2026年4月13日 美国东部时间晚上8:58 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
本月早些时候，其妻子琳内特·胡克在巴哈马夜间乘船出行时失踪的布莱恩·胡克于周一晚间被释放，此时距他被拘留已过去五天。
他的律师特雷尔·巴特勒向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示，59岁的布莱恩·胡克于上周三被巴哈马当局逮捕，就其妻子失踪一事接受讯问。胡克否认存在任何不当行为。在他被拘留的前一天，当记者上前采访时，他拒绝回答问题。
55岁的琳内特·胡克至今下落不明。巴哈马皇家警察部队上周表示，搜救行动已转为搜寻打捞行动。
一份针对胡克船只的搜查令允许执法人员收缴“一台数字录像机、平板电脑以及与手机相关的设备”及其配件。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻查阅到的这份搜查令称，这些设备可能是“与造成人身伤害的失踪人员案件相关的关键物证，或内藏关键物证”。
布莱恩·胡克称妻子被水流卷走
这对来自密歇根州的夫妇均为资深帆船爱好者。布莱恩·胡克向当局表示，4月4日周六晚间，当他们从霍普镇驶往埃尔博礁时，琳内特从他们的8英尺长的充气艇上跌落。他称强劲的水流将她卷走，同时带走了船的钥匙，导致发动机断电，他无法靠近妻子。
警方表示，胡克于4月5日周日凌晨4点左右划艇抵达阿巴科岛，并将船停靠在马什港造船厂。警方称，他告知一名人员妻子失踪，该人员随后通知了当局。
胡克还向多位朋友讲述了事件经过，甚至标注了该区域的地图。他的朋友丹尼尔·丹福思接受了哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的采访，并分享了琳内特失踪后他收到的胡克发来的短信。在短信中，胡克称风将他和琳内特吹散，她说她朝着帆船游去，但两人“很快就彼此失去了视线”。
胡克告诉丹福思，他“仅凭一支船桨漂流并划行了7个小时，直到被冲到邻近岛屿的海岸后方，最终才得以求助”。
琳内特·胡克的女儿呼吁开展“全面彻底的调查”
琳内特·胡克的女儿卡莉·艾尔思沃思呼吁对其母亲失踪案的事实和细节“进行深入审查”。艾尔思沃思告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，布莱恩和琳内特·胡克近年来曾分手又复合。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻独家获取的琳内特2024年1月发给一位朋友的短信显示，在两人分居期间，她曾对布莱恩以及他们在海上的生活感到担忧，但两人后来和解了。
“我唯一的诉求就是查明我母亲的下落，并确保对她的失踪展开全面彻底的调查，”艾尔思沃思告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
艾尔思沃思将母亲描述为一名经验丰富的游泳爱好者，拥有超过十年的帆船航行经验，并表示她不相信继父布莱恩·胡克所描述的事件经过。
巴特勒表示，胡克否认了艾尔思沃思提出的指控。
“布莱恩看起来悲痛欲绝，极度痛苦，”巴特勒在一份声明中说道，“他最关心、也最感沮丧的是，他无法继续搜寻自己结婚25年的妻子。妻子失踪带来的创伤，加上他目前作为嫌疑人被拘留的处境，让他的状态极度脆弱。”
巴特勒还告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，上周三，胡克曾配合警方调查人员重返船只继续搜寻妻子。她表示，胡克在船上被戴上了手铐，在下船时在波涛汹涌的海水中落水。巴特勒在一份书面报告中称，警员将胡克救起，他身上有“明显擦伤”，膝盖受伤导致一瘸一拐。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的摄制组看到胡克被送往当地医院接受检查。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/brian-hooker-released-from-bahamian-custody-after-wifes-disappearance/
Brian Hooker released from custody in Bahamas after wife’s disappearance
April 13, 2026 8:58 PM EDT / CBS News
Brian Hooker, whose wife Lynette disappeared during a nighttime boat ride in the Bahamas earlier this month, was released from custody Monday night, five days after being detained.
Brian Hooker, 59, was arrested by Bahamian authorities last Wednesday for questioning about his wife’s disappearance, his attorney, Terrel Butler, told CBS News. Hooker has denied any wrongdoing. He declined to answer questions from CBS News when a reporter approached him the day before his detention.
Lynette Hooker, 55, has not been found. The Royal Bahamas Police Force said last week that search and rescue operations had turned into search and recovery.
A search warrant for Hooker’s boat allowed authorities to take “a digital video recorder, digital tablets, and cell phone related equipment” and accessories. The devices may be “material evidence and or contains material evidence related to a missing person causing bodily harm,” according to the warrant, which was reviewed by CBS News.
Brian Hooker said his wife was swept away
The couple, from Michigan, were known to be avid sailors. Brian Hooker told authorities that Lynette fell from their eight-foot dinghy the evening of Saturday, April 4, while they sailed from Hope Town to Elbow Cay. He said powerful currents swept her away, along with the keys to their boat, which cut power to its engine and prevented him from reaching her.
Police said Hooker paddled to the island of Abacoa, where he docked at the Marsh Harbor Boat Yard around 4 a.m. Sunday, April 5. Police said he told someone that his wife was missing, and that person then informed authorities.
Hooker also shared his account of what happened with several friends and even annotated maps of the area. His friend Daniel Danforth spoke to CBS News and shared text messages he had received from Hooker after Lynette’s disappearance. In the messages, Hooker said that the wind blew him and Lynette apart. He said she swam towards the sailboat but the two “lost sight of each other pretty quickly.”
Hooker told Danforth he “drifted and tried to paddle with one oar for the next 7 hours until I washed up behind the shore of the next Island over and was able to get some help finally.”
Lynette Hooker’s daughter seeks “full and complete investigation”
Karli Aylesworth, Lynette Hooker’s daughter, has called for “an intensive review of the facts and circumstances” around her mother’s case. Aylesworth told CBS News that Brian and Lynette Hooker had split up and gotten back together in recent years.
Messages that Lynette sent to a friend in January 2024, obtained exclusively by CBS News, suggest she had concerns about Brian and their life at sea at the time of the couple’s separation, but they later reconciled.
“My sole concern is to find out what happened to my mother and make sure a full and complete investigation is performed into her disappearance,” Aylesworth told CBS News.
Aylesworth described her mother as an experienced swimmer with more than a decade of sailing experience, and said she doesn’t believe the sequence of events described by her stepfather, Brian Hooker.
Butler said Hooker denies the allegations made by Aylesworth.
“Brian appears completely heartbroken and deeply distressed,” Butler said in a statement. “His primary concern and source of intense frustration is his inability to continue the search for his wife of 25 years. The trauma of her disappearance, coupled with his current detention as a suspect, has left him in an extremely fragile state.”
Butler also told CBS News that Hooker went back out on the boat with police investigators as they continued the search for his wife last Wednesday. She said he was handcuffed aboard the vessel, which led to him falling overboard in rough seas while disembarking. Hooker was rescued by officers, Butler said in a written report, and sustained a “visible abrasion” and a knee injury that caused him to limp. A CBS News team saw Hooker being taken to a local hospital to get checked out.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/brian-hooker-released-from-bahamian-custody-after-wifes-disappearance/
