MISSING: Jodi Huisentruit
When a local news anchor vanishes in the pre-dawn hours, the entire community is struck by the irony. The person who typically broke stories in their small town was now the focus of the biggest missing persons case in the Midwest. Leads and suspects are plentiful, but somehow, almost three decades have passed without a shred of evidence pointing to anyone in particular.
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Amy Kuns, the assistant producer at Jodi’s TV station.
Please contact the authorities If you have any information about the following cases:
If you have any information about the disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit, please:
● Call the Find Jodi tip line at (641) 999-1109
● Email [email protected]
● Submit an anonymous tip at FindJodi.com, or
● Contact the Mason City Police Department at (641) 421-3636
There is a $50,000 reward for information on Jodi Huisentruit’s disappearance.
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Episode Source Material
- Amazon: Disappeared: Breaking News (season 6, episode 10).
- Paramount Plus: 48 Hours: FindJodi (season 32, episode 10).
- Hulu: 20/20: Gone at Dawn (season 44, episode 13).
- The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA): Search for woman focuses on park, river.
- The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA): Search launched for Mason City newswoman by Jack Hovelson.
- The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier (Cedar Falls, IA): Mason City anchor Huisentruit still missing.
- The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA): A nervous city seeks missing anchorwoman by Jack Hovelson.
- The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA): DCI, FBI join search for missing TV anchor.
- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN): Authorities in Iowa now calling disappearance of TV anchor an abduction.
- The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA): Jodi Huisentruit: Case reaches critical point by Cindy Hadish.
- The Muscatine Journal (Muscatine, IA): Mason City police may narrow search.
- The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA): Mason City struggles with anchorwoman’s absence by Thomas R. O’Donnell.
- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN): Long Prairie still holds out hope by Richard Meryhew.
- Iowa City Press-Citizen (Iowa City, IA): TV show brings Huisentruit tips.
- The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA): Police checking farm field for Mason City newswoman.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): Police dig in bean field, find no clues in Huisentruit case.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): Huisentruit comment sparks interest in Clemons man.
- The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA): Huisentruit family gives little credence to report Iowan knows location of body by Adam Lowenstein.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): Consultant creating profile of Huisentruit’s abductor by Jodi Ball.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): Profile says Huisentruit’s abductor is control freak by Jodi Ball.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): Investigators believe newswoman is dead by Sarah Fuelleman.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): Rape suspect eyed for links to Huisentruit abduction by Ed Hoskin.
- The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA): Minnesota police: ‘He is the guy’ by Frank Santiago and John Carlson.
- The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA): Suspect cites injury as alibi in Iowa case.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): TV report raises new questions about Huisentruit disappearance by Jan Horgen.
- The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA): TV station: Rap lyrics give clues in case of missing anchorwoman by Mark Siebert.
- The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA): Rapist’s rap leads to Tiffin by Rick Smith.
- Iowa City Press-Citizen (Iowa City, IA): Police search farm for missing woman by Larissa Ulstad.
- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN): Rapist is no longer suspect in anchor’s vanishing by David Chanen.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): National TV exposure gives new impetus to Huisentruit case.
- The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA): Huisentruit probe rekindled by Frank Santiago.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): Police downplay Huisentruit connection by John Skipper.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): Court declares Huisentruit legally dead by Bob Link.
- The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA): Bones bear resemblance to missing TV anchor by Frank Santiago.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): Indiana remains are not Huisentruit’s by Deb Nicklay.
- St. Cloud Times (St. Cloud, MN): Petition aims to commit man suspected in disappearance by David Unze.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): Cops probe remains by Bob Link.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): Remains human, but who? by Bob Link.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): Police probe prints: Seek potential kink between sex offender and Huisentruit by Bob Link.
- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN): Tip in Huisentruit disappearance doesn’t yield much, police say by Richard Meryhew.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): ‘Cindy’ gives six names to authorities by Bob Link.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): ‘Cindy’ changes her story by Bob Link.
- St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN): Paper gets copy of Huisentruit journal.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): Jodi’s Journal provider comes forward by Bob Link.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): Police say former chief’s wife sent Jodi’s journal by John Skipper.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): ‘Nancy Grace Show’: Not much new on Huisentruit, but DNA might bring hope by Deb Nicklay.
- St. Cloud Pioneer Press (St. Cloud, MN): Fired Mason City officer suggests police involvement in TV anchor Jodi Huisentruit’s abduction.
- Globe Gazette (Mason City, IA): Former Mason City officer says police may have taken Jodi Huisentruit by John Skipper.
- Gazette Globe (Mason City, IA): DCI: No credible information implicates agents, police officers.
- CBS Minnesota/WCCO-TV (Minneapolis, MN): On Eve Of 50th Birthday, Search For Jodi Huisentruit Continues.
- Find Jodi (Tampa, FL): Mason City Police Chief appeals for information in the Jodi Huisentruit case by Caroline Lowe.
- Kare11: 25 years and still missing: What happened to Jodi Huisentruit? by Jennifer Austin.
- Apple Podcasts: Up and vanished podcast interview with Amy Kuns.
- Iowa Cold Cases: Jodi Sue Huisentruit.
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