In honor of Jodi’s kind heart, we would like to thank her family, her friends, and her work family for allowing us to share her day with each person highlighted on the playing cards, along with Grace Esquivel who went missing 43 years ago from Mason City, and all the Iowa missing persons and cold case victims.
Prior to Jodi Huisentruit's disappearance on June 27, 1995, she had become close friends with fellow KIMT-TV anchor Robin Wolfram. On this episode of the FindJodi Podcast, Robin shares her recollections of Jodi.
As News Director at KIMT-TV in Mason City, Doug Merbach hired Jodi Huisentruit in 1993. In Jodi, Doug says he saw a warm and bubbly news anchor who was right at home in the Midwest. During her time at KIMT, Jodi became a popular morning and mid-day news anchor for the station. Until she mysteriously disappeared on June 27, 1995.
We hope the billboard featuring a smiling photo of Jodi Huisentruit and the message: "Don’t sit in silence…the time to talk is NOW” will convince anyone with possible information on Jodi’s abduction to come forward immediately.
On this episode of the podcast, the entire FindJodi team: Josh Benson, Tara Manis-Benson, Caroline Lowe, Jay Alberio, and Scott Fuller reflect on the past year - and 26 years - of covering and advocating for the Jodi Huisentruit case.
We hope that by turning on lights again this year, it will remind people - especially in the Mason City area - that Jodi is still missing. You can use #LightsForJodi and #FindJodi in any social media postings to help raise awareness.
When television news anchor Jodi Huisentruit failed to arrive at work on June 27, 1995, the first person to notice something was wrong was one of her colleagues. On this episode of the FindJodi podcast, former KIMT-TV producer and reporter Amy Kuns is interviewed by team members Caroline Lowe and Scott Fuller.
On what should have been a day celebrating Jodi's 53rd birthday, the thoughts of the FindJodi team are with all of those who knew Jodi in life, and especially her family.
Television news anchor Jodi Huisentruit was abducted from the parking lot in front Building C of the Key Apartment complex in Mason City, Iowa on June 27, 1995. One of Jodi's neighbors in the building, a man named John O'Meara, joins us on this episode of the podcast.
In Jodi's case, so far, there's far more known about what didn't happen than what did.
A white van has been referenced in connection with Jodi's disappearance countless times since she was taken from the parking lot of her apartment complex on June 27, 1995. The van is mentioned in the timeline so often it's practically become a fact of the case. As one of Jodi's co-workers said 10 years after she vanished: "white vans still trigger something in my head." But the truth is, we don't know for sure what Jodi's abductor(s) drove that morning.
