Nolan Wells' DA Waited A Month To Ask For His Phone

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Aug 20, 2026 · 22m

DA Angel Myers McIlrath has subpoena power. She could have compelled Nolan Wells' phone the day after July 15, when her office and the family agreed to a joint forensic examination. She didn't. A month passed with no date set and no forensic protocol drafted. Then on August 12, her office sent the family a letter with a 44-hour deadline to deliver the phone to her office, not the community college lab both sides had agreed on. Nolan's parents were in Atlanta at the time. They weren't scheduled to return before the deadline. The family's attorneys called the timeline bad faith and fired back…