Lynette Hooker - still missing. Brian Hooker’s boat was seized. Could this boat hold key evidence?

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]a massive development in the mystery of the missing Michigan mother Lynette Hooker. Her body still not found. For weeks the sailboat known as the Soulmate sat on a mooring ball in the Bahamas.

[00:00:10]It's in US custody. The Coast Guard intercepting the 46-foot vessel and these exclusive images from the Drop Dead Serious podcast with Ashley Banfield allegedly showing the boat being towed into Fort Pierce, Florida.

[00:00:23]Investigators are now scouring the deck for forensic evidence, digital data, anything that could challenge the story told by Lynette's husband Brian.

[00:00:32]And this gift comes courtesy of the United States Coast Guard and the United States Coast Guard Investigative Services who grabbed Brian Hooker's 46-foot sloop in international waters, hooked that thing up, and towed it into America.

[00:00:55]It is now evidence in a criminal investigation.

[00:01:01]And that is very bad news for one Brian Hooker who says that his wife Lynette just bounced off the back of that dinghy on her way out to the boat Soulmate, and then he proceeded to bounce right out of the Bahamas instead of staying to help look for her.

[00:01:16]But now Soulmate is in the custody of the United States authorities.