EAST MOLINE, Ill. (KWQC) - A week from Thursday marks 29 years since the disappearance of Trudy Appleby .

With Appleby’s memory heavy on the hearts and minds of the community and those who knew her, First Baptist Church in East Moline is preparing for their annual candlelight vigil to honor Appleby, and this year there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.

“I’m thinking about the family... and what they must be going through and thinking, perhaps, imagining what may be up ahead,” said Dan Yeager, Pastor at First Baptist Church, East Moline.

The arrest of Jamison Fisher marks a break in the cold base that has haunted the Quad Cities community, giving a glimmer of hope that one day, Appleby can be laid to rest.

“For me as pastor, I was reading a verse today over in numbers 32:23 which

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