Nolan Wells’ District Attorney
Slams Ben Crump Over Alleged Cell Phone Evidence
‘Stop Playing Games!!!’
Published
The District Attorney who investigated Nolan Wells‘ death fired back at the late teen’s family lawyer Ben Crump … hours after he held a press conference with alleged new evidence.
Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath criticized Crump’s claims Thursday that texts were deleted on Nolan’s phone.
Crump and a forensic expert his team hired said they discovered data had been deleted from the phone. They said the missing messages were on Snapchat.
McLlrath said, “The user action discussed by [Crump’s team] is from other snapchat users, not someone physically accessing Nolan Wells’ phone.”
She added, “If the Crump team has evidence to the contrary, they have not provided it to us. The Grand Jury report outlined the other evidence they received, including cell phone downloads, surveillance data, GPS data, and the printed report of Nolan’s cell phone.”
She ended with another dig at Crump … writing if his team “genuinely has new information or evidence that Nolan Wells was murdered they should stop playing games and immediately provide it to me.”
Nolan disappeared July 4 during a boat outing with Warren Hudson, Jax Pitalo and Morgan Seymour. His body was found two days later. After reviewing testimony from 43 witnesses, cellphone downloads, GPS data, surveillance footage and more, a grand jury returned a “no true bill” … meaning no charges were filed. The panel said the circumstances were consistent with drowning, but Nolan’s official cause and manner of death remain undetermined.
