TheVerruckt- German for insane - is the highest waterslide in the world. Boy, 12, dies on Verrckt slide at Schlitterbahn water park in KCK, http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article94254507.html#storylink=cpy, http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2014/07/09/verruckt-water-slide-schlitterbahn-park/12411769/. Within a year, fourteen- and fifteen-year-olds suffered concussions. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Caleb's death is not the first at a Schlitterbahn facility. The Verrckt being built at the Schlitterbahn Kansas City Waterpark, on November 11, 2013. Thrilryder29, When he ran forward to help, he saw a lifeguard desperately trying to hold back a gathering crowd. We will see him another day.. They were prepared to make a very substantial financial investment in the state of Kansas, and that always gets legislators attention, Sloan told Esquire of Schlitterbahn. 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. * 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. Witnesses claim he went down the first drop then flew out and hit netting enclosing the ride at Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, US. I can't even begin to imagine the devastation this family is feeling. Kansas City police spokesman Officer Cameron Morgan said he did not have any details about how the accident occurred. But, it's Twitter, so it's not that reliable. I saw the sandbags fly out of the boat and I still went down it, Wyandotte County District judge Kathleen Lynch told Esquire, who added that she estimated she rode Verrckt more than ten times. Lawyers also argued the grand jury shouldn't have heard testimony about another death at a Schlitterbahn park in Texas because it's not relevant to what happened here. Rushing over to them, the lifeguards at the bottom of the slide saw Grovess right eye was swollen shut, as well as other abrasions and bruising along his body, and told them that the raft went way too fast. A source familiar with the investigation into the boy's death told the Associated. Five defendants are charged in Schwab's death: Jeff Henry, John Schooley, Henry and Son's Construction, Tyler Miles and Schlitterbahn Water Park (KC Water Park Management Company). Since the day he was born, he brought abundant joy to our family and all those who he came into contact with, the Schwabs said. 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. The park had a lot of promise, but also a lot of issues, said an industry veteran who has developed water-park rides throughout the world, including with Henry and Schooley at Schlitterbahn Kansas City. Donald Slaughters raft collided with a concrete wall, resulting in herniated spinal disks and radiating numbness and tingling in the forty-two-year-olds right arm. A funeral for Caleb is scheduled for Friday afternoon at Olathe's Life Mission Church, Kansas. While trying to get back in her tube, her leg became stuck 'resulting in multiple spiral fractures of her tibia and fibula,' according to the suit, which was settledfor $20,000. Tragic child Caleb Schwab, 10, was the son of state Rep. Scott Schwab. He did, however, grant an interview to a local Fox affiliate several months after the second anniversary of Calebs death. All of the regulations are really done at the state and local level with respect to amusement parks and waterparks. The boy's body was covered up with a sheet. RELATED: Water park, ex-employee charged in 10-year-old's 2016 death on ride, Schlitterbahn spokeswoman Winter Prosapio said in a statement that considering last week's indictment, the company is not surprised by Henry's arrest. 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 . Jeffrey Henry was arrested in connection with a Kansas criminal case arising from a 10-year-old boy's death on the world's largest waterslide. OMG!! The construction employee, who compared their projects for Schlitterbahn to working for Disneyland, said that while modifying the slide wasnt intimidating, it was certainly exhausting.This kind of project had never been done before, the construction employee said. "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. The 47-page indictment pulls together internal emails, blueprints, recordings and interviews with key witnesses to paint a picture that Schlitterbahn marched the 17-story Verruckt ride in Kansas . (The shows executive producers did not respond to multiple interview requests.). Kansas City Police confirmed Caleb (pictured) had died from a 'fatal neck injury at the end of the ride', The youngster was just ten years old when he was killed in the horrific accident. The prosecution and the defense have both rested their case in the Schlitterbahn trial regarding the death of 10-year-old Caleb Schwab in August 2016. 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. The opening of the Verrckt was delayed several times as the development team made adjustments. When I heard a noise that didnt sound like it was supposed to come from that kind of ride, thats when I turned around, Sanford told. Calebs parents, Kansas State legislator Scott Schwab and his wife, Michele, released a statement on Sunday night remembering their freckle-faced little boy. The theme park with one of the most gruesome accidents in U.S. History is once again open for business. Republican lawmaker Scott Schwab's son Caleb died on the Verruckt attraction at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City. I said, Mmmm, I just announced this major new ride. Steven Tyson, his assistant at the time, added: He wasnt the tallest and he wasnt the fastest, so he decided to make that happen., Schooley would recall to Gizmodo in July 2014 their reasoning for building Verrckt: Basically, we were crazy enough to try anything.. Records show that Jeffrey Henry, co-owner of Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts, was booked into the jail in Cameron County, Texas. 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. Instead of a classroom, Henry, whose first job was sweeping his familys resort for twenty-five cents an hour, grew obsessed with water and its possibilities as an engine of entertainment; by the time he was sixteen, hed build his first waterslide. Scott Schwab is a Republican from Olathe. That boat flew. Nobody expects anything dangerous to happen; maybe pruned fingers or swimmers ear, but that's it. 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. Giant Verrckt Water Slide at Schlitterbahn Kansas City. On June 16, 2016, Norris JJ Groves, the owner of a towing company in neighboring Missouri, rode Verrckt with his wife and son, according to the indictment. (Brownback, now the U.S. ambassador for International Religious Freedom, declined to be interviewed.) Whatever the investigators discover, the news will come too late for Caleb Schwab; a kid who just wanted to try out a big, cool water slide. People stream into the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kan., on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, as it re-opens three days after a 10-year-old boy died on the parks most noted attraction, the 17-story Verruckt slide. In fact, People reports that the initial opening date in 2014 was moved several times due to glitches with the ride. I learned everything I know about water by looking at it, watching it, Henry told author Tim OBrien in Legends: Pioneers of the Amusement Park Industry. (An) outside, inside investigation will be underway, and it will be a complete one To be honest, this is not something we've experienced.". 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 . The driving force behind it was Henry, a high school graduate who spent one week at college and never had any formal training in engineering. The blueprints for the once-projected $750 million development made the sprawling attraction look like something never before seen outside Disney, let alone at a water park. Winter Prosapio, spokesperson for Schlitterbahn, said the boy died on the Verruckt water slide, which is promoted as the worlds tallest water slide. 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. She filed a lawsuit in Wyandotte County District Court. Instead, Prosapio offered a statement.The Verrckt accident was a terrible and tragic event and we cannot imagine the suffering that the victims and their families have endured, Prosapio said in an email. Jeff Henry, Schlitterbahns co-owner, and John Schooley, the rides lead designer, are facing second-degree murder charges. Steve Castaneda said Caleb Schwab, 10, was riding in the front of the raft on Schlitterbahn Water Park's Verruckt Slide when he fell out. Kansas City, Kansas -- A judge dismissed criminal charges Friday against a Kansas water park owner and the designer of a 17-story slide on which a 10-year-old boy was decapitated in 2016 . The boy was decapitated after the raft on which he was riding went airborne. It opened in 2010, one of five water parks operated by the New Braunfels, Texas-based corporation, Schlitterbahn Waterparks & Resorts. A 12-year-old boy died Sunday afternoon on the tallest water slide in the world, the Verrckt, at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kan. A park spokeswoman confirmed the death at a news conference Sunday afternoon. Riders go down the worlds tallest water slide named Verruckt at Schlitterbahn Waterpark, in Kansas City, Kansas on July 9, 2014. We literally worked around the clock.. And yes, Schlitterbahn representative has confirmed that the accident happened on Verrukt. The whole time youre going down, you can see the net above you where people or the raft had hit it before, Egan said. 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. It was announced in September 2005 by Schlitterbahn Waterparks. As he looked down, he says he saw the young boy who appeared to have been decapitated. In plot A373 under a shady tree at Pleasant Valley Cemetery, fresh flowers, a pinwheel, and a worn Kansas City Royals flag waves next to a headstone featuring Caleb Schwabs smiling face. WARNING: The details in this . Criminal Murder Charges dropped in Schlitterbahn Waterslide Case where 10-year-old boy was decapitated during a ride at Kansas water park. One by one, people visiting their spouses or children at the Overland Park cemetery come by the back corner of the burial ground to chat with me about anything, mainly the oppressive heat, their loved ones, and Caleb. Why would you ever do that?. ), But attorneys for Schlitterbahn say the evidence presented last spring in the Kansas attorney general's case against the waterpark giant abused the grand jury in order to obtain criminal indictments against Henry, Schooley, Miles, and the company. It was not immediately clear why as 12-year-old was on the slide. THE10-year-old son of a Kansas lawmaker was decapitated while riding on one of the world's tallest waterslides, horrified witnesses have said. Henry wanted to change that. During testing of the water slide, there was video footage of rafts doing exactly that. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. I didnt feel secure.. It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Jeff[. My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and others involved, and I hope that they can prevent this from happening again. I really am. He was being held without bond, and a jail booking clerk said he would remain there until a court appearance Tuesday. (Winter Prosapio, Schlitterbahns spokesperson, declined to comment on all of the above due to pending litigation. In April 2017, the Kansas legislature, following an impassioned speech from Calebs father, strengthened a law on amusement-ride inspections that previously allowed amusement-park operators to not share private inspections with state officials, giving the state one of the weakest sets of regulations nationwide. Police have now released information about what caused the Schlitterbahn accident, but it can hardly offer any sort of relief to his poor parents. 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. Looks to me to be on the downslope of the second, smaller hill: Why is there netting around the slide? I feel really bad about this now, the nineteen-year-old told Esquire about that day, but I was joking with the lifeguard, asking her if anyone had ever died on this thing. Neither Egan nor Dueas has been back since, but Dueas said he isnt opposed to it. There, Schlitterbahn was born. "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. Citing the pending litigation, Schlitterbahn was unable to give responses to dozens of questions provided by Esquire regarding the company, Henry, the Kansas City water park, Verrckt, its safety procedures, and other topics. Witness Esteban Castaneda told ABC 7 that he heard booms coming from the slide and then saw a body wash down the slide just after the raft. Henry is also facing separate charges for drug possession, including a felony count of possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, and hiring someone for sex. Note: Details on Schwab's death may be disturbing to some. WHAT CAN PARENTS DO TO KEEP THEIR CHILDREN SAFE? Verruckt was certified as the world's tallest water slide by Guinness World Records the water park's website reportedly said riders had to be at least 54 inches (137 centimetres tall) to get on the slide. And [the man] just shook his head. When Dueas asked the man how he liked Verrckt, Dueas said the man told him his strap had also fallen off during his ride. There are two Bible verses on the back of Calebs headstone. Esteban Castaneda, who was at the waterpark at the time of the incident said there were several loud bangs that came from the ride before a body washed down the slide after a raft. Police said Caleb died from "a fatal neck injury." Another witness claimed that the child was decapitated . The Associated Press contributed to this story. Investigators are treating the death as a 'civil matter' rather than a criminal incident, a police spokesman said Monday, as the park and Kansas authorities pressed to sort out what caused the tragedy. . Caleb was in Raft B, joined by sisters Matraca Baetz and Hannah Barnes in the seats behind him. Posted on January 13, 2020. My thoughts are with the boy's family and anyone who witnessed this. Is that one of the ride boats to the right? Asking for privacy to grieve, they said: "Since the day he was born, he brought abundant joy to our family and all those he came in contact with.". They dont even talk about it anymore, really, the young employee said to me, almost embarrassed. He grabbed the auxiliary straps on the side to get him ready for the second hump. Miles, the park's operations manager, is facing a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Did Rupert Murdoch Blow Up Fox News's Defense? Police have revealed that 10-year-old Caleb Schwab - who was involved in a fatal accident at Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City on Sunday - died of a "neck . During an October 2007 state legislature hearing, Kansas lawmakers pressed Mike Hutfles, a lobbyist with Schlitterbahn, on whether the company would be opposed to pursuing a requirement for safety inspections. And she hasn't removed her tweet about it being a decapitation. The two women who rode with Caleb suffered serious injuries and settled claims with Schlitterbahn for an undisclosed amount. He would, however, be more cautious given what happened at the park two weeks after he went and how he urged his son, not much older than Schwab, to ride Verrckt. Nothing in confirmed yet. The park was hit with fines of $96,000 although they settled for $66,000. Statement will be out at 4:30 pm central time. One report says that it used to have an age restriction of 14when the ride openedat Schlitterbahn in 2014. On the back of his headstone is another image of Caleb wearing the cap from his youth baseball team, the Kansas City Mudcats. The Schlitterbahn waterpark, in Kansas city - where Caleb Schwab tragically died on theVerruckt ride Sunday, has been sued three times for negligence since 2014. Castaneda's wife Leslie, told The Kansas City Star that she had seen the blood-streaked ride shortly after the horrific incident andCaleb's distraught family gathered nearby. Caleb Schwab had been decapitated. 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. Im telling you, the ride that was built by John Schooley and Jeff Henry is not the same ride that that boy was on the day he died., He added, If I really believed I was responsible for the death of that little boy, Id kill myself right now.. 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The lifeguard, who spent four summers at Schlitterbahn Kansas City between 2011 and 2014, recounted an unstable work environment where misbehaving, immature, and inexperienced employees were kept on to fill the parks lifeguard quota, while adequate water and bathroom breaks were not always a given in the stifling summer days. Two lawsuits involved mishaps on the 3,000-foot King Kaw inner tube ride in man-made rapids and the third involved a man who said he caught his toe on a surfing ride and fell on his face. "It's dangerous, but it's a safe dangerous now," Henry said in 2014. Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Without specifically mentioning water slides, Kansas statutes describe an 'amusement ride' as 'any mechanical or electrical device that carries or conveys passengers along, around or over a fixed or restricted route or course or within a defined area for the purpose of giving its passengers amusement, pleasure, thrills or excitement.'. In the area next to the lazy river, men, women, and children stood with their hands over their mouths, reacting to the terror that played out in seconds on a summer day in Middle America. Henry later told Texas Monthly he was acting when he said those things in order to glamorize Verrckt, but at the time, he continued to glorify the ride's danger: Its complex, its fast, its mean. It varies, but Kansas statutes leave it to its 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.'. 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. Kansas state Rep. Scott Schwab, father of Caleb Schwab, in his Statehouse office in Topeka, Kansas on October 4, 2018. We have to understand what's happened. Kansas City police spokesman Officer Cameron Morgan said no police report was available of the incident and deferred additional questions to the park. Mayor Hinges on Voter Rolls, Preventing a Repeat of WWII-Era Imprisonment, Fox News Told Viewers What They Wanted to Hear. Once the forty-six-year-old Groves gave his incident report, Miles allegedly destroyed the witness statements and forced the lifeguards to write coached statements which omitted any detail of how the injury had occurred, telling the medical staff to alter their own reports. It's kind of like a tube.". We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. As the parks proliferate, concern has grown about the risks present even when most of the water is shallower than 3 feet - people who aren't good swimmers, especially young children, mixed with the unexpected hit of waves and falls that can lead to concussions or even drownings. The thought of this is making me sick! She then saw Caleb's body on the ground and his family standing nearby crying. Those parks attracted about 85 million people in 2015, compared to about 73 million in 2004. 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. 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. Two media sneak preview days in 2014 were cancelled because of problems with a conveyor system that hauls 100-pound rafts to the top of the slide. In October, two other maintenance workers, David Hughes and John Zalsman, were found not guilty of lying to obstruct the investigation into Schwabs death. The park's website touts the ride as the 'ultimate in water slide thrills,' subjecting 'adventure seekers' with a 'jaw dropping' 17-story drop, 'only to be blasted back up a second massive hill and then sent down yet another gut wrenching 50-foot drop.'. The slide won .css-umdwtv{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:.0625rem;text-decoration-color:#FF3A30;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:inherit;-webkit-transition:background 0.4s;transition:background 0.4s;background:linear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #d5dbe3 50%, #d5dbe3);-webkit-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}.css-umdwtv:hover{color:#000000;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;-webkit-background-position:100% 100%;background-position:100% 100%;}Best New Ride (WaterPark) in 2014 and was voted the fifth best water-park ride in the world in its first two years by Amusement Today. State inspectors reportedly last checked the waterpark in 2012, well before the Verruckt opened in 2014. 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, . Caleb Schwab was killed going down the 168-foot-tall "Verruckt" ride at the Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, Kansas last August. Two horrified witnesses to the death of the boy decapitated by the world's largest waterslide have spoken out about the gruesome scene. Henry entered a not guilty plea and rarely spoke during the hearing. Safety is absolutely paramount to them. From the ninth floor of his office, staring at Verrckt was once inescapable: It [stood] as a monument to a murder.. Ride designer Jeff Henry looks over his creation, the worlds tallest waterslide named Verrckt at Schlitterbahn Waterpark, in Kansas City, Kan. July 9, 2014. Riders go down the slide in multi-person rafts and have to be at last 54 inches tall, according to the park's website. When their raft went airborne at the second hill, Grovess face and forehead smashed into an overhead hoop and safety netting before the raft hit a concrete wall. 'I saw his (Caleb's) brother. Published: 01:53 GMT, 9 August 2016 | Updated: 16:37 GMT, 9 August 2016. Grisly new details about the boy killed on the world's largest water slide are emerging with one witness claiming the child was . The canopy at the top of the ride was long gone. According to the March indictment, at least thirteen nonfatal injuries suffered by guests who rode Verrckt were recorded in the 182 days the ride was open between 2014 and 2016, up to and including the day of Calebs death. On Sunday, ten-year-old Caleb Schwab died at the Schlitterbahn park in Kansas City while on a 168 foot high slide. And now that its been two years, things are coming back, he said. KANSAS CITY, Kansas (WABC) -- 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. Other traumatised witnesses said they saw Caleb's family crying as emergency services treated the other two women who were on the raft. WHAT DO STATES DO TO REGULATE WATER PARKS? The chute drops 168 feet, 7 inches, and the raft hits speeds of 60 to 70 mph. Kelsey Friedrichsen, a witness who was at the park at the time of the accident, told People; The Verruckt (which is German for "insane") water slide was promoted as the tallest water slide in the world when it opened in June. www.kansascity.com/news/local/article94254507.html. When it was time to check out Verrckt, Schwab offered a reminder to his boysspecifically to ten-year-old Caleb, the second oldest of his children who loved playing outside. If General Motors has a fatality, would we say that was a bad investment? he said. Witnesses at the time said he went down the first drop, then flew out and hit the netting that enclosed the ride. Schlitterbahn is an important tourist attraction in our community, and we hope it remains open and a success, Taylor told Esquire. By Its German name means insane.. Robert Boepple filed his lawsuit just two months later claiming he sufferedinjuries to his head, neck, back, arm and spine when his toe got caught ona 'protruding item' on theBoogie Bahn surfing ride. An excerpt of a first person account of riding the Verruckt water slide for the first time published by the Associated Press gave an idea of how uniquely terrifying the water slide truly could be. Her case was also settled, according to her lawyer. 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. 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