She introduced dwelling the one items of her mom she may discover.
The devastated daughter of Lynette Hooker, a 55-year-old mother who mysteriously disappeared from a ship within the Bahamas two weeks in the past, went to the island trying to find solutions – however as an alternative left with just a few of her mom’s private gadgets.
“I went and obtained a few of her belongings, like a scarf. I obtained her ‘L’ necklace that she used to at all times put on. I obtained an image body I made for her, one thing that my grandma sewed for her,” Karli Aylesworth, 28, advised ABC Information.
The daughter posted a heart-wrenching on-line selfie photograph whereas aboard her flight again to dwelling to Lowell, Mass.,exhibiting her eyes stuffed with tears as she wore a gold necklace and the L-shaped allure.
Aylesworth and her boyfriend spent two days final week retracing her mom’s last-known actions — and she or he mentioned they grew to become much more satisfied that Lynette’s long-time husband, Brian Hooker, 58, wasn’t telling the total reality about what occurred when she disappeared within the waters between Abaco Island and Elbow Cay.
“I retraced their steps from that day, and it simply makes the story sound extra sketchy to me,” Aylesworth wrote in a Saturday replace on a GoFundMe web page to help the seek for Lynette or “to assist lay her to relaxation.”
“I want to head again down once more quickly if I can to not solely keep in mind my final occasions along with her, however to additionally resolve what actually occurred,” the daughter wrote.
Visiting the place her mom disappeared was “actually exhausting,” Aylesworth advised Information 8 on Monday.
“It was eerie, virtually. I used to be crying the entire time,” she mentioned, explaining that she visited Lynette and Brian’s sailboat, in addition to an island bar the place her mother and stepdad sipped drinks simply hours earlier than Lynette’s disappearance throughout the journey.
The bartender on the native bar, the Abaco Inn, was one of many final individuals to see Lynette alive. He beforehand recounted the Lynette and Brian’s go to and echoed Aylesworth’s doubts about Brian’s model of occasions that night time throughout an unique interview with The Put up.
The drink-slinger and native Bahamian, who solely gave the title Ken, described the pair’s keep as unremarkable – however added that one thing nonetheless didn’t sit fairly proper with him about what Brian claimed to have occurred later.
“It’s bizarre … for him to be going from right here to there, then ending up in Marsh Harbour and no person sees the woman, it’s bizarre,” Ken mentioned, referring to the peninsula settlement just some miles throughout the water from Elbow Cay, the place Brian anchored the couple’s boat, the Soulmate.
“What catches my eye is that they left right here at 7, 7:30 and [her going missing] supposedly occurred proper after they left right here, and he didn’t make it over there till 4 a.m. or one thing like that, in 25-mph winds,” the bartender mentioned.
Brian has advised authorities Lynette disappeared after falling off an 8‑foot dinghy whereas the couple traveled again to their sailboat in tough waters close to Elbow Cay.
Lynette has not been seen since that night time.
Brian was detained April 15 in connection to her April 4 disappearance however launched days later, after investigators did not file expenses in opposition to him. He has denied any wrongdoing in his spouse’s disappearance.
The Put up launched the primary up-close photos of the couple’s sailboat – which flies a flag declaring, “A Pirate’s Life for Me” – throughout a go to to Marsh Harbour final week.
The boat remained anchored within the harbor Tuesday, because the seek for Lynette entered its seventeenth day.
Aylesworth mentioned that whereas within the Bahamas, she spent about three hours talking with police, who “mentioned they’re doing all the pieces they’ll and to allow them to do their investigation,” she beforehand advised The Put up.
The Royal Bahamas Police Power didn’t reply to Put up inquiries for remark.
