{"id":75299,"date":"2026-04-13T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/lynette-hooker-was-concerned-about-husband-brian-in-messages-to-friend-i-cant-be-out-there-with-him\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:44:31","slug":"lynette-hooker-was-concerned-about-husband-brian-in-messages-to-friend-i-cant-be-out-there-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/lynette-hooker-was-concerned-about-husband-brian-in-messages-to-friend-i-cant-be-out-there-with-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynette Hooker was concerned about husband Brian in messages to friend: &#8220;I can&#8217;t be out there with him&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Messages that Lynette Hooker sent to a friend in 2024 following her split with husband Brian Hooker indicate she had concerns about him and their life at sea. The couple got back together, and now he is being <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/lynette-hooker-bahamas-criminal-investigation-coast-guard\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">questioned by police in the Bahamas<\/a><\/span> after saying <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/american-woman-missing-bahams-husband-says-she-was-swept-off-boat\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">she went overboard<\/a><\/span> during a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/maps-brian-hooker-lynette-hooker-disappearance-bahamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">nighttime boat ride<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess it was too much closeness. We decided to call it quits. I&#8217;m not going back,&#8221; Lynette Hooker wrote in messages obtained exclusively by CBS News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The messages from January to February of 2024 provide some insight into the relationship between the couple.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In late January 2024, she told Marnee Stevenson, a fellow boater and friend, &#8220;We were married 21 years. Our marriage lasted 6 weeks cruising.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/04\/13\/7ee9725f-99e2-4076-b00b-3fc69fa2ef77\/thumbnail\/620x1250\/c2b1b094c0f61f35cba3e54c0a143ed2\/lynette-callitquits.jpg#\" alt=\"lynette-callitquits.jpg \" height=\"1250\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/04\/13\/7ee9725f-99e2-4076-b00b-3fc69fa2ef77\/thumbnail\/620x1250\/c2b1b094c0f61f35cba3e54c0a143ed2\/lynette-callitquits.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/04\/13\/7ee9725f-99e2-4076-b00b-3fc69fa2ef77\/thumbnail\/1240x2500\/85021854d7d1d184ff9d0275572abdb2\/lynette-callitquits.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">In messages to her friend Marnee Stevenson in 2024, Lynette Hooker wrote that she and her husband Brian &#8220;decided to call it quits. I&#8217;m not going back.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Marnee and Blaine Stevenson met the Hookers in 2023 while sailing through Florida.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were boating with them for a while,&#8221; Blaine Stevenson said.<\/p>\n<p>Lynette Hooker, who previously lived in Michigan, told Marnee she had &#8220;quit my awesome career, sold my house and gave away everything I own to cruise.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the time, she left Brian to stay with her mother in Florida, according to the messages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked about whether the two could reconcile, Hooker told her friend, &#8220;It was real bad. I can&#8217;t be out there with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/04\/13\/118995f4-0923-47a0-baf9-b03e8cbab980\/thumbnail\/620x1263\/eec222d74f0f254ff2b2d37bd424cda1\/lynette-not-reconciling.jpg#\" alt=\"lynette-not-reconciling.jpg \" height=\"1263\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/04\/13\/118995f4-0923-47a0-baf9-b03e8cbab980\/thumbnail\/620x1263\/eec222d74f0f254ff2b2d37bd424cda1\/lynette-not-reconciling.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/04\/13\/118995f4-0923-47a0-baf9-b03e8cbab980\/thumbnail\/1240x2526\/7c5bb220e9aaea006b284e4ba38e4699\/lynette-not-reconciling.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Lynette Hooker said in a message to her friend Marnee Stevenson in 2024, &#8220;It was real bad. I can&#8217;t be out there with him.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A month later, in late February 2024, the messages indicate Lynette and Brian had reconciled.<\/p>\n<p>Marnee Stevenson messaged her on social media: &#8220;Looks like things are on the up and up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lynette replied with heart emojis and a thumbs up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/04\/13\/9d7936c9-5c34-4abe-ade7-842bc92b5dda\/thumbnail\/620x171\/4f82c3862933c9ce45e575e4443ef2ad\/lynette-upandup.jpg#\" alt=\"lynette-upandup.jpg \" height=\"171\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/04\/13\/9d7936c9-5c34-4abe-ade7-842bc92b5dda\/thumbnail\/620x171\/4f82c3862933c9ce45e575e4443ef2ad\/lynette-upandup.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/04\/13\/9d7936c9-5c34-4abe-ade7-842bc92b5dda\/thumbnail\/1240x342\/c3f97db23aae9715ee86b863422883a9\/lynette-upandup.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">A month after Lynette Hooker told her friend Marnee Stevenson that she and husband Brian Hooker had split up, they were back together.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brian Hooker reported his wife missing on Sunday, April 5, saying she had been swept away from a dingy which lost power the night before, hampering his ability to seek help.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Terrel Butler, who represents Brian Hooker in a criminal investigation by the Bahamian Royal Police Force, has consistently said he denies any wrongdoing, is heartbroken by the incident and wants to be released from custody so he can search for his wife.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/lynette-hooker-husband-brian-messages\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messages that Lynette Hooker sent to a friend in 2024 following her split with husband Brian Hooker indicate she had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2180],"class_list":["post-75299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us","tag-bahamas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lynette Hooker was concerned about husband Brian in messages to friend: &quot;I can&#039;t be out there with him&quot; - World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two years before her disappearance, Lynette Hooker temporarily split with her husband Brian, telling a friend, &amp;quot;Our marriage lasted 6 weeks cruising,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;It was bad. 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