b'Accordingtomediareports,Langesaidworries about the danger of Verrckt caughtK. M. in court papers, was also in the room that Henry was screaming outside the house,on Travel Channel video, including his now- and appearedtwitchy.demanding that she leave his property and ac- famous words, I could die going down thisThesextraffickingvictim,K.W.,told cusing her son of burglarized him. She claimsride, was nothing more than acting. The realpolicethatHenryagreedtopayHargraves that Henry said, Im going to kill your son. IJeffHenrywasnotindicted.TheactorJeff$400 for sex with her, but only had $240 in am going to bond him out of jail and kill him,Henry, who was trying to glamorize the ride,cash on him and offered 10 all-day passes to and that her accusation is backed up with anwas indicted, he told Hollandsworth. He add- Schlitterbahn Kansas City to make up the dif-audiorecording.LangetoldKSHB-TVNews,ed, [Travel Channel producers] wanted me toference. She also told police that immediate-My biggest concern right now, because Imcreate suspense and danger, to make Verrcktly upon entering the room at the Drury Inn, safe, is my son C.J. I know this man, Jeff. Iflook really scary to add drama to the show. Henryinstructedhertoinjectmethamphet-he says that hes going to kill my son, take hisAs the Texas Monthly interview unfolded,amines into his and K. M.s necks. According word for it. To date, no charges have beenit become starkly clear why Henrys attorneysto her statement, the beating from Hargraves filed against Henry related to the incident. did not want him to speak to the press, as hehappened after she and Henry returned from This summer Jeff Henry completely un- articulated the illogic and ridiculousness of hisan hours-long excursion to Schlitterbahn, and raveled, and both his actions and statementsdefense. You know the [raft] that went air- thetraffickerthoughttheymayhavetaken reveal a bedeviled soul at the point of collapse.borne on our 90-foot model in New Braunfels?off to Texas. During their time together at the In the August 2018 edition of Texas Monthly,It was faked. We added Rollerblade wheels topark, which was closed for the day, K. W. said Henry opened up to a persistent Skip Holland- the boat to make it fly off. Unfortunately forthat Henry angrily vented about the charges sworth about the Verrckt incident and the al- Jeff Henry, even if this easily-disprovable as- against him related to Caleb Schwabs death, legations against himignoring the strong ad- sertion were true, the video of rafts flying offand that his girlfriend, K. M., was in fact a sex vice of his attorneys not to speak to the press.Verrckts slide path were of the actual ride inslave under contract for which she was to re-In Tragic Slide, Henry is quoted as saying, If IKansas City, not a model in New Braunfels ceive $50,000 in cash and a condo on the beach really believed I was responsible for the deathand, as anyone can clearly see, there were noin Texas.of that little boy, Id kill myself right now,wheels on the bottoms of the flying rafts. The arrest occurred the day after Henry THE SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIM, K. W., TOLD POLICE THAT HENRY AGREED TO PAY HARGRAVES $400 FOR SEX WITH HER, BUT ONLY HAD $240 IN CASH ON HIM AND OFFERED 10 ALL-DAY PASSES TO SCHLITTERBAHN KANSAS CITY TO MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCEUPON ENTERING THE ROOM AT THE DRURY INN, HENRY INSTRUCTED HER TO INJECT METHAMPHETAMINES INTO HIS AND K. M.S NECKS.and is described by Hollandsworth as closeSkip Hollandsworths interviews with Jeffappeared in court in Kansas City on the Schwab to tears. Henry revealed that he is depressed,Henry took place from the 16th to the 18th ofcase, and he was released within hours from that he stays in bed for as many as four days atJune, according to the story. Less than a monththe Johnson County Jail after posting $100,000 a time, and that some of his family memberslater, on the night of Friday July 13th, policebond.InOctober,afterHenrywasformally want to commit him to a mental health facility. were called to a disturbance at the Drury Inncharged with felony drug possession with the Hollandsworthwrotethathespoketohotel in Mirriam, Kansas, southwest of Kansasintent to distribute, plus paying a human traf-Henry four more times over the following twoCity. When police arrived, they detained knownficker for sex, his $500,000 bond in Wyandotte days, although his attorneys were demandinghuman trafficker, Ronnie Hargraves, who wasCounty was revoked. Prosecutors asked for a that he stop for his own good. While all crimi- later charged with assault and battery for beat- new, $2 million bond, calling Henry a flight nal defendants are protected from self-incrim- ing a trafficking victim, identified in court re- risk, but the judge settled on $1 million with ination by the Fifth Amendment, public state- cords as K. W., within an inch of her life. Thethe conditions that Henry wear an ankle moni-ments and those reported in the press are fairbeating was so severe that she lost control oftor and return to the Menninger Clinic rehab game and can be admitted in court by prosecu- her bowels after having her head slammedfacility in Houston.tors. In the Texas Monthly piece, Henry claimsagainst a wall and being punched repeatedly. Henry posted bond and was soon on his that he knew nothing about the eleven inju- Hargraves told police that the occupant ofway back to Texas. He is set to stand trial for ries on Verrckt that occurred after the ridethe hotel room, Jeff Henry, had methamphet- second degree murder and over a dozen other opened in 2014, and said, If any raft had leftamines in a metal tube inside the room. Aftercharges in the death of Caleb Schwab, by the the surface, that ride should have been shutanswering the cops knock at the door, Henryend of the year. If convicted, Jeff Henry faces a down, and I would have gone straight there toallegedly ran to the bathroom and started emp- maximum sentence of 139 years in prison and figure out what was wrongbut nobody both- tying narcotics down the sink drain. Henry re- fines of over $3 million.ered to tell me something was wrong with it.fused to allow police to search the room butAbout the impact on Schlitterbahn as a He also denied any knowledge of maintenancewas removed against his will at the request ofcompany, resulting from the tragedy in Kansas problemswiththeride,orfailuresofvitalthe hotel manager. Police discovered 61 gramsCity, Henry is quoted in Texas Monthly as say-safetyequipmentincludingriderharnessesof methamphetamines, 16 Xanax pills, and 18ing, Its a tragedy. We were a Texas tradition, and braking systems. hypodermic needles. A woman who identifiedand now its over.Henry claimed that all of his breathlessherself as Henrys longtime girlfriend, called TheCoastalBend.com THE COASTAL BEND MAGAZINEFall 2018 35TheCoastalBend.com THE COASTAL BEND MAGAZINEFEATURED: The Stories that Mattered 93'