Mystery girl talking to Nolan Wells before he disappeared revealed but her sister disputes his pals account of events: report
The mystery girl Nolan Wells had reportedly stayed behind to chat with on Horn Island before he vanished has been identified — but the revelation and new conflicting accounts have only led to more questions about his death.Wells, 18, had boated to the island, located 10 miles off Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, with a group of close friends on July 4 when his pals left without him, reportedly because the college football star stayed to talk to a girl — revealed to be Katie McCormack, 19, according to the Daily Mail.But McCormack’s sister provided a different account of what happened during the fateful trip than what Wells’ friends have provided.The tragic teen had spent five hours celebrating the Fourth of July with hundreds of other college students on Horn Island when late in the afternoon, his friends started to panic as their boat was taking on water and had to rush back to land before it sank.According to his friends, Wells told them to make the trip back to the mainland without him as he was engrossed in conversation with McCormack, the outlet reported.
Ashlee Cole, mother of Wells’ best friend Warren Hudson who was on the island at the time, released a statement on July 7 saying that the group of friends returned to the mainland after their boat had a problem with its bilge pump — but Wells stayed back. However, McCormack’s 23-year-old sister Gracie disputes the claim that Wells remained on the island to talk to her.According to Gracie, McCormack thought Wells would have boated back to the mainland with his friends.“Katie had a conversation and assumed that Nolan was getting ready to get on the boat he came out on,” Gracie told the Daily Mail.“Katie assumed the ‘friends’ telling him to get on the boat wouldn’t have left him,” she added. McCormack, who hails from a few towns east of Ocean Springs where Wells lived, was on the island with a different group of friends and was eventually taken home by her brother Tony and his fiancée E...