Huge break in the case of a 6yo girl kidnapped in 1995

The young girl had been just a few yards from her mother at an Arkansas Little League game in June 1995 when she was snatched from the parking lot.

The high-profile disappearance of six-year-old Morgan Nick may have been solved after nearly 30 years.

The young girl had been just a few yards from her mother at an Arkansas Little League game in June 1995 when she was snatched from the parking lot.

Now, DNA is pointing to a now-dead child predator who was eyed early in the investigation, New York Postreported.

“One of the early persons of interest was Billy Jack Lincks,” investigators said in a “major update” Tuesday.

Billy Jack Lincks died in prison in 2000. Picture: FBI

Investigators noted how weeks after the disappearance the local veteran was arrested for sexual solicitation of another child in Alma using a red truck similar to one used by Nick’s kidnapper.

Questioned at the time about the missing 6-year-old, Lincks, then in his 60s, “denied any knowledge” and “appeared to be truthful,” Alma police said.

“Investigators moved on,” police said of the case featured on America’s Most Wanted, Unsolved Mysteries and a 2023 Hulu documentary, Still Missing Morgan.

Lincks was convicted of the solicitation charge and sentenced to prison, where he died in 2000.

His name re-entered the cold case in 2019 when investigators located a truck he had owned at the time of the girl’s abduction, and the current owners — who had no ties to Lincks – allowed an FBI team to vacuum it for hair and other evidence.

DNA tests came back as a match for the missing girl’s mum and siblings, none of whom knew Lincks, cops said.

Morgan Nick was six when she was kidnapped in 1995. Picture: Family Handouts

“Physical evidence collected from the truck that Lincks owned when Morgan was abducted strongly indicates that Morgan had been in his truck,” the police department said, calling the late pervert a “single suspect” in the case.

“I can tell you today that this investigation is not over,” Alma Police Chief Jeff Pointer said Tuesday.

“It is ongoing and active,” he said, with the girl listed as “still missing”.

Morgan’s mum Colleen thanked the “army of supporters, advocates and heroes” who never forgot her daughter.

“He stole Morgan from me, her dad, [her siblings] Logan and Taryn,” the mum said of Lincks.

“He didn’t see that he could never win. Because our love for Morgan – her memory, her voice – outlasted his life. And that love continues to shine. Morgan’s heart shines on.”

This story originally appeared on the New York Post and reproduced with permission

Originally published as Huge break in the case of a 6yo girl kidnapped in 1995