Recorded Call Contradicts Brian Hooker’s Account as Lynette Hooker Case Turns Homicide
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 9
Recorded Call Contradicts Brian Hooker’s Account as Lynette Hooker Case Turns Homicide
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 9
Summary
A recorded call made two days after Lynette Hooker vanished appears to place Brian Hooker in the water with her, undercutting his account that he stayed in the dinghy while she drifted away.
In the call, Hooker said “we were ... trying to get back in the boat,” even as he also described bailing water from inside the dinghy and losing sight of Lynette in rough, 3-foot waves.
U.S. investigators are now treating the disappearance as a homicide after phone GPS data allegedly showed discrepancies with Hooker’s original timeline, prompting a renewed four-day search in a new 25-foot-deep area of the Sea of Abaco.
The Coast Guard has taken possession of the dinghy, while a maritime law expert said Hooker’s shifting versions are increasingly inconsistent; his attorney has urged the public to give him the benefit of the doubt.