Ashley Banfield (18:09)
of that, middle finger, to Brian. And if it's to you, I'll speak right to you. Brian, why haven't you called your stepdaughter who's been your stepdaughter since she was about three? Why haven't you reached out to her? If this terrible thing happened to you, didn't that terrible thing happen to you and Lynette's family? Why haven't you called Darlene, your mother in law like once with this cryptic weird shit, hours and hours after you got back on that boat? Because I know what time you called them and I know what time you got back on board your boat after being rescued off of the Marsh harbor shore. Why did it take you so long to reach out to them with this shit story? And then why did they never hear from you again? Not curious? I think we all who are watching right now want to know, did you do something else other than the story you told? Because if the story that you told was true, you'd have flown right to Darlene and right to Carly and you'd have been like commiserating with them over the horror that you've been through. But no, you fucking went underground. Yeah. So imagine that's the way the rest of us see you. That's the prism through which we're looking at you. And by the way, that's the prism through which Darlene and Carly are now looking at you. And to that end, hey, everybody watching Drop dead serious right now. Darlene wants to go to the Bahamas. She wants to put some pressure on the the local authorities there to help here, help do some really good digging to find her daughter. I think I'm not going to speak for her, but I think it's pretty much presumed that she's not going to see her daughter alive. But that doesn't mean she doesn't want her daughter. Doesn't mean Carly doesn't want her mom. And they deserve that. They deserve to get Lynette. They deserve for Lynette to be found. Lynette deserves to be found. And to that end, I want to ask you from the bottom of my heart to, to help Carly Ailsworth, Lynette's daughter, and Darlene Hamlet get money for a ticket and accommodations to get back to the Bahamas to do this. They've got a GoFundMe. It's Lynette Hooker missing in the Bahamas. They're using it for this purpose of finding her, but also burying her and a funeral for her eventually when they're ready for that. They're not ready yet. But if you could give generously, if you could give whatever you can to that GoFundMe. Look, there's like upwards of 150 to 200,000 people who watch these episodes. Imagine if everyone just gave a dollar, like we could really help them to get this mission accomplished and to find Lynette. I am committed to finding Lynette and getting justice for Lynette. Looking at you, Brian, I will not let this go. I'm like a dog with a bone. Do not test me. I think you already know that. Cause I have a feeling you're probably watching every episode for fella. Tick fucking talk. Good luck getting that boat. In any case, outside of Marsh harbor and around the north and heading to the east, there is this abandoned, desecrated, beautiful resort marina called Snapper Point Marina. And we have done an episode on this before showing that Lynette and Brian and Carly, Lynette's daughter who was there visiting with them in February, they had either paddle boarded or dingied over to this area to go exploring on the ruins of this beautiful, you know, once upon a time beautiful resort marina that got ruined absolutely desecrated in Hurricane Dorian in 2019. So they'd been over there on social media, they'd been posting, walking up, Lynette's got her, her, you know, stick cam, 3D cam, 360 cam and showing, walking through all these ruins. So they're familiar with this wrecked out old marina. And I'll tell you something, everybody I was asking among the locals, I could not believe how many people did not know about it, did not go there. It's so out of the way even though it looks like it's right there, it's just not. You don't drive by it, you don't boat past it. It's just one of those places that not a lot of locals seemed to know about. It was weird. I'm like, what are you talking about? You don't know about this? This place that Lynette showed on her social media. It's just right around the. Right around the way from Marsh Harbor's, you know, Anchorage. So, yeah, it's remote. What a great place to hide a body if you needed to. I'm just saying. So anyway, we were so thankful to a tipster who came to us via our tip line. Drop dead serious info, gmail.com. nathan. Thank you. Nathan went searching at Snapper Point Marina, the ruins of Snapper Point Marina. And he sent us a series of his videos. And there's a lot about it that I'd like to show you. Just with the sound. He doesn't talk through them. He just walks and he just looks. And I was really transfixed watching what he was seeing. Now he's not a professional cameraman and we're going to slow down a few things here and there and speed up a few things here and there. He's basically just. Just walking and looking and just something I want to tell you before you watch the video because you're going to see some things where you'll say, stop, stop, stop. That looks like the color of Lynette's bathing suit. Cover up. It's, you know, the aqua green. Or stop, stop, stop. That might be her dry bag. So while the camera may go by it quickly, Nathan didn't. Nathan might be filming this way, but still looking and recognizing it and seeing it up close and realizing, okay, now that's not the bathing suit cover up or the dry bag. So I don't want you to panic thinking he missed something when you look at this. But let me play for you just some of these videos now so that you can see what Snapper Point Marina looks like. And the searching that he did, he did all along. The ruins of the old marina, the buildings, but I found so striking about what he's seeing here is like, it's sad. This is like the detritus of what was once beautiful. I mean, look at the pictures the way they used to be. This was a beautiful place. I can imagine it being a very expensive place to stay with the gorgeous patios and the pool and, you know, obviously like docks that could fit a 90 foot boat in Safe harbor and beaches. I mean, if you're looking around there, obviously, you can see that it hasn't really been touched, it feels like, since 2019. And so you see just sort of. I don't know, it feels like the Roman ruins in a way. But you can certainly see that Nathan was really thoughtful in the way he was filming everything. It's just. It is sad because there's a lot of places that, you know, are still like this. In the Abacos, they just got hammered. They got. It was so bad for them. Dorian just basically wiped places completely off the map like this. I wonder if anyone will ever pick this place up and. And, you know, redevelop it. But there's whole buildings that are just gone off the foundation. The tiles are even gone. You know, it's, like, amazing. But, you know, I have to think that even though he's searching through the buildings, I don't think Brian Hooker would be dumb enough to just. If he killed her. And that is a big if. Allegedly. I think he would never want her to be found, because if she's ever found, it means she didn't float the way he said she floated. And there's no statute of limitations on murder, y'. All. If she shows up buried or burrowed in some ruins on shore, that means Brian's story is a lie. And he would be arrested for murder like PDQ pretty damn quick. And maybe he'd be making for a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the United States. I don't know. But it's good that Nathan searched those places because they had been there before. And so if Lynette might have been placed there, I don't know. It's good that he searched them, but it does show you just how top of mind that would have been. Remember that place I went to? Because again, if. If. If the scenario is that Lynette was killed on board, Soulmate, then there would only be a matter of hours where whoever killed her. And if it's allegedly Brian. Not saying it is. He hasn't been charged. They'd have to think real damn quick where to go in the dark of night. And they'd have to know where they were going. So it would have to be a place you'd been to before. So I just wanted to show you, like, this particular area and what Nathan was seeing in this area. I also want to tell you a little bit about the soil, because if you're up on land away from the beach, I've had multiple locals tell me don't think you can just dig anywhere in the Abacos. Everything's like coral. Like the soil. You could dig down a little and then you're going to hit coral. Like it's just really hard. So it's not an easy place to dig and bury a body. And a lot of locals have said to me they believe that the only way Lynette hasn't shown up is if she's buried on land somewhere. But that burying on land is not an easy feat. And it ain't like you're going to get off a sailboat and go to the Home Depot and get yourself a shovel. No, this is a very fast plan that would have had to have been made if somebody killed Lynette and if somebody needed to get rid of Lynette. Not saying it's Brian. Brian hasn't been charged. But. Okay, let's move on. You don't have a shovel necessarily. I don't know how many sailors keep shovels on board their boat. I never did. I can't imagine why I'd need one shovel anyway. So you gotta kind of MacGyver your way if that's the plan. Right. And these are not good places on land, up on land, away from the beaches to be able to dig. And again, if you're trying to hide her body, you don't want it to ever be found. So even these trees and piles and stuff. Sure. Could. Could somebody put Lynette under a pile? Sure. But she would eventually be found. That would be an absolute no brainer. And that would mean an ultimate murder charge because nobody's going to float up into like a pile of trees way up high on an island. Tide doesn't go up this high. And also, you can usually tell when these things are recently unearthed. You can tell when a pile is kind of recently put there from hurricane ruins that have been there, you know, for six plus years. So the searching that you're seeing is. It's intriguing because you want to kind of know the places that Brian knew about and Lynette knew about if indeed he needed to go somewhere that he knew about. But I've been counseled strongly against the possibility that she's buried somewhere up where it's hard to dig. And some of the other notions are that how hard would it have been to get here? So we've shown you maps before in previous episodes as we continue to watch Nathan's searches. We've shown you some maps before that it's possible. Sure. It's hard to kind of get here in the nighttime, he'd have to go all the way across and get to this shore and then go all the way down the shore a couple of miles down to where his dinghy was found. Look, dinghy was already over there. So he was already over there to go up and around to find this part. Yeah, the waves would have picked up and the wind would have picked up a lot by the time Ding. That you get to this side of the Sea of Abaco. So it would have been a little bit treacherous. But again, he's already over there because he, so to speak, washed up on the shores of Marsh Harbor. So he was already over in this area. It would have just been, you know, a bit of a shitty ride to have to go up and around and. And to, you know, where Snapper Point Marina used to be. And again, it's not like you want to put her inside a building. That wouldn't help. She'd be found and she would never have floated naturally into a building like this. Not unless there was a massive hurricane. Again, and that's. You shouldn't be waiting for that if you're hoping to escape a murder charge. Again, not saying that he murdered her. Not charged with anything. I'm gaming out. Where could Lynette's body be? Because it isn't in the Sea of Abaco where it should be. If Brian's story is true and if there's shark activity, something would have shown. All the locals, all the fishermen I've spoken to said same thing. Something would have shown up on shore. Sharks don't eat all of us. They don't really like us. They sample, they'll nibble, they'll do stuff. They might attack. But usually something shows up on shore and nothing has shown up with Lynette. No dry bag. That would have shown up too. Something of Lynette. Yeah. Can't weigh her down in the Sea of Abaco because it's like a. Just like. Just like the shallowy, deep end of a swimming pool. Six, eight feet, deepest is 15ft, but clear as a belt. And they have searched everywhere. She's not in the Sea of Abaco, and she should be. If Brian's story is true, which is why I call, and so many other reasons. So Nathan also did some searching on the shore. He decided, and I'm going to let the video roll and I'll explain what he did. He decided to also go to the place where Brian purportedly washed up. I'll say purportedly because his dinghy was there, but I don't know that he washed up. I don't believe that whole story about a nine hour wash up. We've already seen Blaine's demonstrate. Wait, we haven't. But you're about to see a demonstration of just how far you would actually drift with these conditions. And, bro, you didn't drift four miles in nine hours. You'll see it in a moment. But these are. These are the videos that Nathan took on the shoreline all around that area where Brian Hooker swears he just washed right up after floating. It's a good thing to see because you can sort of see the topography of the beach to see how rocky it is. Yes, there are some sandy patches. So it's important for searchers to look for what looks like recently disturbed. And people I've spoken to also said has to be above the high tide mark, because if you're below the high tide mark and you try to bury a body in sand on a beach, that body's coming up because that sand's going to move. So if you're a mariner and Brian and Lynette were mariners, you would likely know that you've got to get above the high tide mark on the beaches. Plenty of beaches that are secluded, that in the dark of night you could dig for hours. I mean, look at this one. This is over on Marsh harbor, not far from where Brian washed up. But you got to get above this. See that water? See that tide comes right in there? It's got to be above that. And when you get higher, you see all the debris that's left over from, I don't know, crap that gets into the ocean and washes up on onshore after a hurricane. There's a ton of it as well. Sailors accidentally lose things off the side sometimes not so accidentally lose things off the side. And a lot of it ends up here. But that high tide mark and the debris mark, you got to go above that and it starts to get really hard to dig in the coral. But I was watching this so closely, looking for anything that might have looked like Lynette's dry bag, which was bright green, or her bathing suit cover up, which was, you know, aquamarine blue. And every time something kind of bluish or green showed up on the screen, I thought, oh, slow down, I want to see it. But mark my words, don't worry. It's not that it was missed. If the camera went by quickly. It's not that it was missed. Nathan's eyes were looking everywhere while the camera was just pointing forward. So Nathan looked and he knew she was Wearing the aquamarine bathing suit. Cover up.
