New footage confirms Nolan Wells wasn’t on towed boat during ill-fated July 4th trip

New footage has confirmed that tragic Mississippi teenager Nolan Wells wasn’t on a boat with his friends as it was towed away from a remote island during the ill-fated Fourth of July trip.

Never-before-seen video and photos appear to capture seven of Nolan’s friends aboard the boat preparing to be towed away from Horn Island — but Wells, who was found dead two days later, is nowhere to be seen, according to the clips obtained by The Officer Tatum Show.

Wells’s friends claimed they told him to get on the boat to leave with them, but the student-athlete chose to remain on the island with an “unknown female” —  revealed to be Katie McCormack, 19, according to the Daily Mail.

McCormack’s 23-year-old sister, Gracie, disputed 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.

Witnesses also seemed to fess up to investigators that Wells, 18, had been drinking alcohol before he vanished.

The crew of seven called for help when their boat suddenly malfunctioned and started taking on water, according to dispatch audio from the day of his disappearance obtained by NBC News.

The boat left the island at 4:31 p.m. and was towed for around three miles before resuming normal operation less than an hour later and returning to the location it originally departed from by 5:44 p.m., the outlet said. 

The Ocean Springs teen was later found dead in just blue swim shorts by a National Park Service ranger on July 6 in an area the United Cajun Navy said was known for “powerful rip currents.” 

Mississippi authorities suspect that Wells drowned during the doomed Horn Island trip, 10 miles off the coast of Mississippi.

However, the conflicting accounts from people who were on the island have sparked concern for the grieving family, which hired top civil rights lawyer Ben Crump to investigate.

“She saying he went and got on the boat. They saying he didn’t get on the boat. So which is it?” Crump previously told reporters.

Roger Mitchell, the chair of pathology at Howard University College of Medicine who conducted an independent autopsy, said he couldn’t rule out the possibility that Wells may have suffered a neck injury, as his thyroid bone and trachea were not sent with the rest of the body, according to WKRG.

Mitchell also spotted red discoloration at the back of Wells’ head, which Crump said was “something of great concern” for the pathologist.

“He [Mitchell] could not directly view the stomach for contents or gastric gases,” Crump read from the report. “He could not see the condition of the body when it was pulled from the water.”