“It is not something that has been put to rest,” said Nicole Parker, a Fox News contributor and former FBI special agent.
She addressed a case that has captivated America and has people asking, “Where is Lynette Hooker?”
It’s been six months since the 55-year-old Michigan mother vanished while on a sailing vacation with her husband in the Bahamas.
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No one has seen nor heard from Hooker since April 4.
According to her husband, Brian, she “went overboard” from a dinghy in Hope Town after the couple went out for drinks that evening. They were making their way back to their sailboat “Soulmate,” he told investigators.
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He was initially detained, questioned and then released by Bahamian authorities. He has not been charged with any crime or accused of wrongdoing.
“Just because the public doesnt exactly see whats happening, doesnt mean that its not happening behind the scenes,” Parker said.
The U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service continues to actively investigate the case; the agency seized “Soulmate” in May.
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They also sent a team of divers to search for any trace of Lynette at the beginning of June. Agents returned to the U.S. with the Hookers’ dinghy that was sent to a forensics lab for testing.
“Certain pieces of evidence were sent to the FBI lab and to Quantico for investigation, for them to analyze it, and that takes time,” Parker said.
She went on to say, “They’re trying to reconstruct a potential crime scene that occurred in the waters.”
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Parker was the FBI’s Crimes on the High Seas Coordinator and said she knows firsthand how frustrating the slow-moving investigative process can be.
“There were times when even I myself as an investigator, I wanted things to move more quickly. I wanted results, I want it to happen, but these types of cases, they do take time,” she said.
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