{"id":49539,"date":"2026-04-13T13:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49539"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:24:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:24:02","slug":"lynette-hooker-told-friend-she-was-scared-of-boating-with-husband-in-chilling-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49539","title":{"rendered":"Lynette Hooker told friend she was scared of boating with husband in chilling texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Missing American boater Lynette Hooker had previously split with her husband in the years before he became a suspect in her disappearance, telling a pal she was scared of being at sea with him.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old mom hasn\u2019t been seen since her husband, Brian Hooker, 59, alleged she was swept away in rough seas after falling from their dinghy in the Bahamas more than a week ago.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Missing American boater Lynette Hooker had previously split with her husband in the years before he became a suspect in her disappearance. <span class=\"credit\">Facebook \/ Lynette Hooker<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Hooker said, \u201cI\u2019m not going back\u201d in a series of texts sent years before her disappearance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A friend has since shared with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/lynette-hooker-husband-brian-messages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBS News <\/a>a series of texts Hooker setn her in 2024 alluding to troubles in their nearly 25-year marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess it was too much closeness. We decided to call it quits. I\u2019m not going back,\u201d Hooker texted her friend, Marnee Stevenson, in early 2024, according to screenshots of the texts.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe were married 21 years. Our marriage lasted 6 weeks cruising,\u201d she said of their doomed attempt at sailing together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was real bad. I can\u2019t be out there with him,\u201d she added in another message.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Marnee and Blaine Stevenson, couple who met the Hookers in 2023 while sailing through Florida. <span class=\"credit\">CBS News<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Roughly a month later, Hooker suddenly informed her pal that the couple had since reconciled, according to the messages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooks like things are on the up and up,\u201d the friend responded.<\/p>\n<p>The texts surfaced after the missing woman\u2019s husband was nabbed last week over her disappearance.<br \/>Brian, who remains in custody but has denied any wrongdoing, told authorities his wife fell into the water and was swept away by powerful currents as they were returning in the dinghy to their yacht.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/13\/us-news\/lynette-hooker-told-friend-she-was-scared-of-boating-with-husband-in-chilling-texts\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missing American boater Lynette Hooker had previously split with her husband in the years before he became a suspect in her disappearance, telling a pal she&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}