What Nolan Wells’ Autopsy Proved That Both Sides Ignored

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Two autopsies, one body, and the answer after 18 days of waiting is a single word. Undetermined. The independent autopsy results for Nolan Wells dropped at the NAACP National Convention in Chicago. Ben Crump stood at the podium and told the country his pathologist could not rule out foul play. His specific one. A former medical examiner looked at the same findings and said that they don't point to foul play at all.
Both of them, I guess, technically correct, and both of them are leaving out the part that changes everything because the autopsy answers two completely separate questions. And everybody with a microphone is pretending it only answers one. Before we get to what the independent autopsy found, you need to understand what it didn't have. Dr. Roger Mitchell received Nolan Wells' body in Washington, DC on July 10th. Mitchell is the former chief medical examiner of DC and the president of the National Medical Association. Thousands of autopsies in his career. He's the man you want to go to if you want a second opinion. But a second opinion isn't the same as a first opinion. We'll get to all that and explain it. Colin Kaepernick paid for the examination. The family sent their son's body across the country because they wanted a pathologist with zero connection to Mississippi law enforcement. Fair enough. By the time Mitchell opened that body, the state of Mississippi had already performed a full autopsy three days earlier. And the state's autopsy had access to things Mitchell never could. It's not like they were hiding it. It's just when you do an autopsy, you get one first round of doing an autopsy, and that's just how it works. You can't peel an orange a second time. It just, that's how it works. And the state's autopsy had access to, like I said, things Mitchell never could because they were the ones conducting the first autopsy. That is how any autopsy would work. The organs had been removed, dissected and placed back inside the body cavity. The brain had been removed, and the interior neck structures, the crachea, the hyoid bone, the internal throat were not with the body at all.
Now, before you go, what's that all about? Well, I'll talk to a few forensic medical examiners, and they'll tell you that's all pretty normal with an autopsy. I know, it sounds kind of shocking on paper, and then you're like, oh, you mean this is just normal practice, pretty much across the board?
Okay, well, I didn't know that. Crumb stood at the podium and said Mitchell didn't know why they held the throat back. That framing makes it sound like something is being hidden, someone is hid something. And we'll come back to whether that's actually true in a few moments. So stick with me there. And I do welcome your comments in the comment section on Substack and YouTube. The links are in the description. There was also a red discoloration in the soft tissue at the back of Nolan's skull. Crumb called it significant, and we'll come back to that too. Is it significant? Crumb said a lot of things in this case so far that really haven't turned to pan out to much of anything other than getting a lot of people upset in ways that maybe they don't need to be on facts that aren't actually facts. Now, I'm still sitting here telling you, we don't know. We do not know. But one man's conjecture is not fact. Just like another person's conjecture over here saying, well, it can't be foul play. Also, not fact. We don't know. And the autopsy is just one big piece of evidence in this case. As I've said before, that phone is going to tell us a hell of a lot more. So is everybody else's phone around him that very day. We've done a video on that. It's in our feed if you want to go and check that out. But this one is about the autopsy and the state's autopsy. The complete one performed July 7th. That has not released a single finding as of yet. Fifteen days of silence and the people who have the most information. Again, we will get there. First, the two questions. This is the part nobody is seemingly separating very honestly, but it's not many. Question one. Was someone physically responsible for Nolan Wells' death? Dr. Mitchell checked. He performed additional dissections on the decomposed body. He examined every structure available to him and he found no fractures anywhere. No deep tissue injuries anywhere. No lacerations. The report is specific. Mitchell looked for evidence of blunt force trauma sufficient to cause death and he did not find it. Those findings hold regardless of the limitations in the report, regardless of what organs were available, regardless of decomposition. If someone had beaten an 18 year old athlete severely enough to kill him, the skeletal evidence survives, the deep tissue evidence survives. Mitchell would have found it with or without the lungs, whether without the neck structures, whether without the brain. He didn't find it. That is a finding, a clear one. And the family's legal team has been remarkably quiet about it because it doesn't seem to serve the pressure campaign that their attorney and those who want to latch on to the family for their own reasons, it seems, want to maintain, need to maintain, they've dug a hole and now, oh, oh, oh.