Here’s the one that doesn’t make sense.
Now we’re being told, again, got to be able to confirm it 100% right now we’re at like 90% confirmation of it, that one of the friends, the grandfather called or the father called, spoke with somebody and said, “Oh, they no longer need emergency á´€ssistance.
” The reason why that doesn’t really add up or make sense to me is because the kid that’s on the phone with SeaTow dispatch sounds like, “Hey, you guys need to get here.
Like, we’re taking on water.
We’re going to sink.
You guys need to get here.”
What transpired from the moment that the person allegedly called and said, “Hey, we’re all set.
They’re good.
They don’t need emergency services.”
To him being frantic on the phone?
Did that really happen?
If it did, why why was none of the friends aware of it and why wasn’t it stated at one point on that recorded line?
>> HE IS TALKING ABOUT THE BOAT taking on water.
We are sinking.
Coming to get us.
I want this boat unsank and towed back.
But, we learn that that very boat took multiple trips later that very same night.
>> At 9:56 a.m., the boat leaves the original dock.
It arrives at Horn Island at 11:14.
So, at around 4:00, there is a call to the Coast Guard about the boat.
NBC News got a hold of it.
>> We’re sinking.
Can you all please come >> And is everybody on board and good health otherwise?
>> Yeah, everybody’s all squared away.
>> At 4:31 the boat leaves Horn Island and it is towed approximately 3 miles and then the tow ends.
So after 3 miles they go back to the original dock.
They arrive at 5:44 p.m.
So it looks like this is where Horn Island is and this is where the original dock is that I am referring to.
El Camino Real Road is in Gulf Hills, Mississippi which is right above Ocean Springs.
So I’m wondering if this is the house where they got the phone.
Now the boat travels to Fort Bayou.
At 6:06 the boat returns to the original dock.
Then from the original dock the boat goes back to Fort Bayou and then they go to the boat launch and it is put onto the trailer and moved by the vehicle.
Did they drop people off at the original dock, travel to Fort Bayou, pick somebody up and go back to that original dock?
From there, why was there an hour and 13 minute time gap?
This boat was sinking hours before and then they’re just having it docked for an hour and 13 minutes.
You would think they’d want to get that boat out of the water.
What did we just hear?
What was that?
>> [ __ ] this is why they were trying to protect Barton the first place.
Remember, he’s the 21-year-old.
So he was the one that was going to be held responsible for the alcohol and all of that.
And listen, his father is in the medical field and they’re saying allegedly that they were getting the substances certain substances from the father.
Also, we got a video of Nolan Wells allegedly breaking up a fight.
This just shows his character and when it comes down to people in an altercation.
>> This is Bart Edmiston Jr., a 21-year-old adult from Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
He was an all-star kicker and punter for Ocean Springs.
Bart is currently signed to Southern Miss.
Football also runs within the family because his father, Dr.
Bart Edmiston, pain management physician, who used to be a football player at the University of Florida.
Dr.
Bart Edmiston also works for Memorial Health System.
And so does NP Ms.
Christine Wells-Wansley.
>> Mhm.
>> Small world.
He’s right there.
>> All they really want is justice.
And justice is the pursuit of truth and it just seems to be triggering people in such an odd way that I uh quite frankly don’t understand.
>> Guys, I want to circle back not only to the beginning of that MDM, our Mississippi Department of Marine Research call.
I want you to hear more, a different segment of that SEATOW, that’s s e a t o w, call.
Listen.
>> Uh Bart, it looks like you’re on Horn Island, correct?
Are you on Horn Island?
>> Yes.
>> All right.
Is the boat sinking or you have it aground?
>> We are sinking, yes.
>> Is it aground the question?
>> Uh we’re not aground.
We’re in 17 ft of wa- We’re in 31 ft of water.
>> All right, I have to ask.
Where do you And what do you want to do?
Do you want to be towed back?
>> I want to get this boat unsank and towed back, yes.
>> All right.
Where would you like your tow to, sir?
>> You can tow it to Ocean Springs Harbor or or Four Bayou launch.
>> You know what just struck me?
He’s got reception.
Why is everybody saying you can’t make calls and you can’t take pictures because there’s no reception?
He’s out in the middle of the water at those coordinates and he’s got reception.
Remember that?
Remember that, Alexis Tereschuk, Crime Stories investigator reporter?
We were told at the beginning that items were not deleted off Nolan Wells’s phone, but he wasn’t posting because there wasn’t reception, but they’re out in the middle of the water and they’ve got reception.
>> They do.
He has really good reception and you can hear it clearly throughout this call.
But the other the the stories maybe have changed a few times.
First, it was he didn’t have any reception.
The other was, “Oh, nobody took their phones on the island because you know, you had to wade through some water to get to it.”
And they even said, “Well, you know, this is salt water, not fresh water.
” As if that matters to your phone when you drop it into it.
And then but there are videos from the island.
There are even some of his friends are in videos from the island.
So, people clearly had their phone and the other friend was arguing when one of the people we’re talking about the videos that people worry about that have said that it was him.
His friend was seen in the video screaming, “Give me back my phone.”
The phones were there.
Other kids had their phones.
>> Okay, and but before I discount claims that Nolan did not have reception.
I don’t know what carrier he had.
Maybe he didn’t have reception.
My point is why everybody’s screaming to shut this investigation down, I don’t know because these are very rudimentary facts that we don’t have the answers to.
You know, um he is talking about the the boat taking on water, we are sinking, come and get us, I want this boat unsank and towed back.
But, interesting, we learn that that very boat took multiple trips later that very same night.
>> So, first at 9:56 a.m., the boat leaves the original dock.
It arrives at Horn Island at 11:14.
So, at around 4:00, there is a call to the Coast Guard about the boat.
NBC News got a hold of it.
>> We’re sinking.
Can you all please come >> And is everybody on board in good health otherwise?
>> Yeah.
Yeah, everybody’s all right.
>> Everybody’s on board.
So, does that mean Nolan is on there?
Who was on that boat?
At 4:31, the boat leaves Horn Island and it is towed approximately 3 miles and then the tow ends.
So, after 3 miles, they go back to the original dock, okay?
They arrive at 5:44 p.m.
So, it looks like this is where Horn Island is and this is where the original dock is that I am referring to.
I looked it up and El Camino Real Road is in Gulf Hills, Mississippi, which is right above Ocean Springs.
So, I’m wondering if this is the house where they got the phone.
Now, the boat travels to Fort Bayou.
At 6:06, the boat returns to the original dock.
Then, from the original dock, the boat goes back to Fort Bayou and then they go to the the launch and it is put onto the trailer and moved by the vehicle.
Did they drop people off at the original dock, travel to Fort Bayou, pick somebody up, and go back to that original dock?
And then, from there, why was there an hour and 13 minute time gap?
This boat was sinking hours before, and then they’re just having it docked for an hour and 13 minutes?
You would
Think they’d want to get that boat out of the water ASAP.
>> That’s from the real TikTok Detective and from NBC.
So, it doesn’t sound to me, Dave Mack, that the boat was sinking, cuz they’re going all over in the boat.
So, if the boat’s not sinking, why the Seatow call?
Why the distress call?
>> Yeah, Nancy, the one thing you have to remember on that first Seatow call, you know, you hear them saying, “We’re in 30 ft of water.
We’re sinking.
We need to be unsank and towed.”
But, if you follow along with that communication, the Seatow company reaches out to a local captain nearby and says, “Hey, we’ve got a boat.
Can you go take a look?”
And the captain nearest to the boat says, “Hey, I just got a call from the owner of that boat.
He says they’ve resolved the problem and don’t need us anymore.”
So, and this happened during the course of 10 minutes, Nancy.
So, they’re calling for help and then not calling for help.
So, something was definitely going on with this Triton 21-footer that they cannot explain.
>> With me now is Todd Shipley, digital expert.
Todd, listen to this.
>> Seatow á´€ssistance, Vicky speaking.
How can I help you?
>> Hey, we’re at the Oh, tip of Horn, and uh our bilge pump stopped working.
We’re going We’re sinking.
Can you all please come?
We have a membership.
>> All right, of course.
How far is the water coming up, sir?
Can you give me a description?
Ankles?
Hello?
>> Hey.
>> Is the Yes, how far is the water coming up, sir?
>> Uh it’s coming up It’s It’s We’re just sinking.
I don’t know.
Like we’re just We’re going down now.
>> Todd, how can I tell if this is real?
>> It was supposedly originally gotten from the government agency that supplied it.
It doesn’t sound like it’s a complete video to me to begin with because there should be more conversation.
So, where’s the rest of the video would be my or the audio?
Then we can start to begin to forensically look at the audio to try to figure out and pull out the voices in the background because the question is what are the people saying in the background and what exactly are they doing?
What sounds are in the background?
Are they actually at the place that they say they are based on noise in the background and other things that are happening.
So, I mean we can look at a lot of those other things within the audio itself to try to identify what’s there and what these people are saying.
Pull out those individual quotes and try to isolate them based on what they’re saying and slow down, speed it up, that kind of thing and and pull out the background noise so that there’s nothing else so we can just isolate those things.
There’s a several things that need to be done with this.
>> Todd Shipley, if you had this audio, what would you do digitally to clean it up, enhance it, and isolate it?
>> Well, there’s as I said, there’s some of the things that we can do is we can isolate the different tones, the different signal pieces that are coming through there in the audio.
We can take that and isolate the individual people that are in there, um and try to identify who they are.
And that’s done digitally.
We can actually just isolate the different streams that are there and pull out those those different audio pieces.
>> To all the members of the panel, I want you to listen carefully to this without reading the transcription.
One more time.
>> SeaTow á´€ssistance, Vicki speaking.
How can I help you?
>> Hey, we’re at the uh West tip of Horn and uh our bilge pump stopped working.
We’re going We’re sinking.
Can y’all please come?
We have a membership.
>> All right, of course.
How far is the water coming up, sir?
Can you give me a description?
Ankles?
Hello.
>> Hey.
>> Is the Yes, how far is the water coming up, sir?
>> Uh it’s going up It’s It’s We’re just sinking.
I don’t know.
Like we’re just We’re going down now.
>> Todd Shipley, the words a man’s saying, “Wake the F up.”
I can discern that without reading it on the transcript.
Where you hear someone say, “OMG.”
I can make that out.
I can make out what I think is don’t die.
They’re screaming.
What can you make out of this because if this is real, this changes the course of the investigation, Todd Shipley?
>> Well, it definitely does and those are the things that we want to focus on.
So, we would look at adjusting the gain um you taking out the static noise.
We We use tools to filter out different parts of the speech so that we can isolate what that that’s being said and try to adjust it and make it uh more understandable.
So, there’s editing techniques that we can use to try to figure out exactly what’s being said because that that items in the foreground of the the audio being the two people speaking on the phone are what we want to remove.
We want to get to those other conversations in the background and try to isolate those by reducing the static that’s there and adjusting the gain higher so we can understand what’s being said better.
>> There’s some new video that has surfaced in the Nolan Wells case um that seems to support uh what we were told by uh sources directly uh with direct knowledge of the investigation that after Nolan’s friends left on their boat at 4:30 that Nolan remained at the island and in fact there was one report that claimed that he was there as late
As 6:00 still on the island.
Um this new video is it shows the boat that Nolan’s friends were on when they left the island.
This is the boat that Nolan arrived at Horn Island on on July 4th.
>> Same friends.
>> Same friends.
Uh seven seven people which is what we heard um them describe on the call to the tow company.
And they’re all on the boat there.
This is as they are trying to get it started.
>> And there’s no Nolan in sight.
>> Right.
And the seven people you can see them there.
Nolan is not one of them.
>> And I think it’s important to say and I you said it but I want to reinforce it.
That’s at the beginning of the trip.
So, it’s not >> No, this is at the end of the day.
This is 4:30 in the afternoon.
>> sorry.
At the beginning of the trip home.
So, that it’s it’s not like the boat’s in the middle of the the water and that something may have happened in between.
This is as they’re leaving.
>> Yes, Horn Island.
They had a problem as they were leaving.
It’s part of the reason they were rushing.
We’ve heard his friend Warren describe that they were yelling at him, “Come on, get on the boat.”
Um so, I mean, the the the only point I want to make it is that it’s not like the boat had traveled for 10 minutes and something could have happened in the 10 minutes.
It’s right at Horn Island where you see this video.
>> Right.
So, um eventually they get the boat started and they get towed for a while and then they end up going back to the mainland.
>> So, this is really relevant because a lot of people think that his friends that he went with in some way are hiding something that may have happened in their presence with Nolan.
>> And the audio from that phone call that was made to the tow company certainly added to that.
That made people because some people think they hear um a reference to Nolan and they think they hear a reference to him being ᴅᴇᴀᴅ.
Um so >> But he’s not on that boat.
>> But he’s not from this video at this point when this video was sH๏τ, Nolan is not on that boat.
>> Which is consistent with what we had heard.
>> And then we also know that the police have spoken to people and have either video or pH๏τos that show that Nolan was still on Horn Island after 4:30.
Now, I’ve been saying all along, the main thing is if his friends leave at 4:30, who were the people who were with Nolan after that because they would have have the answer.
>> right.
And there were a lot of people on the island.
It was the 4th of July.
>> There is the the girl named Katie um who you know, we heard Nolan’s mom say that Katie she spoke to Katie, but Katie said that she saw Nolan but sort of a high by in pá´€ssing thing.
Now, that’s not how their friend Warren described it, but if it’s not Katie, there were other people who were there.
>> There were a lot of people.
>> And so who uh is going to the police?
We now know from a document from the uh Department of Marine Resources in Mississippi.
This is a document ABC News obtained this, but it shows what they told searchers when they when they were going out searching for Nolan and there were witnesses who described Nolan.
So now we know there were definitely people who saw him and said that they described him as having a lot of alcohol that day.
>> That he was drinking heavily.
>> Heavy alcohol intake that day.
Now, I don’t know how much I understand that that could be relevant depending on when we find out from the coroner how he actually died.
So it could be relevant there.