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Grisly New Addition to Search for American Missing in Bahamas

Lynette Hooker has been missing for more than 10 days.

Specialist cadaver dogs are being deployed from the U.S. to the Bahamas to help find missing mom Lynette Hooker. The 55-year-old American fell overboard in a dinghy in early April as she and her 58-year-old husband Brian Hooker headed toward their yacht from land. Speaking to ABC News, assistant commissioner of the ​Royal Bahamas Police, Advardo Dames, said the K-9 team is from the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard has been helping with the search since its early stages, with its dogs set to be deployed around Hope Town on Wednesday morning. Mr. Hooker was arrested four days after his wife’s disappearance, but was released on Monday without charges. He has since said his “sole focus” was finding his wife, “no matter how likely or unlikely that is.” Speaking to ABC, he added that following his release, he planned to “go back to the boat, and then hire or beg people to help me go find some areas to search.”