​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!The daughter of a woman who remains missing in The Bahamas lashed out against her stepfather after arriving on Great Abaco Island on Thursday.Karli Aylesworth previously slammed her stepfather, Brian Hooker, who was the last person to see her mother, Lynette Hooker, alive on April 4. Brian said Lynette fell overboard from their dinghy around 7:30 p.m. as the pair motored towards their sailboat, which was anchored off of Elbow Key.Brian was arrested by the Royal Bahamas Police Force on April 8, and spent five days behind bars while police investigated Lynette’s vanishing. He was released Monday night without being charged with a crime.On Tuesday morning, he told several news outlets that he would remain in the island nation to search for Lynette, but jetted off Wednesday for the United States, landing in Atlanta in mid-afternoon, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.COAST GUARD OPENS CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO MISSING WOMAN LAST SEEN IN BAHAMAS”I think it shows his character. He somehow lost my mom at sea and cries on camera saying he’ll never stop searching, then leaves the next day,” Aylesworth told The New York Post upon her arrival to the town of Marsh Harbour, close to where her mother went missing.She de-planed at the tiny Leonard Thompson International Airport in Marsh Harbour with her boyfriend, Steve Hansen, in tow. They were reportedly met by a uniformed police officer before taking off in a taxi.Hooker’s attorney, Terrel Butler, said he was going to visit his mother.FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X”Following his release from custody without charge, Mr. Hooker is now facing another emergency. In addition to the trauma of his wife of 25 years being missing, Mr. Hooker has received urgent word of his mother’s grave illness,” Butler told NBC News. “He has traveled to [the] United States of America to be at her bedside during this critical time.”In the wake of her mother’s disappearance, Aylesworth told Fox News Digital that she was aware of “prior issues” with Brian’s behavior.”There have been prior issues brought to my attention, which may be important for any thorough investigation. If this truly was an accident, I can understand and live with it,” Aylesworth said. “However, there needs to be an intensive review of the facts and circumstances of this tragic incident before that can be determined.”MISSING AMERICAN’S HUSBAND HAD ‘SPOTTY’ CELL SERVICE DURING 8-HOUR TREK TO REPORT DISAPPEARANCE: TELECOM BOSSAylesworth said she has been “privy to very little information,” adding her “sole concern is to find out what happened to my mother and make sure a full and complete investigation is performed into her disappearance.”She also told “Fox and Friends” that something “doesn’t add up” with her mother’s disappearance, and accused Brian of having a “history of domestic violence” and anger issues.SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTERMeanwhile, Bahamian police said their search  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!Students at a Washington high school were exposed to nude images during a slideshow during class, the school’s president said in a letter to parents.Students at Glacier Peak High School in Snohomish, Washington were exposed to images of nude breasts during a teacher’s presentation, school principal Alicia Mitchell wrote to parents in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital.”Families, We want to make you aware of an incident in a classroom where inappropriate images were inadvertently shared with the students. It is our understanding that these images have since been viewed by many others beyond the classroom and want to give you an opportunity to process with your student if you choose to do so,” Mitchell wrote.While the Snohomish school district is investigating, according to Seattle Red’s Jason Rantz, Mitchell’s letter to parents offered no details about the teacher.SEATTLE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD WARNS WASHINGTON STATE PRIORITIZES ACCUSED TEACHERS OVER CHILD SAFETY”Specifically, the content included images of nude breasts and were briefly visible during a teacher’s PowerPoint presentation. This does not reflect our expectations for classroom materials, and we take this matter very seriously. School administrators have already started taking steps to address this and are actively reviewing to assess this situation and appropriately address it moving forward.”Rantz viewed the slide that allegedly showed the nude breasts, saying the side contained “four photos of the breasts in small boxes, as if they’re previews of photos from a folder.”WASHINGTON PARENTS DEMAND ACTION, ANSWERS AFTER TEACHER ALLEGEDLY RAPED STUDENT ON SCHOOL GROUNDSMitchell’s letter continued: “As this is a personnel matter currently under investigation, we’re unable to provide additional details or comment further. We take this matter seriously and are following established processes to review the situation and determine next steps.”While the school has yet to put out a public statement, members of the public expressed their concern for a lack of action taken so far.CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP”Whoever it was should be arrested for showing porn to children,” X user Lou Pacheco wrote.”So I’m sure that teacher has been fired or at least suspended, right?” another user named Julie Skinner asked.  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!The FBI has received DNA evidence recovered from the Tucson, Arizona, home of Nancy Guthrie, sources familiar with the investigation confirmed to Fox News Digital.A source with knowledge of the investigation confirmed that investigators had collected a clipping from Nancy’s bedsheets.A spokesperson with the Pima County Sheriff’s Office said that they’ve been “sharing a lot of things” with the FBI lab since the beginning of the Guthrie investigation.CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APPNancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was abducted from her residence in the early hours of Feb. 1.This is a developing story.  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!A series of suspicious deaths and disappearances of high-level scientists across the country over the past several years is reaching a fever pitch and catching the attention of online sleuths all the way to the White House.Since 2023, at least eight people, mostly involved in researching space and nuclear science, have died or vanished, some under murky circumstances. Some have had connections to UFO research.Asked Wednesday by Fox News’ Peter Doocy about the trend, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Trump administration will likely look into the matter.”I haven’t spoken to our relevant agencies about it. I will certainly do that, and we’ll get you an answer,” Leavitt said. “If true, of course, that’s definitely something I think this government and its administration would deem worth looking into. So let me do that for you.”1) Michael David HicksDeath: July 30, 2023Age: 59Cause of Death: Not releasedHicks was a scientist working at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1998 to 2022, according to the Daily Mail. He worked on the space program’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) project, which focused on understanding the physical properties of asteroids and comets, and whether they could be re-directed in outer space.2) Frank MaiwaldDeath: July 4, 2024Age: 61Cause of Death: Not releasedMaiwald also worked in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He designed a critical instrument for a project called Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) – Visible to Shortwave Infrared (VSWIR), a future NASA mission to launch a satellite into space and map the “living color” of the earth in far greater detail than can be observed by the human eye, according to his obituary.Just over a year before he died, he was working on a program to help astronauts on space missions identify signs of life on other planets, including Jupiter’s moon, Europa, Saturn’s moon Enceladus, or the dwarf planet Ceres, the Daily Mail reported.3) Monica RezaMissing: June 22, 2025Age: 60Status: UnknownMonica Reza went missing while hiking in the Mount Waterman of the Angeles National Forest in California. A missing person’s flyer from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office said there was concern for Reza’s well-being, and asked tipsters to call 818-248-3464.Reza also worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an aerospace engineer, reportedly overseeing the lab’s Materials Processing Group, which “focuses on developing new materials and advanced manufacturing technologies for spacecraft, specializing in bulk metallic glass alloys and metal additive manufacturing,” according to NASA.4) Melissa CasiasMissing: June 26, 2025Age: 53Status: UnknownCasias worked as an administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico, which reportedly developed nuclear weapons for the Manhattan Project.On the day she disappeared, she dropped off lunch for her daughter and was never seen again.5) Anthony ChavezMissing: May 8, 2025Ag  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!Hikers in Big Sur discovered a woman’s naked body deep in the woods on a popular hiking trail.Authorities responded to an April 9 call after hikers found the body in the Los Padres National Forest. In a statement released on Monday, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) identified the woman as 37-year-old Joanna Ruth Shields.According to witnesses, Shields had multiple injuries including a head wound and neck cuts.”I didn’t see any blood. She was pale. She had markings around her neck. I don’t want to say choking marks,” one witness told KSBW. “And then when the firefighter lifted the jacket, he confirmed that she had a big gash on her head.”CALIFORNIA WOMAN ARRESTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY BEHEADING BOYFRIEND, FLEEING TO MEXICOThe hikers that found her also claimed they encountered a man who claimed to be the Shields’ friend and that he “appeared to be scared, nervous and shocked.”He allegedly told the witnesses that he found Shields naked and face down in water after being apart from her for a few minutes.MCSO is actively investigating the death as suspicious “because we don’t know what the cause of death is,” Sheriff’s Office Cmdr. Andres Rosas told Monterey County Now.However, Rosas also cautioned the public from jumping to conclusions and claimed that everyone present at the scene has been cooperative.”At this point, nobody’s in custody. Everybody has been cooperative. We’ve never said this is a murder,” Rosas told Fox News Digital. “There is no danger as it relates to this case.”Rosas also insinuated that witness reports may have been overzealous. “They did paint a very vivid picture, they used the words atrocious,” he said.”Sometimes things are not as they appear,” he concluded.CALIFORNIA WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN NATIONAL FOREST, HUSBAND SEEN DRAGGING SOMETHING IN LARGE TARPMCSO Coroner Tina Nieto performed an autopsy on Shields on Monday, but her official cause and manner of death are pending the results of toxicology tests.Shields was an avid skateboarder and beloved in the skating community.CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP”Joanna was extremely friendly with everyone, and I don’t think she had a single enemy,” Brandon Devroede, a former co-worker of Joanna’s and operation manager at Evolve Skateboards USA, told FOX 5 KSWB-TV. “She was willing to help everybody.”