Sean “Diddy” Combs & Nolan Wells: The Updates

0:20 Hey everyone and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite. I'm your host Jim Chapman and today I'm bringing you an episode that a lot of people have asked me to do and that is a follow up on what is going on currently. with the person that I have dropped the most episodes on since this show's existence. And that is. Sean Diddy Combs. So today, I'm going to catch you up. We're going to talk about several things that have made the news since he went into prison. after his sentencing, and we're going to get into it right now. I'm going to start on the morning of October 30th, 2025, and Sean Combs, who incidentally is inmate number 37452-054, tell me I don't do my research, he leaves the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. That's MDC Brooklyn. We've talked about that many times. He had been there since September 16th, 2024, which is, of course, the night federal agents arrested him at a Manhattan hotel. He had 13 months of pretrial detention, an eight-week trial, a split verdict, and a 50-month sentence.

1:36 And all of that were behind him. It's time now to start his sentence. And ahead of him. was FCI Fort Dix. Now this is a low security federal prison. It sits on an old army post in New Hanover Township, New Jersey, which is about 80 miles south of Manhattan. Now the transfer was not a surprise. It was the placement that his lawyers had asked for. It's low security, right? They want something that is this time that Diddy's going to have to do to be as easy as possible. Now, to understand why Fort Dix mattered so much to them, you have to understand what MDC Brooklyn was like for Diddy. MDC is a federal jail.

2:26 It's a holding tank, if you will, for people that are awaiting trial and sentencing. It's not the end all be all of where they're going to be. It's just there while they go through a trial and then they leave there. It's crowded, it's understaffed, and for years it had been the subject of complaints, inmate deaths. Power failures. And food so bad that maggots became a recurring word in court lawsuits. Now, two weeks after Combs arrived at MDC, prosecutors charged nine MDC inmates with crimes that included assault, attempted murder, and murder. And this was from the months before Sean Combs got there. That's the building he had walked into. Now, his lawyers later told the judge the conditions were inhumane. They said he slept within two feet of other men in a dorm-style room.

3:24 I mean, it is jail after all, right? Said he had a bathroom that had no door in the same space. They said he had not breathed air or felt sunlight on his skin for nearly 13 months. I know, he's in jail, right? Of course, prosecutors, they pushed back. They said staffing had improved. There had been no lockdowns in his unit and that his account was very misleading. They also noted he had been on suicide watch for a total of seven days. Now, the two sides, they never really agreed on this picture, and stories of violence followed him throughout the whole year. Now, at sentencing, defense lawyer Brian Steele told the court that guards had stopped someone from trying to cut Combs with a makeshift knife.

4:15 A longtime friend later described a version in which Combs woke up with a blade at his throat. Then, a former inmate Raymond Castillo, he sat for interviews and said the viral version of that story was inflated. And his telling, he said the fight started over a chair and while Combs was watching a show called Basketball Wives. As he tells it, a West Coast gang member doing 30 years wanted that seat. Words were exchanged. The man came back with a homemade knife, and Castillo said he grabbed the arm before it could land on Combs. He said Combs stayed calm and told the man that he might need to pray. So to sum all that up, he was in a pretty tough place. Now, by the time the judge imposed 50 months on Combs in October 3rd of 2025, he had already done more than a year in that building.

5:12 And the remaining question at that point was, where was he going to do the rest of that time? So as I told you, the lawyers, they asked for him to serve his time at Fort And the reason they gave for this was pretty specific. The drug abuse program at that prison was pretty strong, has a good reputation. The family visitation there was a lot more lenient in the proximity to his New York legal team was also a big consideration in that because obviously Sean Combs was going to appeal to this verdict and they wanted to make it easy on themselves as well. It was only 80 miles from Manhattan. In Sean Combs' eyes, it was close enough that his mother, who was in her 80s, his adult children in the New York area, all of those could visit him and it wouldn't.

6:04 Be a pain in the ass to do that. They were only like an hour away. So to tell you a little bit about Fort Dix, as I said, it was carved out of an old military barracks. This is in the early 1990s. And it's the largest low security federal prison. In the country. Now, population figures around the time Combs arrived tell me there's roughly 3,900 to 4,100 men on that low security side of that prison, plus a couple of hundred more in an adjacent minimum security, what they call a satellite camp. And Combs went to the low security, not to the satellite camp. Now, Low security is a classification. It's not exactly a spa. There are fences there. There are counts there.

6:51 You can get what. They call disciplinary tickets that can cost you good time there. And while you don't have like traditional cells with bars, they do have barracks there and you actually live in these barracks. And these barracks consist of rooms that hold about 12 people, six bunk beds. Each one has a locker. There's no lock on the room door, however. Inside buildings can hold a few hundred people. Bathrooms are communal bathrooms, one per floor. And former inmates describe the showers and say that they run really hot and then they go ice cold like a fire hose. That's how they describe it. Now, food complaints are pretty constant there. Look, it always is inside a prison. You're not going to, you know, a five-star hotel and having a meal. oatmeal, baked fish, rice, pasta.

7:44 That's typically what your meals are going to consist of inside of that particular prison. Commissary is capped there at $ 360 a month. Of course, Diddy has a lot more money than that to spread around, but he can't get any more commissary than that. And the reason they cap that is because commissary is like currency. In prison. So they don't want Diddy to be able to get $ 10, 000 worth of ramen noodles and trade them for favors. Now there have been some photos that come out of Combs at Fort Dix and those actually landed in November of 2025. TMZ published images of him on the yard in that prison.

8:25 He had on an orange beanie and a navy jacket and he was walking the rec area. It was about 50 degrees outside. And his hair was fully gray. The face was thinner than you would see in his red carpet photos from 2023. And then the videos came. In late November, unauthorized clips from inside the compound showed Combs finishing an evening shift in the media library. He peels off a blue jacket and a scarf. And underneath, of course, gray prison sweats, a brown knit cap, He put the jacket back on, slides headphones over his ears, and walks out. Another clip showed him cap off in the hallway with his gray hair completely visible, talking with other men while someone is pushing a cart. Now, officials later looked into how a phone or a tablet got inside that federal prison.

9:20 But look, if they want to get it in there, they're going to get it in there. That's not going to be any problem. And by July 2026, more footage surfaced. Combs was walking around the compound in a white t-shirt, tan shorts, Nike sneakers, a cap, and that was also put out by TMZ. Now, let me take you into a day inside that compound. At Fort Dix, wake up starts early, 5 or 6 a.m., depending on whose account you read. Breakfast is institutional style, oatmeal, bran flakes. The compound opens, counts happen multiple times per day, and you can expect to be on your butt. for those counts.

10:02 You have to report where they tell you to report at that time. Work or programming starts in the morning. Then you have lunch. Then you have more work. Dinner's around five o'clock. You have some recreation in the evening and final count is around nine o'clock that evening. Lights out by 11. Now, miss a count, and you can catch a shot. Enough shots, and you lose the programs that shorten the sentence. And I don't mean catch a bullet. Catch a shot is just slang for you're going to get written up for it, basically. Now, I mentioned that there was some footage of Combs in the chapel library. And to tell you about that, he works as a chaplain's assistant. More precisely, in that chapel library, and media library, and he hands out movies and religious materials.

10:50 And if you ask. Anyone who has done federal time why that job is so coveted, a former prison commissioner told CBS that the tasks are ordinary. It's nothing like difficult. But the perks that you get with that particular job are real. You work in a quieter space. There's often air conditioning in there. Chaplains bring food in for services. And it's one of the few places men can gather without it looking like a yard click, right? Like you see on Shawshank Redemption, where people are in a circle outside in the yard. So it's a very coveted job. And it doesn't surprise me that Sean Combs would end up having that job.

11:32 I also mentioned the residential drug abuse program there. And it's a very intensive substance abuse program. It's not a weekly meeting. Inmates who qualify live in a separate unit away from general population. The model is half day treatment there, half work days or education, and the course can run nine to 12 months and involve hundreds of hours. Now, if you complete it, you stay clean, keep your record reasonably clean inside that prison. The Bureau can take up to a year off of your sentence. So that is why Specifically, the attorneys were fighting so hard to get in this prison.

12:15 That's a big deal. Now, I mentioned tickets or write-ups, and within a month of the transfer from Sean Combs to MDC to this particular prison, the compound story started, right? Rolling Stone's reported two early issues he had. First, a forbidden three-way phone call in which Combs instructed a woman on his team to contact a, quote, digital person about social media blog posts. I reported on that on an earlier podcast. Of course, that got out there. He got caught for that. He got wrote up for that. There was also some reporting that they found a homemade concoction inside his area and That was fermenting apples, Fanta, the drink and sugar, which y'all makes what prison hooch prison wine. You can get drunk as hell off of that hooch. And he got caught trying to make it.

13:12 And again, he got right up for that. Then in the summer of 2026, July to be specific, TMZ and then Rolling Stone reported a physical altercation at Fort Decks. Now, the story as it was told was another inmate dissed Sean Combs. Words were exchanged, then shoves and then punches. Staff broke it up and Combs got thrown in solitary for that. A source said he held his own. His representative did not confirm it. The Bureau was asked about it later. And gave a standard non-answer. They don't discuss housing investigations or sanctions of individual inmates.

13:52 You may have also heard a couple of other things that have come out recently. One of them involves the 13th juror. And one of them is a letter to the president. So I want to talk about the brief that essentially accused the judge in this case of being a 13th juror. And that full brief landed on December 23rd of 2025, 84 pages. Alexandra Shapiro, who had wrote that brief, and she said in it, he sits in prison today serving a 50-month sentence because the judge acted... as a 13th juror. Now, the defense main claim is that the jury was wrong about the Mann Act. She basically was accusing the judge in this case of treating the women as coerced, exploited, enforced, and that making an impression on a jury. Now, this is reach. Obviously, you would expect that they would challenge anything they could in this case.

14:54 I don't believe this at all. I It's a reach. And they tried to do it. They also wrote a letter to the president asking for a pardon. So Combs and Donald Trump, they. Knew each other. OK, they were on the New York circuit, if you will, in the 1990s and 2000s. They had attended gatherings together and charity events, not together, but they were in the same place at the same time. And Trump has said in the past he was very friendly with Combs and that he seemed like a nice guy and that he didn't know him very well. But he had met him, of course, several times. And it doesn't surprise me that his legal team would reach out at some point wanting a pardon. And that outreach started pretty early after his sentence. Rolling Stone reported that people around Combs began working Trump world, if you will, after the October 3rd sentence. And if you'll also remember, at some point, a White House official, supposedly, that's quote, unquote, said that Trump might commute the sentence that very week that he was sentenced. Now, I didn't believe that at all.

16:03 And when the White House was asked about it, they said there was zero truth to it. It was fake news and reminded everyone that the president decides pardons, not anybody else. Combs had not at that point even filed a formal clemency petition with the Justice Department. That would be the standard procedure. But on January 8th of 2026, a letter did come. Trump told the New York Times that Combs had asked him for a pardon through a letter. He offered theoretically to show reporters the letter, but he didn't actually show it. He said he was not considering granting the letter. And after Trump came out and said that, Combs' representative did decline to comment on that. So he didn't deny a letter was sent. However, It's important to note, Trump said, I'm not going to commute this guy's sentence.

16:56 So that's all I got on that. Now, I do want to talk about, and a lot of people have asked, what about all these civil suits you covered in the podcast? The criminal case is one file. The civil cases, y'all, they're a whole second file. They're a whole second career. If you will. When Sean Combs was arrested in September of 2024, he had a lot of people out there and they were talking as if the indictment would swallow everything else. The freak-off testimony, the hotel video, all of those things, that was never how this was going to work. Very important to put that. Cassie Ventura's lawsuit, as a matter of fact, had already been filed and settled and closed before any of this ever started with this criminal stuff. Now, if you remember, there's 111 civil cases, 101 named plaintiffs, And of those, 70 of those cases are still open and 41 of those cases have been closed. Now, if you'll also remember, I reported on a couple of those specifically that were found out to be bullshit. They were made up.

18:02 And you're going to find that. When you have 111 civil cases, not all 111 are legit. There are going to be people out there that are just seeking to get paid. They saw an opportunity to make money. But I do believe at least 50% of these are probably legit, real lawsuits. And there's going to be some prices to pay on that at some point. But 70 of those haven't even been closed yet. Now, let's talk about Diddy real quick, because lawsuits were being fired at him. And at one point, he decides he's going to fire back. He spent, as a matter of fact, in 25 and 2026, doing something he had rarely had to do as a defendant, and that is sue all these people who were talking about him. Now, two of those cases were built as nine-figure reputation lawsuits. One was aimed at NBCUniversal, Peacock, and the The other was aimed at News Nation's parent company, a lawyer and a man who went on television that talked about flash drives and baby oil. Now, these two lawsuits together were supposed to be the counter-offensive, proof that the coverage had gone from reporting to piling on and that someone was going to have to pay for it.

19:28 What came out after he was locked up is the counteroffensive mostly ate itself up. A New York judge threw out the Peacock case in April of 2026 and wrote in language that would follow Combs for the rest of his public life that it was inconceivable the film had added damage to a reputation already in ruins. You can't hurt a reputation that doesn't exist anymore, is what that judge said. And that is a fact. Five months later, lawyers on the News Nation case, they asked for a federal judge for permission to walk away from Diddy completely. Why? Because they had six months of unpaid bills and a client that they couldn't get on the phone. Combs said he fired them after they were overcharging him. The firm, of course, denies this. Either way, the man, meaning Sean Combs, who used to hire rooms full of attorneys, was now arguing with his own attorneys.

20:28 And that's pretty much it. That's the catch up of Sean Combs as of now. He's scheduled to get out sometime in 2028. So it's actually coming up. I mean, he's got about another two years left before he will be released in prison if he can keep his nose clean. And if not, he's going to add to that sentence. Now, just another quick thing before I get out of here today, since we're doing kind of a catch up episode, I also want to catch you up on some breaking Nolan Wells news. And I'm just going to quote an article here from WAFB Channel 9. And the reason I'm quoting it is I want to make sure that all this information that I say to you is completely accurate. And this just broke.

21:18 It just came across my phone and I scanned over it and I'm going to read it for you quickly because it is big news. And there's also some shocking content in here. It says the parents of Nolan Wells and their legal team are continuing to call for an honest, transparent and fair investigation into their son's death, despite. despite a Jackson County grand jury issuing a no-true bill. And quickly, what a no-true bill means is that there's not enough evidence there to proceed with a trial, and a grand jury is convened for that, okay? Important to note. Now, Nolan, as you know, went to Horn Island with his friends. Never came home. This was on July 4th, and his body was found two days later on the shore of the island. Monday night, the Jackson County District Attorney's Office released the grand jury's report, which found no evidence of criminal activity in Nolan's death. Tuesday morning, Nolan's parents, Christine and Elmore.

22:16 Wansley, were joined by Ben Crump. Imagine that. And his team at a press conference in Atlanta where they demanded the investigation continue as many questions are still left unanswered, even though a grand jury sees no reason to go forward because there's no evidence of any wrongdoing there. The grand jury left us with questions, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said during the conference. Nolan's family deserves answers. What caused recent blunt trauma to his head? Did it contribute to his death? referenced multiple times during the news conference was blunt force trauma to the back of Nolan's head and back. The independent autopsy report released by Crump's team said Dr. Roger Mitchell found that Nolan sustained recent unexplained blunt force injuries to the back of his head and additional areas of his back.

23:05 That is like a half-truth, y'all. The state's autopsy had not been publicly released, but the grand jury report states the state autopsy and independent autopsy disagree about the presence of bruising non-deep tissue on Mr. Wells' buttocks and shoulder. The independent autopsy report also said the red discoloration previously identified on the back of Nolan's head was confirmed as blood and reported as two contusions or bruises by the medical examiner during the original autopsy. This information would have been shared with the jury. Important to note. A witness who testified under oath said Wells slipped awkwardly off. The side of the boat.

23:46 That was something new that we didn't know on January 4th, but continued socializing and didn't appear to be hurt. So did he slip, hit his head, but I mean, I've hit my head a hundred times slipping off a boat. and I was never hurt. But it could have been enough to maybe bruise my head. Moving on, it says no signs of physical trauma were found, according to the grand jury report. Both autopsies ruled Nolan's cause and manner of death as undetermined, because it has to be undetermined. Nobody saw him actually die. However, court documents noted an accidental drowning is consistent with the evidence and that the evidence does not rule it out. The final independent autopsy report says that drowning is a diagnosis of exclusion. and all other causes must be ruled out before confirming death as a drowning. Quote, how can a jury come to the conclusion of drowning despite knowing there was trauma to his body and despite hearing many inconsistencies? That was from his mom, Christine. Elmore and I do not believe Nolan simply accidentally drowned and nobody saw anything and no one knows anything. Well, I understand you don't believe that, but in this case... Nobody's come forward saying they saw anything or knew anything. Christine Wansley goes on to say she received a text from Jackson County District Attorney Angel McRath Monday night at 7.54 p.m. informing her the grand jury report had been filed earlier in the day. At 7.56 p.m., the DA's office Facebook page posted a 15-minute video statement.

25:20 In the video, DA McGrath outlined several findings from the grand jury report as well as correspondence from the family's legal team. The full redacted grand jury report was also included in the post. To me, the action showed a lack of empathy and a need to get this case done and over with, Christine said. The state autopsy has not been publicly released. The state legally cannot release an autopsy except to the family of the victim or their legal team. During the press conference, Crump said they were told very clear up front that they would not be given any information on the state's autopsy until the grand jury proceeding had finished. However, in a video statement, the DA said shortly after she received the autopsy report. she reached out to Christine, quote, another false narrative is that I kept the results from Nolan's autopsy and toxicology from his family.

26:15 This is false. Shortly after I received the autopsy report, I reached out to Nolan's mother directly, and when she did not respond, I spoke with one of her Mississippi attorneys and shared Nolan's autopsy and toxicology results. My abiding by the law and not releasing the autopsy and toxicology results to the public is in no way impeded Nolan's family or the Crump team from obtaining the results and a copy of the results pursuant to the law. Then it goes into the phone inspection, and it says, quote, Listen to this.

27:00 On the morning of the agreed on extraction date, our law enforcement investigators were contacted by privately retained examiners with Garrett Discovery Inc. They advised that the mutual fund extraction would not occur as they had begun a private extraction the evening prior and it was incomplete. I respected the family's decision for a private examination and requested those results be shared. With my office. On August 28, 2026. The Crump team advised that I would receive the extraction data by FedEx within 48 hours and provided a 14-page preliminary report indicating the phone had not been accessed by anyone other than Nolan's family and nothing have been deleted off the phone since Nolan's last use. I have never received the full extraction data as promised, and I never received a complete extraction report of Nolan's cell phone. And that's important, y'all. Why are you telling someone you will do this and then.

28:00 Not do it? Now, after the grand jury convened in this case, the Crump team provided a 282-page selection of reports from Nolan's cell phone, which the grand jury considered. Ahmaud Smith is a Mississippi-based attorney working with the Crump team. During the press conference, he said the family never inspected the phone with officials because they did not agree to the terms the DA's office requested, which, according to Smith, were the family to drop the phone off and leave it with law enforcement. That was not The original terms were that the family do that and they didn't want to do that. So they said, OK, send your reps over here and we'll do the extraction together. And they still didn't want to do that, y'all. Crump said the full results of the phone inspection will be discussed in a separate press conference on Thursday in Orlando. Of course it will, because he's not going to do anything with the state of Mississippi.

28:53 because he's trying to create a narrative that doesn't exist here. Quote, we think it's going to be enlightening when you go through the phone extraction and everything going through the data on this phone, Crump said. Christine said she and her husband have read through the grand jury report more than once and still don't have answers. She said it reinforced that Nolan was not given a thorough, transparent, and honest investigation. Quote, last night was a reminder our son's life does not matter to those who hold positions and are supposed to serve and protect the public. I disagree with that 100%. They have not only spent a ton of time, they spent a ton of money. And believe me, a case like this, which people in the business would call an ape, an acute political emergency, they're really going to spend a lot of time and money on. They've done everything they could.

29:44 They put it in front of a grand jury, and a grand jury said there's not enough evidence. Not them. Crump reinforced that Nolan's family does not believe he would have left his phone on a boat or stayed behind on the island and things still didn't add up. Look, maybe they don't believe that. But that doesn't mean it didn't happen. There are a lot of things my parents didn't believe I would do when I was 18, 19, 20 years old. Didn't mean I didn't do. They go on to say Jackson County D.A. will have you accept that Nolan Wells death can be summarized in three words. We'll never know. But Nolan's family offers three other words. We will never stop. Never stop. We will never stop. until we get to the truth, Crump said. Christine said she believed Nolam would support the actions his parents have taken over the past couple of months. Quote, I know without a shadow of a doubt that if Nolam were here right now, he would be in full support. He would support every single thing that his father and I have done. Despite the grand jury decision, Elmore and our family will continue to fight for justice. And Nolan's father, Elmore, echoed the same statement.

30:49 I mean, I understand why the family is pushing that. That was my kid. I would probably push it till the end of time, too. But I don't know what you want the state of Mississippi to do. They presented everything was considered possible. All the evidence they have in this case to a grand jury, grand jury says there's no evidence here that anybody did anything to Nolan Wells. So the last thing that I'm going to do for today, I want you to listen to this 15 minute clip where the district attorney for the state of Mississippi comes out and announces that these findings by the grand jury have found no wrongdoing and have issued a true, a no true bill rather. in this case, and I want you to listen to it specifically for one reason. You tell me if this lady sounds like she's not doing everything she can to get justice for Nolan Wells.

31:44 Jackson County, after a thorough and exhaustive investigation, your grand jury met last week concerning the death investigation of Nolan Wells and unanimously returned a no true bill. In addition to bringing prosecutions against the guilty, The grand jury must also exonerate those who have been falsely accused. The grand jury was comprised of a diverse group of individuals representing a cross-section of our Jackson County community. A copy of the grand jury report has been filed with the Jackson County Circuit Clerk as required by law, and a redacted copy of the report is publicly available on our website, Facebook page, and at the Circuit Clerk's office. I took my oath as District Attorney. a little over a year after burying my own child. When I was sworn in, I promised to fight for and protect you and your children as I would my own. I meant it then, and I mean it now. The death of Nolan Wells has devastated our community. Outsiders and influencers have attempted to exploit Nolan's death to divide and create chaos here. But we are better together. Our community has suffered many tragedies, and I know that in the midst of this terrible loss, hateful rhetoric, and vile speculation, what has been damaged in our community will be restored. The narrative that three white boys and a black boy went to an island and

33:16 only three white friends returned spread like wildfire. This was false. Nolan went to Horn Island on July 4, 2026, with a large group of friends. and while on the island, he connected with even more friends. There is absolutely no evidence to support the allegations that Nolan's disappearance and death were racially motivated. Nolan's friends loved Nolan, and Nolan loved them. Nolan chose to stay on the island that day, and there is not a scintilla of evidence to contradict that. The family, the Crump team, and anyone close to Nolan knew that his disappearance and death were not the result of racial hate or violence. Yet the flames of that narrative set against the backdrop of Mississippi's terrible history were fanned by both people who knew the truth and those who didn't. I cannot tell you how difficult it is observing people create narratives detrimental to our community when I have true knowledge that I cannot legally or ethically share.

34:26 But my job requires discipline and restraint. I am responsible for protecting the integrity of active investigations, and I will always make decisions that most faithfully protect and respect the law, regardless of circumstances. That is the difference between an attorney whose duty is owed to an individual client and a district attorney whose duty is owed to the community as a whole. I strictly and conservatively interpret the laws concerning what I can and should share with the public about a case. In the death investigation of Nolan Wells, that has meant that our community had to wait. The grand jury report provides you with a fuller picture of what was happening during that time. The secrecy of the grand jury is not a veil that we hide behind. It is a shield that protects the integrity of prosecutions of the guilty and is meant to protect the innocent from the destruction of false allegations. The grand jury room and the courtroom are where the community sees the work of your district attorney. That is transparency. Transparency exists in following the law, abiding by it, having reverence for it, respecting the process, and having the discipline and restraint to allow the process to take place even when there is public pressure to prematurely speak. And before I say anything else about what happened in this case, I want to acknowledge

35:58 something I will never lose sight of. I know what it is to bury a child. You are vulnerable in ways that are incomprehensible to people who have never stood there. You want answers. You want something to make sense. You want to know why. Why my child? Why my baby? Why now? Why this way? And oftentimes, more than anything, you want something or someone that you can hold responsible. You are trying to make sense of something that is absolutely senseless. I understand that. And I believe grieving parents should be given grace and space to grieve. What I cannot accept and what I cannot ignore is that false narratives that Nolan's death was somehow racially motivated and that this is a case of another young black man denied justice by a racist, corrupt system were perpetuated and allowed to spread. There is not a shred of evidence to support these narratives. Keep in mind all that has transpired publicly as you review the grand jury report and the correspondence I'm releasing in conjunction with this statement. For example, On July 15, 2026, Nolan's family and the Crump team were shown evidence of Nolan purchasing his own alcohol, but that fact they chose not to share with the public.

37:26 From our first meeting, I extended an open offer to provide the grand jury with any evidence whatsoever that the family wanted them to have, including the findings and testimony of their independent medical examiner. This is not a practice unique to the Nolan Wells case, but this is how I have always conducted business as your prosecutor. On August 13th, 2026, after the Crump team conducted and released the results of its independent autopsy, and after receiving hundreds of tips, they advised my office that they had no evidence of a crime being committed against Nolan Wells. Just this weekend, I read where a Congresswoman had met with Nolan's family and the Crump team and said that Nolan Wells is another black boy murdered and no one seems to care. Ma'am, you are wrong. The Crump team knows this and knows that they are dealing with a district attorney whose unwavering pursuit of the truth gave them all a seat at the table to offer the grand jury any and every piece of evidence they deemed important to this investigation. Keep in mind that this meeting with the Congresswoman was after the Crump team advised my office they had discovered no evidence of a crime against Nolan. And understand that our investigation was exhaustive. And our complete investigation was presented to the grand jury. I also want you to understand that I'm not suggesting that a grieving mother policed the rumors surrounding her child's death. What I am suggesting is that the Crump team knew better, but did not do better.

38:58 I am giving you the opportunity to see for yourself what was communicated between my office and the Crump team. Releasing the correspondence I sent during the investigation is the written record that provides the clearest account of those interactions. From the beginning, I told Nolan's family that our goal was the same, to find out what happened to Nolan Wells. This is and has always been a search for the truth. No narrative, no agenda, no politics, nothing personal, just the truth. One of the most prevalent false narratives was that my office refused to cooperate and or obstructed a mutual examination with the crump team of Nolan's cell phone. This could not be further from the truth. You must first understand that the state of Mississippi had no legal avenue to seize and search Nolan's cell phone. Nolan's family received that phone in the very early morning hours of July 5th, and it continues to remain in their possession. Nolan's family and the Crump team have always been in complete control of Nolan's cell phone, including when, where, how, and if the phone would be examined by the state. During our July 15th, 2026 meeting, I accepted the Crump team's offer to participate in a mutual examination of Nolan's cell phone.

40:24 I remained willing to do so and agreeable to any conditions the family wished to impose. Again, this truth about Nolan's phone was not shared with the public. When the extraction did not happen within a reasonable time, I reached out to get the ball rolling. We could not wait on the Crump team. I could not allow this investigation to be delayed, especially as tensions rose, false information exploded, and threats and harassment continued to escalate. Unbeknownst to me, the family was out of town at that time. Their attorneys reached out, and we subsequently set up a time and place for an extraction to occur. On the morning of the agreed upon extraction date, our law enforcement investigators were contacted by privately retained examiners with Garrett Discovery, Inc., advising that the mutual phone extraction would not occur as they had begun a private extraction the evening prior and it was incomplete. I respected the family's decision for a private examination and requested that they share those results with my office. On August 28th, the Crump team advised that I would receive the extraction data by FedEx within 48 hours and provided a 14-page preliminary report indicating the phone had not been accessed by anyone other than Nolan's family, and nothing had been deleted off of the phone since

41:54 Nolan's last use. I never received the full extraction data as promised, and I never received a complete extraction report of Nolan's cell phone. After the grand jury convened in this case, the Crump team provided a 282-page selection of reports from Nolan's cell phone, which the grand jury considered. From the beginning, I advised the family that I would present the report of their independent medical examiner and welcomed his testimony before the grand jury. I again extended an invitation to the family's independent medical examiner to come to Mississippi to examine and review whatever he needed to Dr.

42:35 Roger Mitchell accepted my invitation to come to Mississippi and examine Nolan's internal throat structures at the Mississippi Forensic Laboratory. Dr. Mitchell spent August 30th through September 1st in Mississippi. I allowed him to have full access to the complete investigative file. We took him to Horn Island, showing him various GPS locations relevant in this case. And of course, he met with our chief medical examiner, He physically examined Nolan's internal throat structures and he requested additional histological slides. Once the histological slides had been prepared, my office shipped them overnight for Dr. Mitchell's review. Dr. Mitchell subsequently testified before your grand jury in this matter. Another false narrative is that I kept the results of Nolan's autopsy and toxicology from his family. This is false. Shortly after I received the autopsy report, I reached out to Nolan's mother directly, and when she did not respond, I spoke with one of her Mississippi attorneys and shared Nolan's autopsy and toxicology results.

43:45 My abiding by the law and not releasing the autopsy and toxicology results to the public in no way impeded Nolan's family or the Crump team from obtaining the results and a copy of the results pursuant to the law. Here again, another narrative allowed to flourish when my hands were tied in responding. The Crump team knew better, but allowed the public to believe, among other false narratives, that our medical examiner withheld Nolan's lungs and stomach when his body was released, that things had been deleted off of Nolan's phone before it was given back to his family, that I refused to cooperate with the examination of Nolan's cell phone, that I refused to provide Nolan's autopsy results to the family, all lies, and they knew it. Today, anyone with an internet connection can become an influencer, take fragments of information, construct a narrative without context or firsthand knowledge, and broadcast it to thousands or millions of people with little or no responsibility to the truth or consequences for what they do. Likes, shares, follows, subscriptions, and dollars have become more important than the truth. There was a time when having a public voice came with responsibility and having to earn your place on the platform. Journalists were expected to be knowledgeable about the subjects they covered, to investigate before they reported, to distinguish fact from speculation, and to

45:15 pursue the truth without regard to narrative that might generate the most attention. What we have seen happen in Nolan's case, where lives and reputations have been damaged, is reprehensible. People have suffered. Public offices have been harassed. Witnesses, public officials, and others who are completely unrelated to this case have been subjected to threats of harm and intimidation by an angry mob. We do not have laws that adequately protect people from the conduct we've seen or punish those who engage in it. The right to speak your mind and give an opinion about any matter you desire is is not without responsibility, accountability, and consequences. I call on our federal and state legislators to pass constitutionally sound legislation to ensure that what we have seen in this case never happens again. As long as there are humans on the planet, there will be hate. That is not unique to Mississippi.

46:22 It is unique to the human heart. We have seen that hate directed at our community. based on false narratives, lies, rumors, and wildly irresponsible speculation. The lies that were meant to destroy and divide our community have instead reminded us of who we really are and fortified the bonds that hold this community together. The Mississippi Gulf Coast is an incredibly special place. Jackson County is an incredibly special place. And in so many ways, Nolan, was a reflection of the incredible community he grew up in and the people who call it home. Thank you so much for listening.

47:04 Look, y'all, I'm going to tell you quickly, I am working on a bad teacher's case right now involving two teachers who slept with the same student, did a lot of dirty deeds, all with the same student. This is going to be starting next week. I don't know how many episodes it's going to take. This may be a multi-parter. Holy smokes. You're not going to believe this one. And I got every single text ever sent back and forth between these two female teachers and this student and y'all. It makes me blush and I have read and seen it all. So, look forward to that. Check us out on Patreon, patreon.com slash exposedpodcastfiles for commercial-free early releases, bonus episodes, and more. And until next time, for Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite, I'm your host, Jim Chapman. Much love.