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Three cases sitting in front of three different systems. None of those systems have delivered what was promised.Nolan Wells was an eighteen-year-old who went to a boat party on Horn Island, Mississippi, and was the only one who did not come home. The state performed an autopsy and retained his throat. The trachea, hyoid bone, and laryngeal cartilage. Nineteen days later, no results released. The family's independent autopsy came back undetermined. A grand jury referral is pending.Nancy Guthrie has been missing from her Tucson home for close to six months with no arrest and no suspect named. On the same day in July, three FBI sources gave three contradictory answers about the ransom notes. A retired FBI agent told a national audience the case is cold. Genetic genealogy testing on DNA from her home started five months ago with no public update.Lindsay Clancy's jury is seated. Both sides agree she killed her three children. She was prescribed thirteen psychiatric medications in four months. After the children died, she was intubated in a hospital bed and wrote a single question on a whiteboard. The prosecution reads it as guilt. The defense reads it as confusion.A grand jury with subpoena power is pending in Mississippi. Three FBI sources in Arizona cannot agree on the nature of their own central evidence. A medical system in Massachusetts prescribed thirteen drugs, ignored a husband saying his wife had turned into a zombie, and the state now wants to prove that patient was sane beyond a reasonable doubt. None of these institutions delivered what they were built to deliver.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines all three cases, the systems behind each, what connects their failures, and why none of them have produced the answers these families need.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NolanWells #NancyGuthrie #LindsayClancy #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JenniferCoffindaffer #FBI #GrandJury #InsanityDefense #PostpartumPsychosis

Three families asked the system for something basic. Answers. Protection. Help. None of them received it.Nolan Wells was eighteen. He went to a boat party on Horn Island, Mississippi, and was the only one of the group who did not come home. The state retained his throat during the first autopsy. Nineteen days later, no findings released. The independent autopsy returned undetermined. A grand jury is pending.Nancy Guthrie has been missing from Tucson for nearly six months. Three FBI sources gave three different answers about the ransom notes on the same day. A former FBI agent called the case cold on camera. Genetic genealogy testing began in February. Five months later, nothing.Lindsay Clancy's jury is seated in Plymouth Superior Court. Both sides agree she killed her three children. She was prescribed thirteen psychiatric medications in four months. Her husband told the doctors she had become a zombie. After the children died, intubated and unable to speak, she wrote a single question on a whiteboard. The prosecution and defense cannot agree on what that question means.A grand jury with subpoena power. An FBI that cannot agree on its own evidence. A medical system that prescribed thirteen drugs, ignored the husband's warnings, and now wants to prosecute the patient it failed. The institutions in each of these cases had one job and none of them did it.The grand jury can subpoena testimony under oath. The genetic genealogy lab has had DNA for five months and said nothing. The medical system that prescribed thirteen drugs and ignored the husband's warnings is now the same system the prosecution needs to prove produced a sane patient. Each institution had one responsibility and none of them fulfilled it.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines all three cases, the thread connecting them, what the grand jury and the trial and the investigation should produce, and what the institutions handling each one owe to the families who are still waiting.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NolanWells #NancyGuthrie #LindsayClancy #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JenniferCoffindaffer #FBI #GrandJury #InsanityDefense #PostpartumPsychosis

Eighteen-year-old Nolan Wells went to a boat party on Horn Island, Mississippi, over the Fourth of July. He was the only one of the group who did not return. He was the only Black member of the group. His body was found by a park ranger two days later.During the first autopsy, the state retained his throat. The trachea, hyoid bone, and laryngeal cartilage were all kept. Nineteen days later, the state has released nothing about what they found in those structures. The family's independent pathologist said that kind of retention is standard when there is concern about compression.The family's independent autopsy returned undetermined as both cause and manner of death. The pathologist said he could not rule out non-accidental factors. Seven questions from that examination remain unanswered. The official state autopsy is still pending.The DA has referred the death investigation to a grand jury. That body has subpoena power the sheriff does not. It can compel sworn testimony under penalty of perjury. The friends who were on the island have been telling their version publicly. Whether those versions survive an oath is the question this investigation is now designed to answer.Whether the public statements made by the people who were there hold up under sworn testimony is a question the grand jury is designed to answer. And the phones belonging to Nolan and every friend in that group will produce a digital trail of every message, every search, every deletion, and every gap. Digital forensics does not rely on anyone's recollection.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines the throat retention, the grand jury path, what the phone data will reveal, and how long investigations like this take before producing answers.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JenniferCoffindaffer #JacksonCounty #BenCrump #Mississippi #GrandJury #Autopsy

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The first autopsy on Nolan Wells did not return all of him to his family. The state retained his throat during the examination. The trachea, hyoid bone, and laryngeal cartilage were kept. The independent pathologist who later examined what was left said retention like that is standard when pathologists suspect compression.The family's independent autopsy came back undetermined. Not accidental. Not natural. Not homicide. Undetermined. The pathologist listed seven unresolved questions and said he could not rule out non-accidental factors. The official state autopsy results remain pending.Nolan Wells was eighteen years old. He went to a boat party on Horn Island, Mississippi over the Fourth of July. He was the only one in the group who did not come home and the only Black member of that group. His body was recovered two days later by a park ranger.Ben Crump announced the independent autopsy findings at the NAACP National Convention. The NAACP national board passed a resolution calling for a transparent review. The Jackson County DA has referred the case to a grand jury with subpoena power the sheriff does not possess.Many of the friends who were on that island have been talking publicly. They have given interviews. They have posted on social media. A grand jury brings something those public statements lack. Sworn testimony under penalty of perjury. Whether their accounts hold up when there are consequences for dishonesty is a question this investigation is now designed to answer.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines what the throat retention tells investigators, how long a death investigation of this scope takes to reach a grand jury, what sworn testimony changes, and what the phone data from everyone who was on that island will reveal.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JenniferCoffindaffer #JacksonCounty #BenCrump #Mississippi #GrandJury #Autopsy

Send us Fan MailA random “crinkle” sound kicks things off, but the real story quickly turns into a love letter to geocaching travel as we head to Hattiesburg, Mississippi for one of our favorite kinds of adventures: an official GeoTour. We explain what a GeoTour is, why it works so well for road trips, and how it can turn a quick stopover into a full weekend of hidden gems, local history, and surprisingly good sightseeing. Craig is joined by Joshua and special guest Jennifer (geocaching name JayBee85), who helps pull him back to Hattiesburg to finish what he started. We talk trip planning basics that actually matter, like why an Airbnb can be a better home base than a hotel, how timing affects restaurant and brewery options, and what makes a town easy to cache in. Then we dig into the highlights that make this GeoTour memorable: murals everywhere, creative hides, a passport-style completion system, and a geocoin pickup that sends you to a vintage vinyl record shop and cafe instead of a boring counter. The star of the conversation is the Pocket Museum, Mississippi's tiniest museum, tucked into an alley that rewards slow looking and repeat visits. We also share what we think tourism agencies and local geocachers should copy: real variety in locations, quality containers, and a plan for ongoing maintenance so the tour stays worth the drive. If you love geocaching, GeoTours, and small-town road trips in the United States, hit play, then subscribe, share the episode with a caching friend, and leave a review so more travelers can find the next great town.Geotour LINKCraig's Video LINKSupport the showFacebookInstagramYoutube 

A district attorney doesn't send a drowning to a grand jury. So why is that exactly what's happening in the Nolan Wells case? Nolan was eighteen, a wide receiver at Southwest Mississippi Community College from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. On the Fourth of July he went out to Horn Island, an uninhabited barrier island roughly ten miles off the Mississippi coast, with a group of friends. No buildings, no fresh water, no service, just boats until dark, and then everyone heads back to the mainland. His friends made it home. He didn't. A National Park Service ranger found his body in the water off the island's northwestern tip two mornings later, on July 6. Roughly thirteen hours passed before help was requested. A friend reportedly called the Coast Guard that night, and Nolan's mother, Christine Wonsley, called the sheriff's office shortly after. Investigators say they believe Nolan drowned. They've also said they're still working to determine exactly what happened out there. The sheriff's office said early on there was no foul play. His cause and manner of death still haven't been released, and some witnesses have reportedly been too scared to talk about what they saw. None of that explains why the district attorney has now sent the case to a grand jury. Attorney Ben Crump is running a separate, independent investigation for the family, and online, two camps have already dug in — one certain something sinister happened, one certain everyone should calm down. Neither one has seen what the grand jury is about to see. A grand jury doesn't get convened over paperwork. Somewhere between the boat leaving and the ranger finding his body, prosecutors saw something worth putting in front of twelve strangers, and they haven't said what it is. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #NolanWells #BenCrump #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #HornIsland #GrandJury #OceanSprings #Mississippi #JusticeForNolan #TrueCrimeCommunity 

Nolan Wells and d4vd — a defense attorney and former prosecutor looks at two of the most watched cases in true crime and examines what the evidence actually supports.In d4vd, the preliminary hearing put sealed evidence into open court: a digital trail of orders for chainsaws, a cadaver bag, a burn cage, and more — all allegedly under aliases, all allegedly shipped to his own address. But the defense established the chainsaws tested negative for blood and no DNA analysis followed. Evidence handling was challenged. The financial-motive special circumstance faces pushback after testimony that the defendant barely controlled his own money.In Nolan Wells, two autopsies returned no answers. The independent pathologist documented undetermined cause and manner. Mississippi retained the neck structures. Three hundred island witnesses, zero descriptions of a crime. A $125,000 reward posted before any medical evidence existed. Autopsy results announced in Chicago, not Mississippi. Cooperating friends facing threats and fabricated evidence online.Eric Faddis examines both evidence files through the lens of a defense attorney — looking at what a prosecutor has to prove, what the physical evidence actually shows, and where each case stands heading toward critical proceedings.Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NolanWells #d4vd #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #CelesteRivas #HornIsland #EricFaddis #Mississippi #LosAngeles #GrandJury

Nobody has to push someone off a boat for a death to become a crime. Prosecutors may be about to test that with the Nolan Wells case. Nolan was eighteen, a wide receiver at Southwest Mississippi Community College from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. On the Fourth of July, he and a group of friends took a boat out to Horn Island, an uninhabited barrier island roughly ten miles off the Mississippi coast. He was last seen there around three in the afternoon. His friends left without him. A National Park Service ranger recovered his body two mornings later, off the island's northwestern tip. Officials initially said they believed Nolan drowned and that they didn't suspect foul play, before the autopsy was even complete. That same office has since said investigators are working diligently to determine exactly what occurred, a statement that sits uneasily next to the first one. District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath has told the family the case will go to a grand jury once the investigation wraps. What twelve jurors do with a death that has never been formally classified, and whether leaving a person behind on an island can amount to a crime on its own, is the question at the center of this one. Attorney Ben Crump says Nolan's friends had his phone after leaving the island, and that messages had been deleted by the time the family got it back. Crump's experts and Jackson County investigators have agreed to examine the device together. The family has also arranged its own independent autopsy in Washington, D.C., separate from the one performed by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner's Office. Neither result has been released. Two autopsies, a missing chunk of texts, and a legal theory nobody has tested yet. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #NolanWells #BenCrump #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #HornIsland #GrandJury #JacksonCountyMS #MississippiNews #JusticeForNolan #IndependentAutopsy 

There are ninety minutes in the Nolan Wells timeline that nobody has ever fully explained, and they sit right at the center of everything. Nolan was eighteen, a wide receiver at Southwest Mississippi Community College from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The timeline itself is mostly machine-logged and undisputed. A boat left a dock outside Ocean Springs at 9:56 on the morning of the Fourth of July. The group reached Horn Island by 11:14. The boat left the island at 4:31 that afternoon, passed Fort Bayou near 5:52, reached a dock at 6:06, and was pulled from the water at a launch by 7:19 before heading overland to Biloxi. Between those clean, logged numbers sits the gap. Nolan was last seen on the island around three in the afternoon. Around four, the boat's operator called a towing company to report the boat was taking on water. Investigators haven't publicly explained those ninety minutes. Neither have the friends who were out there. Neither has the family's own legal team. A National Park Service ranger recovered Nolan's body at 8:45 Monday morning off the island's northwestern tip, in the exact patch of water that had turned up nothing during a search the day before. There's a phone left on the dashboard with two competing explanations, an empty photo roll with two competing explanations, and a video that circulated widely with two competing accounts of how it surfaced. Attorney Ben Crump says Nolan's friends had his phone after he was left behind, and that messages had been deleted by the time the family got it back. No agency has released a cause or manner of death. Ninety minutes is a long stretch of ocean to leave unaccounted for. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #NolanWells #BenCrump #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #HornIsland #OceanSpringsMS #MississippiNews #JusticeForNolan #ColdCase #TrueCrimePodcast 

Nolan Wells was last seen on Horn Island on the Fourth of July. Help wasn't requested for roughly thirteen hours. Nolan was eighteen, a wide receiver at Southwest Mississippi Community College, out on the island with friends from Ocean Springs. Horn Island sits about ten miles off the Mississippi coast, uninhabited, no buildings, no fresh water, no service. On the holiday it's packed with boats until dark, and then every one of those boats turns back toward the mainland. His friends made it home. He didn't. A National Park Service ranger found his body in the water off the island's northwestern tip two mornings later, on July 6. Investigators say they believe Nolan drowned, but they've also said they're still working to determine exactly what happened out there in those missing hours. A friend has said he called the Coast Guard that night, and that Nolan's mother, Christine Wonsley, called the sheriff's office shortly after. What isn't clear is why so much time passed between the moment Nolan was last seen and the moment anyone outside that group of friends knew he was missing. The sheriff's office said early on there was no foul play, a line that landed before the public had any real answers to weigh it against. His cause and manner of death haven't been released. Some witnesses have reportedly been too scared to talk about what actually happened on that island. Attorney Ben Crump is now running an independent investigation for the family, and the district attorney says the case is headed to a grand jury. Thirteen hours is a long time to be missing on an island with no way to call for help. It's an even longer time for a mother to wait for answers she still doesn't have. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #NolanWells #BenCrump #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #HornIsland #OceanSprings #MississippiNews #JusticeForNolan #GulfCoast #TrueCrimePodcast 

d4vd and Nolan Wells — two active cases with evidence that public discussion has outpaced, both examined by defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis.The d4vd preliminary hearing unsealed prosecutors' digital evidence for the first time: online orders for chainsaws, a cadaver bag, a burn cage, an inflatable pool — all allegedly shipped to his own address under aliases. The digital trail looks devastating. But cross-examination revealed all three chainsaws tested negative for blood and no DNA testing was ordered. The cadaver bag was not fully preserved. The defense is planting flags that go directly at the prosecution's physical evidence and financial-motive special circumstance.In Nolan Wells, the independent autopsy came back undetermined. The pathologist could not examine the neck structures because Mississippi retained them. Three hundred people were on Horn Island and not one described a crime. But a $125,000 reward was posted before the autopsy results were announced. The results were announced at the NAACP Convention in Chicago, not in Mississippi. The friends who cooperated are being threatened.Eric Faddis examines what each evidence file actually contains — and where the gap between public narrative and physical evidence is widest.Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#d4vd #NolanWells #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #CelesteRivas #HornIsland #EricFaddis #Mississippi #LosAngeles #GrandJury

Nolan Wells — two separate autopsies have been performed on this eighteen-year-old's body and neither can provide a cause of death. The independent examination came back undetermined. The state examination has not been released. And one critical part of the body — the neck structures — was retained by Mississippi's medical examiner, so the family's pathologist could never examine it for evidence of strangulation.Three hundred people were on Horn Island. Not one has described seeing a crime. Sixty witnesses have spoken to law enforcement. The three friends present cooperated and gave statements matching dispatch audio from the Coast Guard. A forensic examination found discoloration on the back of Nolan's head but no fractures or lacerations underneath. State toxicology is still pending.Eric Faddis, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, breaks down whether undetermined helps the family or just keeps the door open indefinitely — and what happens when a DA presents "we don't know how he died" to a Mississippi grand jury.Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NolanWells #HornIsland #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #Mississippi #Autopsy #GrandJury #EricFaddis #JacksonCounty #ForensicPathology

Nolan Wells — the family's independent autopsy results came back undetermined. They were announced at the NAACP National Convention in Chicago by attorney Ben Crump, with Nolan's parents present. The investigation is in Jackson County, Mississippi, where the DA has already met with the family and agreed to present the completed investigation to a grand jury. The FBI is involved. Sixty witnesses have been interviewed.But the announcement wasn't made in consultation with investigators. It was made at a civil rights convention with national press. The NAACP president called Mississippi officials "derelict" — while those same officials are actively cooperating with a grand jury referral. Al Sharpton, Tyler Perry, and Terrell Owens have combined for $125,000 in reward money offered for an arrest and conviction before any evidence of a crime was established.The friends who were with Nolan — who cooperated, gave statements, and whose account matches dispatch audio — are receiving threats. A chancery judge connected to one of the friends posted publicly about threats to her own family. AI-generated images are being treated as evidence online.Eric Faddis breaks down who this machinery serves, whether the family has a legal case or a media campaign, and who is accountable for the threats and misinformation if no crime is found.Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NolanWells #HornIsland #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #Mississippi #BenCrump #NAACP #GrandJury #EricFaddis #JacksonCounty

Nolan Wells' independent autopsy results came back undetermined. But inside that finding are two separate conclusions that everyone with a platform is refusing to separate. The autopsy checked for evidence of physical force and found none. No fractures, no deep tissue injuries, no lacerations on an eighteen-year-old athlete's body. Those findings stand regardless of the limitations in the report. But the autopsy could not answer the drowning question because the first examination in Mississippi had already dissected the organs, retained the neck structures, and examined the airway — all standard forensic procedure, confirmed by the independent pathologist's own report. Tony lays out every finding, walks through both expert opinions on the red discoloration on Nolan's skull, and confronts the uncomfortable reality: the state has a completed autopsy with every answer the independent one couldn't reach, and they're not sharing it. A combined $125,000 in reward money sits on the table. The grand jury referral is pending. The DA isn't talking.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Mississippi #BenCrump #Autopsy #JacksonCounty #ColdCase #Justice

Nolan Wells — before the independent autopsy came back undetermined, before the state released its findings, before any medical examiner could say how Nolan Wells died, a combined $125,000 in reward money hit the table. Al Sharpton announced fifty thousand at the funeral through the National Action Network. Tyler Perry pledged to help fund the reward and cover funeral costs. Terrell Owens added twenty-five thousand. All of it offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction.An arrest for what? No crime has been established. No suspect has been named. The coroner found no obvious trauma. The independent autopsy found undetermined cause and undetermined manner.Nolan's attorney Ben Crump announced those autopsy results at the NAACP National Convention in Chicago — not in Pascagoula, not with investigators, but at a civil rights convention with standing-room-only national media coverage. The NAACP president called Mississippi officials "derelict in their duties" at the same press conference. Meanwhile, the friends who cooperated with investigators are receiving threats and AI-fabricated evidence is spreading across platforms.Eric Faddis examines the gap between what the evidence says and what the narrative around this case is building toward.Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Mississippi #BenCrump #AlSharpton #TylerPerry #GrandJury #EricFaddis

Nolan Wells case — an independent forensic pathologist examined Nolan's body and delivered his findings: cause and manner of death are both undetermined. But the pathologist also reported that he never received the neck structures from the state's examination. Without those structures, he could not determine whether strangulation occurred. Mississippi says retaining neck tissue is common forensic practice. The family's legal team says it left a critical question permanently unanswered.The state toxicology results have not been released. Three hundred people were present on Horn Island. Sixty witnesses have been interviewed by law enforcement. The three friends who were with Nolan gave statements that are backed by Coast Guard dispatch audio documenting a tow call for a sinking boat. The coroner saw no obvious signs of trauma. The DA is referring the investigation to a grand jury — which she describes as standard procedure for any unnatural death, not as evidence of suspected criminality.Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, walks through every piece of what is and isn't in this file and what a grand jury is realistically able to do with it.Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Mississippi #Autopsy #GrandJury #EricFaddis #ForensicEvidence #JacksonCounty

Holy Crap It's Sports with Pete Davis, a preview of the Braves' series in Baltimore, Baseball Hall of Fame debates, President Trump's White House visit with the Dodgers, immigration enforcement, the latest WNBA headlines, a Mississippi investigation drawing national attention, Bob Dylan's legendary electric Newport performance, and a fascinating look at how long humans may actually be able to live.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

WNBA controversy, immigration enforcement and the debate over border policies, political headlines, a Mississippi investigation making national news, President Trump's White House visit with the World Champion Dodgers, and a look at the future of aging and longevity. Plus, Pete Davis delivers Holy Crap It's Sports with Braves updates, Baseball Hall of Fame debates, NFL news, World Cup fallout, and more. Add in classic Kimmer commentary, history, laughs, and listener interaction for another packed edition of The Kimmer Show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In California, prosecutors lay out their case against singer D4vd during a preliminary hearing. They say he murdered 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and left her remains in his Tesla. In Massachusetts, Lindsay Clancy is standing trial for the murders of her three children. She doesn't deny killing them, but her defense team, and her husband, say she is not criminally responsible. In Dateline Round Up, early autopsy results for Nolan Wells, the Black 18-year-old who died over Fourth of July weekend in Mississippi. Updates in the case of Larry Millete, the San Diego man convicted of killing his wife after paying for spells on her. Plus the behavioral analyst who inspired the TV show "Criminal Minds" tells us what it's like interviewingserial killers.   Dateline: Missing in America Podcast Season 5: https://www.nbcnews.com/datelinemissing   Find out more about the cases covered each week here: www.datelinetruecrimeweekly.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Everyone heard "grand jury" and filled in the rest themselves. Charges must be coming. Someone is about to be arrested. The system is finally moving. Except the Jackson County DA clarified the same day: referring a case to a grand jury is the default pathway when a death in the county cannot be readily explained. The referral itself does not mean law enforcement suspects foul play.This episode cuts through the noise and explains what a Mississippi grand jury actually does. Not the social media interpretation. The real one — where a panel of citizens convened by a circuit court judge reviews evidence in a sealed proceeding and decides whether probable cause exists to bring formal charges.Probable cause is the lowest bar in the system. Clearing it does not produce a guilty verdict. It produces a formal charge — an indictment — and the case then moves to a trial with an entirely different jury and a much higher standard of proof.What makes the grand jury significant in this case is a tool most observers skip past: the authority to subpoena witnesses. Every person summoned enters that sealed room individually. They swear an oath. Their lawyer stays outside. And the questions they face carry legal consequences if they lie. In a case where the group that went to Horn Island with Nolan has offered stories that directly contradict a separate witness, that forced testimony — solo, sworn, behind closed doors — could produce clarity that no press conference ever will.Autopsy results from two separate examinations remain outstanding. The agreed-upon joint review of Nolan's cellphone data has not occurred. Witness accounts remain unreconciled. Whether the grand jury has what it needs to act depends on how much of that evidence is assembled before the case lands on their table.END LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:#NolanWells #JusticeForNolan #HiddenKillers #GrandJury #BenCrump #HornIsland #Mississippi #JacksonCounty #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity

The DA informed Nolan Wells' family that the case will go before a grand jury. The internet heard "criminal charges." The DA's office meant something else entirely — a procedural checkpoint Jackson County applies to any death that remains unexplained. One of those readings made national news. The other disappeared.This episode lays out how the Mississippi grand jury system actually functions, what authority it holds, and why the distance between public expectation and legal reality could shape whether this family ever gets answers.Mississippi runs its grand juries behind a wall. A panel of citizens drawn from the county's voter rolls sits with only the prosecutor and called witnesses. Defense lawyers are barred. So are defendants, journalists, and the public. Most Mississippi grand juries do not even use a court reporter — no transcript exists. When the panel deliberates and votes, the prosecutor exits the room. The jurors decide alone.Three outcomes are possible: formal charges, outright dismissal, or a decision to table the case for a future court term. None requires a public explanation. But the grand jury also wields investigative muscle that most observers overlook — it can compel any witness to appear, testify solo and under oath, with no attorney beside them.That authority matters here. The friends who boated to Horn Island with Nolan and returned without him have offered competing versions of what happened. A young woman on the island says Nolan planned to head back with the group. The group says he wanted to stay. Somebody is wrong. A grand jury is built to answer exactly that kind of question — behind closed doors, under penalty of perjury, one witness at a time.The state and independent autopsies are both outstanding. The phone data has not been reviewed. The evidence file is still incomplete — and what is in it when those jurors sit down will dictate every outcome that follows.END LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:#NolanWells #JusticeForNolan #HiddenKillers #GrandJury #BenCrump #HornIsland #Mississippi #JacksonCounty #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity

Megyn Kelly begins the show by breaking down the latest developments in the death of 18-year-old Mississippi teen Nolan Wells, the evidence that points to drowning, the major questions that are still remaining about what may have happened, the introduction of race into the story through Benjamin Crump and Al Sharpton, and more. Then Caitlyn Becker, host of "NY POSTcast," joins to discuss the release of Nolan Wells' family's private autopsy results, why the cause and manner of death remain undetermined, the contemptible way Crump and Sharpton are pushing a racial narrative, social media posts and a key image connected to the Nolan Wells mystery, why investigators are still awaiting a full autopsy and complete investigation, and more. Then Dave Aronberg, host of The MK True Crime Show, Matt Murphy, host of In The Well, and Arthur Aidala, host of The Arthur Aidala Power Hour, join to discuss how Ben Crump and Al Sharpton are undermining the Nolan Wells case, the total lack of evidence of a crime, Karmelo Anthony's lawyers' attempt at getting him a new trial, their claims about an "off the record" gentleman's agreement that prosecutors violated, the crucial question of why Anthony didn't testify in his defense, new exclusive reporting about why Sunny Hostin's son was handcuffed after allegedly trespassing on railroad tracks, Hostin was using her "privilege" to get him out of trouble, Timothy Busfield's strange comment in court about his potential misconduct with young boys, whether prosecutors will and should drop the charges, and more.   Subscribe to MK True Crime to find ALL the shows: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mk-true-crime/id1829831499 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4o80I2RSC2NvY51TIaKkJW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MKTrueCrime?sub_confirmation=1     Becker- https://nypost.com/ny-postcast/ Aidala- https://am970theanswer.com/radioshow/the-arthur-aidala-power-hour Aronberg: https://substack.com/@davearonberg Murphy: https://www.instagram.com/mattmurphylaw   Supersure Insurance: Upgrade your business insurance to a year-round SuperAgency at https://Supersure.com/Megyn Relief Factor: Reclaim your mobility and celebrate your freedom from aches this year by grabbing your $17.76 3-week QuickStart at https://ReliefFactor.com or by calling 800-4-RELIEF. Birch Gold: Text MK to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold Byrna: Go to https://Byrna.com or your local Sportsman's Warehouse today.     Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKelly Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShow Instagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShow Facebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at:https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The family of 18-year-old Nolan Wells announced that independent autopsy results list Nolan’s cause of death as “undetermined.” The autopsy, conducted in Washington D.C. and outside the jurisdiction of Mississippi officials, was also unable to determine the time or even day of his death. There were, however, some interesting details, including “red discoloration” on the back of Nolan’s head, but without several organs that were removed during the first autopsy, the pathologist could not rule out foul play, raising more questions as to what happened to the college teen during a Fourth of July weekend of partying with friends.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two US officials and a source familiar with the matter tell CNN that President Donald Trump has approved a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia – how will it impact the Middle East? A French model recruiter who arranged for the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to meet multiple models was found dead in his home near Paris. Ben Crump announced independent autopsy findings in the death of Mississippi teen Nolan Wells. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky makes another military shakeup. Plus, we'll tell you what Austria is turning Adolf Hitler's birthplace into to deter neo-Nazi visits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Mississippi teenager who never came off an island, and a Massachusetts mother about to face a jury. Two cases. One mailbag.Nolan Wells was eighteen, a college wide receiver, out at Horn Island on the Fourth of July with friends from Ocean Springs. The island is uninhabited, roughly ten miles offshore, with no shelter and no reliable signal. The boats went home. He wasn't on one. A National Park Service ranger recovered him from the water two mornings later. Two examinations of him exist and neither has been released. Cause and manner of death are undetermined. Ben Crump is investigating for the family and the district attorney has said the case is headed to a grand jury.Lindsay Clancy, a former nurse, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan at the family's Duxbury home in January 2023. Kevin Reddington argues she was misdiagnosed, overmedicated, and psychotic. Prosecutors have countered by pointing to other mothers who got just as sick and did something else. Eighteen jurors are being seated. Patrick Clancy is on the defense witness list. She has never given police a statement.Tony Brueski works through all of it: the boat, the island, the two autopsies, the grand jury, the medication lists, the eighteen jurors, and the question of who is speaking for three children in a Plymouth County courtroom.The mail on the Wells half goes at the boat, the island, and what charges look like when nobody will say how somebody died. The Clancy half comes from mothers who had intrusive thoughts and never told a soul, and people asking whether any ending in Plymouth County could honestly be called justice.Both cases. Your questions.END_LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#NolanWells #LindsayClancy #TrueCrimeToday #HornIsland #ClancyTrial #BenCrump #PatrickClancy #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ListenerQuestions

Nolan Wells died off a Mississippi barrier island and nobody will say how. Lindsay Clancy is facing a Massachusetts jury and nobody can say what she understood. Two cases, one mailbag.Nolan Wells was eighteen, a wide receiver at Southwest Mississippi Community College, out at Horn Island on the Fourth of July with friends from Ocean Springs. The island is uninhabited and sits roughly ten miles offshore — no shelter, no water, no signal. His friends made it back. A National Park Service ranger found him in the water two mornings later. Two examinations exist, neither released, cause and manner of death undetermined. Ben Crump is investigating for the family. District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath has said a grand jury will see it.Lindsay Clancy, a former nurse, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan in Duxbury in January 2023. Kevin Reddington argues she was misdiagnosed and overmedicated into psychosis. Prosecutors have answered by pointing at other mothers who got sick and locked themselves away instead. Eighteen jurors are being seated. Patrick Clancy is on the defense witness list. She has never spoken to law enforcement.Tony Brueski reads all of it — every question about the boat, the island, the autopsies, the grand jury, the medications, and the verdict nobody can call justice.The mail on the Wells half goes at the boat ride, the two autopsies, and what a grand jury can do with a death nobody will classify. The Clancy half comes from mothers who recognize the illness, people who can't get past three children, and people asking what verdict could honestly be called justice.Both cases. Your questions.END_LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#NolanWells #LindsayClancy #HiddenKillers #HornIsland #ClancyTrial #BenCrump #PatrickClancy #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ListenerQuestions

As today's show begins, four US service members who were killed over the weekend are returning home to receive a dignified transfer. This is happening as the US military carries out an 11th straight day of strikes against Iran ... Will a newly released autopsy help answer questions about the death of Mississippi teen Nolan Wells? ... Tropical Storm Bertha is inching its way toward Louisiana, but the brunt will be felt hundreds of miles away, where it's expected to drop a month's worth of rain over the next two days.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On today's episode, Andy and DJ break down the investigation after an armed suspect allegedly set off an incendiary device outside a federal building in Manhattan, Mamdani's push to find a legal way to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits New York City, and a wild brawl between parents at a 15U baseball World Series in Mississippi.

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7.20.2026 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Nolan Wells Laid To Rest. $100K Reward Offered. Officer Quits After Violent Arrest of Black Teen. _ For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial (724) 264-8281 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/roland Paid Partnership _ The city of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, came out to support Nolan Wells at his funeral. We'll share what his parents had to say and discuss the $100,000 reward offered for any information that could bring his family some closure. The Democratic National Committee is debating which states should vote first in the upcoming presidential primary calendar, with nearly a dozen states vying for these important early spots. The Chair of South Carolina's Democratic Party will join us to explain what's at stake. In Florida, a police officer has resigned after newly released body camera footage revealed a violent takedown of a misidentified Black teenager. And Cathy Hughes, media pioneer, received the Keys to the City of Washington, D.C. She'll join us to reflect on her remarkable career and what this honor means to her. Black Star Network Partner: Chapter Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. ____ Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, XBox and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An eighteen-year-old college athlete named Nolan Wells took a boat to Horn Island on the Fourth of July with friends from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Every one of those friends made it back to the mainland. He was found in the water off the island two mornings later by a National Park Service ranger.The mail on this case has almost nothing to do with the forensic questions dominating national coverage. It's about a decision. Somebody started an engine. Somebody untied a line. Somebody looked at an empty seat and went home anyway.Tony Brueski reads those messages and works through what makes them so hard to shake — starting with what Horn Island actually is. Not a resort island. Not a town. An undeveloped barrier island roughly ten miles offshore with no shelter, no fresh water, and no dependable way to reach anybody. Beautiful in daylight. Completely unforgiving after dark.The questions in this mailbag come down to what the friends have said and what they've avoided saying. Whether anyone thought he was on a different boat, and whether anyone checked. How a person survives a night out there with nothing.Per the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, a friend contacted the Coast Guard late that night and Nolan's mother, Christine Wonsley, contacted the sheriff's office shortly afterward. Officials have said they believe he drowned and do not suspect foul play, while also saying the work of determining exactly what happened continues.Cause and manner of death have not been released. Ben Crump is investigating independently for the family. The district attorney has said a grand jury will see it.Everything in this case starts on that island.END_LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#NolanWells #BenCrump #TrueCrimeToday #HornIsland #OceanSprings #MississippiNews #JusticeForNolan #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #GulfCoast

Everything in the Nolan Wells case is now stacked behind a grand jury, and that grand jury is waiting on findings nobody has released. Two examinations exist. One from the Mississippi State Medical Examiner's Office, one arranged by the family's attorneys, who sent the eighteen-year-old's body to Washington, D.C. Neither has been made public. Cause and manner of death remain undetermined.Tony Brueski takes the mailbag on the back half of this case — the procedural half, which the audience has turned into something more personal than procedure.The questions go straight at what a grand jury can do with a death that has never been formally classified. Whether leaving somebody behind on a barrier island ten miles offshore is a crime in Mississippi or simply a thing everyone involved has to carry. What happens on the day two examinations of the same young man say two different things.Then the credibility problem: why officials said they believed Nolan drowned and didn't suspect foul play before a completed autopsy existed — and why that same office has since emphasized that investigators are working diligently to determine exactly what occurred.Attorney Ben Crump has said Nolan's friends took his phone with them when they left Horn Island and that messages had been deleted by the time the family got it back. Crump's team and Jackson County investigators agreed to inspect the phone together.District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath has told the family the case goes to a grand jury once the investigation is complete.Until then, a family in Ocean Springs is waiting on paperwork.END_LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#NolanWells #BenCrump #TrueCrimeToday #JusticeForNolan #JacksonCountyMS #MississippiNews #GrandJury #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #IndependentAutopsy

Was Nolan Wells's death a terrible accident, or did something happen on that island that nobody wants to say out loud? The honest answer is that no one can tell you yet — and that uncertainty is exactly why this case deserves more care than the internet is giving it.Nolan Wells, 18, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, went out to a barrier island with friends and didn't come back. His body was recovered from the water two days later. The sheriff's early framing was that he chose to stay behind. The autopsy is finished but sealed. And in the absence of facts, two camps have hardened — one convinced of foul play, one convinced everyone should let it go. Neither has the evidence to be that certain.This breakdown steps back from the shouting. It examines why Nolan ended up alone out there, why the emergency response lagged, and why Mississippi's own past — the kind that includes Emmett Till and Medgar Evers — makes it reasonable for people to demand a real investigation instead of a quick official reassurance. It also insists on the other half: that a demand for scrutiny can't curdle into convicting people no one has met, and that a tragic accident, if that's what this turns out to be, deserves the same respect as any other truth.The Wells family isn't asking for a verdict. They're asking for answers. This is a look at why those answers can only come from evidence — the autopsy, the toxicology, the video, the witnesses — and never from whichever side yells the loudest.END_LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:  #NolanWells #HornIsland #TrueCrimeToday #OceanSprings #Mississippi #BenCrump #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity #Unsolved #JusticeForNolan

There's a photograph from a Fourth of July boat trip, and Nolan Wells is the only person of color in it. Days later, he's the only one from that group who isn't coming home. That single fact is why the Nolan Wells case has gripped the country — and why the questions around it are so hard to put down.Wells, an 18-year-old from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, went out to Horn Island with friends and never made it back. His body turned up in the water off the northwest tip of the island. The sheriff said he chose to stay behind. The autopsy is finished but sealed. And the answers his family is asking for — how he ended up alone out there, why help was so slow, what actually happened before he died — still don't exist.This isn't a rush to judgment in either direction. It's an argument for why this case has to be investigated all the way to the bottom, and why the people shouting the loudest on both sides are getting in the way of that. It walks through the 13-hour delay before the Coast Guard was called out, the "no foul play" statement that poured gasoline on everything, the witnesses too frightened to speak, and the long shadow of Mississippi's own record of looking away from deaths exactly like this one.The point isn't that one theory is right. The point is that nobody knows yet — and pretending otherwise dishonors a kid whose family is still just waiting to be told what happened to their son.END_LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:  #NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillers #OceanSprings #Mississippi #BenCrump #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity #Unsolved #JusticeForNolan

Everybody arguing about the Nolan Wells case online is arguing about the wrong hour. Not the autopsy. Not the phone. The boat ride home — the moment a group of eighteen-year-olds untied from a barrier island and left one of their own behind on it.Horn Island sits about ten miles off Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The National Park Service keeps it undeveloped. There is no shelter out there, no drinking water, no store, no cell tower. For one day a year it's the best party on the coast. Every other hour of the year it's empty, and after dark on the Fourth it goes right back to empty.Nolan Wells was a college wide receiver, eighteen years old, out there with kids he grew up with. They came home. He was found in the water two days later by a National Park Service ranger, off the island's northwestern tip.Tony reads the mailbag straight. Nobody wrote in asking about tide charts. They wrote in asking how you get on a boat and look at an empty seat and pull away from the dock. They wrote in asking whether anybody counted. They wrote in asking what that island offers a person who's still on it at midnight, alone, with no way to call anyone.The sheriff's office has said a friend reached the Coast Guard that night and that Nolan's mother called the sheriff's office soon after. Officials have said they believe he drowned while simultaneously insisting the work to determine what actually occurred is ongoing.No cause of death has been released. Ben Crump is investigating for the family. A grand jury is coming.The island first. Then everything else.END_LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#NolanWells #BenCrump #HiddenKillers #HornIsland #OceanSprings #MississippiNews #JusticeForNolan #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #GulfCoast

Dangerous weather is impacting much of the U.S., with Tropical Storm Bertha nearing the Gulf Coast while severe storms trigger flooding and possible tornadoes across parts of the East Coast. Federal health officials say iceberg lettuce grown by Taylor Farms in central Mexico has been linked to this summer's Cyclospora outbreak. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said last year's budget cuts had no impact on the outbreak or investigation as questions continue over the federal response. New video of what appears to be Nolan Wells before his death following a Fourth of July boat trip with friends in Mississippi. Authorities say there's been no indication of foul play.

The sheriff's answer tells you everything about why this case exploded. Asked how an 18-year-old ended up dead and alone on an island ten miles offshore, the response was basically that Nolan Wells chose to stay. For a grieving family, that isn't an answer — it's a door slamming shut.The Nolan Wells case has become a national flashpoint, and for good reason. Wells, a college football player from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, went to Horn Island with friends on the Fourth of July. They came back. He didn't. Two days later his body was found in the water. A finished autopsy hasn't been released. The family commissioned a second one. And every hour without answers, the theories grow louder and further apart.This conversation cuts through the noise. It lays out what's actually known versus what people are filling in on their own, why the state's history — from Emmett Till to Medgar Evers — makes blind trust impossible for so many, and why "just calm down and move on" is not the neutral, sober position it imagines itself to be. It also draws a hard line: earned suspicion is not the same as proof, and using a real history of injustice to convict strangers is its own kind of shortcut.Everyone wants to be right about Nolan Wells. Almost nobody wants to wait for the truth. This is about why the waiting — and the demanding — both matter, and why the family deserves every bit of it.END_LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS:  #NolanWells #HornIsland #HiddenKillersLive #OceanSprings #Mississippi #BenCrump #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeCommunity #FourthOfJuly #JusticeForNolan

Nolan Wells, eighteen years old, rode a boat out to Horn Island on the Fourth of July with friends from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The boats went home that evening. He wasn't on one. Two days later a park ranger found him in the water.Live and unfiltered, Tony Brueski takes the mailbag on this case — and the volume is on one subject. Not toxicology. Not the timeline. The decision to leave.Understanding why that decision lands so hard means understanding what Horn Island actually is. It's an uninhabited barrier island about ten miles off the Mississippi coast, protected and undeveloped. No structures. No fresh water. No reliable signal. On the holiday it's packed. By nightfall there's nothing out there but sand, pine, mosquitos, and the Gulf.The mailbag keeps asking the same thing in a dozen different handwritings. Did anybody count heads. Did anybody ask. Did anybody say wait. And if somebody genuinely believed he'd catch a ride with another group — what was he supposed to do out there if that ride never came?Jackson County Sheriff John Ledbetter has said one of Nolan's friends was the first to report it, contacting the Coast Guard around eleven that night, with Nolan's mother, Christine Wonsley, contacting the sheriff's office around midnight. Authorities have said they believe he drowned and don't suspect foul play, while also stating investigators are still working to determine exactly what occurred.Cause and manner of death remain unreleased. Attorney Ben Crump is leading an independent investigation. The district attorney intends to present the case to a grand jury.Bring your questions. This one is about the island.END_LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#NolanWells #BenCrump #HiddenKillersLive #HornIsland #OceanSprings #MississippiNews #JusticeForNolan #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #GulfCoast

Humans eating crawfish is nothing new. In fact, in North America alone it's been going on for several thousands of years. However, the craft of deliberately farming crawfish is relatively new in the grand scheme of things. Jason Roberts, a Mississippi native, walks us through the story and process of starting up his crawfish farm. What all went into it, how he figured it out, what type of crawfish species he targets, and the unexpected harmony found between crawfish farming and waterfowl land management. Connect with Lake Pickle and MeatEater Lake Pickle on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and YouTube Clips MeatEater Podcast Network on YouTubeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Erick closes the day with his capstone thesis that America already knows what works and the left, joined by part of the right, is choosing decline: Photo ID for election integrity, phonics and memorized multiplication tables for education, the free market over “capitalism,” and the two-parent household for stability. He contrasts Mississippi's back-to-basics reading and […]

The Rickey Smiley Morning Show started the week with a mix of inspiration, headline-making celebrity stories, and major news. The crew reflected on gratitude and faith before diving into some of the biggest topics making headlines, including the ongoing investigation into the death of Mississippi teen Nolan Wells, whose funeral was held as family members continue seeking answers while awaiting official autopsy results. The show also discussed Will Smith’s dramatic new look after the Oscar winner debuted a shaved head during an appearance at the E1 Monaco Grand Prix, a transformation that quickly went viral across social media. Meanwhile, listeners weighed in on whether friends should expose cheating partners, sparking a lively debate about loyalty, honesty, and minding your business. The show also covered a bizarre incident involving Jay-Z and Beyoncé after a 63-year-old driver crashed through the gates of their East Hampton estate. Authorities say the man appeared confused and found no evidence that the couple was specifically targeted. In sports, Spain captured the 2026 FIFA World Cup title with a dramatic 1-0 extra-time victory over Argentina, ending Lionel Messi’s title defense and giving Spain its second men’s World Cup championship. The crew also discussed reports that fans booed President Donald Trump during the trophy presentation and laughed about a viral broadcast mistake in which Pharrell Williams was mistakenly identified as A$AP Rocky. Elsewhere, news headlines included the U.S. military saying its mission involving Iran remains ongoing following deadly attacks on American service members in Jordan and Iraq, while NAACP leaders gathered in Chicago to focus on voting rights and increasing voter turnout ahead of upcoming elections. Website: https://www.urban1podcasts.com/rickey-smiley-morning-show See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The crew reflected on gratitude and faith before diving into some of the biggest topics making headlines, including the ongoing investigation into the death of Mississippi teen Nolan Wells, whose funeral was held as family members continue seeking answers while awaiting official autopsy results. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Angela Speir is a recently retired grandmother of seven from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi who scrapbooks with big florals, plenty of pop dots, and a philosophy that everyday moments matter more than holidays. As our July 2026 featured artist, she joins us for this My Way episode to share how she creates, what she's learned from decades of memory keeping, and the massive scrap room renovation that's consuming her year.

In the news for July 2026, an attempted kidnapping of a trail runner in a NC National Forest; a man charged with harassing and injuring an endangered species in Hawaii; removal of an illegal camper who literally trashed the forest; the possible foul play of a deceased young man off the coast of Mississippi on Gulf Islands National Seashore; a human consumed by a bear in Colorado; and another bison attack in South Dakota.Support the show!For bonus content join our Patreon!patreon.com/CrimeOfftheGridFor a one time donation:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/cotgFor more information about the podcast, check outhttps://crimeoffthegrid.com/Check out our Merch!!  https://in-wild-places.square.site/s/shopFollow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crimeoffthegridpodcast/ and  (1) Facebook

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This week Fran and Alvin delve into the complex and mysterious case of Nolan Wells, exploring the timeline, inconsistencies, and social implications surrounding his disappearance and death. They also share personal stories and insights into "being the only one", race, and societal issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Mississippi Kite is one of America's most elegant raptors. These dove-gray birds spend the summer hunting over plains and woodlands in the southern United States. They often nest colonially — unusual for hawks — with a half-dozen pairs in sight of one another in a grove of tall trees. By nesting in groups, they can work together to mob an approaching predator. This show is dedicated to the memory of Rusty Rose, a great friend to birds everywhere, including a group of Mississippi Kites he followed, watched, and protected on his ranch in Texas. More info and transcript at BirdNote.org. Want more BirdNote? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Sign up for BirdNote+ to get ad-free listening and other perks.  BirdNote is a nonprofit. Your tax-deductible gift makes these shows possible. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In Mississippi, 18-year-old Black teen Nolan Wells was found dead after not returning home from a July 4th boat party on Horn Island. Prosecutors lay out their case against a Los Angeles businesswoman who has been charged with masterminding the murder of her husband, Dr. Hamid Mirshojae. In Dateline Round Up, a verdict in the trial of Larry Millete, accused of killing his wife, Maya, in 2021. Updates in the case of Lee Gilley, the Houston man who fled to Italy while awaiting trial for allegedly murdering his pregnant wife. Plus, law professor breaks down Supreme Court ruling on geofencing, a controversial investigative tool.   Find out more about the cases covered each week here: www.datelinetruecrimeweekly.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.