Lipstick, High Heels & Purse Only Clues as TV Star Jodi Huisentruit Vanishes, Documents Unsealed
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline
3.9 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
When Iowa TV news anchor Jodi Huisentruit fails to show up for her morning show, coworkers know something is wrong. Huisentruit's red Mazda Miata is still in the parking lot, as well as other evidence that suggests a struggle had taken place near the car. Her personal items, a hairdryer, lipstick, and red high heel shoes, as well as a bent car key, were strewn about the area.
Police recovered an unidentified palm print from her vehicle. Neighbors report hearing screams at about the time that Huisentruit would have been leaving for work. The popular TV personality is still missing more than two decades later. Search warrants issued at the time for a personal of interest have now been partially unsealed.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Joann Nathe - Victim's Sister
- Wendy Patrick - California prosecutor, Author: “Red Flags” www.wendypatrickphd.com 'Today with Dr. Wendy' on KCBQ in San Diego
- Dr. Jorey Krawczyn - Police Psychologist, Adjunct Faculty with Saint Leo University; Research Consultant with Blue Wall Institute, Author: Operation S.O.S. - Practical Recommendations to Help “Stop Officer Suicide”
- Jay Alberio - Former Commander, 27 Years Woodbury Police Department, Former Investigative Unit Manager for Woodbury Public Safety, FindJodi.com, Former U.S. Marine Corps
- Caroline Lowe - Investigative Journalist, FindJodi.com, "Find Jodi Podcast" CarolineLoweTV on Twitter/Instagram/Facebook
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.0 | A beautiful and beloved news anchor seemingly vanishes on her way to the newsroom for her morning appearance on air. |
| 0:21.5 | But now, her family grieving share a new and very disturbing theory. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:31.2 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:32.6 | Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:35.4 | Before dawn in the early morning on June 27, Jody Housenstrut, woke up by the phone ringing. |
| 0:44.9 | The 27-year-old was groggy and disoriented. |
| 0:48.1 | She reached for the receiver in her Mason City, Iowa apartment. |
| 0:52.4 | On the other end, her producer at KIMT-M-T News, who told her it was past |
| 0:57.8 | 4 a.m. She needed to hurry and get to the newsroom. Hoos and Trute did hurry, got it together, |
| 1:05.1 | and raced out to her car. She was due on air within the hour for her morning show called |
| 1:10.3 | Daybreak. |
| 1:12.3 | But when the producer, Amy Coons, tried again to call Jody, she got only an answering |
| 1:18.6 | machine. |
| 1:19.6 | A fill-in took the air and the search was on for Jody Huisenchut. |
| 1:25.8 | In the last days, her family reveals their stunning fear. Their |
| 1:31.9 | fear, their gut feeling is that someone became obsessed with Jody from watching her on TV, thinking |
| 1:42.3 | she's so beautiful. She's so articulate, she can be so funny that |
| 1:47.7 | that is my ideal woman, according to family. Family believes that this unknown stalker |
| 1:57.8 | may not have intended for Jody to die, but maybe everything just went wrong. What do we know |
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