Missing mum made morbid social media posts days before she went overboard on boat
Suspicion is now burning deeper into the husband of missing woman Lynette Hooker in light of an online post.
The Michigan-based couple are known to the YouTube crowd for their amusing channel 'The Sailing Hookers', to which they upload stunning seascape trips, but Lynette and Brian's most recent ride across the waves resulted in tragedy.
Last weekend, they were sailing their yacht, 'Soulmate', around the Bahamas when Lynette apparently tipped overboard and was swept away in the currents.
They'd taken their dinghy to Elbow Cay all the way from Hope Town (roughly 2.5 miles), but around 7.30pm local time, the mum-of-one catastrophically lost her balance as they approached 'Soulmate'.
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Brian alleged that his wife had the boat key in her possession when she hit the water, killing the engine, which left him needing to swim back to the nearby Marsha Harbour.
Police arrested Brian several days later after Lynette's daughter from a previous relationship, Karli Aylesworth, raised concerns.
What's seemingly given Karli's alarm additional credence is her mum's joke about "getting sick" of Brian in a YouTube video, posted just days before her 'death' at sea.
Lynette shared a short clip on 'The Sailing Hookers' page depicting two people dancing to the 1995 track 'Be My Lover' by La Bouche.
"Don't you two ever get sick of each other?" read some overlaid text written by the YouTuber, adding: "Me and my husband".
Meanwhile, this is what Karli had to tell Fox Digital News earlier this week right before Brian's arrest: "There have been prior issues brought to my attention, which may be important for any thorough investigation. If this truly was an accident, I can understand and live with it.
"However, there needs to be an intensive review of the facts and circumstances of this tragic incident before that can be determined".
The believed-to-be-guilty's attorney claimed Brian has been "co-operating with the relevant authorities as part of an ongoing investigation".
On Wednesday, 8 April, it was revealed that Lynette's husband didn't inform her daughter about the disappearance for close to 24 hours.
When he did finally reach out, Karli told NBC News that he sounded strangely "monotone and relaxed" on the phone.
In her interview with Fox News, Karli recalled Brian's previous treatment of her mother; assaulting Lynette and threatening to chuck her overboard.
"There's history of him 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 noted.
Addressing the tragedy in a Facebook statement, Brian himself said he was "devastated" over the situation.
Dan Seddon