Daughter of missing American woman touches down in Bahamas, slams stepdad after he fled amid investigation

The girl of a pistillate who remains missing successful The Bahamas lashed retired against her stepfather aft arriving connected Great Abaco Island connected Thursday.

Karli Aylesworth antecedently slammed her stepfather, Brian Hooker, who was the past idiosyncratic to spot her mother, Lynette Hooker, live connected April 4. Brian said Lynette fell overboard from their dinghy astir 7:30 p.m. arsenic the brace motored towards their sailboat, which was anchored disconnected of Elbow Key.

Brian was arrested by the Royal Bahamas Police Force connected April 8, and spent 5 days down bars portion constabulary investigated Lynette's vanishing. He was released Monday nighttime without being charged with a crime.

On Tuesday morning, helium told respective quality outlets that helium would stay successful the land federation to hunt for Lynette, but jetted disconnected Wednesday for the United States, landing successful Atlanta successful mid-afternoon, a root acquainted with the substance told Fox News Digital.

Karli Aylesworth and her spouse Steven Hansen get successful Marsh Harbour, The Bahamas, Thursday, April 16, 2026. Aylesworth is the girl of missing American pistillate Lynette Hooker. (Matthew Symons for NY Post)

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"I deliberation it shows his character. He someway mislaid my ma astatine oversea and cries connected camera saying he’ll ne'er halt searching, past leaves the adjacent day," Aylesworth told The New York Post upon her accomplishment to the municipality of Marsh Harbour, adjacent to wherever her parent went missing.

Brian Hooker leaves his edifice with lawyer, Terell A. Butler, successful Freeport, The Bahamas, Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (Matthew Symons for Fox News Digital)

She de-planed astatine the tiny Leonard Thompson International Airport successful Marsh Harbour with her boyfriend, Steve Hansen, successful tow. They were reportedly met by a uniformed constabulary serviceman earlier taking disconnected successful a taxi.

Hooker's attorney, Terrel Butler, said helium was going to sojourn his mother.

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Karli Aylesworth and her spouse Steven Hansen get successful Marsh Harbour, The Bahamas, Thursday, April 16, 2026. (Matthew Symons for NY Post)

"Following his merchandise from custody without charge, Mr. Hooker is present facing different emergency. In summation to the trauma of his woman of 25 years being missing, Mr. Hooker has received urgent connection of his mother’s sedate illness," Butler told NBC News. "He has traveled to [the] United States of America to beryllium astatine her bedside during this captious time."

In the aftermath of her mother's disappearance, Aylesworth told Fox News Digital that she was alert of "prior issues" with Brian's behavior.

Brian and Lynette Hooker beryllium connected a dinghy successful the h2o successful this undated image. (Brian Hooker/Facebook)

"There person been anterior issues brought to my attention, which whitethorn beryllium important for immoderate thorough investigation. If this genuinely was an accident, I tin recognize and unrecorded with it," Aylesworth said. "However, determination needs to beryllium an intensive reappraisal of the facts and circumstances of this tragic incidental earlier that tin beryllium determined."

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Karli Aylesworth and her spouse Steven Hansen get successful Marsh Harbour, The Bahamas, Thursday, April 16, 2026. (Matthew Symons for NY Post)

Aylesworth said she has been "privy to precise small information," adding her "sole interest is to find retired what happened to my parent and marque definite a afloat and implicit probe is performed into her disappearance."

She besides told "Fox and Friends" that thing "doesn't adhd up" with her mother's disappearance, and accused Brian of having a "history of home violence" and choler issues.

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Meanwhile, Bahamian constabulary said their hunt for Lynette was coming to an extremity arsenic aboriginal arsenic Thursday aft analyzing "tide, drift and wind," and deciding determination was obscurity other to look. A U.S. Coast Guard probe remains ongoing.

Lynette Hooker went missing aft she fell disconnected a tiny vessel connected Saturday evening. Her husband, Brian Hooker, reported her missing aboriginal Sunday morning. (Lynette Hooker/Facebook; Brian Hooker/Facebook)

Brian has maintained that helium had thing to bash with Lynette's disappearance, and that it was purely an mishap driven by windy conditions and choppy seas.

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Before helium was jailed, helium said helium was "heartbroken" implicit Lynette's disappearance.

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"I americium heartbroken implicit the caller vessel mishap successful unpredictable seas and precocious winds that caused my beloved Lynette to autumn from our tiny dinghy adjacent Elbow Cay successful the Bahamas," helium wrote. "Despite hopeless attempts to scope her, the winds and currents drove america further apart. We proceed to hunt for her and that is my sole focus."