Our role at FindJodi has never been to be the loudest voice in the search for Jodi. It's to make sure real information reaches the people who can actually act on it, and to protect the integrity of that information, and people connected to it, along the way.
For a brief time on Thursday we thought might have received the tip that would finally lead to Jodi Huisentruit, who has been missing for almost 25 years. Here's an inside look at how we follow up leads at FindJodi.com.
JUST IN [03:07 p.m. Eastern] According to a law enforcement source, this is NOT related to the Jodi Huisentruit investigation. FindJodi.com has received word of a very active scene unfolding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. There is heavy law enforcement on the northwest side of Cedar Rapids.
Just more than month after our FindJodi.com billboard in Mason City, Iowa, was defaced, it’s still a mystery who was responsible and what was the motive. But thanks to donation to FindJodi.com we've been able to put another billboard up for months to come.
As we prepare for the 25th anniversary in June of Jodi Huisentruit abduction, we are excited to welcome podcaster and Austin, Minnesota, radio host Scott Fuller to our FindJodi.com team.
The search for Jodi Huisentruit is the focus of a new 2-hour episode on the Oxygen Channel’s Up and Vanished program. The program airs February 15th at 7:00 p.m. PST and EST and is hosted by podcaster Payne Lindsey.
We have some bittersweet news to share with the FindJodi.com audience. Gary Peterson has decided to retire and thereby resign from his post at FindJodi.com. Gary is a strong reason why we are here today and why this website exists. His countless hours to the organization has helped build FindJodi.com from a few guys talking about the case in 2002 to the number one source of information regarding Jodi’s case today.
A billboard our FindJodi.com team dedicated in Mason City, Iowa in honor of Jodi Huisentruit has been vandalized. The board was spray painted with the name of a former Mason City police investigator, sometime in the past couple of days. It also includes the words 'machine shed' in the writings.
Jodi Huisentruit spent the weekend before she was abducted with friends on a water-skiing trip in Iowa City, Iowa. The group included John Vansice, who’s been the main focus of the police investigation, Vansice’s son, who was a college student at the time and several women.
In the past year, much has happened in the search for Jodi Huisentruit who was abducted on her way to anchor the morning news at KIMT-TV in Mason City, Iowa on June 27, 1995. But 24 years after Jodi’s disappearance from her apartment parking lot, Jodi is still missing, no one has been charged with a crime. Here's a look back at the past year of searching as we observe the 24th anniversary of Jodi's disappearance.
The disappearance of anchorwoman Jodi Huisentruit is spotlighted in “Unsolved Magazine”, a new citizen detective crime publication launched last weekend at CrimeCon 2019 in New Orleans. The magazine was created by two former law enforcement professionals, Jim Nanos and Nicole Cusanelli. They also publish PI Magazine, a national trade publication for private investigators that ran story on Jodi in 2017.
