Family Demanding Answers In Mysterious Death Of 18-Year-Old Black College Football Player
Amy & T.J.
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🗓️ 9 July 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is now representing the family of 18-year-old Nolan Wells who went missing on the Fourth of July. The college football player set out on a boat with a group of white friends to party with other young adults off the coast of Mississippi. His body was found days later off Horn Island with no explanation of how he ended up dead, in the water. As the family awaits results of an independent autopsy, police are asking anyone with videos or photos from the island party to immediately contact authorities.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Thursday, July 9th, and the mystery continues surrounding the death of an 18-year-old |
| 0:13.7 | black team who went missing on the 4th of July and was later found dead. |
| 0:19.2 | This all happened in Mississippi. Ben Crump is now involved. |
| 0:24.5 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Roves, that's where we are when people hear, |
| 0:29.6 | when we hear, Ben Crump is involved in a case. Our ears go up a little bit, and we get a little |
| 0:35.7 | more curious. But Robs, there have been some questions and a mystery surrounding this death? |
| 0:41.1 | And Robes, the mystery just deepens. |
| 0:43.1 | It really does. |
| 0:44.0 | We're talking about 18-year-old Nolan Wells. |
| 0:47.2 | He's a football player at Southwest Mississippi Community College. |
| 0:51.5 | His picture is everywhere. |
| 0:53.2 | This good-looking, smiling kid who had a bright |
| 0:57.0 | future, went off to celebrate with friends. And the pictures that we can see as he was heading |
| 1:02.4 | out to a place called Horn Island in Mississippi, where a bunch of kids were partying, |
| 1:09.4 | having fun on the 4th of July, |
| 1:11.1 | and you can see him on this boat surrounded by a group of white friends, |
| 1:15.2 | getting ready to have some fun to celebrate Independence Day. |
| 1:19.8 | And at 3 p.m., I believe that's the last time anyone reports seeing him, |
| 1:26.3 | and then it's as if he vanished. There is really no explanation |
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