. ET A few weeks ago, 10-year-old Caleb Schwab died after riding on a water slide at Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kansas. Caleb, his parents and 3 brothers attended "elected officials day" at the water park on Sunday. Riders must be at least 54 inches tall and the group cannot weigh more than a combined total of 400 to 550 pounds, according to the parks website. The ride opened anyway, with the weight range unchanged. That would entitle the family to no more than $300,000 in additional non-economic damages, bringing recovery up to . The video begins with a couple of thrill-seekers putting their lives on the line as they take a test run down the unfinished, open chute. Some states have agencies that inspect water parks; others rely on the parks own insurance companies to do inspections. Jeff was wearing cowboy boots. The speed slide its name means "insane" in German and it is certified as. It was surreal. He had come to the park with his father, Scott, a state legislator; his mother, Michele; and his three brothers. The Verrckt slide in Kansas is billed as the world's tallest water slide. his wife, Billye, that he was tired of city life. As a boy, he was the classic river rat, a Huck Finn in cutoff shorts who spent almost all his free time on the Comal. This was news to everyone, even at Schlitterbahn. 10-year-old Caleb Schwab, the son of Kansas state Rep. Scott Schwab, was decapitated Sunday on the Verrckt water slide at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City. Today, August 7, is the fifth anniversary of his horrific death in August 2016. But one of his lawyers acknowledged that Jeff didnt have such training. I remember hearing about the accident on the news and thought that the park was going to shut down. 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. Parents relive horror after son, 10, was decapitated on water slide, Caleb Schwab, 10, was decapitated on a water slide in Kansas five years ago, This 168-foot tall slide at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark was billed as the world's tallest, The view from the top of the terrifying ride, Gatecrashers storm inflatable water park by jumping in for free during heatwave, Boy, 8, dies after drowning in swimming pool in front of family and sunbathers. There are two Bible verses on the back of Caleb's headstone. The gate swung open, and the conveyor belt underneath the raft began to move. Something clicked in my head, and I just re. Theres a whole bunch of factors that crept in on this one that we just didnt know about., Whenever he did interviews for the TV show, Jeff seemed obsessed with Verrckt, as if it were his white whale. I get fired up to come to work and take care of those customers.. What happened to Caleb Schwab is a tragic and heartbreaking story. Caleb Thomas Schwab, 10, died Sunday . He added, Neither did Henry Ford, and he built the car., Jeff returned to Texas and stayed out of public view, splitting his time between a condo he owns in South Padre and a home he owns outside New Braunfels on a remote piece of property a short walk away from the grave sites of his mother and father. According to park rules, a Verrckt rider had to be at least 54 inches (4 feet 6 inches) tall. Article continues below advertisement Since then, several witnesses have recalled the tragedy, but now the boy's father is breaking his silence. Schlitterbahn was entering the big leagues of American entertainment. Caleb Schwab Death: Source Reveals Horrific Details of Boy's Water Slide Accident By Associated Press Nationwide PUBLISHED 4:32 PM ET Aug. 10, 2016 KANSAS CITY, Kan. A 10-year-old boy was decapitated as he rode a 168-foot tall waterslide at a water park in Kansas, a person familiar with the investigation said Wednesday. ), Man, are they hitting that net up there? They both suffered minor cuts and scrapes on their face in the incident. The raft tipped forward. A light breeze rattled the leaves. In five other incidents, riders claimed their rafts went airborne over the crest of the second hill and that they suffered head, neck, and back injuries when their rafts slammed back down onto the chute. Then, on August 7, 2016, Caleb Schwab and his family arrived at the park. He had the ability to see what other people were doing and then take that to the next level, Gary told me. Caleb and his father, Scott Schwab, were at the park for a special day for state lawmakers. Caleb was 4 feet 11 inches tall and weighed 72 pounds. You know the [raft] that went airborne on our ninety-footmodel in New Braunfels? But at least one of the men was clearly nervous. Two women that were also on the ride suffered minor injuries. For Schlitterbahns second season, Jeff added a 50,000-square-foot pool and an inner tube ride that he named the Hillside Tube Chute. I get up every day and think about all the great people who work at Schlitterbahn, he said. Caleb Schwab, the son of a state lawmaker, sustained a fatal neck injury at around 2:30 p.m. while riding the 168-foot-tall Verruckt (meaning insane in German) water slide, the Associated Press reports. For the most devoted fans, Schlitterbahn is an aquatic version of Disney World, with something for everyone, from huge playgrounds for children to swim-up bars for adults that serve beer and margaritas. The hoop sliced into his neck, and he was instantly decapitated. I watched some other kids at a picnic table happily downing ice cream. (At that point, there were fewer than a half dozen water parks around the U.S.) Jeff quickly got on the phone to tell Bob and Billye all about it. Sometimes I cant get out of bed for four days., He had decided to talk to me, he said, so that people would understand he had done nothing wrong. A humid breeze presses down on the dead summer grass. It was a Sunday afternoon, August 7, 2016, the temperature a pleasant 78 degrees, as ten-year-old Caleb Schwab began the 264-step climb to the top of Verrckt, the world's tallest waterslide,. Finally, in June 2014, after several successful sandbag runs, they decided it was time for humans to ride it. They next built a ninety-foot-tall model of Verrckt (about half its eventual size), putting the initial drop at a 60-degree vertical angle, which they believed was steep enough for the riders to feel as if they were falling but was still gradual enough for the rafts to maintain solid contact with the chute. During construction, the men had ordered that a net be placed above the chute, propped up every few feet by semicircular poles, to keep people from flying out. Im not quite sure yet, he replied. That is, until August 7, 2016, when the raft that 10-year-old Caleb Schwab was riding went airborne and hit a metal pole supporting a safety net, resulting in his decapitation and instant. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. I cant begin to describe it.. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. But there is nothing in the law that requires the inspector to have any particular certifications. These were Disneylike numbers. An employee pushed a button, and the raft would take off. Caleb Schwab, the son of a Kansas state . Jeff, Schooley, and the brother of Jeffs assistant piled into a raft. The boy's death a "fatal neck injury at the end of the ride." The two women riding in the raft with. That boat flew. He was found dead at the bottom of the ride in a pool. A 10-YEAR-old boy was decapitated while riding a water slide in front of his horrified mom and brother in one of the US' worst theme park tragedies. Although Jeff and Schooley said they used engineers and architects to help them design Verrckt, they also continued to depend on traditional trial and error. Jeff came up with an artificial river that he called the Torrent River, where large waves unexpectedly rose and broke around the tubers. But with cameras still rolling, more sandbag-laden rafts continued to fly into the air. There was no age restrictiononly the height requirementso kids joined the line. His daughter Amber did meet me. as to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community. (Jeffs attorney dismissed her accusations, claiming that such statements are common in contentious divorce proceedings. Every year, an estimated two million visitors go to the parks to plunge down slides, zoom through twisting tube chutes, and float and swim in man-made rivers and enormous pools. The first was the Boogie Bahn, which allowed riders to actually surf on boogie boards over a thin, fast-flowing sheet of water that shot over a sloped surface. According to People. The safety harnesses are also raising questions. Had there been a problem with the distribution of the three passengers weight that caused the raft to lift off into the air? Kansas State Representative Scott Schwab 's son, Caleb who died at age 10 on Sunday, August 7, in a waterslide accident at Kansas City's Schlitterbahn Water Park was decapitated, police. After high school, Jeff opened a video arcade bar in San Marcos that he called the Too Bitter Bar, the walls of which contained painted murals of moons, watermelons, lips, and bananas. Witnesses at the time said he went down the first drop, then flew out and hit the netting that enclosed the ride. We stood on the bank of the Comal, where Jeff used to go swimming, and we ambled over to the first tube chutes that Jeff designed and built when he was a young man. Schlitterbahn was perhaps not the scene of a freak horrific accident, the prosecutors were saying, but the scene of a crime. He also kept working for his father. In 1998 the New Braunfels Schlitterbahn was named the countrys Best Waterpark in a poll conducted by, In October 2012, Jeff was at an amusement park industry trade show with his chief collaborator, John Schooley, a soft-spoken, silver-haired former yacht builder who had constructed slides at water parks in Asia before coming to New Braunfels to work for Jeff in 1998. Jeff often said that his goal in life was to make Schlitterbahn customers happyto put a smile on their faces, togive them a thrill or two, he told me during one of our conversations this summer. Caleb was killed when his raft became airborne over the slide's 50-foot hump and collided with a metal bar supporting the safety net. Caleb's head collided with a net and a semicircular metal hoop that arced over the top of the slide. Authorities have yet to explain how it happened. 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. (Besides the felony conviction in 1994, he was convicted in 2007 on a misdemeanor charge of possession.) Certified by the Guinness World Records as the worlds tallest, the slide is no stranger to controversy. You read it quietly and are reminded again that Caleb Schwab should still be here. To: sandra@sandrarose.com. Kelsey Friedrichsen was visiting the park . [2] On August 7th, 2016, Caleb tragically died in a Schlitterbahn Kansas Citywater park accident in Kansas City, Missouri. Sign up for our daily newsletter to keep up to date with all the essential information at www.mirror.co.uk/email . Michelle continued: "There was a gentleman who wouldn't allow me to come close enough to see what was going on and kept saying: 'No, trust me. Waiting for Caleb at the bottom of Verrckt was one of his brothers, along with numerous spectators. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. Verrckt claimed the life of Kansas state representative Scott Schwab's 10-year-old son Caleb on August 7, 2016. Caleb Thomas Schwab, Kansas Politician's Son, Dies On World's Tallest Water Slide. Caleb Schwab, 10, died in front of his family while riding a 168ft-high water slide in Kansas at Schlitterbahn Water Park. To get the project going, a real estate investment trust offered to loan the Henrys $174.3 million. (And he did get good news in July, when prosecutors agreed to let the company tear down Verrckt this fall.) To slow the rafts velocity, Jeff and Schooley lessened the angle at the bottom of the initial drop. Jos R. Ralat is Texas Monthlys taco editor, writing about tacos and Mexican food. http://wx.wfla.com/oembed/email/noon_signup.html. Sensing opportunity, the Henrys opened a Schlitterbahn in South Padre Island, in 2001. In subsequent seasons, he built the Cliffhanger Tube Chute, the Tunnel Tube Chute, and the 45-minute-long Raging River Tube Chute. This past spring, Kansas City prosecutors began meeting with a grand jury, and in late March, the jury issued indictments. Its scheduled opening back in 2014 was delayed reportedly due to alarming complications including one that saw water rafts detach from the slide and fly off into the air. Where to park for free at Clearwater Beach? A local TV station interviewed a former park lifeguard who said Verrckt had terrified him and his coworkers.We had to ride it three times before we actually opened the park every day, Nathan Campbell said. When the park opened in 2009, expanses of dirt surrounded much of it. What could be better? He told his parents he had to try it. As he told Legends author OBrien, he relied on trial and error, because no models of what was supposed to be done existed at the time. Sometimes hed change his mind about a ride as he was building it and redesign it on the spot. As his raft passed the second hump, it soared up the ridge, causing the metal support of the netting to break off and decapitate him. What Happened To The Boy On The Water Slide? She said: "He was screaming: 'He flew from Verruckt! ), On June 16 of this year, after Id attempted to contact Jeff a half dozen times through his legal team and his family, he called me at 1:26 in the morning. A Kansas judge dropped charges Friday against the owners of the world's tallest waterslide after a child was decapitated on it, local media reported.. Caleb Schwab was just 10 years old when he was killed while riding the 168-foot-tall "Verrckt" slide in Kansas City's Schlitterbahn water park in 2016.. Caleb, the son of Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab, was decapitated after his raft . The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission only has jurisdiction over traveling amusement parks, like pop-up carnivals. Witnesses claimed he went down the first drop, then flew out and hit netting enclosing the ride. We were a Texas tradition, and now its over., When I later asked his brother, Gary, about Jeffs comments, he quietly said, It has been a horrific couple of years. But he added that Schlitterbahn is not going out of business. According to Texas Department of Insurance spokesman Jerry Hagins, the inspector is charged only with making sure that the ride is in sound condition and meets the manufacturers specifications. In other words, a water park is allowed to police itself. Two horrified witnesses have spoken out about the gruesome scene when a boy was decapitated by the world's largest waterslide. But the first time, you dont know. Caleb's family received nearly $20 million . KANSAS CITY, Kansas, United States The 10-year-old boy killed during a ride on the world's tallest waterslide was decapitated in the accident, a person familiar with the investigation said Wednesday. (Even an astronaut couldnt handle it, Jeff later told me. For nearly a decade, Jeff and Schooley had been working on what they called a cannon nozzle: a highly pressurized water nozzle, much more advanced than the ones used in the Dragon Blaster and Master Blaster, that would propel riders up higher hills. The actor Jeff Henry, who was trying to glamorize the ride, was indicted., Verrckt, he told me, is the state-of-the-art technology. No one seemed to know, not even Jeff. 82 thespeedofpain 2 yr. ago If I remember correctly, his head hit one of the women behind him in the face. And Verrckt, a ride that lasted only eighteen seconds, was considered to be his crowning achievement. Details remained murky about what happened on Sunday to Caleb Thomas Schwab on the 168-foot-tall "Verruckt" - German for "insane" - that since its debut two years ago has been the top . He drove an old truck. Get email updates with the day's biggest stories. Mum Michelle told the show about her eldest son's screams of terror after the fatal accident. I was hired as an admissions cashiertaking payment and . By Timothy Bella. That would be like someone being concerned that Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg doesnt have a college degree, his brother told me. Passengers board a three-person raft and experience a 17-story drop before being blasted back up a second massive hill to drop down another 50ft. And the lawyers could argue that the two men were not criminally negligent. It was. At 168 feet 7 inches tall, Verrckt, which means insane in German, was taller than Niagara Falls. (Schlitterbahn continues to manage the park. If the completed ride still didnt meet his expectations, hed tear it down and start over. The people that have a spark of genius dont necessarily need college. People got in line to ride Verrckt. Bob, Billye, and the kidsGary, Jeff, and Janapiled into the familys Ford station wagon and drove to the Landa to give it a look. Since the ride was torn down, former employees have alleged that both ride inspections and staff training were inadequate. 1998 - 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved. Gary and Jana agreed that Jeff should proceed with Verrckt. It was faked. The child was riding on the Verruckt water slide when he died. alized the time had come to do it, he told me later. I want to be the first at the bar to buy a drink, and I want to be the first to meet a pretty girl, and I want to be the first at everything. "And he said, "Yes, your son is dead'. Industry veterans nicknamed him the Lord of the Slides and the Wizard of Wet. Verrckt could hurt me; it could kill me. If you fill out the first name, last name, or agree to terms fields, you will NOT be added to the newsletter list. Scott and Michelle Schwab have spoken out for the first time about the tragic death of their son Caleb. (Bob died in October 2016, after a long illness, and Billye died in her sleep last year.) Caleb Thomas Schwab, the son of Kansas state Rep. Scott Schwab, was killed Sunday while riding "Verruckt" at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City. And he just shook his head, and I said, 'I need to hear it from you, is he dead? For a couple of minutes, I watched some kids zip down one of the chutes, grinning from ear to ear. | (Photo: Facebook) The Christian family of Republican Kansas state Rep. Scott Schwab attended a worship service just hours before the lawmaker's 10-year-old son, Caleb, was decapitated on the Verrckt slide at the Schlitterbahn A pair of black tights are a necessity, rather than just an accessory, to stay stylish and comfortable when temperatures drop. He said he wanted to return to Verrckt, which closed immediately after Calebs death but still loomed over the Kansas City landscape like some grisly monument, so he could find out what had gone wrong. 2014 was the opening year for the slide, which was the tallest in the world. His head and body flew out of the raft and landed on the chute. Schlitterbahn initially seemed to be policing itself just fine. The slide is 168-feet tall and has 264. Jana, the youngest, would attend what was then known as Southwest Texas State University, in nearby San Marcos, and major in fashion merchandising. But prosecutors for the Kansas attorney generals office persuaded a judge to lock down the ride. Children frolicked in watery playgrounds, teenagers lined up to ride the Boogie Bahn and the water coasters, and parents floated on the artificial rivers. I think about all the great customers who choose to come to a Schlitterbahn to spend their family vacations. He apparently enjoyed smoking pot. Those who reached him first "just realised he was dead and didn't try to revive him", she added. ), Its a tragedy, Jeff told me. Police confirmed to TIME on Tuesday that the boy was decapitated in the accident. That day, the Travel Channels cameras focused on Jeff and Schooley as they stood on an elevated platform near Verrckts second hill. Its sort of beautiful, isnt it? she said. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Tell Jeff were going to let him graduate so that he no longer has to come back to school.. I want to have the biggest, the tallest, and the fastest rides at my parks.. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital That boat looked like it flew., He and Schooley added an extra five feet of height to the second hill to slow riders down and decreased the angle of its descent. Caleb Thomas Schwab, the son of State Representative Scott Schwab and his wife, Michele, of Olathe, died of a fatal neck injury, police said Monday. The two other occupants -- Hannah Barnes and Matraca Baetz -- suffered. 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.. I want to have the biggest, the tallest, and the fastest rides at my parks., Like his father, Gary, the eldest child, had a sharp, analytical mind. In five of the incidents, riders claimed they were injured while their rafts were still in the chute. Caleb Schwab, son of Kansas state representative Scott Schwab, was visiting the park with his father, his mother, and his three brothers, as Kansas elected officials and their families were offered free admission that fateful Sunday. The two men were approached by producers from the Travel Channel who said they were looking for an episode to lead off the new season of their popular TV series Xtreme Waterparks. In 1989, at a water park in Brazil, he created a 135-foot-high slide, called Insano, that at the time was the worlds tallest. To attract more customers, Bob erected two slides that dumped guests into the Comal. In 1977, when he was 22 years old, he took a trip with a buddy to Orlando, Florida, where he visited two newly opened water parks: Wet n Wild and Disneys River Country. Today is the fifth anniversary of the traumatic death. The witness, Esteban Castaneda, said he heard booms before seeing the boy wash down the slide after the raft. I am appalled anyone would write such details with pictures (including arrows!!) It was as horrible a moment as you could imagine, a person who was there told me. "The death of [Caleb Schwab] appeared at first to be an isolated and unforeseeable incident until whistleblowers from within Schlitterbahn's own ranks came forward and revealed that Schlitterbahn officials had . Caleb Schwab autopsy report was being searched by several people as they wanted to know the cause of the 10-year-old boy's death. He said that he was never told about the eleven injuries on Verrckt prior to Calebs death, nor was he told about the 2016 maintenance problems. He always thought he was right., Yet Jeff made no apologies. The Kansas City Schlitterbahn is one of five Schlitterbahn parks in the country. It was a Sunday afternoon, August 7, 2016, the temperature a pleasant 78 degrees, as ten-year-old Caleb Schwab began the 264-step climb to the top of Verrckt, the worlds tallest waterslide, which loomed like a colossus over the forty-acre Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City. . Caleb and his father, Scott Schwab, were at the park for a special day for state lawmakers. Later, some gruesome details were revealed about the boy's death. Many of us, and our children and grandchildren, have ridden the ride with complete confidence as to its safety . . There are two Bible verses on the back of Caleb's headstone. This video is meant as a respectful look back documenting what happened.Caleb Scwab was in. A nightmare beyond comprehension. The ride quickly became the parks most popular attraction. Over the next several days, more Schlitterbahn employees rode Verrckt without problems, and on July 10, after thirty months of work, the slide opened to the public. 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