
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Speaker 1: she died sometime prior to discovery.
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Speaker 2: Drivers does that take yeah, thank goodness, I.
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Speaker 1: Mean, does it take a medical examiner to figure that
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Speaker 1: one out. Investigators treat the case as a homicide, and
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Speaker 1: the LAPD conducts searches, executes warrants at a Hollywood Hills
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Speaker 1: property linked to David, and seizes electronic evidence. The grand
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Speaker 1: jury becomes involved, and by late twenty twenty five, prosecutors
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Speaker 1: are presenting evidence to a grand jury and discussing potential
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Speaker 1: murder charges connected to David Burke. In early twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: reports emerged that Burke is an investigative target, with authorities
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Speaker 1: building probable cause that he may have involvement and Celestes death.
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Speaker 1: April sixteenth, and twenty twenty six, David Anthony Burke, who
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Speaker 1: is now twenty one years old, is arrested by a
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Speaker 1: LAPD on suspicion of murdering celebrity takes because they're building
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Speaker 1: a case, and I feel like they don't want to
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Speaker 1: do a premature You this guy, I think.
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Speaker 3: That no, Like, I'll just put it in the front
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Speaker 3: of my car and then leave on the side.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, David has taken into custody in Hollywood Hills
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Speaker 1: and is being held without bail. Singer David has been
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Speaker 1: charged with murder and the death of fourteen year old
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Speaker 1: Celeste Reevas.
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Speaker 3: I would call him singer David because he's a singer,
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Speaker 3: He's a he's also a murderer.
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Speaker 1: Would you like me to call or would you want
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Speaker 1: me to call him a crook? Yes, crook David, Crooked David,
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Speaker 1: Crooked David. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office said
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Speaker 1: that the twenty four year old David was charged with
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Speaker 1: first degree murder and the killing of Celeste Revas Fernandez.
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Speaker 1: She was reported missing by her family in twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: four when she was only thirteen. Authorities, who described her
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Speaker 1: Monday as a runaway, said she was fourteen when she
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Speaker 1: was killed. The murder charges include special circumstances, lying in wait,
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Speaker 1: committing crime for financial game, and murdering the witness, and
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Speaker 1: an investigation that could carry the death penalty. Prosecutors have
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Speaker 1: not announced whether they will seek the death penalty or not,
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Speaker 1: but David Burke is also charged with lewde and lavicious
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Speaker 1: acts with a person under fourteen and mutilating a body Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's a lot, so we don't know the details of that,
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Speaker 1: but the lying in waight, committing crime for financial gain,
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Speaker 1: murdering the witness, and an investigation. So clearly they've been
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Speaker 1: building a case and that's why it's taken so long.
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Speaker 1: But that's where we're at. So we will continue to
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Speaker 1: follow this case and give more updates on it. I'm
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Speaker 1: assuming I'm going to predict what are you going to predict?
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Speaker 2: Guilty? Guilty? Do you think that they had they were
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Speaker 2: boyfriend and girlfriend? How would I know a boyfriend girl.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know this guy. I never heard of
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Speaker 2: this guy. Other than the whole tesla thing. Why could
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Speaker 2: you have a tesla? No, because it makes the headlines.
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Speaker 2: If it was if it was in a Chevy envoy, yeah,
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Speaker 2: they would not say that. No, I know this is
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Speaker 2: what this a teslaesla. I know it's like.
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Speaker 1: And it's my same point when I talk about when
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Speaker 1: someone's a cheerleader, like if they're a lacrosse player, that's
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Speaker 1: never part of the headlines, or soccer player. It's not
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Speaker 1: like girls soccer player murdered, they don't say that.
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Speaker 2: Or if you're a housewife and you commit a crime, oh.
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Speaker 1: It says housewife.
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Speaker 2: That's always going to.
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Speaker 3: Be like if you're just if you're a real housewife's
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Speaker 3: at home and committed crime, they're not going to be
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Speaker 3: like housewife Joanne.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they don't committed murder.
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Speaker 1: They don't care about Joeyanne, whether she's a housewife or not.
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Speaker 1: But I'm telling you you're right. If it was if
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Speaker 1: it was a Honda Civic, it wouldn't have been in
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Speaker 1: the headline. But when it's a Tesla, it's in a headline.
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Speaker 1: And when a girl is a cheerleader.
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Speaker 3: We have a modern homicidey or with a tesla.
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Speaker 1: Let's move on to another case that. I feel like
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Speaker 1: we're just in the very beginning stages of this, but
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Speaker 1: I think it's going to get interesting. I think there's
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Speaker 1: going to be more that comes out. But I don't
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Speaker 1: know if you guys have heard or followed your news source,
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Speaker 1: which my news sources Instagram as we all know, but
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Speaker 1: Ashley Jane just.
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Speaker 2: Your news source.
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Speaker 3: It's it's also your entertainment, your pastime where you get inspiration.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's a lot of parenting advice.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's all there. You don't need anything else.
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Speaker 2: I need more than Instagram Okay, I know because you're yes,
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Speaker 2: you said you don't need anything else. I was talking
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Speaker 2: about myself. I was talking about anything else, all right. So.
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Speaker 1: Ashley Janney was a thirty one year old social media
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Speaker 1: lifestyle and travel influencer who was based in the US
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Speaker 1: with one hundred and fifty four thousand followers on Instagram.
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Speaker 1: She recently died in Tanzania. Did you come across this
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Speaker 1: case at all?
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Speaker 3: Tanzania, Tanzania. I've read Tanzania news today.
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Speaker 1: Okay, it wasn't just in Tanzania. She's from the US
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Speaker 1: and she was vacationing in Tanzania with her boyfriend who
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Speaker 1: proposed to her and then she ends up dead. It
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Speaker 1: very much reminds me of we did an episode on
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Speaker 1: Till Death to was part of Larry Rudolph who murdered
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Speaker 1: his wife while.
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Speaker 2: They were on a safari in Africa. Do you remember that?
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Speaker 1: And I said, that's a very smart way if you
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Speaker 1: want to get rid of your wife or husband is
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Speaker 1: to go to some foreign land and commit a crime.
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Speaker 2: Because they it's not the same as committee a crime.
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Speaker 3: You're telling you only you keep asking where we're going.
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Speaker 3: I'm planning it. I'm getting ideas all right.
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Speaker 1: On April third, twenty twenty six, Ashley Janey was on
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Speaker 1: vacation in Zanzibar celebrating her thirty first birthday and had
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Speaker 1: just gotten engaged to her fiance, Joe mccannon. A few
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Speaker 1: days after the engagement, she was found unresponsive in her
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Speaker 1: hotel villa and taken to a local hospital, where she
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Speaker 1: was later pronounced dead. This was on April ninth of
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Local Tanzanian authorities initially suggested the death
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Speaker 1: might have been a suicide and said the fiance provided
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Speaker 1: information to them. However, the couple had a huge argument
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Speaker 1: the night before Ashley's death, which prompted hotel staff to
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Speaker 1: place them in separate rooms.
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Speaker 3: I've never been on an action where I even thought
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Speaker 3: that was a possibility, But to be in a separate
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Speaker 3: room now, I'm going to I'm going to can you
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Speaker 3: please separate us?
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Speaker 2: I never knew that was possible? Or is that only
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Speaker 2: in this country that they did?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: I think it's when you get in a huge fight
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Speaker 1: where you're disturbing other guests.
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Speaker 2: Because of the US, they just kick you out. Probably
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Speaker 2: this place has the courtesy to give you a separate room.
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Speaker 1: Yes, they did. They were very kind. They said, you're
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Speaker 1: causing a disturbance, so we're going to separate.
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Speaker 2: You until you two can get along.
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Speaker 1: The fiance, Joe McCann, has not been charged with any
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Speaker 1: crime at this point. He has been questioned by police
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Speaker 1: as part of the investigation, and his passport was reportedly
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Speaker 1: held by the authorities while they continue their investigation.
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Speaker 3: Wait, so this happened prior to the death right obviously
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Speaker 3: the separation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the night before. So didn't he.
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Speaker 3: Think that that could beat him? Like the separation part,
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Speaker 3: like he went far away. We're saying he went far
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Speaker 3: away to murder her.
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Speaker 1: Right, Here's the thing that doesn't make sense. They went
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Speaker 1: there as a trip for her birthday, but he also
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Speaker 1: proposed to her while they were on this trip. So
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Speaker 1: I don't think his intent and going there was to
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Speaker 1: murder her.
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Speaker 2: Oh you think this.
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Speaker 1: I think maybe they're really on a vacation together. I
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Speaker 1: think maybe they got in a huge fight over something.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what, and I don't know what happened
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Speaker 1: during that fight, but she ends up dead the next day.
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Speaker 1: But they're also in two separate rooms at this point,
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Speaker 1: so I don't know. I mean This is all alleged
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Speaker 1: at this point, he hasn't been charged with anything. I'm
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Speaker 1: just throwing out ideas. What do you think. We're just
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Speaker 1: speculating at this point. We don't know, but it does
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Speaker 1: look suspicious when you're in Africa, when you get in
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Speaker 1: a huge fight and then your girlfriend or you're now
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Speaker 1: fiance is dead the next day.
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Speaker 2: Well, why is being in Africa?
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Speaker 1: Because I keep thinking about because I keep going back
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Speaker 1: to Larry Rudolph and taking.
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Speaker 2: Told me that he didn't eat thank you. I don't Well,
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Speaker 2: maybe he did, but then why ask her to marry him?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Well why did that other guy, that the guy that
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Speaker 3: tried to push his wife off the cliff but she
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Speaker 3: was stronger than him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, why did he do it?
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Speaker 3: Did he planned that he had dinner reservations and everything,
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Speaker 3: because that's a cover up?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't Yeah, that's true too.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. So an autopsy has reportedly been completed,
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Speaker 1: but the family has not yet been given the results,
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Speaker 1: and full details about the official cause of death remain
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Speaker 1: unavailable publicly. So again, we don't know exactly what is
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Speaker 1: going on. We're just speculating at this point. However, Ashley's
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Speaker 1: family and loved one strongly dispute the idea that she
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Speaker 1: would have taken her own life, and have described the
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Speaker 1: circumstances as suspicious, urging authorities to conduct a thorough investigation.
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Speaker 1: So far, as of today, no criminal charges have been announced,
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Speaker 1: and the investigation is still ongoing in Zanzibar, with the
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Speaker 1: family cooperating and seeking answers.
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Speaker 2: Media and online communities.
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Speaker 1: Have circulated various theories and speculation, but law enforcement has
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Speaker 1: not confirmed foul play beyond the ongoing inquiry. I have
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Speaker 1: a hard time believing that it's suicide. I feel like
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Speaker 1: there's foul play involved. That's just my takeaway, and that's
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Speaker 1: alleged and it's speculating, but that's my I'm going to
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Speaker 1: go with that. I think there's more to this story.
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Speaker 1: I think something happened after their fight. I don't know what, but.
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Speaker 2: If she found in her room, yes, but she was.
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Speaker 1: Thirty one and young and an influence, you know what.
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Speaker 2: They separated, but it's not like he couldn't go in
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Speaker 2: her room? Can I come over? Right?
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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's not like they locked the two of
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Speaker 1: them apart.
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Speaker 2: So who knows?
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Speaker 1: Who knows what happened after they were separated. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: we will continue to follow this because I find this
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Speaker 1: case very interesting. All right, we're going to move on
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Speaker 1: to the Bahamas case. This is Brian Hooker and Lynette
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Speaker 1: Hooker and this has been all over the news, and
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Speaker 1: by news, I mean my Instagram account. So Lynette and
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Speaker 1: Brian were they were voting people and they they took
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Speaker 1: their boat to the Bahamas and they were in the
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Speaker 1: Bahamas together. They've been married a while. I don't know
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Speaker 1: exactly how long, but let's get into it. So in
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Speaker 1: early April of twenty twenty six, Lynette Hooker, I like
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Speaker 1: saying that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to.
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Speaker 1: Say I kind of liked that last name. Lynette Hooker
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Speaker 1: is a fifty five year old Michigan woman who went
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Speaker 1: missing while boating with her husband, Brian Hooker, near Elbow
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Speaker 1: Ka in the Bahamas. Brian told authorities that Lynette accidentally
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Speaker 1: fell overboard from their dinghy this isn't night while returning
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Speaker 1: to their I don't know if.
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Speaker 2: It's a yacht.
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Speaker 1: I've seen pictures of the boat.
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Speaker 3: It's not like it's like mansion. Everyone says mansion now
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Speaker 3: and everyone says yacht.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a boat. I saw a photo. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but it's just like an a.
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Speaker 2: It's a it's a boat. You are impressed.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't impressed. So it's not a yacht. It was
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Speaker 1: just a I'm not saying it's not a nice boat,
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Speaker 1: but it's not a yacht.
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Speaker 2: So we'll call it a boat. It's called the Soulmate.
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Speaker 1: I believe, and that he was unable to save her
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Speaker 1: when she fell out of this dinghy. Allegedly, the Royal
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Speaker 1: Bahamas Police Force, along with the United States Coast Guard
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Speaker 1: have launched a search and rescue effort that later shifted
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Speaker 1: to a recovery operation. It's been two weeks at this point.
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Speaker 1: Look that she's not alive. Let's just make that clear.
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Speaker 2: Well no, no, no.
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Speaker 1: Why you think she ran off and she has a whole.
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Speaker 3: Because usually when someone's missing, you claim sex trafficking and
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Speaker 3: you think they're still alive out there somewhere.
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Speaker 1: No, that was Amy Bradley when she fell off a
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Speaker 1: cruise ship. I'm talking about a fifty five year old
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Speaker 1: woman that's married that allegedly the last person is here
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Speaker 1: her alive was her husband in a dinghy boat.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I think she's dead too. I was telling you.
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Speaker 1: Now it's been two weeks that the woman isn't alive.
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Speaker 1: She has children, and yeah, there's no way. Brian was
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Speaker 1: detained in questioned for several days, but was ultimately released
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Speaker 1: without charges. He later returned to the United States citing
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Speaker 1: a family emergency. We'll get more into that. He left
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Speaker 1: the Bahamas the day after. He gave an interview saying
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Speaker 1: that he wasn't going to leave the Bahamas until he
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Speaker 1: found his wife.
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Speaker 2: No, Joe, I got to go home, and then he left.
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Speaker 2: He claimed his mom was sick or something.
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Speaker 1: Yes, but then I saw an interview with Lynette's daughter
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Speaker 1: who said that doesn't make sense because his mom's been
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Speaker 1: sick for a long time, Like it wasn't something new,
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Speaker 1: like her.
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Speaker 2: Health wasn't declining any further.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that didn't sound accurate or right to her. Also,
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Speaker 1: he had to have gotten some kind of expedited passport
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Speaker 1: to get out of the Bahamas to fly into Georgia.
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Speaker 1: He flew into Atlanta to go home. I guess why.
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Speaker 4: Would because he lost He claims he lost his passport
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Speaker 4: and when she fell overboard, she added like a dry
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Speaker 4: bag and his passport and her passport were inside of it,
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Speaker 4: and he claims that went overboard with her when she
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Speaker 4: supposedly or allegedly fell out of.
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Speaker 1: This dinghy, which I don't even know if I believe
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Speaker 1: that happened.
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Speaker 2: That's a yacht, I know, that's what I told you. Right,
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Speaker 2: It's well, I don't know. It's it's a boat. It's
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Speaker 2: not a yacht. Right.
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Speaker 1: He claims that she had the dinghy engine keys with
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Speaker 1: her and that when she so, when she fell overboard,
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Speaker 1: the motors shut off, leaving him stranded. All right, let's
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Speaker 1: just talk about this for a minute, she says.
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Speaker 2: The keys and the dry bag.
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Speaker 1: Yes, So they go to a bar and they have
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Speaker 1: four drinks and they're at the pool, and the bartender
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Speaker 1: season he doesn't remember them. They weren't remarkable. They didn't
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Speaker 1: have a fight, they didn't yell at each other, they
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Speaker 1: didn't stand out. They were just like a normal couple
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Speaker 1: at this bar pool area. So they docked their boat,
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Speaker 1: the Soulmate. Then they take a dinghy like a little
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Speaker 1: boat to cross like I don't know what it's called
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Speaker 1: a harbor or something.
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Speaker 2: It's not that big across a body of water. They
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Speaker 2: cross a body of water to get through.
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Speaker 1: This inn has a bar, and they hang out there
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Speaker 1: and they go to the pool and they have some drinks.
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Speaker 2: They have more drinks.
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Speaker 1: They each had two drinks. Oh that was the according
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Speaker 1: to the bartender. Then the bartender remembers last serving them
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Speaker 1: around six thirty pm. So let's say they finished those
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Speaker 1: two drinks, it would be seven pm. Right. Allegedly, they
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Speaker 1: get back into this dinghy boat to then cross this
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Speaker 1: channel of water to get back to their boat. But
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Speaker 1: this is where this breaks down because I don't think anyone.
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Speaker 1: I can't.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't figure out or read if.
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Speaker 1: Anyone actually saw them get into the boat, So I
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Speaker 1: don't know about that part. But anyway, Brian claims that
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Speaker 1: when they were crossing over this body of water to
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Speaker 1: get back to their boat, not yacht, it's not a yacht,
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Speaker 1: that the water it became windy and the water was choppy,
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Speaker 1: and his wife fell overboard.
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Speaker 2: And then do we know if the weather reports support that.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I did read the weather report, and I did well.
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Speaker 1: I saw I read an article or I saw an
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Speaker 1: interview where people were talking about the weather. They did
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Speaker 1: say it was wendy and the water was a little choppy,
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Speaker 1: but not like anything that would right, and Also, by
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Speaker 1: the way, we have to remember that Lynette, they were
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Speaker 1: boating people, so like they were very very comfortable and sailed.
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Speaker 1: They'd sailed their boat. And she was a strong swimmer,
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Speaker 1: and he was a marine, like a former marine, and
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Speaker 1: also a boating guy who had been you know, navigating
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Speaker 1: boats and owning boats.
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Speaker 2: So how two people that have all.
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Speaker 1: This experience and skill and then she just I just
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Speaker 1: have a hard time believing that she just hit some
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Speaker 1: choppy water and fell over and he couldn't save her
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Speaker 1: or see her, right, and but.
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Speaker 2: He saved himself. Well he's in the dance, That's what
17:56
Speaker 2: I'm saying. But he saved himself.
17:58
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
17:59
Speaker 2: It's just seemed very very suspicious. So he claimed, he
18:04
Speaker 2: didn't claim that she hit her head and fell over.
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Speaker 3: She just fell over, just fell over, she went into
18:08
Speaker 3: the water, right, and then that was the end of it.
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Speaker 2: Right.
18:11
Speaker 1: But then when they found the dinghy later after, you know,
18:14
Speaker 1: he says he floated for like eight to nine hours
18:16
Speaker 1: before he finally floated into land or whatever. They found
18:20
Speaker 1: two life jackets inside the dinghy. So the question is,
18:24
Speaker 1: why didn't he throw one to her, Why didn't he
18:26
Speaker 1: put one on and jump into the water to get.
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Speaker 2: Her, because then she might still be alive exactly.
18:33
Speaker 1: Brian reportedly paddled for several hours, about seven to nine
18:36
Speaker 1: hours by his account, back to shore to get help
18:39
Speaker 1: and reported Lynette missing. Early the next morning. The Royal
18:43
Speaker 1: Bahamas Police Force, local boaters, and later the US Coast
18:46
Speaker 1: Guard began searching to try to find Lynette, which transitions
18:51
Speaker 1: into a recovery operations as so many days have passed,
18:54
Speaker 1: it's been two weeks. Also, this body of water that
18:57
Speaker 1: they're they're in and the dinghy, it's not very deep.
19:02
Speaker 1: I read that it was only between like three feet
19:05
Speaker 1: to fifteen feet, and that it wasn't that large of
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Speaker 1: amount of water. I think only like ten football fields.
19:12
Speaker 3: So meaning she could have somehow been saved, whether it
19:16
Speaker 3: be by another boat, swim somewhere, by.
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Speaker 1: Her husband herself. And why has the body not been recovered?
19:23
Speaker 1: They find bodies and water all the time, and you know,
19:27
Speaker 1: why do you remember.
19:28
Speaker 2: It may also not find bodies of water, Kevin, you're.
19:30
Speaker 1: Talking about crystal clear blue water at the Bahamas.
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Speaker 2: That it's not what to do with her, I don't know,
19:38
Speaker 2: I don't.
19:38
Speaker 1: Know, but it's not that large of amount of water
19:40
Speaker 1: and they have had the Coastguard and authorities and local
19:43
Speaker 1: people out looking and there's no body been found. Bahamian
19:47
Speaker 1: police arrest and detain Brian Hooker in relation to Lynnette's
19:51
Speaker 1: disappearance as part of the ongoing investigation. However, I think
19:55
Speaker 1: they only held him for five days and questioned him
19:58
Speaker 1: repeatedly by authorities, but because they could not file formal
20:02
Speaker 1: charges against him, he is released. A Behavim law requires
20:07
Speaker 1: that police to either charge a suspect or release them,
20:10
Speaker 1: which leads to his release because they didn't have enough
20:12
Speaker 1: to charge him at this point in time. He's released
20:16
Speaker 1: from police custody without any criminal charges being filed, and
20:19
Speaker 1: authorities continue investigating and he remains a person of interest,
20:23
Speaker 1: but no formal prosecution has been announced. He did tell
20:28
Speaker 1: after he was released from detainment. He speaks with the
20:31
Speaker 1: US media and he does say that his sole focus
20:34
Speaker 1: is finding his wife and that he would never harm her.
20:37
Speaker 1: He remains emotional and insists that the disappearance was accidental
20:41
Speaker 1: due to rough seas. This is then the next day
20:45
Speaker 1: orm I told you that he talks about how his
20:46
Speaker 1: sole you know, his sole purpose is to stay in
20:49
Speaker 1: the Bahamas. And find his wife.
20:51
Speaker 2: But then Brian leaves. The WAMIs here until tomorrow morning.
20:55
Speaker 1: Right, and then Brian leaves the Bahamas and returns to
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Speaker 1: the United States, citing a family emergency, specifically to be
21:02
Speaker 1: with his ailing mother. This is according to a statement
21:05
Speaker 1: that was issued by his attorney. However, as I stated earlier,
21:11
Speaker 1: he has a stepdaughter. The stepdaughter's done several interviews. She
21:15
Speaker 1: talks about how they've had a volatile relationship, that they've
21:19
Speaker 1: fought a lot, that he has anger issues.
21:22
Speaker 2: Do we know how long they were married.
21:23
Speaker 1: They were married for twenty five years.
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Speaker 2: That's a long time.
21:27
Speaker 1: Then he's like, I can't take it anymore.
21:29
Speaker 3: You know what happened in year twenty five that didn't
21:31
Speaker 3: happen in the first twenty four.
21:33
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I do think that they According
21:35
Speaker 1: to the stepdaughter, they had a pretty volatile marriage. I
21:39
Speaker 1: think there were some domestic violence issues, and I think
21:42
Speaker 1: they had.
21:42
Speaker 2: Argued pretty often.
21:44
Speaker 1: So his departure from the Bahamas draws public criticism, especially
21:49
Speaker 1: from Lynette's daughter, who questioned his commitment to the search,
21:53
Speaker 1: given that in earlier statements he said that he would
21:56
Speaker 1: stay until his wife was found. Lynette's dag. Her name's
22:00
Speaker 1: Carly Aisworth. Aylesworth arrives in the Bahamas with her partner
22:05
Speaker 1: to assist in the search and challenges Brian's account, suggesting
22:08
Speaker 1: that something didn't add up and urging a thorough investigation.
22:12
Speaker 1: I saw some video footage of her. Some locals actually
22:15
Speaker 1: took the daughter out to the boat that her mom
22:19
Speaker 1: and her stepdad had come to the bahamasan not the yacht,
22:22
Speaker 1: it's a boat, and she made some video of walking
22:26
Speaker 1: around on the boat, and she collected some items that
22:28
Speaker 1: were her mom's. I think she took a necklace and
22:30
Speaker 1: some other things. I think it was emotional for her
22:32
Speaker 1: to see, you know, all her mom's things and not
22:35
Speaker 1: knowing what happened to her mom. So currently, as of today,
22:39
Speaker 1: no charges have been filed against Brian Hooker. Bahamian and
22:42
Speaker 1: authorities and the US Coast Guard continue to treat Lynette's
22:45
Speaker 1: disappearance as an active case and they are currently investigating
22:50
Speaker 1: Lynette's body. At this point, I think we're in a
22:52
Speaker 1: recovery operation. Right has not been found, and the search
22:55
Speaker 1: has involved specialized assets, including dogs trained to detect remains.
23:01
Speaker 1: The thing is she hasked to be in the bar
23:02
Speaker 1: she's she's somewhere in that vicinity.
23:05
Speaker 2: Because we know she left the bar right right, We know.
23:09
Speaker 1: Like she was there right and then we know, according
23:13
Speaker 1: to his statement, that they got into the dinghy and
23:15
Speaker 1: that she fell out.
23:16
Speaker 3: But I don't know if he wrote what if he
23:20
Speaker 3: took that one of the boat's way out, dumped her,
23:23
Speaker 3: then came back the dinghy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you think so, you think maybe she
23:27
Speaker 1: so he could have killed her in the dinghy and
23:30
Speaker 1: then drove and driven.
23:31
Speaker 3: The d done in the regular boat and then uh
23:36
Speaker 3: when they were out and dumped her and he came
23:38
Speaker 3: back and you know, and then thirty minutes later he's like,
23:40
Speaker 3: I've been paddling for eight hours.
23:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, the paddling for eight hours gives him a huge
23:46
Speaker 1: chunk of time to have been able to commit a crime.
23:50
Speaker 1: There remains public debate and speculation about whether the disappearance
23:53
Speaker 1: was an accident or involved foul play. Family members and
23:56
Speaker 1: some experts question Brian's account.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
24:00
Speaker 1: I question Brian's account.
24:02
Speaker 2: I don't know.
24:02
Speaker 1: So I would like to know if there's any type
24:05
Speaker 1: of surveillance that shows her actually getting into the ding
24:10
Speaker 1: I would like to know if that or if there
24:11
Speaker 1: were any witnesses that saw them actually get into the
24:14
Speaker 1: dingy and actually drive out into into that body of
24:18
Speaker 1: water to head. Well, I would like to know where
24:22
Speaker 1: the body is too, and I would like to know
24:24
Speaker 1: where Nanthy Guthrie is as well. Yes, where is Nancy
24:27
Speaker 1: Guthrie and where is Save Hooker? That's what I want
24:31
Speaker 1: to know. So if anybody out there knows where Nancy
24:33
Speaker 1: Guthree is or Lynette Hooker, please DM me so that
24:36
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24:41
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