Was News Anchor Jodi Huisentruit Abducted?

Jodi Sue Huisentruit was beautiful and accomplished.

She was born June 5th,1968 in Long Prairie Minnesota to Imogene L. "Jane" and Maurice Nicholas Huisentruit. She was very good at golf. In high school her team won the state Class A tournament in 1985 and 1986. She went to St. Cloud State University, where she studied mass communications and speech communication and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in 1990. Her first job after graduation was with Northwest Airlines. She entered broadcasting by getting a job at KGAN in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as the station's Iowa City bureau chief.  Later she returned to Minnesota for a job at KSAX in Alexandria before returning to Iowa for her KIMT news anchor position.

On June 26th, 1995, 27 year old Jodi participated in a golf tournament and, according to Mason City resident John Vansice, she went to his home to view a video tape of the birthday party that he had arranged for her earlier in the month.

Jodi was scheduled to work the next day at 4:00 a.m. She spoke to a co-worker at the station at approximately that time and said that she would be arriving shortly from her home. She has never been seen again.

Her co-workers became concerned when she did not contact them by 7:00 a.m. and called the police. Police searched her apartment and some of her belongings were found scattered in the apartment complex's parking lot around her red Mazda Miata, including a pair of red dress shoes, a blow dryer, a bottle of hair spray, earrings, and her bent car key. A unidentified palm print was recovered from the car.

A co-worker assisted in searching Jodi's apartment, which showed no signs of a struggle.

Witnesses near her reported hearing a scream from the parking lot shortly after 4:00 a.m. A neighbor that lived nearby reported seeing a white van with its running lights on parked in Jodi's parking lot at about the same time. This van was never positively identified. It is believed that Jodi was taken against her from the lot that morning. There has been no sign of her since that time.

Mason City Police Department executed a search warrant on March 20, 2017, for GPS data on two cars related to John Vansice.

Jodi's sister Nathe believes Vansice was “fixated” on her sister, even though Jodi had never once mentioned his name to her.

Nathe isn’t convinced that only one person was responsible for the crime. Nathe said her sister’s landlord reported hearing “two different male voices” in the parking lot at the time and the sound of a loud muffler.

At the time of her disappearance Jodi was 5'3 - 5'4, 110 - 120 pounds with blonde hair, brown eyes and pierced ears.