Case Update: Finding Lillianna Pagano
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Three years ago, we brought you the story of Lillianna Pagano, who had been abducted by her mother, Jillanne, when Lillianna was an infant. A few days before airing our story on Lillianna, we received word that she had been found alive and was reunited with her father, Tyler, a completely unexpected surprise. While this was the ending we hope for in every story, Tyler and Lillianna still had a rough road ahead of them. Lillianna had been missing for nearly six years and was told her father was dead. We recently checked in with Tyler to see how Lillianna is doing with her dad today and what they’ve been through together since they were reunited in June of 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:14.0 | Three years ago in the summer of 2019, we brought you the story of then five-year-old Lilliana Pagano, |
| 0:21.0 | who had been abducted by her mother, Jill Ann, nearly six years prior. On October 1, 2013, |
| 0:28.0 | when Lilliana was just a few months old. To refresh your memory, we're going to play the original |
| 0:34.0 | episode first with the update at the end. If you remember this story well, you can fast forward |
| 0:40.0 | to around the 46-minute mark where the update begins. |
| 0:44.0 | She was taken two months after her birth by her mom, and we've been searching. I've been going to |
| 0:58.0 | court for just years and years, and I had that legal custody of her and everything. From there, |
| 1:06.0 | I've been trying to find Jill Ann after I got legal custody and I actually had some kind of |
| 1:12.0 | legalities on my side to where Jill Ann was actually in trouble. You know, there was actually |
| 1:18.0 | she's got the warrant and things like that and smoothly moving forward. She's been having |
| 1:24.0 | a really rough time with that portion. We're not able to locate her anyway. |
| 1:30.0 | We just haven't been able to for years and years of that state highway. The total investigator |
| 1:36.0 | now working on the case well and she's had it for well over a year and a half and she's been trying to do |
| 1:44.0 | her several little kind of things that she's been trying to get done, but nothing from real successful. |
| 1:52.0 | So she was trying to bring on the FBI and the US Marshal's onboard. When every time I talk to her, |
| 1:58.0 | it comes down to there's another homicide or there's another drug case, you know, something that pushes it back. |
| 2:04.0 | And puts it on the back burner again. |
| 2:08.0 | On October 1st, 2013, Jill Ann Pagano abducted her three-month-old daughter, |
| 2:19.0 | Liliana, from Rocheport, Missouri. Liliana's father Tyler and Jill Ann had a falling out shortly after |
| 2:26.0 | young Liliana was born. One day, Tyler received a text message stating that Jill Ann and Liliana were going out of state. |
| 2:33.0 | When he inquired further as to where they were going and for how long he received no answer. |
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