Lynette Hooker’s Bahamas disappearance being investigated as possible murder, official says

The case of Lynette Hooker, a Michigan woman who went missing in the Bahamas in April, is being investigated as a “possible foreign murder of a U.S. national,” a U.S. official told CBS News.  Search efforts for Hooker, 55, are still ongoing, as the 154-foot U.S. Coast Guard cutter Margaret Norvell arrived in Marsh Harbour … Read more

Coast Guard divers arrive in Bahamas to search for missing American Lynette Hooker

U.S. Coast Guard divers have arrived in the Bahamas as the agency resumes its search for missing American woman Lynette Hooker, who disappeared in April after her husband said she fell from a boat, an official said Tuesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The Coast … Read more

U.S. Coast Guard can send divers to Bahamas to search for missing American woman Lynette Hooker, source says

The U.S. Coast Guard has been granted permission by the Bahamian government to send divers to canvass previously unsearched areas in the search for missing Michigan woman Lynette Hooker, a source briefed on the investigation confirmed to CBS News Thursday. The permission was granted to the U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service, the source disclosed. Hooker, … Read more

Coast Guard plans new search in Bahamas for missing Michigan woman

The U.S. Coast Guard will reopen the search for Lynette Hooker, the Michigan woman who has been missing since April after falling overboard in the Bahamas, according to a U.S. official familiar with the investigation. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The search will resume because … Read more

U.S. says suspected drug trafficker rescued from plane crash off Florida linked to Bahamas politician

Opposition leaders in the Bahamas are demanding an investigation into a suspected drug trafficker who survived a recent plane crash near Florida and was allegedly found with roughly $30,000, according to a U.S. federal agent. The money was inside a bag labeled with the name of an unidentified high-ranking politician from the archipelago. The suspect, … Read more

U.S. Coast Guard now has boat of husband of woman who went missing in Bahamas

The United States Coast Guard has taken possession of the sailboat owned by the American man whose wife disappeared in the Bahamas last month, an official said Monday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The official, from the Coast Guard’s Fort Pierce station, referred additional questions … Read more

U.S. Coast Guard seizes sailboat in probe of Lynette Hooker’s disappearance in the Bahamas, sources say

The sailboat used by Brian and Lynette Hooker in their travels around the Bahamas — named “Soulmate” — has been seized by U.S. Coast Guard investigators, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation. The boat departed Marsh Harbour in the Bahamas on Friday and it was on its way to the U.S. when … Read more