Missing woman’s husband made threats before her disappearance: Report | NewsNation Live

(NewsNation) — The daughter of the American woman who was reportedly swept out to sea during a boat trip in the Bahamas is speaking out.

Karli Aylesworth, the daughter of Lynette Hooker, told Fox News in an interview that her stepfather, Brian Hooker, had a history of violence toward her mother, and said her mother was a fit person who wouldn’t “just fall overboard.”
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“I do believe something might have happened to her,” Aylesworth said. “There’s history of them choking her out and threatening to throw her overboard. So the fact that this is actually happening makes me believe there’s more to the story.”

She added that the couple had a history of “not getting along,” especially when they drink.

Missing woman’s husband says she fell overboard

Brian Hooker, 58, told authorities that he and Lynette, 55, got on an 8-foot dinghy in Hope Town around 7:30 p.m. Saturday to head to Elbow Cay, roughly 2.5 miles away. Hooker said his wife fell overboard with the keys, and said strong currents carried her away, leaving him unable to see her.

Aylesworth said he gave her that same story during a brief phone call on Sunday. She told NBC News he sounded “monotone and relaxed.”

Wednesday morning, Hooker wrote in a Facebook post that he is “heartbroken over the recent boat accident in unpredictable seas and high winds that caused my beloved Lynette to fall from our small dinghy near Elbow Cay in the Bahamas.”