Wednesday May 31-
next morning, listened in
Jill went out for a bike ride
that morning before she
went to work
Supposed to meet family
at Lenny’s but don’t show
up
Eric goes home and sees
her work bag but not her
bike
She’s not at work
Found that she logged off
her computer at 9:22am,
radio was left on
Her mom reassured Eric
that she was probably just
out with friends
6pm she still wasn’t home
Called police and an
officer showed up around
10pm
They believed Eric when
he said that this was not
like her and ignored the 24
hour rule for missing
persons
Drove all around town
looking for her throughout
the night
Went to police station the
was packed full
on sheriff briefing, but he
never mentioned Jill
Confronted sheriff about
her and the sheriff was
unaware of a missing
person
Police wouldn’t go to the
press
Eric’s son made flyers and
they hung them up around
town
Using his connections with
the editor of the HT, he got
her disappearance
published
Called radio station, with
connections to make an
announcement on the
radio
Broke the news to his
parents
Media picked up this case
and for 2-3 days tv stations
and reporters flooded his
house
Searches started that
sunday morning
From being friends with
someone in the city, he
was able to use the city
buses to transport
everybody for the
searches
Sherwood Oaks parking lot
On Friday they got a call
saying someone found a
bike on Maple Grove Rd
Guy found Jill’s bike,
called police about finding
it, never got a call back
until her case was in the
paper
Found she was riding on
the “Hilly Hundred” route
Eric met with Indiana State
Police and the FBI who
took over the case
Police were given a false
lead about three people
who claimed to have hit
her and throw her into Salt
Creek
Had divers go search for
her but there was too
much crap in the Creek to
see
Put up two temporary
dams and they drained the
Creek (took 4 days)
Man and his grandson
were hunting and found
her bones
University of Indianapolis Charged him with the
examined everything and murder, had a trial in
found bullets from a Martinsville, found guilty
double barrel shotgun Is serving 65 years in
Pierced her skeleton back Michigan City Prison in
together, skull exploded Michigan City, IN
from gunshot
Jill would be 38 today
They went to where her
skeleton was and Eric and
his wife saw their
daughters bones lying on
a gurney, you could visibly
see where she had broken
her nose in high school
playing volleyball

Police determined that she

was taken into the woods,
stripped of her clothing,
most likely raped, forced to
kneel on the ground, had a
gun pressed to the back of
her head and was shot

Her remains were returned

to her family, which then
cremated her

They put some of her

ashes on the south side of
the first united methodist
church

As they were investigating,

a grandma called in her
grandson saying that she
suspected that he killed Jill

Found evidence against,

arrested him