The Trail Went Cold - Episode 296 - Morgan Nick

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

Tv & Film, True Crime

4.5 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

June 9, 1995. Alma, Arkansas. While attending a Little League baseball game with her mother, six-year old Morgan Nick goes off to play with some other kids before she vanishes without a trace. Morgan’s friends claim that she was spoken to by an unidentified man standing next to a red pick-up truck, so it is suspected that this man might have abducted her. Over two decades later, a deceased sex offender named Billy Jack Lincks is publicly named as a person of interest, but he has not been conclusively connected to the case and Morgan has still not been found. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we will be exploring a tragic missing children’s case which has gone unsolved for over 27 years. In addition, we will also discuss the unsolved 2001 disappearance of three-month-old Jacqueline Vasquez, who was abducted from a swap meet in Avondale, Arizona. Special thanks to listener Chardonnay Brown for narrating the opening of this episode. If you have any information on the disappearance of Morgan Nick, please contact the FBI, the Arkansas State Police at (501) 618-8000 or the Alma Police Department at (479) 632-3333. If you have any information about the disappearance of Jacqueline Vasquez, please contact the Avondale Police Department at (623) 333-7001. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Morgan_Nick http://unsolved.com/gallery/morgan-nick/ http://charleyproject.org/case/morgan-chauntel-nick http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/18/grace.coldcase.morgan.nick/index.html https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/outreach/back-to-school/timeline-a-look-back-into-twists-and-turns-in-morgan-nick-case/527-868e90a9-2431-46b2-96be-afccd41145b3 http://5newsonline.com/2017/12/19/no-evidence-found-in-spiro-relating-to-morgan-nick-case/ https://www.4029tv.com/article/billy-jack-lincks-morgan-nick/38199571# https://www.4029tv.com/article/court-records-reveal-more-information-about-person-of-interest-in-morgan-nick-case/38216081 https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2021/11/30/missing-arkansas-girl-morgan-nick-case-may-have-tennessee-ties/6372777001/ https://www.kark.com/news/working4you/dna-in-1995-attempted-abduction-case-could-give-answers-to-morgan-nick-kidnapping/ https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/crime/morgan-nick-disappearance-billy-jack-lincks/91-c18c30fc-b670-4409-925f-f4cfce532a52 http://www.morgannick.com https://www.stillmissingmorgan.com https://unsolved.com/gallery/jacqueline-castaneda/ http://charleyproject.org/case/jacqueline-vasquez https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Jacqueline_Vasquez “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon. Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on Vokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	June 9, 1995. Alma, Arkansas. While attending a little league baseball game with her mother,
0:09.8	six-year-old Morgan Nick goes off into a nearby field to play with some other kids before
0:16.0	she vanishes without a trace. Morgan's friends claim that an unidentified man spoke to her
0:23.2	and since a red pickup truck was seen leaving the scene, it is suspected that this man
0:29.1	might have abducted her. Over two decades later, a deceased sex offender named Billy Jack
0:36.7	Leanks is named as a person of interest, but he has not been conclusively connected to
0:42.6	the case and Morgan remains a missing person. After that, the trail went cold.
1:12.4	Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the trail went cold. I'm your host
1:33.5	Robin Warner and this week we're going to be exploring a prominent missing children's
1:38.3	case, the 1995 disappearance of six-year-old Morgan Nick. That voice you just heard narrating
1:44.9	our intro was Shardonnay Brown, the latest winner of our most recent trail went cold
1:50.1	listener voice over contest, so thank you very much Shardonnay. This is a recurring monthly
1:55.1	contest which you've been carrying on for five years now and if you'd like to enter
1:59.1	and have an already done so, I will be providing instructions near the end of this episode.
2:04.1	Anyway, the disappearance of Morgan Nick is the case that Shardonnay requested I cover
2:08.9	when she originally entered this contest because she was growing up in the same region of
2:13.3	Arkansas when Morgan's abduction took place, so the story has always had close to home
2:17.8	for her. The case is every parent's worst nightmare as Morgan's mother took her to
2:23.1	a little league baseball game one night and even though she only let her daughter out
2:27.1	of her sights for a brief window of time in order to allow her to play with some other
2:31.1	kids, it seems like an opportunistic predator took advantage of the situation and kidnapped
2:36.5	her. While Morgan's friends reported seeing what
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Robin Warder, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Robin Warder and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.