All language subtitles for Still Missing Morgan - S01E01 (2023) WEB.eng

Uh, C block here

is our protective custody

for those that are convicted
of sex crimes,

uh, anything from,
you know, rape

or anything to sexual assault,

uh, an adult or child victim,
uh, are housed here.

These are convicted, uh,
that are waiting to go

to the Arkansas
Department of Corrections.

We keep them segregated
from general population.

Um, you know, there is --

Uh, even though this is jail,
there is still honor.

And these -- these type
of -- of inmates

aren´t welcomed in --
in general population.

I don´t understand sex crimes,
you know,

um, especially when it becomes
an adult and a child.

I don´t see how a -- an adult

can be sexually
attracted to a child.

my belief is that they
can´t be rehabilitated.

You know, I know
the -- the state,

like other states,
has programs for them.

But, uh, I believe

that, uh, if you´re sexually
attracted to a child,

you´re probably twisted
beyond un-twisting.

Whatcha got, there, Morgan?

- Bike.
- A bike?

- Yep, my new bike.
- Is that your first bike?

- Yep, my new bike from Walmart.
It´s a big bike.

- It is? Oh, it´s got
training wheels on it.

- Yep.

So, want me
to ride it right now?

- Hold on. I´m gonna take the
picture. Say cheese, though.

We were in the military.

And so we came
to Arkansas in 1993.

When we got out of the military,
we came here.

Our family was here.
It was, you know, his family,

my family, they were all here,
so we wanted to come back home.

We´d been gone
for almost 10 years,

and we just wanted to come back
home where our families were at.

You like your bike?

- Yeah.
- Alright.

We ended up moving to Ozark.

Our families were, um,
Alma, Dyer, Fort Smith.

And I wanted to be
a stay-at-home mom.

You know, I wanted
to be at home with my kids,

um, invest in their lives.

I didn´t want to have
to take them to daycare.

And so I actually started
a licensed daycare in my home

so, you know, that we could
supplement our income,

and I could still be home
with my children.

So I had a licensed daycare.

I had children who came
to my house every day.

Turn all the way around,
Brandon.

You look like a farm boy.
Ooh, I like...

Had been then also doing daycare

on the weekends and
in the evenings, so just a lot.

And, um, in May of 1995,

I had stopped all of
my nighttime, overnight daycare

and my weekends,
because I just wanted to be able

to spend some more time
with my children.

You want to just put it
on her head?

- How much do you love me?

- I really do love you.

- How much?

- Very much, Morgan.

This is a little girl

who has a laugh
that comes from way down here.

Um, when she was in
the first grade,

she signed up --

She brought home papers
to sign up for track.

And we filled out all the papers
and sent them back to school.

And they had their first
track practice at school.

And, so, when she came home,
she was so mad, and she said,

"Do you know what they
make you do in track?

I had to go outside and run,
and I was sweating," you know,

two things that she didn´t like
to do, run and sweat.

And so, um, she quit, and
she signed up for Girl Scouts,

because she said that they could
stay inside and glue stuff.

- Mom?
- What?

- Hello. Um,

c-could we play
with the markers now?

- Watch.
- Rat girls.

You look like a rat.

Hi.

- You know, hope is a --

a mind-set, so, well,
I´d like to believe

that we will recover Morgan
alive and safely.

but I´m also a realist,
and most people in my job are.

Uh, and so is Colleen,

that we know that the chances
of that are higher

that we won´t than we will.

Uh, those percentages change
a little bit periodically

and -- but it´s quite a bit
to the favor that we won´t.

But it does happen.

It´s not impossible,
which keeps hope alive.

And then, the other part of that
is that, you know,

you got to consider
the -- the consequences.

If we find her,
and she´s safe and alive,

um, you know, there´s --
there´s still --

there´s still consequences.

There´s probably been
other victims

because of our failure
to be able to solve this case,

and, um, there´ll be more.

And so that becomes
a high priority,

is to -- to, uh, keep
from having other victims,

whether it´s in
our jurisdiction or not.

Catch it, Ryan! Catch it!
Come on, catch it!

This all began
on a Friday night,

uh, at a baseball field

in what would I´d call
downtown Alma.

It was actually about a block,

maybe a block and a half
from the police department.

Literally just like
any -- any other day.

It´s a Friday. Um,

we get up.
Everybody has breakfast.

You know, the daycare kids
are coming for the day.

So, you know,
we have activities planned

and, you know,
the little kids had crafts.

And what I specifically remember

is really making
grilled cheese sandwiches

for dinner that night, because
my kids loved grilled cheese.

And we were planning
to meet up with our friends.

They´d invited us
to come see one of their kids

play in this Little League
baseball game in Alma.

And, um, the kids ate dinner.

And I specifically
remember, uh...

I remember Morgan asking

for a second sandwich.

And I didn´t really
have time to cook it.

And she wasn´t a real big eater,

so I didn´t really think
that she needed it,

and I didn´t make it for her.

And so that --
that still bothers me.

The kids went home
probably around 5:00.

And, you know,
I gave all my kids baths.

Morgan and I got ready
to go to the game,

and then the two little ones

were going to go
to -- to Grandma´s house.

And I felt like
it would be impossible

to keep up with all of them
at the game,

so we were going
to drop them off with Grandma

and then, you know, go with our
friends to the baseball game.

It was a makeup game.

Uh, we´d had a lot of rain

the week before, and so
the games were being made up.

And so it was running
a little late

for a ballgame
for kids that age.

It´s a little field.

It´s got a, um -- a double fence

that goes all the way around it.

It´s got two little sets
of bleachers,

one on the first baseline,
one on the third baseline,

and, you know, it just opens

onto these two
little parking areas.

There´s no concession stands.
There´s no bathrooms.

And so we just stayed
in the upper parking area

waiting for the game to finish.

And when it finished,
then we walked down

and sat in the bleachers
on the first baseline.

Colleen was there.

They were watching
a friend´s kid play ball.

Um, Morgan´s, uh,
I´m not going to say

super shy, but she´s not --

I mean, she´s not
in her element.

So she´s sitting with her mom.

Uh, there´s some
other children there,

and they´re wanting her
to go play.

Morgan sat with me.
You know, she was 6 years old.

She was a little bit
on the shy side,

a little bit quiet.

And she didn´t want
to go play with them,

and she just wanted
to sit with me.

And I remember
she kept untying my shoes,

and I had to pretend like,
"Oh, my gosh.

How did that happen?
How did my shoe get untied?"

And she would just
laugh and laugh.

You know, it was just
the most hilarious thing to her.

- They go back and forth
quite a bit,

I think, those two kids,
and anyway, at some point,

Colleen lets her go,
plays with the kids.

Right before the game ended,

they, um, came back again
and asked her to go play,

and they asked her if she wanted
to catch fireflies.

And, um, she wanted to go.

It was the first time that
she had wanted to all night.

And I told her
that she couldn´t.

And I told her
that I just thought

it was too late and too dark.

And, you know,
she continued to, um, ask me.

I was thinking about the times
that I had been told

that I was too overprotective
as a parent,

that, you know,
I need to find space

to let my kids
have a little bit of freedom.

You know, I walked my kids
to the bus stop every day,

walked back and met them,
walked them home.

It was just down the block.
But to me,

it just seemed like those were
the right things to do.

So that was on my mind,

you know,
that I´m too overprotective.

And my friends said, you know,
"Kids have been playing here.

I mean, it´s perfectly safe."

And kids had been
playing all night.

They´re running back and forth.

I mean, it´s this double fence.
It´s this double fence.

There are no concessions.
There are no bathrooms,

just -- just these cars
in the flat area

and this row of cars
up on the top.

And we can clearly see, uh --

We can clearly see all of it
to our left-hand side there.

You know, we´re
facing the field.

Um, the parking lot
is to our left.

And that´s when I had,
uh, that feeling like

something was wrong.
Something wasn´t right.

It, you know, it just kind of --

And I thought to myself,

"I´m -- I´m being ridiculous.
I´m overprotective."

Uh, and I know
it doesn´t make sense,

but I just had the feeling
that something was really

not okay in that moment.

You know, she, uh --

she really wanted to go
catch those fireflies, and...

I think the thing
I remember most

is, um...

...how happy she was
when I told her she could go.

And she just, you know,
flung her arms around my neck

in a big, old hug and, um...

kissed me on the cheek.

She, uh, climbed down out of
the stands with her two friends

and -- and ran together
with them.

Um, and I remember them
running in front of her,

´cause she was a little bit
smaller than them.

Running out, uh,
between the gates

and playing
in front of the cars.

they were -- they were
chasing each other

in, um -- in single file,

and she was the very last one.

And I just looked up
as they were running across.

You know, she had on her little,
um, green Girl Scout T-shirt,

because you know Girl Scouts
can stay inside and glue stuff.

And, um,

she was just
the last one in the row.

And, um, and she was
focused on them.

She never --
She didn´t look down,

but I looked at her
running across with them

and turned back to the game.

And that was
the last time I saw her.

Good job.

Good job.

- They´re in this
sort of a parking lot.

It´s not an official
parking lot,

but it is an area
where people park.

It´s to the east,
and it´s up on a hill

overlooking the ball field.

It´s actually where Colleen
had parked that night.

And they were playing
in a sand pile

back at the back side
of that area where they parked.

They were kind of all
around the parking lot.

They´re kids.
They´re just out there playing.

Right before
the ball game ended,

and they were -- they were
all coming back down.

And apparently, she stopped
to get sand out of her shoes,

uh, and had sat down
on the ground to do that.

By all accounts, that´s the last
time that we know of somebody --

were able to identify somebody
that saw her past that point.

First of all, tell me what
we´re doing out here tonight.

Okay. We got a call about,

uh, I believe it was
at 11:07 p.m.

Uh, had a missing child at
the Alma Little League Ballpark

on Walnut Street here in Alma,

just about a block and a half
west of our location here.

Uh, got down there
and of course just started

to check the area, hoping
to find the -- the child.

Our officer, uh, Sergeant Harris

was the first officer to arrive.

At that time,
I was only like a mile away.

It was right there
on 64 highway.

And soon as I pull up,
I see a group of people.

We rallied at
the police department,

then went down to the ballpark.

Sergeant Harris was giving us
some preliminary information.

- I see Colleen there,

which I knew Colleen from Ozark
from years past.

- They noticed Morgan
missing somewhere around 10:40

but thought she just walked off.
And so the --

Colleen and the parents around
there were looking for her.

- You know, I thought it was
more of a missing child,

maybe a, you know,
a grandmother, grandfather,

you know, miscommunicating
with the parents

and picking up the child.

But once I arrived back,

and we started actually,
you know,

planning on -- on processing
a crime scene,

I knew it was more,

you know, than that,
than just a lost child.

I went up to Colleen
and started talking to her,

and she said,
"We can´t find Morgan.

We´ve looked and looked
and looked,

and we can´t find her."
So at that time,

I started looking
and getting some more officers.

And I called Russell and told
Russell, I said, "Hey,

we got a missing child down here
at the ball field."

- You know,
my assignment that night

was -- was the crime scene.

And, uh, we roped it off
with crime scene tape.

- Uh, it was a loose,
unorganized search.

It was just parents and people
that were down there,

uh, you know, looking for her.

Immediately, the public
was not organized at all.

They´re -- They´re on their own.

Course, we have
no communication with them.

They´re not standing there.
We don´t have a command post.

So they´re not coming to us
and asking us what to do.

They´re going out on their own
and -- and looking.

Morgan!

- And -- And at some point,
they´re -- they´re reporting

back to us if they see something
or think something´s up.

Uh, the officers, uh, by radio,

uh, you know, we all have
communications together,

even with the other agencies.

So we´re somewhat
keeping up with that.

We´re putting out the--
all these descriptions

that we -- you know,
and things like that.

I made contact with then

I believe he was
the rank of lieutenant

with state police,
Chuck Lambert.

And, uh, we roped it off
with crime scene tape,

uh, they´d brought in. They were
looking for some lights,

wanting to get some lights
and stuff,

even though we had
the ball field lights.

The house just behind the field,
I was facing it.

It had a screened-in porch.
And of course,

this was like 3:00
in the morning by then.

And a guy lights up a cigarette.

And I just -- I said, "Chuck,"

I said, "that guy´s
been watching us."

Chuck hollered at him,
but he wouldn´t respond.

So that kind of sparked
a neighborhood canvass,

you know, to just, you know,
knock on doors,

see if anybody saw anything,
heard anything.

- So, Russell got there,
and we started calling

more people out then
and more people and more people.

We saturated the area.
And at that time, uh,

it rained. We had --
It was flooded and stuff,

and we had to be real careful
where we went

and all that stuff.

You couldn´t get out
into the fields hardly,

but we did, you know?

- It´s still pretty random.

We don´t have a direction
to look at that point.

We´re just looking.
We´re hoping to --

´Cause we´ve got just a --
You know,

we -- we know our time period
was short there,

to, if she´s in a vehicle,
to try to -- to locate her.

Where we believe
that she was last seen

was on a hilltop
just overlooking the ball field.

And there were things.
You know, there was, uh,

if I´m not mistaken,
a couple Coke cans,

you know, cigarette butts,
you know, things that we thought

that maybe we can get DNA off of
or fingerprints off of.

Any tire tracks
or any footprints in the sand

or right around
the sand there, like,

I don´t recall us seeing any
footprints or anything like that

and any, uh, tire tracks.

And we looked at so many things
right in that area.

And so there was nothing
that really stood out.

- You know, we picked up

everything that was
on the ground,

anything that was
on the ground there

that wasn´t a rock
that would have been there

or a blade of grass
that was growing, we collected.

If it was there, we took it,

´cause we didn´t know
if we´d need it or not.

- Where Morgan and the -- the
other children was playing at

is kinda above the bleachers.
It´s on a little hill, right?

There´s like some sand and stuff
there. I remember that.

And that´s where
they was playing at.

And -- But more --

Colleen was down on the
bleachers, and it´s kinda down.

It´s not too far away,
but it´s down, you know?

Back then, that was a parking
lot for the apartments

and also the street
department, it --

That parking lot joined
the street department.

So there were sand piles.

There were culverts
and things like that.

And they were playing with
Morgan, uh, in the sand piles.

- And I recall one of the kids
telling me,

can´t recall which one it was,
but telling me

that there was a man
had come up.

- They describe the guy
as a white male.

Um, has got a, uh, kind of
a scruffy beard.

He´s got, uh, I believe
he´s wearing shorts.

And at some point --
I don´t know if he´s shirtless

or his shirt´s open.
I can´t remember.

But I think they describe him

as having some hair on his --
on his chest and stomach

but not a lot of it,
kind of maybe a strip.

And they had a description
of the vehicle he was driving.

- Was it credible? Was it not?

You know, really,
that´s all we had to go by.

And, you know, they were
playing with Morgan.

Tye and Jessica
were playing with Morgan.

The statement was made that
this suspect in the red truck

with a camper that didn´t fit.

Now, there´s different
definitions

of how it didn´t fit,
but it didn´t fit right on it,

was sitting there, uh,
in the truck

with the door open, smoking.

Two children, the boy and girl,

they went, they told Morgan

they´re going back down there
where Colleen was.

- The kids took off,
all three of them.

Morgan stopped.

But they said Morgan said

she´s gonna empty
the sand out of her shoes,

and then she´s gonna come on
back down there and stuff.

- Uh, I believe Tye
stayed back with her.

And as she had finished
tying her shoe,

he took off
running down the hill,

and she hasn´t been seen since.

- That was the last time.

One of the --
One of the children, uh,

was the son of the -- the guy

that Colleen was
sitting with there.

And, uh, so they came back
to the area.

And then Colleen obviously
noticed Morgan wasn´t there,

and she asked where she was at.

Um, they said she had stopped
to take sand out her shoes.

So Colleen looks
in that direction,

and she doesn´t see her,
which is not,

if you´re familiar
with the area,

would not be totally unusual.
With the cars there,

it just depends on
where she actually stopped.

Uh, Colleen didn´t panic
at that point or anything.

She just got up
and started going up that way.

And then of course, obviously,
she didn´t find Morgan.

She didn´t see
any vehicles leaving

as she´s walking up
that she remembers.

Um, so we think that
that short period of time there,

those two or three minutes
that might have occurred

from the time the kids came down

till she actually had
the conversation with Colleen

is when it occurred,
when Morgan disappeared.

We really think
we kind of narrowed it down.

We think it´s a good
possibility it´s a red truck,

still no make,
with a white camper shell.

We don´t want to just
limit it to that.

But that´s what at this time
we believe it´s going to be,

a red pickup with
a white camper,

white male, dark hair,
short dark beard.

And of course the last time
he was seen, uh, no shirt.

- They took Jessica and Tye.

And the Identi-Kit is, uh --

It´s not actually
an artist´s drawing.

It´s just, you know,
you put eyes. You put hair.

You put face, you put beard,
things like that,

and you come up
with a composite.

And that´s the original
suspect composite

came from the Identi-Kit.

- You know, we have to
take into age account.

There´s a couple things
with kids.

They´re -- You know,
they tell you what they saw.

And they´re --

Uh, when you´re interviewing
these kids,

you know, there´s no question

they see things just like
me and you see things,

and they can tell you that.

You know, no matter really
what their age

or if they´re --
if they´re verbal,

uh, they can --
they can tell you.

So the next day, I think, was
when the Identi-Kits were done,

uh, because the kids had seen
somebody in the parking lot,

um, and we needed to know
what that person looked like.

So we were trying to identify
everybody at the ball fields.

Uh, and we knew
there was this one person

that -- that we didn´t know
who it was.

The kids had seen him.

And so the Identi-Kits
were done.

It´s been almost 24 hours
since Morgan disappeared

from the Little League
field in Alma.

You know, there´s a
difference between sitting down

with an interview
that -- that is an interview

and asking the kids questions.

You know, we asked the kids
questions that night,

immediately.
We didn´t sit down

with a formal
interview with them

till several days later.

Uh, but the Identi-Kits
were done the next day.

And you also got to remember,
they were young,

and it was late at night.
They´d been up all day,

uh, you know, so, uh, you know,

3:00 in the morning for a child
that hadn´t been to bed

is not a good time
to be asking them anything.

Because of the short time
that went from

when Morgan was last seen
by the kids

to the time that Colleen
started looking for her

and the fact that she didn´t
see a vehicle leaving

and from what I´ve been
told of Morgan and --

I don´t think Morgan
was coerced into the truck.

I think that it was
more of a grab and go.

I think it happened
very quickly.

Uh, and he probably, on his way
out of the parking lot,

I think he stepped out
of the truck, grabbed her,

put her in, and took off.

Good.

I remember
sitting in the car that night,

and, uh, storms had moved in.

It was raining, lightning.

Wind was blowing hard.

I mean, it was
a bad thunderstorm,

raining real hard.

Trying to act like a hot shot.

Morgan, did you hear
what Daddy said?

What did he say?

I just said out there
in the car by myself...

...with horrible thoughts
going through my head.

I honestly really almost didn´t
make it through that night.

I think it´s real nice
of everybody, you know,

really helps a lot to know
that everybody´s supporting us.

You know, I guess we don´t
get a chance to say --

appreciate everybody enough,
but, you know,

I want to thank everybody
who is helping.

I´d like to say, Morgan,
you know it´s Father´s Day.

I want to see you
before the day is over.

- You know, we´ve had
lots of leads on John.

"Why isn´t he involved? You
know, he don´t care," this --

You know, the thing with John,
and people got to understand

that we needed the news media.

We needed it to put out
information every day for us.

We were getting
new information every day.

The best way for us to get it
out was by the news media.

It was the fastest.
It was widespread.

And they were willing to do it.

They were willing to help,
but only to a point.

Uh, you know, myself
and, uh, Lieutenant Best

getting up in front
of the camera every day

was not something
the public was going to

want to watch every night.

We needed Colleen involved.

So we convinced
Colleen to be involved,

basically dragging
and kicking and screaming

into the press room to --
"You´ve got to do this."

And so she did, uh, reluctantly,

but, uh, she did well at it.

And she got better at it.
And she learned

that it was a tool,
and she learned how to use it.

My daughter never
ran off. She´s very shy,

and she´s very quiet.

If you think you see something,

it doesn´t matter
even if you´re not sure.

Call the police immediately.

- John had no interest in it.

He did everything
we ever asked him in the case.

One day, I was up there
at the -- the police station.

We were all -- all there

on the steps going up to the --
to the police station there.

And Colleen was, like,
standing up by the door.

And there were
several people there.

There was different
media and police,

and I don´t know
who all was there,

just a bunch of people.

Lady from a local
news channel here,

her and her camera guy pretty
much pushed me out of the way

to get to Colleen.

I turned around, and I said,
you know, "Excuse you.

You need to watch where
you´re -- where you´re walking."

And she said, you know,
"I´m sorry.

It´s just, nobody wants to hear
what the dad has to say.

Everybody wants to hear
what the mom has --

the mother has to say."

And I took it to heart,
and I said, "You know what?

I don´t like talking
to you assholes, either,

and I´m not going to."

And 24 years later, I still
hadn´t spoken to the media.

He never denied us access
to anything or any of that.

He was just basically
as cooperative as Colleen.

He just wasn´t out front with
them. People didn´t see him.

He wasn´t on the news, you know.
So people gathered from that

that the only person
they saw was Colleen,

and that -- that John
didn´t care.

And that just wasn´t true.

- And that was
one of their big things

was, you know,
I had to do something with it

because nobody knows
where I´m at.

Nobody knows me.

Hi, Morgan.

- Wait till I finish
drawing my picture.

- Okay.

You know, and there´s
people, you know,

people pointing their fingers
at me and blaming me.

I´ve went through a lot
of emotions about that stuff.

You know,
I´ve been through them all,

the whole range of emotions,
you know?

At first, it really,
really hurt.

You know, it´s really painful

for somebody to point
their finger and say,

"That´s who hurt
that little girl.

That´s who
took that little girl."

You know, it was real painful.

Come on.

I moved from it being painful
to I laughed about it.

I took it as a joke.

You know, it just shows
these people don´t know me.

I could never hurt a child.
I love children.

I could definitely
never do anything to hurt one.

You know, so I laughed about it.

These people were stupid,
you know?

And I moved on from that,
and I got where it made me mad.

I get mad every time I hear it,

and I, you know,
couple times, you know, I --

You know, I wanted to jump
on people, you know, for it

and shut them up.

But, you know, that´s not
the right way to do stuff,

and I know it,
and so I refrained.

And I moved on from anger to,

you know, just
pretty much accept it.

You know, I don´t care
what they say about me.

As long as they´re
talking about me,

Morgan´s name
is still being out there.

And if they want
to talk shit about me

and point their finger at me,
so be it.

As long as she´s still
being talked about,

I don´t care
what they say about me.

You know, I didn´t do it.
I had nothing to do with it.

I just want to find out
what happened to my kid.

And I don´t care what it takes.
I don´t care.

- A question. Can a piece
of home videotape

help police find Morgan Nick?

Well, a viewer may have caught

the alleged kidnapper´s
truck on tape,

but, uh, will this help
the investigation?

Beth Derayma sat down
with police today

as they watched the tape

to see if the truck
is the one they´re looking for.

- The pickup truck that we --
- Lieutenant Dale Best

watched this tape
that a viewer gave us.

It was shot
at the Alma ball field

the day Morgan Nick
disappeared.

It appears to be the red truck
with white camper

that police are looking for.

But Best isn´t so sure.

- Uh, it doesn´t really look
like a Ford pickup truck.

And we´re not real sure
about this camper shell.

Best says what looks to be
a camper shell in the video

might actually be a storm door
in the bed of the truck.

However, investigators
are being called in

to study the video to see
if they can pull out any clues.

In the meantime,
the search for Morgan Nick

is now in its fifth day.

But still no sign
of the 6-year-old girl

or the man
who may have taken her.

- We started collecting video
of, uh, parents,

grandparents that were
videoing their kids

at not only that ball game,

but also the high school
ball field and even the complex.

Just in case we caught somebody,
you know, that looked suspicious

or try to identify
a vehicle or a person.

- If you´re asking me
if we got videos of red trucks,

Absolutely. We got video
of red truck with camper shell,

Yes, we do. Could it be
the one that took Morgan?

Yes. Is it?
I don´t know at this point.

- It´s the same pickup truck
that we have pictures of.

We already have this tape.

And we have tried to examine,
uh, this pickup truck closely.

In fact, we´ve had
some enlargements made.

In fact, we´ve gone
to 400 times.

So we´ve got a red truck
with a white camper shell

at the same ball field,
not that night

but at a different time frame,
but we don´t know whose it is.

If we can find that truck
and identify it,

it may be our suspect.
It may not be.

If it´s a guy that
lives down the street,

and he comes to a ball game
every week,

and, you know, we can clear him,

then we know
that´s not our truck.

So it wasn´t that
we were believing for sure

that this is this truck,

but we want to determine
whether it is or not.

So we need to identify it
and whose it is

to be able to figure out
if this is the red truck

we´re looking for
or not the red truck.

Not that I´m aware of.

- Oh, I know
that we were just inundated

with sightings of the truck.

One of the leads
police are working on

happened in Colleyville, Texas.

A teacher was almost abducted
by a man in a red pickup truck.

She got away but was run over.

There was actually a local guy

that lived in the county that
drove a ´60s model Ford pickup

or early ´70s model Ford pickup

that was red in color
with a white camper shell

that was about a foot too long
for the -- for it.

And I do know that he had been
stopped so many times

by law enforcement
that he took shoe polish

and wrote on the back,
"I´m not the abductor"

or "I didn´t take her,"
or something like that.

Since Morgan´s
kidnapping on June 9th,

police have received
hundreds of calls

from people
who have spotted the truck.

Tim Reed of Alma was pulled
over twice in his pickup,

but he doesn´t seem to mind.

- You know, it was
a little hassle,

but it´s good to know
that they´re out --

out to capture him.

However, there are some people

who say they´re being hassled
by the public

just because they drive a truck

that looks like the one
police are trying to find.

- Their vehicle
has been tailgated,

pinned in parking lots,
and in fact, one person got out

and tried to search the truck.

We´d like to caution
the general public

from taking any type
of enforcement action.

If you think you see the
truck police are looking for,

jot down the license plate
number and call them.

And if you drive a red
Ford pickup truck,

police say be patient.

But I remember, you know,

as several of us
were viewing those,

"Oh, if they´d just panned
just a little bit more,

we might have saw something."

I remember us cheering,
going, "Go, go, go, go!"

Because where this truck was,

it was almost directly
behind home plate.

If they´d just panned
a little bit more to the left,

they could have got that area.

- So, the truck´s still
a viable lead,

but it´s only viable for
the time frame that it was in.

The truck may still exist, and
we would still like to find it.

There may be evidence
in that truck, uh,

or just knowing -- tracking
the ownership of that truck.

So, absolutely,
the truck´s a great lead.

But, you know, it needs to be
relevant to the time.

The Alma police department

making a huge
announcement today.

The city council and mayor have
appointed chief Jeff Pointer

as the permanent
police chief there.

Took over the chief position
after Russell White

retired from the position
after 25 years.

In 1998, uh, Russell
hired me as a dispatcher.

Not long after that,
I was hired as a patrolman.

You know, during that time,
Russell and I become friends.

You know, he told me he could
see me being his replacement.

And, of course, that´s 20 years,
you know --

The case was, at that time,
24 years old.

And -- And what had been
happening in the case

was not working.
So, uh, I-I just came in

with -- with open eyes
and open ears

and, uh, took suggestions from,
um -- from other investigators.

Captain Hartley approached me

about going back
to -- to June the 9th, 1995,

and not starting over
in the -- in the investigation,

but looking back at some things

that was done early
and, you know,

and just reviewing
what happened on June the 9th.

What if someone
did miss something?

And by us going back
and reviewing

some of those first things
the first few days

and, I mean, it could
make a difference.

Truly, I think the easiest way

to probably describe it
for anybody who --

that was there that night,
even in law enforcement,

it´s a helpless feeling.

And the longer time went on,

the more helpless that you felt.

It´s our duty to protect.

And you´ve got
a 6-year-old baby out there

that somebody abducted,

and we have not found her, and
we have not brought her home.

You know, anytime you´ve got
a-a missing child,

I think, in law enforcement,

uh, it creates a little bit
of apprehension in you.

In 25 years
of law enforcement here,

Morgan is the only one
we haven´t found.

Appreciate the -- the time
to come in and talk to y´all

and bring you up to speed
a little bit on this.

We want you to have
the information,

because you will see it.

Um, you´re going to see it
in a couple of different ways.

And so this is very simply
to give you a heads-up

so you´re not blindsided
when you see that.

Emotionally, there´s probably
gon´ be some emotion

in this tonight,

and it´s understandable,

and it´s all good, okay?

If you get mad, you get mad.
If you cry, you cry.

Uh, I´ve had all those emotions,

and I´m not in your family.

So, kind of going back and
painting a picture of her case,

what happened
on the law enforcement side

after she was abducted

is leads came in by the droves.

Suspect composites have been
a lot, uh, of those leads,

and known offenders
have been a lot of those leads.

Anytime anybody commits a crime
in the United States

that comes close to this,
they call it in

whether or not
there´s any connection.

We have over 8,300 leads
in her case.

So, let´s talk about composites,

because there´s been a lot out
over the years,

and there´s been a lot
of questions over the years

about composites.

There were two children
playing with Morgan

the night of the abduction.

So, these are the original
two Identi-Kits

that came out in the case
from those two witnesses.

Four days after the abduction,
they have gotten information

that there was a lead
coming out of a laundromat,

an attempted abduction
at a laundromat.

So then they turn around
and release this composite.

On, uh, August 13th of ´97,
they had this drawn.

And what this is
is what´s out today.

And essentially,
this is a hybrid of these two.

Where we are today with the case

is I´m not focused
on composites.

The direction
that this case has always went

has been running leads
based off a composite.

I mean, truthfully, that was
the last 24 years of this case.

I´m looking
for something different.

And you may say,
"Well, this has been the last

20, 24 years of her case."

And I would say yes,
absolutely, you´re right.

Uh, as far as the hybrid
and what´s out today,

we´re talking
25 years into a case.

We´re not going to do
an age progression on this.

This is going to
the background for us.

I´m looking for facts.
I´m looking for details.

I´m looking for specifics

that I can focus on
aside from composites.

The vehicle of interest and
the person of interest in this,

uh, or actually the vehicles
parked next to Colleen´s car

up at the top of the hill.
What is in the reports

is when they first
pull into the lot,

that they pass three,
four vehicles.

And then the gentleman
that Colleen was following there

parks his vehicle
on the far side,

which would be deepest end
of the lot,

uh, is where Colleen had parked.

The reports and everything
that I´m able to look at

indicates that this red truck

ended up being parked
on the other side of Colleen.

To this day,
Colleen will tell you

that she does not remember

that -- that truck
being on that hill.

I think here´s
the easiest thing.

Um, if you went to your
local store today,

and you got out of your car,
and you went inside,

and you got back in your car,
and you left,

can you tell me
what color the vehicles were

and what the vehicles were that
were sitting around your vehicle

or the one, uh, you know,
that passed you

as you were getting ready
to go through a crosswalk?

The answer to that is no.

And so it is not
an uncommon thing.

Uh, I think that´s something
that really bothers her,

but that is not
an uncommon thing

for somebody to not recognize,
uh, and be able to place that.

You know, I think part
of the public perception

is that, you know,

she says, "Well, Morgan´s
with me the whole time,"

but she´s probably out
running around

with the other kids
that were out playing.

She´s not.
She´s -- She´s with her mom

until right up toward
the end of the game.

And then there are
other children playing.

I mean, we´ve got
that documented in reports.

We have those kids identified.

There was another
parent actually

that was in
an apartment building

right there where that lot was

that was coming out
and checking on her children.

So, a lot of people
at the ball field.

I mean, it is not like anything
to where she sent her child off

to where her child cannot be
seen or anything else like that.

You´ve got to consider,
you know,

the innocence in 1995
in the city of Alma.

It was shattered with Morgan,

because you didn´t
think anything

about allowing your child
to go play like that.

The person stayed up there
and watched the ball game.

We know that,
from witness statements,

there were periods of time
when this person got out

and leaned
on the hood of the truck.

And we know of, outside
of Tye, Jessica, and Morgan,

of no other contact
or connection

between this individual
and any of the other kids

or anybody else up on the hill.

I´m interested in the truck.
I´m interested in finding out,

making this solid
to me personally,

looking at this
and saying, "Okay,

what -- what do we have here?"

And I came up with a list of
20 people from June the 9th

that provided information
on a red truck.

Three of the primary people
and witnesses

that were talked to, uh,
were actually given hypnosis,

and they provided some vehicle
license information.

They did their due diligence

when they received
this information

in August of ´95,

and they ran those tags.

And I start looking,
and I realize

that in this one
particular state,

every one of these tags
have returned no record.

So I run, 24 years later,
an NCIC offline search

on these tags,
and I get some hits.

So we´re looking
at two different avenues.

We´re looking at this truck.
We´re looking at these tags.

And as I continue to work
on the sheet with these trucks,

I get to right
in the 20th person.

I start digging through files,
looking for more witnesses,

more things,
and I come across a photograph.

I pull the photograph out,

and I´m looking at a red truck
with a white camper.

And having the 20 people´s
statements fresh in my mind

when I look at this truck,
I think,

"Oh, my God.
I´m looking at the truck."

It doesn´t quite fit.
Is there something there

that, other than being red,

there something there
that really makes you think

that this could be
the truck or --

- It doesn´t really look like
a Ford pickup truck

and we´re not real sure
about this camper shell.

But, yes,

we have this film,
and we have looked at that,

and we continue to examine it,
and we´re utilizing it

in our investigation
at this time.

The image
that they pull from the video,

I believe they had it, um,

with -- roughly
within a week of the abduction

they had that. I´m wanting
to say they actually had that

close to the 13th,
14th, somewhere in there.

The suspect who took
Morgan Nick is believed

to be driving
an older model red Ford pickup

with a white camper shell.

A parent at the ball field
where Morgan was last seen

caught this red truck
on home video.

But after further
investigation,

police say
this truck is a Mazda

and it´s owned by a parent
who was at the ball field

where Morgan disappeared.

- They are saying that,
that it has been cleared.

It doesn´t name any agency
in particular

that supposedly cleared that.

What I can tell you is,

based on the facts
of what I find and what I read,

I have not found
a single document at this point

that tells me
that truck´s cleared,

that an owner of that truck
has been identified.

As a matter of fact,
I have documents --

One of the things that they did,

uh, they -- they
obtained information

from everybody
that attended the ball field.

Uh, part of that information
is what vehicles they drove

to the ball field, and who came?

Did you have a guest,
and what did they drive?

That truck doesn´t exist
in those records.

I spoke with Chief White.
I showed him the picture,

asked him about it,
and he said yes.

That truck, uh, was known
to be at the ball field

June the 9th of ´95.

And there is a potential

that that could be the person
we´re looking for in this case.

A parent at the ball field
where Morgan was last seen

caught this red truck
on home video.

But after further
investigation,

police say
this truck is a Mazda

and it´s owned by a parent
who was at the ball field

where Morgan disappeared.

Had you ever heard that?

- I´m -- I mean, I don´t --
I don´t remember it, no.

And I´m sure a policeman
told them that.

And it may have been somebody
from a different agency.

I may have knew about it,

but I don´t remember
ever hearing that to be a Mazda,

and I haven´t ever read a report

that tells me
who owned that truck.

Uh, so I would think
that if we knew it was a parent

at the ball field,
we´d know what parent it was.

But I´ve never seen
that information, so...

I started mapping
some different circumstances

that happened within the city

on June the 9th
relating to this truck.

You know, we had knowledge of
different pieces of this before.

When you sit down, and you put
that puzzle together,

it´s like a jigsaw puzzle.

And when you start
putting those pieces together,

you get a very clear picture.

And I have a very
clear picture today.

Started pulling everything
from June the 9th of ´95.

I don´t believe that Morgan
was the only circumstance

that occurred with this person
in Alma on June the 9th.

I found statements
that I had seen before

at different times
over the years

and started pulling
information from them

and then actually
started mapping

and putting that
information together.

And it painted
a very interesting picture

of June the 9th of ´95.

And according to witness
statements,

Morgan Nick
and the kids with her

were not the only contact
with this individual that night.

The first location
is a teenage white female.

She has a truck drive past her,
pull over in front of her,

and back up to her.

And the passenger window´s
partially down.

And the first thing that
this individual says to her is,

"Would you like a ride
to downtown Alma?"

So, obviously, downtown Alma

is was where Morgan
was abducted from.

So this female tells him
that she doesn´t want to ride.

The subject doesn´t leave,
and she is forced --

Uh, she´s scared at this point,

and she is forced
to walk off from him.

And so she has to walk off,
and he continues to sit there

and then finally drives off.

The strongest witness.
Hands down, no questions asked,

that´s probably the strongest
witness in our case.

She provided
a lot of information,

filled in a lot of blanks.

Location number two,

the information on it is from a
call-in, and it´s kind of vague

because I haven´t found
a follow-up on it.

Two girls, 5 and 6 years old,
on the north end of our city,

they come running
from the front yard

out next to the street,
screaming and crying.

Mom looks out,
and Mom sees a red truck

with a white camper shell
drive off.

Location number three is going
to be in downtown Alma,

and it´s a couple
of teenage boys.

They´re walking from
the older baseball field

on the south side
of West Main Street.

And a red pickup truck
with a white camper shell,

uh, a male subject in it, stops

and gets onto them
for being in the road.

One of those witnesses

watches the truck
turn onto Walnut Street.

And, so, Walnut runs down
the side of the ballpark,

and it actually is the street

that goes into
the upper parking lot

where Morgan was abducted from.

This is number four.
So right there,

I have a couple
of 10-year-old boys

that were playing
and riding bikes,

and they´re in the street.
And I have a subject

in a red truck
with a white camper

that stops and yells at them
to get out of the road, as well.

Number five, I would call
definitely the parking lot

where the abduction occurred.

Location number six,
with the same thing,

we´re looking at a timeline.

There is, uh,
the red truck in question

with the white camper shell

that is photographed
sitting on the street.

And we know the time of that
ballgame, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.

that night, is when
this truck was photographed.

Every thing
within that timeframe

is a very short period of time,
and it all comes into play.

So basically what it did for me
on that day is it led a track

right to downtown,
right to the abduction.

So location number seven
is actually, um --

We´re not going to divulge
that location at the time,

because we´re doing
some work there.

But within a 10-minute
period of her abduction,

we have other witnesses
that were teenagers.

At this specific location,
it was close to the river.

They were doing an activity
together that evening.

And while they were doing
that activity,

they observed
this vehicle come in.

And so they were able
to give details,

including time details,
uh, and vehicle details.

One of them went
as far as to say

that they felt like
they observed

the adult male driving the truck

potentially holding a child down
in the front seat of the truck.

And after they learn of Morgan,
they come forward

and pass the information on
to the Alma police department

that, "We were
at this particular location.

This is what we observed."

Uh, and then investigators
made contact with them,

got detailed witness
statements from them.

I know from one
of the witness statements, uh,

they said that the officers
took them out the next day.

There´s question on exactly
which day that was.

But the officer
took them out the next day.

They were unable to go back
to this location

because of the flooding.

In this area,
there´s a lot of farmland

that runs along the river.

Those areas are very much prone
to flood.

So, take Van Buren,
for instance.

I believe one of the things
I read,

the river is like
an 18 feet of Van Buren.

It flows 10,000 to 15,000
cubic feet per second.

And we were looking
at flood stages, I believe,

of 32 feet at the time

where a couple days
after her abduction,

they recorded that as about
226,000 cubic feet per second

that river is flowing.

So when that river comes up,
and the, you know,

there´s articles at the time
from the farmers, where fields

that are a ways away from
the river are 4 feet underwater.

So naturally, for us looking
at this 24 years later,

we have to look at this
in the direction of, okay,

if we believe in the process
that we´re going,

we believe where we are,

uh, we´re looking
at three different things.

There is a potential --
You look at the potential

that Morgan left that location,

and then you have to look
at the potential

that Morgan
did not leave that location.

I´m very comfortable that,
from location number one

all the way
to location number seven,

I´m looking at the same truck.

I´m also very confident
I´m looking at the same subject.

It is a new direction
for the case.

110% it is a new
direction for the case.

So why is it significant today?

It´s significant today because
the majority of the people

don´t realize that truck
was shown a couple of times

in the beginning of this case.
And while it was shown,

it was not shown
with an emphasis of,

"We need to find this truck, and
we need to find this person."

And that is the emphasis today.
And that is -- that is something

that we greatly need
the public´s help with.

We´re not just asking for people
to send us every red truck

with a white camper
that they know about.

We´re looking specifically
for this truck.

And I want to say this
so y´all understand something.

The work that we´re
doing today

is off the backs
of all those people 25 years ago

that were running this to ground
at that time.

If they didn´t do their job,
we couldn´t do

what we´re doing today.

They -- They ran vehicles.

They put -- The state police
put troopers in every campground

in the state of Arkansas
for days looking for that truck

and pulling every record
for the red truck.

So it´s not like there has not
been a tremendous amount of work

going to the red truck, because
the witnesses said red truck.

There´s not been a focus
on this red truck.

We love her, and we miss her.

Whoever´s got her,
just bring her back to us,

where she belongs.

That was two weeks ago.

Today, a more hopeful
Colleen Nick

still awaits
the return of her daughter.

She and Morgan´s father say
what sees them through

is the support of friends
and strangers.

- They don´t have to care.
It doesn´t affect their lives.

You know, we have a lot
of friends around here

who know us.
And it affects you personally.

But these are people who just,
they don´t know us at all.

You know,
some periods during the day,

you´re more hopeful
that she´ll turn up any minute.

And, uh, some periods of the
day, it´s hard to stay hopeful.

But you just got to keep --
keep staying hopeful.

That´s the only way
to keep going.

We were stationed in Europe,

and Morgan was born there.

And the night
that we went into labor,

the military hospital
wouldn´t let us in.

They had too many
newborn babies,

and so they literally
sent us away at the door,

and they sent us to a Crockett
House, a city hospital.

And when we got there,

the entire four hours
that we were there,

our nurse only spoke
one word of English.

The only thing that
she could say was push.

And so for four hours,
that´s really all we heard.

Um, and because of
the language barrier,

there were just
some miscommunications.

And so finally,
the doctor arrived,

um, and within 10 minutes,
Morgan was born.

And, you know, I remember
Morgan being born,

and the doctor, um, holding her
and saying, "It´s a girl."

And we just kind of gasped,
and her -- her dad said,

"It´s a girl?" ´cause we thought
we were having a boy.

And so, um,

you know, they handed her to me.

And that was --

That was, um,

when I knew that
I would always fight for her,

you know, that I would do
everything that I could.

Um, people sometimes ask me now,
you know,

how can I still do this,
fight for her,

but how can I not?

Um, I don´t get up every day
and make that decision.

I literally made that decision
the day that she was born,

the day that I held her
in my arms,

that I would always
fight for her.

I could not
have held it together

the way that Colleen
has held it together

if that was one of my kids.

And it gives you that drive,

and it gives you that personal
connection that, you know,

we need to bring this baby home.
It is way beyond time.

My level of confidence
in the case is high, very high.

And my level of confidence
of -- of where we are,

what we´re looking at right now,

and the direction that we´re
headed is -- is extremely high.

Alright.

Alright.