WHERE IS Jodi Huisentruit?! News Anchor Vanishes...

hey guys welcome back to my channel I know it has been a minute since I have sat down like this and filmed a video in January I released one big project for the month on the case of Cristian Andrey Akio I know a lot of you probably didn't see it because it was demonetised and YouTube doesn't do a really good job of pushing out to content that's to monetize it is a two and a half hour documentary that I worked on for a really long time and it was a really just rewarding experience at this point I was going to remind you guys to sign the petition however we hit gold today which is February 10th I'm so so proud of everyone who signed the petition and shared the petition the endure Akio family is extremely grateful and I will keep you guys up to date on that White House response but today I'm going to be telling you about the case of Jodi huisentruit which has become pretty much a cold case at this point but they are really trying to ramp up awareness about this case and there isn't really much content about it on YouTube and I am so excited to announce you guys that the last thorne campaign that we did if you did not see it it was on my Carly Husain video he did something totally different and I linked up with a very small Australian company literally a couple people on the team and they have been kind enough to not only offer you guys 10% off their entire website but also donate 20% of every purchase to thorne and I'm super excited to say that this was the most successful way that I have been able to raise money for thorne today we have raised over $11,000 for thorne with one campaign through magic of AI we also raised an additional 2,300 dollars on our merch website bringing us to over $13,000 for one thorne campaign can we just take a minute I just want to thank you guys I would not be able to have raised almost $70,000 for thorne without all of you if you're not familiar with thorne I will link there site below so you can check it out but they are fighting against child exploitation and child human trafficking online they have saved over 10,000 children to date the offer is still on the table if you miss me talking about these these are very unique really cool planners they are astrology themed planners so they go you know along with the Stars this is how I use mine I love my planner beautiful it's vegan leather it has this rainbow shimmer effect and if you kind of feel like you're too late to get a planner I know it's already February they don't only just have planners they also have Turtles they come in multiple colors I just wanted to remind you guys that the code thorn works on the magic Cabaye website site-wide like you can use it on their moon phase calendars or anything else they have planners stickers but without any further ado let's go ahead and get into the Jodi huisentruit case so this is an older case Jodi went missing in the 90s so this case takes place in Minnesota Dodie who's in truth was born on June 5th 1968 and raised in Long Prairie Minnesota and growing up she was really active and popular she had a pretty normal upbringing in high school she really liked golf she was actually on the golf team and won the state Class A tournament in both 1985 and 1986 and like I said Jodi was really popular she had a lot of friends and built a lot of strong relationships over the years friends that are still looking for her and fighting for her to this day and they said that Jodi was a big dreamer and her biggest dream was that she wanted to be famous after she graduated high school she went to st. Cloud State University where she studied in mass communications and speech communication and during her time in college she actually joined the school's TV news network and had a really big role in that and really really enjoyed it metro area is among the top 20 areas in the nation in total population so I'm not calling around and I say our show has to come too she was good at it people on campus enjoyed watching her and it really confirmed her love for journalism for being on the news and she knew that she wanted to eventually have her spot on possibly even a national news television network Jodie actually graduated from st. cloud in 1990 and then she actually began working for an airline but pretty quickly she got back into journalism and she started her broadcasting career with KGA and in Cedar Rapids Iowa Jodi huisentruit Channel 2 News Cedar Rapids ok had to do a quick voice over here because my camera it's a newer camera that I'm just getting used to kind of malfunctioned in between clips and I lost a couple sentences there so after working in Cedar Rapids Jodi ended up returning to Minnesota for a job at KS ax and Alexandria but shortly after that she returned to Iowa for another position at KIMT in Mason City Iowa and Jodi actually landed an anchor job for the morning and afternoon show so she was very happy and producers were really excited about having her they were a bit nervous that her Minnesota accent was a little bit too strong at first as it in Clinton leaves this morning for the group of 7 summit in Nova Scotia talked about like trying to give her speech therapy and try to get rid of the accent especially you know she wanted to go into national news one day but people in Minnesota really liked hearing the accent people described her as like a morning cup of joe a sunshine that everyone needed to start their day she was on the 6:00 a.m. news castle a lot of people literally started their day out with Jodi so it was June 27th 1995 like I said she was on the 6:00 a.m. newscast so she had to be at work pretty early you know they'd have to run over a few things when they get there plus do hair and makeup so Jodi normally arrived to the station around 3:30 a.m. now her producer at KIMT was named Amy kun's and she would call Jodi if she ever was there you know after for like if she wasn't there yet she would call and sometimes would be morning's where Jody had slept in or learned and go off for whatever reason so she would make sure that she got there with enough time to get on by 6:00 a.m. so Amy started calling her she actually did answer the phone and she said that she was running late for work because she had overslept but that she would be right there she was asking about the show she was concerned about the show and she said I'll be right there so they waited for her however by the time 5:30 rolled around Jody still was not at the station and she was supposed to be on in 30 minutes Amy called her apartment again her landline and there was no answer by 6:00 a.m. she had still not arrived so Amy actually had to step in for her and do her role on her show called daybreak she calls it her show you know she wouldn't miss it for anything and then an hour later at 7:00 a.m. there was still no sign of Joanie so the news station of course calls the police and lets them know that she did not show up for work that day so police went straight to Jodi's apartment and when they got there they found her red Mazda Miata left out in the parking lot and the scene that was left around her car definitely pointed to some type of foul play her personal items were scattered all over the ground around her car including a bent key her car key her shoes and her hair dryer she's probably running late brought her hair dryer to work with her not only that but there were drag marks near her car indicating that Joanie was possibly dragged away from the scene maybe she had put the key into the ignition and someone had grabbed her and somehow to keep bent or maybe she used the key as a weapon but something happened at that spot near her car Claire this is a woman I was just headed out work this was clearly a very active young woman as everyone has told us police also found someone's palm print on the car that same day police also brought search dogs to her apartment as well as the Winnebago River this was very close to where Jodi lived and they searched the entire area but they did not find any good clues so that night the KIMT news team had to break the news to their viewers that one of their own news anchors was missing police are investigating the disappearance but aren't saying much else at this time Jodi huisentruit was and still is a very dear friend of mine as well as all of us here at King I'm team we're inviting all of you to join us in keeping her and her family in your prayers this evening I don't know what it looked like to the viewer but I just know inside it was a mess I feel like that would be incredibly hard to have to talk about someone that you know personally and report on them as if it's news it's just such an awkward and terrible situation the police did a full search of the newsroom they could not find anything that was useful to them in this case Jodi's family and friends were just devastated along with the entire community fear is growing in one ayah laughs arm town someone is missing not a face in the crowd but one of the most familiar faces in town and a lot of people including Jodi's family and friends were very worried too that someone took advantage of Jodi because she was so nice and friendly she's one of those people who will talk to anyone never met a stranger she would strike up a conversation with someone at a grocery store and be there an extra hour she was that type of person o take time out of her day to talk to you get to know you she was interested in people she was a very nice person and very trusting possibly someone who would be taken advantage of people also were worried that maybe she had some type of stalker eventually it was discovered that a few months prior to Joey's disappearance she actually made a report that she had been being stalked back in October of 1994 Jody was out hiking on this trail and there was this creepy black truck that kept driving really close behind her and she reported it to the police but despite her making the report police were never able to figure out who it was so police started trying to figure out exactly what was going on in Jodie's life before she disappeared as they were investigating a neighbor actually called in and reported that they heard a scream the morning that Jody went missing of course they didn't call the police though so nothing could have been done so it definitely shows you you know if you hear something say something if you're wrong that's okay but you should always call if you can in addition to this they also realized that there were a few reports of a creepy white van in her apartment complex that morning but it seemed like as far as evidence that was really it police were struggling to paint a picture of Jody's life so there are some suspects to go over here and some very possible scenarios first there's this guy named john vansice it's very odd but Jody had this strange relationship with this man he was a lot older than her 22 years older than her but they didn't have a romantic relationship they had a friendship at least in Jody's mind he claimed that he viewed Jody as a daughter and that's what Jody would say if anyone ever questioned it that he was like a father to her in a way he was like a daughter to me she was just like my own child I turned you're like my own child he was a friend Jody would go waterskiing on his boat a lot she sort of brought him into her friend group he was kind of around a lot now originally he met Jody in a bar but it just so happened that they live in the exact same apartment complex now to me that's curious because I wonder if he actually knew that about her before he even met her at the bar a lot of times with stalkers they'll set up situations for people that live near them or they'll even move into apartment complexes to specifically stalk somebody so police eventually figured out that the day before Jodie went missing she played in a golf tournament and after this golf tournament she actually went back to John's house because he was in the tournament as well according to John they were just hanging out they had spent the night looking at a video from a surprise party that he had thrown for her like a couple weeks before this and they were watching the footage and laughing he's laughing the whole time she's there and she laughed all the time she laughed to watch the tape and we chuckled me laughs we giggled wee hee ha we did everything is that we're gonna cut this portion of the taper and got this portion of the tape honestly she's alive somewhere I just hope she's not hurt I hope she's okay I hope she'd come back so she wouldn't wants to set around home and cry and sob she's one see out having fun because that was hurt mentally police realized that Jodie had become friends with John at a time in his life where he was kind of in a rough place and they felt like maybe Jodie just really had sympathy for him felt bad for him he was going through a divorce his life was kind of just a mess not only that he was court-ordered to have a breathalyzer test in his car and no surprise he had been arrested for drunk driving in the past I guess he didn't really have a lot of friends at the time and like I said Jodie kind of brought him into her friend group and he just started hanging around then her friends thought it was like kind of weird but they accepted it because she accepted it and she would always play it down and be like he's just like this guy is like my friend is just a friend thing but they all thought you know it seems like he wants more from her it seems like he's interested in becoming more than friends or wants more than Jodie is willing to give and maybe seems that they are not on the same page at one point he even named his boat after Jodie her friends thought that was really weird and told her you know Hayley that's a kind of a red flag of a possible obsession or a stalker but she played it off thought it was kind of sweet you know just thought he was harmless really so some people thought that maybe they came to a point where John told Jody that he wanted more from her than just to be friends and that she said no and it triggered some type of altercation which led to her death or maybe he was mad about it and then assaulted her later so one of John's friends that was actually also friends with Jody and went to work with John everyday was actually with him that morning she claims that she called John around 6:00 and confirm that they were going to work together like normal and she said that John seemed totally fine and was acting the same as he always did she basically said that there's just no possible way that between the hours of 4:00 and 6:00 a.m. that he abducted her and got rid of her body and was fine by the time she picked him up for work in 1995 john vansice actually passed a polygraph test so there's that you know polygraphs aren't super reliable but take it for what you will in November of 1995 Jody's family was feeling so desperate for answers that they actually traveled to California and met with three different psychics to try to help and none of them ended up helping in any way by May 4th of 1996 there still was nothing solid that had been found and about 100 volunteers went out and searched an area of Cerro Gordo County and left little flags to mark everything that appeared to be suspicious we hope to find any type of evidence Oh yuck any type of clues you know earrings first anything that we can find each of these sites was then re-examined by law enforcement but no promising evidence was ever found but then two years later there was another person of interest On January 26 1998 an investigative reporter at WCCO TV in Minneapolis named Caroline Lowe was reporting on a crime spree that was happening in area she covered a man named Toni Jackson who is accused of sexually assaulting for women in 18 days and she thought that maybe it was possible that he had something to do with the Jodi's disappearance Toni actually had a history of stalking all his victims before he assaulted them and it was discovered that he was actually living in Iowa within two blocks of Jodi's TV station during the time that she went missing Toni was actually a star college basketball player but he had a tendency to randomly snap and would become violent he eventually got kicked out of college and enrolled in North Iowa Community College in Mason City and during this time he started becoming interested in broadcasting he was spending a lot of time watching the news and analyzing reporters a lot of people believe that it's possible that he had seen Jodie on the news is there a chance that he could have stalked her and you know memorized her schedule it would have been easy for anyone to figure out Jodi's schedule because it was so regular people who knew where she was she was live from a certain spot every single day you could easily figure out what time she came in in addition to all the suspicion it was discovered that five days before Jodie went missing Tony and his girlfriend went through a really bad breakup and he became very angry and violent not only that but his girlfriend and Jodie looked a lot alike Tony and his girlfriend did eventually try to get back together but at some point he ended up choking her and he was arrested on domestic violence although his girlfriend decided to not proceed with the charges and he was let go for months after he was arrested he actually left Iowa and when to Minnesota and that is where he committed four assaults he was arrested again in 1997 police had pulled him over and found a bunch of creepy stuff in his car such as rope and duct tape and all the signs just pointed to him being a predator eventually they figured out what he had done and he was sentenced to life in prison apparently while he was in prison he told another inmate that he had abducted a news anchor and killed her it may actually said that Toni wrote a rap about the woman being buried in a farm near a silo in a town called Tiffin and Tiffin is only a few hours away from Mason City so law enforcement decided to go to that town there ended up being that silo that he had talked about so dogs were brought into the search area and the dogs alerted that there was something on these wooden boards so they were sent to a crime lab but unfortunately it actually came out to be nothing on May 5th 1995 the Mason City police actually released a statement that they had conducted a full investigation on Tony Jackson and that he was not considered a suspect in the Jodi huisentruit case Jodi's family still believes that there's a chance he could have had something to do with it and it is totally possible but any time he has been approached by any interviews or given any statements he always says that he had nothing to do with Jodi who's in truth so years went by without any other good leads or any real movement in the case on May 14th 2001 six years after Jodi first went missing the family made a very difficult decision to legally pronounced her dead and that was done so that they could settle her estate and it's a thing that a lot of families have to do I don't think it means that they fully believe that they're dead but oftentimes it's to do something legally or something to do with money and it's sad when they have to do that because sometimes they're worried that it will lessen the urgency behind people finding them and looking for them and interests in the case and you know 20 plus years later we still have no idea what happened to Jodi but her friends and family are not giving up they've actually really reunited interest in her case it was recently on 48 hours over the summer and they've now created a movement called find Jodi they're really trying to make her be known as Jodi not even just Jodi whose entry probably cuz that's such a hard last name but also just because Jodi is so simple and she was just known as Jodi in the community you know everyone knows who Jodi is around there there has been one other weird thing that happened but I'm not sure if this is considered really a lead or anything but in June of 2008 some copies of Jodi's journal 84 pages of it actually were mailed to a local news station and no one knows why or who is from there was no return address and it was postmarked Waterloo Iowa her actual journal is in possession of law enforcement and has been since the beginning so a lot of people are like how did someone end up getting that like is there someone in the police station who was leaked something or is someone there possibly guilty there was a lot of poor police work actually the biggest thing that they did wrong and I honestly can't even believe this is at the crime scene they never sectioned it off or taped it off to keep other people from stepping on the crime scene or possibly taking evidence out or adding something to the scene it was just open and so much evidence could have been tampered with that was a huge mistake in addition to this police only held on to Jodi's car for a few months and they eventually just released it back to the family if the car is pretty much the crime scene why would you give it back to the family so early a lot of people believe if they had held on to the car maybe they would have come up with something else by now especially because there's more modern technology now and better ways of processing evidence so they should have just held on to the car in March of 2017 it was announced that john vansice is actually still on police radar they actually served a search warrant for GPS info on two of his cars and they have kept the findings of this secret they say that they cannot update people on the case because they don't want to compromise the investigation so there could be more to come it's possible that this case still could be solved so if you know anything they are still looking for information I will have all that in the description box in case you do have something that could be helpful in this case but that's really all there is as of now you know I know missing people can become like stories to a lot of us but these are real people who are loved who have families who had whole lives and they were just uprooted out of their life you know it's just terribly sad she's gone every birthday every holiday I mean her family has never gotten over the pain of losing her there's a possibility someone just has the answers to at least help them figure out what happened and give the family that closure that they need but that's it for me today 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