Update On The Morgan Nick Disappearance

It's June 9, 1995, in Alma, Arkansas. Six-year-old Morgan Nick is playing with her friends at the baseball diamond during her brother’s Little League game. Her mother, Colleen Nick, checks on her and everything seems fine. But when she checks again, Morgan is gone. Authorities are called, and they search the area, but there are no signs of Morgan. In 2008, Colleen Nick recalls, “I remember standing outside the fire station on the fourth day, and someone saying, ‘It’s only been four days.' I thought that was helpful at the time." Twenty-nine years have passed since Morgan disappeared. Authorities have collected tips, followed leads, released age-progressed photos of Morgan, and searched several properties. Colleen Nick has never lost hope of finding her daughter, saying, “I’ve always said that until someone can prove to me that Morgan is not coming home, I believe she will.”

Throughout Morgan’s disappearance, authorities have released and re-released a photograph of a red truck with a camper. Authorities have said that it was parked near the Alma baseball diamond around the time Morgan disappeared. Alma Police Chief Jeff Pointer has said, “Children, and when I say children, it could be teenagers. It could be younger children who were approached by a man in a red truck with a white camper. We believe someone knows who was at the ballpark that night and who was driving a red truck with a white camper.” Police have released a description of an individual of interest in the Morgan Nick case. Authorities described the person of interest as a male between 23 and 38 years old at the time. He was said to be about 6 feet tall with a medium to solid build. The description stated that the person of interest may have a mustache and a beard.

In 2021, twenty-six years had passed since Morgan Nick disappeared, and authorities with the FBI publicly named Billy Jack Lincks as a person of interest in the case and went on to ask the general public for more information about Lincks. Two months after Morgan Nick went missing, Lincks was convicted of sexual indecency when attempting to abduct a child. Authorities have said that on August 29, 1995, a man in a red pickup truck pulled up to an 11-year-old girl and her younger brother near a Sonic restaurant in Van Buren, about 10 minutes down the road from where Morgan Nick was abducted. According to authorities, the young girl stated that the man in the red truck offered her money and offered to pay her to get inside his pickup truck and go with him to his house while making sexual comments. Authorities say the young girl ran away and notified the police. A witness was able to report the license plate number of the red truck to the authorities, and that license plate number led to an arrest warrant the next day for Lincks. Multiple Law Enforcement agencies completed a search on the red 1986 Chevy Scottsdale pickup truck, collecting evidence from inside. The completion of the investigation on the truck showed blood on part of the car seat, and hair samples were located from items found in the truck. However, not enough DNA information was found for lab technicians to make a definitive match. Technicians from the FBI matched a green cotton fiber found in a mat under the car seat with a Girl Scout shirt, the same type of shirt that Morgan was wearing when she disappeared from the Alma ballpark.

According to FBI records, Billy Jack Lincks was born and raised in Crawford County, Arkansas, and is a United States Army Veteran, serving in World War II, before getting a job with Braniff Airlines from 1962 to 1974. Unfortunately, Lincks passed away in prison in 2000, and now the FBI needs help obtaining information about Billy Jack Lincks and how he lived his life.