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The U.S. Coast Guard said it has ended a search in the Bahamas for missing American Lynette Hooker, who vanished in April while boating with her husband.The most recent search effort by the Coast Guard included divers, remotely operated underwater vehicles and cadaver dogs in "newly identified areas of interest," the agency said in a statement. The Coast Guard announced on June 8 it had completed the search on June 5. The Coast Guard Investigative Services also transferred custody of the Hookers' dinghy from the Bahamas to the United States, according to the statement."The CGIS investigation continues," the Coast Guard said, urging anyone with information to report it to the Coast Guard Investigative Services.Hooker, 55, was last seen on April 4 when her husband, 58-year-old Brian Hooker, reported to police that she fell from a dinghy they were taking on a trip from Hope Town to Elbow Bay. Brian Hooker was arrested days later and questioned by police in the Bahamas, but was released without being charged with a crime. Police there said he remains a suspect in his wife's disappearance. He later returned to the United States.According to media reports in late May, including CBS News, the Coast Guard's search came after newly obtained GPS data didn't match Brian Hooker's account to investigators of where he was while at sea on April 4. The data gave investigators a more specific area to search.What happened in the Lynette Hooker disappearance?Brian Hooker told authorities his wife went overboard from the dinghy on April 4. The couple were living aboard their sailboat Soulmate, and had gone out on the separate dinghy that day, he said. He told Bahamian police that Lynette Hooker had the dinghy's engine keys when she fell, causing it to shut off.“Strong currents subsequently carried her away, and he lost sight of her,” the Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a statement the next day, adding that Brian Hooker paddled back to shore and arrived to report her missing hours later.Brian Hooker was taken into custody in the Bahamas on April 8 and was released April 13. Meanwhile, the search for Lynette Hooker soon shifted focus to a recovery rather than a rescue, authorities said. The Coast Guard has said it opened a criminal investigation into her disappearance.Lynette Hooker's daughter from a previous marriage, Karli Aylesworth, said in interviews with multiple media outlets that her mother and stepfather had a turbulent relationship lately, and claimed her mother was a victim of domestic violence. Lynette Hooker was arrested in 2015 after police responded to an apparent fight between the couple, but no charges were pursued because it was unclear who started the fight, according to a police report previously obtained by USA TODAY.Brian Hooker's attorney, Terrel A. Butler, previously told USA TODAY that his client denied any wrongdoing. Butler declined to comment on June 9."Mr. Hooker categorically and unequivocally denies any wrongdoing and in particular the allegations recently made by Karli Aylesworth," Butler said in a previous statement to USA TODAY. "He has been cooperating with the relevant authorities as part of an ongoing investigation."Contributing: Amanda Lee Myers, Saleen Martin and Drew Pittock, USA TODAY
