Husband of missing American woman in the Bahamas says he’ll keep searching for her following his release | CNN

In some of his first interviews since being released from police custody in the Bahamas, Brian Hooker told news networks Tuesday he is choosing to believe his wife is still alive and plans to go back out and search for her. “No one has told me not to stop looking and I’m going to keep looking,” he told NBC on Tuesday. Lynette Hooker, a 55-year-old mother and sailor, went missing April 4. Her husband of 25 years told authorities she fell from an 8‑foot dinghy in the rough waters near Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands that evening as the couple was traveling back to their yacht, according to police. The Michigan couple, both US nationals, have been sailing together for more than a decade, documenting their life at sea on social media. They were navigating the Bahamas on their yacht, Soulmate, when the incident happened. The 10 days without his wife by his side is the longest Brian Hooker has ever been apart from her, he told NBC. “I want people to know that Lynette is my life and we have been together almost half my life and we belong to each other and I mean to keep looking,” Brian Hooker told the outlet. Brian Hooker was arrested and questioned several times by police in c