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

[shebbear]

I watched the Amy Kuns interview that Jennibee referred to. When I watched it, I was struck by the contrast between this interview and an interview with Amy Kuns that was included in a much earlier documentary about Jodi's disappearance. The earlier documentary was on one of the network magazine-type shows (perhaps 20/20, Primetime, etc.) quite a while ago--perhaps on the 10th anniversary of her disappearance. In this show, Amy Kuns, as well as other coworkers, were interviewed. Amy Kuns was obviously very sad about Jodi's disappearance. I do not recall that she made any negative comments at that time. I have searched online for a video of this particular show, but I haven't located it.
I do think that Amy Kuns was caught up in a very difficult situation--and that she went forward that morning as best that she could. Accusing her of wrongdoing in this case does not accomplish anything.

 

[Yetisaurus]

Agreed in full. The fall-out after the disappearance could not have been easy for any of the coworkers. Having had a somewhat acrimonious relationship with Jodi would have made it even more difficult for Amy to process and deal with. It's especially disappointing to read the foolish comments that follow the article, though not surprising. I see the same sentiments on every discussion relating to Amy. None of her accusers has a plausible theory, let alone a shred of evidence.

Also, the theory that Jody was about to "blow the lid off" some major meth scheme involving police officers is ridiculous. Jodi's former coworkers have dismissed the possibility that she could have done any such thing. She was a news anchor - at that time she did absolutely no investigative reporting at all.

Absolutely. I think it was just some nutjob who saw her on TV and wanted her. I almost wonder, what with the kidnappings of young girls we've had in north Iowa lately, if they all could be related somehow. Kathlynn Shepard was solved but the two little cousins weren't. I just have trouble believing that it's all coincidence.

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[dotr]

http://www.valleynewslive.com/conte...entruit-after-Wetterling-break-414699323.html
By Karla Hult |
Posted: Fri 6:40 AM, Feb 24, 2017

[h=1]New hope to find Jodi Huisentruit after Wetterling break[/h]

Maybe there will be something similar to the [Jacob] Wetterling case, you know, where it was a matter of a new opportunity to find DNA and to match up some of those things that broke that,” said Mason City Police Chief Jeff Brinkley, referring to the discovery of remains and answers in the 1989 abduction of the 11-year-old St. Joseph boy last fall. Brinkley told KARE 11 he thinks it’s possible evidence in Huisentruit’s case also still holds answers, if examined with modern science.
“Do you think it’s possible that there’s similar evidence in Jodi’s case – that if it’s checked just one more time – it could reveal an answer?” asked KARE 11’s Karla Hult.
“Yes. Yes is the short answer,” responded Brinkley, adding, “I think in 22 years, in my career, I cannot believe where we’ve come with science and how we’ve adapted science to policing.”
“Somebody may develop the process that we’re going to be able to glean some new piece of information that we didn’t have – off some old cigarette butt, you know, piece of clothing. You just don’t know,” Brinkley said.

Long-time crime reporter Caroline Lowe joined the KARE 11 team 15 months ago to help work on the Wetterling investigation. The veteran journalist – who’s also a licensed private investigator and now lives in California – also brought her commitment to Jodi.
“My mission is to work on unsolved cold cases, unsolved homicides. And Jacob and Jodi have always been at the top of my list,” Lowe said in a recent interview back in Minnesota.
Lowe’s commitment to cold cases goes back decades and also resulted in her involvement in the FindJodi.com non-profit organization. The FindJodi.com team includes other journalists and a retired investigator who coordinate their efforts to further investigate and bring attention to the high profile case. The group’s website of the same name features interviews, evidence and even, a letter to Huisentruit’s attacker.
“We’re not the police. We don’t pretend to be. But we know the Internet – somebody might come there,” Lowe said.

Cooperation is key
Chief Brinkley agrees. Beyond a break in science and advancements in DNA extraction, they’re still looking to the community to help solve the Huisentruit mystery.
“There are people who are not playing ball with us, and I think that would be the direction I would push this,” he said.
Brinkley declined to talk about the department’s list of potential suspects, but the public knows well a couple of the key names that have been made public in multiple media reports and through police interviews early in the investigation. They include a man who admitted to having feelings for Jodi and claimed to be the last to see her, and another man who’s now a convicted serial rapist who lived near Huisentruit at the time she was abducted.
Brinkley urges anyone with any information, however small or obscure, to come forward to the police.

 

[Romulus]

Interesting case, I read now; you know by chance when Jodi was dating someone, or had taken care of some thorny case?

 

[perfekta]

Edited from an earlier, more rambling reply:

I think some of Amy's answers are surprising only because we tend to hear nothing but how wonderful and vibrant and lovable and full of life Jodi was. We never hear anything critical. Amy seems to be the only coworker who is willing to paint a less-than-flattering picture of Jodi, and she has consistently done so from the beginning. She's also admitted being envious of Jodi's anchor position - a position she herself was given after Jodi disappeared. And because of this, some have pointed an accusatory finger at Amy, which I find absurd.

While other coworkers have not been so critical of Jodi, neither have any of them ever contradicted what Amy has said. She admits she was on the receiving end of most of Jodi's mood swings ("she would often snap at me") and maybe that's why she does not feel quite so obligated to portray her as a saint. I believe she is being honest, perhaps more honest than the rest.

I was a teen when this happened. I had moved to Rochester, MN and we used to get the station Jodi was on, and I would watch her, and I remember being so shocked when she disappeared. I have followed this case ever since.

I just wanted to say, I also think Amy had nothing to do with it. Reading the answers, it can seem like she is being overly harsh, but watching her being interviewed, you can tell from her body language she has real grief over Jodi being missing. She talked about how the day Jodi went missing, when she had called her to tell her she was late (which she said happened frequently) she was sort of scrambling to figure out what to do as the hours ticked on and I think she ended up having to go on the air for her. She's very believable.

 

[JerseyGirl]

North Bay Reporter Dedicated To Solving 22-Year-Old Case Of Missing News Anchor

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...ld-Case-Of-Missing-News-Anchor-422121344.html

 

[megmac22]

I was just browsing findjodi.com and came across an interesting interview with Amy Kuns from around 2011. In my opinion, her resentment for Jodi is pretty evident in her answers and I am very surprised by some of the things she says.

Apologise if this has been looked at before, I just found it interesting.

http://www.findjodi.com/interview-with-amy-kuns/

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I know I'm late with this observation, and I don't think Amy has anything to do with Jodi's disappearance necessarily either, but that was a cringe-inducing interview. I watched Amy in the 20/20 interview with Elizabeth Vargas back in 2005, and although she cried and seemed genuinely upset, she said a few things that I just thought were better left unsaid, even if she was thinking them. Like how she was relieved it was Jodi taken and not her. And in the findjodi.com interview when she says she was "busy doing the work of two people" it makes me think, "gee, the audacity of Jodi picking that day to be abducted and inconveniencing Amy with two jobs!" I do think Jodi was taken by someone who was obsessed with her, but it's strange that there was still so much obvious pent-up resentment by Amy 16 years after the abduction.

Just random thoughts. I always hate thinking what Jodi must have gone through and wish her case could be solved.

 

[debbiediablo]

IMO....the resemblance between DH and the guy with blonde hair and glasses is uncanny. I sent a message to the admin on the find jodi site over a year ago regarding this picture and DH, but I never received a response.

Has the pizza eater ever been identified? The jawline doesn't look quite right but the angle is different... ears look much the same, and ears do not change without surgery. Click on image to enlarge.

 

[Jenny0101]

It's been 22 years today.

 

[dotr]

http://www.kare11.com/news/crime/chief-huisentruit-abduction-still-solvable-after-22-years/452194580

[h=1]Chief: Huisentruit abduction still solvable after 22 years[/h] Caroline Lowe - FindJodi.com , KARE 10:46 AM. CDT June 27, 2017

MASON CITY, Iowa - We are once again at the dawn of yet another anniversary of the disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit. Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 27th will be 22 years since the anchorwoman disappeared from the parking lot of her apartment complex while on her way to work at KIMT-TV in Mason City, Iowa.

Since 2002, members of the FindJodi.com, Inc. team have analyzed thousands of leads. We’ve taken the most sensitive and important leads to the Mason City Police Department as part of our protocol to ensure that they have the information to assist them in their investigation. Over the years, we’ve worked and spoken with many MCPD investigators. Most recently, FindJodi.com team member Caroline Lowe chatted with Chief Jeff Brinkley.

[Chief Brinkley] I’d just continue to let people know this is active, we’re still working it, and this last year has been no exception. We get calls from people periodically throughout the year with information, and emails and those kind of things. We look at all that and size that up and fit that into what we have and if there’s merit to those things, we follow up on them and if it’s information we already have or looked at, we document that we got it.

Yeah, we’re moving ahead, continuing to evaluate information, looking again at evidence and those kinds of things. I think we’ll continue to do that as technology and science and crime lab abilities increase and change, we’re going to continue to do that in the future, too.

I assume you’ve read the file by now?

I’ve read most of it.
Any overall impressions now that you’ve been through? I I know you can’t get into specifics. What’s you’re overall take?

I think that my opinion of this hasn’t changed. I think it’s solvable. I think it’s prosecutable and I think we’ll get there someday. I remain optimistic that will happen.
I think there’s some additional help from science at some point down the road that are exciting and interesting and I think are going to be useful to us as time goes on.

Can you share what kind of a list you’re thinking of without naming names? Do you think was somebody she knew or a stranger? Anything that has kind of gelled now that you’ve looked at that?

I’m not going to, that’s an investigator question to me and I’m not going to speculate on that. I’m not the person that’s beating that drum and I’m not going to speculate on behalf of the investigators kind of where they are with that stuff at this point, no. But I think based on the information we have over the course of the past year, that’s been pretty consistent.

What we’ve worked on in the past. We have got a good list of people that we will continue to look at.

 

[Tippy Lynn]

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Has the pizza eater ever been identified? The jawline doesn't look quite right but the angle is different... ears look much the same, and ears do not change without surgery. Click on image to enlarge.

As far as I know the pizza eater has not been identified.

 

[Tippy Lynn]

http://www.radioiowa.com/2017/06/30...solve-disappearance-of-tv-anchor-huisentruit/

This is the best update that I've seen on Jodi in a very long time!!! Praying for justice!!!

 

[Tippy Lynn]

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

http://www.radioiowa.com/2017/06/30...solve-disappearance-of-tv-anchor-huisentruit/

 

[neverletgo]

http://www.radioiowa.com/2017/06/30...solve-disappearance-of-tv-anchor-huisentruit/

This is the best update that I've seen on Jodi in a very long time!!! Praying for justice!!!

Snipped from your link:

“I don’t think we’re far away from having a few things fall together, and we’re going in a very specific direction,” he says, “we just are lacking a little bit of evidence to be able to do some of those things, and I think at some point we’re going to catch that break, either through technology or a cooperative person investigation. Things will fall pretty quickly when we get started down that path.”

raying:

 

[Tippy Lynn]

I notified mods to correct the subject line to Missing since 6/27/95- I was so excited to read this my fingers were moving faster than my brain. Praying for justice!

 

[Tippy Lynn]

This is also snipped from my link....
"I hope it’s this year. I think it’s really close".

 

[Tippy Lynn]

It has to mean they are onto something when the police chief publicly states they are close and going in a specific direction - right?

 

[Tippy Lynn]

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

http://www.radioiowa.com/2017/06/30...solve-disappearance-of-tv-anchor-huisentruit/

Thanks Harmony!

 

[MysteryMaven]

I feel like this is never going to be solved. where is vancise now? I wonder if that is the path LE is on. Also someone please tell Amy Kuns its bad form to speak ill of the (presumed) dead. Her interview on findjodi was brutal.

 

[Tippy Lynn]

I feel like this is never going to be solved. where is vancise now? I wonder if that is the path LE is on. Also someone please tell Amy Kuns its bad form to speak ill of the (presumed) dead. Her interview on findjodi was brutal.

From what I've read JV moved to Arizona and has lived there for some time. I read an article in the media a year or so ago stating JV was working in loss prevention for a grocery chain. <modsnip - stating info as fact without a link>

<modsnip - sleuthing someone not a POI>