Crime & Safety
Woman Found Dead After Horseback Ride, Horse Returned Without Her
The body of Jillian Underschultz was found during a Thursday search. She had not been seen since leaving her home on horseback Wednesday.
SCOTTSDALE, AZ — The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office announced Thursday that the body of missing horseback rider Jillian Underschultz had been found.
The sheriff's office, which had been searching the desert for Underschultz on Thursday, did not provide any more information about her death.
On Wednesday afternoon Underschultz left her home near 144th Street and Hawknest Road on horseback and had not been seen since, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
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Underschultz, 58, left around 2:30 p.m. and about two hours later her horse returned home without her, the sheriff's office said. She was reported missing shortly after that.
Underschultz regularly rode her horse in the desert area near her home in Scottsdale, the sheriff's office said.
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