Billy Jack Lincks named as Morgan Nick suspect 29 years after ‘abducting girl, 6, from ballpark as hair found in truck’
A SUSPECT has been named in the decades-long cold case of a missing 6-year-old girl who was kidnapped in 1995.
Morgan Nick was abducted from the parking lot of a little league ball field in Alma, Arkansas, about 18 miles east of the border with Oklahoma, on June 9, 1995.
Morgan, who attended the game with her mother, Colleen Nick, was last seen playing with other children near the fields' bleachers, chasing fireflies at around 10:30 pm.
The young girl was never seen again.
Now, Alma police have identified Billy Jack Lincks as a suspect in Morgan's kidnapping.
Lincks, who died in 2000, was previously named a person of interest in Morgan's case after being arrested 12 weeks later in August 1995 for sexual solicitation of a child in Van Buren, Arkansas.
However, investigators ruled out Lincks' involvement in Morgan's kidnapping after determining his statements appeared to be truthful.
"Police questioned Lincks on August 31, 1995. He denied any knowledge of Morgan's abduction and, at that time, appeared to be truthful. Investigators at that time moved on," Alma Police Chief Jeff Pointer said.
In July 2019, the Alma Police Department reopened Morgan's case and circled back to a witness' previous statement, where they told police about Lincks' possible involvement.
Investigators were able to track down the red truck with a camper shell attached to it, which Lincks owned at the time.
Pointer said the new owner did not know or have any connection to Lincks and allowed investigators to examine the truck.
In July 2020, investigators vacuumed various parts of the truck and uncovered hair from the vehicle.
On September 27, DNA evidence determined the hair recovered from the red truck was that of "Colleen Nick, one of her siblings or one of her children."
Investigators spoke to the Nick family, who denied knowing Lincks or if they were ever inside a red truck.
"The bottom line in this, the physical evidence that was collected from this truck that Lincks owned when Morgan was abducted strongly indicated that Morgan had been in this truck," Pointer said.
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