- The family of 18-year-old Nolan Wells is demanding answers regarding his disappearance and death, hiring audio experts to analyze a distress call from a boat on the day he vanished.
- Civil rights attorney Ben Crump announced the family's retention of forensic audio engineers to examine a July 4 recording of a boat taking on water near Mississippi's Horn Island, where Wells was last seen.
- The distress call, released by the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, features someone pleading for help, stating seven people were on board and their bilge pump failed, but assistance was later declined.
- Wells, a Black teenager, traveled to the uninhabited island with friends on July 4, but his body was found two days later, with authorities initially stating no foul play was suspected.
- An independent autopsy commissioned by Wells' family was inconclusive, and the official autopsy remains sealed pending a grand jury review, prompting Crump to also request examination of friends' cellphones.
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The mysterious audio that could unlock the truth about Nolan Wells’ final hours
