“SHE WENT LOOKING FOR ANSWERS… AND FOUND SOMETHING SHE WASN’T READY FOR” 💔🌊
Lynette Hooker’s daughter traveled to the Bahamas searching for clues about her missing mother — turning hope into heartbreak as the investigation took an emotional turn no one expected.
What she discovered on the ground has now raised even more questions about what really happened… and why the truth still feels out of reach
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Lynette Hooker’s daughter goes to Bahamas looking for clues to missing mom — and makes tearful discovery
She brought home the only pieces of her mother she could find.
The devastated daughter of Lynette Hooker, a 55-year-old mom who mysteriously disappeared from a boat in the Bahamas two weeks ago, went to the island searching for answers — but instead left with only a few of her mother’s personal items.
“I went and got some of her belongings, like a headband. I got her ‘L’ necklace that she used to always wear. I got a picture frame I made for her, something that my grandma sewed for her,” Karli Aylesworth, 28, told ABC News.
Karli Aylesworth flashes her missing mother’s L-shaped charm necklace.Instagram/sleepy_ponyo
The daughter posted a heart-wrenching online selfie photo while aboard her flight back to home to Lowell, Mass., showing her eyes full of tears as she wore a gold necklace and the L-shaped charm. Aylesworth and her boyfriend spent two days last week retracing her mother’s last known movements — and she said they became even more convinced that Lynette’s longtime husband, Brian Hooker, 58, wasn’t telling the full truth about what happened when she disappeared in the waters between Abaco Island and Elbow Cay.
“I retraced their steps from that day, and it just makes the story sound more sketchy to me,” Aylesworth wrote in a Saturday update on a GoFundMe page to support the search for Lynette or “to help lay her to rest.”
“I would like to head back down again soon if I can to not only remember my last times with her, but to also get to the bottom of what really happened,” the daughter wrote.
The daughter visited Lynette and Brian Hooker’s fateful sailboat, the Soulmate, during a trip to the Bahamas last week.Matt Symons for NY Post
Visiting the place her mother disappeared was “really hard,” Aylesworth told News 8 on Monday.
“It was eerie, almost. I was crying the whole time,” she said, explaining that she visited Lynette and Brian’s sailboat, as well as an island bar where her mom and stepdad sipped drinks just hours before Lynette’s disappearance.
The bartender at the local bar, the Abaco Inn, was one of the last people to see Lynette alive. He previously recounted Lynette and Brian’s visit and echoed Aylesworth’s doubts about Brian’s version of events that night during an exclusive interview with The Post.
The drink-slinger and native Bahamian, who only gave the name Ken, described the pair’s stay as unremarkable — but added that something still didn’t sit quite right with him about what Brian claimed happened later.
“It’s weird … for him to be going from here to there, then ending up in Marsh Harbour and nobody sees the lady, it’s weird,” Ken said, referring to the peninsula settlement just a few miles across the water from Elbow Cay, where Brian anchored the couple’s boat, the Soulmate.
“What catches my eye is they left here at 7, 7:30 and [her going missing] supposedly happened right after they left here, and he didn’t make it over there until 4 a.m. or something like that, in 25-mph winds,” the bartender said.
Brian has told authorities Lynette disappeared after falling off an 8‑foot dinghy while the couple traveled back to their sailboat in rough waters near Elbow Cay.
Lynette has not been seen since that night.
Brian was detained on April 15 in connection with her April 4 disappearance but released days later, after investigators failed to file charges against him. He has denied any wrongdoing in his wife’s disappearance.
The Post released the first up-close images of the couple’s sailboat — which flies a flag declaring, “A Pirate’s Life for Me” — during a visit to Marsh Harbour last week.
Lynette, here previously with Aylesworth, has not been seen since April 4.Instagram/sleepy_ponyo
The boat remained anchored in the harbor Tuesday, as the search for Lynette entered its 17th day.
Aylesworth said that while in the Bahamas, she spent about three hours speaking with police, who “said they’re doing everything they can and to let them do their investigation,” she previously told The Post.
The Royal Bahamas Police Force did not respond to Post inquiries for comment.
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