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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.
the investigators found a bullet-shaped hole in the forward section of harry uhl's boat. this was created by the engine of the other boat. >> the bullet that punched through the hull of the boat indicated to us that it was an inboard-outboard motor, also that the boat was traveling at a high rate of speed for it to be able to punch its way through the fiberglass and continue on through and over top of the other boat. >> other information about the perpetrator's boat came from an unlikely source, harry uhl's autopsy. the medical examiner found chips of white paint in harry's wounds. >> which just gives you a picture of how fast and how intense this crash must have been to leave such evidence in the wounds. >> investigators were also intrigued by another finding. there were no marine organisms in harry's wounds.
on board with harry. >> i was just sitting up there by myself. from what i remember, that's where i was. that's the best view, so i can imagine that's where i would be sitting. >> since it was a nice night and the lake was calm, harry didn't tie his boat to the dock, so it drifted while he waited for his friends to return. then they heard a loud noise. harry stood up, and there was a crash. >> there was blood everywhere. i felt like a big monster or something came out of the water and bit my arm off. >> harry uhl was pronounced dead at the scene. he was just 27 years old. >> he died instantly. he was probably standing up to try to figure out what was coming. and then just got -- just got hit in the dark by this massive object. >> harry's passenger, nasreen
crash occurred. >> there was no bow lights activated. the switch was not activated. the anchor light was not in its stanchion hole and it was plugged with a rubber plug. it was quite obvious that the boat that got hit was not lit that evening. >> there were numerous chop marks along the top side of the boat that actually cut through the upholstery. analysts realized these were from a spinning propeller, proof that the boat actually left the water and flew over the top of harry's boat. >> the suspect vessel as it was traveling at a high rate of speed, tends to lift out of the water and be a little bit higher. on impact, it would launch the front of the suspect vessel in a 45-degree angle up into the air. >> medical experts believe that the wounds to nasreen raza were also caused by the propeller.
>> 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 accident. can a business have a mind? a subconscious. a knack for predicting the future. reflexes faster than the speed of thought.
a tiny crack, and inside was a minute piece of what looked like foam. >> it was nothing short of a miracle that the tiny piece of foam had stuck in the prop when you consider the dynamic forces going on. >> trace evidence expert ron stanbro analyzed the material under a microscope. >> i did not have very much sample to work with, but it was more than enough for the analysis that we were required to do. >> the foam from the propeller looked very similar to the foam padding from the seat in harry uhl's boat. so, stanbro went a step further, using a process known as fourier transform infrared. >> it's shining an infrared light through that substance, and the molecules within that substance are stretching and vibrating, and then we're measuring the absorbance of that infrared light in that sample. >> this provided a chemical fingerprint of the polyurethane in both samples.