# Nolan Wells' Friend Made THIS Move With the Case Open

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Podcast: [Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary-5840426)
Published: 2026-07-17T14:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8929102
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## Resource

While the investigation into Nolan Wells' death was still active, one of his friends appeared on Good Morning America with his voice altered and then sat down with Rolling Stone magazine to publicly tell his version of events. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down what that decision does to a case — whether it helps the truth or locks a public narrative into place before the evidence can speak for itself. Every friend from the boat has an attorney. The family has Ben Crump, their own investigators, and their own autopsy. The family's attorneys flagged a specific detail: the friends had Nolan's phone and keys and didn't voluntarily tell investigators. The family tracked the phone through Life360 and recovered it themselves. Faddis asks what a reasonable, innocent person does when they're holding a dead friend's belongings — and what the silence says from a former prosecutor's perspective. This segment covers the full landscape of moves being made by everyone connected to this case. The friends' legal strategy, the family's parallel investigation, the roughly two hundred bystanders on Horn Island who may still have footage, and what the Lauren Agee case tells us about where all of this could be heading if the investigation ends without charges and the family sues. Tony Brueski, Robin, and Eric Faddis on Hidden Killers. — Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.co…

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