Jess Stanford and Melanie Gocke were at the Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, Kansas, on the same day a ten-year-old boy was killed on the 17-storey ride last week. And I said, I need to hear it from you: Is he dead? He [said], Yes, your son is dead.. Soon, Derek MacKay, an attorney representing Schlitterbahn, allegedly showed up to the lifeguards home and would later lie to both the lifeguards mother and the detective in an attempt to get a copy of the police report. Love Island fans' horror as axed Olivia handed power to destroy TWO other stars, Frogmore eviction shows King's drawn a line with Harry, Strictly star bags life-changing EastEnders role as part of new family, Baby's body found after huge search as cops quiz Constance Marten & lover, News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. Caleb Thomas. Egan, a twenty-four-year-old detention officer for a local police department, remembered how she immediately felt herself lifting off the raft. Today, August 7, is the fifth anniversary of his horrific death in August 2016. Thats negligent homicide, said Ken Martin, a nationally recognized amusement-ride inspector and safety analyst since 1993. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Caleb's heartbroken family were seen crying at the waterpark on Sunday (pictured left is a file image of the boy's father Rep Scott Schwab atthe Statehouse in Topeka, Kansas in 2015) Pictured right is the Verruckt safety board at the park, In an email Monday, Winter Prosapio, spokeswoman for Schlitterbahn, said the park would not be 'participating in any further media interviews at this time.' Local media has since revealed the water slide involved in the incident had not been inspected by the state since it opened two years ago. Caleb died Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016, while riding the Verruckt, a water slide that's billed as the world's largest, at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, . The big slide there - Verruckt, or German for "insane" - has been closed since Caleb died. Schlitterbahn in Kansas City has been sued for negligence at least three times all in 2014 though none of those legal actions involved the waterslide. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. If found guilty, Henry faces a maximum penalty of up to 117 monthsalmost ten yearsin prison. "That was when my boyfriend said, 'I think there is someone else. The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, had already put together an effort to convince residents to spend their recreational dollars in Kansas instead of Missouri. The Fire Department, of course, is here. * It's for thrill seekers of the world, people into extreme adventure." *(bold emphasis mine) The netting on Schlitterbahn's Verruckt being removed by crews following on the ride death of 12yo boy. Tragically, 10-year-old Caleb Schwab's visit to Shlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City ended horrifically on Sunday when he was killed on the Verruckt water slide. Prosapio could not say whether the boy fell from the 17-story ride and she could not even say what time Sunday afternoon the incident occurred. No figures are available for overall water park injuries, but the Red Cross cited U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates when it launched updated training efforts last year for lifeguards who work at water parks. is it more than what the article is mentioning some where else? Crews start to dismantle the 17-story Verrckt waterslide on October 30, 2018. He was the son of Republican state Rep. Scott Schwab, of Olathe, and the family reached settlements of nearly $20 million with Schlitterbahn and various companies associated with the design and construction of the waterslide. A former Schlitterbahn executive has been arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the 2016 death of Caleb Schwab on the Verruckt water slide. Gocke said she saw Caleb falling down the slide, leaving a trail of blood behind him. The whole time youre going down, you can see the net above you where people or the raft had hit it before, Egan said. She claimed there were no lifeguards on duty at the time to help and she had to be saved from the water by waterpark customers. Kansas City police spokesman Officer Cameron Morgan said no police report was available of the incident and deferred additional questions to the park. Walking back to the oversized and empty gift store, I became painfully aware of the lack of upkeep on the parks former crown jewel. 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As the testing unfolded, one common denominator was present: The rafts kept going airborne. "We as a company and as a family will fight these allegations and have confidence that once the facts are presented it will be clear that what happened on the ride was an unforeseeable accident," she said in an emailed statement. But officers are conducting a death investigation at the park. Some new details in the Caleb Schwab death are emerging with a witness giving her account of how the 10-year-old boy was killed on a water slide at Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kansas on Sunday. But officials scrapped the age restriction, deeming the height requirement sufficient. Tyler Austin Miles,. State law leaves it to the Kansas Department of Labor to adopt rules and regulations relating to certification and inspection of rides, adding that an amusement ride at a permanent location 'shall be self-inspected by a qualified inspector at least every 12 months.'. That is, until August 7, 2016, when the raft that 10-year-old Caleb Schwab was riding went airborne . Those parks attracted about 85 million people in 2015, compared to about 73 million in 2004. KANSAS CITY, Kan. A judge in Wyandotte County, Kansas dismissed charges in connection with the death of Caleb Schwab on the Verruckt water slide at Schlitterbahn Water Park in 2016. The police are working with the park on the investigation. We pay for your stories! Standing on a platform more than 168 feet high and overlooking the flat entirety of the Kansas plains, Jess Sanford was scared. Nothing in confirmed yet. WHAT CAN PARENTS DO TO KEEP THEIR CHILDREN SAFE? You cant blame anyone else except Schlitterbahn and the people who put this slide together. "Our lifeguards are critical and it will be difficult for them to focus after something like this so for that reason we felt it was wise to close the park.". Would seem to require a harness failure, ejection, and striking the metal supports holding up the netting or some hole in the netting, if the outcome being tweeted is accurate. Witness accounts on social media stated the weight of the 2 adult women and the boy did not equal 400 pounds. The slide will be closed pending a full investigation. Dueas and his friend were egging on his son, Jeffrey, then eleven years old, to join them, but Jeffrey was scared. The 10-year-old. The water slide was immediately closed after Caleb Schwab's accident and remains closed as investigators continuing to assess what happened. Not much released at the news conference, but I will be intrigued to find out after the investigation, exactly what happened. "These are not the actions of someone who believed the ride to be dangerous. And so it sounded like you know they were gonna do something about it," Oberhauser said. Two media sneak preview days in 2014 were canceled because of problems with a conveyor system that hauls 100-pound rafts to the top of the slide. When the group was over the weight limit, Jeffrey was relieved that he had an excuse not to go down Verrckt and hopped out of line. The Aquatic Attraction Lifeguarding course includes techniques for handling and removing people from water that is generally 3 feet deep or less, which can be different than in deep-water pools, and first-aid training emphasizing care for head, neck and spinal injuries. He said the body appeared to be decapitated with safety concerns now raised over the ride. Samantha Soper's head was whipped side to side like that of a rag doll on a raft that had been repaired with duct tape, causing the twenty-three-year-old to suffer from severe neck pain. Schlitterbahn said last week's indictment is "full of false information," and the company also rejected its allegations that Miles and the company withheld information from law enforcement officials. "There was a woman being treated for some kind of injury on her face and head," witness Kelsey Friedrichsen, 27, told PEOPLE. I didnt feel secure.. Judge Jay-Jay shares her advice on making friends as adults, Every couple who's left Married At First Sight Australia 2023, Discover where it all went wrong for Josh and Melissa on Married At First Sight, "This man does not deserve me" Caitlin's emotional speech leaving Married At First Sight, Treasure Island Matty McLean has a secret weapon to win Treasure Island, In the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle Amy Bowkett got to work. Media reports leading up to Verrckts opening touched on the rides age limit of fourteen, which, according to the indictment, the slides designers decided on after a consultant had recommended the age be sixteen. Later that afternoon, Sanford and Gocke were hanging out at one of the picnic tables at Boogie Bay, the final area of Schlitterbahn Kansas Citys extensive lazy-river setup with a view of Verrckt. In October, two other maintenance workers, David Hughes and John Zalsman, were found not guilty of lying to obstruct the investigation into Schwabs death. In March 2018, a forty-seven-page indictment from a grand jury in Wyandotte County revealed, among other things, whistle-blower evidence of how Schlitterbahn officials allegedly covered up other safety-related incidents on Verrckt, and concluded that the slides lack of safety standards posed a substantial and unjustifiable risk of death or severe bodily harm. While it isnt unique for amusement parks to get sued for isolated incidents, the magnitude of the Schwab tragedy, and Schlitterbahns decorated profile, made the grand jurys findings of the water parks negligence that much more damning. That poor boy had his whole life left to live. Its all over the damn thing. Caleb Schwab was killed going down the 168-foot-tall "Verruckt" ride at the Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, Kansas last August. State inspectors reportedly last checked the waterpark in 2012, well before the Verruckt opened. One said she had her eyes closed for the whole ride. Another instance involved a man who identified himself as the designer of the slide, whom prosecutors strongly believed was Henry: He allegedly bragged to Richard Palmer, a forty-two-year-old who was seeking medical assistance after breaking his toes on the slide, about his achievements and how he wanted to build a ride taller than the Verrckt. The Wyandotte County coroner's office began a post-mortem examination on Monday. That article didn't mention the slide . Caleb Thomas Schwab, the son of a Kansas state legislator, was killed while riding the 168-foot-tall Verruckt ride atSchlitterbahn Waterpark - the world's tallest - on Sunday, August 7th. The two female passengers behind Caleb suffered serious facial injuries as he left the raft and hit the netting above, Police spokesman Officer Cameron Morgan said the boy's cause of death has not been confirmed. The Verruckt water slide requires riders to be strapped in with seatbelts and is designed more like a roller coaster, with netting surrounding the slide to prevent rafts from catapulting into the air. For decades, amusement parks have been exempt from federal regulation, leaving in charge state governments, such as Kansas, that offer little, if any, oversight. And now that its been two years, things are coming back, he said. Schlitterbahn Waterpark Kansas City was a water park that opened on July 15, 2009 in Kansas City, Kansas. But that wasnt the only thing that unsettled her. Email us attips@the-sun.co.ukor call 0207 782 4368. Prosapio said Sunday that the park's rides are inspected daily and by an 'outside party' before the start of each season. Kansas City Police have released more information about the tragic incident, saying the young boy suffered a "fatal neck injury at the end of the ride". This file photo shows Schlitterbahn's 168-foot-tall Verruckt speed slide/water coaster in Kansas City, Kansas, Caleb was understood to be sat at the front of the raft and was ejected as it hit the second drop (pictured) some 50ft from the ground. (Baetz and Barnes, the two sisters who rode with. But even with bad knees, nothing was stopping the struggling Dueas from getting to the top. In April, EPR Properties, a Kansas real estate investment trust that holds the mortgage on Schlitterbahn Kansas City, warned investors that the criminal indictments might hurt the companys chances of paying back the $174.3 million on its loan. Riders must be at least 54-inches tall, and while previously the park had instituted an age minimum of 14 years, they've since removed it, saying the height requirement is sufficient. The two other women on the tide, who were not related to Caleb, were still strapped inside the raft with one nursing a broken jaw and another with a broken face bone,while the first seat in the raft was empty, likely to have been where Caleb was sitting. with safety concerns now raised over the ride. The ride was simply too fast. I could die going down this ride., Attorneys for Henry and Schooley did not respond to multiple interview requests. '", "It looked like he must have somehow been ejected from his seat, bounced around between the netting and the slide and just slid down," Friedrichsen said. State Rep. Scott Schwab and his wife say their son, Caleb Thomas Schwab, died Sunday at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City. About 2,100 people took the courses last year, according to the Red Cross. David Alvey, the current mayor of Kansas City, Kansas, told KSHB that he still thinks Schlitterbahn has been a good investment for the area. Witnesses of waterslide tragedy recount boy's fatal fall. KANSAS CITY, Kansas -- A witness to the tragic death of a 10-year-old boy on the world's tallest water slide in Kansas has revealed gruesome details of how the boy died. After a boy died while riding a nearly 170-foot-tall waterslide in Kansas in 2016, state attorneys brought criminal charges against operators and associates of the water park, accusing them of. The child who died was the oldest son of Kansas Rep. Scott Schwab, R-Olathe. Winter Prosapio, spokesperson for Schlitterbahn, said the boy died on the Verruckt water slide, which is promoted as the worlds tallest water slide. There were also suggestions that the harness on the ride was not working properly. Many lawmakers were at Schlitterbahn for Elected Official Day. ), By the time the episode of Xtreme Waterparks first aired on June 29, 2014, the slide had yet to open. Two horrified witnesses to the death of the boy decapitated by the world's largest waterslide have spoken out about the gruesome scene. Safety is absolutely paramount to them. The 370-acre (1.5 km 2 ), $750 million development included a nearly 40-acre (160,000 m 2) waterpark, which is Schlitterbahn's fourth waterpark and its first outside Texas . Another source at the scene said that the raft did not have enough people inside - it is allegedly supposed to have 400lbs weighing it down. The comments below have been moderated in advance. WHAT DO STATES DO TO REGULATE WATER PARKS? In a bid to impress the producers, Henry told them he was building the biggest, tallest, and fastest waterslide in the world. A lone cherry-wood fence and rope blocked off the attraction from the public, with a sign reading, THIS ATTRACTION IS CLOSED., Days before Schlitterbahn announced it would tear down the ride, I asked a lifeguard what the current staff tells him and his colleagues about Verrckt. WARNING: The details in this . Man, are they hitting that net up there? Henry asked Schooley, according to the indictment. Holding on to a waterproof camera with his right hand, Dueas warily looked on at the Velcro straps, but there was no time to think about it. The Kansas City Star reported that Henry was taken into custody by U.S. marshals out of Brownsville, Texas. Because of heavy demand, rides are scheduled by reservation at the time the park opens each day. The slide is 168 feet tall and has 264 stairs . The boy's body was covered up with a sheet. The company also promised to aggressively fight the criminal charges against Miles and the park, and respond to the allegations in the 47-page indictment "point by point.". And now, the Verrckt water slide at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kansas, is the site of a horrible accident, in which 10-year-old Caleb Schwab died Sunday. Henry, best known locally for designing the Verruckt water slide in Kansas City, Kansas, that caused the death of a young boy, faces up to 57 months in prison if he violates his probation. As a result of the accident, there are many questions surrounding this attractionall designed to determine what happened. She added: We recognize that the Verrckt accident has caused people to question the safety of other attractions; while understandable, we hope the experiences of millions of guests over the past 40 years speaks to our continued commitment to provide fun entertainment in a safe manner.. Todd Kohlhepp murdered 4 employees at the Superbike Motorsport in South Carolina, after the employees had "embarrassed" him and refused to give him a refund for a motorcycle. State Rep. Scott Schwab, an Olathe Republican, and his wife, Michele, released a statement asking for privacy as the family grieves. Riders go down the worlds tallest water slide named Verruckt at Schlitterbahn Waterpark, in Kansas City, Kansas on July 9, 2014. Prosapio said during the news conference that the park's rides are inspected daily and inspected by an "outside party" before the start of each season. Schlitterbahn water park death: Caleb Schwab decapitated on world's tallest water slide in Kansas City | The Sun News 'BEHEADED' ON 65mph WATERSLIDE Horrified witnesses claim senator's. By most accounts, Henrys Schlitterbahn Kansas City was an above-average park in its first few years, but it was underwhelming compared to what was promised. House Speaker Ray Merrick told the Kansas City Star Schwab's family was "the center of his world.". If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. Visitors flocked to Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kansas, to experience its thrill. Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? But, it's Twitter, so it's not that reliable. The Lagoon at the original Schlitterbahn, in New Braunfels, in 1991. With June 15, 2013, set as the deadline for the entire project, Henry and Schooley had put themselves in a tight spot. Its German name means insane.. Now a waterslide taller than Niagara Falls had to be completed seven months later. Sanford immediately realized the fear she nervously joked about hours prior was beginning to unfold in real time. On its way up to the second hill of Verrckt, Raft B went airborne, colliding with a metal pole and netting meant to prevent riders from being thrown from the ride. Caleb Schwab AP. If we mess up, it could be the end. It came off and I was like, Whoa, kind of grabbing a hold of the straps and trying to hold myself down. He added: I told the lifeguard that the strap came off, and the only words he could say were, I would have crapped my pants.. Seeing that, her fianc wrapped his ankles around her, and Egan anxiously held on to his legs. "Not only had Tyler ridden the slide numerous times, but, as the State is aware, he had scheduled his wife, to ride it on the day of the accident," the attorneys, Tom and Tricia Bath, said in their statement. Henry entered a not guilty plea and rarely spoke during the hearing. "I didn't understand what was going on so I only saw Caleb sliding down the last half of the slide, and then I saw the blood," Sanford said. Last year, a Kansas state grand jury issued a 20-count indictment against the management of Schlitterbahn water park for the horrific death of a child while riding Verrckt, a much-hyped . It was the final time anyone went down Verrckt. While the amusement-park industry continues to have a stronger safety record compared to many everyday activities, what makes the case in Kansas City different is an alleged criminal element at the heart of a fatality. A promotional video for a show about building the slide includes footage of two men riding a raft down a half-size test model and going slightly airborne as it crests the top of the first big hill. Well have more details for you and we will share them, she said, but right now our focus is with the family.. Photo: David Strickland via AP. The child was riding on the Verruckt water slide when he died. Were talking about a child who was decapitated. Schlitterbahns arrival was meant to be the final piece of the border puzzle. He was found dead at the bottom of the slide, and the two women who were with him were treated for minor injuries. It sounds like either statements could be conjecture.. I must communicate reality to all. View our online Press Pack. You feel nauseous driving around it, said Chris Kamler, a forty-six-year-old resident who worked across the highway from the water park when the slide was still standing. On July 24, 2016, Dueas, who had made multiple trips to Schlitterbahns parks in Kansas City and South Padre Island, Texas, visited the water park with his friend, son, then-wife, and her family. A growing segment of the industry has been municipal-run water parks, as cities and counties look to boost revenue from what their flat-water pools deliver. "We don't have any news so far about our Kansas City park at the time," Prosapio told the Kansas City Star. What unfolded next could be viewed today as an instance of Henrys obsession with being the best. But before the park closed for the day, the forty-one-year-old wanted to ride the slide he had heard so much about. Challenging the laws of physics, the slide presents a drop from seventeen stories high, hitting up to sixty-five miles per hour and often leaving people soaking wet, shaking with a mixture of raw excitement and genuine fear. Shot of some, at least, of the netting being removed by crews. 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