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Reward Surges to $175K in Mysterious Death of Mississippi Football Star Nolan Wells | Crime Alert 08.01.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvanni. It has been twenty five days since
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  Speaker 2: the body of eighteen year old high school football star
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  Speaker 2: Nolan Wells was recovered on Horn Island, a picturesque getaway
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  Speaker 2: off the Mississippi coast, where the Ocean Springs teenager went
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  Speaker 2: by boat to celebrate the fourth of July. Wells never
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  Speaker 2: returned home that evening, triggering a massive multi agency search
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  Speaker 2: before his body was found on July sixth. The case
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  Speaker 2: has drawn national attention and widespread online speculation after photo
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  Speaker 2: surface showing Wells, who was black, with white friends on
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  Speaker 2: the boat that day. High profile attorney Ben Crump represents Wells' parents,
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  Speaker 2: Elmore and Christine Wansley. The Jackson County Sheriff's Department leads
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  Speaker 2: the investigation, while District Attorney Angel Meyers McIlrath confirmed case
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  Speaker 2: details will remain sealed until presented to a grand jury.
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  Speaker 2: With official updates, limited frustration mounts across the Mississippi Coast
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  Speaker 2: as unverified claims spread across the inner National interest has
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  Speaker 2: intensified following significant financial reward pledges actor Tyler Perry and
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  Speaker 2: civil rights figure Reverend al Sharpton each offered fifty thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars for information leading to an arrest, an announcement Sharpton
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  Speaker 2: made alongside the Wansley family during Wells's funeral. Former NFL
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  Speaker 2: wide receiver Terrell Owens pledged an additional twenty five thousand dollars. Now,
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  Speaker 2: doctor Benjamin Hudson, whose son Warreck, was on Horn Island
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  Speaker 2: with Nolan, on one of three votes that day Matt
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  Speaker 2: Sharpton's fifty thousand dollars offer, bringing the total reward to
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. Doctor Hudson explained
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  Speaker 2: he offered the money to bring justice to the Wells
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  Speaker 2: family and counter harmful rumors, revealing his family received thousands
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  Speaker 2: of death threats. Meanwhile, attorney Russell Latino announced he is
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  Speaker 2: preparing defamation lawsuits on behalf of another teenager who was
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  Speaker 2: on the island while serving a cease and desist letter
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  Speaker 2: to influencer Kimbria Lee. Speaking Thursday at the National Urban
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  Speaker 2: Large League Annual Conference, Christine Wansley made an urgent plea
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  Speaker 2: for witnesses to contact Ben Crump's law firm.
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  Speaker 1: Just know we will not be described. We are ready
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  Speaker 1: to do whatever we need to do as his parents,
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  Speaker 1: to continue advocate for him because Nolan is not here.
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  Speaker 1: He is not here to the street for himself. He
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  Speaker 1: is not here to tell us what happened. So again,
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  Speaker 1: we will not rest until we get answers. And if
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  Speaker 1: you know something, you need to let us know.
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  Speaker 2: That impassioned appeal from Christine Wansley highlights the agonizing weight
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  Speaker 2: for answers that continues to grip the Ocean Springs community.
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  Speaker 2: More crime and justice news after this. In New Mexico,
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  Speaker 2: a landmark ruling has delivered a major blow to prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: in the murder case against former high school cheerleader Alexi Treviso.
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  Speaker 2: In a unanimous decision, the justices of the New Mexico
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court ruled that body camera footage and incriminating statements
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  Speaker 2: Treviso made inside her hospital room cannot be used at
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  Speaker 2: trial due to doctor patient confidentiality. The high school senior
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  Speaker 2: arrived at Artegia General Hospital complaining of severe back pain
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  Speaker 2: in the early morning hours of January twenty seventh, twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, where staff administered morphine while awaiting test results.
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  Speaker 2: Treviso used the bathroom and a cleaning crew member later
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  Speaker 2: discovered a heavy trash bag containing a dead newborn baby.
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  Speaker 2: When doctor Heather Vaskis entered the room accompanied by police
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  Speaker 2: officers to disclose the discovery, body camera footage captured Treviso's
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  Speaker 2: reaction as she admitted placing the infant in the trash bag.
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  Speaker 2: We discovered a dead baby in the bathroom. Oh my gosh, Surry, LEXI,
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  Speaker 2: I told you about this. I just asked you baby
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  Speaker 2: to tell me the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Scarage was not what did you do to it? In terms,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry about this, but in terms of delivering a
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  Speaker 1: baby and it looked like you tried to hide it.
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  Speaker 2: We do have to have the police involved.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing was crime. It came out with that thing.
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  Speaker 2: Justice Michael Vigil wrote that doctor Vasquez ambushed Treviso without
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  Speaker 2: authorization by bringing armed officers into the room and disclosing
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  Speaker 2: medical information during an unresolved medical crisis. Because Treviso was
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  Speaker 2: in a compromised medical condition, the court ruled her physician
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  Speaker 2: patient privilege was not voluntarily waived. Prosecutors must now rebuild
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  Speaker 2: their first degree murder case without the hospital surveillance footage,
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  Speaker 2: body camera recordings, or the teenager's statements. Despite autopsy findings
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  Speaker 2: indicating the infant had air in his lungs and suffered
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  Speaker 2: hypoxia consistent with breathing after birth. In California, a twenty
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  Speaker 2: three year old man faces murder charges in connection with
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  Speaker 2: the shooting death of his mother, whose body was discovered
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  Speaker 2: hidden inside her vehicle. The Orange County District Attorney's Office
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  Speaker 2: announced that sixty one year old Teresa Jones was found
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  Speaker 2: dead on July eleventh in the passenger seat of her
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  Speaker 2: car parked outside the Fullerton church. Jones was reported missing
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  Speaker 2: on July seventh after failing to pick up her grandchild
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  Speaker 2: in missing repeated phone calls. Authorities alleged her son, Emmanuel Wesley,
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  Speaker 2: shot her on July fourth, directly outside the Fullerton Police Department.
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  Speaker 2: Surveillance video captured Jones driving up to the station before
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  Speaker 2: slumping over behind the wheel. Investigator say Wesley exited, pushed
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  Speaker 2: his mother into the passenger seat, and drove off. Jones,
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  Speaker 2: a devoted mother and grandmother affectionately nicknamed Cardi b By
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  Speaker 2: loved Ones for bringing joy and laughter, suffered two gunshot
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  Speaker 2: wounds to her back. Wesley pleaded not guilty to fell
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  Speaker 2: any murder and a firearm enhancement For more crime and
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  Speaker 2: Sydney Silvanni