The Mysterious Audio That Could Unlock The Truth About Nolan Wells’ Final Hours

The family of 18-year-old Nolan Wells is demanding answers aft hiring audio experts to analyse a distress telephone made from a vessel connected nan time he disappeared, raising caller questions astir what happened during nan last hours earlier his assemblage was found.

Civil authorities lawyer Ben Crump announced Thursday that nan family has retained forensic audio engineers to analyse nan July 4 recording, which captures a telephone for thief from a vessel taking connected h2o adjacent Mississippi's Horn Island, wherever Wells was past seen alive.

The call, released this week by nan Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, features personification pleading for assistance aft a bilge pump failed.

"Our bilge pump stopped working. We're sinking. Can y'all please come?" nan caller says, adding that astir 7 group were connected board.

But earlier rescuers arrived, a Sea Tow skipper was told by a comparative of nan boat's proprietor that those aboard had fixed nan problem and nary longer needed help.

Exactly who was connected nan boat, what happened aft nan telephone and whether it is connected to Wells' disappearance stay unanswered.

Authorities person said witnesses told investigators Wells was not connected nan vessel erstwhile it near Horn Island, but person released fewer further specifications astir nan timeline of his last hours.

Crump said nan family is besides asking prosecutors to bring successful extracurricular experts to analyse nan cellphones of nan friends who traveled pinch Wells to nan island.

"We will not remainder until we get answers," Wells' mother, Christine Wonsley, said Thursday.

The Black teen traveled to nan uninhabited land pinch a group of achromatic precocious schoolhouse friends connected July 4 but ne'er returned to nan mainland pinch them. His assemblage was recovered floating disconnected nan land 2 days later.

Jackson County Sheriff John Ledbetter said soon aft nan find that Wells' friends were cooperating pinch investigators and that authorities did not fishy foul play. The investigation remains open.

An independent autopsy commissioned by Wells' family was incapable to find really he died. The charismatic autopsy has not been released and will stay sealed until a expansive assemblage reviews nan evidence, a modular process successful Jackson County.

The deficiency of nationalist accusation has fueled wide speculation astir nan case, while investigators person remained mostly silent astir cardinal questions surrounding Wells' death.

Following nan merchandise of nan distress call, immoderate group mentioned successful nan signaling were identified online and subjected to harassment, according to their families.

The parents of a 21-year-old man said their boy had received threats aft mendacious claims circulated online. They said he had boarded nan abnormal vessel only to thief and concisely towed it earlier cooperating afloat pinch investigators by turning complete his boat, GPS information and nan names of imaginable witnesses.

His family's lawyer said cease-and-desist letters person already been sent complete what they described arsenic defamatory allegations.

Crump said his attraction remains connected uncovering nan truth.

"We're not trying to formed aspersions connected anybody, we want nan truth," he said. "If it was your child, you'd want nan aforesaid thing."

Crump besides appeared alongside nan families of Tyler Smith of Kentucky and Daniel Erving of Texas, 2 different Black 18-year-olds whose deaths stay nan taxable of disputes pinch investigators.

"Three 18-year-old Black boys each wrong 3 months," Crump said. "We want answers."