Jillian was last seen at approximately 6:30am on August 13, 1987, in Norfolk, Nebraska. Her parents are divorced, and she lived in Grand Bend, Kansas with her mother, Joyce Cutshall, and her brother. She was visiting her stepmother and her father, in Norfolk when she disappeared. She didn't like to stay in their apartment alone, so when they left for work early that morning, she started walking to her babysitter's residence four blocks away. Jillian never arrived and has not been seen again. Her babysitter assumed she'd decided to stay home, and she wasn't missed until after 3:00 p.m., when her stepmother went to the babysitter's home to pick her up and found out she wasn't there. Three months after her disappearance, her clothes, shoes and keys were found in the Wood Duck Wildlife Refuge in Stanton, Nebraska, ten miles from her father's home. She has never been located.