I made contact with the FBI in the fall of 2010 and was told that the Jodi Huisentruit case was currently being handled by the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and that I was to contact DCI Special Agent Larry Hedlund. Mr. Hedlund told me he would have Special Agent Jim Thiel make contact with me. Mr. Thiel met with me at my offices for approximately 45 minutes on October 4, 2010 and collected from me the information from 2007 I had been given and subsequently turned over to the Mason City Police Department, but the MCPD now claimed not to have received.

He left me with an evidence receipt, and stated that [u]the best theory the MCPD could offer after all these years is that, “Jodi ran away.[/u]” He said the DCI was now handling the Huisentruit investigation. He also said there were delivered to the DCI cases of information about Jodi, much of which had never been followed up on. He also informed me that the information that I supplied to Officer Stearns and Officer Vande Weerd was not in the Huisentruit information forwarded to DCI. Mr. Thiel also instructed me to not contact the informant. DCI interviewed that informant in February 2011, and the informant died in April 2011.