Shocking Details From The Yacht Reveal What Really Happened Before Lynette Hooker Vanished
You have no idea where she is. Yeah, I never imagined my mom would disappear. Do I have something for you today? And I want to be upfront with you right now before we get into any of it because there is a lot, a lot that is new, a lot that is just broken in the past 24 hours. And some of it I genuinely did not see coming.
So, let me tell you what we’re going to cover in this episode because I want you to understand why every single minute of this is important. Number one, the United States Coast Guard Investigative Service, CGIS, these are federal law enforcement officers, sworn agents who work hand-in-hand with the Department of Justice.
They have just gone public. They’ve posted on social media, asked the entire country for help, and what they’re looking for is a mystery sailboat. A boat that was moored right next to Soulmate, the Hookers’ yacht, on the night Lynette disappeared. We’re going to get into what that means, why it matters, and what investigators believe that boat’s owner may have seen.
Number two, we are going inside Soulmate. Top to bottom, inch by inch, thanks to a YouTube channel called Boat Snoop hosted by a guy named Clint Johnson, who toured this exact boat before Brian and Lynette Hooker ever bought it. And what he found on board, the electronics, the forensic trail, the dinghy, is going to make your jaw drop.
Because if Brian Hooker is not telling the truth, that boat is going to be the thing that catches him. And I want to show you why. Number three, we’re going to go through the timeline of what Brian says happened the night Lynette vanished because there are parts of his own story that I believe need to be held up to the light.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I don’t believe it. But let’s let the facts speak. Now, before we go any further, Brian Hooker has not been charged with any crime. He has categorically and unequivocally denied any wrongdoing. His attorneys say he is innocent and we cover this case with that in mind.
We follow the evidence. We ask the questions. That’s what we do here. All right. Let’s get into it. Welcome back. If you are new here, and there are a lot of new faces in this case, which tells me this story is reaching the people it needs to reach, please subscribe. Hit the bell because this case is moving fast and you do not want to be the last person to know when something breaks. Okay.
Let’s go. Let me start by telling you who Linette Hooker is because in these cases, it is really easy to get so wrapped up in the investigation, in the evidence, in the suspect’s story that we forget to stop and actually see the person at the center of all of it. Linette Hooker is 55 years old. A mother, a sailor, a woman who by every single account from people who loved her had found exactly the life she wanted.
She and her husband, Brian Hooker, 58, both from Michigan, had been living aboard their sailboat, a 46-ft Morgan sailing sloop they named Soulmate, for 4 years. 4 years. They sold everything. She sold everything. The house, the furniture, the life on land. They documented all of it on social media under the name The Sailing Hookers.
And if you go back and watch those videos, the paddle boarding in Marsh Harbour, the sea turtles, the solar cooking, the laughing, it looks like a love story. Looks like two people who chose each other against an endless horizon. Her last TikTok was posted just 2 days before she disappeared. Her last Instagram caption read, “Not going anywhere for a while.
” And then on the night of Saturday, the 4th of April, 2026, Linette Hooker vanished. Now, here is Brian’s story and I want you to listen carefully because we are going to come back to pieces of this over and over as we go through this episode. According to Brian, he and Linette spent April 4th having a full day out on their 8-ft hard-bottom dinghy, the little boat they used to get to and from Soulmate.
They started at Tahiti Beach, a popular shallow-water spot on the southern tip of Elbow Cay, where a floating bar serves drinks at low tide. After that, they went to the Abaco Inn near Hopetown for dinner and more drinks. And then, around 7:30 in the evening, they got back in the dinghy to make their way back to Soulmate, which was anchored at a spot called Ann Pat’s Bay.
They never made it. Brian told authorities that as they were heading back, conditions turned. Winds picked up to 20-something knots. The sea got choppy. And then, in the middle of all of that, Linette, quote, “Basically, just bounced off the dinghy.” Those are his words on a recorded phone call he made to a friend named Blaine Stevenson on April 7th.
A call, by the way, that Brian did not know was being recorded. And that Stevenson later made public because, in his words, Brian was unable to speak for himself while he was detained. Brian says the boat’s engine cut out because Linette was wearing the safety lanyard, the kill switch cord, and it went into the water with her.
He says he yelled for her. He says he threw a flotation cushion toward her. He says he couldn’t see her because the moon hadn’t risen yet. He says he anchored the dinghy and paddled for hours, eventually drifting 4 miles west to a boatyard in Marsh Harbour, where he arrived at 4:00 a.m. on April 5th. 8 hours after his wife went overboard, 8 hours.
And during all of that time, he never called 911. He paddled to shore, made his way through the bush, and only then contacted police. Lynette’s daughter, Carly Ellsworth, found out what happened when Brian left her a voicemail roughly 24 hours after her mother disappeared. Not a phone call, a voicemail.
Carly told CNN, and I want you to hear this, “How do you just lose my mom?” That question is what this entire investigation is built on. Now, let me walk you through what happened next because it happened fast, and there are some details in here that I think get glossed over in the general media coverage, and they shouldn’t be. Lynette was reported missing on April 5th.
By April 8th, just 3 days later, Brian Hooker was taken into custody by the Royal Bahamas Police Force. He was arrested, per the Assistant Commissioner of Police Ed Waldo Dames, who told Reuters that Brian was being questioned based on, and these are his words, “Some probable cause we have.” Now, here’s something his attorney, Terral Butler, said that I find interesting.
She told media that when her client first went in to speak to police, he believed he was there as a witness. He thought he was helping the search for his wife. He gave a voluntary statement, but then police asked him to come back for more questioning. He declined without his attorney present. And the third time they brought him in, it was as a suspect.
He was detained for 5 days. 5 days. Under Bohemian law, police can hold someone for up to 48 hours, and then they can petition the court for an extension of up to 96 additional hours. That extension was granted. A magistrate signed off on it. That tells you something. That tells you investigators felt they needed more time. While Brian was in custody, police executed a search warrant on Soulmate.
They seized electronic devices from the boat. They are reviewing that evidence right now. We don’t know everything they found. But I want you to hold on to that cuz we’re going to come back to it when we talk about what’s on that boat electronically. On April 13th, prosecutors recommended that no charges be filed at that time pending further investigation.
Brian was released. He walked out of the Central Police Station in Grand Bahama looking, according to NBC News, very emotional. The day after his release, Brian Hooker sat down for interviews with NBC, CBS, ABC, every major network. He said, “I won’t be able to stop looking.” He said, “No one has told me to stop looking and I’m going to keep looking.
” He said Lynette was his life that they’d been together almost half his life, that she was strong and determined, and he believed she could still be alive. He said, “I want to.” when asked if he believed that. He told ABC, “My one job, my one job was to look out for her and that has not happened.” And then, hours, literally hours after those interviews, Brian Hooker left the Bahamas. He flew to the United States.
His attorney released a statement saying his mother was gravely ill and he needed to be at her bedside. And look, I’m not going to dismiss the fact that his mother being sick is real. His attorney notified Bohemian authorities. That’s confirmed. But Brian, let’s be honest. You told every camera in the Bahamas that nobody with a higher authority was going to stop you from looking for your wife.
And then you left on your own hours later. He remains a suspect. The investigation is active and Brian Hooker is now back in Michigan where he has retained a second attorney, a Grand Rapids-based lawyer named Crystal Marie Hauser. He has not been charged with anything. He maintains his innocence and Lynette Hooker has still not been found. Okay.
Now, I want to take you somewhere. I want to take you inside Soulmate. And the way we’re able to do this, and I have to give credit where it’s due, is because of a YouTube channel called Boat Snoop. It’s hosted by Clint Johnson. His whole thing is going aboard boats that are listed for sale and doing tours inside and out for people who love the water.
And before Brian and Lynette Hooker bought this boat, before it was ever named Soulmate, Clint Johnson walked every inch of it on camera. Now, Ashleigh Banfield over at Drop Dead Serious has already done an incredible deep dive on this footage, and I’m going to tell you some of the same things she highlighted because they’re important, but I also want to add a layer of context to what all of this means forensically, because I think that’s where it gets really, really significant.
First, before we get into what’s on the boat, let me tell you how we know that the boat Clint toured is actually Soulmate, because this matters. You can’t just say, “Hey, this looks like the same boat.” You have to be able to prove it. Five separate identifiers confirm it’s the same vessel. Number one, the HIN number, the hull identification number, it matches.
Number two, the hull ID matches. Number three, the call sign matches. Number four, the MMSI, the maritime mobile service identity, which is basically the boat’s unique digital fingerprint used in maritime communication, matches. And number five, and this is the one that for me personally just seals it, full stop, there are two dolphins, a statue, two dolphins fixed to the bow of the boat right at the front.
You can see them in the boat snoop footage. You can see them on footage shot of Soulmate sitting in Marsh Harbor. Same dolphins, same boat. Okay, so now we know we’re looking at the right vessel. Let’s talk about what’s on it. The first thing Clint Johnson flagged, and I want you to pay close attention here, is the electronics.
Because this is not a normal sailboat. Clint, who tours boats for a living, specifically called out the electronics on this vessel as exceptional, unusual, the kind of thing that most sailboats don’t have. And he wasn’t just talking about a GPS and a radio. He was talking about a full suite of systems that, if you think about it from a forensic standpoint, turn this boat into something very close to a floating black box.
Let me walk you through them. First, a FLIR system. F L I R. If you’re not a sailor, let me explain what that is, because it just went by and it matters. FLIR is a forward-looking infrared camera. It gives you thermal night vision. You can see on a screen down below in the cabin, even in pitch blackness. You can zoom in on vessels.
You can see people in the water at night, even when there’s no moon. Think about that for a second, given that Brian says the reason he couldn’t see Linette was because, quote, “The moon had not risen yet.” Second, Raymarine autopilot. Not one, two. A backup system. One on the wheel, one hydraulic. This boat basically has a third crew member built in. It can steer itself.
Third, radar, mounted at the stern. Fourth, solar panels. And here’s where it gets really interesting. Clint Johnson specifically noted that the solar setup on this boat was so powerful, he said the current owner told him it was around 600 watts that the boat doesn’t even need to be plugged into shore power to run.
It runs entirely off solar the majority of the time. Why does that matter? Because here’s what we know about Soulmate satellite tracking going offline. The night Lynette disappeared, the boat’s signal dropped for roughly 11 hours. And then it came back. Now, there are a few explanations for that. Cloud cover, but that doesn’t usually knock you offline for 11 hours.
A satellite issue, but then everyone in the area would have gone offline, not just Soulmate. Or someone turned it off and then turned it back on. If the boat’s power had failed, the solar system would have kicked back in almost immediately. So, a power failure? Unlikely. Which means the most probable explanation for an 11-hour outage is that someone manually switched the tracking off and then switched it back on.
Now, I want to be careful here. I am not saying Brian Hooker did that. He has not been charged with anything. But that question, why did Soulmate go dark for 11 hours that night, is a question investigators are very much asking. And those electronics on board are central to answering it. Let me stop here and tell you about something else Clint flagged, because it’s directly relevant to Brian’s account.
The dinghy, Brian says Lynette bounced off the back of the dinghy, those are his words, bounced. The dinghy that came with this boat, the same dinghy Brian and Lynette used, is a BOSS hard hull dinghy, B O S S. It is not rubber, it is not inflatable. It is a hard-bottom rigid hull boat. More like a small fiberglass pontoon than anything you’d picture when you hear the word dinghy.
It doesn’t bounce. She didn’t bounce. The dinghy doesn’t bounce. And another thing about this dinghy, Brian and Lynette swapped out the original outboard motor. The boat came with a standard petrol engine. Brian and Lynette replaced it with an electric motor. One of those quiet battery-powered ones you charge up, which is actually kind of rare.
Ashley Banfield noted this in her coverage, and I agree with her, it’s important. Here’s why. Brian says the engine cut out when Lynette went overboard because she was wearing the safety lanyard, the kill switch. Now, a kill switch makes complete sense on a petrol-powered engine, right? If the driver goes overboard, you don’t want the boat to keep running and drag them under or speed off without them.
But think about this, if your passenger goes overboard, the last thing you want is for the engine to cut out because then you can’t go get them. You need power to circle back. You need power to reach them. And here’s the other thing, an electric outboard on a small dinghy, that kill switch setup is not standard practice.
This is an unusual motor. It raises questions. Let’s keep going inside the boat because there’s more. The anchor system. At the bow of the boat, there’s an electric windlass, the mechanism that raises and lowers the anchor operated by foot pedals up at the front of the vessel. Typically, one person handles the wheel at the helm while another person works the windlass up front.
It’s a two-person job. Brian has talked about needing help to get Soulmate off its mooring because Lynette wasn’t there to work the windlass while he was at the helm. That’s actually consistent with how the boat works. But here’s what it tells you, this was a vessel designed and operated as a two-person system. Brian and Lynette, in his own words, were co-captains.
There were jobs she did and jobs he did. The boat needed both of them. Down below, the boat has two full heads, that’s bathrooms for those of you not familiar with boat terminology, a forward head and an aft head, a large salon, a full galley, and a master stateroom at the stern of the boat with its own entrance hatch, a little opening at the very back that you can access from outside.
And that aft hatch matters. Here’s why. When Hope Town Fire and Rescue brought Brian back to Soulmate the morning of April 5th after they’d picked him up from Marsh Harbour, witnesses say Brian was doing something unusual at the back of the boat before going below. He was, as Ashley Banfield described it, mucking around near that aft hatch.
Witnesses say he appeared to be removing something, possibly an air conditioning unit. And then he went below. Brian himself said something to a friend that we know about. I had to break into my own boat because when you leave a liveaboard vessel, you lock it. You lock your home. So he had to get back in somehow.
And the theory, and this is not confirmed, this is theory, is that there was a hidden key stashed somewhere near that aft entrance, and getting to it required moving the air conditioning unit out of the way. Why does that matter? Because law enforcement was watching. And they couldn’t understand why before doing anything else, Brian Hooker went straight to the back of his boat and started removing equipment.
And here’s the piece that I think is most important of all from a forensic standpoint. That boat has extensive electronic records, not just the satellite tracking. Electronic devices were seized from Soulmate under a search warrant. Phones, navigation equipment, the boat’s own systems. Linette posted about Brian geeking out and networking the boat.
He was actively adding even more technology to an already technologically advanced vessel. This was a man who understood electronics. Who deliberately kitted out his boat with systems far beyond what most sailors use. Those systems have records and those records are now in the hands of investigators. If that boat moved the night of April 4th, there will be a record of it.
If anyone communicated anything from that boat, there will be a record of it. If those tracking systems were turned off manually and turned back on, there will be a record of it. This boat is not just a home. Right now, it is a crime scene sitting on a mooring ball in Marsh Harbor, Bahamas.
And every piece of data on it is potential evidence. I want to go back to Brian’s story now. Because when you lay it out point by point the way a prosecutor would, the way investigators are doing right now, there are some things that just don’t sit right. And I want to be fair, I want to be careful, and I want to be honest with you about which parts are documented fact and which parts are questions I’m raising.
Let’s start with the timing. Brian says they left the Abaco Inn where they’d had dinner and drinks around 7:30 p.m. on April 4th. He says Linette went overboard shortly after that, around sunset. Sunset in the Bahamas on April 4th was approximately 7:40 p.m. He says the moon hadn’t risen yet, so visibility was extremely low.
He says he yelled for her for about an hour. He anchored the dinghy. He drifted. He paddled 4 miles in the dark in 20-knot winds through choppy seas. And he arrived at Marsh Harbor boatyard at 4:00 a.m. That’s roughly 8 hours from when Linette allegedly went overboard to when Brian made contact with anyone.
8 hours before anyone knew to start looking for her. Now, Brian drew a map. He actually screenshotted his route from Navionics, a GPS navigation app that boaters use, and shared it with friends and with CBS News. That map, according to CBS, appears to show the dinghy route from the point where Linette allegedly went overboard to Marsh Harbour, 4 miles west.
And here’s something interesting about that map. He drew it. He shared it proactively. Which could mean he’s being transparent. Or it could mean he’s establishing a paper trail for a route he wants people to believe he took. I’m not saying which one it is. I’m saying both possibilities exist. Now, let me tell you about Carly Ellsworth, because she is at the heart of this.
Carly is Linette’s daughter from a previous relationship. She’s 28 years old. And from the moment she found out her mother was missing, she has been asking questions that nobody in Brian’s camp has answered. She told CNN she couldn’t understand why Brian hadn’t dropped anchor and swam for her mother. He’s a former Marine.
He described himself and Linette as experienced boaters who frequently traveled by dinghy, often without life vests. If your wife of 25 years goes overboard at night in choppy water, and you are an ex-Marine and an experienced sailor, why don’t you go in after her? She told Fox News something even more alarming.
She alleged that there is a history of him choking her out and threatening to throw her overboard. Let me say that again, threatening to throw her overboard. And here we are. Now Brian’s attorneys have denied those allegations categorically. But court records do show that in 2015 both Brian and Linette were involved in a domestic dispute.
Linette told police she had been struck in the forehead by Brian. She herself was arrested on assault charges. Though a prosecutor reviewed the case and determined there was insufficient evidence as to who started the altercation. The case was dismissed without charges. Both sides had legal issues at that time. And Carly also told CNN that Linette had left Brian before, multiple times.
That Linette had gone back to Florida to stay with family, saying things had gotten really bad on that boat. And that Linette had a ticket, a plane ticket booked for March 11th to leave Brian again. She never used it. Three weeks later, she was gone. Now, I’m going to say something that I want to come back to in a future episode because it deserves its own full treatment.
But I’d be doing you a disservice if I didn’t mention it here. Linette Hooker worked for AT&T for decades. She had upwards of $650,000 in her 401k. She had sold everything to fund this life on the water. She had essentially put her entire financial future into their shared adventure on Soulmate. Brian Hooker, by contrast according to multiple people who knew them, had burned through his own retirement savings. His 401k was gone.
And that boat sitting in Marsh Harbour, that’s Brian’s home. He doesn’t have anywhere else to go. He flew to Sacramento to be with his mother and his [snorts] sister. He reportedly has ties to Michigan. But Soulmate, the boat, the life they built together, and everything of value associated with it, that’s his.
I’m not drawing conclusions. I’m following the money, and I am going to do a full episode on this, but I want you to have that in the back of your mind as we keep going. Okay, here is where we get to what broke in the last 24 hours, and this is big. This is really big. As of the 5th of May, 2026, 1 month after Linette Hooker disappeared, the United States Coast Guard Investigative Service, CGIS, went public with a new plea for information.
They posted on social media. They put out images, and what they are asking the public to help them find is the owner of a sailboat, a specific sailboat. One that was moored at Aunt Pat’s Bay, the same anchorage where Soulmate was sitting on the 4th of April, 2026, the same night Linette Hooker disappeared. According to a Coast Guard memo obtained by CBS News, quote, “The owners occupants of the sailing vessel may have information relevant to the CGIS investigation.
” Let me explain why this is significant on multiple levels. First, CGIS is not Bohemian police. These are sworn federal agents of the United States government operating under the Department of Justice. The fact that they opened a criminal investigation into this case at all, and they confirmed that publicly, is not routine.
This is not a simple missing person’s case being handled by local authorities. This has gone federal. [snorts] Second, the fact that they are now 1 month in, actively seeking a witness boat, tells you something about where this investigation is going. They’re not just reviewing what Brian Hooker told them.
They’re not just looking at the electronic data from Soulmate. They are looking for people who were physically there. People who may have seen something. People who may have heard something. Aunt Pat’s Bay is an anchorage. It’s a place where boats cluster. It is entirely possible and CGIS clearly believes it that someone on that mystery sailboat was there the night of April 4th.
Maybe they saw the dinghy leave Soulmate. Maybe they heard something. Maybe they saw the dinghy come back without Lynette. Or maybe, and this is the question that nobody wants to say out loud, maybe they saw something on that boat that Brian Hooker does not want anyone to know about. CBS News has also reported that CGIS investigators are actively conducting interviews this week, not just reviewing files, active in-person interviews right now.
And here’s the other thing. According to sources close to the investigation, CGIS has been looking beyond the dinghy route, beyond Brian’s Navionics map, beyond his account. They are expanding the scope. They are looking at what happened at Soulmate at the anchor point before the dinghy ever left that evening.
Think about what that means. The official story begins with Brian and Lynette getting in the dinghy to go back to Soulmate after dinner. But investigators appear to be asking, is that really where this story starts? If that mystery boat’s owner comes forward, and I want to believe they will, because if you have information about a missing woman, for the love of God, please come forward.
This case could change overnight. That witness could confirm or contradict everything Brian Hooker has said, and either way, we need to know. Anyone with information can submit tips through the CGIS Tips App, available on iOS and Android. Tips can be submitted anonymously. I will put the details in the description below. If you were in the Bahamas, specifically in the Elbow Cay, Hopetown, Aunt Pat’s Bay, Marsh Harbour area on the night of the 4th of April, 2026, or if you know someone who was, please reach out to CGIS. Please.
Let me bring it all together now because I want to connect what we know about that boat, the electronics, the tracking, the devices that were seized to what CGIS is now doing with their public appeal. We talked about how Soulmate’s satellite tracking went offline for approximately 11 hours on the night Linette disappeared.
We talked about how the solar power on that boat is so robust that a simple power failure almost certainly wasn’t the cause. We talked about how those electronic systems, the FLIR, the radar, the Raymarine units, the navigation systems create a forensic record of nearly everything that happens on and around that vessel.
Investigators have those devices. They seized them under a warrant. They are going through them right now. Here’s what they may be able to establish from that data. Did Soulmate move that night? Were any systems manually deactivated and reactivated? Are there any communications, text messages, calls, anything from the boat’s devices that contradict Brian’s timeline? Brian himself drew a map showing his dinghy route.
He shared that map with friends and with the media. Now, that could be the act of a man who has nothing to hide and wants to help. But it could also be, and this is exactly the kind of thing forensic investigators are trained to look for, an attempt to establish a documented story before the actual data from the boat’s systems tells a different one.
And here’s the thing about modern navigation apps like Navionics. They log data, GPS data, route data, timestamps. If Brian’s phone was connected to that system, and given how technologically sophisticated this man was, given that Linette literally posted about him networking the boat, those records exist. And they’re in the hands of CGIS right now.
The mystery boat matters because it could provide eyewitness corroboration or contradiction of everything Brian says happened that night. But the electronic data from Soulmate, that doesn’t need a witness. That’s a record, and records don’t lie. Let me give you the current status of everything. As of today, Lynette Hooker has been missing for 1 month. Her body has not been found.
Search and rescue operations, which involved the Royal Bahamas Defense Force, Bohemian police, and the US Coast Guard have officially shifted from rescue to recovery. Bohemian authorities told media they ran out of places to search after reviewing tide patterns, drift, and wind data. That is gut-wrenching for her family.
And I imagine it’s particularly gut-wrenching for her mother, Darlene Hamlet, who told CNN, “We have many unanswered questions. We are still holding on for a positive outcome to this tragedy.” Carly Ellsworth, who has been posting on social media, running a GoFundMe to support the search, hiring attorneys, has been the loudest, most consistent voice demanding answers.
She hired an attorney. She was interviewed by CGIS for 2 hours. She is not going away, and she shouldn’t. Brian Hooker is in the United States. He has two attorneys now, Terral Butler in the Bahamas, who represented him during his detention, and Crystal Marie Hauser in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He remains a suspect in the Bohemian investigation, per the Commissioner of Police. He has not been charged.
He says he wants to keep searching for Lynette. Soulmate is still sitting on a mooring ball in Marsh Harbour. The boat is still there. Every day it gets checked on. And every day that boat sits in the Bahamas while Brian Hooker is in Michigan. He doesn’t have another home. At some point, someone is going to have to do something about that boat, and that’s another thing we’re watching.
And CGIS federal investigators are actively pursuing this case, conducting interviews this week, hunting down the mystery witness boat, reviewing seized electronic evidence. This investigation is not winding down. It is heating up. Brian Hooker has said publicly, multiple times, that he is innocent, that this was a tragic accident, that the winds and the currents took his wife from him, and that he tried everything he could to save her.
If that’s true, then the evidence will show it. The boat’s data will support his account. The mystery boat’s owner will corroborate his timeline. And we will have the answer that his story is consistent with what really happened that terrible night. But if it’s not true, if something happened on or near Soulmate that Brian has not told us about, then this boat, with its FLIR, and its Raymarine, and its solar power, and its satellite systems, and its seized electronic devices, is going to tell investigators everything they need to know.
Because you cannot operate that kind of vessel and leave no trace. Soulmate knows what happened that night. And I don’t think anyone who is not telling the truth stands a chance. I want to take a moment, and I do this in every episode, because I think it matters to just sit with who Lynette Hooker was. She was a woman who found the ocean and decided to live in it, who looked at a life she had built on land and said, “I want more. I want the horizon.
” She documented every piece of it. The good days and the hard days, the sea turtles and the storms. She called the ocean her happy place. Her last caption, not going anywhere for a while. She should still be there. We don’t have all the answers yet. This is an ongoing investigation. Every episode of coverage on this case, mine, Ashley Banfield’s over at Drop Dead Serious.
Every journalist who has given this story the attention it deserves is a piece of a thousand piece puzzle being assembled one fragment at a time. Some pieces don’t fit yet. Some we’re still waiting for. But the puzzle is getting clearer. And right now, the piece that matters most is that mystery sailboat.
That silent witness sitting in Aunt Pat’s Bay on April 4th. If you were there, if you know someone who was there, please come forward. You can download the CGIS Tips App on iOS or Android and submit a tip anonymously. I’ll put the link in the description. This is not about pointing fingers. This is about finding out what happened to a 55-year-old woman who deserves justice and whose family deserves the truth.
Lynette, we haven’t forgotten you. And everyone watching, thank you. If you’re new here, subscribe, hit the bell. This case is moving and I will be back the moment there is a development. We have a lot more to cover. The finances, the 401K, the full timeline going back further than April 4th.
There is so much more and we’re going to get into all of it. If you have tips, information, anything at all about this case, the night of April 4th, the boats in Aunt Pat’s Bay, the movements around Marsh Harbor, anything about Soulmate, please reach out. Even if you think it’s small. Even if you think it doesn’t matter.
Let the investigators decide what matters. Because Lynette Hooker matters. Take care of yourselves and remember, truth isn’t just serious, it’s everything.
