Modern forensic tests helped identify a suspect in the abduction of Morgan Nick, a 6-year-old who disappeared in Arkansas in 1995.

On Aug. 29, 1995, Lincks was arrested on a charge of sexual solicitation of a child after police said he tried to lure an 11-year-old girl into his red pickup truck, Pointer said. Lincks was questioned about Morgan’s disappearance but told officers he didn’t know what happened to her, police said.

New DNA evidence firmly connects Billy Jack Lincks to the disappearance of Morgan Nick nearly 30 years ago, making him an official suspect, Alma’s police chief announced Tuesday. Nick was six years old when she was abducted in 1995;