#Morgan Chauntel Nick

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Disappearance of Morgan Nick

Images of Morgan Nick circa 1995 (Charley Project)

Age Progression of Morgan Nick by NCMEC to 17 (The Doe Network)

Age Progression of Morgan Nick by NCMEC to 26 (The Doe Network)

Age Progression of Morgan Nick by NCMEC to 31 (The Doe Network)

Sketches of the Suspect (Charley Project)

Image of the person of interest Billy Jack Lincks

Image of the red truck in the area the night Morgan disappeared

Morgan Nick

Physical Description

Full Name: Morgan Chauntel Nick

Date of Birth: September 12, 1988

Race: White/Caucasian

Sex: Female

Height (At Disappearance): 4′0″ (121.92 cm)

Weight (At Disappearance0: 55 lbs (24.95 kg)

Hair Color: Blond or Strawberry Blond

Eye Color: Blue

Nicknames/Aliases: Unknown

Distinguishing Characteristics

On the lower left side of her rib cage, there is a protruding purple vein

Crowded teeth and would most likely need to wear braces as she grew

5 visible silver capons on her molars that were scheduled to be removed in 2000

Family

Mother: Colleen Nick

Father: Morris John Nick

Some sources sometimes refer to him as John

Brother (Younger): Logan Nick

Sister (Younger): Taryn Nick

Grandmother

Misc. Info

Her parents were divorced and it was said to be amicable

Case Information

Age (At Disappearance): 6 (Will be 34 if still alive as of April 9, 2023)

Missing Since: June 9, 1995 (Missing for 27 years as of April 9, 2023)

Location Last Seen At: Alma, Crawford County, Arkansas

Location Last Seen At on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/35.4778653,-94.2218752

Case Classification: Non-Family Abduction/Endangered Missing

Dentals: Available

Fingerprints: Not Available

DNA: Available

Clothing/Personal Items Description

Green Girl Scout T-Shirt

Blue Denim Shorts

White Tennis Shoes/Sneakers

Circumstances of Disappearance

On June 09, 1995, Morgan attended a Little League Baseball game with her mother in Alma, Arkansas. Later in the evening, she joins her friends near the baseball field to catch lightning bugs. She was last seen around 10:45 pm emptying sand from shoes near her mother’s Nissan Stanza in the parking lot.

Suspects/Persons of Interest

Unknown Man

Age Approximation: 23  - 38

Height Approximation: 6′0″ (182.88 cm)

Weight Approximation: 180 lbs (81.65 kg)

Hair Color: Black or Salt-Pepper Hair

Distinguishing Characteristics

Hair was combed back and possibly curly

Had a mustache

Had a beard that approximately has three to four days of growth

Hairy Chest

Spoke with a “hillbilly” type dialect or accent

Clothing/Personal Items Description

No shirt

No shoes

Cut-off Blue jean shorts

Vehicle Description

Model: Ford

Color: Red

Misc. Info

White Camper Shell

Possibly damaged at the right rear

Appeared to be four to five inches short for the truck

Had a Dull paint job due to age

Short wheelbase

Possibly had an Arkansas plate license plate

The vehicle left the parking lot at the same time as Morgan's disappearance

The truck was caught on a home video or photo by a person who was recording the Little League ball game that night

Misc. Info

Witnesses told authorities that they saw the man watch Morgan when she played on the field earlier that night. The same man apparently also approached some children that were playing with Morgan to ask some questions though the contents of that conversation hadn’t been revealed to the public yet.

His description matched the description of a suspect in two other attempted abductions in the general area on June 9th and June 10th that the authorities believed were connected

In Alma, a four-year girl was enticed by an unknown man to go into his red truck but the girl, fortunately, managed to escape when her mother saw them and screamed

In Fort Smith, which is fifteen miles from Alma, a nine-year-old girl was lured into a men’s bathroom at a convenience store but was let go after she started resisting

Billy Jacks Lincks

He was born in Crawford County, Arkansas

Served in the U.S. Army during World War II

Worked for Braniff Airlines in Dallas, Tex between 1962 - 1974

He moved to Van Buren, Arkansas in the later 1970s

It is believed he had ties with states adjacent to Arkansas

Was announced as a person of interest in 2021

Authorities were able to locate and take possession of Linck’s pickup truck. They were able to find trace amounts of blood on a seat and some hair but could not extract enough DNA for a match to anyone. They also located blue-green cotton fiber in the mat under the seats and believed it may be been from the same shirt that Morgan was wearing the day she went missing

He died in prison in 2000 for serving time for a child’s abduction which occurred two months after Morgan’s disappearance

Unidentified Person Exclusions (NamUs)

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/8419

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/4725

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/12683

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/1405

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/8642

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/7609

Contact Information/Investigating Agencies/Contact Agencies

Alma Police Department

Agency Case Number: 950609-3

Agency Contact Personals

Lieutenant/Detective Brett Hartley

Chief Russell White

Agency Phone Numbers

479-632-3333

501-632-3930

Arkansas State Police - Troop H

Agent Contact Personal: Sergent Kimberly Warren

Agency Phone Number: 479-783-5195

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Agency Contact Personal: Special Agent Jimmie Caudle

Agency Phone Numbers

479-452-5873

202-324-3000

Morgan Nick Foundation

Agency Phone Number

Phone: 479-632-6382

Toll-Free: 1-877-543-HOPE (4673)

Fax: 479-632-6455

Agency Email Address

Staff@morgannick.com 

Agency Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/MorganNickFoundation

Agency Mailing Address

PO Box 1033, Alma, AR 72921

NamUs

Agency Case Number: MP#: 1490

Agency Contact Personals: Regional Program Specialist: Joseph Welsch

Agency Phone Number: 984-327-5731

Agency Email Address: jwelsch@rti.org

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)

Agency Case Number: 805103

Agency Phone Number: 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)

National Crime Information Center (NCIC)

Agency Case Number: M-840041633

Gina for Missing Persons FOUNDation

Agency Phone Number: 1-657-216-2831

Agency Mailing Address

P.O. Box 627, Anaheim, CA 92815

Sources/Further Information/Places of Interest

https://charleyproject.org/case/morgan-chauntel-nick

https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/1490/details?nav

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1284dfar.html

https://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/805103/1

https://411gina.org/cases/nickmorganchauntel.html

https://morgannickfoundation.com/about/morgans-story/

https://www.facebook.com/MorganNickFoundation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmenmYWpRf4

https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/ar-morgan-nick-6-alma-9-jun-1995.12588/

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The Disappearance of Morgan Nick

Morgan Chauntel Nick is an American girl who was abducted from a baseball game. She has never been found. On 9th June 1995, Morgan Nick and her mother went to a baseball game in Alma, Arkansas. At around 10.30 pm Morgan went to catch lightning bugs with her friends. She was last seen at 10.45 pm by her friends emptying sand out of her shoes near her mother's car. Morgan's friends later reported seeing a 'creepy' man talking to Morgan as she put her shoes back on. When the game ended Morgan's friends told her mother she was by the car but when her mother went she found no sign of Morgan. Morgan has not been seen or heard from since. Searches and digs of private land have been conducted since the girl's disappearance but no trace of Morgan or evidence of what happened to her has been found. In 1996, Morgan's mother, Colleen Nick started the Morgan Nick Foundation which helps parents cope with the disappearances of children and prevent children from going missing. The Amber Alert service is named the Morgan Nick Amber Alert in the state of Arkansas.

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A basic timeline into Morgan Nick’s abduction case

September 12, 1988: Morgan Chauntel Nick is born.

June 9, 1995: Morgan disappears. She was 6-years-old. Police said she was abducted while at an Alma ball park with her mother, but left her mother’s presence and went with two friends to catch lightning bugs.

The last time Morgan was seen, she was emptying sand from her shoes near her mother’s car.

Investigators have said the two friends with her noticed a suspicious man in a red truck with a white camper there that night. Morgan disappeared after 10 p.m. and so did the red pickup. The man believed to be driving the pickup was estimated to be in his mid-twenties at the time.

Throughout the years, police have received and pursued countless leads in the case, but no arrests have occurred.

June 9, 1995: An attempted abduction of a 4-year-old is reported in Alma. The attempted abduction stopped when the girl screamed and was saved by her mother. The suspect resembled Nick’s abductor.

June 10, 1995: An attempted abduction of a 9-year-old girl is reported in Fort Smith. The girl reported a suspect, resembling Nick’s abductor, tried to get her to go into a men’s restroom with him, but she resisted.

1995: First composite sketch of suspect released.

1996: Morgan’s mother, Colleen Nick, launches the Morgan Nick Foundation. The foundation focuses on intervention, education, and legislation. That same year, the Arkansas alert system is named in honor of Nick.

June 9, 1996: It is the one year anniversary of the tragic abduction. A pink balloon release is hosted in honor of Nick.

February 1997: The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children releases an age progression photo of Nick who would be 8-years-old.

January 4, 2001: Police release a new composite sketch of the suspect in Nick’s case.

February 2001: The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children releases an age progression photo of Nick who would be 12-years-old.

August 28, 2001: The case airs on Unsolved Mysteries.

January 9, 2009: Arkansas State Police revamps the notification system for abducted and missing children to speed notification alerts.

November 16, 2010: Police search a residence on Northwest Ninth Street in Spiro, Okla. This will be the same residence searched again seven years later in connection to the case.

August 20, 2010: Nancy Grace reports on Nick’s case as a “cold case”.

August 14, 2011: ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and John Walsh, co-founder of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children teamed up to focus on the issue of missing children, and highlighted Nick’s abduction. Colleen and Nick’s siblings were the recipients of a brand new home.

June 23, 2012: Tonya Renee Smith, 24, of Hollister, Mo., was arrested for allegedly trying to steal the identity of Morgan Nick. She allegedly tried to purchase vital personal documents and information belonging to Nick, including Nick’s birth certificate.

June 9, 2015: The two children who went to catch fireflies with Nick speak out for the first time, and an age progression photo of what Nick might look like, 20 years after her abduction, is released by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

December 18, 2017: The FBI, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and local authorities were dispatched to the scene of a possible crime in Spiro after receiving a tip from someone who claimed they have knowledge about Nick’s case. Police search the well and backyard of a residence for nearly 10 hours.

December 19, 2017: No evidence regarding Nick’s case was found. Search efforts are called off.

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What is AMBER ALERT? What does AMBER ALERT mean? AMBER ALERT meaning - AMBER ALERT definition - AMBER ALERT explanation. Source: Wikipedia.org article, adapted under http://ift.tt/yjiNZw license. An AMBER Alert or a Child Abduction Emergency (SAME code: CAE) is a child abduction alert system. It originated in the United States in 1996. AMBER is officially a backronym for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response, but was named after Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old abducted and murdered in Arlington, Texas, in 1996. Alternate regional alert names were once used; in Georgia, "Levi's Call" (in memory of Levi Frady); in Hawaii, "Maile Amber Alert" (in memory of Maile Gilbert); and Arkansas, "Morgan Nick Amber Alert" (in memory of Morgan Chauntel Nick). In the United States, AMBER Alerts are distributed via commercial radio stations, Internet radio, satellite radio, television stations, and cable TV by the Emergency Alert System and NOAA Weather Radio (where they are termed "Child Abduction Emergency" or "Amber Alerts"). The alerts are also issued via e-mail, electronic traffic-condition signs, commercial electronic billboards, or through wireless device SMS text messages. AMBER Alert has also teamed up with Google, Bing, and Facebook to relay information regarding an AMBER Alert to an ever-growing demographic: AMBER Alerts are automatically displayed if citizens search or use map features on Google or Bing. With the Google Child Alert (also called Google AMBER Alert in some countries), citizens see an AMBER Alert if they search for related information in a particular location where a child has recently been abducted and an alert was issued. This is a component of the AMBER Alert system that is already active in the US (there are also developments in Europe). Those interested in subscribing to receive AMBER Alerts in their area via SMS messages can visit Wireless Amber Alerts, which are offered by law as free messages. In some states, the display scrollboards in front of lottery terminals are also used. The decision to declare an AMBER Alert is made by each police organization (in many cases, the state police or highway patrol) that investigates each of the abductions. Public information in an AMBER Alert usually consists of the name and description of the abductee, a description of the suspected abductor, and a description and license plate number of the abductor's vehicle, if available. It is also some times used on stolen vehicles. The alerts are broadcast using the Emergency Alert System, which had previously been used primarily for weather bulletins, civil emergencies, or national emergencies. Alerts usually contain a description of the child and of the likely abductor. To avoid both false alarms and having alerts ignored as a "wolf cry", the criteria for issuing an alert are rather strict. Each state's or province's AMBER alert plan sets its own criteria for activation, meaning that there are differences between alerting agencies as to which incidents are considered to justify the use of the system. However, the U.S. Department of Justice issues the following "guidance", which most states are said to "adhere closely to" (in the U.S.): 1. Law enforcement must confirm that an abduction has taken place. 2. The child must be at risk of serious injury or death. 3. There must be sufficient descriptive information of child, captor, or captor's vehicle to issue an alert. 4. The child must be under 18 years of age.