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The FOX True Crime Podcast

Cold Case Murder Solved After Almost 30 Years

The FOX True Crime Podcast

Fox News

True Crime

4.7 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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It's been almost 30 years since Trudy Appleby disappeared,

0:36.2

and now a man has been charged in her murder.

0:38.6

The 11-year-old was last seen August 21st, 1996, near her home in Moline, Illinois.

0:43.8

She'd asked to go swimming with a friend. Her dad said no, but allegedly she went anyway and was last seen getting into a gray vehicle with a man.

0:51.0

Last week, a Henry County grand jury indicted 50-year-old Jameson Fisher on three

0:55.4

counts of first-degree murder and one count of concealment of a homicidal death. He's accused of

1:00.1

kidnapping and strangling Trudy and covering it up. Her body was never found. In 2017, police identified

1:05.5

Fisher's longtime friend William Ed Smith as a person of interest with a witness saying he was driving the gray car. His son-in-law and registered sex offender, David Whipple, was named a suspect in 2020. Smith and Whipple both died, leaving Fisher the only person of interest still alive. Fisher was already in custody in Iowa on unrelated charges. There's more on this story at Fox News.com or subscribe to the Fox True Crime Podcast. I'm Gianna Jalosi with your Fox True Crime Minute.

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