HENRY CO., Ill. (KWQC) - A Henry County grand jury handed up an indictment against a person of interest in the disappearance of Trudy Appleby, the 11-year-old girl who went missing from East Moline in 1996.

At a press conference Thursday, police said 50-year-old Jamison Fisher was indicted on the murder of Appleby.

Fisher is charged in Henry County with:

Three counts of first-degree murder

One count of concealment of a homicidal death

Officials said due to a statute of limitations they are not able to charge Fisher with kidnapping in Henry County.

Appleby’s is the Quad-Cities’ most widely known missing-person case, and her story has haunted the community for almost 30 years.

Her body was never recovered, but authorities never stopped investigating.

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