This case makes me so sad. Jodi was so lovely, ambitious, and full of life. I used to live about 200 miles away from Mason City, and I know that when this happened, even female news anchors in my area were extremely on-edge. Being in the public eye, people out there can become "obsessed", and I think that could be what happened here.
Mason City is small, with only about 28,000 and is the typical small Midwestern city. Things like this just don't happen everyday.
I found an article from June 2010 in the Sioux City Journal, that I don't believe has been posted before:
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/new...1-2925-5b26-867e-98df7e01033a.html?mode=story
The Tony D. Jackson and John Vansice links are interesting, along with the suspicious white van in the area. I really hope Jackson and Vansice were fully investigated. Vansice passed a lie detector test, but those are not 100% accurate.
I'll have to look into the LE links some more, that were stated before. I really hope there isn't any actual links.
Police departments, like Mason City, aren't extremely familiar with cases like this. I wonder if the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation was brought in? Does anyone know the criteria for bringing in the FBI?