Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 04/26/1974
- Missing From:
- Missing From Riverton, Wyoming
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Male
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 08/18/1949 (75)
- Age:
- Age 24 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’11 – 6’10, 155 – 170 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Dark brown hair, brown eyes.
- Details of Disappearance:
- Morris disappeared from Riverton, Wyoming on April 26, 1974. He worked there as a seismograph operator but was from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was going to Yellowstone National Park before heading home, but never arrived at either place.
His green 1966 Ford truck (Oklahoma plates RO-94) vanished with him. The truck was later found abandoned in California.
Police arrested James Jagers and Jack Lincoln. They had Morris’s credit cards and belongings. Jagers had just been released from prison in Colorado, and Lincoln, his former cellmate, had escaped two days before Morris disappeared.
Morris’s credit card was used in several states after his disappearance. Witnesses saw two men using it and signing his name. Jagers and Lincoln abandoned Morris’s truck and were later caught in Idaho with his credit cards and a rental car. Lincoln’s fingerprints were found on the credit card receipts and in the truck.
In 1983, Jagers offered to reveal where Morris’s body was buried in exchange for a prison transfer, but nothing came of it. Years later, in 2013, he was charged with stealing Morris’s truck, but the charges were dropped. He died in 2014 without ever being charged with Morris’s disappearance.
Morris’s body has never been found, and although there was no sign of foul play at his home, police believe he was murdered. The case remains unsolved.
- Agency:
- Riverton Police Department 307-856-4891
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This person was missing Missing Since 04/26/1974