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Investigators have formally named Billy Jack Lincks as a suspect in her disappearance after they were able to find one of her hairs in his truck.
Lincks, who has since died, was convicted of sexual indecency after trying to snatch a child just three months after Morgan vanished.
He attempted to abduct an 11-year-old girl in Van Buren at a location eight miles from the Wofford baseball field where Morgan was last seen.
The victim's description of his car matched that to the one linked to Morgan's disappearance.
At the time, law enforcement released images of a red truck with a white camper. Lincks died in prison in 2000 at the age of 72.
In 2019, officers managed to locate the owner of Lincks' truck, who had no knowledge of its history.
The owner allowed the FBI to conduct DNA testing on the vehicle. Several hairs were recovered, with at least one coming back as a match for a child or sibling of Morgan's mother, Colleen Nicks, police said.
and stopped to get sand out of her shoe. It's thought that it was at that moment the kidnapper struck.
'That was the last time I ever saw her,' Morgan's mom sobbed in one clip.
She also revealed her hopes that her daughter, who would now be aged 31, was still alive.
'Not everyone who is kidnapped dies,' she added. 'People don't understand how you can keep relentlessly fighting but Morgan is worth fighting for.'
The Moors murders were a series of child killings committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in and around Manchester, England, between July 1963 and October 1965. The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans—aged between 10 and 17, at least four of whom were sexually assaulted. The bodies of two of the victims were discovered in 1965, in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered there in 1987, more than twenty years after Brady and Hindley's trial. Bennett's body is also thought to be buried there, but despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered.