The others are in Texas: in New Braunfels, South Padre Island, Galveston, and Corpus Christi. The Kansas City Schlitterbahn is one of five Schlitterbahn parks in the country. That day, Schlitterbahn was offering free admission to Kansas elected officials and their families, along with a buffet lunch, and the Schwabs, who lived in the town of Olathe, southwest of Kansas City, were thrilled. He had come to the park with his father, Scott, a state legislator his mother, Michele and his three brothers. Caleb was a brown-eyed boy, his nose dotted with freckles. 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 Verrückt, the world’s tallest waterslide, which loomed like a colossus over the forty-acre Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City.
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