H0rrific Finding: Nolan Wells’ independent aut0psy reportedly revealed he was missing a b0dy part, adding a ch!lling new twist to the case
The pathologist who carried out an independent autopsy on Nolan Wells revealed that a crucial part of his body was missing — which hindered his ability to make a ruling on his cause of death.
Wells’ body did not have a throat following the official post-mortem conducted by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner’s Office, Dr. Roger Mitchell, the former chief medical examiner for Washington, DC, said.
“It is assumed that the initial pathologist retained these structures for additional evaluation,” he wrote.
Partially as a result, Michell said that his ruling on the cause and manner of the college football player’s death is “undetermined pending investigation,” with the date of death also unknown.
“The retention of the anterior neck structures during an initial autopsy is a common forensic pathology practice,” Mitchell wrote.
“Nevertheless, a posterior neck dissection performed without review of the anterior neck structures, is incomplete.
“Therefore, this pathologist cannot rule out injury to the neck as a contributor or cause of death.”
Jackson County coroner Bruce Lynd Jr. previously told The Post that results of the authorities’ autopsy could take weeks while toxicology tests are carried out.
Wells’ parents flew their son’s body over 800 miles from their home state of Mississippi to Washington, DC, for the independent autopsy amid claims the circumstances around his death don’t “add up.”
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick helped with the costs, their lawyer Crump previously revealed.
Crump presented the preliminary findings Wednesday morning at the NAACP National Convention in Chicago, as Wells’ heartbroken parents, Christine and Elmore Wonsley, listened from the audience.
The second autopsy found that Wells had a mark on the back of his head, according to the report.
It describes a “focal area of red discoloration in the soft tissue in the back of the head” that was 12-by-8 inches in the lower part of the skull.
However, Wells’ body had suffered significant decomposition, making it impossible to know if there was bruising on his skin, the report said.
