一个女人的丈夫据报失踪据他的律师称,他在巴哈马乘坐小艇落水后被警方审问,随后于周一无罪释放。
密歇根州55岁的勒奈特·胡克已经失踪一周多了。她和58岁的丈夫布莱恩·胡克(Brian Hooker)于4月4日晚上7点30分左右离开阿巴科群岛的希望镇,前往肘部礁岛的游艇Soulmate。她的丈夫告诉当局,恶劣的天气导致勒奈特·胡克(Lynette Hooker)落水。
布莱恩·胡克因涉嫌妻子失踪于周三被捕会见星期五被巴哈马警察拘留了大约三个小时。据他的律师Terrel Butler称,警方随后要求延期至周一晚上做出任何指控决定。
巴特勒周一晚上告诉ABC新闻,胡克获释后可以自由离开巴哈马。
她还说,自从胡克被捕以来,警方没有给过他任何关于寻找他妻子的最新消息。
巴特勒说,胡克被认为是他妻子失踪的嫌疑人,并否认有任何不当行为。
在周五的首次采访后,巴特勒说布莱恩·胡克“被询问是否造成了伤害,导致了她的死亡。”
“他肯定否认导致她的死亡,他仍在询问她的情况,并希望她会被找到,”巴特勒继续说,他们没有被告知任何证据表明她的尸体已被找到。
律师说,布莱恩·胡克对他结婚25年的妻子的失踪感到“心碎”,他的被捕是“创伤性的”
他被捕之前,多个消息来源告诉美国广播公司新闻,刑事调查已经开始,以确定此案中是否有任何不当行为。据熟悉调查的消息人士称,美国海岸警卫队正在牵头调查。
在上周三发布到社交媒体的一份声明中,布莱恩·胡克(Brian Hooker)表示,“不可预测的海洋和大风”导致他“心爱的勒奈特从我们的小艇上坠落”在肘部礁岛附近。
“尽管不顾一切地试图接近她,但风和水流使我们越走越远。我们会继续寻找她,这是我唯一的关注点,”他说。
根据巴哈马皇家警察部队的说法,布莱恩·胡克告诉警方,他的妻子在落水时拿着船钥匙,导致8英尺硬底小艇的引擎关闭。警方称,他随后将船划回岸边,于4月5日凌晨4点左右抵达码头,并报告妻子落水。
这些妓女在社交媒体上用“航海妓女”的名字记录了他们的航海旅行。
Lynette Hooker的女儿Karli Aylesworth呼吁对她母亲的失踪进行“全面彻底的调查”。
她告诉ABC新闻,她的继父布莱恩·胡克告诉她,她的妈妈“从船上掉了下来,他向她扔了一件救生衣什么的,他不知道她是否得到了它。”
Lynette Hooker的母亲Darlene Hamlett告诉ABC新闻,她希望在调查中“我们找到真相”,并声称这对夫妇的关系不稳定。
“我只想真相大白,我希望他们能做到这一点,我希望他们找到她,这将有助于澄清这一切,”她说。
Police release husband of woman reported missing after going overboard in Bahamas: Attorney
The husband of a woman who wasreported missingin the Bahamas after going overboard on a dinghy was questioned and then released by police without charges on Monday, according to his attorney.
Lynette Hooker, 55, of Michigan, has been missing for over a week. She and her husband, Brian Hooker, 58, had departed Hope Town on the Abaco Islands for their yacht, Soulmate, in Elbow Cay around 7:30 p.m. on April 4, when bad weather caused Lynette Hooker to fall overboard, her husband told authorities.
Brian Hooker was arrested on Wednesday in connection with his wife's disappearance andinterviewedby Bahamian police for approximately three hours on Friday. Police subsequently requested an extension to give them until Monday evening to make any charging decision, according to his attorney, Terrel Butler.
Butler told ABC News Monday night that Hooker is free to leave the Bahamas after being released.
She also said police have not given Hooker any updates on the search for his wife since his arrest.
Butler said Hooker is considered a suspect in his wife's disappearance and denies any wrongdoing.
Following his initial interview on Friday, Butler said Brian Hooker was "questioned in relation to causing harm, which resulted in her death."
"He definitely denies causing her death and he's still asking about her and is hopeful that she will be recovered," Butler continued, saying they have not been informed of any evidence that her body has been recovered.
The attorney said Brian Hooker is "heartbroken" over the disappearance of his wife of 25 years and that his arrest has been "traumatic."
His arrest came after multiple sources told ABC News a criminal investigation had been opened into whether there was any wrongdoing in the case. The U.S. Coast Guard is leading the probe, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
In a statement posted to social media last Wednesday, Brian Hooker said "unpredictable seas and high winds" caused his "beloved Lynette to fall from our small dinghy" near Elbow Cay.
"Despite desperate attempts to reach her, the winds and currents drove us further apart. We continue to search for her and that is my sole focus," he said.
Brian Hooker told police that his wife was holding the boat key when she went overboard, causing the 8-foot hard-bottom dinghy's engine to shut off, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force. He subsequently paddled the boat back to shore, arriving at a marina at around 4 a.m. on April 5, and reported his wife overboard, police said.
The Hookers documented their sailing travels on social media under the name "The Sailing Hookers."
Lynette Hooker's daughter, Karli Aylesworth, has called for a "full and complete investigation" into her mother's disappearance.
She told ABC News her stepfather, Brian Hooker, told her that her mom "fell out of the boat and that he threw a life jacket to her or something, and he doesn't know if she got it or not."
Lynette Hooker's mother, Darlene Hamlett, told ABC News she hopes "we find the truth" amid the investigation and alleged the couple have had a volatile relationship.
"I just want the truth to come out and I'm hoping that they can do that, and I hope they find her and that that will help clear up all of this," she said.





