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Exclusive: On Board With Divers & Cadaver Dog in Lynette Hooker Search | Missing in Bahamas
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Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is drop dead serious. Welcome to the Northern Outpost again in Canada. Lots to tell you about in the Bahamas again today I have some fantastic video to show you. Exclusive coverage. Unbelievable access to some of the work that the the United States Coast Guard and the Coast Guard Investigative Service as well as the Bahamian and the Bahamian Defense Force, the work that they've been doing. Wow. Everything from smashing in old abandoned barges to get more access to get ROVs in there to divers going underwater searching all the locations where clearly GPS locations from Brian's devices, whether it's his phone or his watch, placed him there. You know, places where Brian said he wasn't. All during that big lie about Brian floating across the the Sea of Abaco after being separated from his wife in a terrible tragedy where she bounced out of the back of his dinghy. All lies. Yeah, because the weather was lovely. There weren't two to four foot seas. There wasn't a 20 knot wind where he was. And so because his lies took everybody on a wild goose chase, the Coast Guard is chasing it all down today. And let me tell you, one of the things they were doing, which is so smart and makes me think, again, just me, that they may be preparing for a trial because they're retracing his route. You know, we could see them. I got spies all over the Sea of Abaco. People on boats, people on land, Bahamians who live there, people who've responded to this podcast. Thank you all. I mean, you guys have been amazing in the work that you've done and particularly today. Marina, you know who you are. Thank you for everything you've done. Also want to give a shout out to Captain Dennis Lavardi. You did some great work for us today as well. Nathan, as usual, just like chef's kiss. Phenomenal. And even Ronnie, Captain Ronnie's been keeping his eyes out too. And I can tell you we saw the Coast Guard in Their rigid inflatable boat. It's that what they call over the horizon boat, the orange Coast Guard vessel that tenders between the giant Coast Guard cutter that's way out in the Atlantic in the deep water and then this, you know, rib. The RIB goes into the shallow waters and takes everybody around. They got a lot of assistance, by the way, in that work by from the Royal Bahamian Police Force and the Royal Bahamian Defense Force, who brought out their ribs as well and their boats. They're starting to exclusively now ferry the Coast Guard around to. To their work. It looks like they're, you know, helping out a lot more than I expected. But we saw those boats arriving into the picture today. We actually saw them, one of them being launched yesterday. But then at the Abaco Inn, it was just like a whole meeting point of vessels. I'm going to tell you in a minute about something big that kind of happened at the Abaco Inn today. And you'll remember the Abaco Inn, kind of like ground zero for all of this because that's where Lynette and Brian had drinks from 4:30 to 7:30. It's where the last photo was snapped of Lynette that we showed you exclusively. And also that shows her likely wearing that pink apple watch, which if it was seized on board Soulmate, you know, she didn't bounce off the dinghy because then somehow magically that watch would have made it back to Soulmate, the sailboat. That's silly. Anyway, the story I wanted to tell you is that it looked from our eyes as though the Coast Guard was sort of bombing around and either planning to or filming the route that Brian really took. Because that's going to be really helpful for the investigation, but also, you know, for a jury. Brian's not charged with anything. Brian might be, you know, if I were a betting man, but he's not facing anything right now. And he said it would take a higher power to get him out of the Bahamas searching for his wife. Well, that higher power was an airplane within hours of saying that bullshit lie. So your higher power apparently is like WestJet or American Airlines or whatever the hell it was. You flu when you dusted everybody and then ghosted your own family, your own daughter, Carly Ailsworth, who you've raised since she was 3, you just basically vanished from her life. And if you're going through all this trauma, Brian Hooker, wouldn't you want to be with your kid and your mother in law who you also ghosted? Yeah, I want to add another name to the list of people who are suffering. While all of this is going on and everybody's fascinated by developments, there are people who are really suffering. Lynette's family. There's Lynette's mom, Darlene. Right. There's Lynette's daughter, Carly. And then there's Lynette's dad, Dan. Dan is added to this list of people who are waiting to find out what happened to their loved one. You know, for all of us wondering what the next development's going to be, they just want to know where she is. They want her back. And the Coast Guard is doing its level best to do that, to get Lynette back for her family, but also to put a pin in this case when it comes to Brian Hooker. Tick tock. Brian Hooker. To that end, you may have heard some rumored reporting out there, maybe some chatter that Brian Hooker's left the country, that he's amscrayed. Not true, necessarily. That's not what authorities believe. Listen, he's like suspect number one. This is a murder investigation now, right? So all the way along, they've had eyes on and they've been watching. They've had a good sense of where Brian is. But this rumor has kind of run rampant. And so, like, let's put that in check as far as authority's concerned. Not a concern. That's. That's not what they are under the understanding of. If you go to yesterday's episode, you'll see my interview with Carly. This was a big day for her yesterday. Huge day for Darlene as well. You know, this is when the, like the cavalry was coming, right? The Margaret Norville, the Coast Guard cutter Margaret Norville arrived yesterday with a crew of about 24 people that support it. And then a huge amount of other folks, like I think a dozen or so in the dive team, as well as Coast Guard investigators and agents. And the Broward county dog, Maggie, with Maggie's handler, Chris, on loan from Broward County. Thank you, Broward County. They. They all arrived and they didn't waste a minute. They traveled from Florida on that cutter and got to Sea of Abaco sometime around, I think, I want to say around like 2:33pm and then boom. Didn't even throw down anchor on that big cutter. They just got that RIB launched and they sent everybody on their way. Two different teams that work, dive team that's working with sonar and an rov, a remote operated vehicle, and then divers, actual divers, who we're going to show you underwater today, jumping in and looking. And then there's the on land team. Right. That's Maggie, the cadaver dog from Broward county, as well as Chris, her handler and several other other of the agents. And so they were dispatched to various different locations today as the morning began. I understand many of them were at Serenity, which is just south of the white sound channel. And you might remember if you were watching my very earliest episodes in like week two when we were in the Bahamas, Lindsay and I were on board that boat with Captain Ronnie and he showed us that whole area, Serenity in between the white sound channel and Burl Ives home. Right. Burl Ives, for those of you of a certain age, you'll remember he was the big producer of all his Christmas specials like Frosty and all the rest, that Burl Ives and also the voice of Frosty. Anyway, Serenity is in between Burl Live's home and the white sound channel. And they were there today looking. And I remember when we were there and actually giving a lift back then to Coast Guard investigators. They were very interested in the mangroves in between there. So it's possible that they were looking at those mangroves again today. But this video from, you know, six weeks ago was very helpful to give you an image of where they were in the vicinity of, you know, earlier this morning. But they also plan to really comb the west side of Lubbers. They were there yesterday and they were doing more again today on foot with Maggie and you know, lots more eyes on. And Nathan has been there multiple times for us showing that area, showing those secluded beaches, those very isolated beaches. Great place in the dark if you don't want to be seen to hide a body. Is that what Brian Hooker did? Not saying he did. He's not charged with anything yet. But that's where they're looking. And here's why I believe they're there, because I think we all know now his GPS put them there. The reason they came now is that they have the data now. Right. The reason the the search teams are going to specific locations is it's because they're following his popcorn trail. That bozo left one. Thank you. Just like Brian Coburger left one. Brian. What's with the Brian's anyway? Brian Hooker left a popcorn trail. And wouldn't you know it, it's not the same popcorn trail that he says he took. His story is something entirely different than his actual GPS story. So, you know, there's your clue number one. This guy's a big fat liar and that he did something to Lynette he didn't Just float out after she bounced off. But now it's just a matter of proving it and finding Lynette. So west side of Lovers lubbers being combed today, and the dog and the team's doing that as well. But the east side of Marsh harbor, still a key location today. Specifically the place we took you yesterday, it's like an abandoned harbor just north of Witch Point. And let me tell you, when I say abandoned harbor, man, there's like really wrecked out boats and barges there with concrete tops with these small square holes that look like they're. I don't know, I wouldn't want to squeeze in there and start looking around in the water below because who knows what, you know, crazy beasts might be below. But these guys are fearless, these Coast Guard divers, they're fearless. They were assessing all of these holes and the water beneath these barges that have been, you know, abandoned for a long time and looking not just on the barges, but in the water around those barges. So the divers went in. We saw the ROV yesterday going underwater and searching in this whole area. By the way, they plan to cover about five miles of ocean. How about that? Five miles of ocean? They are going to comb it. Whether it's with eyes on divers or the or ROV or sonar, it's a big task. But they're hell bent on finding Lynette. And not just Lynette, they're hell bent on finding her dry bag because where'd that go? Brian, your story about her bouncing out with the dry bag, which incidentally floats, but okay, they're hell bent on finding that dry bag and they're hell bent on finding the or. Remember his story? Oh, no, I'm rowing towards her. Of course it'd be behind you so you wouldn't have your eyes on her. And the pin broke on the oar and I lost the oar. So then I'm left with only one. And I don't know, as an ex marine, you can't manage an eight foot dinghy with an oar. I could do it with my hands. Anyway, that ore, that has a story. We thought that that ore washed up on the east side of Lubbers because some residents there found one. But that's not the ore. They're still looking for the ore. So in that boatyard, in that area south of the boatyard. So just remember he says he landed a hundred yards south of the the boatyard and then scrambled in through thicket and all the rest to get help. Again, bullshit. He landed multiple times. So yeah, you don't have an engine, but you're somehow able to land on shore multiple times in different locations. One of those locations that's so specific is this abandoned harbor. Two days, second day that they're there, and now in the water, as well as with the ROV and the sonar. And they took something that the locals affectionately refer to as a conch hammer. I love it. You know, if you've ever had conch salad or if you've ever listened to a conch shell to hear the sea, the conch hammer is something you would break that shell with, I'm imagining. But these divers were using a big old hammer to. To sort of bash through the hull of that barge, a hole in the hull of that barge. And my thinking is that it's either for the divers to get through or it's for the ROV to get through. I would send the ROV because I'd be too scared to dive in there. But, you know, there's so many divers who do such perilous things, and I assume that Coast Guard divers are among them. But I was really fascinated to see and hear the smashing of that conch hammer. Want to draw your attention to this video as well, because they, in their searching, found two scuba tanks. And that's really interesting because Brian and Lynette Hooker were scuba divers. And we remember seeing video on April 2, Lynette shooting video saying, heading up to Great Wanakee to fill up the scuba tanks. And we can see two scuba tanks in there, wagon and in their boat, of course, on the third, they're making their way to Elbow Key to throw down anchor and sleep at the Firefly Inn. Anchored out in the bay at the Firefly Inn. And then we know on the 4th, at 11:30 in the morning, they picked up anchor and moved down to Aunt Pat's Bay. So not a lot of time for diving, you know, in between April 2nd, filling up the tanks, and April 4th, the day that Lynette disappeared. But they found two tanks. It's unlikely that it is that these are tanks that belong to Brian and Lynette. They were older, you know, kind of roughed up. Look like they'd maybe been abandoned for a while. And also, there's two tanks on board Soulmate. So I'm curious to find out what the level of oxygen is in them. But look at these holes. These are so incredible. Another quick thing. Listen. They're loaded with all the tools, even drones. And they, you know, launched one of those drones today. Wanted to make sure you saw that as well, so, you know, ROV drones, divers, boats that over the horizon boat, giant Coast Guard cutter search teams. Maggie, Maggie the cadaver dog, Chris, her handler, basically pulling out every stop in order to be able to find Lynette. Thank God for that, because this is going to be a really tough task. One of the things I can tell you is that after seven plus weeks, and this Saturday, it'll be eight weeks, I'm recording this on Wednesday, June 3rd, it is going to be highly unlikely that you're going to find Lynette in the way we all have seen Lynette. So they're very specifically searching for disarticulated bones and maybe clothing and that kind of thing. And you have to be very clinical about that because they have a very trained eye and. And they have to know what it is they're looking for when they've got the underwater drones and when they've got the divers going down. But that's sort of the hard thing, you know, to be, you know, to be saying, because, I mean, this is a person who deserves dignity and deserves to be found and reunited with her family. The reality for the searchers is that it is a tough job because that's likely what they're looking for. And one thing that's really kind of uncomfortable, and many of the Bahamians have told me this, is that when there is a body or even, like, larger marine life that's washed up on shore, they see vultures. And so they're used to seeing, like, circling vultures in areas. And that connotes to a lot of the locals that there's something over there. And one of the locals that we spoke with said that they saw vultures in this area of the harbor south of the boatyard in the days following this whole lie that Brian Hooker told. So that's another piece to factor into the investigation that they're doing. And to that end, it's important to note as well that the Coast Guard has obtained dental records from Lynette that would be a critical way to identify Lynette if they find, say, a mandible that has separated from a skull, because that is often what happens. But they did get the dental records from. From Lynette's family. And then, of course, you also know that Lynette. Lynette's family was tested for their DNA. Lynette's daughter, Lynette's mom, and Lynette's dad all giving their DNA samples to the Coast Guard last week before they traveled over to the Bahamas. There may be other reasons for that as well. And we can get into that on a later episode. But clearly that would be something that would play into an identification as well. Something else that we learned today. Wow. On May 22, some boaters who were in the area of the west side of Lubbers, just offshore, in about 4 to 5ft of water, they spotted an article of clothing that matched the color of what Lynette was wearing about her, you know, her bathing suit cover up. That aquamarine colored bathing suit cover up. They tried to throw down anchor and actually retrieve that clothing, but again, down five feet, and it was very, very windy that day, so they were unable to get it. But what they did was they marked the coordinates of exactly where that was and then they sent that into the Coast Guard. But the Coast Guard got that about a week ago. And then it took a week to get to that location. But it's been searched. And unfortunately that article of clothing is not there from what my sources tell me. But such a frustrating moment to know that something was seen in this area of complete and dire interest. Right. This is a. This is an area where Brian's GPS has him right off that western, the secluded included beaches on the western side of sort of just below Northern Lubbers. You know what? I'll just say it. Maybe if you see stuff like that, tell us, you know, tell drop dead serious info gmail.com. drop deadserious info gmail.com that's our tip line. And we've got locals that will go and notify, maybe the Bahamian police as well. So they might have been able to go out right away. Coast Guard was, you know, at the behest of the Bahamians. They couldn't just drop everything and show up. There needed to be a coordinated effort and they needed to have the GPS data before, you know, heading over to the Sea of Abaco. So unfortunate that that didn't pan out, but thank you to the people who made that effort to take the coordinates and actually end up reporting it. And the Bahamian police are working with the Coast Guard, not just with the boats that I showed you, but they're. They also had a big meeting at the. At the Bahamian. The Royal Bahamian Police headquart orders this morning. CJIS agents were there meeting with senior leadership at the RBPF and then went from there over to the Royal Bahamian Defense Force, and we're meeting over there as well. I don't know where the dinghy is. I don't know if it's at the police or the defense force locations. But wherever it is, I know that that is really important to this investigation and that agents want to get their hands on it, or at least their dog on it and eyes on it. Right? And hopefully it was stored in a way that would preserve any forensic information and data and evidence. Another place that they were searching with a dive team today was around the location of where Soulmate was anchored. I didn't see that one coming, and I should have, and that's only because what if things happened on board? There was a big splash that a witness heard, somebody on land who's only like 100 yards away, and sound carries on water says she heard a big splash about 9:30 at night. And so it would be really interesting to know what was underwater and in and around Soulmate's anchor location. Because, look, let's be. Let's be real. Lynette didn't bounce out of the damn dinghy, right? They made it back to Soulmate, and something happened on board Soulmate. And now it's all about tracking the evidence to prove that and then find out what he did with her body. Again, he says he just wants to find her and he's not charged with anything, but he didn't want to find her because he left, and he hasn't given a damn since. He's never called anybody to say, how's the search for Lynette going? Nope. Vemus. Off he went. Does that sound like a guy who lost his wife in an accident? Think through this. For what? An idiot? You know, if you're trying to sell us a story, stay with it. At least keep pretending, because as soon as you got on the US Soil, you just. Just off, right? You just screwed everybody in your family, and it was as though Lynette never existed and you didn't care. So it's kind of clear your story is bogus. Because if your story even had an ounce of truth to it, you'd be crying in your soup every day. You wouldn't have left the Bahamas. You'd have flown Carly over there and Darlene over there to say, help me search. You'd have been on the phone every day with the Bahamian authorities and the Hopetown Fire and Rescue, saying, help me. Help me help you. Let me know what I can do. Where are we at today? Where's my wife? The one that you said would take a higher power to leave was the higher power. Turns out, airplane. That's it. So around Soulmate, obviously a key location for United States Coast Guard divers, and that team don't know if they put divers in the water or if they used an ROV or if they went underwater. But that was the plan was to go around Soulmate, the hull of where Soulmate was, was and look. Do we know exactly? Unfortunately, Brian was spinning his yarn until he was able to pull up anchor the next two days and then head back to Marsh Harbor. So it's kind of like coordinating through photographs and witness reports where Soulmate was, but that's not going to be too hard. And Pat's Bay, based on the videos that we have, photographs that we have, etc, witness reports, I think they're going to have a pretty good idea of what to comb and where Soulmate may have had something go overboard, something of evidentiary value. This episode is brought to you by Wild Grain. If you love really good fresh bread, but you don't have time to hunt down a bakery, this is honestly one of the easiest food subscriptions I've tried. Wild Grain sends baked from frozen sourdough breads, pastries and even fresh pasta straight to your door. Everything is made with simple ingredients that you can actually pronounce so it tastes incredible and it's easier on your tongue. Best part is you just pop it in the oven. No thawing, no prep, and in about 25 minutes your kitchen smells like a bakery. And don't just take my word for it. They have over 40,000 five star reviews and have been voted the best food subscription box by USA Today for three years in a row. For a limited time, Wild Grain is offering my listeners $30 off your first box plus free Croissants for Life when you go to wildgrain.combanfield to start your subscription today. That's $30 off your first box and free Croissants for Life at wildgrain.com banfield or just use the promo code Banfield at checkout. All right, I want to take you now to the east side of Marsh harbor where the dive teams were at work today. Yesterday you saw them with the ROV going underwater. Today they themselves going underwater. Interesting to see them diving. Free diving, really. Not with scuba tanks because I mean, I'm going to be honest with you, look how shallow you're dealing with, you know, 4, 5, 6, 8ft of water in most places of the Abacos. And if you get closer into shore at points even more shallow. But these old barges with the giant concrete squares cut out of them, obviously, really interesting. Just so interesting honestly to see this. Because if you knew about this, having been a tourist on your Paddle board beforehand. You might remember this in the dark of night and think this would be a good place to hide a body if you know you needed to hide a body. Not seeing anybody did that in particular, Brian Hooker isn't charged with anything yet, but fascinating to see the thought process of these divers over in this abandoned harbor. Again, free diving with snorkels and masks and you know, the weather, not the best. You can see those clouds, it makes things really gray. Much better if it's sunny. And you can see a lot better underwater the gray. And you can see the raindrops right in the water as well. There's a lot of sort of overcast rain showers throughout the day today. Just make thing makes things a little harder for the light to get through the water. But I mean, listen, dedication, in they go. Take a look at these videos. Just so impressed with the commitment.
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And again, I have to be honest with you, I'm flying blind as a witness watching this. Our sources and our spotters on the ground, you know, getting right up close personal in their boats is helpful, but I don't know why specifically they're there. Like I don't know what GPS location they have other than this harbor. You know, I can't tell you what the Coast Guard has in terms of exact GPS information, but I can show you what our spotters have seen. When they're on land, they can see the divers, you know, walking beaches as well. So they, they clearly have a lot of information that we don't have. GPS information that we don't have that's taking them specifically to the areas where they're walking. But think about the dark of night. You know, we're watching them walk through the water and walk through the, you know, the sand and the water and the coral and the limestone. But if Brian Hooker did this, he's doing it in the dark of night. And again, they like to explore Brian and Lynette. So it's not as though he may not have known about these areas from earlier explorations on their paddleboard. And let me draw your attention to some tiny little detail because sometimes the devil's in the detail. Brian Hooker had a headlamp, and we know that because we've seen him wear it in prior social media posts. I would be curious to find out if a headlamp turned up anywhere. I don't think he'd have headlamp in his dry bag that he was rescued with the next morning. I mean what would be the reason to have a headlamp when you were coming back in the daylight? You wouldn't take a headlamp with you out in the daytime. If he had a headlamp in that dry bag? Impossible. No, nobody searched it because at that time he was a victim. He was a lying ass victim who said his wife fell over in a tragic accident. But he wouldn't be dumb enough to keep the headlamp just in case they did search him. Or would he? I don't know. But we do know he had a headlamp. Day two of crossing the Gulf of Mexico.
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By the way, there's some. I want to show you this video again because I showed you the scuba tanks before. But the star of the show was Maggie. Now here's Maggie arriving, Broward County's cadaver dog. I just adore her. She's the puppy dog that we saw when Lindsay and I were there back seven weeks ago in the Bahamas. But she is busy with Chris, her handler, combing these beaches just everywhere, watching for an alert of anything. I want to remind you as well that this is not easy work because this is the Bahamas and it is hot and it is wet, it's humid at the best of times, but today in particular it's rainy. So kind of a miserable job, especially if you're dressed like this because you're dressed for, you know, some pretty rough work. You might have to go through the mangroves or through the thicket. And so they got to dress accordingly. And it isn't for vacation. Also, just take a look at some of these areas that are so, you know, icky and muddy. You can see one of the agents trying to walk above these sort of mucky areas. Muck may be a big part of the story, though, because if somebody's behaving badly and walking through muck, a lot of times that will show up somewhere, maybe on your clothes, maybe on your shoes. And so I just hope that if Brian Hooker, if, if again, he's not charged with anything. But if he did something to Lynette and was walking through these areas of muck, I just hope he was dumb enough not to clean off his shoes. And I sure hope that those shoes were still on board. Soulmate when the Americans got soulmate and processed the. The F out of it for evidence. Because I've seen a lot of cases where a huge part of a prosecution is the muck on Your tires or the muck on your shoes. Because not all muck is alike. There are certain soil samples from one house that aren't the same as another house. And there are certain soil samples from one island or a sandy area that are not the same as, say, the Abaco Inn. So it will be a very interesting piece of information to know if they got muck from this particular area on the shoes that Brian may have been wearing after. So here's some eerie shots I want to show you of this area south of the boatyard, this abandoned old marina. You know, you can really see how abandoned it is. I don't know if this is just from age or from Hurricane Dorian, but I was told by locals that this is a place where old work boats would come in and out out. That no one does that anymore. And you can see that the old barges are definitely not fit for prime time anymore. And the boats, you know, on their side, clearly not fit for prime time. But a really good place to hide a body if that's what someone wanted to do. And why would Brian's GPS have had him here? Not a very nice place to be in the dark of night. And if your GPS has you here, it's not because you're out looking for, you know, help, help. Because there ain't no lights this way. The lights were all the other way. The lights from the boatyard were all north of where Brian said he washed up. Washed up. There's no reason to be down here. Certainly not with the story he told.
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So if you want to just cut straight this way. Yep, you're clear. There's debris right there. Just avoid that and then you're straight in. You can go here.
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You're good right here. I'm going to take a look in there too. So there's debris right against it. But you'll be good if you nose in. Like it's just right up against it. There's a piling there, but you guys are good. And I thought that was a dry bag, but he says the. That's a piling. Oh, yeah. Looks like that teal they're talking about. Is that a scuba tank though, right there? Does kind of look like one. Yeah. You want to see what that is? Oh, it is a. Does look like it looks like there's another flat on the bottom. That's a silver dang. It looks like there's like a paint color umbrella. Want me to grab it?
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Want to show you some of the. The action that was in the white sound channel today at The Abaco Inn. I've taken you to this place before. The docks on the left are actually where Brian and L. Hooker's dinghy was last docked. And Lindsay and I docked on, over on that dock on the left as well. You can see the roadway where that golf cart just went through. That's the roadway where Brian was walking towards, looking like he was about to cross and walk down to the docks. Now it's sort of the staging area for the Coast Guard in that orange rib rigid inflatable boat. And then the Royal Bahamas Police Force and the Royal Bahamas Royal Bahamian Defense Force boats as well as a couple of other vessels as well, all sort of meeting and ferrying to and from the various locations out of White Sound Channel that comes right in and ends at the Abaco Inn docks. This is where we first met with the Coast Guard agents that were dispatched to this, this emerging case. A week into it. We met them right on this dock in this area. They were waiting for a lift actually from the Royal Bahamian Police Force. And they were waiting for a while. So they had Maggie the dog. And we engaged and said, you know, hi, how are you? And tell us what you're up to. And they were pretty reticent, as they should be, but. But you know, when you got a Broward county dog there, it's kind of hard to hide. So anyway, it's just super interesting to see them at work heading out the same route that Brian and Lynette would have headed out as well from the Abaco Inn. And I really want to drill down on why Abaco Inn is so critical here is because not only is it sort of a staging area, but they had a huge meeting there today. Like, like there were basically every representative working on this case from the Royal Bahamian Police Force to the Royal Bahamian Defense Force, spelled with an F N C E by the way. And also the, the Coast Guard and the Coast Guard Investigative Service all congregated at the Abaco Inn for a big meeting. We all thought, oo, what's going on? It must be huge. I think it was just coordination on boats, captains, searching locations, etc. But big, big meeting and then they all dispersed out back into the sea of Abaco to go to their various search locations. And one of the places that the agents went to in the afternoon today is a key location in the story. And I know you know it if you've been following this story, it's the boatyard. So the boatyard is the place that first, you know, was the first Encounter between Brian Hooker and civilization. After his big, you know, nine hour float. The security guard at the boatyard around 3:35 in the morning said he came across this guy, you know, who was looking for help. Now, the video has shown a very unique Brian Hooker and behavior that is just not befitting a guy who's been marooned at sea with no propulsion, floating for nine hours after he lost his wife. None of it matched his actual demeanor, his behavior and his body language, we're told on the video at the boatyard. No, instead, the video shows a guy skulking around, peering in behind things in the shadows, and then, you know, very quietly saying, help, I need some help. But not yelling, not showing any fear or panic or behaving in a way anybody would who'd been through that horrifying experience. And never mentioning the wife. Right. Like what your first thing is my wife. My wife and I've been marooned. We got to get out there, there. Anyway, that boatyard is key and was a location where agents went today. I'm not, I'm trying to figure out evidentiary reasons other than just maybe following the tracks, right, following the tracks of Brian Hooker. And at some point he ended up there. So maybe this was the end of maybe following the tracks of Brian Hooker's route. But once again, boatyard in the story today. So the Coast Guard cutter Margaret Norvell, I told you yesterday that it arrived from Florida, from Miami. And for whatever reason, the captain of the vessel decided to bring everybody in north of Manowar Key. That's, that's way north of Elbow Key. And then, you know, they use the over the horizon rib, the rigid inflatable boat to ferry everybody into sea of Abaco and the places of interest. And then later in the day, the Coast Guard cutter Margaret Norvell came south and ended up actually positioning off of. On da Beach. Man. On da beach is the name of a resort, sort of a restaurant resort area, west side of Elbow Key, not far from the Abaco Inn, actually. And the view that you would get from there is the same view that Brian was staring at in the last photo that we saw of Lynette. He's sort of got his arms crossed and he's. The way witnesses described him was that he was pouting and staring out at sea. That would be the location where he's staring. He'd be staring at the Coast Guard cutter Margaret Norvell if he was in that position today. Ironic, since the whole reason the Coast Guard cutters there is because of Brian Hooker's life. So there you have it. Super busy day for the Coast Guard investigators in the Bahamas and the Royal Bahamian Defense Force and the Royal Bahamian Police Force. And I'm really glad that they're, you know, jumping in and working hand in hand with the Coast Guard. I'm just crossing my fingers, praying to whatever God may be out there. And I don't know who your God is, but let's all pray together that they find Lynette, right? I'm just gonna go on record. Even if they don't. It doesn't mean Brian Hooker's in the clear. It doesn't. Plenty of convictions have happened without a body. And Brian's stories and his lies are so vast, I can see a jury hating him. And you know what? Reasonable doubt. This guy is so far from reasonable. Anyway, thank you, everyone, for listening and watching. Don't forget our tip line. Drop dead serious info. Gmail dot com, if you know anything, if you've seen anything, if you have any video, drop us a line. If you want to get material to the Coast Guard, you can send it to me, or you can send it right to the Coast Guard. They have an app you can download CGIS for tips, and it's all anonymous. I'd like it if you'd send it to me first so I can send it to them. Them. Because if you send it to them, they can't send it to me. It just works that way. But listen, you don't have to involve the media. It's more important the information gets to them as they investigate this suspected murder. That's what it is now officially a suspected murder. Thanks again, everyone. Don't forget, the truth isn't just serious, it's drop dead serious.