GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The husband of a woman who went missing after he said she fell off their boat in the Bahamas has left the country, his lawyer told NBC news.
Brian Hooker left the Bahamas on a commercial flight “because his mom is very ill,” his attorney Terrel Butler told NBC News Wednesday. The attorney said Hooker plans to return to the islands.
Michigan man whose wife went missing in Bahamas released from police custody
Hooker was released from the custody of the Royal Bahamas Police Force Monday night following his arrest five days earlier, after he told police his wife Lynette Hooker, 55, fell overboard from their 8-foot dinghy and was swept away by the current. He said she had the key to the boat, named Soulmate, which he then paddled back to shore. Crews have been looking for Lynette Hooker, but she has not been found.
The Department of Public Prosecutions did not recommend charges pending further investigation, police said at the time of his release.
Lynette Hooker’s daughter, Karli Aylesworth of Lowell, has repeatedly expressed skepticism about her stepfather’s narrative, saying her mother is very fit and she has a hard time believing that Lynette “just fell off,” Aylesworth said Monday in an interview with NewsNation.
Daughter ‘skeptical,’ husband ‘heartbroken’ over woman’s Bahamas disappearance
But Hooker has denied any wrongdoing, his attorney has said, and “appears completely heartbroken and deeply distressed.”…