It has been more than 26 years since 6-year-old Morgan Nick disappeared while playing a small league game with friends in northeast Arkansas.
The girl, the FBI reported, was abducted on June 9, 1995 from a parking lot near the Wofford baseball field in Alma, a town in Crawford County where several thousand people live on the edge of the Ozark Mountains.
To date, her kidnapper has not been identified and her disappearance remains a mystery to her family and law enforcement agencies across Arkansas and beyond.
“I never thought about Morgan being missing,” said Colleen Nick, Morgan’s mother, on the USA TODAY Network. “Someone knows the truth.”
This month the FBI announced that officials could be closer than ever to identifying their kidnapper.
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Agents also said the people of Tennessee may have valuable information.
FBI agents are searching for information on Billy Jack Lincks, whom the agency named a person of interest on November 9th.
He died in prison in 2000.
“We believe he had ties to the region,” said Connor Hagan, an FBI spokesman in Little Rock. “There’s nothing specific that links him to Tennessee, but there’s a good chance he’s been linked to people in the state.
“We’re going a long way back. People are moving, but we’re sending this to every state around Arkansas – from Mississippi to Missouri to Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas, to get as much as possible. The people knew him. “
According to the FBI, Lincks was born and raised in Crawford County, Arkansas. He served in the US Army during World War II and then worked for Braniff Airlines in Dallas from 1962 to 1974. He returned to Van Buren, Arkansas, in the late 1970s.
About two months after Morgan’s disappearance, the FBI reported, Lincks attempted to kidnap a young girl in Van Buren, eight miles from the baseball field where Morgan was last seen. Lincks died in prison in 2000.
The FBI seeks help from anyone who knows Lincks.
“Whether through school, work, church or other social activities, we need information about Lincks and details about his entire life,” said Hagan.
In 1996, Morgan’s mother established the Morgan Nick Foundation to provide a support network for parents and families of missing children.
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Anyone who knew Lincks or has information about him or his life is asked to call the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI.
Natalie Neysa Alund is based in Nashville, Tennessean and reports on breaking news from the south for the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @nataliealund.
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