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Soulmate and the Coast Guard Investigative Service agents are processing that. Little side note here. I have learned that it is done, the processing of Soulmate, the forensic work, all the stuff you saw us videotaping, the agents walking on and off and carrying all these things and putting it into evidence bags and crime scene tape going up around the boat, but it's done. They reserve the right to return and do follow ups. Of course, as any crime scene, you know, that happens. But the big heavy lifting on board Soulmate is done. So that's interesting. So my assumption is that they're going to bring it out of the water at some point. That's my guess because this is, this is evident. This is a big effing chunk of evidence, the boat. And you know, if, if you've ever owned a boat, especially in salt water, it is a pain in the ass. There's so much work you got to do. Salt is nasty. And so it requires work to keep a boat, you know, in, in good condition. And so a wise decision would be haul that mother out of the ocean and get it up on dry dock. So that's what I'm looking for. I think that would be a wise thing to happen next because who knows long, you know, how long it's going to be impounded, shall we say, Brian, you lose her. You thought you were going to get your boat back, so you Hired those, you know, delivery captains and, oh, no, 40, you know, miles off the shore of Florida Interdiction. Coast Guard got it, towed it back in. We got the exclusive video. Episodes passed. Here's a little picture of it, but it was like a delicious image to watch Soulmate being hauled in by the Coast Guard and then shortly thereafter, being wound up in crime scene tape and being boarded and disembarked by, you know, the investigators from the Coast Guard Investigative Service. Please remember, it's not the FBI. The FBI is not on this case. It is the Coast Guard Investigative Service, cgis. Cgis, C G I S. And they're badass and they're doing a great job. And I cannot wait to see the resolution on this to that point. Royal Bahamian Police have the dinghy, but I have learned, because I have sources at the Yang Yang. Now, having been in the Bahamas and getting my tentacles all out in there, I have learned from my sources that the engine that is on the back of Soulmate, that is impounded with the Royal Bahamian Police Force is in fact the NT300. Here's what's important when it comes to the engine. A couple years back, Lynette and Brian took a lightning strike, and it really decimated a lot of the systems on the boat. So they had to replace a ton of stuff, a lot of their electronics, and they also needed to replace their electric engine on the dinghy. And Lynette texted her dear friends Blaine and Marnie Stevenson that they were getting the NT300, this electric motor, and it has Bluetooth. Lynette was very excited about that text. Because Bluetooth means you're going to get that telemetric data on your phone from your electric engine when you're running low on a charge. You know, it's kind of nice just to know, right? Especially when you're having a couple drinks. Well, come and join us at the so and so. Well, I. I may not have enough power to get there. Love that. Love the fact that it could help in the investigation. But big but like mine, the frustrating piece on the NT300 manufacturer says that it does not retain the telemetrics on the engine itself. The telemetrics are retained on the batteries. So I say plural because you can't put two on a boat. Okay? One battery per usage. Right. But once it's run out, always smart to have a charged extra, and then you swaparoo charge the empty while you're running the full or maybe even a few extra batteries. Right? So those are easy to dispose of. All the telemetrics on a battery that could be disposed of wherever that dinghy actually went on the night of April 4th April 5th because I do not believe for a hot minute Brian Hooker's bullshit story that Lynette bounced off the back and am a former Marine and I just couldn't get her because the seas were angry my friend. Two to four foot seas. Bullshit. And you know why I say bullshit so angrily? Because I have the proof that you're lying. You want to see a picture? Here is a photograph of soulmate in Aunt pat's Bay at 7.41pm this is exactly the time that Brian says the sea was angry my friend and I couldn't get to my wife the raging sea, the two to four foot waves and her head was disappearing in between and I couldn't hear and the wind was bl and the oh we got separated and I only had one oar and I'm a marine. Liar, liar pants on fucking fire. Because that is the picture at 7:41pm so now what's your story Brian Hooker? Why couldn't you get your wife? How did she actually bounce off when there were no waves? And how as a strong Marine could you not use that one? Or because you lost the other to get to her? Or maybe just jump out because it's so shallow where you were? I have another story about what he told someone else who was listening as to where Lynette swam to and it is not like the other two stories he told. Wait for that because it's delish yet again. Liar Brian Hooker Tick tock. I want to tell you a few things before I get into the NT300 a little bit more and why that was important because there's another engine called a Torqeedo. I'll get into it in a minute. Quick reminder, do me a solid if you would. If you're watching and you haven't already subscribed doink can you hit the subscribe button? It is free, it's cheap, it's super fun, very very very satisfying and it's super nice. It really helps us to keep this podcast going. Also would love it if you'd hit the like and join our membership. It's really nice to hear from you. I'm about to do a big road trip so I may do a Q and A with you while I'm on the road. Be kind of fun. Anyway, just does us a solid if you do those things. Couple other stories I want to tell you about that are circulating out there. I don't know if they're going to hit the press or not. But I'm gonna tell you right now the two things that I heard today. CBS is trying to run down these two stories, and they are, number one, that there is a sealed indictment. Not true. I've got my sources. I clear cleared that up as clear as day. There is not a sealed indictment. So the other story that was percolating was that Brian has disappeared. Also not true. Brian is an elusive little. And he has made his way between Sacramento, where his sister lives again. Can't wait to hear from her. And all of this because she's sure been helping him out. Flew to the Bahamas, helped him get his emergency passport and get the F out of there and then come to my house, Brian. And also, oh, my sick mom. I got to visit my sick mom. Yeah. So he's done some Sacramento time, but he also showed up in Michigan, and my spies said they saw him there, and then five days later he was gone again. But remember, he got himself a lawyer there in Michigan, so making his time between Michigan and Sacramento. But he's not missing. Not yet anyway. But is he going to do a Roman Polanski? Yeah, I believe so. Because I think that this guy would be happy barefoot on a beach in Vietnam at a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with us. Yeah. And I think that he'd row himself off the US Shores in order to, you know, elude American authorities. But you wait, you watch. Tick tock, Brian. Tick tock. If you're so innocent, you should just turn yourself in if you're going to be indicted at some point and then tell your magical stories to a jury and see how that works out. Because, you know, they're completely unreasonable. But you do you, bro. You get yourself that Michigan lawyer and see if you can make them sound reasonable. Again, Brian's not charged with anything yet. Brian is innocent until proven guilty. He is not charged with anything. But his stories blow. I also want to tell you that if you're wondering why isn't he charged based on just the podcast alone that I've been telling you, federal charges are different. The federal system is different. If this were a state case, I think Brian would have been locked up three weeks ago, maybe four. We're coming into week six, right? We are in week six. And if this were a state case, I do believe that he'd have been locked up with probable cause weeks ago. But the feds do things differently. And when they charge people, they've got 90 of their case done Then they're kind of ready to go to trial, like within months, not within years. So if you're wondering why is it taking so long? Coast Guard is a federal agency and this is a federal criminal investigation. So it could take some time. But when I say TikTok, I mean it because the success rate of the feds when they prosecute Diddy aside, is high. It is well over 90%. I think even upwards of 95%.
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That's not to say there ain't going to be, but right now, no. And as for the engines, those two different engines, when they took the lightning strike, they got the brand new NT300, but they had a Torquido. And most live aboard sailors, people who are cruisers, they live on their boats. And the hookers have been on there for four years. Most of them keep their stuff. Like, they just keep extra gear and an extra engine is really smart for a dinghy because that is your lifeboat. It is also your lifeline because sailboats have long, deep hulls and you can't get into shore always. And a lot of cruisers don't want to tie up to a dock. They want to brag about having not tied up to a dock for years. And the hookers, I believe, did that. But you need that dinghy to be operational at all times. It's almost like having a car, but more because if you don't have a car, you can call an Uber or walk or bike. You can't do that on the water. So having a second engine on board would not be weird. It would be smart. And I might think that the hookers would keep a second engine on board, like a Torquido on board. So I've been talking a lot about h. If Brian needed to do stuff, say, after they got back to Soulmate, if they got back to Soulmate, and his story is, might he swap the engines out so that the telemetrics would gather on one engine that's maybe below deck, and then the other engine would look as though nothing at all happened. I've been wondering that. But I got inside scoop again. Don't forget, I got lots of sources in the Bahamas, and that boat is in the Bahamas. A lot of sources everywhere. But my sources are telling me that the engine on the back of the dinghy that's in the Bahamas is the Torquito. And again, huh? Big bummer. All the telemetric data would be on the batteries. So I'd love to know, how many batteries did they buy? How many batteries did they have? But this stuff is hard because if the Bahamians didn't seize that stuff, and they didn't, to our knowledge, people could have gotten on board for the weeks that it was sitting there in Marsh harbor on the mooring ball in the dead of night. Stolen stuff happens all the time. Everybody knew that boat was unmanned. I was always worried about that. Such a bummer. Like why the Bahamians did not seize that boat right away and put crime scene tape around it and either get it up on drive dock and lock her down in an impound. Whatevs. So plausible deniability there. Batteries disappeared, somebody stole them, or they just fell into a deep hole in the sand somewhere. Like maybe where? Lynette is not saying that, but it's possible. Brian's not charged with anything at this point. Tick tock. So those are the engine stories. Super interesting to just know that, okay, it is the NT300 that's there. What battery is there? What's the power level on the battery? Is it the power level that reflects his story? Here's the problem with what happened after Brian says Lynette went overboard and he floated all the way to Marsh Harbor. That battery should have the telemetrics on it. But he got that dinghy back, right? Because he wasn't considered a suspect for several days. And then they thought, wait a minute, arrest this guy, Put him in detention. And they didn't have enough to keep him, so they released him. But before that time, he's on his boat for a couple days and he's also on shore sitting on the porch of the Conkin, not searching for Lynette. Could something have happened to those batteries in between that time? Because he's smart enough to know that the NT300 engines batteries will have the telemetrics registered. At least we think he is. He should answer, where's the battery that you had that night, Brian? You got your dinghy back on board Soulmate. Then you did your interviews and flew the coop out of the Bahamas. Where's that battery? And I suppose he could say, well, must have been stolen in the dark of night because he was off that boat for weeks. That's the story there with the battery and the telemetrics of the dinghy. And about Brian's story, I think I've told you two different versions of what Brian has told Search And Rescue. And Blaine Stevenson, on a recorded phone call, he told one version where, oh no, Lynette went off the back and I couldn't reach her. And last I saw her in the two to four foot seas, she's swimming towards Soulmate, which is a thousand yards away. There's one version. The other version he told was she went off the back and the waves were big and I threw out the floaty and the last I saw she swim into Hopetown. That's what he told the boatyard security guy when he washed up on Marsh Harbor. Yeah, the security agent said Brian told him that the wife went in the water, the lady went in the water, and last he saw, she's swimming towards Hopetown, which is north, and the boat thousand yards away is south. So which way she's swimming, Brian? Is she swimming towards your boat to the south or is she swimming towards Hopetown to the north? Because you've told those two stories. There's a third story and he told that third story to Kathy Shepard. Kathy Shepard is Lynette's stepmother. She's married to Lynette's dad. And Kathy told me that when Brian called with his bullshit story that he repeated to everybody, it had a little variation in there. And wouldn't you know it, this is what Kathy tells me. He told us in the initial call that Lynette was missing. This was easter Sunday, about 6pm wow. Took you a long time to let them know, like 24 hours after it all happened, but okay. He said that after she fell in, they were separated pretty quickly. He threw a seat cushion towards her, but because it was getting dark, he didn't know if she got it. Well, it would have to be around 8 o' clock at night by that point. And Brian, you just left abaco in at 7:30 and it's only about 10 minutes to the spot where she fell out. So It'd be around 7:40. So it's dead calm at 7:41 and it's bright. You could see anything. Where's that other 20 minutes where you can't see her because it's dark? I keep going here. He didn't know if she got it. The last he saw her, she was swimming towards shore. Swimming towards shore. Well, that is entirely different than swimming a thousand yards to the sailboat, swimming towards Hopetown or swimming to shore. That's pretty traumatic experience. If you're losing your wife and you got three different versions of where she was swimming and not one of those three versions is close to the other that away that away and that away. I don't know that a jury is going to find that reasonable. If a jury ever hears it, he's not charged with anything yet. One thing I'm really hoping for is that there is a FLIR camera that we have spotted on the Master of Soulmate. This is what it looks like. And a flare camera is. A lot of people who have boats have these cameras you can see in the dark. They're super powerful cameras. And the way it's told to me is that many live aboard cruisers will have those on at all times so that when you're on shore, you can have a look see to find out on your phone what's going on around your boat. There's your flircam. It's. It's live, it's up and activated just like your, you know, just like your home cameras. You can check in when you're at work and see your puppy dog, or you can look at your front door and yell to the guy who's delivering a package, just leave it there, dude. That flir camera. Flir. FLIR camera. I don't know. But it would be real interesting if the hookers left that FLIR camera up running at all times because it would capture stuff, say at 7:41pm When I believe Brian and Lynette Hooker actually made it back to Soulmate with the dinghy. None of this bounced off in the big waves. All that's a lie. I. I've already shown all the reasons why it's a lie. I think they made it back to Soulmate in that nice calm Anchorage and amp Pat's Bay. And I just wonder if that FLIR cam was operating. And let's just say maybe it wasn't. But in the Nancy Guthrie case, Nancy Guthrie didn't have a subscription for her doorbell cam. But Google was able to scrub images, right? They were able to get some. Maybe, just maybe that flare cam has images that shows the dinghy making it to Soulmate and Brian and Lynette Hooker embarking onboard soulmate at 7:41ish before maybe other cameras captured other things happening on board. In another episode, I talked about the other cameras that were onboard Soulmate. Security cameras. Yeah, they had security cameras. So hopefully there's a Nancy Guthrie kind of moment on board where the various technology companies may be able to help the authorities with sieges. Coast Guard Investigative Service to scratch some images. Or maybe the images just exist. But Brian's a bit of a tech head gear geek and he's really good at hiding his Hiding his presence because that's why he was fired from AT T. Because he was jacking with his GPS on his work van and they caught him and they tried twice before that to fire him. And this time was the charm. The third time. So you know, he was masking his location on his work truck. So he knows what he's doing and he knows how to hide electronically. But is he good enough? And I posture that he won't be. I don't think he's going to be as good as the US Government and the agents with cis. I just don't. So anyway, there's that floor cam that I just wanted to, to bring to your attention. So I, I, I want to tell you a little bit about what our adorable Nathan has done. Nathan, bro, I cannot even tell you how much I appreciate everything you're doing. This guy Nathan has been out there. He has searched in so many different locations. And this is a location I have been dying to see. Look how beautiful this is. For starters, it looks a lot like some of the places that Brian and Lynette have in their social media because they paddle board in a lot of times to these secluded beach areas. And then they say, look, we found a secluded beach. So Brian certainly knows these areas. He's been in this area for several weeks, like nine weeks in my count. And Nathan went to the north end of Lubbers, but on the west side. And lots of you have asked me, hey, you really got to search the north end of Lubbers on the west side. And Nathan is doing it. So these are his images. First of all, once again, look how frickin pretty it is there. Look at those crystalline waters. Everything's so shallow and clear and beautiful. And if you had done some paddleboard excursioning off of your sailboat and gone and explored these areas like Brian and Lynette did on a regular basis, you'd have a pretty good memory of what these shorelines looked like and what the beach areas look like. Which is really important because if, if, if, if, if Brian needed to do something to get rid of Lynette's body, say after a, I don't know, murder. Not saying he did it, he's not charged with anything. But if it happened, he would have to be thinking about what to do in the dead dark of night because he would not have the benefit of these beautiful bright pictures. I mean, this is great, right? You could just paddle all around here and find out what you'd want to do to get rid of a body. But he didn't have the benefit of this. What he had was memory.
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Visit your nearby Lowe's memory of the places he and Lynette had been exploring either by paddleboard or on foot. And when they got to beaches like this. I mean, this is kind of like the Holy grail when you're in these areas in Abacos is finding these private beaches, these private places that nobody goes to, and then just spending the day, you know. And so these would be places that were in Brian's recent memory. And Nathan went to these beaches. There's not a whole lot of them. There's just an area in the northwest part. But there's a couple of them that he landed that paddleboard and started searching. And I just want to tell you something about what you're seeing. This is the north end of Lubbers. Do you see how shallow it is? Many people have told us that the north end of Lubbers is like a giant shelf and it is so incredibly shallow. And do you remember what Brian told us about the north end of Lubbers? As he was. As he was blowing past it and tried so hard in the brutal wind to use his one surviving oar to paddle in, but instead just threw anchor out. North end of Lubbers. He threw the anchor out and fired off two flares at passing boats that both ignored him. Bullshit. Just look at how shallow this is. Look how shallow. Really, Brian? You couldn't figure out a way to get into land? Look how shallow. You don't need to throw your anchor out on this. You could actually step out. So I just wanted to show you again, we were a little bit west of where Brian said he was at the north end of Lovers. Like, he's coming from the east side of it and he's blowing past it. But everyone's told me that the north end of Lubbers east all the way to west is super shallow. It's just a couple feet deep. So this whole. I threw my anchor down and blew off flares. Fuck you. Step out of the boat. Former ex marine. And I say that in no disrespect to Marines. Some profile. But this man does not espouse your value, so he doesn't get the benefit of being called a Marine. He's very former in so many ways. Okay, so a couple things that Nathan is showing you here. First of all, the beaches are spectacular, and look how soft all that sand is everywhere. So I had said to Nathan, make sure when you're looking, look for depressions in the sand. Because if you bury. And this is an old pool, it's been checked. I know you're looking at it saying, well, what's in the water? It's been checked, and she's not in there. But an old pool that maybe was abandoned from Dorian or. I don't know, but it sure looks like it could be detritus from Hurricane Dorian. But this is soft ground. And I said, you know, look for depressions in the sand or dirt anywhere, because as the body decomposes, the earth collapses in on it a little bit. And so the surface area looks concave, like a divot. But as he's walking along, he didn't seem to see any of that stuff. But you can see that it's pretty soft. And then you got this scrub, kind of like limestone coral. If I'm getting it wrong, I apologize, but most people have told me that's what the surface area of the Abacos mostly is. Beautiful beaches, but then really rough. It almost looks volcanic. But that's. There's no way you're digging in that. And it's not like he went to Home Depot. Y' all got a shovel? Again, he's not charged with anything. But if he had to do something, he might have had a spare paddle that somehow is miraculously missing. And I am being led to believe by my sources that the paddle that was recovered on the east side of Lubbers may not be the paddle, may not be the match to the dinghy paddle that the Hookers had. But this is what, you know, this is what it kind of looks like on that north end of Lubbers, the northwest side. So that water, if you were to scoot into the water and head right across, you would end up on Marsh Harbor. This is not quite the halfway point. It's about the one third of the way their point. You. If you're floating from Elbow Key, you'd pass this particular area, the north end of Lubbers, and then you'd continue floating in the wind west until you landed on Marsh harbor, where he, so to speak, washed up. But I still don't believe that story either. But there's a hell of a lot of scrub as well. But look at these beaches. These beaches are soft. It's just that the high tide mark goes really high. So if you're going to bury a body, you're not going to bury it where the tide comes in every day because that body is going to show up and, you know, murder, there's no statute of limitations on that. So the high tide mark is up in here where the mangroves are and the scrub. And it's a little harder, not impossible, but it is dark. Remember, dark, dark, pitch black, no lights anywhere except for whatever you got with you, an iPhone or whatever. And that's what might have been the situation if Brian Hooker did these dastardly things that he might have done. I'm not saying he did because he's not charged with any crime, but Nathan's amazing in how dogged he is when he shows us exactly what the terrain is that we're all thinking about. You can look at it on a map, but it don't look like this on a map. You know, Google Earth is great, but it doesn't tell you everything. Like a lot of people have said, if you dig down in some of these areas, you might get two feet, and then you are hitting limestone or coral, but you're hitting rock. And it's really, really hard to get beyond that. So super fascinating just to see the topography here. It's also, again, I can't help but think how pretty it is and how in Lynette's social media, she would sort of really appreciate the beauty of this area. All these rugged, undeveloped, secluded, private, sandy beach areas with that gorgeous water. It stays in your mind. If you. If you've been paddling around, this stuff stays in your mind. But again, you'd have to think about this in the pitch black. And thank you to Nathan again. And he's so good at showing us the thickness of the scrub and how the high tide mark comes really high up on these white beaches and then it sort of becomes this. So this is hard to dig in and then make it look like that afterwards. Very, very hard to make that look like it's not, you know, recently disturbed earth. Not saying that it's not impossible. It's been six weeks, but way harder to make that look like it's undisturbed earth, but you get these sandy patches. And I'm just very curious about all of these areas. I think cadaver dogs in these areas are going to be key to finding Lynette. The cadaver dog from Broward County. Maggie. Maggie did search the north end of Lubbers on the east side, but this is the west side. And again, if your dinghy was powered and you're skulking around at night, it's nice and shallow. You can make those, those turns around the north side and come right into these areas where, where Nathan's doing this searching. But look how thick the brush is. Pretty hard to get through that stuff. So you're kind of relegated to staying out in the open and on the beachy areas. And again, I can't repeat it enough how dark it is at 4:00am you know, or let's just say between 8:00pm and 4:00am. I can't really tell you what this is, but I can say this. Hurricane Dorian did a number on all the islands of the Abacos. And I'm not sure if this is sort of the detritus of Hurricane Dorian. Maybe there was something that was settled in this area before, maybe a little pathway or roadway or maybe it is just beach storm sand that remains piled up there. I can't tell you. It just kind of looks angry. So I just can't tell you how thankful I am for Nathan having done this. Just my God. And somebody out there watching has offered to, to send Nathan some money. We're trying to figure out a way to do that because it's a little tricky banking between America and the Bahamas and all the rest. But I intend to and if others want to let me know because Nathan's spending a lot of time and a lot of boat gas and it's expensive. I'm going to tell you right now, it's not in the tens, it's in the hundreds. The amount of boat gas that he's spending to cross the Sea of Abaco all, all these times to go to Lubbers, to go to Elbow Key, to go all the way down to Tahiti beach area up near Hopetown, background near Lubbers, around the west side, over to Marsh harbor, all the places of interest. And to that point, guess what? Again, Nathan the Saint is searching other areas of interest as well that you are going to want to see. Couple things. Over on Elbow Cay, not far from where Brian and Lynette's soulmate was anchored, there is this beautiful Tahiti beach where they spent the afternoon. I've got that stuck in my head because it's top of mind for Brian Hooker. It's where he just was and he would know it in the dark. You could beat your boat up on Tahiti beach in the darkness. Nobody would see you. And you could drag a body up into the Coconut Grove area and you could bury a body. It's a little tricky. It's pretty overgrown. But Nathan is going to show you what it looks like. You could also get that body around the Atlantic side of Tahiti beach, where not many people go, and maybe dig and bury a body there. So God bless Nathan. He's going to actually take us around and show us those areas, and that's really helpful. Again, I think cadaver dogs are going to be key here, but it's really interesting to get eyes on so you're transported to these areas. They aren't just sort of map, you know, map images in your head, they're actual images. And Nathan is also doing something that's really interesting. He has shown you a couple of things over on Marsh harbor already in past episodes. But in an upcoming episode, he's going to show you what Brian said he did, right? Like, oh, I washed up on Marsh harbor. And then I just. I saw these lights on the right, you know, as I was floating towards Marsh harbor for hours and hours. But I decided not to go to them 150 yards away. I instead went into the blackness, into the scrub, into the thick, thick, black jungle like scrub, and I found a subdivision. Well, Jim Todd with Hopetown Volunteer Fire and Rescue, please give generously, has told us that's next to impossible. Even with a machete. You would not be able to get through that easily and certainly not in the pitch black of night. And you made your way, Brian, all the way through it, through like ravines of water and everything as well, and got to the subdivision and just knocked on two doors because there were loads of other doors, and then made your way all the way back through it and then to the boatyard. That is such horseshit. Let's give them another way. So you went through all the scrub, got to the subdivision, knocked on two doors, nobody answered, didn't bother knocking on any others, decided to walk the roadways now for like miles to get to the boatyard. Again, horseshit. And some car just at 4am Just stopped, looked at you and took off. Just like the two boats that decided to ignore you after you fired off two flares. You are so full of shit. People in the Bahamas and boaters in general don't do that. Like boat and distress is. Stop what you're doing. Don't go to jury duty. You got to help this guy. I mean, it is like that. That's the code. And folks in the Bahamas and Marsh Harbor. I couldn't believe how nice everyone was. Can I have, can I help you with your bag off the water taxi? Can I do this for you? I mean they're really really nice. They're not going to look at you in the middle of the darkness and say nah, I'll leave you abandoned on this roadway. But apparently Brian thinks we're going to believe that. So in the upcoming episodes you're going to see Nathan's amazeballs work and you're going to be teleport these areas to see for yourself Brian's adorable stories and the potential places where Lynette Hooker actually might be. Cuz my friends she is not in the Sea of Abaco. His story's horseshit. Everybody with expertise in that area, the locals, the rescuers, all the folks who know the marine experts say if Brian's story were true, and it ain't, we'd have found her or even particle of her. If a shark had been an issue, we'd have found something because it's like a giant bathtub and we'd have found something and no one's found anything. And the dry bag sharks won't eat that. Where's that? That would have popped up too. Nice and buoyant on the shore. Bright green. That hasn't shown up either. So tick tock Brian Hooker. Tick tock Everybody watching me and the agents from sieges. We are on your ass and we're not going to get off it until we get to the bottom of the that you have been feeding us. And we get the facts and we're getting them. Thank you everyone so much for listening and watching. Don't forget, check in with us. If you have information please send it to us. We are easy to find. Drop dead series info gmail.com drop dead serious info gmail.com we love hearing from you. Your tips have been amazing. Keep them coming. Videos, photos, stories, information. Anything you know about this story whether it's America or Bahamas side, reach out to us and let us know. You can stay anonymous as well. In the meantime, thank you again for watching. Don't forget to subscribe. Truth isn't just serious, it's drop dead serious.
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