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May 16, 2023 · Jack Elliott, a 19-year-old Texas Christian University freshman from Newport Beach, was killed in October 2019 after the girl he was kissing gave him a "playful little shove" that sent him ...
- College Life Begins
- Weekend Plans
- Perfect Start to The Day
- Chaos Erupts
- Deception Begins
- A Parent’s Worst Nightmare
- ‘Honest Answers’ That Weren’T
- Body Recovered 109 Feet Down
- Mystery Deepens
- ‘Playful Little Shove’
At the center of the tragic saga was Jack Elliott, a Corona del Mar High School graduate with a close-mouthed grin, a knowing smile that now haunts his parents, Brett and Amy. Jack was a hometown athlete, No. 2 for the Sea Kings football team. He was all-Sunset League, a two-year starter as a cornerback. Friends knew him as outgoing and enthusiasti...
Jack had been in college only eight weeks when he and some friends jumped into a borrowed car on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, to make the three-hour drive from Fort Worth to the Austin City Limits music festival at Zilker Park, along the Colorado River. On the bill for the three-day festival were Cardi B, Billie Eilish, Childish Gambino and other major...
Traveling in separate cars, the 12-member group ventured to the lake, led by Carson Neel, whose father, Billy, ran the marina. They stopped at the boat shop for cigarettes, ice and snacks, loaded up the vodka, beer and White Claw and set off about 3:30 p.m. with Carson at the wheel of the wakeboarding boat. Carson had plenty of experience in the ca...
After several hours on the water, the boat rumbled hard, as if it had run over something. That’s when the partiers noticed Jack was gone. Carson had the vessel on cruise control, traveling just over 10 mph, and Elle was at the wheel. Chaos erupted as the group realized what that bump meant. It was 8:27 p.m., about 90 minutes past sunset. Carson tur...
Elle called 911. She gave her name to police as “Elle Macpherson.” She would later say in a sworn deposition that she was unfamiliar with the name of the famous supermodel and actress. Carson convinced the group there was nothing more they could do out on the water. On the way back, they dumped the remaining alcohol overboard. And since Carson and ...
That night, in Corona del Mar, Brett Elliott got a phone call from a friend, who asked if he had heard from Jack. Social media was abuzz with the news of a boating accident involving TCU students. Brett wasn’t overly alarmed and was less worried after he called another TCU father, who said he hadn’t heard anything. As a precaution, Brett telephoned...
Two days after the accident, some of the teens got together with their parents in a meeting room at a Courtyard by Marriott in Fort Worth. By then, authorities had called off the active search for Jack and now were focused on retrieving his body. The Elliotts were grieving, and not knowing how their only son died just made the pain worse. All they ...
Lake Travis is a manmade reservoir, 210 feet deep, 65 miles long, 4.5 miles wide. Beneath the muddy water are pecan orchards, with tangled branches protruding from the deep. Sixteen searchers, five boats and cadaver dogs descended on the lake, hampered in their hunt by the treacherous orchards, according to published reports. Brett Elliott knew a g...
The online student news site at Texas Christian University said Jack had fallen from the boat. So did a short story in Orange County’s Daily Pilot newspaper. The reports made Brett grit his teeth. His son didn’t just fall into the water. “My heart is broken into a million pieces,” Brett wrote in Jack’s Facebook memorial. “But, with each passing mon...
The Elliotts filed a wrongful death suit in January 2020 against Carson, Delaney and Elle, hoping to force them to testify under penalty of perjury to the events surrounding Jack’s death. By late 2020, several of the teens underwent questioning under oath or provided sworn statements about what they saw and what they did on the boat. Even though th...
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May 16, 2023 · Jack Elliott, a 19-year-old Texas Christian University freshman from Newport Beach, was killed in October 2019 after a girl he was kissing gave him a “playful little shove” that sent him ...
May 16, 2023 · Originally from Newport Beach, California, he was killed while on a boat with a group of friends, when a girl playfully pushed him, causing him to fall overboard and tragically come into contact with the boat's propeller. Elliott's passing deeply impacted the community.
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Aug 7, 2022 · In their panic, the teens hatched a plan to hide the truth from authorities and even Jack's family in Newport Beach. It would take 10days to recover Jack's body at a depth of more than 100 feet, and two years to fully unravel what happened that day on Lake Travis outside Austin.
Oct 26, 2019 · The body of Jack Elliott, 19, a graduate of Corona del Mar High School and a student at Texas Christian University, was recovered from Lake Travis on Thursday, more than a week after he was...
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Oct 25, 2019 · Jack Elliott, 19, of Newport Beach, California, was positively identified Thursday, according to reports from the Texas Parks & Wildlife office. Elliott disappeared after falling off a...
