A hair in an old truck led police to solve a decades-old kidnapping of a 6-year-old girl in Arkansas, according to authorities.
Morgan Nick was playing with friends outside a children’s baseball park in Alma, Ark., on June 9, 1995, when she was snatched and never seen again.
Now, cops say Billy Jack Lincks — who died in prison in 2000 — was the man who kidnapped Morgan.
“And where is Morgan now? I can tell you today that this investigation is not over,” Alma Police Chief Jeff Pointer said Tuesday at a press conference. “It is ongoing and active.”
Lincks was considered as a suspect in the initial investigation into Morgan’s disappearance. About two months after Morgan was kidnapped, Lincks was caught trying to snatch an 11-year-old girl just eight miles from the baseball field where Morgan was last seen, according to local CBS affiliate KFSM.
At the time, he was spotted driving a red truck, which was also the suspect vehicle in Morgan’s abduction. However, he denied any involvement in that case.
Lincks was serving prison time for the attempted abduction when he died in 2000. More than two decades later, in 2021, the FBI identified Lincks as a person of interest in Morgan’s disappearance.
Investigators tracked down the truck that Lincks used to own and found a hair that, through DNA analysis, they learned belonged to a member of the Nick family. All other family members said they had never seen the truck before.
Morgan’s body has never been found. Arkansas’ missing child alert system is named after her, and her case was explored in a 2023 Hulu documentary “Still Missing Morgan.”