Morgan was kidnapped at the Alma little league baseball fields in 1995. A man was identified as a potential suspect, Billy Jack Lincks, who drove a red pickup with a white camper shell. He was later arrested for a Van Buren AR kidnapping with that red truck and died in prison in 2000. The FBI located the truck in 2020 and vacuumed up a bunch of matter that remained in the truck. The evidence was sent to a lab in 2023 that has had success in building dna profiles in hair with or without roots, and just last week they were able to confirm that hair found in the vacuumed up matter from the truck matched Colleen Nick’s, the mother of Morgan. Still don’t know where the assumed remains of Morgan are, but at least there’s confidence that they can focus on one suspect.
They didn’t go into great detail about that or how many times it had changed owners, but the person who had it had no knowledge of Lincks and was more than willing to have it examined by the FBI
I’m assuming a guy that owns an average as fuck truck that is 30 years old probably doesn’t get it detailed monthly.
I think a key detail is the camper shell. So even if you washed the truck that wouldn’t clean the bed area really.
At least it gives the family some closure. But it feels unsatisfying the suspect isnt alive. Idk why.
I’m always amazed by these DNA case cracking stories and wonder how many more are waiting for someone to do the work. In 1994, an OSU student named Stephanie Hummer was abducted about two blocks from where my then-girlfriend and now wife lived. She was found dead, and the murderer never caught. Caused fear and panic for several weeks on campus. In 2006, they found a DNA match because the guy had a felony failure to pay child support and Ohio requires convicted felons to submit DNA to the state’s database. He was convicted and remains in prison. From 1994-2006, he walked around free, thinking he got away with it.
Agreed, and probably will still never find her remains… but at least we know the loser who did it died in prison. Really sucks the initial investigators didn’t press harder on him when there was a very similar abduction he committed like 15 miles away a few months later with a similar suspect vehicle
Went through a true crime phase for a while and it was wild how many times police missed shit like this or, conversely, focused on the absolute wrong suspect and ignored every other piece of evidence pointing to an alternative. Lot of wrongly convicted people for that exact reason.
I've seen so many cases where the police focus on the wrong guy for God knows what reason and basically blow the case by wasting time and resources and don't follow other leads.
I think it stems from never being able to confront the killer or get any reasons. He's dead, so he can't hurt anyone ever again, but I think many want to see their child's murderer actually face the consequences.
Stories like these always mess me up. Kids just getting kidnapped walking home from school, and the family never gets closure and slowly goes crazy trying to search for them