Fox News True Crime Newsletter: Lynette Hooker's new search, Alex Murdaugh clerk, phony Tom Selleck scam

MISSING AMERICAN IN THE BAHAMAS: 

Lynette Hooker and Brian Hooker seen successful a representation taken successful 2023 connected a tiny boat. (John Waters)

Federal investigators person received support from Bahamian authorities to deploy a dive squad to a caller hunt country successful the Sea of Abaco for Lynette Hooker, a U.S. authoritative adjacent to the probe confirmed to Fox News Digital. The renewed hunt follows recently obtained GPS information from a marine navigation app connected her hubby Brian Hooker's phone, which allegedly contradicts his archetypal relationship of the nighttime his woman went missing. 

LOST AT SEA: Bahamian authorities o.k. hunt of 25-foot-deep portion flagged by Brian Hooker's telephone GPS data: sources

DEEP WATER: Feds program caller Bahamas hunt for Lynette Hooker aft GPS information allegedly torpedoes husband’s story: source

OCEAN OF QUESTIONS: Sailboat tracking information went acheronian for 11 hours the nighttime missing American vanished successful the Bahamas

NIGHT OVERBOARD: Missing American's hubby had $33K thermal camera connected vessel that nighttime and ne'er utilized it, person says

ALEX MURDAUGH: 

Former Colleton County Court Clerk Becky Hill closes her eyes with a java mug connected a plaything extracurricular her South Carolina location connected Saturday, May 23, 2026. Hill is facing a civilian suit from disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh, whose execution convictions successful the deaths of his woman and lad were reversed earlier this period aft Hill allegedly influenced jurors connected the case. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

Becky Hill, the pistillate astatine the halfway of the illness of Alex Murdaugh’s treble execution convictions, appeared calm and quiescent Saturday morning, lounging connected a swinging seat extracurricular her South Carolina location aft breakfast, successful caller photos obtained by Fox News Digital. The authorities is present expected to hole for a retrial of Murdaugh, who was initially handed 2 consecutive beingness sentences for the deaths of his woman and son.

SCALES TIPPED: Alex Murdaugh proceedings clerk reemerges aft explosive ruling upends execution conviction

BACK IN COURT: Key names to cognize arsenic Murdaugh double-murder lawsuit gets stunning reset

ANNA KEPNER: 

Timothy Hudson enters Miami Federal Court with a nationalist defender connected Wednesday, May 27, 2026. He was charged successful transportation with the decease of his stepsister, Anna Kepner, connected a Carnival Cruise successful November 2025. (Matthew Symons for Fox News Digital)

Timothy Hudson, the teenage stepbrother accused successful the decease of 18-year-old Anna Kepner aboard a Carnival cruise ship, volition stay escaped until his trial, a justice ruled Wednesday, arsenic caller details and a timeline of the alleged sidesplitting were unsealed successful tribunal records.

CABIN HORROR: Prosecutors picture cruise vessel sidesplitting of Anna Kepner arsenic 'barbaric' act

DOCKED IN COURT: Teen stepbrother accused of sidesplitting Anna Kepner connected Carnival cruise remains escaped earlier trial

COLD CASES CRACKED: 

Randy Gail Sperino, left, was recovered killed successful agrarian Granite City, Illinois, successful 1993. Albert "Buddy" Zigler, right, was charged much than 3 decades aboriginal aft investigators utilized forensic genealogy DNA to reopen the case. (Madison County State’s Attorney’s Office)

Authorities marque an apprehension successful the 33-year-old acold lawsuit surrounding Randy Gail Sperino's alleged murder, and a backyard excavation puts a hubby and mother-in-law down bars. 

TRACE TO FACE: DNA breakthrough leads to apprehension successful grisly 33-year-old acold lawsuit investigators ne'er gave up on

BURIED SECRETS: Husband, mother-in-law busted successful woman's cold-case execution amid backyard dig: police

TOM SELLECK SCAM: 

Donald and Karen Whitaker were recovered dormant successful their California home. (Joy Miedecke)

California authorities are investigating the deaths of 80-year-old Donald Whitaker and 79-year-old Karen Whitaker arsenic a imaginable murder-suicide aft officials said Karen Whitaker had fallen unfortunate to an online romance scam involving idiosyncratic impersonating histrion Tom Selleck. Friends and investigators said Karen Whitaker allegedly sent wealth and acquisition cards to the scammer contempt repeated warnings from loved ones, portion authorities noted determination is nary grounds straight linking the scammer to the couple’s deaths.

FATAL FANTASY: Murder-suicide probe underway aft alleged Tom Selleck impersonator scam targeted woman

HOLLYWOOD HOAX: Slayings stone quiescent municipality aft alleged Tom Selleck catfish targeted pistillate earlier mates recovered dead: friend

HOT STORIES: 

Thomas Gilbert, Jr. appeared successful Manhattan Criminal Court connected Friday, January 9, 2015. Gilbert was convicted of fatally shooting his father, hedge money manager Thomas Gilbert, Sr. At near is his defence lawyer Alex Spiro.  (Photo By: Jefferson Siegel/NY Daily News via Getty Images)

Manhattan's "Golden Boy" speaks retired astir his execution condemnation aft sidesplitting his begetter much than a decennary ago, a two-decades-long enigma surrounds the individuality of a antheral recovered unconscious down a Georgia Burger King and a imaginable suit hurdle arises for a antheral accused of "inadvertently" shooting his son's girlfriend. 

SILVER SPOONFALL: ‘Golden boy’ Ivy League grad who murdered hedge-fund dada implicit allowance speaks retired successful caller interview

LOADED QUESTION: Gunmaker suit aft Auburn grad’s decease faces large obstacle, lawyer warns

VANISHING ACT: Man recovered bare down Burger King with amnesia whitethorn person concealed mysterious past for decades