MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas – Lynette Hooker’s daughter had a reducing response to her stepfather Brian Hooker’s resolution to flee the Bahamas after insisting that he would keep to assist authorities look his lacking spouse.
“I believe it reveals his character. He by some means misplaced my mother at sea and cries on digital camera saying he’ll by no means cease looking out, then leaves the following day,” Karli Aylesworth instructed The Publish.
Aylesworth additionally instructed CBS that her longtime stepfather’s sudden departure “reveals he’s not a lot of a person of his phrase.”
Aylesworth, 28, and her boyfriend arrived within the tiny island city of Marsh Harbour Thursday to seek for her mom.
Lynette’s daughter mentioned she doesn’t imagine Brian Hooker’s model of occasions from the day her mom went lacking from the the waters between Hope City and Abaco Island.
She has vowed to resolve it whereas visiting the distant island paradise.
“My sole concern is to seek out out what occurred to my mom and ensure a full and full investigation is carried out into her disappearance,” she instructed CBS.
Aylesworth and her boyfriend, Steve Hansen, have been seen talking to a uniformed police officer after arriving on the small airport about 100 miles north of Nassau, earlier than being whisked off in a white taxi van.
One other member of the family instructed The Publish Aylesworth seemed “visibly distraught” upon studying that Hooker, whom the daughter has recognized since she was simply 4 years outdated, was leaving the Bahamas Wednesday.
It was a transparent reversal of his vow to remain and discover his spouse of 25 years, whom he mentioned was swept off their yacht in tough water.
“That simply pissed [her] off actual dangerous,” the relative mentioned.
Hooker was launched from Bahamian police custody after no expenses have been introduced in opposition to him by Monday night, although authorities say the investigation is ongoing and there’s a chance he could also be re-arrested.
The member of the family mentioned Hooker’s excuse for the sudden departure – to care for his “very in poor health” mom, his lawyer has mentioned – was comprehensible, albeit handy timing.
His mother has been in poor health for some time, so it’s not like that is information. So he was simply doing it to get out of dodge,” the relative mentioned, including that his mom is affected by kidney failure.
“His mother is terminally in poor health, so we’re not saying he shouldn’t return there – that’s his mother, which Karli doesn’t have now. He ought to return to her earlier than she dies, which Karli doesn’t get along with her mother.
“Karli was so visibly upset about [him leaving] due to that truth…like, ‘Oh, you possibly can go get to your mother earlier than she dies, however I don’t get to see my mother. I don’t get to say goodbye.’
“He had an additional 30 or 40 years along with his mother, that [Karli] won’t ever get” with Lynette, the supply mentioned.
The supply echoed Aylesworth’s earlier claims that Hooker allegedly abused his spouse – and that he has a brief fuse, which is worsened by alcohol.
“A part of us knew that he was most likely going to maintain hurting her bodily and emotionally, as a result of we all know he belittles her and talks s–t and all that stuff, particularly when he’s consuming,” the relative mentioned.
That character flaw even led each Lynette and Hooker to allegedly turn out to be sober for practically a yr and a half – however they began consuming once more a couple of yr in the past, based on the member of the family.
“That’s after we had a intestine feeling that one thing dangerous was going to occur. However we didn’t suppose that she was going to vanish.”
When requested if Aylesworth plans to ever discuss to Hooker once more, the member of the family didn’t hesitate or mince phrases of their easy response: “No.”
“With the knowledge she has and her intestine emotions, it’s a particular no, as of proper now.”
Whereas within the Bahamas, Aylesworth and her boyfriend – who was sporting a hat emblazoned “Bahamas” upon their arrival to the island Thursday – plan to retrace Lynette and Hooker’s final actions and dinghy route main as much as her April 4 disappearance, the relative added.
On Wednesday, the US Coast Guard joined Bahamian authorities within the search mission – which has been re-classified as a rescue mission.
