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The deaths of Nolan Wells and Kendrick Johnson happened thirteen years apart and under very different circumstances, but the cases share a troubling feature: families confronted official explanations while significant questions remained.
Nolan Wells, 18, disappeared during a July 4, 2026 trip to Horn Island, Mississippi, and was found dead two days later.
Latasha Harlins was fifteen years old when she was killed in a Los Angeles convenience store in 1991 after being accused of stealing orange juice. Security footage later showed she had money in her hand.
Thirty-two years later, fourteen-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton was killed in South Carolina after being accused of stealing bottles of water. Investigators argued the accusation itself was unfounded. Although the cases occurred decades apart, they raise many of the same ques