LISTEN: Brian Hooker's own words appear to place him in the water the night missing wife vanished in Bahamas

A person of Brian Hooker says a telephone telephone helium recorded days aft Lynette Hooker vanished suggests her hubby was successful the h2o with her that night, an relationship that would look to contradict the communicative Brian has told.

After leaving enactment astatine Hope Town successful the Bahamas astatine astir 7:30 p.m. connected April 4, Brian Hooker told authorities that unsmooth waters caused his woman to autumn disconnected their dinghy. Brian Hooker paddled to enactment and arrived astatine Marsh Harbour astir 4 a.m. connected April 5, authorities said.

The mates was headed backmost to their sailboat Soulmate, their full-time location successful retirement, erstwhile Lynette fell overboard. They often sailed astir the U.S. and Caribbean, according to their societal media pages.

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Brian Hooker leaves Central Police Station successful Freeport, The Bahamas, connected April 13, 2026, aft being released from custody. He was questioned astir the disappearance of his wife, Lynette Hooker, who helium says fell overboard from their dinghy earlier this month. (Matthew Symons for Fox News Digital)

Brian Hooker called chap boater Blaine Stevenson 2 days aft his woman Lynette vanished successful the Bahamas. Stevenson told Fox News Digital that a infinitesimal successful that telephone appears to spot Brian himself successful the h2o that night, contradicting his relationship that helium stayed successful the dinghy portion she drifted away.

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Lynette Hooker and Brian Hooker seen successful a representation taken successful 2023 connected a tiny boat. (John Waters)

"I mean she's a regular swimmer, not similar a jock oregon anything, but she's f------ determined, and she was deed with a flare pistol I had slid down 1 of the Sponsons down towards the stern and the dinghy. I took truthful galore waves implicit the dingy. I bailed astir 5 oregon six times. I had to bail retired the cockpit, but the the wrong besides got bedewed and so, and the dinghy cardinal was not attached to me, you know, truthful erstwhile we were f------ astir trying to get backmost successful the boat," Hooker said connected the call.

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Divers with the Coast Guard Investigative Service hunt for clues successful the hunt for missing pistillate Lynette Hooker. (Petty Officer 1st Class Riley Perkofski)

On the aforesaid call, connected respective instances Brian Hooker said helium was wrong the dinghy.

"The waves were 3 ft and I was trying to vessel the oars and 1 of the pins connected the oars broke and that f----- dropped implicit the broadside and I was yelling for her the full clip and I yelled to her that I mislaid the oar and I threw the anchor retired and anchored the dinghy. And conscionable yea I yelled I couldn't spot her anymore...the satellite has not risen yet. And the waves were doing their happening and you know, you I saw her I deliberation doubly I threw her a flotation cushion that we utilized to beryllium connected the dingy, you cognize close aft she went in, but I didn't I couldn't archer if she got it oregon not."

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Kenneth Engerrand, an adjunct prof of maritime instrumentality astatine the University of Houston Law Center and shareholder successful the Brown Sims instrumentality firm, told Fox News Digital that Brian Hooker's communicative is "inconsistent" and said the lawsuit is "getting much damning by the minute."

"He's saying they were successful water, but astatine the aforesaid time, he's bailing. And astatine the time, she's quickly, instantly distant from him by the waves and the upwind and whatnot. Everything astir this is inconsistent," Engerrand said.

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The vessel Soulmate is docked astatine the U.S. Coast Guard presumption successful Fort Pierce, Fla., connected May 13, 2026. The vessel, owned by Brian Hooker and his missing woman Lynette Hooker, was reportedly brought backmost to the U.S. from The Bahamas by the Coast Guard. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

"He's telling 5 antithetic stories, and nary of them are consistent. So it's arsenic if he's conscionable making worldly up arsenic helium goes," helium added.

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The U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Services concluded their four-day renewed hunt for Lynette Hooker's assemblage connected Monday aft GPS information from Brian Hooker's telephone obtained by authorities allegedly shows a discrepancy betwixt what helium archetypal told instrumentality enforcement, sources acquainted with the probe told Fox News Digital. During their renewed search, the Coast Guard took possession of the dinghy.

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Lynette Hooker disappeared aft going overboard during a vessel travel successful the Bahamas, according to section officials. (Brian Hooker/Facebook)

That discrepancy prompted national U.S. authorities to question support from Bahamian authorities to hunt a caller country successful the Sea of Abaco with 25-foot-deep waters, the sources added. Investigators are treating the lawsuit arsenic a homicide, according to a U.S. official.

Brian Hooker's Michigan-based lawyer antecedently asked Americans to springiness him the payment of the uncertainty successful an interrogation with ABC News.

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"I would inquire those watching to dainty him the mode you would privation to beryllium treated, to springiness him the payment of the doubt, and to see that not each of us, nor you, considering your ain relationships, the mode you talk to 1 another, we each grip things successful antithetic ways," Crystal Marie Hauser said.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Hauser for comment.