Still Missing Morgan (2023– ) User Reviews

No Closure!!

[bhamiltonesq · 7/10 · 19 February 2023]

It is a heartbreaking and captivating documentary. It has to be a parent's worst nightmare. I know it would be mine!

And while the documentary itself is very thorough and goes through the various steps of the investigation ... SPOILER ALERT there is No Closure!! The main suspect in the case died in prison and Morgan still has never been found ... 25 plus years later!!

It is Beyond frustrating. You feel like you are along for the ride right there with Colleen but there are still no real answers by the end. I can only imagine what her family feels to this day. And it is so heart wrenching to see her mother still carry that glimpse of hope.

The Cops need to be retrained, period.

[sarahkleames · 6/10 · 28 February 2023]

Watching episode 2, and especially episode 3, I keep hearing today's lead detective talk about not throwing previous detectives under the bus for doing their jobs wrong, but that's totally what he did. You get the feeling he'd throw everyone under the bus if it helped him climb to the top, and he'd do it with his well practiced smile on his face.

There's a conference room scene where the leading detective and other coworkers discuss how infuriating people are for coming forth with details years later. They really need sensitivity training. If they knew anything about trauma they'd know trauma survivors don't process life the same way and are in constant survival mode, waking up every morning in a state of alert instead of calmness. ---I for one thought how careless and reckless they were being. Someone with crucial information to a case may have been sitting on it out of fear and these cops words may have a lasting impact. It would make me feel like I wouldn't be believed, and the cops are going to be infuriated. Cops can be scary, and when you see things in the news about cops choking people to death by sitting on them it already makes people apprehensive.

Last but not least the lead detective is the laziest MF on this little girls case, and she deserves better. They had a chance to leave no stone unturned, but decided to leave the shed. Absolutely Ridiculous. Things get moved over time. Don't be so Absolutely sure of everything. Tear that building down and start digging until you are sure. It dosen't matter if she's not underneath, what matters is you checked everywhere and didn't leave an area unchecked and half-assed.

One BIG piece of evidence is MISSING!!!

[Just-A-Girl-14 · 8/10 · 25 March 2023]

I watched all 4 episodes and my heart aches for the families. Waiting so many years, not knowing, hurting, hoping, looking for answers. It is very very sad.

One big thing that was missing that jumped out to me was the information provided on the first episode and wasn't addressed as the show progressed. It was said that the officers who arrived at the site of the abduction picked up every single piece of evidence from the ground (things like cigarette buds and empty drinking cans). What happened to those evidence??? Whoever abducted Morgan must have waited for the opportunity for quite a while so the chances are that he left something behind. Did they process everything that they collected from the parking lot? One of these items can be a match to a known offender, whether he is a suspect or not. If for example they could find DNA on a cigarette bud that was on the ground in the parking lot that is a match to one of their suspect then they could put him there. That is a much stronger evidence than one unidentifiable blond hair found in a truck that is almost 30 years old. Why wasn't this addressed in the show??? What happened to the evidence that the officers collected? Where is it? Is it lost? Was it ever processed? To me, this is a much more important information than randomly checking possible burial sites or looking for old red trucks. These are evidence police should have in their hands. It is even possible that a new viable suspect emerges. One good thing that happens over time is that more and more offenders are added to the system. Someone who wasn't on police radar back then could be arrested years later for something else. It's really upsetting that there was no more information on the show about it. It's possible it was lost, it's possible that it was processed and they came up with nothing but since they didn't say anything about it I just don't know.

A very sad story. I wish Morgan family could find answers and peace. Maybe someone out there knows something. Maybe by bringing this case back to the public's attention they can finally get answers. You can never lose hope. Things change, who knows. It's always possible. The Jacob case is proof of that.

Brave Strong Mothers

[rtailor-04901 · 23 February 2023]

I'm not going to include any spoilers in my review. Maybe there was too much chatter from the police and FBI. Maybe this did drag on a bit and could have been 3 solid episodes. But watching Colleen Nick ( Morgan's Mom) and Patty Wetterling (Jacob Wetterling's Mom -look up that case if you are not familiar) try to articulate the pain of a missing child is heart stopping. Each woman expressed it in different terms but each woman knew they were in a sisterhood no one wants to be in. It was so touching to see them together. Only they could tell their story and that, I believe, is the beauty and tragedy of this documentary: Watching a Mom do whatever she could for their missing child and in the process, help other missing and exploited children. Warrior Moms stopping at nothing. My heart goes out to them. Their strength unmeasurable. Morgan and Jacob making a difference. I'm so glad I got to know them.

I should have researched before watching this.

[tmsword-94535 · 7/10 · 24 December 2023]

It's on me for not looking this case up and going in blindly to my feelings of frustration at how this doc series is done. Clearly they have not found Morgan and that is highly frustrating and unacceptable in my opinion. It's like her mom said, we as a society just can't accept that people (usually men) just up and abduct children and they are never seen again and it's a mystery. I can't imagine what her and other parents have to go through who have this happen. The one case of little Jacob had me bawling my eyes out. They do find the perp, he confesses and only gets 20 years??? Just 20? He murdered and SA'd a child! I was furious watching this. The justice system is really flawed and I don't think anymore that we are lucky to have it because it needs a whole overhaul imo. They let pedos out so fast and that's when they end up graduating to murder and you give them a measly 20 yrs. Outrageous. I will always be pro death penalty because how you can kill a child, it's just the most evil of evil things. Do not watch if you are the sensitive type or empathic unless you skip the part where they tell how Jacob died. Prayers to his mother, I felt so bad for her. RIP Jacob.

Anyway, I rated this rather high for the hopes that Morgan is not forgotten and eventually found. Prayers to her family. They deserve answers.

Modern Documentaries ...

[bt698nhj · 6/10 · 28 September 2023]

Do you remember when documentaries were single 60 or 90 minute shows? In the streaming era, seemingly every documentary is now stretched out to 4 plus episodes. This creates a snail's pace and redundancy of content. It's up to us viewers to push back on this.

Still Missing Morgan is the prototype for this stretched out phenomenon. This could've been a 60- or 90-minute show rather than 3+ hours. Thus, the documentary was repetitive and more tedious than it should've been.

Also, documentaries have devolved to put more work on the viewers by having unnarrated parts where the viewer is forced to read tiny print on the screen. I'm a multi tasker. I don't watch the screen 100% of the time. I suspect the majority of us are multi taskers. These written parts should at least be narrated so we don't have to try to read the small words.

I understand you're going for style points but it's not working. Documentaries in particular typically are interview-centric with little action compelling the viewer to watch; having these silent written sequences is at odds with the general premise and nature of a documentary.

The story is good but only watch if you have time to kill.

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A tale as old as time.

[chrismonkee · 9/10 · 19 February 2023]

It's heartbreaking stuff. Child abducted 24 years ago, family still hangs in there. Hope springs eternal.

I knew exactly what I was letting myself in for, and stories about abducted or abused children terrify me. Fiction or real-life. I usually give them a miss.

Still, I watched the first one, and then binged the other episodes the next day. It's extremely well done. Ridley Scott put his name to it, so that's unsurprising.

I thought Morgan was a boy. Soon as I saw she was a cute little blonde girl, my heart sank even lower. Not that the gender really matters.

I gave it 9/10. Well worth your time.

A waste of time!

[Valid_ID · 1/10 · 21 February 2023]

The first episode, which told the story of a kidnapped little girl 25-30 years ago, seemed promising.

Decades later, the police is trying to look at the unsolved case with fresh eyes.

The parents' pain is excruciating, and time doesn't alleviate it. After every failed attempt to solve the case, the parents' hopes are dashed.

The rest of this documentary stretches with endless gabbing.

The viewer can skip the rest, there is nothing else to learn. And there is SO. MUCH. USELESS. TALK. From the police, mainly.

A whole army of local police, FBI, huge resources... and nothing comes out of it.

Honestly, I found this documentary a complete waste of time.

If you don't have a story, don't make a film

[cmclaughlin0405 · 1/10 · 24 February 2023]

Boring. Padded out. Had to involve a completely unrelated story about a child who is not Morgan. I hate these modern documentaries than span 10 hour long episodes that I can read on Wikipedia in 2 minutes.

Look if the families are reading this, I'm so sorry for your loss. My gripe is with the filmmakers. They're using you.

Also Hulu is the worst streaming platform. Ads are bad enough and the User Interface is broken.

After 25 years the investigation of Morgan Nick's kidnapping is still open; with unprecedented access to the Nick family as well as current local law enforcement and FBI operations, see new discoveries and progress first-hand.

The mothers and families were good. Police not so much.

[laurenann-43644 · 2/10 · 4 March 2023]

I'm not sure if they just don't understand forensics/dna AT ALL, or they know they have nothing but they continue to process a dead end just to spend money or make the documentary. But damn every scene with detectives is "This is better than nothing." Or "This may be nothing." Or "This might mean something but maybe not." "We don't want to put all our eggs in one basket... But we are only going to look for red trucks for the next 20 years."

Basically they are laser focused on "A red truck" that was maybe at the scene. But no adults saw it. And the kids saw it but it may be completely unrelated. So they are going to look at red trucks until the taxpayer money runs out.

Not follow other leads. Not take a SINGLE LESSON from the Wetterling case.

(Here is a hint: The guy that killed Wetterling comitted other crimes BEFORE he killed. He built up to murder, then stopped. He molested others in increasingly risky and violent ways.)

The detectives looking for Morgan's killer are looking at less risky incidents that happened 3 weeks later. No one kills a child and then makes bumbling drunken attempts to chat with another 3 weeks later. It was a crime of opportunity. Look at what happened before. He has been toying around child hunting long before the opportunity came.

If they looked beyond "red truck" they might see something.

Don't expect a conclusion.

[Dodge-Zombie · 2/10 · 2 April 2023]

There seems to be this current trend of making true crime programs where they spend between 4 and 6 hours getting the viewer invested to then end all of a sudden with no conclusion.

This is another one of them.

There's lots of finger pointing but when it comes to actual facts there's very little going on here apart from people hoping to find something.

The main point is that a 6 year old girl was allowed to run around a carpark late at night with no actual supervision and then the child vanished.

There's a lot of blame can be thrown around that scenario. I'll let you decide how much of it should go where.

If the kid was taken then the culprit deserves death.

What if the kid had an accident because nobody was watching? Who's to blame then?