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marmar

(79,797 posts)
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 09:23 AM 8 hrs ago

Husband of missing Michigan woman in the Bahamas arrested




Apr 9, 2026

Bahamas officials confirmed that Brian Hooker was taken into custody Wednesday and is now "being questioned in connection" with Lynnette Hooker's disappearance.


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Husband of missing Michigan woman in the Bahamas arrested (Original Post) marmar 8 hrs ago OP
it would have been easier to go to Iowa Tetrachloride 7 hrs ago #1
Such an odd case Johnny2X2X 6 hrs ago #2

Tetrachloride

(9,637 posts)
1. it would have been easier to go to Iowa
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 10:08 AM
7 hrs ago

instead, now the Daily Mail is on the job

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Johnny2X2X

(24,271 posts)
2. Such an odd case
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 10:50 AM
6 hrs ago

I am assuming he was arrested over inconsistencies in his story. But the fact is that if you kill a partner in this way, it's going to be extremely hard to prove. Absent the victim finding a way to leave a message as she was about to drown, it's an entirely plausible story.

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