Barely 11 days into his job as a rookie Mason City police officer, Mike McKelvey found his new department thrust into the highest-profile crime in the small Iowa city’s history:
Was this a tip related to Jodi's unsolved case? A prank having nothing to do with her disappearance? Something else? FindJodi has obtained a copy of the Mason City Police Department Incident Report for the vandalism.
A Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, judge has ordered sealed a search warrant in the Jodi Huisentruit investigation for another year.
Upon the 25th anniversary of the abduction of Jodi Huisentruit, the Mason City police chief appealed for anyone who knows anything about what happened to the young television news anchor to come forward.
Since 2002, members of the FindJodi.com, Inc. team have analyzed thousands of leads. We've taken the most sensitive and important leads to the Mason City Police Department as part of our protocol to ensure that have the information to assist them in their investigation. Over the years, we've worked with many investigators. Most recently, FindJodi.com team member Caroline Lowe chatted Chief Jeff Brinkley. It's a follow up from the interview she conducted when he was new to the position in early 2016. The following is an excerpt of that recent conversation as the Chief and Caroline talk about the upcoming anniversary, the case where it stands currently, reading up on the case file and how the public can still help in a case the Chief says is still 'solvable' and 'prosecutable'.
We reported last week that John Kooiker (R-Boyden) who represents District 4 in the Iowa House of Representatives is retiring from his post. Also last week, he sent a scathing letter criticizing the Mayor and Council for what he calls 'stonewalling his attempts' to bring attention to the Huisentruit case. FindJodi.com's Caroline Lowe reached out to Mason City Police Chief Jeff Brinkley for comment about the letter. Click to read the Chief's response.
In a recent telephone conversation with FindJodi's Caroline Lowe, Mason City Police Chief Jeff Brinkley reflected on what it will take to solve the case and what he thinks that resolution would mean to the Mason City community. Brinkley took over as chief in January 2016 after 20 years with the Ames, Iowa, Police Department. He's the fourth Mason City Police Chief since Jodi disappeared on her way to work at KIMT TV on June 27, 1995. Click on the post to read the abridged version of the chief's recent conversation with Caroline.
Nine months before anchorwoman Jodi Huisentruit vanished on her way to work at KIMT TV in Mason City, Iowa, Jeff Brinkley began his career in law enforcement in Ames, Iowa
MASON CITY (Globe Gazette) — A federal discrimination lawsuit by a former Mason City police officer against the city has been dismissed as a result of a settlement. Maria Ohl
MASON CITY, Iowa (Globe Gazette) — A jury trial is scheduled for June 24, 2013, in the federal lawsuit filed by former Mason City police officer Maria Ohl against city
