Summary
When a hit-and-run boating accident caused the death of a popular young man, investigators faced the daunting task of searching for one boat among 1,200 others. They asked anyone who had seen the accident to come forward. The man who responded did much more than witness the crash; he was a passenger in that other boat.
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| 0:00.0 | The lake was deep, the night was dark, the collision, fatal. |
| 0:08.0 | The only clues were some chips of paint, a tiny piece of foam, and the fatal wound. |
| 0:16.0 | Was it enough to tell investigators what happened? According to Native American legend, the great spirit scratched his hand across the land, and in doing so, created the Finger Lakes of upstate New York. |
| 0:46.3 | The biggest is Cayuga Lake, long and narrow, |
| 0:49.3 | and it's a popular vacation destination. |
| 0:53.3 | A lot of people go there to go swimming, |
| 0:56.0 | picnics, barbecue, any major functions, birthdays. |
| 1:00.0 | Everyone goes there to the park. |
| 1:02.0 | Cayuga Lake is crowded in the summer, |
| 1:05.0 | with boating, water skiing, and other lake activities. |
| 1:10.0 | Around midnight on a Friday night, |
| 1:12.6 | Harry Yule, a local celebrity, |
| 1:14.6 | decided to take his new boat out on the lake for a ride. |
| 1:18.6 | Harry was a well-known stock car race driver |
| 1:23.6 | who went by the nickname Hurricane Harry. |
| 1:26.6 | Harry loved the lake. |
| 1:28.3 | He loved a fish. |
| 1:29.3 | He loved to swim. |
| 1:30.3 | He loved everything about the lake. |
| 1:32.3 | Around 2 a.m. |
| 1:36.3 | Harry headed for shore in his boat so two of his friends could get out and use the bathroom. |
| 1:44.6 | 18-year-old Nazarene Raza stayed on board with Harry. |
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