Lynette Hooker's Apple Watch Was on Her Wrist, Then Found on the Yacht? | Missing in Bahamas

Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Bamfield and this is Drop Dead Serious, I got a couple more things

to tell you about this mystery in the Bahamas.

I keep calling it in my head Paradise Lost because when I was there, Lindsay and I spent

five days, like I would say pounding the pavement except that it was this beautiful,

back-cooling, you know, healthy and environment in the Bahamas.

And it was so lovely and so pretty.

We were kind of bummed we were working because everyone was having such a good time and

enjoying themselves and so laid back and so kind that it was hard to believe that this

terrible, shall we say, incident because at this point we can't say murder, Brian Hooker

swears up and down that his wife just bounced off the back of the dinghy.

You know, whoops and says the waves were so rough, it was two to four foot seas and

the wind was howling and we've discovered that's not true and now we've discovered

something else tonight and it is big.

It's really big.

It's one of those things like Brian Coburger, you know, left DNA on the knife sheath big

or took his own car to a murder scene big, right?

I think we all kind of get it in this day and age that your digital trail will usually

trip you up and I think that may end up happening in this case.

I'm just going to say I don't believe Brian Hooker's story.

I haven't met anybody who does.

I really, the more I talk to people and I'm still every single day talking to over a dozen

people daily in the Bahamas and every single one of them, guys lie in.

Nothing adds up, story doesn't add up, wind doesn't add up, none of it.

And tonight I'm going to show you why the story of the watches doesn't add up.

I'm going to tell you about Lynette's watch because that's a big clue.

And Brian's watch, that's another clue.

I got a couple other things to tell you about.

Remember that paddle that Brian says he lost, he calls them oars where he's got two oars.

He got pins on them like regular oars would have, but there's no pin sockets on the dingy.

So I don't know, I think they just used them as paddles.

But he told everybody who would listen, I lost one of those that terrible night that Lynette

bounced off the back of the dingy and I got separated in the current and the wind and

she was getting farther and farther in the two to four foot waves.

I couldn't see her head and it was getting dark.

It was like close to eight o'clock at night and map.

She had the keys and the dry bags, she happened to just grab the dry bag on the way out and

the lanyard that had the electric key to the engine.

Oh, here I go.

Yeah, none of that adds up.

However, what's really fascinating is he says he lost his paddle.

Well now I know where that paddle may have washed up, may have washed up.

Until now, it's been like, where's this mystery paddle?

See if Abaco is not that big.

I mean, it kind of looks big, but it's just like a giant swimming pool and you can see

the bottom everywhere, right?

It's really, really shallow.

Like six, eight, nine feet and then it's deepest at high tide, maybe 15.

But you can see everything and everything would wash up on the shores, right?

But the paddle has been missing until discovered, maybe where it ended up today.

I'm going to tell you all about that in a minute.

Also, I'm going to get you up to speed on something a lot of you have been talking about.

You know that floaty that Jim swears, he, it's like a, it's like a, it's like a swim floaty.

They used it as kind of seat cushions on the side of the dinghy, like on the, on the

hull, the gull of the dinghy.

He says, I tossed it to her and I don't know if she got it or not.

And it floated away and it ended up on shore where Brian ended up on shore.

A lot of you have been asking, you're a little bit confused about where that, that floaty

ended up in comparison to the dinghy.

I've got all of that for you, maps, charts and everything.

And all from the rescuers, you're even going to see the rescuer who found it.

He videotaped himself going to it and picking it up.

So you see that in a minute and then there's something else.

You probably saw in the last episode, last couple episodes, we've had some pretty good

exclusive pictures.

But one of the exclusive pictures we got was a picture of Lynette taking a selfie at the

pool, you know, just like not even an hour and a half or two before she disappeared

forever, at least disappeared until now.

And that picture, well, there were so many things you're going to learn about in that picture.

But I probably should have made a bigger deal yesterday about the fact that Lynette's

wearing a bright blue head scarf in this picture.

She's enjoying the sun and the wind on the Atlantic side.

And by the way, the picture shows how rough it is over on the Atlantic side of elbow

key.

Yeah, but on the other side, great.

That's the east shore that you're seeing on the western shore.

It's calm and lovely.

It's why everybody anchors their boats there because it's safe.

And the east side of the island has no wind.

And that's the story of Brian's night because everyone we've talked to and all the evidence

we've seen and something you're going to see a little later in this episode shows there

were no two to four foot seas.

And the wind pattern that Brian swears was happening wasn't, no, it wasn't.

So Lynette is taking this picture and she's got this bright blue head scarf.

She's also got her green bathing suit cover up and what looks like a black fanny pack.

And it's kind of weird, but it looks like she's got a black fanny pack that she's wearing,

but it also looks like there's something black that's on the sun chair in front of her.

So the deal with that is when Brian was pressed by the fire and rescue volunteers that busted

their asses to help find Lynette the next morning, right?

They kept asking him over and over, well, what was she wearing?

What are we looking for?

What do we look at?

What was the last thing she was wearing?

What was she wearing when you last saw her?

And all Brian said was a two-piece black bathing suit.

Now, I've come to learn it's not a bikini.

It's actually like a two-piece that covers your tummy.

It might have like a fabric that falls over the mid-drift maybe, but it's a two-piece black

bathing suit.

And that is it.

That's all Brian would say.

And they pressed him.

I talked to them.

I talked to the fire, two of them.

I talked to both of the fire and rescue guys who were really on lead and on point.

And all they would say is that she was, he said, all they would say is that he said she

was wearing a two-piece black bathing suit.

Well, bro, we saw the picture.

Why didn't you mention the green cover up?

Why didn't you mention the bright blue head scarf?

That sort of stands out.

How about the black fanny pack or whatever that black thing was on the sun chair in front

of her while she's taking a selfie?

Because if my husband went missing like that, I would be saying, let me think, let me

think.

I know he had a, oh god, yeah, yeah, he had a bandana.

He was wearing a bandana.

And the swim shorts were, you know, patterned.

You'd be combing every annal of your mind to think of details of what your loved one

was wearing when she went overboard.

All right, and it seemed to remember she was wearing a bright blue head scarf.

It was bright blue, one small, and that stands out.

Because not everybody wears a head scarf like that.

Ryan didn't mention she had that black fanny pack thing or whatever that black thing was

on the sun chair in front of her.

I think she's also wearing sunglasses.

Didn't mention that.

That is huge.

The green cover up?

Dude, come on.

He didn't mention any of that.

Those are huge details that this so-called grieving spouse just, I don't know, black, black

bathing suit.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Maybe two piece.

I smell a rat.

Sorry, Brian.

But if you get arrested again, well, if you get arrested and charged, you weren't charged

the first time, if you do, and I, um, I just have a sneaking suspicion you will be, you're

going to have to answer all of this.

You're going to have to answer to why a grieving spouse wouldn't give a shit about what

his wife was wearing when you last saw her in this tragedy.

It's a big deal for me.

It's been a big deal for others too.

Friends of Lynette's have been apoplectic about this.

I've been talking to Blaine Stevens and a lot.

He and his wife, Marney, are also sailors.

And they're just, they're literally sun up to sundown trying to put the pieces together

on this, on this case.

And that really pissed them off.

You didn't even tell the rescuers about everything, the scarf, the cover up, the black thing,

like, what the hell?

I can see whether I'm mad.

I'm mad.

I didn't know Lynette.

And I'm mad.

Okay.

Let's talk about her apple watch.

Early in this story, we told you, uh, that the Royal Bahamian police got Lynette's apple

watch.

Originally, there was a story that broke that it might have been on a beach.

That was dispelled.

It was not.

They got it off.

Soulmate.

They're 46-foot catch.

The sailboat that they've been living on for the last four years.

The Royal Bahamians got it off the sailboat.

Little pink apple watch.

So that is a huge detail now because of the photo that we uncovered.

That photo, that exclusive photo that, yes, dropped dead serious.

We got that.

That exclusive photo shows what sure is how it looks like a powder pink apple watch and

band on Lynette's hand on her wrist.

Just take a look.

That's not a tan line.

That pretty much looks like an apple watch on her wrist right there.

I don't know anybody with tan lines that huge and that significant that could be caught

in a photo like that.

That looks like the apple watch.

So my friends work with me here.

If you are at the abaco in on elbow key up until at least 7 o'clock because that's the last

photo we have of Brian heading down towards the dock by himself without her.

So we know at least they're there at 7 p.m.

If you are getting in the dinghy and you're heading back to your keelboat that is anchored

only about 12 minutes away, dinghy ride, round the corner, off to the left, south down

elbow key towards Tahiti Beach, it's beautiful.

How did your apple watch that's on your wrist late in the afternoon?

How did that get on to the sailboat because you never made it to the sailboat?

Lynette never made it to the sailboat.

This much Brian tells us, right?

She bounced off the back.

On the way to the sailboat, the seas were rough, my friend.

What does George Costanza say?

Yeah, the seas were two to four feet.

She bounced off the back.

We never made it to the sailboat.

She had the keys and I floated for 9 hours, bullshit.

I floated for 9 hours across the sea of abaco and ended up on the shores of March Harbor.

Okay, so neither of you made it back to the sailboat.

How did her little pink apple watch make it back to the sailboat, Brian?

Brian, you got some spleen in to do because if she's wearing that apple watch and she went

overboard, it should still be on her wrist wherever she is.

It shouldn't be on board, sole mate, for the Royal Bahamian Police to collect.

Not only that, but we all know how electronics work, don't we?

We all know that your hip bones connected to your leg bone and your apple watch is connected

to your apple phone.

Yeah, and I can tell you that Lynette's apple watch was connected to her iPhone because

her daughter, Carly Ailsworth, tells me she constantly did find my phone like I do all the

time.

If I didn't, I would never Lynette did that all the time according to her daughter.

So the apple watch is connected to that iPhone.

So if that apple watch made it on board, sole mate, and it probably connected to the

internet, that's the kind of stuff you can find.

That's the kind of stuff, the expert's called digital exhaust.

And if her phone, as well, made it up on to sole mate, that's going to connect to the

internet too.

They had Starlink.

They had Starlink really high up on their mast too.

And I've been told that the way that would affect things is that you'd actually connect

further away.

If your Starlink is low down, you might come towards the boat and connect close to the

boat.

But if it's up high, you'll connect much farther out because you've got to, I've been

told that.

I can't attest to that myself, I haven't done the test myself.

But others have said that they might have connected to the Starlink sooner.

If this whole story of Brian is just horseshit, and there was nobody going over the side

of the boat, maybe that dingy made it all the way back to sole mate with Lynette.

And her watch, and her phone, and their passports and everything else he says was in that

dry bag.

Maybe they made it back on to sole mate.

And maybe something happened on sole mate, maybe, because I'll tell you what, with the

story that Brian is spinning, you didn't make it to sole mate.

So your devices should not have made it to sole mate.

And if those devices made it to sole mate, you're fucked.

If Lynette's device made it to sole mate, game over.

If Brian's device is made it to sole mate, game over.

If anybody checked an email, or you just got on board and you hand shook with your own,

you know, Starlink game over, because nobody was supposed to be within a thousand feet

of sole mate when Brian's emergency happened.

And then he was set at Drift a thousand yards away from sole mate and getting further and

further and further to the West until he went up on Marsh Harbor nine hours later.

In a win that was like, I know there's been discrepancies on the win, but more and more,

getting reports, that win was, it really wasn't, it wasn't two to four foot seas and it

wasn't screaming out there.

Maybe as you got closer to Marsh Harbor, then the win would have picked up a little more

and would have been busier, but your emergency happened in the lee side of elbow key where

it's basically snorkeling weather.

So there's a lot that's not adding up.

And that Apple watch of Lynette's boy, I sure hope that her Apple watch that she loved will

tell the story.

Let me tell you a little story about her Apple watch.

I guess she loved it so much that the battery was starting to get weak.

Mine did once I had to replace mine.

It just wouldn't hold a charge.

It almost would die before I go to bed.

And so with Lynette, that was the case.

Her little pink, her powder pink Apple watch was getting too weak.

And she couldn't even wear it through the night to do the sleep analysis that your watch

will do for you.

She couldn't do that because her watch wouldn't last.

She just couldn't hold a charge that long.

And this is according to her daughter, who was just there on the boat just a month and

a half ago or so, visiting.

So Lynette needed a new watch.

And Brian told Carly Lynette's daughter that he bought her a new watch.

Not an Apple watch though.

He bought her a different kind of watch that is more like the way I've heard is more

like his.

And I think you can load navigonics on his.

It's more a technical watch, but it didn't fit.

Apparently this watch did not fit.

And so the plan was when Carly was there, we'll give it to Carly.

And Carly was thrilled and planned to take that watch with her because her mom and Brian

said, this watch doesn't fit.

It's new.

Brian got it for me.

You can have it sweetheart.

And she forgot it on the boat.

She forgot it on the charger in the boat.

The green watch that Brian bought for Lynette.

Where's that watch?

Let's go know with that watch.

Did the Royal Behemians find that watch because it might have been in a drawer somewhere?

It might have been somewhere on that boat.

Did they get it?

Did they collect that evidence?

Because that's important.

That watch would also be important.

And when I mentioned that it's similar to Brian's watch, let's talk a little bit about

Brian's watch.

Because there's been a couple things that we've noticed.

And we've been tracking it.

And I haven't brought you the story till now because I've been waiting on some answers.

And I'm not sure I have all of them, but I'll tell you where I'm at.

You see Brian in all of his social media wearing this very light-colored watch, big chunky light-colored

watch.

And from what Carly tells me, Brian's stepdaughter, Lynette's daughter, that watch was very technical.

And from what others have said, it's likely that he was able to track his navigonics and

load navigonics on that.

You can actually do so much with your watches these days if you're a mariner.

I know Mike's husband uses an e-curb when he's out on the long island sound because he

goes out a lot alone.

And if anything ever happens, he can actually like send out a signal with his watch.

And then they'll come and rescue him.

It'll actually send out a signal and your exact location will be pinned and rescuers

will know to come and get you.

So a lot of people who are boats savvy and spend a lot of time on boats will have these

very specialized watches like the e-curb or like my ex-husband has the e-curb or like

Brian had this specialized watch.

I haven't gotten, I haven't nailed down exactly everything about that watch yet.

But if you know, please put in the comments and email us the info because you guys have

been amazing.

I've already had several emails from people in the Bahamas, who know people in the Bahamas,

who have cameras in the Bahamas, who've taken pictures.

And I am so incredibly thankful that you've done that.

And I encourage you to continue sending us anything you might have.

Images, information about the watch that Brian wears if you see the image on your screen

in a moment, send it to dropdeadseriousinfo at gmail.com.

Again, dropdeadserious, that's me info at gmail.com.

It's super helpful.

Dropdeadseriousinfo at gmail.com.

If you send us anything you might have, look at your photos from the abaco in that night.

From 6 p.m. all the way through till 8 p.m.

See if you caught Lynette and Brian in the background.

It's so important to see the timestamps and what they were doing.

There's a lot of weird stuff that's coming in.

I've got more episodes ahead on that.

Also, if you don't want to send them to me, I get it.

I understand you.

I have another place where you can send them.

C-G-I-S tips.

That is an app.

It is the Coast Guard's app for anonymous tips.

It's just go to your app store, look for C-G-I-S tips.

And you'll see it right there.

It'll say Coast Guard, anonymous tips, point, and there you can put it there.

You can also go to the website.

C-3, that's the letter P, the number 3 tips.com.

And there's a QR code we have on the screen as well.

So pictures, video, and any information you have about the watch that you see Brian

wearing in a lot of these videos, but above that watch.

We are told by Carly and many others, he never took that watch off.

He wore that watch all the time.

Like it was glued.

And I don't disbelieve that because there's a curious little picture of Brian after he

was arrested without the watch on and a big, big tan line where the watch would have been.

And I'm like, wait a minute.

This is after he was released.

I'm like, where's your watch, bro?

You never, ever took that watch off.

And for a while there, I was playing parlor games with an expert here.

And we were trying to figure out if he took the watch off when he was handcuffed in the

police boat and oops, fell overboard.

Because you remember that story, they arrested him on sole mate and then they put him in

the police boat and they drove him to Gran Bahama Island in Freeport where they have the

holding facility, the detention center for him in the courthouse.

But he fell out and had to be rescued by the police officers.

Like first of all, Bahama and police, what, what, how did you let that happen?

You put a handcuffed guy in your boat, you had a flotation device on.

Put a handcuffed guy in your boat and you're not kind of like watching him or next to him

or making sure that can't happen.

It happened.

Audi went as lawyers said and they had to rescue him and then he got injured and had to get

some treatment for some superficial injuries on his leg.

But I was wondering if, if when he was in the water, he was like, I don't want my naveonics,

you know, I don't want them to have my naveonics and show you everywhere I've actually been.

I had to dispel that thought.

So there's this image of him and I believe he's outside the police lock up the day after

he's released because he's released at 8 o'clock at night.

So this picture's broad daylight and he's holding his precious light-colored watch.

It's sort of lime green, I think, really, really light lime green.

He's holding in his hands almost as though he may have gone back to the police station

to collect his, you know, personal effects because when you get arrested, usually you

strip down of all your personal effects, your watch, your earrings, whatever you got, your

nose ring, your thing ring, and then you get it when you're released.

But at 8 o'clock at night, this is not video of him holding his watch in the dark and

I know it's 8 o'clock at night.

He was released at 8 and I know it's dark at 8.

This is bright daylight, so my assumption is it might be the next morning and that would

be Tuesday the 14th of April.

He's released on Monday the 13th of April at 8 at night.

I think this photo may be Tuesday the 14th.

And that day, so he's holding his watch and there you go, that watch that was off his

wrist.

Suddenly, he's got it back on his wrist, so that's super interesting.

And he does these interviews with big major networks.

He picks CBS, ABC and NBC, how cliche.

Don't you know all the true crime viewers are watching here?

This is where you're going to get the most viewers is in true crime podcasting.

Come on, Brian, get with the times.

Anyway, he does his interview with some of them and he's got his watch off.

I'm just a little fascinated by why the Royal Bahamian police didn't keep that watch.

Like why didn't you seize that watch as evidence?

It's a digital trail, y'all.

Like it tells you everything and that could hold so well, could have held so much evidence.

But they didn't.

The Royal Bahamian police didn't keep that watch.

You can see him holding it in his hands as he's leaving.

And by the way, when I say leaving, yeah, that guy could wait.

He got his emergency passport.

And the next day you saw the pictures of him flying the coop blowing this pop stand.

Yeah, he decided that Bahamas was no longer for him.

Even though he said, I will never leave the Bahamas without my wife Lynette.

I will never stop searching for her.

I'm going to try and rent a boat to go and search for her.

He didn't, he didn't rent that boat.

Certainly not from the number that you were given by the search and rescue fella that you

asked, where can I rent a boat?

Who can I call?

He gave you the number.

You never called them.

We checked.

So that's Brian Hooker.

You know, I'm trying to get the benefit of the doubt here because that's what his lawyers

asked us to do.

But it's harder and harder and harder because all the stuff he says doesn't match the actual

facts.

He doesn't match the tide patterns, doesn't match the wind, doesn't match the timing, doesn't

match.

You name it, doesn't match.

The one thing I can say is that if I spent five days in a Bahamian detention cell,

I might be a little concerned that they could lock me up again.

And if I'm innocent, I don't want to spend the rest of my life in a Bahamian prison.

So I can understand why maybe somebody might get on a plane and leave the jurisdiction

when they get and it's good.

But if my husband were still floating out there, I wouldn't, I mean, I say that I really

don't think I would leave him.

I don't think I would leave.

I know one thing.

I'd have rented any boat I could find.

I'd have been out there.

I'd have asked the search and rescue guys, can I just come with you?

Pick me up every day, you know, that didn't happen.

He's a lot of talk about the dinghy and his SIM card, a lot of that stuff, but he does

not ask much about the search.

He never asks the search and rescue guy, where's the command center?

How many boats are out?

What's happening?

What's being done to help find my wife doesn't ask?

See why it's hard to give the benefit of the doubt?

Sorry, lawyer lady, it's just hard.

Okay, and also, come on, lawyer lady, he didn't even say what she was wearing to the search

and rescue people.

So yeah, benefit of the doubt is a real struggle.

It's Everest at this point.

So let's talk a little bit about the missing paddle because Brian says he lost an ore, right?

He used it as a paddle.

It has a pin on it, but I never saw any kind of receptacle for the pins in this dinghy,

so I assume they use these ores as paddles, but he said he lost one.

And we've all been curious about where this thing ended up, because to see an abaco,

it's going to end up on some shore.

It's like a giant, giant lake, and nobody's been able to find the dry bag or the missing

ore paddle slash, I'm going to call it a paddle just for this purpose.

And we've learned something interesting, especially as pertains to the pattern of the wind

and a neighbor that found a paddle that washed up on shore right after.

Brian Hooker ended up at March Harbor, but it did not wash up at March Harbor.

It didn't end up anywhere near March Harbor.

It ended up on lovers quarters, okay?

So work with me here, because it's really important to know that if you're on the Western

shore of elbow key, where Brian says, you know, holy hell broke loose.

And you start drifting, you're going to go with the wind and the ties and the currents.

And the wind was blowing briskly southwest.

I've seen the video, I've seen a video of the exact time between 7 and 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.

and I've seen the wind and it is blowing in a southerly direction and towards the west,

okay?

So if you're in that little dinghy, you're going to blow that way too, because the dinghy

is above water, it's got some profile and the wind is going to catch it, which would

put you squarely on lovers.

Brian, if you were floating, you would have blown into lovers, because as it turns out,

we've learned your paddle most probably blew onto lovers, because there are some neighbors

there of a guy I spoke with today that found a paddle on their shore, halfway down

lovers.

So if you look at lovers, you know, midway to the island and then a little further south,

that's where the paddle washed up on lovers.

Why would your paddle end up on lovers and you ended up way north?

Gipping over lovers and heading all the way to Marsh Harbor four miles away.

Had you miss lovers, your paddle didn't, apparently.

I will tell you this, these neighbors found the paddle and they gave it to the police.

I am told that they were shown a photo of the matching paddle on board soulmate and they

said it looked the same.

I have not had confirmation that it's the same paddle.

It has not been confirmed to me that this is in fact Brian's missing paddle, but it sure

is hinky, that a paddle washed up on shore and these neighbors picked it up and took it

to the police, right?

But that wind pattern, where that paddle ended up, Brian, if that's your paddle, how did

you end up so far north?

How did you blow so far north?

Did you paddle, ended up so far south, it went right in to the midway point and even a

little farther south than the midway point of lovers and washed up on the shore for those

neighbors to pick up.

Curious isn't it?

So let's talk about some other floaties and patterns.

Lot of you have talked about the green floatations, swimmie thing, it's almost like what you would

use as a flutter board, it's really not a flotation device, but it's kind of spongy

and you can sit on it, which is what Brian and Lynette used to do.

They'd sit on the gunnels of their dinghy while they were driving and he says, I grabbed

that green one and I threw it to her and I don't know if she ever got it.

There were two life jackets in the bottom of the dinghy when the fire and rescue saw the

dinghy over, you know, marooned on the shore after his long night of floating.

Okay.

I know the wind wasn't screaming because I've seen it and I've seen the marine patterns

because I've heard people who've been in dinghy's in that exact place tell me no way,

no how once that wind so brutal you couldn't throw a life jacket.

There were no giant waves right 150 meters offshore in the lead of elbow key.

It was not a screaming wind at 7 7 30 or 8 o'clock at night on Saturday, April 4th.

Witnesses have said it, videos have said it.

A woman I talked to today who was in her dinghy going back and forth along that shore all

the way down to T.E.D. beach all the way past the abacow in and the white sand channel

and then all the way to the firefly in where her boat was anchored.

She and her husband were in the dinghy and she said there's no way we would have gone

out in the dinghy if it were the conditions he was describing.

So why didn't you throw the life jackets two of them?

Why didn't you put one on and then swim to her with the other one?

You're a US marine, right?

OK, don't get me started.

In any case, he says he throws the green city cushion, you know, little floaty swimmy thing.

And that thing ends up all the way over on March Harbor with him.

It made the same journey that he made, he said.

And he actually said that's incredible.

Because and a lot of you have asked this question in the comments, you said I'm a little confused

about where the green floaty device was compared to where he washed up on shore.

So he washes up on the shore, on the eastern shore of March Harbor four miles away from Elbo

Key.

He crosses the sea of abacow all night for nine hours, wouldn't take nine hours.

Not even in a wind, even in a breeze, it wouldn't take that long.

And the green floatation swim cushion ends up a hundred yards or so south of him on

the same shore.

And I want to show you now the fire and rescue volunteer who found it and picked it up and

videotaped picking it up.

So take a look.

This is a retrieving the blue float that Brian Hooker said that he threw out of his boat

and put his wife went missing and said it was a green cushion that he described just

like this.

We saw this from the water on Sunday morning and it is Tuesday morning and we will come

back and I'm pretty sure this is what Brian described.

And the tip of man of war is right there which would be consistent with what we expected

on the wind drift.

And I think this little graphic will help because this shows and this is drawn by the fire

and rescue guys.

The D is where the dinghy was found on March Harbor's shore and the F is where the floaty was

found on the shore.

See how close they were just a hundred yards apart.

And if you zoom out from there you can see as you sort of look to the east you can see

the land mass that is lovers quarters and that's the land mass that miraculously Brian missed

as he was floating all the way across the sea of abaco and we zoom out even more and you

get to the place where this whole mess started and that's over at elbow key right off the

shore.

150 meters off the shore he says oh Lynette went off the back and then all hell whatever

I started my giant float that took nine hours to get all the way over to March Harbor.

But now you can kind of see that he missed that northern tip of lovers and ended up on

that full float across to March Harbor and that little green floaty stayed with him the

whole way.

And yet if that paddle is his it didn't and we have not seen Lynette's dry bag because

Lynette didn't squeeze all the air out of her dry bag normally you can see it in her

dinghy often where she just folded over a couple times like most people do and then click

you know cinches it and and that's the dry bag.

So it would have floated more than likely where that potential paddle ended up it would

be somewhere that dry bag would be somewhere.

And that dry bag is supposedly containing his passport her passport their additional key

how convenient to the to the dinghy and maybe some other barriers and sundry things I think

her phone as well.

So it hasn't turned up curious though very curious why it wouldn't blow in the same pattern

is that green floatation swimmie thing or even the paddle because those went two different

directions and so did his dinghy.

But so interesting is I've spoken to that fire and rescue representative who picked up

that floaty cushion and this is the same fire and rescue representative with whom Brian

was texting back and forth madly in the days after Lynette disappeared and one of the things

he said to this representative when he was told that it was found just a hundred yards

of where his dinghy had washed up on shore.

He said incredible to think we floated all that way a hundred yards apart.

Yes, that is incredible especially since the ore that may be yours washed up on lovers

way south of where you are.

Now I did speak with Blaine Stevenson about the difference between an ore floating and

a cushion or a dinghy floating and he did say that an aluminum ore might fill with

water somewhat and then be partially submerged.

It doesn't have the high profile so it's not catching the wind as much so it's really

traveling more with the current and the tide than maybe with the wind so there is that

possibility as well and I will give you that.

But you can't ignore the wind that was blowing all the way to the southwest right it was

an east wind and it was blowing to the south and it was blowing to the west okay.

And so your high profile dinghy would have been blown more because it's late right by

the wind and you would have ended up on lovers.

In any case Lynette would have too if you really told the truth Lynette would have also more

than likely with the flood patterns the tide patterns the wind she would have also ended

up on lovers.

But I will also add this because I spoke with one of the homeowners there who has told

me that there is extensive bull shark patrolling so to speak along the shore of lovers eastern

shore of lovers and that he doesn't even swim off his dock.

Because he regularly sees bull shark activity swimming up and down the shore of lovers.

So again I don't for a minute believe that Lynette went in the water the way Brian says

she did.

I'm a boater and I just know that the whole story sounds like shit right.

So I don't believe that but I just do want to mention that over on the shore at lovers

that that eastern shore of lovers there is extensive bull shark activity and that comes

from a homeowner who doesn't even swim off his own dock because of that.

One other thing I wanted to show you because it took a little research to figure this out.

Many of you have probably seen Brian and Lynette on paddle boards on their social media and

they are paddling around Marsh Harbor.

And of course you would think well might he then have the lay of the land if he was paddling

so close to shore he would see things in advance.

It's a very smart thinking pattern but I wanted to spell because we've learned the actual

location of where Brian and Lynette were paddle boarding and it wasn't out on that eastern

shore of Marsh Harbor where he washed up.

It was actually quite a ways away from it.

So Brian and Lynette were renting a mooring ball in the actual anchorage of Marsh Harbor.

And that's a very protected harbor inside the island of Marsh Harbor.

So it's kind of like on the northern part it dips in as a big bay and you can see the

bay is curved and all the sailboats hook up to mooring balls or throw their own anchor

out.

So there's a mooring ball which means it's a permanent anchor.

There's a ball floating you just hook up to it and you're already anchored.

Very little work.

You don't have to set your hook.

So they were renting a mooring ball which also gave them the rights to be at the conk

inn which was on land and they could avail of the services there, the pool and the bar

and the restaurant and all the rest.

And so when they got off their sailboat and we showed you the pictures we circled around

their boat's soulmate, again that name, soulmate given what we're dealing with, right?

They circled around, so I circled around soulmate and showed you pictures in Marsh Harbor.

They got those paddle boards off soulmate and they actually paddle boarded inside the

harbor.

And they paddle boarded if you're looking at your map up to the top of the horseshoe

there.

You can see just off to the west side, there's some creeks and they were in there.

I've gotten the local report that the images of the background of where Brian and Lynette

were paddle boarding are indeed in those creeks inside that harbor.

Not way out and around on the eastern shore of Marsh Harbor.

So anybody who thought, well he may have been getting some ideas, you know, by checking

out the eastern shore of Marsh Harbor, that wasn't what they were doing with the paddle

boarding.

And it's just helpful sometimes to dispel these things because I know that sleuthing

is a serious business and so many of the clues on social media will actually tell you

very important things like what about that ping apple watch, right?

That sleuthing, seeing that photo and seeing that she's likely wearing that ping apple

watch in her selfie pictures back at the abaco in, that sleuthing.

But sometimes they're red herring or a dead end.

And I just wanted to make sure that if you're watching, this one is a dead end.

This paddle boarding was inside the harbor.

So it wouldn't have given you any knowledge of that other shore on the outside of the

harbor.

So there you have it folks.

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And they asked me anything's fun because you can do that.

You can ask me anything, especially about this case because I'm telling you, Lindsay and

I have been on the ground in the Bahamas.

We have been working the phones.

I don't know if you saw my social media yesterday.

I actually had to count at the end of the night how many messages I had actually processed

yesterday through email, text messages, what's apps and phone calls.

And I actually got it wrong.

There were more when I woke up this morning, I realized I hadn't even processed the sent

emails and it ended up being 1,060 yesterday alone.

That's a lot.

A lot of communication.

So when I say that Lindsay and I know a lot about this case and about this story, we do

mean it.

We really have been on it.

So if you have any questions about this particular case of the Brian and Lynette Hooker story

or any other story or anything else, Lasagna, Chris, his cooking, his fashion, the elusive,

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Yeah, Sunday 5 PM, we'd love to have you.

And tomorrow on Drop Dead Series, we met some people who were at the abaco in on Saturday

night April 4th.

That's when Lynette was last seen.

And that's when Brian and Lynette were visiting there having a couple drinks before they

got in their dinghy, fateful dinghy ride, untied and left the dock of the abaco in.

I've shown you that in other episodes when we were in the Bahamas, we took you down to

that dock.

We showed you where they would park, the ladder that they would scramble up and down to

get to the dinghy.

But the story that he gives is at around 730, they got into that dinghy at that dock, untied

and set off.

And only about 6 to 10 minutes later, hell broke loose, 2 to 4 foot waves, they weren't.

Well, we're still confirming this, but the people that we've met who were there saw Brian

and Lynette and have a pretty good description of what was going on.

And they snapped a picture of the dinghy at the dock.

Again, I'm confirming it all.

I didn't want to come to you too soon with all that, but if you watch the episode tomorrow,

that is what we're going to show you and talk about.

Thank you so much for being here.

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