Case of US Woman Missing in the Bahamas Gets an Update

The search for a missing American woman in the Bahamas is getting new muscle from the US Coast Guard, NBC News reports. Divers arrived Tuesday in Hopetown to renew efforts to locate 55-year-old Lynette Hooker, who vanished April 4 during what her husband says was a dinghy ride near Elbow Cay, a US official tells the outlet. A source, meanwhile, tells CBS News the incident is being investigated as a "possible foreign murder of a US national." The source says the search will focus on looking for possible remains, and will be using GPS data that was taken from an electronic device. Investigators have also been to the inn where Hooker was last seen alive.

Brian Hooker, 59, has said Lynette fell overboard while holding the engine keys, forcing him to paddle ashore and alert someone who then called police. He was arrested by Bahamian authorities four days later but was released five days after that without charges, and has since returned to the US. "I've never harmed Lynette, and I would never harm Lynette," he told NBC in April. His attorney says he continues to cooperate with investigators. But CBS' source says GPS data from a device belonging to Brian Hooker appears to contradict his story. A source who spoke to Fox News says the divers will be searching in a new area, about 25 feet deep.