Billy Jack Lincks has been designated by authorities as the sole suspect in the 1995 disappearance of Morgan Nick from an Alma ballfield, based on new DNA evidence.
Who Was Billy Jack Lincks?
Agents are attempting to acquire as much information as they can regarding Billy Jack Lincks’s life.
Arkansas’s Crawford County is where Lincks was born and reared. After serving in the Army during World War II, he worked in Dallas from 1962 until 1974 for Braniff Airlines.
It was somewhere in the late 1970s that Lincks came back to Van Buren. In 2000, he passed away in jail.
“Whether it was through school, work, church, or any social activity, we need information about Lincks and details about his entire life,” police stated.
Jeff Horner, the chief of Alma Police, encouraged anybody with information regarding Lincks or any other aspect of the case to contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).
Investigating Billy Jack Lincks
FBI agents publicly identified Billy Jack Lincks as a person of interest in the investigation in November 2021 and requested the public’s assistance in obtaining information about him.
An 11-year-old girl told police she was strolling with her younger brothers near the Sonic restaurant in downtown Van Buren on August 29, 1995, when a man in a red pickup truck drew up to them, according to preliminary police reports that 40/29 News was able to obtain.
Morgan Nick was taken to Van Buren, which is about ten minutes down the interstate from Alma.
The girl said to the police that the man had made advances toward her in a sexual manner, given her money, and promised to pay her to get into his truck and drive her home. Police were alerted when the girl fled.
An arrest warrant was issued the next day when a witness gave police information about an Arkansas license plate that was linked to Lincks.
Lincks’ Pickup Truck
A red 1986 Chevrolet Scottsdale pickup vehicle was searched by investigators from various law enforcement organizations, and evidence was gathered from within. Crime lab records state that blood was found on a portion of the truck’s seat. Hair samples from a variety of discovered objects were also retrieved by the investigators.
Lab technicians discovered at the time that insufficient DNA information was available for a definitive match between the blood and the blonde hair. In 2024, that hair was identified as belonging to either Morgan Nick or a close cousin using advanced technology.
Lincks was named as the only suspect in her disappearance by the police as a result of this.
According to a recent documentary, law officers also discovered blue-green cotton fiber in the truck’s metal parts and the pad beneath the seats.
The fiber was able to be microscopically matched by FBI technicians to a Girl Scout blouse that Morgan was wearing the day she vanished.
According to court documents related to the Van Buren incident, in 1995, a neighbor of Lincks’s stated to investigators that he believed a camper shell had been on Lincks’ truck “a few months ago.”
Do The Clues Match?
A picture of a red pickup vehicle with a camper has been issued and re-released by law authorities on occasion. About the same time that Morgan vanished, it was parked close to the Alma ballfield.
Jeff Pointer, the chief of police in Alma, told 40/29 News that following Nick’s disappearance, officers were notified of suspicious activities in an Alma neighborhood involving the driver of the vehicle and minors.
A man in a red vehicle pulling a white camper approached some children, and by children I mean teenagers or perhaps younger kids. Pointer stated, “We think someone is aware of who was at the ballpark that evening and who was operating a red truck pulling a white trailer.
A description of a person of interest in the case has also been published by the police. At the time of Morgan’s disappearance, he is characterized as a male between the ages of 23 and 38. He had a medium to solid physique and stood approximately six feet tall. He might have had a beard and a mustache.