PARASAIL NIGHTMARE, Mom DEAD, Husband: 'Fun is not worth a life'
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
An Illinois mom is killed and two children are seriously injured while parasailing.
A storm blew in, affecting the stability of the boat towing the family. Now, the husband of a 33-year-old woman has filed lawsuits naming multiple parties. A preliminary incident report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission says boat captain Daniel Couch,49, cut the towing cable when the parasail “pegged” in a high gust of wind, threatening to drag his boat.
This resulted in the parasail and the individuals being drug “through and across the surface of the water” and slammed into an abandoned Florida Keys bridge.
Supraja Alaparthi, 33, was dead before another boat captain untangled her and the children from the parasail cables and rushed them to a Marathon restaurant where crews had set up a staging area.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Mark McCulloh - Parasailing Safety Expert; Chairman, Parasail Safety Council
- Michael A. Winkleman - Maritime Attorney (Miami, FL), Lipcon, Margulies & Winkleman, Expert on Maritime and Cruise Ship Law; X: @cruiseshiplaw
- Dr. Angela Arnold – Psychiatrist, Atlanta GA. Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women, Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University, Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital
- Robert Crispin – Private Investigator: “Crispin Special Investigations;” Former Federal Task Force Officer for United States Department of Justice, DEA and Miami Field Division; Former Homicide and Crimes Against Children Investigator; Facebook: Crispin Special Investigations, Inc.
- Tim O'Hara - Reporter, The Key West Citizen
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| 0:00.0 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:08.0 | The loving husband of a woman who was killed during a parasailing accident and trust me I'm using |
| 0:19.8 | air quotes on that down in the Florida Keys on Memorial Day speaks out for the first time, telling about the horrific |
| 0:29.0 | day his wife just 33 years old in the prime of her life, their 10-year-old son and the 9-year-old |
| 0:36.9 | nephew were all three cut loose from their parasail by the captain after they were caught in wind gusts up to 30 miles an hour. |
| 0:50.9 | Of course the device crashes back down to earth hitting the 07 mile bridge down in the Keys |
| 0:58.1 | near Marathon Florida killing the mommy. |
| 1:04.0 | Now we learn the dad was literally screaming and begging the captain to save his wife, son, and nephew. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, that didn't happen. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 1:20.0 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 1:22.0 | Thank you for being with us here at crime stories and on serious |
| 1:24.6 | XM 111. I'm just imagining that scene. I can just imagine my husband David out on the water with me up in the air paralelling with the |
| 1:38.7 | twins then things go sideways and him down there begging begging screaming for the captain to |
| 1:46.1 | save us me looking down if I could from up in the something. We went on a trip with my mother, the twins, Dave, and I out to Vegas. Not to gamble. I do not like to gamble. I feel like I might as well throw my money out on 3rd Avenue. |
| 2:13.0 | But we like to go see the shows. |
| 2:15.0 | We like to go hiking down in Red Rock Valley. |
| 2:20.0 | Go to all the fancy restaurants, really have a good time. |
| 2:26.1 | Well, we were also, okay, we went to Hoover Dam, |
| 2:29.5 | which was awesome and got a tour of that. |
| 2:32.4 | But the day we went to Hoover Dam, |
| 2:34.7 | we were supposed to go on a helicopter tour |
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