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Huisentruit, a morning news anchor, was due at KIMT in Mason City, Iowa at 3:30 a.m. to anchor “Daybreak.” When she hadn’t arrived by 4 a.m. her producer, Amy Kuns, called her.
Kuns said it was obvious Huisentruit had just woken up but nothing else seemed out of the ordinary.
“I’m like, it’s four o’clock, you’re coming into work?” Kuns said.
Huisentruit said she’d be on her way.
That was the last time anyone spoke with her. She never showed up for work that morning and the station called police to check on her.
When news director Doug Merbach arrived, it was obvious that Huisentruit’s absence wasn’t a simple case of someone oversleeping or forgetting to call out sick.
“It was there’s police in the parking lot, Doug, and they’re looking at it as a possible crime scene,” Merbach said. “That just stops you in your tracks. Crime scene? What the heck?”
Mason City police arrived at Huisentruit’s apartment complex after 7 a.m. and found nothing unusual inside her second-floor apartment. But outside, an officer found signs of a struggle next to her car, still parked in the lot.
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