Husband Of MI Woman Missing In Bahamas Vows To Keep Looking For Her: Report

A Michigan man who was released from jail in the Bahamas after he was not charged in connection with his wife's disappearance at sea said Tuesday that he will not stop looking for her, according to a report.

Brian Hooker, of Onsted, told CBS News he wants to believe Lynette Hooker is still alive. He said he's heard stories that some people have survived for weeks after falling overboard in the Bahamas.

"There are so many islands, there are so many sandbars, little atolls and spits of land," he told the news outlet. "Of course you think about alternatives to that, but I'm not really capable of just turning away from this."

Brian told police that 55-year-old Lynette fell overboard from their small motorboat on April 4 while they were traveling to Elbow Cay in the Bahamas. He said he lost sight of her as she was swept away by the ocean current.

"Despite desperate attempts to reach her, the winds and currents drove us further apart," he wrote in a Facebook message.

Brian also said Lynette had the boat's keys, causing its engine to shut off and forcing him to paddle ashore.

Lynette's daughter, Karli Aylesworth, told multiple national news outlets that it was odd for her mom to have the keys and believed something may have happened to her.

She added that Brian has a history of being violent towards her mother, including threatening to "throw her overboard."

The couple did accuse each other of assault in 2015, according to a Kentwood police report obtained by NBC.

Brian, who was intoxicated and bleeding from the nose, told police his wife had struck him multiple times in the face, the report said. He told officers Lynette was also drunk. She was arrested and spent the night in jail. A warrant was denied because it wasn’t clear “who started the assault.”

Brian was arrested and questioned by police in the Bahamas, but was released Monday night and cleared of any wrongdoing, according to his attorney, Terrel Butler.

The U.S. Coast Guard, meanwhile, has opened their own investigation separate from the one being conducted by authorities in the Bahamas.

The couple has been married for more than 20 years and chronicled their adventures sailing around the Caribbean on their "Sailing Hookers" Facebook page.

They posted videos in 2023 of buying a sailboat they named Soul Mate in the coastal town of Rockport, Texas, and then embarking on a cruise through the Gulf of Mexico from the port town of Kemah, Texas.