AR MORGAN CHAUNTEL NICK: Missing from Alma, AR - 9 June 1995 - Age 6

1284DFAR - Morgan Chauntel Nick

The two images on the right is age-progressed to 17 and 26 years.

Name: Morgan Chauntel Nick
Case Classification: Endangered Missing, Non-Family Abduction
Missing Since: June 9, 1995
Location Last Seen: Alma, Crawford County, Arkansas

Physical Description
Date of Birth: September 12, 1988
Age: 6 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 4'0"
Weight: 55 lbs.
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Protruding purple vein on the lower left side of her rib cage; 5 visible silver caps on her molars; crowded teeth.

Identifiers
Dentals: Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Available

Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Green Girl Scout t-shirt, blue denim shorts, and white tennis shoes.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance
At 10:45 PM on June 9, 1995 in Alma, Arkansas, six-year-old Morgan Nick was abducted from a little league ball game by an unidentified man. Witnesses observed a man watching Morgan as she was playing with other children at the park. The witnesses also saw a red Ford pickup with a white camper parked nearby that disappeared at the same time as Morgan.

The camper is possibly damaged at the right rear, and was described as 4 to 5 inches too short for the truck. The truck is described as having a short wheel base, paint dulled with age, and a possible Arkansas license plate.

The man was described as white, 6 feet tall, with a medium to solid build (approximately 180 lbs.), salt-and-pepper hair, a mustache, and a 1-inch beard. He is believed to have been 23-38 years old at the time of the abduction.

Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Alam Police Department
Agency Contact Person: Chief Russell White
Agency Phone Number: 479-632-3333
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 950609-3

Agency Name: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Agency Contact Person: Special Agent Jimmie Caudle
Agency Phone Number: 479-452-5873
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: N/A
Agency Name: Arkansas State Police
Agency Contact Person: Sgt. Kimberly Warren
Agency Phone Number: 479-783-5195
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: N/A

NCIC Case Number: M-840041633
NCMEC Case Number: 805103
NamUs Case Number: 1490

Information Source(s)
NamUs
NCMEC
Morgan Nick Foundation

1284DFAR - Morgan Chauntel Nick

MORGAN CHAUNTEL NICK: Missing from Alma, AR since 9 Jun 1995 - Age 6

Morgan Chauntel Nick is an American girl who was abducted at a Little League Baseball game by an unidentified man. Witnesses observed a man watching Morgan as she was playing with other children at the park.

www.crimewatchers.net

 

[Tresir]

I see what you mean. Even though as you know I don't have it in me right now to totally focus and drill down here right now, it is not adding up. I suspect at minimum one news article is entirely off or age of death is and so on or some such. I can see the basics of what you are saying here though and later maybe I will look at more in depth with some focus. I've known of the case for years on end but it is of course one of those that has been so many years, being up and fresh on some of it is hard since it sits dormant for years with little news and so on.

Again others could chime in and may be more fresh on the facts like this or whether they are facts.

It's definitely a case I never have trouble remembering the basics when it comes up. I immediately know it is the child that went missing at or near the softball field. It has one of them that has always stood out and haunted. It just seemed also so opportunistic or happenstance as I said earlier.

I and my entire family used to go watch my brother's softball games and I am talking when I was in my 30s, etc. and him older yet and I'd take my children. They weren't Morgan's age. Oldest was a teen and youngest probably close. Small town. Safe rural small town America. There was a playground a ways from the fields near the hockey arena/building I mean walking distance, no roads crossed, you could see it from the bleachers. Basically on the property near one of the driveways. Not that far but not arm's reach either. My kids were never there as they were older but the players or watchers with younger kids, their kids would go down there and play and I mean you could see them easily and were probably within less than a minute's run to them if you had to. SAFE. Totally in within vision and close.

This case always has me picturing our set up. Of course hockey arena and building were not used in the summer much and had roads on each side, not busy roads, not highways and I mean anyone could park on the side of the building and in an instant have done something like this when all were watching and excited over a home run or something.

In no way do I mean things were identical but that I could just always imagine such happening when I first heard of this case and it just always struck me hard. I mean too this would have been in the 90s for me so I just kind of always had this one stick with me. I also just would have never thought of predators like this at that time and in our area. I think if I recall this field was a bit more rural but ours was on the edge of town, rural in its way as just leaving town but a playground too, etc.

it was just so awful and out of nowhere.

AGain not trying to say identical as to setups but if my kids were younger I would not have hesitated to let them play down there where I could see them easily and would have also figured anyone at the game could as well, all other parents and so on. it was on the same side, the same property basically but just across the grass and down the way a bit.

I don't recall every little detail but just know it struck home and I could just picture it. And haunted.

I know this is not about the truck, etc. but am getting my head back to other things and mind on other things.

This could have been anyone's child I guess too is part of what I am saying. And those are scary. So many are parents, etc. and awful as HE77 but most turn out to be someone close and sad as it is don't leave you with feeling necessarily all kids are in danger from them. This I just recall seemed so random. The way I recall it anyhow. And it could be anywhere USA.

There are a handful of more that strike me that way, and others too I'd say are struck that way. Another is Jacob Wetterling. A well known case by most of us.

I'll be interested in what is figured out here re age, truck etc...And I finally got the mind for a bit into something else. Transition. Only word I have for it. I really need to, and fast as work is looming.

Glad to see you on this one! I love seeing you in one as you discuss.

My kids too, every Saturday afternoon thru the winter, i would watch hub play the rugby game, while the kids would play all around the clubhouse with their friends late 70's thru the 80's. We also travelled all over the country for away games. Never had any approach my kids, that i know of, anyway.

 

[GrandmaBear]

My kids too, every Saturday afternoon thru the winter, i would watch hub play the rugby game, while the kids would play all around the clubhouse with their friends late 70's thru the 80's. We also travelled all over the country for away games. Never had any approach my kids, that i know of, anyway.

Right? I think this is what struck so many with this one, I think all could relate and say by the grace of God, it never happened to us... I think almost anyone can relate or did the same, and the same goes on today I am sure, at a game, kids playing off somewhere nearby, in sight. And here comes this predator... It's just scary, I mean your kids are right there nearby as are many other parents, etc. are around, watching the game, turning eye back to kids playing and so on.

One more modern and nowadays that is striking or similar is Dulce. There one minute in a park with her brother and gone the next. Mom not faraway in her car with her niece I believe. Now no suspects known of yet there and no idea who, what, etc. and a young mom, but in this day and age and with all the cameras one would think or hope should be around and nothing yet some years later now, a couple anyhow, I forget, two or three?

I mean they are all awful but the rare random one is scary. Of course not known who or what yet there and could be related even to her dad was wondered but seems likely some random stranger more so.

I haven't forgotten the very basics of Morgan's dispperance as it was something anyone could relate to I think.

It should not have to be such a worrisome world but I see a lot at work where a dad will send a fairly young kid back across the store to get something for him andI sit there thinking what are you doing. I mean the kid is inside and probably fine but we have doors all over every side. Adam Walsh would be another example. I mean nothing has ever happened here like in our store or city but isn't that what all say until it does.

Just scary. Strikes fear I think in any parent, grandparent, etc. seeing such a one.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

https://www.kark.com/news/working4you/working-4-you-dna-testing-becoming-more-precise-could-a-break-in-morgan-nicks-case-give-answers-to-other-families/

Working 4 You: DNA testing becoming more precise, could a break in Morgan Nick’s case give answers to other families?​

The family of Morgan Nick is hoping a break in their case could provide hope to others seeking answers.

In October 2024, the Alma Police Department named Billy Jack Lincks a primary suspect in Morgan Nick’s abduction.

Scientists with Othram Lab were able to match DNA from a rootless piece of hair found in Linck’s truck to Morgan’s mother Colleen, suggesting Morgan had been in the car at some point.

“He stole Morgan from me, he stole her from her dad, he stole her from Logan and Taryn,” Colleen Nick said during a press conference in October.



“DNA came here to the crime lab in 1995,” Deputy Director of Scientific Operations for the Arkansas Crime Lab Jennifer Beaty-West said.

DNA testing was still very new in Arkansas, and scientists had limited options for identifying a victim.

In a report from the crime lab, scientists say the blood evidence was retained for “possible future analysis.”

Time passed and DNA testing got more precise.

Around 2005 is where we kind of start seeing more DNA being able to be extracted from non-biological samples. So, if you had a hair with a root, or if you had a touch or transfer sample,” Beaty-West said.

In 2020, FBI agents searched Lincks’ truck again.

They collected small fragments of rootless hair, but it still wasn’t enough for answers.

Meanwhile, Colleen was searching for a path forward. She came across an article about Othram Labs, a DNA testing site in Texas.

“It really seemed like this is an avenue we haven’t tried,” Colleen Nick said. “You know this is DNA work that has never been done before and that’s what we need. Something that’s never been done before.”

Othram Labs uses a process they call Forensic Grade Genome Sequencing. The process works to connect family members’ DNA to each other and can pull half a million data points from a piece of evidence.

Normal DNA testing pulls about 20.

“We can work with material that is degraded, very old, very low quantities that no one else would work with,” Othram Labs CEO David Mittelman said.

In the last few years, Othram Labs has solved more than 500 cold cases. The oldest dates back to the 1800s.

“These are cases where the family won’t be around forever, and so we want to make sure they get the answers they have been waiting for,” Mittelman said.



The pain never goes away, but Colleen says she finds peace in knowing change is on the horizon.

“In 1995, the technology simply did not exist, and watching it evolve over 30 years has been grateful to have a front-row seat,” Colleen Nick said. “Knowing that if Morgan’s case were to happen today and Othram Labs was offering their technology, that the case would be solved right away, and a family would not be left waiting 30 years for answers.”

There are hundreds of cold cases in Arkansas.

Each one with a name and a face.

One by one, the hope is that those numbers will dwindle, giving answers to families who have been waiting decades.

“If there’s DNA, there’s hope,” Mittelman said.

Othram Labs works primarily with law enforcement agencies to help solve murder and missing person cases.