New developments have come to light in a missing child case, 29 years later. Morgan Nick was 6 years old when she was kidnapped from the parking lot of the Alma Little League ball field in Alma, Arkansas, after attending a game.
It was 10:45 p.m. on the night of June 9, 1995, according to details Alma Police Chief Jeff Pointer gave during a news conference. She was never found. Hair samples were found in a pickup truck years later, matching the girl’s DNA.
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Billy Jack Lincks was considered a person of interest from early on in the case, reported The Kansas City Star. On August 29, 1995, after being arrested and charged with sexual solicitation of a child after allegedly trying to lure an 11-year-old girl into his pickup truck, Lincks was questioned about Morgan’s disappearance.
He denied having anything to do with it and told officers he didn’t know what happened to her.
Lincks died in 2000, but in July 2019, detectives began looking into him once again. They were able to find his red pickup truck, along with its new owner. On July 28, 2020, investigators searched the truck for evidence and collected hair samples from the vehicle.
New testing methods made it possible to test the hair found for DNA.
One strand of hair came back from lab testing as a positive DNA match to Morgan’s mom, Colleen Nick. According to police, the DNA results showed that the hair could have belonged to Colleen Nick, one of her siblings, or one of her children.
“The bottom line in this is that the physical evidence collected from the truck that Lincks owned when Morgan was abducted strongly indicates that Morgan had been in his truck,” Pointer said.
“He stole Morgan from me. He stole her from her dad,” her mother said during the news conference. “But he didn’t see that he could never win. Because our love for Morgan, her memory and her voice outlasted his life.” The investigation is ongoing.
