Most mornings were hectic for Mason City, Iowa, KIMT-TV producer Amy Kuns, but the early hours of June 27, 1995, were particularly frenzied because of the absence of the morning anchor. Twenty-seven-year-old Jodi Huisentruit generally arrived at the CBS affiliate station between 3:00-3:30 to prepare for delivering the morning show, Daybreak, which aired at 6:00. At 4:10, with her still a no-show, Amy called her home. An apologetic Jodi said she had overslept and would arrive shortly. Her apartment was approximately a five-minute drive from the news station, but she still had not arrived by 5:00. A second phone call to her home went unanswered.
With still no word from Jodi by air time, a co-worker was dispatched to her apartment as Amy delivered the morning news. By the following day, Jodi Huisentruit was back on the news; not as the anchor, but as the lead story.
Jodi Huisentruit
When Jodi’s coworker arrived at the Key Apartments building where she lived, her red Mazda Miata was in the parking lot. The finding of what appeared to be several of her personal items strewn on the ground was alarming: a pair of red high heel dress shoes, earrings, a blow dryer, a hair spray bottle, and car keys.
Police arrived on the scene at 7:13 a.m. and found additional ominous signs. Drag marks on the pavement indicated Jodi had been attacked while attempting to enter her car. The driver’s side mirror and car key had both been bent backwards, suggesting she was accosted as she was unlocking the door.
The scene bore the telltale signs of an abduction. The littered items, confirmed to be Jodi’s, trailed away from the car, indicating she had been forcibly taken.
Jodi’s Car And Scattered Personal Items
Several apartment residents and campers from the nearby Macnider campground reported hearing screams coming from the parking lot between 4:15-4:30 a.m. One recalled a woman yelling “leave me alone.” No one, however, had called the police.
Around the same time, the landlord heard a “squeal of tires” and caught a brief glimpse of a car speeding out of the parking lot. The vehicle nearly hit a woman jogger; she could not recall the make or model nor she did not get a clear look at the driver.
When Amy had phoned Jodi, she heard nothing in the background suggesting anyone was with her in her apartment, which showed no signs of a struggle. Her bed had been made, dirty dishes sat in the sink, and an unheard message was on the answering machine. A search of the entire building produced no clues.
Jodi’s Apartment
Did Not Hold The Key To Finding Her
Several people recalled seeing a white mid-1980s Ford Econoline van in the apartment parking lot in the early morning hours. At approximately 4:20, a motorist noticed it was parked in an odd spot with the parking lights on. No apartment resident owned such a vehicle and no one knew to whom it belonged.
A check of all such vans in Cerro Gordo and bordering counties did not link any of them to the scene.
A 1980s Ford Econoline
A search party encompassing the Mason City Police, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), and the FBI scoured the Winnebago River running through the park next to the Key Apartments. Rescue teams and police dogs also searched the countryside, but all efforts produced no trace of Jodi.
Searches Come Up Empty
It appeared that Mason City KIMT-TV television anchor Jodi Huisentruit, who had reported the occurrences of many crimes, had likely become a crime victim, but police found no witnesses to her presumed abduction. They did, however, find a person of interest. More accurately, he found them.
The Reporter Was Likely A Victim
As Mason City police were processing the apparent crime scene at the Key Apartments, a man drove his truck into the parking lot and bellowed, “I was the last person to see Jodi Huisentruit.” Without any probing, he also said she had been at his home the previous evening.
By presenting himself, forty-nine-year-old local seed corn salesman John Vansice had piqued police interest.
John Vansice
Vansice had helped organize a surprise birthday party for Jodi at Sully’s Irish Pub, a local bar and grill, on June 5, three weeks earlier. He told police he and Jodi had watched the video at his home on the evening of June 26, but he did not provide a timeframe.
Multiple other people did account for Jodi’s whereabouts for part of the evening.
Photo From Jodi’s Birthday Party
Jodi had attended a Chamber of Commerce golfing banquet at the Mason City Country Club on the evening of June 26, from which other attendees recalled her leaving at roughly 8:00. At 8:24, she phoned her friend Kelly Torguson; she was not home, but Jodi talked to her husband, Troy, for roughly six minutes. He detected nothing askew.
It took roughly nine minutes to drive from the Country Club to Vansice’s home. The birthday party video he says he and Jodi watched encompassed twenty minutes, meaning there would not have been time for her to have stopped at his home, watch the video, and then drive to her home to make the phone call, during which she made no mention of having been with him. (This was before most people, including Jodi, had cell phones.)
I found nothing of investigators addressing the possibility of Jodi coming home, making the phone call, and then going to Vansice’s duplex. It seems she would have been unlikely to have done so because she had to be at work so early the following morning. On the other hand, if she had gone out, that may have been the reason she had overslept.
Had Jodi Visited Vansice?
Vansice said he was home sleeping at the time of Jodi’s probable abduction. When his friend, LaDonna Woodford, phoned him at 6:00 a.m. to confirm their plans to walk together, she said it sounded like he had had only recently awoken and that nothing seemed unusual. During their walk, he also acted normally.
Amy Kuns had phoned and spoken to Jodi at 4:10. Though Vansice lived only five minutes from the Key Apartments, LaDonna does not believe he would have had time to abduct and dispose of Jodi and return home by 6:00. She also says it would have been foolish for him to attack Jodi in the parking lot because he used to live in the building and most of the occupants knew him.
Did Vansice Have Time To Commit The Vice?
Later that morning and before Jodi’s disappearance had been reported by the media, Vansice had met two friends at their usual hangout, a tobacco/liquor store, where one of them said Vansice told of Jodi’s being missing and of her leaving his home drunk around 11:00 p.m. He had not conveyed the latter statement to investigators, and it seems particularly unlikely because of her having to be at work only four hours later.
Vansice agreed to give police the video he had made of Jodi’s birthday party. A friend says when they went to his duplex to get it, he noticed pronounced tire tracks at the end of a nearby alley going through a deep, grassy area and appearing to have been imprinted as a vehicle sped the wrong way on a one-way gravel street. Because it had just rained, he believes they had been implanted the evening before.
The tire tracks could not be linked to Jodi’s disappearance.
Tire Tracks Near Vansice’s Home
John Vansice, described as a playboy and a bar-hopper, had met and befriended Jodi Huisentruit in such an establishment approximately one year earlier, during a low point in his life. He was recently divorced and had been ordered to have a breathalyzer device installed in his van following several drunk driving arrests.
At the time, Vansice was living in the Key Apartments. He described his relationship with Jodi as “father-daughter,” an apt description according to many acquaintances who say he viewed himself as her protector. Others, however, believe he had romantic feelings toward the woman twenty-two years his junior, and that he seemed jealous when he saw her talking with other men.
Had Vansice Sought A Social Relationship With Jodi?
Jodi and Ani Kruse, whom Vansice had also met and befriended at the bar, had hit the waters on Vansice’s boat the weekend before her abduction. He had christened his craft after Jodi, an action many of her friends found suggestive, but by which Jodi seemed honored. Vansice said he had so-dubbed his boat because Jodi was frequently aboard as she loved water skiing.
John Vansice With Jodi And Ani
At Jodi’s Birthday Party
Shortly before she went on the air on the morning of June 27 and before it was known that Jodi was missing, Amy Kuns had taken a phone call at the KIMT-TV station from a man identifying himself only as John. He asked if Jodi were there; when told she was not, he seemed to grow agitated. The caller was later confirmed to have been John Vansice. Amy said she could not remember his ever calling the station at any other time.
On several occasions following Jodi’s disappearance, Vansice contacted Cedar Rapids’ KGAN-TV, where Jodi had previously worked, inquiring about what they knew regarding the investigation. Anchor Amy Johnson says she felt as if he was fishing for any sort of “inside information.”
Vansice has taken two polygraph tests. Following the second test, he called KGAN-TV to boast of popping a bottle of champagne, an act that did nothing to alleviate investigators’ suspicions.
In the 2025 Hulu documentary Her Last Broadcast, Mason City Sergeant Terrance Prochaska would not conform or refute Vansice’s claims, as well as the reports of several media outlets, that he had passed the polygraph tests.
Vansice was initially cooperative with police, but ultimately quit talking to them after being pressed on some of his contentions.
Vansice Phones The Media
In 2004, police were told a portion of the cement in the basement of a former Vansice residence appeared to be newer than the rest. The home was searched, as were his new home and several properties he owned, but nothing was found linking him to Jodi’s disappearance.
Vansice’s Home Is Searched . . .
In March 2017, police obtained a search warrant for GPS data from two of Vansice’s vehicles, a 1999 Honda Civic and a 2013 GMC 1500. Investigators stated the warrant was related to their investigation into Jodi’s disappearance but would not elaborate.
The seizing of the vehicles is interesting as Jodi’s disappearance predates them. The issuing of the warrant seems to suggest that police had reason to believe Vansice was visiting where Jodi’s remains were disposed or that he may have transported her remains to another locale. The warrant was sealed, meaning no other information was publicly available about why the search was ordered. Again, the searches produced nothing.
That same year, Vansice, remarried and residing in Phoenix, Arizona, was subpoenaed to appear at a United States District Court in Iowa and provide finger and palm prints, as well as DNA. A grand jury hearing, however, resulted in no charges being filed against him.
. . . As Are His Vehicles
Another person of interest in Jodi’s disappearance is Brad Millerbernd, with whom she was also acquainted. They had met at his marriage to Patty Thompson, Jodi’s lifelong friend, in February 1994. The couple separated in December and their divorce was finalized on June 23, 1995, four days before Jodi vanished.
The now remarried Patty Niemeyer says her former husband seemed obsessed with Jodi, often asking of her whereabouts as she moved in her broadcasting career. Patty also says he had a drinking problem which made him verbally abusive.
Brad Millerbernd
At the time, Millerbernd lived in Winsted, Minnesota, one-hundred-sixty-five miles northwest of Mason City. In addition to serving with the local fire department and ambulance service, he built cheese processing equipment for customers across the country, a job requiring a lot of traveling to sales and engineering meetings, and performed installations and commissionings of the equipment. Mason City, with a couple of dairy plants just to the south, was among the areas Millerbernd frequented in his white Ford Econoline conversion van, the same kind of vehicle seen in the Key Apartments parking lot shortly before Jodi was abducted.
Millerbernd says he came to Mason City and had dinner with Jodi in the fall of 1994; he believes it was in October. On June 5, 1995, twenty-three days before she vanished, Jodi contacted Patty, saying he had again recently called her.
During his work-related travels, Millerbund has admitted to multiple extracurricular relationships. His employment records and travel logs for the time no longer exist.
Millerbernd Often Visited Mason City
In the early morning hours of June 25, two days before Jodi’s disappearance, several people recalled seeing a man on the bridge of an embankment near the Key Apartments staring at the building in an odd manner. He had a goatee and moustache and was wearing a hat.
A composite sketch of the man has not been made public, but Patty has seen the image and believes it strongly resembles how her former husband appeared at the time.
Was Millerbernd The Man Seen Outside The Key Apartments?
John Vansice and Brad Millerbrend had each known Jodi Huisentruit, but she may have been abducted by someone to whom she was not, or only vaguely, acquainted. One of these people who was investigated is Tony Jackson, who had been a standout basketball player at Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa, thirty miles northwest of Mason City, before being kicked out of school following several violent encounters with people, primarily women.
The twenty-three-year-old Jackson had enrolled in Mason City’s North Iowa Community College a year-and-half before Jodi disappeared, and he lived only two blocks from the KIMT-TV station. A former girlfriend said she had moved out of their home following a violent fight on June 22, five days before Jodi vanished.
After getting back together a year later, Jackson’s former girlfriend says he choked her while they were in Muscatine, Iowa, two-hundred miles southeast of Mason City, but she did not press charges after moving and permanently ending the relationship.
Tony Jackson
Shortly thereafter, Jackson moved to Minnesota, where he was charged with four counts of rape in 1997 after a victim picked his voice out of a video lineup. The attacks occurred over an eighteen day period in and around the Twin Cities, approximately one-hundred-forty miles north of Mason City.
While the jailed Jackson was awaiting trial, his cellmate, Dennis Goff, says he told him he had murdered the missing television anchor. Goff said Jackson recited a rap song to him, telling of Jodi’s body buried in a silo in rural Johnson County, Iowa, near Tiffin, one-hundred-sixty miles southeast of Mason City. The “lyrics” were “She’s a stiffin’ around Tiffin, in a plieage of stilage in a bylow low below off a highway by a gravel road.” Such a situated silo near Tiffin was searched by a cadaver dog team in 1998, but nothing was found.
A Rappin’ Rapist?
That same year, Jackson was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of the four counts of rape, along with kidnapping and burglary. He had broken into the women’s homes where he overpowered, blindfolded, handcuffed, bound them, placed duct tape over their eyes, and stuffed a sock or towel in their mouths before raping them.
The violent nature of the attacks suggested these women were not Jackson’s fist victims. Investigators wondered if Jodi Huisentruit may have been an earlier prey.
Convicted Of Multiple Rapes
A man whom Jackson had befriended through their girlfriends says they often frequented Mason City’s Southbridge Lounge, a bar also often visited by Jodi, where Jackson had approached and engaged her in conversation on several occasions, including doing so shortly before she vanished. Jackson never said what they had discussed; his friend believed he was seeking career advice as he had been on a couple of local talk shows and had an interest in broadcasting.
Did Jackson Speak To Jodi?
In addition, the jogger who was nearly hit by the car on the morning of Jodi’s disappearance had also been running near the Key Apartments the previous morning. While near the building at approximately 4:00 on June 26, she says a young black man rode past her on a bicycle. She caught only a brief glimpse of him and did not speak to him, but she believes he may have been Tony Jackson.
Was Jackson The Cyclist?
Another person of interest is Thomas Corscadden who lived in Austin, Minnesota, fifty miles north of Mason City, and drove a white van similar to the one seen outside Jodi’s apartment on the morning of her disappearance. His daughter, Allysha, says he made frequent work trips to Iowa which often involved going through Mason City and that he watched Jodi on television. Corscadden’s former wife believed he was obsessed with her.
Corscadden was ultimately convicted of multiple sex crimes including solicitation, public exposure, voyeurism, rape, and attempted rape. In 2004, investigators said his palm print did not match the one found on the light pole near Jodi’s car.
Corscadden died of leukemia and bone marrow cancer in January 2022 at age sixty-nine.
Thomas Corscadden
A recent person of interest is Chris Revak, who is believed to have killed two Midwest women and is suspected in the murders of two others. He had stalked several young women, and he was known to approach them in parking lots late at night or in the early morning hours while it was still dark, the latter being the time of day when Jodi was abducted from her apartment parking lot.
In July 2009, the thirty-six-year-old Revak committed suicide in the Douglas County, Missouri, jail after being charged with the second-degree murder of another missing woman.
Chris Revak
Thirty-six-year-old Rene Williams disappeared after working at a local bar in Ava, Missouri, on March 13, 2007. Her blood was found in Revak’s truck, but her body has not been recovered.
Revak is also believed to have murdered twenty-two-year-old Deidre Harm, who had disappeared from Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, in June 2006. Her body was found by hunters in November.
Renee Williams And Deidre Harm
At the time of Jodi Huisentruit’s abduction, Revak was living in Wisconsin Rapids, two-hundred-forty miles northeast of Mason City, where his former girlfriend had moved after they had broken up (some sources say they had been married). Her domicile is of particular interest. It was half of a duplex; the other half was occupied by John Vansice. She had moved out and had left Mason City in March 1995, three months before Jodi’s disappearance.
Revak’s former girlfriend, identified as Jennifer in some sources and as Johanna in others, says he never visited her in Mason City, but she believed he knew where she had lived. Some believe Revak may have come to the duplex looking for his former girlfriend, unaware she had moved. In so doing, he may have seen Jodi, as she often visited John Vansice in the other half of the dwelling.
The women bore a resemblance, and some have theorized that after not finding his former girlfriend, Revak attacked and abducted Jodi.
The Duplex Where Jennifer And John Vansice Lived
Police records show that Revak was cited for traffic infractions in Wood County, Wisconsin, on June 17 and July 9, 1995. His whereabouts cannot be accounted for on June 27, the day of Jodi Huisentruit’s disappearance.
Was Revak In Mason City?
In October 1994, eight months before her disappearance, Jodi had filed a report with the Mason City police, as she said she had been followed by a small newer white (the 48 Hours episode says black) pickup while jogging. She had, however, declined police’s offer to escort her to and from work.
At the golf banquet on the evening before her disappearance, Jodi had told several people she had recently received several prank phone calls and was considering changing her phone number.
Some sources say at around 4:00 p.m. on June 25, two days before Jodi’s disappearance, several Key Apartments occupants had heard a man repeatedly pounding on her apartment door and shouting, “I know you’re in there” and “come out,” and that an upstairs neighbor had not answered a man knocking on her door that evening.
It has also been reported that some of the apartment residents had observed an unknown young man run up the facility’s inner stairway and loudly yell and knock on Jodi’s door at around 8:30 on June 26. After receiving no response, he promptly exited the building. This was at about the time Jodi was on the phone with her friend, Troy Torguson. She had not told him of anyone at her door.
Was Jodi Stalked?
In October 2024, a private investigator stated he believed Jodi, unbeknownst to any family or friends, had begun dating a man from out of state shortly before her disappearance, and that they had been in almost daily contact in the ten days leading up to her abduction. This man’s name has not been released by police, who have questioned him and cleared him as a suspect. The private investigator, however, believes this new relationship was the motivating factor in Jodi’s abduction by another potential or rejected suitor.
All of the local sex offenders were accounted for the early morning hours of June 27. A tip that Jodi was buried in a freezer did not pan out.
Was Jealousy The Motive?
The theory that Jodi’s disappearance was related to a story she was covering has been dismissed by investigators. Friends and colleagues say she had no interest in investigative reporting and was not doing any such work on the side.
I found nothing suggesting any coworker is a person of interest or that her disappearance is believed related to her work.
Colleagues Cleared
Photocopies of Jodi’s detailed journal were anonymously mailed to the Mason City Globe Gazette, on June 4, 2008. The papers were sent in a large envelope with no return address from Waterloo, Iowa, eighty miles southeast of Mason City. Several days later, Cheryl Ellingson, the wife of former Mason City Police Chief David Ellingson, said she was the mailer, without providing an explanation.
Jodi’s eighty-four page personal journal is still held by the Mason City police. The department never addressed why Chief Ellingson had made the copies and taken them home.
Copies Of Jodi’s Journal Are Mailed
No longer in police possession is Jodi’s 1991 Mazda Miata. Mason City Police have been criticized for releasing the car to her family after only a couple of months, because continuous technological advances could have produced more clues. Current investigators acknowledge the vehicle may have been returned too quickly.
The Mazda Being Towed From The Scene
The Mazda Miata was not registered in Jodi’s name, instead still officially belonging to “. . . John Lessard, the previous owner, pending title transfer.” Lessard, a local businessman, says the selling of the vehicle was the only time he had met Jodi and that the sale was arranged by a now-deceased car salesman friend.
Jodi had had several dates with the salesman who is not suspected of involvement in her disappearance.
John Lessard
Several people have claimed the Mason City police did not tape off the parking lot at the Key Apartments for the first day or so of the investigation. In an opinion piece published in The N’West Iowa Review in December 2016, retiring Iowa State Representative John Kooiker of Sioux County, a member of the Iowa State House Public Safety Committee, suggested a cover-up in the investigation.
A Cover-Up?
Four billboards, one of them digital, are displayed around Mason City seeking information relating to Jodi’s abduction. In January 2020 one was spray-painted with the name ”Frank Stearns” and the words “machine shed” beneath the name in smaller letters. Stearns is a former Mason City Police Department Lieutenant who was involved in the investigation into Jodi’s disappearance.
As the original Mason City Police investigators have been criticized for their techniques and a lawmaker had suggested a cover-up, some believe the message is indicating that Stearns is Jodi’s abductor and that her body may be found at a “machine shed,” which is also the name of a chain of six restaurants, two of them in Iowa.
Whoever had spray-painted the graffiti was not the first person to have accused Stearns of possible of involvement in Jodi’s abduction.
Billboard Spray-Painted
In 2011, recently fired Mason City Police Officer Maria Ohl claimed a credible informant had provided her with information in 2007 that Frank Stearns and Ron Vande Weerd, another Mason City Police Lieutenant, and retired Iowa DCI (Division of Criminal Investigation) agent Bill Basler may have been involved in some form in Jodi Huisentruit’s abduction or that they may have covered up what had happened to her by failing to follow up on potential leads. Ohl says the informant provided additional corroborative information in 2009.
The Mason City Police Department says Ohl was terminated for neglect of duty, insubordination, and interfering with an investigation stemming from her mishandling of evidence relating to Jodi Husientruit’s abduction. She had recorded the conversation with her informant but had not given it to the department. In addition, the informant had claimed Jodi’s body was buried near a sawmill near Forest City, and she had driven there on her own to search for the remains without supplying the information to her fellow policemen.
Ohl also alleges Lieutenant Vande Weerd was involved in a cover-up in connection with another unsolved Mason City case, that of the 1999 murder of Gerald Best. The Iowa DCI says there is no credible evidence of this claim nor is there anything linking Mason City policemen or Iowa DCI agents to Jodi Huisentruit’s disappearance.
Maria Ohl
John Vansice, the original person of interest in Jodi’s disappearance, died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease in December 2024 at age seventy-eight.
In April 2025, Iowa District Judge James Drew authorized the unsealing of a portion of the 2017 warrant relating to Vansice, from which investigators say nothing pertinent was gained. It was learned that from March 2-6, police had used GPS to track one of his vehicles traveling from Baxter, Iowa, one-hundred-twenty-five miles south of Mason City, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico, en route to Phoenix.
Vansice Dies
Tony Jackson is serving his life sentence for the multiple rapes at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Stillwater, Minnesota. He says he has had never met Jodi Huisentruit, nor had he ever seen her in public or even on television prior to her disappearance. He denies making a jailhouse confession of killing her and insists he is not the abductor.
Jackson has taken a polygraph test, the results of which have not been released. In 1999, however, Mason City police stated they no longer considered him a viable suspect.
Incarcerated Jackson
Brad Millerbernd, now living in Marshfield, Wisconsin, was interviewed by Mason City police in October 2024. He provided a DNA sample and agreed to a polygraph test, the results of which have not been released.
On October 18, police used cadaver dogs to search a wooded area behind what is now a city park near his former residence in Winsted, Minnesota,. Nothing was found.
Investigators returned to Winsted in November 2025 to search another area on which a house was recently demolished and removed. As of now, it is not known if this property is connected to Millerbernd.
Police Say Millerbernd Has Been Cooperative
Police say the DNA they have obtained in the investigation into Jodi Huisentruit’s disappearance is not suitable, at this time, to test for potential suspects, but that it may later be tested as the technology advances. Testing many of the samples runs the risk of destroying them and being unable to retest them.
One of the items possessed by police that they have made public is a couple of Coors Light cans retrieved from the Key Apartments parking lot dumpster. In the two weeks prior to Jodi’s disappearance, a woman had seen several empty beer cans in an unoccupied parking lot space when she had left for work each morning. Each time she returned home, they were gone. A car parked in the space would have been facing where Jodi’s car was found on the day of her abduction and the occupant, while in the car, would have had a bird’s eye view of Jodi’s apartment.
Police Have Potential DNA Evidence
In the days following Jodi’s disappearance, a private investigator incorrectly reported another set of beer cans was found in Jodi’s kitchen sink.
A smudged partial palm print and strand of hair found on a light pole near Jodi’s car have not been matched to anyone. Investigators say reports of a bloody palm print found on her Mazda Miata are not true, as is speculation that the upright toilet seat found in her apartment was left by a male policeman after having used it.
Inaccuracies Reported In The Media
Jodi Sue Huisentruit has been missing since June 27, 1995; for purposes of settling her estate, she was declared legally dead on May 14, 2001. At the time of her disappearance, she was twenty-seven-years-old, five-feet-four inches tall, and weighed between one-hundred ten and one-hundred-twenty pounds. She had blonde hair, brown eyes, and both her ears were pierced. Her only personal item determined to be missing was an address book she had only recently started using. It has not been found.
Jodi Huisentruit would today be fifty-seven-years-old. If you have any information relating her disappearance, please contact the Mason City, Iowa, Police Department at 641-421-3636 or the FBI at 202-324-3000, or email the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation at [email protected]. or submit a tip to www.findjodi.com/tip
No Jodi
In 2004, a televised meeting of three psychics discussing Jodi’s disappearance became the pilot for the television program Psychic Detectives. The episode was broadcast several times, resulting in some leads, but none panned out.
The Psychics Fail
Jodi Huisentruit’s presumed kidnapping is one of Iowa’s most noted missing person cases. In this photo, the television anchor and Minnesota native reports on one of the Gopher State’s most infamous kidnappings, that of Jacob Wetterling. His remains were found in 2016, nearly twenty-seven years after he was kidnapped. After over thirty years, Jodi remains missing.
Jodi Huisentruit Reporting On Jacob Wetterling
If Jodi Huisentruit was stalked and abducted by someone who knew her schedule, he had the patience to wait to make his attack because she was running roughly an hour late. If her abduction was a crime of opportunity, her assailant was fortunate with regard to the timing.
A haunting question is if Jodi had not overslept on the morning of June 27, 1995, would she still be here to anchor the news?
Anchor Away
SOURCES:
- KIMT TV CBS Affiliate Mason City, Iowa
- Cedar Rapids Gazette
- CBS News
- Charley Project
- Daily Mail
- Des Moines Register
- Doe Network
- FindJodi. Com
- 48 Hours
- Fox News Channel 9 Cedar Rapids
- Her Last Broadcast (Hulu Documentary)
- Mason City Globe Gazette
- Mason City, Iowa Police Department
- Unsolved Mysteries
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