Well Said Observer -

I think there may be something here.

I know that Gary has said It's Right In Front of Us

Which could mean two things:

1) The Perp is right in Front of us as in television, on the news perhaps?

or

2) She is right in front of us, her remains?
Perhaps there's something that sticks out in Mason City or close by.
Structures such as Windmills and Silo's, Old Barns, Outbuildings, Landmarks.

I sense this was something done by locals, who knew the area well, and had a plan and a time-frame to accomplish it within and then quickly put on a (seemingly) normal façade. Iowans in general can be super-territorial; Jodi was admired and successful in the small but competitive MC market…in those days, everyone started in small markets and looked to jump to bigger ones…[u]Jodi was a threat to young females at the station, probably professionally and socially[/u] (was there a local drug mob and she knew too much about the wrong people?). The viewing audience liked Jodi's girl-next-door appeal, there was likely jealousy, and she was "in the way"; a fish out of water, a sweet MN girl passing thru foreign/claimed turf.
[b]Maybe whoever did this to Jodi also had involvement in her friend Billy's death? It just seems too coincidental...
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