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Trudy Appleby, 11, went missing on Aug. 21, 1996, in Moline, Ill.

Witnesses saw her getting into a car with an unidentified male, police said

The suspect, Jamison Fisher, 50, was first named as a person of interest in 2020, police said

Nearly thirty years after an 11-year-old girl went missing from a small town in Illinois, police have arrested a suspect and charged him with murder.

Trudy Appleby vanished on Aug. 21, 1996, near her home in Moline, after she was seen getting into the passenger side of an older model gray vehicle driven by an unidentified man, Moline Police Chief Darren Gault said at an Aug. 13 press conference shown on local station KWQC TV 6 and reviewed by PEOPLE.

Appleby, Gault said, had asked if she could go swimming with a friend on Campbell’s Isla

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