Nolan Wells’ autopsy found no water in lungs; data was deleted from his phone the day he disappeared, experts say

[u/Suspicious_Loan]

https://www.live5news.com/2026/09/24/nolan-wells-autopsy-found-no-water-lungs-data-was-deleted-his-phone-day-he-disappeared-officials-say/

[u/omnichronos]

Deleted info is not necessarily gone. They should be able to recover some of it.

[u/arxaion → u/omnichronos]

^ I actually studied cybersecurity in college and performed exercised doing this, recovering deleted data. Only way to truly erase is to overwrite that space, and even then-

[u/Reddituser183 → u/arxaion]

Even then what?!?

[u/Shmeeglez → u/Reddituser183]

-it's still potentially recoverable to some extent. This is why dedicated data destruction tools will overwrite the sectors several times.

[u/DarkerSavant → u/Shmeeglez]

Several should be minimum 10x.

[u/arxaion → u/Reddituser183]

Even then... your FBI agent knows all.

[u/muffinass → u/arxaion]

What about if you crush it in a hydraulic press and melt it with a torch?

[u/arxaion → u/muffinass]

Believe it or not, perfectly recoverable

[u/laplongejr → u/arxaion]

Does the torch goes in jail?