MISSING TV ANCHOR'S SECRET FLING WITH MYSTERY MAN BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARS?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

As morning news anchor for KIMV TV, Jodi Huisentruit normally arrives by 3:30 AM. to prepare to go on at 6 AM. When Huisentruit doesn't arrive at the studio by 4 a.m. producer Amy Kuns calls the 27-year-old, apparently waking her up. Huisentruit says she is heading to the station right away. Huisentruit doesn't arrive at the station. Other calls made to her phone go unanswered. At 6 AM producer Amy Kuns fills in on-air for Huisentruit and when she finishes, she calls the police asking for a welfare check.

At 7:16 AM police are at Huisentruit's apartment complex where they find her red Mazda Miata in the parking lot. A pair of red women’s dress shoes, a blow dryer, bottle of hair spray, car keys and earrings are scattered beside the car, along with a bent car key. There are signs of a struggle. Police begin a missing persons investigation.

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0:00.0	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:05.0	Did a missing TV anchor have a secret fling with a mystery man just before she disappears, clues left behind, a hair dryer, and a pair of
0:18.5	red-high heels. Good evening, I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you for being with us.
0:25.0	We never, you know, anticipated anything like it's ever happening. We thought Jody would be safe in Mason City.
0:32.0	It wasn't that big of a community and she just she
0:36.8	took a lot of safety courses and stuff and she was careful. She really was. She wanted to have a good reputation in this community and yeah we were just stunned we were on a bus trip up north my mom and aunt just with the group of ladies you know and we were going
0:57.2	to this casino it was going to be a fun day and so we were up in Walker, Minnesota and then they asked us to come to the room
1:07.9	when we got there and that there was an emergency phone call.
1:11.7	It was shortly after we arrived and so we came in and they said
1:15.4	it's from Mason City and right away my mom said oh no Jody and we thought maybe she'd
1:20.1	been in a car accident that That's what I thought.
1:23.0	And she'll be okay.
1:24.0	Jody Hughes and Trot seemingly vanishes in thin air.
1:28.0	I'll left behind a few clues, a pair of red high heels, a hair dryer, signs of potentially a scuffle near her car where she parked
1:38.8	at the studio typically. She had an early early morning shift on air, but she never made it. What happened to Jody?
1:51.0	Just then you were hearing Jody's
1:53.0	describing going on an all-girls trip to a casino when they were told they had an
1:59.2	emergency phone call and they went and were told something has happened to Jody.
2:06.4	They naturally assumed, oh dear, there's been a car accident, but there's more a listen.
2:13.0	Halverson said, oh, she's missing Joanne.
2:17.0	Are you sitting down?
2:18.0	And I said, missing.
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