THE WOODLANDS, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — For the first time, viewers are getting a behind-the-scenes look at the forensic lab credited with cracking the decades-old Morgan Nick case.

Six-year-old Morgan was abducted from a River Valley ballpark nearly 30 years ago. Her body was never found. But earlier this year, the Alma Police Department announced they were certain Billy Jack Lincks, a man who died in prison, was responsible for her disappearance.

The breakthrough came from a single hair found in Lincks’ truck, decades after Morgan went missing.

“Somehow it stayed there, that piece of hair to be vacuumed up. That’s incredible,” said Kristen Mittelman, Chief Development Officer at Othram Labs. “The first thing we do is we extract DNA from the rootless hair. It goes into the lab for a DNA libr

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