An unsolved 1995 abduction, and the volunteers still asking questions.
FindJodi is the official podcast of the volunteer nonprofit devoted to the unsolved 1995 abduction of television anchor Jodi Huisentruit from the parking lot of her Mason City, Iowa, apartment complex. Team members revisit the scene, interview people who knew her and consult outside experts, all with the aim of prompting someone with information to come forward.
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Before sunrise on June 27, 1995, KIMT-TV anchor Jodi Huisentruit, 27, left her apartment in Mason City, Iowa, headed for the morning news. She never arrived. All available evidence places her abduction in the parking lot outside her building. The case remains open. FindJodi is the official podcast of FindJodi.com, a volunteer nonprofit created in 2003 by two television news reporters, and its purpose is stated plainly: keep the case visible in the hope that someone with information comes forward. Team members Scott Fuller and Caroline Lowe appear throughout the episode list, with co-founder Josh Benson and other team members joining for roundtables and Q&A sessions. Episodes such as 'Jodi's News Director', 'Robin Wolfram' and 'Tammy Baker' bring in people who worked with her or spent time with her. Others look outward. Retired FBI profiler Julia Cowley walks through victimology, explaining why Jodi's public role and listed address made her a high-risk victim, and a companion bonus episode covers Cowley's work on the Golden State Killer case. Former federal prosecutor Tad DiBiase discusses the difficulty of murder cases where the victim's body is missing, and Patty Wetterling, mother of Jacob Wetterling, sits down for an interview; Jodi had reported on Jacob's 1989 abduction. Then there is the ground itself. A run of titles, including 'Two Parking Lots', 'Impressions From The Key Apartments' and 'Inside Jodi's Apartment', returns to the complex where she lived. In the apartment episode, the team studies under a minute of Minneapolis TV news footage shot inside her home, along with her photo albums, and stresses that news video is not crime scene video. That caution is characteristic. Small details are flagged as possibly irrelevant, the team makes clear it operates independently of police, and in one Q&A it explains why it will not post about an unrelated serial-killer claim in southern Iowa that might lead people to infer a connection. The Q&A episodes answer questions people send in, touching on court-record checks, a sealed search warrant and the condition of Jodi's car. Anniversaries bring a heavier register. In 'Reflecting on 27 Years', Caroline Lowe describes assembling a photo board of Jodi's life for the remembrance gathering outside KIMT, and thinking about the blank board of years never lived. Some episodes focus on specific men, including one in which the daughter of a convicted sex offender questioned by police in 2004 speaks publicly about her father. A team roundtable widens the frame to missing-person cases in general and why some draw national attention while others draw none. A newcomer could start with '27 Facts', in which Caroline Lowe revisits a FindJodi web post to lay out the case. The closing appeal is direct: contact the Mason City Police Department, the Iowa DCI or FindJodi anonymously, because 'The time to talk is now.'
Made for: Suits a listener who wants sustained attention to a single unsolved Midwest disappearance, told by people actively seeking tips rather than spinning theories, and who values first-hand memories of the woman at its center.
What sets it apart: Rather than an outside narrator retelling a cold case, this is the advocacy group's own feed: the FindJodi.com volunteers share their legwork, records checks and interviews, hedge carefully on what evidence can and cannot show, and close by asking for information.
Iowa television news anchor Jodi Huisentruit has been missing since June 27, 1995. The Long Prairie, Minnesota native is believed to have been abducted from the parking lot of her Mason City apartment complex between 4:00-4:30 on that early summer morning. She never showed up for work and has been missing ever since that day 25 years ago. FindJodi.com, Inc. was developed in 2003 when former Television News Director Gary Peterson and News Anchor Josh Benson worked together near Mason City. They saw an opportunity to work on one of the biggest missing person cases in the Midwest: the disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit. FindJodi.com is a not-for-profit effort which has grown into strong team of…
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A measured Q&A on Jodi's possible 1995 records and the Find Jodi team's cautious response to potential discoveries.
FindJodi's fourth Q&A returns after a long pause with questions gathered over several months, giving Jodi Huisentruit's case a grounded frame without pushing toward a fresh breakthrough.
A remembrance and advocacy event makes a steady case for keeping Jodi Husentruth visible and information moving.
FindJodi's 27th-remembrance episode treats a Mason City memorial and advocacy event as a way to sit with what an unsolved disappearance leaves behind.
A profiler-led FindJody episode follows behavioral clues around the Golden State Killer case.
FindJody shifts from Jody Husentruth's unsolved disappearance into a profiler-led look at the offender known as the East Area Rapist, Original Night Stalker, and later the Golden State Killer.
Julia Cowley adds measured behavioral and forensic perspective to Jodi Husentruth's unsolved disappearance.
Scott Fuller and Caroline Lowe revisit Jodi Husentruth's June 1995 disappearance through a behavioral lens, bringing in retired certified FBI profiler Julia Cowley to think through what kind of offender might have abducted and likely murdered the Mason City television news…
A measured look at Jody Husentrout's apartment turns familiar household details into unresolved evidence.
FindJody keeps its focus inside Jody Husentrout's apartment complex, turning an ordinary domestic space into the center of an unresolved disappearance.
Outdoor mysteries, mapped with human common sense.
Georgia politics from inside the room.
True crime measured by the evidence.
Mysteries, lore, and nervous laughter.
Find Jodi's Q&A Episode #4 centers on what has and has not changed in Jodi's Mason City disappearance, with Scott Fuller and Caroline Lowe saying the show now has 32 or 33 episodes and will not publish just to keep a schedule.
FindJodi's "Reflecting on 27 Years" revisits Jodi Husentruth's June 1995 disappearance from Mason City, Iowa, through the 27th remembrance event in front of KIMT.
["Retired FBI profiler Julia Cowley says Jodi Husentruth's June 27, 1995 disappearance in Mason City, Iowa looks like a planned blitz attack rather than a spontaneous confrontation.", "FindJodi hosts Scott Fuller and Caroline Lowe talk with Cowley, who spent 22 years at the FBI and worked in the Behavioral Analysis Unit from 2009 to 2021.", "Cowley explains profiling as reading repeated behavior patterns and uses her own habit of setting three alarm clocks to show how routine can reveal a personality.", "She also addresses scene details like the lack of blood, the untouched belongings, a partial palm print on the car, and a hair whose root is unknown."]
Retired FBI profiler Julia Cowley uses the Find Jodi bonus episode to break down why the Golden State Killer case turned on crime-scene pattern analysis, not just DNA.
Scott Fuller and Caroline Lowe spend this Find Jody episode inside the details of Jody Husentrout's Mason City apartment, using the WCCO walkthrough to separate evidence from later assumptions.
This episode discusses the ongoing investigation into the 1995 disappearance of Iowa news anchor Jodi Huisentruit, including a possible stalking angle.
The episode provides an update on the Find Jodi team's ongoing investigation into the 1995 disappearance of news anchor Jodi Huisentruit.
This episode recounts the unsolved disappearance of TV news anchor Jodi Huisentruit in 1995 and updates listeners on the case.
This episode presents the timeline of Jodi Huisentruit's disappearance in 1995 and introduces the FindJodi organization's mission.