ALMA, Ark. — The Alma Police Department said there has been a "significant development" in the investigation into the 1995 kidnapping of 6-year-old Morgan Nick.
Police Chief Jeff Pointer will report the development on Oct. 1 at 10:30 a.m. You can watch the press conference on-air at Channel 5 or on our streaming app 5+.
The press conference will take place in the courtroom of the Alma Police Department, 804 Fayetteville Ave., Alma.
What we know
Since 1995, Morgan's disappearance has become one of Arkansas's most infamous unsolved mysteries.
In 1995, Morgan and her family went to a little league baseball game in Alma to cheer on a friend. Toward the end of the night, Morgan was invited to go catch fireflies with some friends. After playing for a while, her friends decided to leave, leaving Morgan by herself. That was the last time anyone saw her.
For years, everyone from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to local police departments has been trying to solve the case. In 2021, the FBI believed they were closer than ever as they linked local World War II veteran and Crawford County native Billy Jack Lincks to Morgan's abduction.
Lincks, a resident of Van Buren since the late 1970s, was caught attempting to abduct an 11-year-old girl 8 miles away from the Wofford Baseball Field where Morgan was taken from. Lincks's abduction attempt was just two months after Morgan's disappearance.
Lincks was found guilty of sexual solicitation of a child and sentenced to prison where he later died in 2000. However, he was not named a suspect in Morgan's disappearance until after his death.
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