Digital forensics undercut husband's account in Bahamas woman's disappearance

In the waters near Elbow Cay in the Bahamas, a Michigan woman named Lynette Hooker vanished in April under circumstances her husband described as a tragic accident at sea. Now, digital forensic evidence extracted from his own devices has begun to quietly dismantle that account, redirecting a search for a body into something that looks increasingly like a search for the truth. U.S. federal investigators and Coast Guard divers are working under a statute reserved for the murder of American citizens abroad — a legal framework that speaks to how seriously authorities have regarded this case from t