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The eight-foot dinghy that Brian Hooker says helium and his wife, Lynette Hooker, were aboard erstwhile she disappeared successful the Bahamas successful aboriginal April, was seized by U.S. Coast Guard investigators Thursday.
CBS News captured the infinitesimal the dinghy was taken by a tender vessel backmost to a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter.
U.S. Coast Guard investigators aboard a dinghy successful the Bahamas that missing Michigan woman, Lynette Hooker, was allegedly riding successful connected the nighttime she disappeared successful aboriginal April.
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An researcher with Coast Guard Investigative Services was seen aboard the dinghy, surveying it and holding up a beingness jacket. A cadaver canine was besides seen with investigators.
The dinghy could supply penetration into what happened the nighttime 55-year-old Lynette Hooker of Michigan disappeared. Brian Hooker, who reported her missing connected April 5, initially told investigators his woman "bounced off" the dinghy during unsmooth waters.
He said the mates had gone for a nighttime thrust aboard the dinghy from Elbow Cay successful the Bahamas erstwhile she fell overboard and was swept distant successful the existent with the keys to the boat, forcing him to paddle backmost to shore.
Brian Hooker was initially detained by Bahamian authorities but released aft 5 days of questioning. He has since returned to the U.S. He has not been charged with a transgression and denies immoderate wrongdoing. Lynette Hooker has not yet been found.
GPS information from an physics instrumentality seized by authorities appears to disagree from his relationship of what happened that nighttime which has sparked this caller hunt successful the Bahamas.
The sailboat the mates was using successful their travels astir the Bahamas was seized by the Coast Guard past month.
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