New audio released following Nolan Wells disappearance doesn't show 'anything nefarious': retired FBI agent

A retired FBI cause says that caller audio released pursuing Nolan Wells' disappearance and decease doesn't amusement "anything nefarious."

Wells, 18, went missing July 4 aft a vessel travel with friends to Horn Island, a obstruction land disconnected Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Crews searched the country for 2 days earlier a National Parks Service ranger recovered his remains connected the island's northwestern extremity connected July 6.

Wells' friends returned to the mainland that day without him. Jackson County Sheriff John Ledbetter has said investigators judge Wells chose to stay connected the island, and it wasn't until aboriginal that nighttime that his parent learned from 1 of his friends helium was missing, prompting her to study it to authorities.

Fox News Digital obtained a signaling of a telephone made to Sea Tow connected the evening of July 4 by idiosyncratic aboard the boat, who said the vas was taking connected h2o arsenic it prepared to instrumentality to the mainland. The idiosyncratic said determination were 7 radical onboard.

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Nolan Xavier Wells disappeared connected the Fourth of July portion boating with friends, according to authorities. (Jackson County Sheriff's Department via Facebook)

"Hey, we’re astatine the westbound extremity of Horn, and our bilge pump stopped working. We’re sinking. Can y’all delight come?" an idiosyncratic tin beryllium heard saying to the Sea Tow dispatcher.

When the dispatcher asked however acold the h2o is coming wrong the boat, the idiosyncratic replied, "It’s coming up... we’re conscionable sinking. I don’t know. We’re going down though."

"And is everyone connected committee and successful bully wellness otherwise?" the dispatcher asked.

"Yeah, everyone is connected board," the idiosyncratic connected the vessel responded.

The antheral heard talking to the Sea Tow dispatcher requested idiosyncratic to travel assistance un-sink the vessel and get it towed backmost to the Fort Bayou motorboat successful Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

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Nolan Wells smiles connected the tract portion playing wide receiver for Southwest Mississippi Community College. (Christine Wonsley/Facebook)

The Sea Tow dispatcher spoke with a abstracted vessel captain, who said helium was connected the telephone with the boat's owner.

"It sounds similar a clump of kids connected committee connected Horn Island," the dispatcher said. "He’s saying the vessel is sinking and he’s connected Horn Island... It’s conscionable unfortunate, he’s conscionable a kid... there’s a batch going on... I’m guessing they’re each nether 18... He wants you guys to spell retired determination and un-pump the vessel and past tow it in?"

The dispatcher past spoke with a captain, who said helium was already connected the telephone with a antheral who owned the boat, a comparative of the teen who called, and said those connected the vessel were successful a "panic" due to the fact that the vessel wouldn't crank.

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"It sounds similar a clump of kids connected committee connected Horn Island," the dispatcher told the captain. "He’s saying the vessel is sinking and he’s connected Horn Island. It’s conscionable unfortunate, he’s conscionable a kid. It’s a batch going on.

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"He wants you guys to spell retired determination and un-pump the vessel and past tow it in," the dispatcher said.

The skipper said the boat's proprietor told him the teens didn't "need immoderate assistance close now, but if thing changes, he'll telephone maine back."

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Sea Tow didn't extremity up towing the boat.

Former FBI cause Jonathan Gilliam told Fox News Digital helium doesn't judge the Sea Tow audio points to immoderate signs of foul play, arsenic immoderate radical connected societal media person claimed.

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"I don't perceive thing nefarious... it conscionable sounded similar determination was a batch of worldly going on, that they were taking connected h2o — not panic arsenic overmuch arsenic this young idiosyncratic was trying to resoluteness a concern successful a enactment atmosphere."

Gilliam besides pointed retired that the telephone itself undercuts the thought of a cover-up.

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"By the way, they're taking connected water. They're going to beryllium calling for assistance, which could pb to authorities. If they had done something, that'd beryllium a precise atrocious clip for a idiosyncratic who'd done thing nefarious to telephone retired radical and for them to get distant with something. So I don't deliberation it added thing to the conspiracies of thing having occurred knowingly successful a nefarious manner."

Several of Wells' friends told authorities helium "chose to stay astatine the island" with an unidentified pistillate alternatively than instrumentality to the mainland with the radical helium arrived with, according to a Mississippi Department of Marine Resources constabulary study obtained by Fox News Digital.

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According to the constabulary report, authorities "did not person crushed to judge determination were immoderate h2o related exigencies oregon emergencies and helium believed the astir apt script was Nolan rode successful connected different vas but did not person his telephone successful his possession to marque interaction with family."

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During a July 22 quality conference, lawyer Ben Crump revealed that an country of "red discoloration" was recovered connected Wells' head, but said Dr. Roger Mitchell, who performed an autarkic autopsy, couldn't travel to a decision connected a origin oregon mode of decease "pending further investigation." An authoritative autopsy into Wells' decease hasn't been completed.

Wells was a wide receiver astatine Southwest Mississippi Community College and had hopes to play astatine the Division 1 level, according to Crump, an lawyer for his family.