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A timeline of Nolan Wells’ disappearance, death and the unfolding investigation

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By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — In the days after the puzzling death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, investigators undertook a painstaking effort to reconstruct the events that unfolded on Horn Island, a remote barrier island about 10 miles off the Mississippi coast.

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    By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — In the days after the puzzling death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, investigators undertook a painstaking effort to reconstruct the events that unfolded on Horn Island, a remote barrier island about 10 miles off the Mississippi coast.

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