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NEW TWIST IN THE SEARCH FOR GLAMOUROUS TV ANCHOR: WHERE IS JODI HUISENTRUIT? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a new twist in the
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Speaker 1: desperate search for a beloved TV anchor who vanishes on
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Speaker 1: her way to work. Does an alleged confession shed light
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Speaker 1: on what happened to Jody? Who's in Trut. I'm Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for
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Speaker 1: being with us. It was early, early morning, still dark outside.
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Speaker 1: June twenty seven, Jody Husen Trut was woken up by
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Speaker 1: the sound of her phone ringing. It was four am
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Speaker 1: and she was late for the morning shift at KIMT TV,
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Speaker 1: Mason City, Iowa. She sounded like she was asleep. She
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Speaker 1: apologized and headed to the station, got herself together and
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Speaker 1: was never seen again. Somewhere in the very short walk
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Speaker 1: between her apartment and her car, she was kidnapped four
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Speaker 1: a m. The items she gathered together were strewn around
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Speaker 1: her Mazda. Drag marks on the asphalt suggested a struggle.
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Speaker 1: Her case remains unsolved. These are the facts.
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Speaker 2: Today's forecast shows mostly windy and cool temperatures with scattered
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Speaker 2: showers or high as expected.
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Speaker 1: To be in the upper sixties.
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Speaker 3: The clouds will continue through this evening.
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Speaker 4: Showers will end, but the windy and cool temperatures will prevail.
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Speaker 3: Saint Cloud State's increase enrollment.
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Speaker 2: Has not been enough to make Eastman's not Listener take
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Speaker 2: on any dramatic changes this year. But the telegrapher Marien Slater,
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Speaker 2: I am Jody who was insured for you TBS news.
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Speaker 1: Just hearing her voice seemingly makes this all so real.
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Speaker 1: Now you're hearing Jody's voice when she was a student
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Speaker 1: reporter at Saint Cloud University for the campus TV station,
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Speaker 1: University TV, and she went on from there to become
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Speaker 1: a rising star in the TV industry, really making her mark.
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Speaker 1: The viewers were enthralled by her. They gravitated torture, not
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Speaker 1: just because of her good looks, not just because she
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Speaker 1: was prepared and articulate, but she had a warmth about
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Speaker 1: her that seemingly went out across the airwaves to everybody watching.
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Speaker 1: Beloved in her market until suddenly she just goes missing.
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Speaker 1: Let me introduce to you an all star panel to
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Speaker 1: help figure out where is Jody Husing shrewd. First of all,
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Speaker 1: the tip line nine seven zero four or five eight
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Speaker 1: Jody Jodi nine seven zero four five eight five six
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Speaker 1: three four with me Jay Alberio, former Commander Woodbury Police Department,
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Speaker 1: Investigative Unit Manager, Woodbury Public Safety, former US Marine. You
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Speaker 1: can find him right now at Findjody dot com. Doctor Jorykrasin, psychologist,
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Speaker 1: faculties Leo University, consultant and author of Operation s OS
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Speaker 1: with Me. Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor, author of Red Flags.
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Speaker 1: You can find her at Wendypatrick PhD dot com and
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Speaker 1: she's the host of Today with Doctor Wendy on KCBQ
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Speaker 1: San Diego. Investigative journalist. You can also find her at
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Speaker 1: Fine Jody dot com and she is the founder of
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Speaker 1: the Fine Jody podcast. She's also a Caroline Low TV.
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Speaker 1: Caroline Low joining us, but first to a very special
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Speaker 1: guest joining us. This is Jody's sister, Joanne Nathy. Joanne,
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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us.
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Speaker 5: Well, thank you again for having me.
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Speaker 1: Jillianne. It's unfathomable to me how someone that is so
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Speaker 1: present in the lives of her local TV community can
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Speaker 1: just disappear. It's like someone just cut off the TV
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Speaker 1: and she's gone at the end of it. It seems
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Speaker 1: very very surreal.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we never, you know, anticipate anything like this ever happening.
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Speaker 5: We thought Jody would be safe in Mason City. It
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Speaker 5: wasn't that big of a community, and she just she
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Speaker 5: took a lot of safety courses and stuff, and she
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Speaker 5: she was careful, she really was. She wanted to have
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Speaker 5: a good reputation in the community. And yeah, we were
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Speaker 5: just stunned. I mean when it happened in ninety five,
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Speaker 5: and of course it's been really hard and everybody, not
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Speaker 5: just the family, it's friends. She meant a lot to
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Speaker 5: so many people.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember when you first learned Jody was missing.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember it very well. What happened, Well, we
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Speaker 5: were on a bus trip up north, my mom and
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Speaker 5: aunt just oh with the group of ladies, you know,
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Speaker 5: and we were going to this casino because some ninety
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Speaker 5: five the casinos well they had started prior to ninety five,
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Speaker 5: but anyway, it was going to be a fun day.
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Speaker 5: And so we were up in Walker, Minnesota, and then
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Speaker 5: they asked us to come to the room when we
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Speaker 5: got there and that there was an emergency phone call.
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Speaker 5: It was shortly after we arrived, and so we came
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Speaker 5: in and they said it's from Mason City. And right
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Speaker 5: away my mom said, oh, no, Jody, And we thought
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Speaker 5: maybe she'd been in a car accident, That's what I thought,
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Speaker 5: and she'll be okay, you know, she'll But then when
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Speaker 5: Halverson said, oh, she's missing, Joanne, are you sitting down?
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Speaker 5: And I said missing, Well, we'll find her, you know,
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Speaker 5: there's some mistake. Why would she be missing, you know.
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Speaker 5: But then we got pretty nervous and about it all,
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Speaker 5: of course, and we left. They provided a vehicle for
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Speaker 5: us to go back to Long Purrie. They brought us.
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Speaker 5: It was quite a drive too, but it was very hard.
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Speaker 5: And then we got back and nobody had found her,
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Speaker 5: you know, by the end of the day, and so
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Speaker 5: then we were getting very worried. But we thought it'd
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Speaker 5: be that it was some kind of a mistake, that
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Speaker 5: she would be found and she'd be okay. That was
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Speaker 5: their original thought.
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Speaker 1: You know. To doctor Jory Kraus in psychologist Faculty, Saint
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Speaker 1: Leo University joining us doctor Drury, I know I'm projecting
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Speaker 1: right now, but I've also seen it with many, many
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Speaker 1: other crime victims. When I first was told my fiance
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Speaker 1: it was dead, at first, I thought there was some
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Speaker 1: kind of a mix up and if I could just
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Speaker 1: get to him, I could fix it, and I could
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Speaker 1: get him to the hospital and everything would be okay.
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Speaker 1: I thought there had been a car crash, just like
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Speaker 1: what joe Ane Nathee is saying about Jodie Houston truth
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Speaker 1: and I know you hear her saying, well, we thought
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Speaker 1: it was a car accident, then we thought missing. Well,
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Speaker 1: there's just some mix that we're going to fix this.
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Speaker 1: Why is our mind? Why do I minds go to
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Speaker 1: something that we can comprehend? Like I couldn't comprehend that
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Speaker 1: Keith had been shot five times in the face and
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Speaker 1: the neck and the head in the back. That was
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Speaker 1: hard for me. That would never have occurred to me
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Speaker 1: that that could have happened. Just like with Joe and Nathy,
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Speaker 1: Jody's sister, she really thought, oh, there's been a car crash, missing,
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Speaker 1: What this is wrong? We're gonna We're going to get
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Speaker 1: this all straightened out. Why is that? What is that?
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Speaker 6: It starts off as like a protective mechanism for ourselves,
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Speaker 6: you know, to try to make some positive sense out
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Speaker 6: of it. You know, the term we use is closure, uh,
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Speaker 6: And it's not like closing up the you know, the event,
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Speaker 6: but it's trying to make sense out of ambiguity. And
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Speaker 6: you know, you think of well, maybe it was a
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Speaker 6: car accident. They're okay, they're going to be found. You
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Speaker 6: continue to put the positive perspective on it, and it
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Speaker 6: helps kind of keep you stayed. So as you take
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Speaker 6: in more information, you can, you know, better assess it
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Speaker 6: and apply it to the situation.
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Speaker 7: Is this some sort of a defense mechanism, Well, I
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Speaker 7: call it more of a protective mechanism, you know, trying
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Speaker 7: to keep you know, that stress level down so you can.
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Speaker 6: Keep a rational cognitive process going on with the information
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Speaker 6: that you're taking in. You know, some people they react,
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Speaker 6: you know just where they totally break down and you
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Speaker 6: know they're not able to do anything.
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Speaker 2: Yea.
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Speaker 1: I take a listen to our friend Ross Cugis KSTP
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Speaker 1: TV son and I just woken her up.
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Speaker 8: Amy Coons called Jody's apartment at four a m. The
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Speaker 8: morning Jody disappeared.
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Speaker 3: I wondered if anything was going on, like maybe somebody
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Speaker 3: was in her apartment.
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Speaker 1: Now, I listened for other voices.
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Speaker 8: Jody had said she had overslept and would be right in.
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Speaker 8: At four twenty that morning, Tenant's hear screams in the
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Speaker 8: parking lot.
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Speaker 3: Jody has never heard from again.
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Speaker 1: Caroline Load founded a podcast called Find Jody Podcast. You
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Speaker 1: can find her also at Caroline low TV. Caroline, thank
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Speaker 1: you for being with us. You've been on the case
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Speaker 1: for some time. Let's start at the beginning. What do
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Speaker 1: we know of the last time that Jody was seen alive?
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Speaker 1: No wait, no, let's start with the scene. Let's start
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Speaker 1: with her place where she was. What do we know.
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Speaker 9: What we know is it appears that whatever happened to
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Speaker 9: Jody happened in the parking lot right adjacent to her building.
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Speaker 9: It looks like they're about twelve steps from Jody's building
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Speaker 9: to her car. That she was most likely ambushed attack
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Speaker 9: from behind.
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Speaker 1: Okay, right, are you talking about her building where she
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Speaker 1: lived or her building where she where she lived.
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Speaker 9: We're talking from where she was running late. As we
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Speaker 9: heard Amy Koons, her producer, say, she was running late,
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Speaker 9: and so she's rushing to her car. She's carrying her
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Speaker 9: things she needs to.
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Speaker 10: Get ready her work.
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Speaker 9: Most likely her hair was wet being so late, and
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Speaker 9: she had a blow dryer with her. Somebody attacked her
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Speaker 9: from behind, and from all signs that we can tell,
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Speaker 9: there were signs of a struggle. She was dragged easterly.
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Speaker 9: According to the police.
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Speaker 11: You know what.
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Speaker 1: I got to break everything down that you're saying. I
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Speaker 1: got to go through it one fact at a time
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Speaker 1: and digest it and trying to make sense of it.
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Speaker 1: Guys were talking about a beautiful TV anchor that goes missing.
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Speaker 1: Jody Hu's in truth. Take a listen to our friend
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Speaker 1: Jim Axelrod.
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Speaker 12: The anchor of KIMT six am newscast. She usually rived
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Speaker 12: at work by three point thirty in the morning.
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Speaker 9: If she's not there between three thirty and TRIGGI were.
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Speaker 1: Calls a hey, are you awake.
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Speaker 12: Producer Amy Koons noticed nothing unusual, and she called and
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Speaker 12: whoped Jody up about ten after four that morning.
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Speaker 1: She was asking about the show.
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Speaker 3: She was concerned about the show and she said, I'll
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Speaker 3: be right there.
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Speaker 1: But at five point thirty.
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Speaker 12: Still know Jody, and this being a time before cell phones,
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Speaker 12: Amy tried her at home again and got her answering machine.
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Speaker 12: At six am. Amy had a step up and deliver
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Speaker 12: the news in Jody's place.
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Speaker 1: She loves her show. She got it her show. You know,
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Speaker 1: she wouldn't miss it for anything.
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Speaker 12: The police were called shortly after seven. When they arrived
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Speaker 12: at Jody's apartment, she wasn't home. But they found her shoes,
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Speaker 12: hair dryer and keys scattered on the ground near her
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Speaker 12: beloved red Mazda Miata.
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Speaker 1: You are hearing our friend Jim Axelrod at fine Jody
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Speaker 1: CBS forty eight hours the search on for Jodie Houston Street.
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Speaker 1: Let me go back to Caroline Love, investigative journalist. Caroline.
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Speaker 1: Let's start again at the beginning. Now you're telling me
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Speaker 1: she was leaving. You believe she was leaving her apartment
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Speaker 1: building that morning. She was running a little late for work.
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Speaker 1: Her hair was still wet because she had a hair
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Speaker 1: dryer with you with her. I assume that was standing
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Speaker 1: in the parking lot. You're telling me she was only
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Speaker 1: twelve feet out from her apartment or twelve feet from
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Speaker 1: her vehicle. And how would you know she was dragged behind?
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Speaker 9: That information came years ago from police, a police investigator.
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Speaker 9: She was dragged easterly. They saw marks in the silt,
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Speaker 9: if you will, and they believed that that's what happened,
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Speaker 9: That she was strigged easterly most toward Kentucky Avenue, which
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Speaker 9: is the main road going by the Key Apartments where
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Speaker 9: Jody lived with me.
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Speaker 1: Former Commander twenty seven years Woodbury Police Department, Jay Alberiro, Jay,
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Speaker 1: tell me what you know of the morning Jody goes missing.
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Speaker 10: An examination of the photos that the media had, the
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Speaker 10: information that the Mason City Police had put out there
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Speaker 10: in the past. So based on all that, my interpretation
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Speaker 10: and from the facts is that Jody was at her
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Speaker 10: car and it appears that she was attempting to put
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Speaker 10: the key in the door lock to open the door
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Speaker 10: to her car when she was grabbed, more likely from behind,
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Speaker 10: because there's indications or the key that she had was bent,
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Speaker 10: which tells me that she had to keep in the
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Speaker 10: door lock when she was grabbed, So the force of
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Speaker 10: somebody grabbing her pushed her towards.
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Speaker 11: The front of the car possibly and bent that key,
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Speaker 11: and also the driver's side mirror on the door was
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Speaker 11: also bent forward, and again that indicates there's a struggle
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Speaker 11: taking place and the perpetrator has grabbed her and has
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Speaker 11: taken her towards the front of the car, away from
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Speaker 11: her apartment building. You know, and the examination we've been
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Speaker 11: down there, we've driven through the parking lot and looked
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Speaker 11: at the scene, because the scene will tell you volumes
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Speaker 11: of what happened, and it's a very tight parking lot
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Speaker 11: where that's.
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Speaker 1: Really interesting to Wndy Patrick, prosecutor, author of red Flags
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Speaker 1: at wendypatricktphd dot com. Wendy, I never was so arrogant
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Speaker 1: as to try a case in frontly jury without having
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Speaker 1: gone to the scene. In fact, very typically obsessively gone
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Speaker 1: to the scene many, many times, often on my off time,
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Speaker 1: looking at it, trying to make sense, reenacting in my
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Speaker 1: mind what happened, who could see what or not see?
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Speaker 1: And in court, Wendy, it made all the difference because
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Speaker 1: I've had many defense witnesses take the stand under oath
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Speaker 1: and state what they saw or didn't see, and into
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Speaker 1: my knowledge of the scene makes it very easy to
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Speaker 1: say something like, well, wait a minute, isn't there a
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Speaker 1: big tree and a hedge around the building, So you're
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Speaker 1: saying you could see through the hedge what happened at
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Speaker 1: the front door? Is that what you're telling me? You
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Speaker 1: have to know this scene and we're just hearing that
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Speaker 1: from Jay Alberia.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, No, that's huge, And I usually go as soon
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Speaker 13: as possible when after the prime was committed, because especially
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Speaker 13: in a case like this where you have an incident
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Speaker 13: in the morning, you want to know when exactly the
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Speaker 13: sun came up, when people would be out walking your dogs,
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Speaker 13: when you'd see the joggers, when you would be able
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Speaker 13: to have seen the evidence left behind. You know, we
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Speaker 13: all know the first few hours after a kidnapping or
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Speaker 13: an abduction are the most critical, the most crucial, because
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Speaker 13: that's when the bad guy or whoever abducted the victim
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Speaker 13: is able to make the escape. So yes, and you're
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Speaker 13: also right, it gives you enhanced credibility in front of
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Speaker 13: not just the jury but also the judge to where
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Speaker 13: you are the one in the courtroom that has done
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Speaker 13: your homework. You've been there and you're in the best
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Speaker 13: position to be asking these questions.
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Speaker 1: It also helps you catch liars. But in this case,
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Speaker 1: we're hearing Jay Alberiro and Caroline Low describe what happened,
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Speaker 1: and the scenario is really important. Now, what have I learned?
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Speaker 1: I've learned that she was most likely attacked from behind.
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Speaker 1: What does that mean? Somebody she didn't know, somebody that
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Speaker 1: felt they had to sneak up on her, in the
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Speaker 1: sense that maybe it was someone she did know, but
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Speaker 1: they had bad dealings so they had to sneak up
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Speaker 1: on her. It tells me that she fought tooth and nail,
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Speaker 1: that she had almost made it to her car, because
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Speaker 1: we're here Alberio describing how the key to the car
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Speaker 1: was bent, So Jesse she had gotten it in and
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Speaker 1: it was pulled away with such force it bent the key.
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Speaker 1: Now we are hypothesizing what happened, but there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of evidence to prove that. Take a listen to reporterly
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Speaker 1: with ABC six KAA l what happened to Jody.
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Speaker 4: Outside of Jody's apartment, investigators found evidence of a struggle,
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Speaker 4: her personal items scattered in the parking lot, jewelry, shoes
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Speaker 4: and a bag near her red convertible, and perhaps one
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Speaker 4: of the most important pieces of evidence, a broken key.
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Speaker 1: As Jody's mourning producer morning assistant producer, I was the
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Speaker 1: last one to speak with her before she disappeared.
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Speaker 4: Ammy Coons was working that morning Jody disappeared. She tells
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Speaker 4: police Jody was often late for work and that morning
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Speaker 4: she called Jody and says Jody answered and told her
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Speaker 4: she was on her way in. We still have our
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Speaker 4: jobs to do and I just got to get the
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Speaker 4: show yere Coons went on to anchor that morning in
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Speaker 4: Jody's place, It wasn't until hours later that a phone
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Speaker 4: call was made by the station to police that Jody
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Speaker 4: never arrived to work.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, man, that is critical to Joanne Nathy. This
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Speaker 1: is Jody's sister. They didn't call for how many hours?
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Speaker 1: Those are critical hours in finding Jody.
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Speaker 5: Yes, that's true. I'm sure they just well, maybe she
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Speaker 5: overslept and she would be in That's what I've understood it.
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Speaker 5: But it was critical time period. It's too bad that
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Speaker 5: they didn't call.
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Speaker 6: But you know, it happened.
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Speaker 1: Those cards were dealt and we're working with what we've got.
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Speaker 5: Certainly, Amy Kons never saw that Jody was being oblessd
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Speaker 5: accepted of course, just thought she had overslipped you know, crime.
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Speaker 1: Stories with Nancy Grace. What happened to TV anchor Jody
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Speaker 1: Houston truth. No arrests have been made and only a
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Speaker 1: handful of PAIS persons of interest have been named.
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Speaker 14: Why.
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Speaker 1: Earlier this month, a local PI Steve Ridge, claims there's
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Speaker 1: a dramatic breakthrough. He says he Id's the person responsible
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Speaker 1: for Jody's abduction by getting a second hand confession from
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Speaker 1: one of the alleged suspects former partners, who an unnamed
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Speaker 1: woman claims she was dating a man just months after
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Speaker 1: Houston Troup's disappearance, who told her he quote did it now.
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Speaker 1: According to this PI private investigator Ridge, the woman provides
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Speaker 1: evidence to support her claims. These of the facts as
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Speaker 1: we know them, Caroline Loath, isn't it correct that you know,
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Speaker 1: I heard another coworker say that Jeddie was never late
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Speaker 1: to work, So I've got a conflicting report on that.
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Speaker 5: Well.
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Speaker 1: Is that significant? Yes? Because if she was never late
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Speaker 1: to work as she was late this morning, that is
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Speaker 1: what we call quote routine evidence, evidence of habit or routine.
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Speaker 1: It's very hard to break, you know, when you're in
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Speaker 1: the TV business. You can't be one minute late or
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Speaker 1: there'll be an empty chair sitting there. You need. If
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Speaker 1: you're fifteen minutes early, you're late. So I'm curious about that,
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Speaker 1: and I'm also curious the coworker said Caroline that they
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Speaker 1: called her and she said, I'm on the way. Is
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Speaker 1: that correct?
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Speaker 9: We have no information otherwise, and that's what police are reported,
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Speaker 9: So we are guess guessing that they checked the records
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Speaker 9: to verify that. But to back to Amy, Amy said
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Speaker 9: that she was basically crashing to get the show.
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Speaker 5: On.
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Speaker 9: She was initially just kind of angry at that she'd overslept,
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Speaker 9: and she told maybe just the other day one of
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Speaker 9: her biggest fearies was she would lose her job if
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Speaker 9: she didn't get that show produced and on the air. Yeah,
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Speaker 9: she never imagined.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's right about that, because people would tune in
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Speaker 1: and there'd be nothing there. So yeah, she would probably
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Speaker 1: have lost her job. Another question to Caroline Lowe. Very
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Speaker 1: often I would take clothes, shoes, makeup, whatever jewelry that
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Speaker 1: I was going to wear it that night with me
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Speaker 1: in my hands, in a bag and a backpack folded
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Speaker 1: up with me. So I'm assuming that everything that was
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Speaker 1: found in the parking lot. When we hear hair dry
20:44
Speaker 1: or shoes and all that, that doesn't mean they came
20:45
Speaker 1: off her feet. That means to me, that's what she
20:49
Speaker 1: was going to wear onto the air. Guys, we're talking
20:51
Speaker 1: about Jody, who's in truth just twenty seven years old.
20:54
Speaker 1: That goes missing seemingly into thin air. So, Caroline low
20:59
Speaker 1: what can you tell me about all the items that
21:00
Speaker 1: were scattered in the parking lot.
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Speaker 9: What we know is there are a pair of red
21:03
Speaker 9: high heels, which would seem to suggest that Jody was
21:06
Speaker 9: likely wearing something with red or all red that day.
21:09
Speaker 9: We don't know exactly. As far as we know, what
21:11
Speaker 9: she was wearing has never been found. There was hairspray,
21:14
Speaker 9: there was a blow dryer, There are earrings, so the
21:16
Speaker 9: basics of what you would wear to go on the air.
21:19
Speaker 9: What's missing is a bag that she carried it in.
21:22
Speaker 9: We've never heard anything about whether that was located. Presumably
21:26
Speaker 9: Jody did not run to her car carrying all these
21:28
Speaker 9: things in her arms doesn't make sense. So where is
21:31
Speaker 9: that bag? Where is the purse that she normally would
21:33
Speaker 9: have had.
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Speaker 11: We don't know.
21:34
Speaker 1: And we also know that she was in a hurry
21:36
Speaker 1: because she was running late, so she may have grabbed
21:39
Speaker 1: things and then they came out of her hands. But
21:41
Speaker 1: I find that also odd. Why would she have be
21:44
Speaker 1: carrying ear rings and other things in her hands and
21:48
Speaker 1: trying to open up the car door. Guys, take a
21:50
Speaker 1: listen to our cut seven A This is Brian Mastery
21:55
Speaker 1: Evening anchor kimt listen.
21:57
Speaker 15: Jody wasn't there, and so in an associate producer Amy
22:00
Speaker 15: Kons calls Jody at her apartment. Jody sounded as though
22:04
Speaker 15: she had just woke up and told Amy, Okay, I'm
22:08
Speaker 15: getting around, I'll be in.
22:10
Speaker 1: So then the time passes.
22:12
Speaker 15: It's now four point thirty, it's now five, Amy, I'm
22:17
Speaker 15: assuming always thought, well, Jody probably just fell back asleep.
22:21
Speaker 15: Jody not coming in right on time wasn't necessarily unusual
22:25
Speaker 15: from talking to the people who worked in the morning.
22:28
Speaker 15: She wasn't always right on time. Show starts at six
22:33
Speaker 15: o'clock without Jody, and so it was just a few
22:35
Speaker 15: minutes after seven o'clock, right after she had gotten off
22:37
Speaker 15: the air, Amy Coons calls Mason City Police for a
22:40
Speaker 15: welfare check.
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Speaker 9: Manka, can I clarify something there? Yeah, Amy didn't make
22:44
Speaker 9: the Amy did not make the phone call. Amy was
22:46
Speaker 9: still sitting on this set at the seven o'clock when
22:49
Speaker 9: the show ended. A co worker came in and she
22:52
Speaker 9: asked the coworker to call police because she still had
22:54
Speaker 9: to do.
22:54
Speaker 13: A morning update.
22:55
Speaker 9: So a co worker called the police at seven point thirteen.
22:59
Speaker 9: First officers arrived on the scene at seven sixteen.
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Speaker 1: Interesting. That makes me feel a little bit better about
23:05
Speaker 1: the timeline, because the whole day hasn't passed. Take a
23:09
Speaker 1: listen to more of our friends at KIMT Listen Mason City.
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Speaker 15: Police found Jody's car in the parking lot in the
23:15
Speaker 15: apartment complex, was maybe twenty feet twenty five feet from
23:19
Speaker 15: the front door.
23:21
Speaker 13: They did find her car in the parking lot, and
23:23
Speaker 13: or she had been found a bench.
23:26
Speaker 15: If you see that scattered, a key bent in her
23:29
Speaker 15: fairly new car. There's a palm print on the car.
23:34
Speaker 15: There's a struggle. She's been abducted. She's probably still alive.
23:42
Speaker 15: There's a three hour window in between the phone call
23:45
Speaker 15: and the welfare check, and that's a lot of time
23:47
Speaker 15: for somebody to do something.
23:49
Speaker 1: And get away. That is conventional wisdom. If someone is
23:52
Speaker 1: killed in an induction, very often the first three hours
23:56
Speaker 1: or the critical that's the critical window in which you
23:59
Speaker 1: have a chance to save the person. Straight out to
24:02
Speaker 1: doctor Jury Cross in Psychologists Faculty, Saint Leo University. You know,
24:08
Speaker 1: another wrinkle in this case is that Jodi Huson Troup
24:12
Speaker 1: was in everybody's living rooms and bedrooms and dens and
24:15
Speaker 1: kitchens all across the viewing area. People thought that they
24:20
Speaker 1: knew her. Not only that, there are a lot of
24:23
Speaker 1: people out there that, for instance, I know this sounds crazy,
24:27
Speaker 1: doctor Jury, that think you're sending them nonverbal messages, or
24:33
Speaker 1: that you are speaking to them in code in some way.
24:39
Speaker 1: Of course, these people have mental issues, but they believe,
24:44
Speaker 1: for instance, somebody young and beautiful like Jody Hughsons Trupe
24:46
Speaker 1: is actually in love with them. It happens quite often, doctor.
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Speaker 16: Yes, it does with you know, celebrities or anybody that's
24:55
Speaker 16: in the public light of you know, I guess all
24:58
Speaker 16: the reporters that can kind of.
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Speaker 6: Relate to that. But the one thing is that you know,
25:05
Speaker 6: from the psychological perspective of who did this, I mean,
25:08
Speaker 6: it seemed to be pretty well planned out, and most
25:12
Speaker 6: people that you know either have those kind of delusions,
25:16
Speaker 6: I mean, they can still plan it out well, but
25:18
Speaker 6: committing it to this degree of almost perfection. You know,
25:23
Speaker 6: it was that time of day, early in the morning.
25:26
Speaker 6: They had to wait. She was late. I mean, there's
25:29
Speaker 6: a lot of things that you know, what we don't
25:31
Speaker 6: have answers for.
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Speaker 1: And I'm assuming to you, Caroline Low that there were
25:36
Speaker 1: no security cameras in the parking lot, no.
25:38
Speaker 9: Security cameras, and as far as we know, no eyewitnesses.
25:42
Speaker 1: Oh man, of course, to you Jay Alberio, it was
25:45
Speaker 1: so early in the morning that she was leaving correct.
25:47
Speaker 1: What time was it?
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Speaker 10: We made from the information it was about four thirty
25:52
Speaker 10: in the morning.
25:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's not a lot of people out and about
25:55
Speaker 1: at four thirty in the morning. Take a listen to
25:57
Speaker 1: our forensic KIMT.
25:58
Speaker 15: The search for Jody was immedia. The response was overwhelming.
26:02
Speaker 15: I mean, she's in your living room every morning. In
26:06
Speaker 15: Mason City and the surrounding communities, people feel as though
26:09
Speaker 15: they know you men. So everybody wanted to help. You
26:12
Speaker 15: had dogs, you had psychics. You had so many people
26:16
Speaker 15: looking just to see if they could find clues.
26:18
Speaker 1: To Joey and Nathan. This is Jody's sister. Do you
26:21
Speaker 1: remember the use of psychics trying to find Jody.
26:26
Speaker 6: Oh?
26:27
Speaker 5: Yeah, we had telephone calls and we were on a
26:29
Speaker 5: show with psychics too at the beginning. Could I clarify
26:34
Speaker 5: something that always bugs me that I hear them say,
26:37
Speaker 5: like I heard this morning again that she was late
26:40
Speaker 5: many times for work. And I never had that impression
26:43
Speaker 5: of a few times she was late for work. But
26:46
Speaker 5: Jody was very conscientious about her job. I mean, she
26:50
Speaker 5: wanted perfection. I would not say she was late many times.
26:55
Speaker 5: A few times she was a little late. Probably she
26:57
Speaker 5: did jam pack. Her day's way too much. She worked,
27:01
Speaker 5: stayed up late writing thank you notes, and you know,
27:04
Speaker 5: she just used every hour I don't know, you know, And.
27:08
Speaker 1: I was trying to clear that earlier, Joe n Natha.
27:10
Speaker 1: Through my research and investigation of the case, I found
27:13
Speaker 1: other co workers that said she was never late or
27:16
Speaker 1: really late.
27:18
Speaker 5: She was so conscientious. But no, she was late a
27:20
Speaker 5: few times. I'm sure. Yeah, I'm glad.
27:23
Speaker 1: You said that, because I don't like the impression at leaves,
27:25
Speaker 1: and more important, it factors into what happened that morning,
27:31
Speaker 1: because she told the co worker I'm up, I'm on
27:34
Speaker 1: my way here.
27:35
Speaker 5: I count and I'm sure she was very nervous at
27:37
Speaker 5: that point because she was so conscientious.
27:40
Speaker 1: I'm sure take a listen as Brian Master kimt Free.
27:44
Speaker 15: Neighbors apparently heard screams that morning, and none of them
27:51
Speaker 15: are able to really give an indicator about what those
27:55
Speaker 15: screams were about.
28:02
Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace now this PI Ridge has
28:10
Speaker 1: made more than one sensational claim about the case in
28:14
Speaker 1: the past. He doesn't name either person, either the alleged
28:18
Speaker 1: suspect or the woman that rats him out, but he
28:21
Speaker 1: shared his findings with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation
28:24
Speaker 1: the DCI. The Mason City Police Chief Mike McKelvey warned,
28:30
Speaker 1: quote misinformation spread by social media slews and private eyes.
28:36
Speaker 1: That information is having a quote detrimental effect on the investigation.
28:40
Speaker 1: That suggests to me that he doesn't believe what the
28:42
Speaker 1: PI is saying. Well, these are the facts that we
28:45
Speaker 1: know to be true. To Wendy Patcheck, California prosecutor, author
28:49
Speaker 1: of Red Flags, and hosters today with doctor Wendy k
28:52
Speaker 1: c BQ in San Diego. Wendy, you know, a timeline
28:58
Speaker 1: can start with something seemingly innocuous. And I will refer
29:03
Speaker 1: to a really good example where in the Nicole Brown
29:09
Speaker 1: Ron Golman double murder, the neighbors were first alerted by
29:14
Speaker 1: the dog. I believe the dog. Same was Akida's, as
29:17
Speaker 1: they say, mournful or plaintive. Well, that really started the timeline. Yeah,
29:24
Speaker 1: same in the middle of the night, and here the
29:26
Speaker 1: neighbors hear these screams. Wendy, that's right.
29:30
Speaker 13: And you know a lot of people would have called
29:31
Speaker 13: the police right away upon hearing those screams, and a
29:34
Speaker 13: timeline would also include people that were up at six am.
29:37
Speaker 13: This was a morning anchor. She was in the morning
29:40
Speaker 13: rooms of the breakfast tables across this small town, where
29:44
Speaker 13: more people were likely to know her, to recognize her,
29:46
Speaker 13: to know her name. It also, when you talk about
29:49
Speaker 13: a timeline, you would want to know if she had
29:52
Speaker 13: a stalker. And I've prosecuted several men who have stalked
29:55
Speaker 13: news anchors specifically, but they were news anchors that were
29:58
Speaker 13: on when they were awake. That timeline would also sweep
30:02
Speaker 13: in everyone that would necessarily have seen her, have seen something,
30:06
Speaker 13: who would have been up, who know who she is,
30:09
Speaker 13: because they would have been awakened in a position to
30:11
Speaker 13: be not only sharp many people are sharper in the morning,
30:14
Speaker 13: but also in a position to notice something out of
30:16
Speaker 13: the ordinary, like those screams that, as you point out,
30:19
Speaker 13: really starts that timeline. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're a scream at four thirty five
30:22
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, and there's a big difference of
30:26
Speaker 1: hearing the neighbor calling the dog and a woman screaming,
30:30
Speaker 1: I'm very surprised no one called police, But you know what, again,
30:34
Speaker 1: that's what we're working with. They did not take a
30:37
Speaker 1: listen now to Ross Curious at KSTPTV.
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Speaker 8: Jody's closest friends in Mason City are for the first
30:46
Speaker 8: time talking about their suspicions because.
30:49
Speaker 4: It could possibly be someone that we know.
30:52
Speaker 2: All with all the times I've talked to detectives, they
30:55
Speaker 2: feel that someone's stoptor watched her, know what her schedule
30:59
Speaker 2: was and was definitely going to plan on I'm doing
31:03
Speaker 2: something that morning.
31:04
Speaker 8: Right up to her disappearance, this group of people socialized
31:07
Speaker 8: with Jody. As they realized Jody's abductor might not be
31:10
Speaker 8: a stranger, they grew uncomfortable with one of their friends.
31:14
Speaker 16: You see signals you may not have seen that make
31:17
Speaker 16: me think that there's there is always a possibility that
31:20
Speaker 16: could be somebody that we know.
31:23
Speaker 1: Now take a listen to Brian Mastri and Beth Bednor,
31:28
Speaker 1: former anchor from KIMT and KAA L speaking to our
31:34
Speaker 1: friends at ID.
31:35
Speaker 15: Investigators start to zero in on someone who was with
31:38
Speaker 15: Jody the night before. They knew that she had been
31:42
Speaker 15: with a friend twenty years her senior, John van Seiss.
31:46
Speaker 13: John van Seiss is considerably older than her, recently divorced
31:50
Speaker 13: and looked to Mason City.
31:52
Speaker 3: You've spent a lot of time together two weeks prior
31:55
Speaker 3: to her disappearance. John had a birthday.
31:58
Speaker 10: Party for who is celebrated twenty out of Fursday.
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Speaker 15: It seems so he was the last one to see
32:04
Speaker 15: Jody alive too.
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Speaker 1: Caroline Love investigative journalists and you can find her at
32:09
Speaker 1: find Jody dot com, Find Jody podcast and Caroline low TV. Caroline,
32:15
Speaker 1: who is this guy? And so he's the last one
32:18
Speaker 1: to see her alive the night before.
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Speaker 9: That's what he says. His name is John van Seiss.
32:22
Speaker 9: He was twenty two years older than Jody, and just
32:25
Speaker 9: two days earlier that weekend, he and several of Jody's
32:28
Speaker 9: friends had gotten together in northern Iowa to go on
32:32
Speaker 9: a water skiing trip. Actually writes about him in her journal.
32:35
Speaker 9: The last thing she writes about two days before she disappeared,
32:39
Speaker 9: talks about what a great time she had with John
32:41
Speaker 9: van Seiss her other friends Annie Cruz and Tammy Baker.
32:45
Speaker 9: So he's an older friend who has spent a lot
32:47
Speaker 9: of time with her in the last couple months before
32:49
Speaker 9: she disappeared.
32:50
Speaker 1: And to you, Jay Alberia, former commander of Woodbury Police Department.
32:54
Speaker 1: Jay did he he worked with her in what capacity?
32:58
Speaker 10: No, John Vancis did not worry with her with Jody.
33:02
Speaker 10: There are acquaintances. As far as we know, John had
33:06
Speaker 10: lived in the apartment complex at one time. That's possibly
33:09
Speaker 10: where he met Jody that became friends. Had a mutual
33:12
Speaker 10: interest in water skiing and John had a boat, so
33:16
Speaker 10: John was taking her waterskiing, and we believed that he
33:20
Speaker 10: was also helping her learn how to water ski.
33:22
Speaker 1: To Joey and Nathy, what was her relationship with John Vansoiz.
33:28
Speaker 5: Well, actually I didn't know about the guy till this
33:30
Speaker 5: all happened. She had mentioned to my mom. My mom
33:34
Speaker 5: cautioned her that she was not really dating this guy,
33:38
Speaker 5: but he was a friend, you know, and stuff. And
33:41
Speaker 5: my mom said, well, you better be careful because you
33:44
Speaker 5: know he might be getting romantically interested in you all.
33:47
Speaker 5: We're just good friends. Jody would say, you know, and
33:51
Speaker 5: so but I after hearing about after it all happened,
33:55
Speaker 5: we know that he was quite obsessed with Jody.
33:58
Speaker 12: Why say that, Oh just.
34:01
Speaker 5: He wanted always to be a round her and he
34:03
Speaker 5: wanted to you know. Said he even named his boat
34:07
Speaker 5: after her, which was odd. And the friends knew that too.
34:11
Speaker 5: They cautioned Jody. They said, Jody, are you sure that
34:15
Speaker 5: John isn't more interested in you than you think, and
34:19
Speaker 5: it was just very obvious that he that he has
34:22
Speaker 5: been was very interested in her.
34:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, as a matter of fact, you're absolutely correct. Joeyne Nathy,
34:29
Speaker 1: this is Jody's sister in joining us. Take a listen
34:33
Speaker 1: to Mary McGuire k I m t force.
34:35
Speaker 3: To play the role of both journalist and friend. Robin
34:38
Speaker 3: wolf From reported on the disappearance. Even interviewing the man
34:41
Speaker 3: who Jody was seen with last, what was his demeanor like?
34:45
Speaker 17: Joyful, almost strangely happy, and telling me how he named
34:51
Speaker 17: his boat after and how he just loved her.
34:53
Speaker 3: She has no doubt in her mind that man, an
34:56
Speaker 3: older gentleman who is friends with Jody, is the one
34:59
Speaker 3: responsible for her disappearance.
35:00
Speaker 17: I cautioned Jody about their friendship in television.
35:05
Speaker 4: We have a gut incidint about things. My gut and
35:08
Speaker 4: my instinct tells me that he's responsible.
35:13
Speaker 3: But Wilfrom isn't the only one who shares those same
35:16
Speaker 3: suspicions about him. Last March find Jody dot Com, a
35:19
Speaker 3: website dedicated to the case, reported Mason City police served
35:22
Speaker 3: him with a search warrant seeking GPS data on two
35:25
Speaker 3: of his cars.
35:26
Speaker 1: Straight out to Caroline Low. Caroline, what can you tell
35:30
Speaker 1: me about the search warrant served on this guy, this
35:34
Speaker 1: much older gentleman twenty two years her senior, that apparently
35:39
Speaker 1: was besotted with her.
35:41
Speaker 9: The search warrants occurred in twenty seventeen, and well, what
35:45
Speaker 9: the police were seeking was two vehicles associated with John
35:49
Speaker 9: van Seiss, vehicles that he did not have back in
35:51
Speaker 9: nineteen ninety five. They weren't manufactured till a few years later.
35:55
Speaker 9: We don't know specifically what they were seeking. Their probably
35:59
Speaker 9: will cause statement, the affidavit is not public. What we
36:02
Speaker 9: do know, as I said, is they were after she disappeared.
36:05
Speaker 9: The possible theory is that they were seeking to see
36:09
Speaker 9: if maybe he was going to some kind of a
36:11
Speaker 9: crime scene when he was back in Iowa. He was
36:14
Speaker 9: subpoena before a federal grand jury in that same month,
36:18
Speaker 9: where he was ordered to provide palm prints, fingerprints, and
36:21
Speaker 9: DNA sample. But we don't know, and the chief later
36:24
Speaker 9: said it did not produce any evidence.
36:27
Speaker 1: I'm guessing Wendy Patrick that they would want to compare.
36:31
Speaker 1: He has not been named as a suspect. Number one.
36:33
Speaker 1: Let's just state that any potential palm prints or fingerprints.
36:37
Speaker 1: Is something found on that car?
36:39
Speaker 13: Oh absolutely, And you know the Joanne and your other guests.
36:43
Speaker 13: What we've done is we bumped the timeline back to
36:45
Speaker 13: even the night before. So you talk about that palm print,
36:48
Speaker 13: where it came from, who might have made it. Now
36:50
Speaker 13: we're sweeping in people that may have seen her within
36:52
Speaker 13: even the last twelve hours. And yes, you know forensics.
36:56
Speaker 13: I know this happens a long time ago, but we
36:58
Speaker 13: still today had some. But we had even back then
37:01
Speaker 13: Google fashion forensics, especially in a case like this where
37:05
Speaker 13: that's all that they had left at the scene. There
37:07
Speaker 13: was no footage or cell phone tinging like we do nowadays.
37:10
Speaker 13: A pall print like that would have been an enormous
37:12
Speaker 13: piece of evidence.
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Speaker 18: It's a new information has come out from that twenty
37:16
Speaker 18: seventeen search warrant which shows the GPS tracking data of
37:20
Speaker 18: a car owned by that person of interest. He died
37:23
Speaker 18: December of last year. The data tracks a vehicle during
37:26
Speaker 18: the four day span as it traveled from Baxter, Iowa,
37:30
Speaker 18: through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico before stopping
37:35
Speaker 18: in Phoenix. The rest of the information has not been released.
37:39
Speaker 1: It could have been anyone everybody in the area knows
37:44
Speaker 1: Jody who's insrut. They see her every single morning. Take
37:47
Speaker 1: a listen to Jennifer Austin KA R E eleven.
37:50
Speaker 9: Don't think because the world is concerned with other news,
37:53
Speaker 9: that she's forgotten.
37:54
Speaker 17: Caroline Lowe is an investigative journalist and part of the
37:57
Speaker 17: Fine Jody Team, a group of investigator who continued to
38:00
Speaker 17: look into the unsolved case.
38:02
Speaker 14: What happened to Jody.
38:04
Speaker 17: They launched a podcast this month on what would have
38:06
Speaker 17: been Jody's fifty second birthday, hoping to keep eyes on
38:10
Speaker 17: her story and find answers about what happened the early
38:13
Speaker 17: morning of June twenty seventh, nineteen ninety five, when Jody
38:16
Speaker 17: left her apartment late for her job anchering the morning news.
38:20
Speaker 4: America's most highly publicized missing children.
38:23
Speaker 17: She never made it.
38:24
Speaker 4: She was very easy to follow.
38:26
Speaker 2: You knew her schedule anchoring the six AM and new news,
38:29
Speaker 2: her home number.
38:30
Speaker 4: For address, for even lists in the local directory. She
38:33
Speaker 4: would have been very easy to find.
38:35
Speaker 1: What could have been done differently? And can there be
38:39
Speaker 1: a save? Take a listen to our cut sixteen A.
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Speaker 1: This is Laurlee ABC six KAA L listen I can't
38:47
Speaker 1: remember Jody.
38:48
Speaker 3: Ever being too or late for work. She's a professional
38:51
Speaker 3: journalism journalist.
38:54
Speaker 4: Then general manager John Shine seen during a press conference
38:57
Speaker 4: later that day describing a very different front. Jody a
39:01
Speaker 4: devoted employee who took her job seriously.
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Speaker 14: I've made it clear this case is not going to
39:05
Speaker 14: go away for us.
39:07
Speaker 4: For many decades, this case has puzzled the Mason City
39:10
Speaker 4: Police Department. What do you think you, as a chief
39:13
Speaker 4: can do different than the chiefs prior to you that
39:15
Speaker 4: have had this case under their tail and nothing has
39:18
Speaker 4: come about.
39:19
Speaker 14: I'm not going to sit here in second guess decisions
39:22
Speaker 14: made officers in the field twenty five years ago about
39:25
Speaker 14: what they did. I will tell you that I don't
39:28
Speaker 14: believe that any of them probably thought that we would
39:30
Speaker 14: still be working this case today.
39:32
Speaker 4: Chief Jeff Brankley says bringing a fresh pair of eyes
39:34
Speaker 4: to the case could help.
39:36
Speaker 14: Cold cases I think are of interest to a lot
39:37
Speaker 14: of people. It's obviously a case that affected Mason City,
39:41
Speaker 14: and so if we could put some closure to that,
39:43
Speaker 14: I'm interested in doing that.
39:45
Speaker 1: To Caroline Low, Investigative journalists find Jody dot com Caroline,
39:49
Speaker 1: where does it stand now? There was one reporting of
39:53
Speaker 1: a body found at a Mason City river. We don't
39:57
Speaker 1: believe it remains and we don't believe that was Jody.
40:00
Speaker 1: A PI popped up and said he had information that
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Speaker 1: he is still not shared with anyone in the family.
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Speaker 1: Have there been any developments, Caroline that we could really
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Speaker 1: sink our teeth into.
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Speaker 9: Nancy, I really wish I could say there were, and
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Speaker 9: we get tips all the time at find Jody dot com,
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Speaker 9: but we have no information that authorities, anybody is any
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Speaker 9: closer to finding Jody, Hues and Troup today than they
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Speaker 9: were years ago.
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Speaker 1: To Joanne Nathan, this is Jody's sister, Joanne, what is
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Speaker 1: your most vivid memory of your sister Jody.
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Speaker 5: Well, she was always so very caring about us. She
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Speaker 5: just wanted us to be happy. That was a big interest.
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Speaker 5: You know. If she was working at a resoarch and
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Speaker 5: her time off, she'd invite us up to use the facilities.
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Speaker 5: And oh, she was just so bubbly. She has a personality.
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Speaker 5: Plus you know, she probably didn't have the best speaking
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Speaker 5: ability necessarily, but all her personality on the air just
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Speaker 5: came through. Doug Murbrick told me the ratings were very
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Speaker 5: high and one thing though, she revealed too much about
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Speaker 5: her personal life on the air also, but that's you know, Jody.
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Speaker 5: She was so personable with everyone and people felt they
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Speaker 5: really really knew her. And all you need is somebody
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Speaker 5: who was not playing with a full deck to become
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Speaker 5: obsessed and sitting and listening to her daily routine. She
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Speaker 5: would often talk where she went jogging and what activity
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Speaker 5: she was going to do that day, and she probably went.
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Speaker 5: She probably did too much of that on the air
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Speaker 5: and it was too personable, but they liked it. The
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Speaker 5: viewers loved it.
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Speaker 1: The police chief goes on to stay the majority of
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Speaker 1: leads brought forth by pis and amateurs had been quite duds. Seemingly.
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Speaker 1: Her family rejects the news as well. They put out
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Speaker 1: a statement claiming that misinformation routinely shared about JODI's case
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Speaker 1: subjects them to a quote different kind of pain. It
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Speaker 1: makes them relive it all over again, maybe even get
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Speaker 1: their hopes up for nothing that has got to hurt immensely.
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Speaker 1: We wait as justice unfolds. Nancy Grace crime story, signing
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Speaker 1: off Goodbye friend,