IA IA - Jodi Huisentruit, 27, Anchorwoman, Mason City, 27 June 1995 #2

[theshadow45]

Today is Jodi’s birthday.

 

[bearfossils]

Where are you, Jodi?

Every time I walk through a parking lot toward my car in the early morning hours, I think of you. I remember the mark your hand left in the dew on your Mazda Miata. The contents of your purse, scattered across the pavement.

You woke up late, and I’d think after Amy called you from the station to make sure you got up and going, you’d be rushing and trying to check yourself in the mirror before you filled up your purse and ran out the door. All you were thinking of is making it in time to still anchor the news that morning. I see you, jogging across the asphalt, key in hand. You put it into your car door and then— we don’t know.

It all went wrong.

Where are you, Jodi? What happened? Who hurt you?

I hope we find out soon. I hope the answers to the questions we have are shone to the world. I hope you’re found, brought home, and that the people responsible are exposed and prosecuted. I hope that you have the justice you deserve, Jodi.

 

[PunishThenForgive]

Where are you, Jodi?

Every time I walk through a parking lot toward my car in the early morning hours, I think of you. I remember the mark your hand left in the dew on your Mazda Miata. The contents of your purse, scattered across the pavement.

You woke up late, and I’d think after Amy called you from the station to make sure you got up and going, you’d be rushing and trying to check yourself in the mirror before you filled up your purse and ran out the door. All you were thinking of is making it in time to still anchor the news that morning. I see you, jogging across the asphalt, key in hand. You put it into your car door and then— we don’t know.

It all went wrong.

Where are you, Jodi? What happened? Who hurt you?

I hope we find out soon. I hope the answers to the questions we have are shone to the world. I hope you’re found, brought home, and that the people responsible are exposed and prosecuted. I hope that you have the justice you deserve, Jodi.

Jodi, poor lost Jodi. Thank you for honoring her memory, her tragic last moments, at least those we can surmise with any accuracy, so beautifully, @bearfossils.

 

[dulcinea]

Do we know if this was the only time she ran late?

 

[PunishThenForgive]

Do we know if this was the only time she ran late?

Jodi was late a lot. The producer resented her for it, but Jodi was popular with her viewers, so the manager tolerated it.

Alas, I don’t have a link, just my memory. I’m pretty sure the producer said it herself during the Dateline or 20/20 special. I listened to every podcast episode, and watched every YouTube video and documentary on her disappearance over a couple of intense months when at the peak of my obsession with the case.

I was so sad when they made the last episode of the Find Jodi podcast. By the end of the long series, I felt like I had lost a sister. I was even sadder, of course, when the main suspect died without confessing.

Funnily, the last Find Jodi podcast episode was published on 10/31/2022. Less than two weeks later, another case would grip my attention—the murder of the Idaho 4. I’m still firmly gripped by that case, but I periodically check in on poor Jodi. I just hate that we still don’t know what happened to her or where her bones lie.

 

[summergirl1]

Like another well known 1990s case, that of JonBenet Ramsey, whatever happened is still a mystery, decades later. Maybe someday there will be answers..

 

[bearfossils]

Jodi, poor lost Jodi. Thank you for honoring her memory, her tragic last moments, at least those we can surmise with any accuracy, so beautifully, @bearfossils.

Jodi was late a lot. The producer resented her for it, but Jodi was popular with her viewers, so the manager tolerated it.

Alas, I don’t have a link, just my memory. I’m pretty sure the producer said it herself during the Dateline or 20/20 special. I listened to every podcast episode, and watched every YouTube video and documentary on her disappearance over a couple of intense months when at the peak of my obsession with the case.

I was so sad when they made the last episode of the Find Jodi podcast. By the end of the long series, I felt like I had lost a sister. I was even sadder, of course, when the main suspect died without confessing.

Funnily, the last Find Jodi podcast episode was published on 10/31/2022. Less than two weeks later, another case would grip my attention—the murder of the Idaho 4. I’m still firmly gripped by that case, but I periodically check in on poor Jodi. I just hate that we still don’t know what happened to her or where her bones lie.

Not a link to add, but I wanted to say this fact is repeated in Beth Bednar’s book Dead Air, which is about Jodi’s case. Amy, who worked with Jodi, would know to call her in the morning to make sure she was up and headed to the newsroom. IIRC, she was the one who stood in as her replacement for the morning show when Jodi didn’t show up the day of her abduction.

 

[PunishThenForgive]

Not a link to add, but I wanted to say this fact is repeated in Beth Bednar’s book Dead Air, which is about Jodi’s case. Amy, who worked with Jodi, would know to call her in the morning to make sure she was up and headed to the newsroom. IIRC, she was the one who stood in as her replacement for the morning show when Jodi didn’t show up the day of her abduction.

Yes, the producer (Amy Kuns, whose name I had forgotten) subbed for Jodi that day.

Jodi went missing in 1995, less than a month after she turned 27. Amy had graduated college only two years before, so I assume she was only 24 at the time.

Amy and Jodi’s hours were terrible, and it amazes me that they were expected to arrive at the new station at the wee hours of the morning and work there for hours with no others present. Of course, their pay was abysmal.

Here is a March 14, 2011 interview with Amy Kuns by the Find Jodi podcast: Interview with Amy Kuns.

And here is their photo of Amy and some highlights from her interview:

I looked up Amy’s LinkedIn account, and she said she has written a memoir about how the trauma of a missing co-worker shaped her life. She also mentioned writing the memoir in this June 16, 2022 interview. Unfortunately, I can’t find the book online.

Thanks for letting us know about Beth Bednar’s book, @bearfossils. She’s a team member of the Find Jodi podcast, so it should be great! I just ordered it from Amazon.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Despite the daily incredibly early arrival time for the morning broadcast, Jodi Huisentruit had never missed a show, not once. On June 27, 1995, she finally overslept. “I’ll be right in,” she said when her news producer called to wake her up at 4 a.m.
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But a few months later, a member of the Mason City Police met with a Wisconsin Sheriff to compare notes and revisit leads related to a man named Christopher Revak. He had been linked to two other cases with female victims; his potential involvement in this case had previously been dismissed.

“It’s something that we’re reviewing,” Brinkley said. What spurred their fresh interest? Revak’s first wife, they learned, had lived in Mason City at the time Jodi disappeared. (The wife is not considered a suspect.)

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/us/where-is-jodi-huisentruit

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

 

[dotr]

Wood County Sheriff working with Mason City PD on possible suspect connection(WSAW)
June 27 2025

Friday marks 30 years since disappearance of Iowa news anchor

Authorities believe the suspect in Jodi Huisentruit’s disappearance is from Wisconsin Rapids.

www.wsaw.com

''Last year, as part of our Forgotten Podcast series, we looked into the case and how it could be connected to the murder of a Wisconsin Rapids woman.

Jodi Huisentruit and Deidre Harm went missing, but their cases are 11 years apart.

Deidre was last seen on the night of June 10, 2006. She wanted a night out in downtown Wisconsin Rapids, but she never made it back to her apartment.

Her body was found five months later in a wooded area west of Wisconsin Rapids.''

''NewsChannel 7 spoke with the Wood County Sheriff’s Department and the Mason City Police Department last year. They believe one man, Christopher Revak, is responsible for both cases.''
Cross-posting..

WI Post in thread 'WI - Deidre Harm, 21, Wisconsin Rapids, 11 June 2006'

Nov 8, 2024

Forgotten Wisconsin Cold Cases: Who Killed Deidre Harm?

This episode, we’re going to do something we typically don’t. We are sharing with you upfront who investigators believe killed a Wisconsin Rapids woman in June 2006.

www.wsaw.com

At the time of his arrest, Christopher was an EMT for Taney County, Missouri. He had a daughter and stepdaughter from a previous marriage and was married to Johanna Revak, who also worked for the department.

Chris would land on investigators’ radar after being at the same bar as 36-year-old Rene Williams who disappeared two years before in 2007.

According to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department, physical evidence near Rene’s car and inside Christopher’s truck would connect him to...

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[summergirl1]

Anchor Away - The Mystery Delver

Amy Kuns’ morning was going from bad to worse. The Mason City, Iowa, KIMT-TV producer was behind schedule and the morning anchor, twenty-seven-year-old Jodi Huisentruit, was not at work. Jodi’s primary job at the local CBS Affiliate station was to deliver the news on the morning show, Daybreak...

mysterydelver.com

 

[theshadow45]

Jodi has been missing for 30 years today.

 

[KonaHonu]

Looked up your alleged love fling interest. Eryn Munro Sullivan Obituary March 25, 2025 - Speaks Chapel

Now here's an amazing coincidence...and I think it is purely a coincidence with nothing to do with the case except to shed some light on the characters.

In that obituary you linked it mentions Eryn's father was in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I got curious so I looked him up. He was a member of the Crickets, Buddy Holly's backup band. Buddy Holly's plane crashed in 1959 about 10 miles from Mason City IA. Eryn's father was not on the plane and died in 2004 according to wikipedia. Of course Buddy Holly and Richie Valens died along with others. Eryn's father was a pall bearer at Holly's funeral.

Can't get a link to the crash site but google maps shows it if you look for Mason City.

Buddy Holly - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[mlhenn]

ABC News Studios Tackles the 30-Year Disappearance of News Anchor Jodi Huisentruit as Part of Its Next True Crime Docuseries Slate on Hulu (EXCLUSIVE)

ABC News Studios investigates the 30-year disppearance of Iowa news anchor Jodi Huisentruit as part of its next true crime docuseries slate on Hulu.

variety.com

It’s been 30 years since Iowa-based TV news anchor Jodi Huisentruit mysteriously disappeared, and was believed to be violently abducted. ABC News Studios is revisiting that unsolved mystery with the Hulu docuseries “Her Last Broadcast: The Abduction of Jodi Huisentruit,” part of a suite of three new true crime programs it has scheduled for next month.

 

[PunishThenForgive]

ABC News Studios Tackles the 30-Year Disappearance of News Anchor Jodi Huisentruit as Part of Its Next True Crime Docuseries Slate on Hulu (EXCLUSIVE)

ABC News Studios investigates the 30-year disppearance of Iowa news anchor Jodi Huisentruit as part of its next true crime docuseries slate on Hulu.

variety.com

It’s been 30 years since Iowa-based TV news anchor Jodi Huisentruit mysteriously disappeared, and was believed to be violently abducted. ABC News Studios is revisiting that unsolved mystery with the Hulu docuseries “Her Last Broadcast: The Abduction of Jodi Huisentruit,” part of a suite of three new true crime programs it has scheduled for next month.

Thirty years and still no answers.

I’m glad Hulu is highlighting Jodi’s case next month. I have the streaming service and really appreciate the heads up.

 

[dotr]

Jun. 29, 2025 lengthy.

30 years after her disappearance, Jodi Huisentruit's family holds onto hope

The case of the abduction of Jodi Huisentruit, a 27-year-old Mason City news anchor in 1995, remains unsolved 30 years later, but her family, friends and co-workers are still hopeful that police investigators will uncover what happened to her.

www.thegazette.com

''The only evidence police had of a crime on June 27, 1995, were “drag marks” next to the woman’s red 1991 Mazda Miata convertible and what appeared to be items from a bag or large purse strewn onto the parking lot.''
Jodi Huisentruit
A red pair of heels, earrings, a blow dryer, hair spray and a bent Miata key were the only things left behind of Jodi Huisentruit, 27, a Mason City KIMT-TV morning news anchor.''

''Johnson said none of them could believe what happened that day and then strange things started occurring. Vansice repeatedly called the KGAN and KIMT newsrooms in the following days, asking anyone who answered “What do you guys know, what are you hearing?” Johnson said.

Everyone was on edge because they didn’t know if other anchors and reporters might be targeted. Johnson also encountered Vansice staring at her from a distance during a Minnesota football game a few months after Huisentruit’s abduction. She said it has “haunted” her to this day.''

''Watch an upcoming series about Huisentruit​

A new three-part series — “Her Last Broadcast: The Abduction of Jodi Huisentruit” — will stream on Hulu starting July 15. It’s being produced by Committee Films and ABC Studios for Hulu. Amy Johnson and others connected to Huisentruit were interviewed for the series.''

 

[PunishThenForgive]

Link: Friends and family share stories

MASON CITY, Iowa - Loved ones, former coworkers and friends gathered at the KIMT studios in Mason City to remember Jodi Huisentruit. She went missing on June 27th, 1995. The case remains unsolved.

 

[PunishThenForgive]

Link: Preview of 'Her Last Broadcast: The Abduction of Jodi Huisentruit'

If you google Jodi’s name, you’ll find lots more videos and articles right now, marking the 30 years since her disappearance.