Former news anchor writes book about Huisentruit’s disappearance
Aug 17 2012 rbbm.
"By 7 a.m., Kuns knew something was wrong and called the police. When police arrived at the Key Apartments, they found a crime scene in the parking lot. Huisentruit’s belongings were scattered around her red Mazda Miata and there were signs of a violent struggle:
Someone had been thrown into the convertible roof of the car, crushing it, and blood and tissue were found on the driver’s side mirror. Marks on the pavement suggested Huisentruit had been dragged away to an unmarked, white van that witnesses had seen waiting outside with its running lights on earlier that morning"
“At the time of her death, Jodi was hanging around some very unscrupulous people,” she said, “and people who knew her often remarked that she lacked the ability to judge character and intent, all the while wearing her heart on her sleeve.”
"Bednar says Jodi was spending an enormous amount of time with a 50-year-old man named John Vansice who had lived in the same apartment with her. Vansice was also the last person Huisentruit saw before she vanished. According to Bednar, Vansice seemed to have more money than made sense for his job as a corn seed-salesman at the time. Among other things,
he bought a $26,000 boat in 1995, naming it “Jodi,” and there is still the mystery of the expensive Mazda Miata, Jodi had been driving around that year."
"There are also a number of unsolved murders in Mason City and the surrounding area that Bednar believes may be linked to Huisentruit’s case. She is actively investigating them with Gary Peterson and other private detectives. “1995 was a pretty busy time for drugs like marijuana, cocaine, and meth in small towns along Interstate 35,” Bednar says, “and there was a large-scale drug operation in Mason City at the time of Jodi’s disappearance.”
