Every shred of evidence offered by the public helps and could even lead to blowing the case wide open, Jackson County Sheriff John Ledbetter said Monday.

It’s been one week since Nolan Wells and his friends went on a Fourth of July trip to Horn Island. He was later found dead in the water – sparking myriad questions.

In the days since the puzzling death of an 18-year-old, investigators have undertaken a painstaking effort to reconstruct the events that unfolded on Horn Island, a remote barrier…