Lynette Hooker has been missing since the evening of April 4.
Karli Aylesworth and her boyfriend, Steve Hansen, said they gave a statement to Bahamian police and plan on retracing her mother's last steps. 'They're just not releasing information because it's an ongoing investigation, which we understand,' Hansen told ABC News. 'We seem frustrated because of the fact that we haven't found her yet, and we would hope by now we would have,' he added.
Aylesworth's mother, Lynette Hooker, has been missing since the evening of April 4 when Brian Hooker said she went overboard. The couple had departed Hope Town on the Abaco Islands for their yacht, Soulmate, in Elbow Cay, when bad weather caused her to fall off their dinghy, Brian Hooker told authorities.that he was staying in the Bahamas with a 'sole focus' of finding his wife, 'no matter how likely or unlikely that is.' He said at the time that he planned 'to go back to the boat, and then hire or beg people to help me go find some areas to search.'
But Brian Hooker then left the Bahamas, his attorney said on Wednesday, noting that his mother is not well.'We're not gonna say that he doesn't deserve to see his mother before she dies, but we're just saying Karli didn't get that option. Karli didn't get the option to see her mother before she died,' Hansen said.
The Royal Bahamas Defence Force said in a statement Thursday that the search and recovery work is ongoing, with operations involving 'extensive shoreline patrols, sea patrols, aerial drone surveillance, and submersible drone operations.'
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