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November 18, 2022 / 01:12:18

This episode covers the case of Morgan Nick, who disappeared in 1995 at a Little League baseball game in Alma, Arkansas. The discussion includes details about her abduction, the initial search efforts, and the ongoing investigation into her disappearance.

Hosts Nick and Captain discuss Morgan's background, including her age at the time of her disappearance and the circumstances surrounding her abduction. They highlight the moment she was last seen playing with other children and the frantic search initiated by her mother, Colleen Nick, after Morgan went missing.

The episode also examines the description of a suspicious man seen near the children and the subsequent composite sketches that were created. The hosts discuss various sightings and attempted abductions in the area around the time of Morgan's disappearance, as well as the challenges faced by law enforcement in tracking down leads.

Colleen Nick's efforts to keep her daughter's case alive through the Morgan Nick Foundation are also highlighted. The foundation focuses on educating communities about child safety and supporting families of missing children.

Throughout the episode, the hosts reflect on the emotional impact of Morgan's case and the importance of continuing the search for answers.

TLDR

Morgan Nick disappeared in 1995; her case remains unsolved despite ongoing investigations and community efforts.

Episode

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grab a chair grab a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] Morgan Chantel Nick was born on
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September 12 1988. when she disappeared on Friday June 9 1995. she was six years old four feet
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tall 55 pounds with blue eyes and long blonde hair she had a protruding purple Vein on the
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lower left of her rib cage five visible silver caps on her molars that were scheduled to be removed later
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the Amber Alert in Arkansas is named after Morgan Nick an ay magazine article by Janie Jones
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titled the Morgan Nick Story States an old superstition says if you make a wish when you see the
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first lightning bug of the year the wish will come true but for Colleen Nick lightning bugs
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remind her of the night her six-year-old daughter Morgan went missing and calling Nick
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had this to say in an interview back in 1997. Ms Nick said she still has hope Morgan will be found alive
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quote you can't give up until you know for sure I don't want to have to look my daughter
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in the eye and tell her I gave up she goes on to say quote I don't know who these people are that
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think they can do this to our children [Music] on the day in question six-year-old
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Morgan Nick was with her mom Colleen the two drove from their home in Ozark Arkansas 30 miles away to Alma Arkansas
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Alma is a Tiny Town population was under 4 000 back in 1995. the town is nestled
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in the Ozark Mountains this is a rural area but Alma is bisected by a major highway this is interstate 80. and Alma
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is only 13 miles from the Oklahoma border Morgan and Colleen traveled to a ballpark to watch some little league
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baseball games with friends who lived in Alma they were meeting their friends there it
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was a long day of baseball with the final game between the pythons and the Marlins starting later than scheduled
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and stretching into the 10 p.m time frame they estimate that there was about 300 people watching the baseball game
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the crowd was involved active and at times allowed Morgan was wearing a green Girl Scouts t-shirt blue denim shorts
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and white sneakers Morgan stayed close to her mother hanging out with her on the bleachers the little girl enjoyed
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silly pranks and that night she was trying to trick her mother by climbing down by Colleen's feet and tying her
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shoelaces together sometime around 10 30 PM according to Colleen Morgan was asked
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by some other kids to come and catch fireflies with them apparently it was common for the kids hanging out during
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the games to play on a hill with grassy areas and a sand pile this is adjacent to the parking lot Morgan was shy at
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first she did not want to go but then decided to ask her mom if she could join the other kids yeah I saw it reported
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that the mom at first said no I don't want you playing away from us but one of the other mothers said hey it's common
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for the kids to go play over there yeah the tricky thing here is the time involved it's awfully late at night it's
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going to be dark out yes it was the common play area for the ballpark and these two kids from my
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understanding they already knew Morgan it wasn't like they were new to Morgan right so this was a boy named Ty he is
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10 years old and an eight-year-old girl named Jessica so I think it also helps when granting permission to go off and
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play in a different area that these two children are a little older than your six-year-old daughter yeah and I don't
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think this other mother was out of line to say hey kids play there all the time but
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baseball games are not played there all the time that late so this area is fairly well lit and Colleen said that
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she could see Morgan and the other kids running around from where she sat in the
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bleachers now she does admit that she occasionally lost sight of her daughter this play area was approximately 75
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yards from where Colleen was sitting but then the game ended now it's right around 10 45 p.m so not too much time
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has passed between granting permission to go off and play in the end of this game at the time Ty and Jessica the two
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other children ran back up to the bleachers but as Colleen quickly noticed Morgan was not with them when she asked
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the youngsters about Morgan they said they last Saw Morgan sitting in the parking lot she was emptying out her
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shoes according to the kids emptying out sand from her shoes and after that the two kids lost track of their little
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friend Colleen is now on high alert and she starts racing toward the parking lot
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given the situation the two kids just described Colleen assumed that Morgan would meet her at the car this is a
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Nissan stanza but when she got there to her car there was no sign of Morgan she looked for her in the area asking
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everyone if they had seen her but they had not the ballpark was clearing out and there
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was no sign of Morgan Colleen got the other parents and even some of the baseball coaches involved in this search
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someone with a cell phone offered the phone to Colleen and she called the police
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authorities were very quick to respond arriving within six minutes of Colleen's frantic call once on the scene the two
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little kids that were playing with Morgan Ty and Jessica told authorities that while they were playing a man that
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the two described simply as creepy this man came up to the three children and spoke to them well interesting since
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it's 1995 that somebody had a cell phone so that's lucky for them and good for the police to respond as quickly as they
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did do we have a report of what El creepo said to these kids we do and we don't and I think we can dive into that
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more later when we're looking at the details of this possible suspect but I think what we should talk about here is
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why he immediately becomes a suspect so from the general understanding that we have in this situation we have about
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300 people at this ballpark and yes it's allowed at times it's busy there's a lot going on these games are
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stretching far into the night much later than expected right this man according to these two children
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spoke with Morgan remember this this time frame this window of time when this little girl goes missing it's about 15
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minutes pretty short right yeah this guy during that time frame speaks to this little girl and the two others right
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now the reason why we don't have a 100 confirmation about what he said to the children is because police stated early
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on this guy's a suspect and we are holding back the information of what was said to the children by this
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man right because we need something to weed out any possible false confessions or false confessors that may come
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forward right he becomes an immediate self during the short window he interacts with the three children one of them who
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went missing and apparently once it is known that Morgan is missing has disappeared this man is gone too nobody
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remembers seeing him or his vehicle after they noticed that Morgan was missing right and I I think a lot of
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people would assume that this guy is El creepo is driving around in an El crepo van but but he wasn't so this man is
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described as having a short or clipped beard some reports state that it was a half an inch thick he's estimated to be
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about 23 to 38 years old about six feet tall 180 pounds slicked back dark hair wearing denim cut off shorts no shirt or
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shoes with a hairy chest alright so he has a hairy chest and he's wearing shorts he spoke to the kids in what they
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refer to as a hillbilly accent so I'm just assuming that these other two kids are possibly not from around there
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because I think this would be kind of a standard local accent because it is Arkansas the two children were
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from Alma from the from that area or lived in that area who knows where they could have been born in Alaska for all I
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know right so maybe but so maybe it wasn't common in in their local area yeah the the interesting thing here too
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Captain is that the two children were not the only ones to see this what we will refer to as quote the creepy man
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one female adult witness reported seeing the man as well she apparently also verified the description of the man she
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saw speaking to the the kids right she says she only saw him from afar but the important thing is she is providing
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authorities with a very similar description of this man later this woman was actually hypnotized
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by authorities in Little Rock to see if she could provide any more information unfortunately she could not now we will
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continue to revisit This creepy man that was spotted talking to the children Morgan being one of them we will revisit
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him as he is the Crux of our case of her disappearance other than the three persons we have already discussed the
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two children playing with Morgan and an unnamed woman no one else seems to have remarked about this to investigators and
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Morgan's mother never saw this creepy guy correct now nobody else coming forward this could be for any number of
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reasons it could be that this is a small town this man is known to locals and not
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seen as a threat and is really just a red herring or he could be someone who had a
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legitimate reason to be there that night so he didn't trigger any alarm Bells or
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it could just be that no one other than our three Witnesses noticed this man at all right the creepy man that we have
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discussed is considered a suspect not just because he was seen talking with these three children but also because he
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was seen by the woman when Morgan is there and accounted for then just a short time later Morgan is gone and
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apparently this man seems to be gone as well well at some point Morgan's mom also saw her playing so we have a window
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of 15 minutes now we have oh eyewitness seeing the creepy man we also have probably other sightings from Morgan's
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mother seeing Morgan play so you could narrow down this window to probably within a couple minutes of when she was
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actually taken a sketch of the man was circulated and a description of a vehicle that the creepy man may have
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been driving was also circulated shortly after the Abduction the Charlie project
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website States based on reporting at the time that Witnesses at the ball game said the unidentified man may have been
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seen near a red Ford pickup truck with a white camper which was about five inches
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too small for the truck bed the Camper's windows were covered with curtains the truck had a dull paint job because it
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was clearly old likely vintage they estimate between 1968 and 1974 and had a short wheelbase and was possibly damaged
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on its right rear end reports that it had Arkansas plates also circulated now it breaks my heart to report that
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Morgan she has never been seen or heard from since there are some really important aspects to this abduction that
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are key and unfortunately not very helpful to investigators no one saw Morgan leave the ballpark at all no one
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saw this little girl leave the ballpark alone or with anyone else she simply was
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there and then she wasn't well right and nobody saw her leaving because she was in the camper in the back of that truck
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it is usually reported in connection with this case that there were other attempted abductions around the same
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time now one in particular reported was that earlier that same day in a laundry mat in Alma
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there was a bearded man trying to pull a nine-year-old girl out of the laundromat
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and into his truck somebody stepped in intervened in this abduction was stopped red truck uh says
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his truck I don't have a description of the truck itself right also on the day Morgan was abducted June 9 1995 there
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was another attempted abduction this was reported two from earlier in the day this is in regards to a four-year-old in
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Alma the attempted abduction stopped when the girl screamed and was saved by her mother the suspect it's been
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reported resembled Nick's abductor the next day June 10th an attempted abduction of a nine-year-old girl is
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reported in Fort Smith Fort Smith is just about 15 miles away the girl reported a suspect resembling Nick's
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abductor tried to get her to go into the men's restroom with him but she resisted
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I do want to throw out a little caveat to everybody listening out there those three attempted abductions those
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are legitimate reports that we found I have some suspicions that there were actually only two right and that one of
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the the stories of an attempted abduction has kind of changed or you know been molded throughout the years so
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it sounds like it's a second report but there are two legitimate at least two of these are absolute legitimate the
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third possibly as well it's just important to point out here that we have at least two situations where somebody's
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stating somebody that looks like this same guy right possibly could have tried to abduct a
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young girl just within 24 hours of Morgan Nick going missing and we'll put the composite drawing on Instagram Facebook
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Twitter all that stuff at True Crime garage just a couple weeks later this is on June 26th a gardener claimed he saw
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Morgan this is Albert Harvey he's a gardener for state representative Wanda Northcutt he told police Saturday
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morning that while clearing brush from behind Mrs northcutt's home he saw a man trying to get into his truck he said the
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man had a blonde-headed girl with him and when the man realized Harvey had seen him the man grabbed the child's
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wrist and fled into a nearby Thicket he claimed the man matched the description of Morgan Nick's alleged abductor right
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police concentrated their search on an area around Mrs northcutt's home Searchers calmed the area on foot
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horseback and four-wheeled vehicles they used police dogs and a helicopter this article goes on to say the Nationwide
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search for Morgan has produced hundreds of leads but nothing concrete a widely distributed composite sketch of the
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suspect shows a white man with salt and pepper hair and a short beard driving a faded red Ford pickup with an
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ill-fitting white camper shell police find nothing during this search not even a clue or a lead
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then Albert Harvey took a polygraph afterward he said he made the story up he apologized and had no explanation for
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Morgan's family yeah that's that's so stupid again that's why we point out that they hold things back
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to to weed out the The Crazies the false confessors that come forward this man just wanted to be a part of the story
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right and he offers a false lead to police the aggravating thing here for the victims and for the families
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is that police efforts are concentrated On this man's bogus story well yeah the time and the effort they spent searching
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I mean your your lying [ __ ] princess this is less than three weeks after the abduction this is this is crucial time
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here being wasted on a bogus story right it's very crucial and also if his story
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is correct it's telling us something it's telling us that this perpetrator kidnapped this girl and that she's still
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alive and and that there's you I mean like it's false hope for the investigation
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and that the girl is still alive the Fourth of July Baxter Bulletin newspaper ran a story about the TV show America's
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Most Wanted which ran a segment on Morgan's case just July 4th of that year right which produced a lot of tips some
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coming from other states Texas Washington and Alabama any leads at police were calling hot
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were run down and nothing came of the tips in the information provided by tipsters then on July 7 1995 less than a
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month after Morgan was abducted a baxter bulletin headline read girls report kidnap attempt third such incident
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during last 10 days the article goes on to tell this was a possible abduction attempt in late June in Cotter and won
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last week so that would be late June or early July this took place in Mountain Home right the article does not describe
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the attempts just saying that the suspect in both cases resembled the composite sketch of the creepy man that
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was released after Morgan's Abduction the third attempt stated it's detailed and quite alarming taking
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place on July 5th and 6th when two men one described as 20 to 30 years old about six feet tall weighing about 170
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pounds with short hair and a black beard wearing a black shirt and black pants now the other man is described as
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younger possibly a teenager with blonde hair the younger man was driving an older two-tone brown car with Arkansas
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plates with 7-1-1 as the last three digits the two girls were both 11 years old and said the two men tried to pick
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them up in a Pebble Creek subdivision the report states that they try to run the girls over when they refuse to go
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with the men the girl said they saw the men again the next day after seeing them
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the second time they told their parents and the police were notified there was an active man hunt for these
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two men however Sheriff Benny Magnus who would have known a good deal more than what we have here to report
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stated he did not think these incidents were related to the Morgan Nick case boy
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right and let's unpack this a little bit we have several eyewitnesses see possible other abductions and they state
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that there's a single individual and they mentioned this truck possibly a red or faded truck
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so it wouldn't be that uncommon if the abductions were going to continue that the perpetrator would switch out
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his vehicle for a red truck to a faded brown vehicle but now you have another suspect
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with that individual and and I think that's where they're they're separating the two well I think
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that presents a lot of good questions about the description we're given of this creepy man at the ballpark right how
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much do we really know about this guy we don't even know if the vehicle description is describing his vehicle
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right you know this guy was seen on foot we don't know if he if he walked to the
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ballpark and then left on foot and the other thing too is we don't know if somebody was with him
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we don't know if it was a different vehicle completely yeah but we don't have anybody coming forward stating hey
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that was my Ford red truck with the camper on it we also don't have anybody coming forward saying I was the man that
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spoke to those children Morgan's parents Colleen and John set up residence in the local Firehouse for six
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weeks after The Disappearance and eventually Colleen moved to Alma full time to keep searching for her daughter
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foreign [Music] cheers you filthy animals make sure you be careful and cheers to the clean
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people too yeah not just the animals that don't have thumbs right and uh the clean the clean humans that listen to
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the show watch out for the amateurs and cheers and Happy New Years to everybody in 1995 there were two supposed
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sightings of Morgan in the company of a man in South Carolina that resulted in a
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sketch being circulated that is available on the internet with a partial license plate nothing came of these two
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sightings that we know of but then on September 12 1995 three people in a small town in central Arizona say they
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saw Morgan Nick three people reported seeing a little girl who looked like Morgan accompanied by a man matching the
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description given on the composite drawing driving a late model Ford pickup with Arkansas plates this is in Payson
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Arizona hundreds of miles west of where she disappeared police searched the town
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but found nothing well this is a scary suspect when you think about it eyewitnesses see a man at the Ballpark
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with a truck possibly a camper attached this this guy this individual could be a
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nomad yeah and really with all of these stories whether it be a sighting or another possible abduction
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I really just wanted to learn more of the details of such because they're really left out of these stories here
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and to see if we can find anything that matches up with what we do know about Morgan Nix disappearance and abduction
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usually what I find here Captain is when you have that type of situation where it's actually not connected to the case
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at all or followed up on and it just really goes nowhere that's why there's a lack of details
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because they're not really necessary to this story so one has to wonder is there
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truth in any of these other possible connections or even some of the sightings of Morgan Nick but it does
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show you the grand scale of this investigation and how everybody out there was aware of this missing girl
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right there is a story from May of 1997 and I'm not going to read the entire article
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because there are some details as as far as victims name that I don't really want
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to get into because again this is another situation that seems like it could be linked but we don't have any
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evidence to 100 back that up but I think you'll find this story strange and interesting this comes from May of 1997
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in Spyro Oklahoma this is where police were collecting ball game videos looking for
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clues in a girl's abduction right okay so yes this is another state away but remember we said earlier that
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Alma was only what 13 15 miles from the Oklahoma state border right and this is a town Spiro Spyro however you say it
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that will come up in this Morgan Nick investigation time and time again so that's why I find this story to be so
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interesting this is a abduction a successful abduction not just an attempted one like we've already
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discussed of a four-year-old girl it sounds to me the way that this article reads my first thought was oh [ __ ] this
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little girl was abducted from a ballpark just like Morgan Nick it sounds to me like her home was right across the
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street from a ballpark right and she may have been abducted just outside of the ballpark or from her home from her
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property regardless they were collecting you know Mom and Dad shows up with the video camera to watch their daughter or
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their son play sports film everything well we have an abduction that took place if you were
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there we want to see your video we want to see what is on that video what did you pick up in the background Vehicles
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did you actually videotape unknowing to yourself the the Abduction of this little girl
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right or people taking pictures of their kids playing playing games and what evidence is in those photographs yeah
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and the reason why I don't want to give out the victim's name here is again we don't know that this is connected it
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seems very interesting not far away less than two years after Morgan Nick was abducted right same type of area
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maybe same type of ruse used fortunately this little girl was let go she was found hours later on the side of
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of the Road apparently I don't know what took place during the course of the time
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that she was missing but eventually her captor dropped her off on the side of the road miles away well it's
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interesting too because a lot of the attempted abductions were coming were on girls around the age of 10 or 11. so the
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other thing here too that I want to point out is I can't say for certain that the this
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abduction is solved or unsolved I couldn't find any record of it after this this situation of them finding the
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girl and collecting evidence right but we got the victim back and and seems like she's unharmed I'm thinking
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of reaching out to her to see what information she can provide you never know because sometimes these things are
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most let's face it most child abductions are a a parental issue a custody battle where
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a parent takes the kid without the other parent knowing or allowing to happen that could be the case here
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but I find this one very interesting now we do know that in Morgan Nick's situation they did the same thing they
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were looking for anybody with a video camera with their camera to see if they could find evidence
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regarding Morgan Nick's disappearance on those videotapes on those pictures the interesting thing really
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the really important thing I think that we have here 300 people at the Ballpark of all that
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stuff that was collected we don't have any confirmation of this faded red Ford pickup truck on any of
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those videotapes or on anybody's pictures from that night which again I don't know it's not impossible I don't
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think that's a as big of a deal it's once you add the camper element this is a truck with a
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camper attached to the bed yeah the fact that that is not seen in anything is is
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kind of odd but again I don't think these these eyewitnesses were making that up
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I because I think there the devil's always in the details and when they say the campers the camper seemed maybe five
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inches too short for the bed of the truck that that's detail in October of 1997.
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the Baxter bulletin reported that the police had confiscated some items during a September search according to the
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affidavit filed in Crawford County Police searched an unnamed man's home and vehicle the man's name was brought
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forward to police by another man who says he was friends with this now suspect for about 13 years the suspect
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talked to the informant that's his friend or former friend whatever you want to call him about Morgan's
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abduction after the informant told police they set up a video surveillance operation where
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again the man-made statements about Morgan's abduction this time on videotape police used this videotape to
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secure a search warrant during the search of the suspect's vehicle listed as a dark blue
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1988 Ford pickup investigators found a glove and a piece of paper both with dark red stains on them which
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investigators thought could possibly be blood right inside the man's home they found a pink toothbrush and hair fibers
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on a roll of duct tape when they attempted to question the man he gave authorities his lawyer's business card
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and they were unable to arrest the man or even question him police are unable to move on from this man until the
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results of the test regarding the mentioned items comes back right this would end up taking about a year for the
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results and when they come back police are unable to link any of these items to Morgan Nick
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Captain this is where things are going to get wonky and that's the best word to describe
00:33:54
this I prefer things to be a little wonky well in 2000 really wonky there you go in 2001 Arkansas authorities
00:34:03
circulated a new sketch a new sketch of the suspect suspected in Morgan Nick's abduction I hate when they do this they
00:34:12
did that with the Delphi murders as well Delphi they did it in Amy mihalovic's case we've seen this actually this is
00:34:18
more common than people understand it to be often I find that it is a much shorter duration
00:34:29
than what is this we're at five six years now right yeah but it could be similar like with the Delphi murders
00:34:36
they actually had a sketch earlier they just didn't release it correct so this is this is what we know because that's
00:34:43
where you really go okay they're making a new sketch maybe they're just updating
00:34:47
the old one no they if you look at the new sketch that is not the same man that is in the first catch uh-huh that's
00:34:55
obvious and they have said so they've said that is the case now what they state in this in 2001
00:35:02
is that Arkansas authorities circulated a new sketch this one based on actual actual witness statements from the
00:35:11
ballpark and this sketch does not really resemble the sketch initially circulated right so
00:35:17
I'm looking at the first sketch or what I think is the first catch thicker beard
00:35:22
looks like thicker hair thicker eyebrows um definitely a different nose a wider nose
00:35:30
and a very distinct um Square jawline right and that's the original from 1995 and then and I
00:35:40
wouldn't say anything from that original drawing looked it doesn't look that creepy
00:35:49
then you go to the new sketch and it's creep City which is a wonderful place to vacation
00:35:57
with your family no it's not a place that you want to go to you can't fly there on any airline that I know of the
00:36:03
bad thing is it's right by Parts Unknown so the thing here that I find weird too
00:36:08
is we don't really know why these children describe this unknown man or potential suspect as a creep right we
00:36:16
don't have any details to back up that statement oh he was creepy because of a b and c no we just have their general
00:36:24
statement of a 10 year old and an eight-year-old saying that he was a creepy man yeah but
00:36:30
again I think if you look at the original sketch from 95 it looks more cartoony to me so I think seeing that
00:36:38
I'd go huh the creep Bells aren't alarming they're not going off but in this new one kind of looks disheveled
00:36:47
kind of looks like it's it's almost like a beard that it's the guy's not trying to grow on a beard he just hasn't shaved
00:36:54
uh maybe possibly receding hairline again slicked hair but it almost like greasy not because they put product in
00:37:03
it or anything but it's just greasier hair and then the eyes to me they look like dead eyes
00:37:11
but what's interesting to me or what I want to know is how we got from this first sketch
00:37:17
that looks nothing like the second sketch yes and that's what I really want to talk about here but but also we have to
00:37:25
on some level re-examine all the possible abductions where people said hey the the guy that I
00:37:34
saw trying to abduct this girl look just like the original sketch well one phrase
00:37:40
that that hit me hard not too long ago and I've repeated it a few times is and I found this during the course of
00:37:47
investigating some of the cases that we've looked into is sometimes we see what we want to see
00:37:56
even if it's subconsciously where when you're later asked what did the man look like well if he didn't look
00:38:04
unlike the suspect or unlike the sketch that was released you might say he looked
00:38:10
like that guy rather than the true statement would be he didn't look unlike that man right
00:38:18
so you ask a very good question how do we get from one composite to what is obviously a different man that is drawn
00:38:26
in in and released to the public in the second composite drama it absolutely drives me insane so I there's some good
00:38:33
information on that regarding in comparison the first sketch to the second one thing that I find interesting too
00:38:40
Captain is the first sketch we have a description of what the man is wearing he's wearing the cut off jean shorts no
00:38:46
shirt they're called Jorts no socks no shoes in the second composite we get no description of what the man is wearing
00:38:54
right originally when Panic set in in the community when Morgan Nick was first abducted within the hours and days of
00:39:03
the Abduction the original thought by the locals was that this had to be some Outsider this had to be some
00:39:10
Maniac some sicko pervert passing through that took Morgan and we don't have to be afraid because he's not a
00:39:19
local he's not here anymore when they release the composite a lot of that thought and fear shifted to that it
00:39:26
could be a local why the description of the vehicle states that possibly had Arkansas plates right then on top of
00:39:34
that when you really start to think about it too the description of the man shirtless with no shoes hairy chest I I
00:39:42
don't know I just don't see some guy driving from states away shirtless and shoeless it just pops into
00:39:49
this ballpark all of a sudden at 10 o'clock at night 10 45 at night and sees the golden opportunity and abducts this
00:39:55
little girl and it works out great for him nobody saw the abduction nobody knows who he is okay but hold on let's
00:40:02
go back to you you don't see a outsider driving to the ballpark go over that why
00:40:10
don't you see that well this would have been off of the highway it's not like he just happened to
00:40:17
happen upon the ballpark and these unattended children and then on top of that what I'm getting at to me shirtless
00:40:24
and shoeless suggests that the man could be local more so than somebody passing through I would agree with you
00:40:31
if there wasn't a freaking camper attached to his truck if that is his truck right correct you are correct sir
00:40:40
and the other thing so I'm saying that makes more sense if that is his truck and we have a camper hey I'm just I'm
00:40:47
I'm relaxing because I'm at home this is my home this guy is a he could be from that state if the license plate suggests
00:40:56
so but I almost feel like that this individual maybe went there not so much to abduct a kid but hey we
00:41:08
can go park at this at this baseball field and we don't have to pay for Campground yeah
00:41:17
and and now that I'm here and I'm just kind of lounging around oh well I am a predator and there's victims
00:41:25
all over the place the other thing I want to point out regarding the first information regarding our suspect that
00:41:32
came out was let's go back to our what the Charlie project website States based on reporting at the time the witness at
00:41:40
the Ballpark game said the unidentified man may have been seen near a red Ford pickup truck with a
00:41:46
white camper which was about five inches too small for the truck bed I'm with you
00:41:51
Captain I like the detailed information there right the Camper's windows were covered with curtains again I like that
00:41:59
maybe he's considered creepy because you don't see these campers all the time maybe they just found the kids found
00:42:05
that to be weird yeah I mean we did a big campaign last year about banning the van maybe it should have been Banning
00:42:15
the the creepy I call them Cowboy campers well yeah I don't wanna how about a band
00:42:21
the creepy camper that'll be a truck with a camper on it here's where I think that the
00:42:28
description gets a little wonky remember we're getting wonky here Willy Wonky the truck
00:42:34
had a doll paint job because it was clearly old likely vintage 1968 to 1974 with a short wheelbase and was possibly
00:42:43
damaged on its right rear end reports that it also had Arkansas plates I'm just pointing out here
00:42:53
Ty is 10 years old the girl is eight years old right we know from the woman's statements that
00:43:02
she said she saw this man but from afar we can assume two things either she's able to provide better
00:43:09
detailed information because she's older wiser more life experiences she's an adult these are two small children
00:43:17
or she's able to provide less detailed information because she's far away from this person
00:43:23
yeah what I'm trying what I'm trying to point out here is right I don't think that the woman is the one
00:43:30
that's we we have a statement from law enforcement saying we like her information that she provided because
00:43:37
it's backing up the information that the children provided us which could be as simple as a vague description of this
00:43:43
man and I saw him talking to those two kids and the two kids later telling police we only spoke to one man and so
00:43:50
that's their their validation for those witness accounts right I don't believe or I have a hard time believing that
00:44:00
this woman from afar saw this man's vehicle or was able to provide a detailed description to down
00:44:08
to the the make of the vehicle potential year of the vehicle I can get if she saw
00:44:14
in the distance mind you it's dark out right if she saw in the distance it has a doll red maybe orange pickup you'd be
00:44:22
able to see the camper you would be able to see the camper that's about the best
00:44:25
description you're going to get from afar in the dark so what I'm getting at is this detailed description I have to
00:44:31
believe comes from the two children I don't think you have to believe that I think it's also very possible when they
00:44:39
interviewed the 300 and some people watching the game that somebody said well I didn't see this El creepo by the
00:44:48
creepy camper but I I did see the truck and and this is what I noticed about the
00:44:55
truck so we can't a hundred percent that's like that's a possibility but we do have
00:45:01
statements saying that these are the only three Witnesses right there that night Witnesses of the man we do know
00:45:08
that police were looking for videotapes and for photographs that would contain any of the information that the
00:45:13
witnesses saw and couldn't find any of that I'm not questioning if the truck is there I'm not questioning that one bit
00:45:19
what I'm stating is I I believe that the description of the vehicle could be coming from the children if that's the
00:45:28
case regardless if it comes from the woman who's afar or the children the description of the vehicle is too
00:45:35
detailed to come from children or to come from a woman who who in her own word says I only saw the man from afar
00:45:43
she never says I saw his truck she never says that I saw him up close we're standing by the truck I find it weird
00:45:51
that a 10 year old or an eight-year-old is saying that this is a late model vehicle cool with a short wheelbase yeah
00:45:58
yeah I get that there's probably damage to the vehicle that a child would recognize that a child would probably
00:46:04
would definitely recognize Arkansas plates the reason why I'm going through this whole Tail Spin here is because
00:46:11
once you change the composite sketch of the suspect now you change a lot of what
00:46:17
very little we and the police know of this abduction or possible suspect you asked a damn good question why do we
00:46:26
even have a change in the composite sketch at all well I'm sure a lot of people were thinking that but the only
00:46:32
evidence the only work that I could see done on the reason why it changed came out in 2018
00:46:40
many years after Morgan Nick was abducted and many years after the composite itself changed
00:46:48
one investigative journalist and you can find these articles on today in fort smith.com Fort Smith as
00:46:56
many already know is not very far from from our location in question right this reporter and some of this information is
00:47:08
backed up by police but not 100 percent not 100 backed up not verbatim not word for word
00:47:15
just a few of the details have been confirmed by police in a statement to which they are kind of apologizing or
00:47:22
saying that there were missteps in the investigation the problem is we're not calling anybody
00:47:32
bad at their job when you're investigating something you are you are following a phantom it ain't
00:47:40
easy to follow the moves of a phantom when you have to piece it all together there will be missteps that's how you
00:47:47
that's how you eliminate the the innocent people from the one guilty person yeah especially in a case like
00:47:54
this I mean it's we have several people in the location but very few eyewitnesses and then we have this very
00:48:01
like you were saying it's very Willy Wonky situation where you have young kids as eyewitnesses now we have this
00:48:09
odd vehicle this truck with a camper that's just odd in general it's it's very Willy Wonky the description changed
00:48:17
according to today in fortsmith.com because it was not based off of the Abduction of Morgan Nick the the
00:48:27
original composite sketch that was put out that contained what this man was wearing and not wearing along with the
00:48:34
vehicle description came about from witnesses to the other attempted abductions that took place police at the
00:48:44
time having no information to go off of they believed that they likely could be connected
00:48:50
and because of whatever this to me also points out the lack of information provided to them from the three
00:48:57
Witnesses at the Ballpark yeah they're going with this because they have nothing else to go on and what they said
00:49:03
was we made the composite of a man that was seen in one of the other abducting abduction attempts showed it to our
00:49:11
three Witnesses at the Ballpark and they said yeah on a scale of one to ten it's
00:49:15
an eight and so that being the only thing and only information that they went off of right they released it to
00:49:22
the public it's a it's in desperation that they do this and they're doing this regardless if
00:49:28
anybody thinks this is an error a mistake or just wrongdoing they did this in desperation because they were trying
00:49:35
to find anything they could to lead them to this little girl and bring her home safely all right so you're saying that
00:49:41
this whole report that he's wearing jords and he has a hairy chest this is not coming from thy Witnesses of the
00:49:50
ballpark this is coming from the the other attempted abductions that's what's confusing here and that's why I question
00:49:57
the the vehicle description I question the clothing description because we know that the man's description has changed
00:50:04
what we do have is police later saying when when they say look we had to do this and this is why we didn't have to
00:50:12
do anything they I mean don't fault them they feel guilty for it they feel bad for it right that didn't happen I'm not
00:50:20
going to fault somebody for for doing what they believe In the Heat of the Moment to be the right thing you
00:50:27
could easily say that these attempted abductions We Believe are linked to Morgan Nix disappearance and what that
00:50:36
perpetrator was wearing at the time was this so the statement that the police gave in 2018
00:50:45
regarding the clothing because that's that's the next question that everybody wants to know well you you changed the
00:50:50
composite but now we're realizing we also have this description of a vehicle we have description of what the suspect
00:50:57
may or may not have been wearing does that change the answer simply put was they had a hard time confirming between
00:51:05
the three Witnesses at the Ballpark exactly what the man was wearing that night so rather than make another
00:51:12
mistake they chose not to include it on the new composite that came out five six years
00:51:18
later I could understand why people would be confused when you see something that looks like
00:51:25
jeans but they're short like shorts it's confusing well again a lot of people don't see Jorts the
00:51:33
problem here is is simply put what we State stated earlier nobody saw Morgan Nick leave the ballpark nobody saw her
00:51:40
leave alone or with somebody else right nobody heard a scream nobody saw a man grab a child and throw the child inside
00:51:47
a vehicle and speed off right but but you had that gone down we would have a better different description from the
00:51:56
two children and from the woman from afar plus we would have other eyewitnesses that would have noticed
00:52:01
something going on right when you have a situation where nobody knows that something wrong is about to happen you
00:52:09
lose some of those details people are not really focusing in or honing in on certain details at the time because
00:52:17
life most of the time is just ordinary this was just an ordinary moment until later they realized that this girl was
00:52:25
missing well I don't think so I think uh I think Mother's intuition I think when
00:52:30
her daughter was saying when Morgan was saying it let me go play and the mom said no we're not going to do that I
00:52:38
don't think it was so much that it was dark she saw other kids playing I think that was Mother's intuition that
00:52:45
something right something's not right and then she got reassurance from somebody else don't worry they play here
00:52:52
all the time and then she let her out of her sights and and but I think that was
00:52:59
some something toner don't don't let your daughter go play the other thing too and this is just a reminder like
00:53:07
we've done in so many other cases Amy mihalovix comes to mind immediately if you suspect someone or suspect
00:53:15
something in regards to someone you know or maybe you only kind of know them right do not
00:53:22
hesitate to provide that information to authorities just because anything given in either composite would cancel out
00:53:32
your suspicion well like like you were saying there was a couple there was at least one abduction where they say there
00:53:39
was a truck but they believed the truck was blue if the eyewitness accounts of the truck with the the camper maybe it
00:53:47
wasn't red maybe it was blue and and but that's the stuff that frustrates me because somebody could be reading the
00:53:55
newspaper let's say in 1995 and says okay well this kid was abducted oh I kind of know this weirdo he has a
00:54:03
he has a red truck or he has a blue truck or whatever color truck he has he has a brown truck with a camper it's too
00:54:11
small for the bed kind of strange but it doesn't match or has Texas plates or you know there's
00:54:21
one thing that's off or a couple things that are off and you go well I'm not going to call him call it in I don't
00:54:26
want to disrupt his life because it can't be him because he's not from Arkansas or any other number of reasons
00:54:33
and the problem is then you learned later on years later that scratch that you really know nothing about the likely
00:54:41
suspect right in 2010 Federal investigators this took place in um November Federal investigators
00:54:52
searched a vacant trailer home in Spyro Oklahoma for DNA evidence in the Morgan Nick case again this is where we hear
00:55:01
that town name again they zeroed in on this trailer because they received a tip they searched the same area again on
00:55:10
December 18th and 19th seven years later in 2017 and a cadaver dog alerted to a well that was found on the property but
00:55:20
nothing was found in the well right but they could be alerting to some remnants of something yeah there was nothing
00:55:30
found in regards to Morgan's case and apparently this tip was from a Narcotics officer who alerted police to the
00:55:39
abandoned home which belonged to a convicted child molester who was in prison at the time of both of the
00:55:46
searches the tip technically didn't pertain specifically to Morgan's case but because the guy was on their suspect
00:55:55
list they searched it right and he may have just been on the suspect list because of
00:56:00
where he was living and that he was convicted child molester [Music] I would like to know what his vehicle
00:56:06
history was back to our creepy guy captain in the cowboy camper with the faded red truck or who knows what he was
00:56:15
doing saw the creepy camper further according to the 2018 investigative reporter looking into the
00:56:23
case this is the one that I feel put out some good information you can call it a
00:56:27
leak you could call it speculation what have you it's thought provoking regarding Morgan Nick's case that I'm
00:56:36
hoping does not dry up this investigative reporter said that the FBI profilers that took a look at the case
00:56:45
concluded early on that the shirtless man seen talking to the kids was not a likely suspect really they thought that
00:56:53
it would be certainly strange for someone shirtless and shoeless to abduct a child in his somewhat ragged
00:57:00
appearance seems to indicate that he was likely a local who lived nearby what they are kind of suggesting here
00:57:07
Captain is maybe this individual didn't belong to that vehicle right to that to that truck right maybe it was somebody
00:57:14
that lived nearby that happened to be passing through on foot or had a reason to be at the ballpark right shirtless
00:57:22
shoeless is awfully casual yeah again I don't find it that casual if you're if your house is in the back of your truck
00:57:30
right but I think what the the FBI profilers are pointing out here is a couple things one we don't know if this
00:57:37
man that was seen that spoke to the children in fact took Morgan right that's just the suspicion two we don't
00:57:44
know if he and the vehicle belong together right three we don't even know if he had a vehicle there with him right
00:57:51
I want to get into some of the details of that night one I question immediately the time frame 10
00:57:59
30 at night who's playing a little league baseball game at 10 30 at night it ends at 10 45. I I'm not gonna lie I
00:58:06
question a little Colleen allowing her six-year-old daughter to go off and play away from her that late at night you're
00:58:13
right but that's a very good question because she questions it herself correct and I I throw no fault at her especially
00:58:19
when you have locals people that you know and trust telling you all the kids go over there and play look it's it's
00:58:25
lit we can see them from here no big deal plus the game's going to be over pretty soon right I think that the where
00:58:33
you would think that the number of people in the ballpark that evening that night would help you in this
00:58:41
investigation you know it gives you more sets of eyes more sets of ears I think in this situation it may have hurt the
00:58:48
investigation I wonder if we have if we have a crowd that's active that's loud that's involved in the game my
00:58:56
understanding is it was a tournament that was going on that day right and that's why they had played so late
00:59:01
because it's probably the championship game and they're trying to get it over with well not only that my understanding
00:59:07
is the game was supposed to the game that they were watching was supposed to start something like two and a half or
00:59:14
three hours earlier than what it actually started and you and I growing up we played in
00:59:20
soccer tournaments uh you probably played in baseball tournaments I was terrible at baseball that's why I like
00:59:25
to watch it I was bad at baseball too but I played in tournaments so now with me you watch
00:59:31
but regarding these tournaments and basketball tournaments so on and so forth we all know that if if the first
00:59:38
game runs long or if there's any kind of slip up in between games it pushes everything back and then if there's
00:59:44
another slip up or another game goes along it pushes everything back right and further and further and especially
00:59:50
in a tournament setting where you need to win or lose to determine who moves on you can't have a tie these games can go
00:59:58
Extra Innings well and you also have people traveling from out of town that's why I was saying that they'll push
01:00:04
things back and and maybe not use their best judgment because I look I just don't think it's safe to have that many
01:00:12
kids and and those that many unknown people in this park you know starting a game at
01:00:20
almost 10 o'clock so I've always wondered about Morgan's case one simple thing that we don't have
01:00:27
anyone that saw her snatched and grabbed and taken away we didn't have anybody hear a scream or a yell there's nobody
01:00:36
that witnessed an altercation between a little girl and creep man right so you have to wonder two things is it possible
01:00:45
that she went willing with this individual it could be that she thought she knew him she knew him he offered
01:00:51
money or a reason to get into the vehicle and she just went quietly and willingly right or did he actually have
01:00:59
to grab her an abductor and take her away and it was just missed because all the eyes are on the baseball game and
01:01:07
there's cheering going on and there's noise and you don't you don't hear a little girl's yell or scream 75 yards
01:01:15
away because everybody next to you is yelling and screaming it's just one of those tricky things where I I could keep
01:01:21
going back to what the sheriff has said time and time again in this case that it's such a simple case and that's
01:01:28
what has made it such a difficult case to investigate she's there one minute and then she's
01:01:34
not there right and we don't know what information we can trust from some of the witnesses especially when
01:01:40
it's compared to these other abductions the one one of those abductions that may
01:01:45
have contributed to the description of this man this is not verified by police I couldn't find a statement them
01:01:53
confirming this but what the statement was from the article that I was reading was that they were putting forth the
01:02:00
idea that one of those abductions was actually a custody dispute right and that later that's what was
01:02:08
that's what prompted police to change the composite sketch of what they later released saying this is from actual
01:02:15
Witnesses from the abduction or from that night at the Ballpark because then they later find out oh the
01:02:22
man that tried to take one of these little girls in one of these situations it was a custody to dispute that's why I
01:02:29
wonder if the the vehicle description that is so detailed if it may have come from someone that
01:02:36
knew that man or saw that vehicle up close and personal or saw it for a longer period of time rather than what
01:02:42
these children at the Ballpark saw yeah it it bothers me like like I said um but if the FBI is look they have the
01:02:52
best profilers they've done profiles on individuals where they they say some of the craziest stuff you know like we
01:03:00
think that the perpetrator's favorite color is orange yeah or he might have a disfigurement or a speech impediment or
01:03:09
he's you know there's all kinds of things that are interesting yeah but but when they're correct and and it's like
01:03:15
this very tiny detail of how the hell did they know that how the hell could they profile for that detail and so for
01:03:24
them to say well look we got no shoes we got no shirt we're thinking this guy is
01:03:28
a local guy again I don't know the ballpark that well so the ballpark from my understanding is now a parking lot I
01:03:37
was trying to look up the ballpark even if I couldn't find pictures from 95 if I
01:03:41
could find something closer to today I could not find anything yeah to get an idea of the layout and the size I really
01:03:48
wanted to know the size of it and what was in the immediate area because some of the ball fields that we played at
01:03:54
growing up some of them were very small containing one one yeah one Diamond one diamond and maybe two others contain 12
01:04:02
or 15. play a lot of baseball I kept wanting to call it a field court was it Court was it Court I was more of a field
01:04:09
guy no because yeah because some places you know when traveling for music and stuff like that I'd see these one
01:04:16
diamond in the middle of town and there was a couple parking spots around it it's almost like people just parked at
01:04:23
their houses and walked to the diamond and then there's a lot of other places that have multiple diamonds and so you
01:04:31
just wonder again because we don't have that information on hand it's hard to get a perspective but again I I just
01:04:40
don't see look I'm no FBI profiler most of the time I'm a giant idiot but I just
01:04:48
don't see that it's that hard for people to think if this individual stopped and
01:04:54
parked there to stay I'm with you the camper that makes sense that why wouldn't they just
01:05:01
throw on some sandals and you know I just can't I just woke up from a nap and I have no shirt on and I got this
01:05:09
hairy man chest and I'm going to show it off the wannabe peacocking the wannabe profiler in me tells me that this ball
01:05:18
field the ballpark whatever you want to call it is probably on the smaller scale
01:05:23
because if the games did in fact get pushed back to the point of two and a half hours to three hours delay right
01:05:30
if they had multiple diamonds you could easily move those games to an open diamond right you see what I mean rather
01:05:37
than rather than just making everybody well I've stopped there for an extra three hours but hold on I played a lot
01:05:43
of softball tournaments and sometimes what happens it's somebody that got into the loser bracket and they just kept
01:05:51
winning and then it became a situation where it's like well we think that this team you know you have to lose two games
01:06:00
and you're out while the team with one loss ends up destroying a bunch of teams getting and facing the team that only
01:06:07
has that has no losses and they have to beat them twice in a row so that might be a reason why somebody got pushed back
01:06:15
so far but I also question how again I people from this town will know and and hopefully we can get some conversation
01:06:25
on the blog about these diamonds and and how many were they and how how were they
01:06:32
connected to the rest of the town and were they buy a lot of residencies I'd like to know that because I think
01:06:40
that could give us a a better uh outlook on this case the other thing too that you have to question is the profilers or
01:06:48
the FBI agents that worked this case early on they unlike us would know exactly what the children
01:06:57
said their conversation was with this man the information that they've been holding on to yeah because again there
01:07:06
could be something very simple in that conversation of oh yeah that's that's my truck well the profilers are the ones
01:07:14
saying that they think it's unlikely now I question a lot of this stuff because we don't have actual agents names to
01:07:21
apply and to attach to these statements of we believe that the man that spoke to
01:07:27
the children the shirtless man is an unlikely suspect but one thing that comes out in some of these articles
01:07:34
Captain is that this was leaked this is not confirmed but it was that the man came up to the children and yelled at
01:07:42
them because they were breaking bottles and he was concerned about broken glass in the area and in the parking lot right
01:07:49
if in fact this is true that's where you have the FBI agents going okay he he has
01:07:55
a reason he has a purpose to speak to these children because of their actions rather than something he's trying to do
01:08:01
therefore we don't think he is a likely suspect there's a chance that the man just doesn't recall speaking to children
01:08:08
that night or spoke to many children that night what I what I do call in a question is why has this man not come
01:08:15
forward just like you pointed out earlier with the very detailed description of that truck if you saw
01:08:22
that description of that truck or heard it immediately and that's your truck you
01:08:25
know that's your truck you it's not there's no question about it right yeah well no and the camper also somewhat
01:08:32
makes some sense as far as like travel baseball goes is because you'd be playing this tournament and you would
01:08:39
you know one of my neighbors has a big camper and they got the big camper to start going to their grandkids sporting
01:08:47
events and they just thought what a great way to go and it will give the family A place that they could hang out
01:08:53
in during during their off times so it makes sense for a lot of the people that were possibly at the ball Diamond that
01:09:01
night to have something like that there is a statement that I found captain that
01:09:06
does offer some hope for this investigation and that comes from Chief Russell white he is the alma PD police
01:09:14
chief back in 2015. he acknowledged that they have a quote lead suspect in the case but not enough
01:09:23
evidence to make an arrest right which that is very hopeful and and again but maybe we can create some kind of
01:09:32
conversation some dialogue as far as the blog goes go to True Crime garage.com if
01:09:37
you have any information about this case even if you think it's very small put it
01:09:42
out there there's a lot of intelligent people that visit the blog and put out information and some theories not not
01:09:50
not that we always agree with them but we I like actually posting the ones that I don't agree with because I think it's
01:09:58
a different Viewpoint out there like I said I think we can create some dialogue hopefully that helps maybe even create a
01:10:05
new lead or a new angle that they could go after this suspect with after receiving more and more invitations to
01:10:14
speak at schools and churches Colleen Nick formed the Morgan Nick Foundation which
01:10:20
is a non-profit headquartered in Alma Colleen said in an interview quote we still don't know where she is or what
01:10:28
happened to her and we absolutely intend to know that our message to Morgan if she ever hears or sees or reads anything
01:10:36
about her own case is that we are coming for you and we are coming with an army of people who have been fighting for you
01:10:45
the Morgan Nick Foundation offers support to families of the missing and acts as a liaison with police in the
01:10:52
media members strive to educate teachers students and communities about safety skills and preventative measures they
01:11:01
can take to ward off possible kidnappers the foundation encourages legislation that protects the rights of children and
01:11:09
enhances law enforcement's ability to find the missing and bring them home all right it's so good to be back in
01:11:29
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01:11:44
be kind and don't let her foreign [Music] [Applause]

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Episode Highlights

  • The Disappearance of Morgan Nick
    Morgan Nick, a six-year-old girl, vanished on June 9, 1995, during a baseball game.
    @ 03m 01s
    November 18, 2022
  • The Creepy Man
    Witnesses reported a suspicious man speaking to Morgan and other children shortly before her disappearance.
    @ 09m 05s
    November 18, 2022
  • Morgan's Parents' Search
    Colleen and John Nick set up residence in a local firehouse for six weeks after Morgan's disappearance.
    @ 24m 16s
    November 18, 2022
  • Sightings of Morgan Nick
    In 1995, two supposed sightings of Morgan in South Carolina led to a circulated sketch.
    @ 25m 05s
    November 18, 2022
  • Eyewitness Accounts
    Three people in Arizona reported seeing a girl resembling Morgan with a man in a truck.
    @ 25m 21s
    November 18, 2022
  • New Sketch Released
    In 2001, authorities circulated a new sketch of the suspect based on witness statements.
    @ 34m 03s
    November 18, 2022
  • Desperation in Investigation
    Police actions stemmed from desperation to find Morgan Nick.
    “It's in desperation that they do this.”
    @ 49m 23s
    November 18, 2022
  • Lack of Eyewitness Accounts
    No one saw Morgan Nick leave the ballpark, complicating the investigation.
    “Nobody saw Morgan Nick leave the ballpark.”
    @ 51m 38s
    November 18, 2022
  • Mother's Intuition
    A mother's instinct played a crucial role in the events leading up to the abduction.
    “Mother's intuition — something's not right.”
    @ 52m 45s
    November 18, 2022
  • Encouraging Vigilance
    The importance of reporting suspicions to authorities cannot be overstated.
    “If you suspect something, do not hesitate to provide that information to authorities.”
    @ 53m 19s
    November 18, 2022
  • The Complexity of Simplicity
    The case is simple yet incredibly difficult to investigate.
    “It's such a simple case and that's what has made it such a difficult case to investigate.”
    @ 01h 01m 25s
    November 18, 2022
  • Hope for Investigation
    Chief Russell White acknowledged a lead suspect in the case, offering hope for progress.
    “We have a lead suspect but not enough evidence to make an arrest.”
    @ 01h 09m 17s
    November 18, 2022

Episode Quotes

  • You can't give up until you know for sure.
    Morgan Nick ////// 361
  • This is a scary suspect when you think about it.
    Morgan Nick ////// 361
  • I prefer things to be a little wonky.
    Morgan Nick ////// 361
  • Sometimes we see what we want to see, even subconsciously.
    Morgan Nick ////// 361
  • If you suspect something, do not hesitate to provide that information to authorities.
    Morgan Nick ////// 361
  • We are coming for you and we are coming with an army.
    Morgan Nick ////// 361

Key Moments

  • Creepy Man Sighting09:05
  • Search for Morgan24:16
  • Sightings Reported25:05
  • Desperation49:23
  • Mother's Intuition52:45
  • Report Suspicion53:19
  • Hopeful Message1:09:06
  • Community Support1:10:50

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