Nolan Wells mystery deepens as email indicates teen drank heavily before vanishing

A newly released Marine Patrol email listed 18-year-old Nolan Wells’ alcohol intake as “heavy” during the search for him after he disappeared on a boating trip to Horn Island.

A new ABC News report says witnesses told investigators Nolan Wells had been drinking heavily before he disappeared on Horn Island on July 4. However, officials have not determined his cause of death. The official autopsy and toxicology results are still pending, while an independent autopsy listed the death as undeter

Tragic Mississippi teenager Nolan Wells had been drinking heavily before vanishing on what became an ill-fated Fourth of July trip with friends – and chose to remain on the island with an "unknown female" when his pals left, according to witnesses.

Witnesses told investigators that Nolan Wells had been drinking heavily with friends, according to a document with preliminary information from Mississippi officials.