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He hit harry uhl s boat. they knew exactly what they had hit. they absolutely knew. there s no way you could hit a full-sized boat and not know that you have hit something significant or think that you ve hit a log or driftwood. it s ridiculous. if they would have had their lights on on that boat, we would have seen it. i can guarantee it, that we would have seen it. there was no way to know what floyd wright s blood alcohol level was that night. in new york state, this severely limited the prosecutor s case. you have to show that the accident was causally related to the drinking. there has to be that close connection. new york requires it. so, just the fact that he had a few drinks throughout the course of the day doesn t necessarily mean that is the cause of the death. you have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that that s the connection. being intoxicated shouldn t be a way out of being held responsible. the fact that he was able to run ....
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. ....
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 he hit harry uhl s boat. ....
Been involved in a collision. and it had what appeared to be some damage to the bow and some damage to the one side of the boat, and had some fresh, like, compound marks in the paint on the boat. and looking at the dashboard, there was what appeared to be a small drop of blood near the shift lever near the driver s compartment. the boat was impounded and searched. everybody thought the case had been solved. we have our bad guy right now. the vessel in question is right here. we have it. but forensic tests found that the paint on this boat was different from the paint found in harry uhl s wounds, and there was no significant damage to its propeller. in addition, dna tests showed the blood in the boat was not harry uhl s or nasreen raza s. so, investigators resumed their search, knowing that each day gave the perpetrator more time to hide incriminating evidence. ....