Nolan Wells' Family Offered WHAT On 12 Hours' Notice

Nolan Wells' family says they've offered the district attorney four different dates, on twelve hours' notice, to forensically examine his phone. Seven weeks after Nolan died on Horn Island, Mississippi, no exam has happened.
The phone came off the island with Nolan's friends and has been with his family since the first days after his death. Before any official protocol existed, his mother and her sister opened it themselves and went through both of his Snapchat accounts. They were completely empty.
On July 15, the family's legal team and District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath agreed on paper to a joint exam at the Digital Forensics Lab at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, both sides' experts included, possibly the FBI too. No date got set. Then the DA's office sent a letter demanding the phone within 48 hours, while Nolan's parents were nowhere near Mississippi. Five days later, the family came back with four separate dates and twelve hours' notice each. Still nothing.
Compare that to the three friends who were with Nolan that weekend: they handed their own phones straight to the FBI, no subpoena, no ultimatum, no back-and-forth. The family is asking for one thing before they do the same, a written chain-of-custody protocol that protects what's actually on that device. Forensic examiners say deleted messages can often be pulled from a phone like Nolan's, but the apps themselves purge data from their servers over time, and every week this drags on shrinks that window a little more.
No one has been charged. The friends deny touching anything. The family has already subpoenaed Snapchat, Meta, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Life360 for the server-side records the phone alone can't provide. Tony Brueski walks through the paper trail, who offered what, who ignored it, and why a family that's tried this hard to cooperate is still holding a phone nobody official has opened.
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