it feels like a heavy part on your chest. feeling something like that for someone is not good. i don t like to feel that, but i do. in return for his testimony at the grand jury, john ottenschot was given immunity from prosecution. he now admits that he and floyd were intoxicated. i ll say, legally, we were probably drunk. we d have got a dwi if i had gotten pulled over the way home or if we had gotten pulled over on the way home. probably definitely. it was the paint chips, the accident reconstruction, and particularly the tiny piece of foam trapped in the crack of the propeller that proved the case. the most damaging part of the evidence was that piece of foam that had stayed on floyd wright s boat from harry s boat,
and he said the boat hit something, although he didn t know what it was. it s just it was so dark. overcast. we couldn t see anything in the lake. i knew we didn t hit a log. i didn t think it would take us out of the water as far as it did, because we were all the way out of the water. we did know we hit something big. ottenschot claimed they circled back to see what they hit but didn t see anything, so they drove their boat to to launch, removed it from the water, and drove home. he identified the driver of the boat as his coworker, floyd wright. he said he wanted wright to go to the police with him, but wright refused. and he says, well, i don t want to lose my job. i m going to lose my job. i m going to lose my house. i said, well, this guy lost his life. this is wrong.