2026年4月9日 / 美国东部时间晚上7:27 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：艾米莉·梅·查霍尔 新闻编辑
艾米莉·梅·查霍尔是CBSNews.com的记者兼新闻编辑，通常报道突发新闻、极端天气以及涉及社会正义的议题。她此前曾为《洛杉矶时报》、BuzzFeed和《新闻周刊》等媒体撰稿。
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据哥伦比亚广播公司新闻独家审阅的消息记录，布莱恩·胡克的妻子在巴哈马夜间乘船时失踪的第二天，他告诉一名朋友，妻子疑似从船上落水后曾试图游回他身边，但强风很快将两人吹散。
来自密歇根州的琳内特·胡克自周日以来一直失踪。巴哈马官员于周三晚间逮捕了她的丈夫，目前将其拘留以就妻子失踪案接受讯问，但据其律师特瑞尔·巴特勒透露，他尚未被指控任何罪名。巴特勒表示，胡克最多可被拘留48小时，届时要么被起诉要么被释放，必要时官员可将拘留期限延长至96小时。
布莱恩·胡克否认存在任何不当行为。他此前告诉警方，周六晚上他和妻子从巴哈马的希望镇驶向埃尔博礁时，妻子从他们的充气救生艇上跌落。他称强劲的洋流将妻子卷走，同时带走了船的钥匙，导致发动机断电，他无法靠近妻子。
他在发给丹尼尔·丹福斯的脸书信息中分享了类似的事件经过，丹福斯自2023年起就是胡克夫妇的朋友。丹福斯告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他因共同的航海爱好结识了胡克夫妇。
信息显示，丹福斯在看到妻子失踪的新闻报道后，于周一联系了布莱恩。
“风把我吹离了她，她朝着帆船游过来，但当时差不多日落了，我们很快就失去了彼此的视线，”布莱恩回复道。“我漂在海上，用一支船桨划了足足7个小时，直到被冲到隔壁岛屿的岸边，终于得以求助。”
布莱恩·胡克与朋友丹尼尔·丹福斯的聊天记录显示，他描述了妻子琳内特的海上失踪过程，称：“风把我吹离了她，她朝着帆船游过来。”
巴哈马警方表示，布莱恩·胡克于周日凌晨4点划着充气艇抵达阿巴科岛的马什港造船厂，抵达后他告知他人妻子失踪，对方随即通知了当局。
在信息中，他告诉丹福斯，搜救人员未能找到妻子，他的家庭“如同身处地狱”。
次日早晨丹福斯再次联系他时，胡克称已将船转移到马什港并一直在船上过夜，但计划“搬去和姐姐、姐夫同住一两天”，他们正坐飞机赶来与他会合。他告诉丹福斯，之后打算“回到事发海域”继续搜寻。
妻子琳内特失踪后，布莱恩·胡克与朋友丹尼尔·丹福斯的聊天记录中还提到：“我试着过好每一天，坚守信念。”
“未来我很可能确实需要帮助，但我现在还不知道具体需要什么帮助，我试着过好每一天，坚守信念，”他告诉丹福斯，随后还祝贺丹福斯最近购买了帆船。
“两种说法根本对不上”
丹福斯告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他三年前在新奥尔良地区航海时首次结识胡克夫妇。周末布莱恩发来的脸书通知最初让他想起了这对夫妇，之后他开始看到有关琳内特失踪的头条新闻。
他会收到这条通知是因为布莱恩点赞了他在妻子分享的一篇关于航海帖子下的评论。丹福斯表示，回想起来，当时这位朋友还在刷社交媒体并点赞帖子这件事，让他心生疑虑。
“明知道妻子失踪了，脸书绝对是我最不关心的东西。你本该在海上搜寻才对，”丹福斯告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
丹福斯称，他对布莱恩在琳内特失踪后不久就将锚在埃尔博礁的船移走一事感到担忧。他还指出，将布莱恩对琳内特失踪的描述与后续媒体报道对比，“两种说法根本对不上”。
警方称胡克回忆妻子被卷入海中落水，但丹福斯表示，布莱恩的信息里提到“她当时正悠闲地游回帆船”。
他还说，胡克夫妇“一直都带着手机”，还经常在网上发布视频，因此他不明白为什么琳内特失踪那晚，布莱恩的“手机没信号，或者他们船上根本没带手机”。
丹福斯表示，他的妻子和琳内特是朋友，他并不担心这对夫妇的关系，不过布莱恩和琳内特确实有过“一段分居的时期”。
“你知道的，大多数时候人们都会复合，而且你不想让场面变得尴尬，”他说。“所以我们——我不太会过问太多私事，就是因为这个原因。”
琳内特·胡克的女儿卡莉·艾尔兹沃思在另一次采访中告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，她的母亲和布莱恩·胡克近年来曾分手又复合。艾尔兹沃思表示，她正在寻求母亲失踪相关情况的答案，并表示她不相信布莱恩·胡克描述的事件经过。
“首先，我不明白她怎么会拿到钥匙，”艾尔兹沃思说。“布莱恩一直都在开车。基本上都是他掌管钥匙。所以我妈妈拿到钥匙这件事根本说不通。”
胡克的律师巴特勒在早前的一份声明中否认了艾尔兹沃思的指控，并补充道：“他一直在配合相关当局开展持续调查。”
巴特勒已通过电话与胡克取得联系，并告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，胡克一直专注于继续搜寻妻子。
“这就是他一直在谈论的全部内容，”巴特勒说。“昨天……他已经安排好回去继续搜寻她了。”
船钥匙的下落也是丹福斯关注的问题，他表示胡克夫妇在充气艇上拍摄的照片和视频中，从未出现过两人携带钥匙的画面，而钥匙通常系在挂绳上。但他也表示，琳内特·胡克落水时可能“绝望地伸手去抓什么东西”，而“钥匙就是离她最近的东西”。
丹福斯最终表示，他不完全相信强风和洋流能如此迅速地将胡克的小充气艇和妻子分开。而且如果像布莱恩·胡克在信息中说的那样，妻子正朝着充气艇游过来，丹福斯问道：“他为什么不试着过去救她？”
妮可·斯甘加、琪琪·因塔拉苏万和安娜·谢克特为本报道撰稿。
See the messages Brian Hooker sent his friend after wife’s disappearance in the Bahamas: “The wind blew me away”
April 9, 2026 / 7:27 PM EDT / CBS News
By Emily Mae Czachor News Editor
Emily Mae Czachor is a reporter and news editor at CBSNews.com. She typically covers breaking news, extreme weather and issues involving social justice. Emily Mae previously wrote for outlets like the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed and Newsweek.
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The day after his wife disappeared during a nighttime boat ride in the Bahamas, Brian Hooker told a friend that she tried swimming back to him following her apparent fall overboard, but strong winds pushed them apart “pretty quickly,” according to messages reviewed exclusively by CBS News.
Lynette Hooker, who is from Michigan, has been missing since Sunday. Bahamian officials arrested her husband Wednesday night and are holding him for questioning in connection with her case, but he has not been charged with a crime, according to his attorney, Terrel Butler. Hooker can be held for 48 hours until he has to be either charged or released, Butler said, noting that officials can extend the period to 96 hours if deemed necessary.
Brian Hooker denies any wrongdoing. He previously told authorities that his wife fell from their dinghy Saturday night while the couple sailed from Hope Town to Elbow Cay in the Bahamas. 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.
He shared a similar account of what happened in Facebook messages to Daniel Danforth, a friend of the Hookers since 2023. Danforth told CBS News he met them because of their shared interest in boating.
The messages show that Danforth reached out to Brian on Monday after seeing news coverage of his wife’s disappearance.
“The wind blew me away from her and she swam towards the sailboat and we lost sight of each other pretty quickly as it was just about sundown,” Brian wrote in reply. “I 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.”
Brian Hooker exchanged messages with his friend Daniel Danforth and described his wife Lynette’s disappearance at sea, saying, “The wind blew me away from her and she swam towards the sailboat.”
Bahamian police have said Brian Hooker arrived at the Marsh Harbor Boat Yard on the island of Abaco at 4 a.m. Sunday morning, after paddling the dinghy to shore. They said he told someone his wife was missing once he made it there, and that person informed authorities.
In the messages, he told Danforth his family was “in hell” as search crews failed to locate his wife.
When Danforth checked in again the next morning, Hooker said he had moved his boat to Marsh Harbor and had been sleeping there, but planned to relocate “for a night or two” to stay with his sister and brother-in-law, who were flying in to meet him. He told Danforth that he planned “on heading back out to the site” after that “and continuing search.”
After his wife Lynette’s disapparance, Brian Hooker exchanged messages with his friend Daniel Danforth, saying, “I’m trying to take it a day at a time and keep the faith.”
“I will most likely definitely need help in the future but I just don’t know what it is yet I’m trying to take it a day at a time and keep the faith,” he told Danforth, before congratulating him on his recent sailboat purchase.
“The stories don’t really match up”
Danforth told CBS News that he first met the Hookers three years ago, while sailing in the New Orleans area. A Facebook notification from Brian over the weekend initially reminded him of the couple, before he started seeing headlines about Lynette’s disappearance, Danforth said.
He received the notification because Brian had liked his comment on a post that Danforth’s wife had shared about boating. In retrospect, Danforth said the fact that his friend was scrolling social media and liking posts at that time raised some questions for him.
“You know, my wife’s missing, Facebook’s the last thing I’m worried about. You’re going to find me on the water riding around,” Danforth told CBS News.
Danforth said he was concerned that Brian moved his boat from Elbow Cay, where it was anchored, shortly after Lynette went missing. He also noted that, in comparing Brian’s s retelling of Lynette’s disappearance with emerging media reports, “the stories don’t really match up.”
While police have said Hooker recalled his wife being swept overboard and out to sea, Danforth said his messages reflected “she was casually swimming back toward the sailboat.”
He also said the Hookers “always had their phones with them” and frequently posted videos online, so he wondered why Brian’s “phone didn’t work or why they didn’t have their phones in the boat” the night Lynette went missing.
Danforth said his wife was friends with Lynette and he didn’t have concerns about the couple’s relationship, although there had been a period where Brian and Lynette “had separated for a while,” he said.
“You know, most of the time people do get back together and you don’t want things to be awkward,” he said. “So we didn’t — I don’t really get into a whole lot of personal business because of those reasons.”
Lynette Hooker’s daughter, Karli Aylesworth, told CBS News in a separate interview that her mother and Brian Hooker had broken up and gotten back together in recent years. Aylesworth said she is seeking answers about the circumstances surrounding her mother’s disappearance and has said she doubts the sequence of events described by Brian Hooker.
“For one, I don’t understand how she got the key,” Aylesworth said. “Brian’s always driving. So he basically is in charge of the key. So the fact that my mom had it doesn’t make any sense.”
In an earlier statement, Butler, Hooker’s attorney, said he denied the allegations made by Aylesworth, and added, “He has been cooperating with the relevant authorities as part of an ongoing investigation.”
Butler has spoken to Hooker on the phone and told CBS News that he was focused on continuing the search for his wife.
“That’s all he’s been talking about,” Butler said. “Yesterday… he made arrangements to go back out and search for her.”
The whereabouts of the boat key was also an issue for Danforth, who said pictures and videos the Hookers took while on the dinghy never show either of them with the key, which is usually attached to a lanyard. But he said it’s possible that Lynette Hooker would “reach out in desperation” to grab hold of something as she fell overboard, and “that’s the closest thing.”
Ultimately, Danforth said he didn’t fully believe strong winds and ocean currents could separate Hooker’s small dinghy from his wife so rapidly. And, if she were swimming toward the dinghy, as Brian Hooker said in his messages, Danforth asked: “Why didn’t he try to go get her?”
Nicole Sganga, Kiki Intarasuwan and Anna Schecter contributed to this report.
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