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>> with a warrant, police searched wright's property and found the boat in his barn. >> you could see, readily see, that repairs had been made to the boat. the bondo and the material on the boat was not flush with the original fiberglass. and it had been spray-painted. areas had been spray-painted white. >> if there had been blood or any other evidence on the boat's hull, it had already been removed and repainted. the propeller had also been removed, but was still in the barn, broken beyond repair. >> that propeller, all three tines of it, showed extensive damage, denting and tearing of the me...

The fact that he was able to run from the scene and he wasn't charged with anything related to intoxication just makes you question whether our laws have a loophole in allowing someone to leave the scene of a crime so that they can't be charged with being drunk at that time. >> coincidentally, wright's automobile driver's license was suspended at the time due to an arrest for driving while intoxicated. floyd wright was charged with tampering with physical evidence and failing to report an accident. he pled not guilty at the trial, but was convicted and sentenced to the maximum of four years in...

The fact that he was able to run from the scene and he wasn't charged with anything related to intoxication just makes you question whether our laws have a loophole in allowing someone to leave the scene of a crime so that they can't be charged with being drunk at that time. >> coincidentally, wright's automobile driver's license was suspended at the time due to an arrest for driving while intoxicated. floyd wright was charged with tampering with physical evidence and failing to report an accident. he pled not guilty at the trial, but was convicted and sentenced to the maximum of four years in...

Wright, he, too, said he didn't know what they hit. >> it was a head-on collision. it was nose to nose. >> we don't know because we didn't see it. >> i know because i've seen the boat. >> i'm just saying, i was there -- >> i'm not asking. i'm telling you. >> we heard a thud and we turned around and we looked and we didn't see nothing and we didn't hear nothing. so, we figured we'd better get off the water, you know, people were -- because we didn't know what damage we had. >> i find it very difficult to believe that wright could not hear the screams of the female passenger in mr. uhl's boat. w...

>> they were indistinguishable, one from the other. so, we could conclude from that that they were made up of the same substance, and therefore, they could have common origin. >> but this wasn't conclusive. so, stanbro compared the paint chips from harry's body to the paint on floyd's boat. they were heated to 800 degrees centigrade and vaporized so that their chemical components could be measured by a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer. again, the chemical composition of both samples was identical. prosecutors now had enough forensic evidence to link floyd wright's boat to the hit-and-run ac...