CAMBRIDGE, Ill. (KWQC) - The 30-year-old death of Trudy Appleby is believed to be motivated a drug debt, according to court documents.

Fifty-year-old Jamison Fisher was indicted in the kidnapping and murder of Trudy Appleby and appeared in court Tuesday to face those charges for the first time.

The court documents didn’t have many details but said the case broke open recently after witnesses came forward decades after her disappearance.

Fisher will remain in Henry County Jail, a judge decided. His next court appearance is 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 11 w

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