“Mom, Trudy’s dad is looking for her. I think somebody took her.” Kelly Carlson reflects on what her daughter told her the morning after Trudy Appleby was abducted. She says they were best friends.

Nearly 30 years after an 11-year-old girl disappeared in her hometown in western Illinois, a man has been charged with her murder. Trudy Appleby was last seen on Aug. 21, 1996 near her home in Moline.

A suspect has been arrested nearly three decades after an 11-year-old went missing in Illinois. Jamison Fisher, 50, has been indicted on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of ...