Did Nolan Wells' Two Autopsies Come Back The Same?

Did Nolan Wells' Two Autopsies Come Back The Same?

July 21, 2026 · 21 min

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The episode discusses the discrepancies between two autopsies of Nolan Wells and the implications of their findings.

There are two examinations of Nolan Wells and nobody outside a very small circle knows what either one says. The Mississippi State Medical Examiner's Office handled the first. The family's legal team arranged the second, sending his body to Washington, D.C. Live, Tony Brueski works through the mailbag on that split — and the biggest question is the collision nobody wants to name out loud. If those two examinations don't match, what happens next? Whose science gets believed? Who decides? Neither result has been released. Cause and manner of death for the eighteen-year-old Ocean Springs athlete remain undetermined. Attorney Ben Crump indicated early on that the independent results would come quickly, and later said he hoped to share them soon. Underneath it all is the credibility problem. Officials said they believed Nolan drowned and did not suspect foul play at a point when no completed autopsy existed. The same sheriff's office has stressed that investigators are working diligently to determine exactly what occurred. Those two positions have been sitting side by side for weeks. There's the phone, too — carried off the island by his friends, according to Crump, and returned to…

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Host: Tony Brueski

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Organizations: Mississippi State Medical Examiner's Office, Washington, D.C.

Places: Ocean Springs

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