Updated April 12, 2026
Brian Hooker provided friends and other boaters with images he said depicted where his wife, Lynette Hooker, disappeared off the coast of the Bahamas. Some recipients passed the screenshots along to CBS News.
The images appear to be screenshots from Navionics, a widely used marine GPS navigation app. Hand-drawn markings on the maps trace an alleged dinghy route from the point Brian Hooker indicates Lynette went overboard and mark a location he identifies as the overboard spot. Friends who received the screenshots said Hooker also shared the same images with investigators.
Those screenshots may represent the most detailed version of events offered so far by Hooker. According to the maps and the timeline he has provided, Lynette — who is from Michigan and has been missing since Sunday — went overboard at about 7:30 p.m. Hooker’s drawings and notes show he then traveled roughly four miles west by dinghy from that claimed overboard location.
Hooker told others that he washed ashore the next morning at about 4 a.m. at the Marsh Harbour Boat Yard. The maps and annotations illustrate the route he says he took in the hours after Lynette vanished.
Hope Town Fire and Rescue declined to comment on the screenshots, citing the ongoing investigation. The Royal Bahamas Police Force did not immediately reply to requests for comment from CBS News.
Bahamian authorities took Brian Hooker into custody Wednesday night for questioning, officials said. His lawyer, Terrel Butler, told CBS News that Hooker has not been charged.
The investigation into Lynette Hooker’s disappearance remains active, and authorities have not released a definitive public account of what occurred the night she went missing.