Nolan Wells mystery deepens as email indicates teen drank heavily before vanishing

The mysterious decease of 18-year-old Nolan Wells has taken different crook aft a recently obtained papers listed the missing teen's intoxicant intake arsenic "heavy" arsenic authorities searched for him connected Horn Island implicit the Fourth of July weekend.

The document, a July 5 Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Marine Patrol email obtained by Fox News Digital, was sent to the U.S. Coast Guard arsenic authorities searched for Wells.

Along with his carnal statement and past known location, the email lists "Alcohol intake: Heavy," but does not place the root of that information.

Wells, an Ole Miss freshman from Jackson, Mississippi, disappeared portion connected a boating travel to Horn Island with friends. An extended multi-agency hunt ended July 6 erstwhile his assemblage was discovered.

SEARCH CALLED OFF AFTER BODY MATCHING MISSING TEEN NOLAN WELLS FOUND OFF MISSISSIPPI COAST

A recently released Marine Patrol email listed 18-year-old Nolan Wells’ intoxicant intake arsenic "heavy" portion authorities searched for him aft helium disappeared during a boating travel to Horn Island. (Christine Wonsley/Facebook)

Authorities person not publically identified a origin oregon mode of death, and the Mississippi State Medical Examiner's autopsy and toxicology results stay pending.

The recently reported details travel days aft a backstage autopsy commissioned by Wells' household concluded his origin and mode of decease were "undetermined pending investigation."

NOLAN WELLS INDEPENDENT AUTOPSY DOESN'T POINT TO FOUL PLAY, FORMER MEDICAL EXAMINER SAYS

During a July 22 quality conference, civilian rights lawyer Ben Crump said an country of "red discoloration" was recovered connected the backmost of Wells' caput but said Dr. Roger Mitchell, who performed the autarkic autopsy, could not find a origin oregon mode of decease pending further investigation. 

"Crime Stories with Nancy Grace" big Nancy Grace aboriginal discussed the findings connected her show, wherever she raised further questions astir the investigation.

She pointed to what she described arsenic heavy reddish insubstantial beneath the tegument astatine the backmost of Wells' caput and said the autarkic pathologist did not person Wells' lungs oregon pharynx erstwhile conducting the 2nd autopsy.

Grace besides questioned whether those findings could beryllium important but emphasized that she did not cognize what caused Wells' decease and noted determination were "many accidental possibilities."

Nolan Wells' assemblage was recovered July 6, but some the authoritative and autarkic autopsies person yet to find however helium died, portion questions stay astir discoloration connected his head. (Jackson County Sheriff's Department via Facebook)

"There is deep, red, subcutaneous tissue" connected the backmost of Wells' head, Grace said, adding that the discoloration was localized alternatively than accordant with postmortem humor pooling.

Grace past questioned wherefore the lungs and pharynx were unavailable during the autarkic examination.

"When the 2nd autopsy got the body, the lungs and the pharynx were missing," Grace said. "I recognize wherefore they took the lungs to find if helium had drowned, but wherefore was the cervix missing? What astir the interior of the pharynx sparked the archetypal aesculapian examiner's concern?"

She stressed that those questions stay speculative until investigators merchandise further findings.

"I don't know," Grace said. "There are galore accidental possibilities."

The Jackson County District Attorney has defended the probe amid increasing nationalist scrutiny, saying authorities are pursuing modular procedures and awaiting forensic investigating earlier drafting conclusions.

Authorities person not announced whether foul play is suspected.

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Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office and the Mississippi State Medical Examiner's Office for comment.