CAMBRIDGE, Ill. (KWQC) - The man indicted in the kidnapping and murder of Trudy Appleby appeared in court Tuesday to face those charges for the first time.

Fifty-year-old Jamison Fisher will remain in Henry County Jail, a judge decided. His next court appearance on Oct. 20.

He will be represented by a public defender.

Fisher is charged in Henry County, Illinois, with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of concealment of a homicidal death in connection with the disappearance of Appleby in 1996.

She was 12 when she went missing, and her remains were never recovered.

The case haunted the Quad-Cities for almost 30 years before Fisher was suddenly indicted in August.

Fisher was extradited to Illinois by U.S. Marshals Monday. Fisher had been in the Scott County Jail on

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