floyd wright and john ottenschot admitted they were drinking, but claim they weren t intoxicated. they said they didn t see harry s boat because its lights weren t on. the propeller tore through nasreen s arm and the boat s upholstery. the hull struck harry in the head, killing him instantly and leaving paint chips on his body. some think floyd turned around to see what he hit, and not only saw the damage, but also heard nasreen s screams. floyd wright and john ottenschot deny this. wright took his boat out of the water and stored it in his barn so he could begin to make repairs. he always claimed he didn t know
me. 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 have gotten pulled over on 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, told everybody that that was the boat that hit and killed harry.
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 don 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 the launch, removed it from the water, and drove home. he identified the driver of the boat as his co-worker, 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 says, well, this guy lost his life. this is wrong. when police questioned floyd
night, nasreen raza, survived, but her arm will never function properly. i can look at my arm and just see an ugly, deformed arm, but there are some days that i look at it and i just get this wave of flashback. oh, my god, someone died. it could have been me. it just feels so close to death, it s creepy. police appeal to the public through newspapers, radio, and television, asking anyone with information about this crash to come forward. [ phone rings ] finally, four days after the accident, a man called the sheriff s department with a possible lead. i told him, i said, i think i was a passenger on the boat that hit the other boat. john ottenschot, a construction worker, said he was riding in a boat on cayuga lake, and he said the boat hit something, although he didn t
me. 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 have gotten pulled over on 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, told everybody that that was the boat that hit and killed harry.