Season 3, Episode 10 – Mason City

Frozen Truth

Scott Fuller

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

I spent this last week of March 2019 in Mason City, where I was able to speak with some of those most closely involved with the Jodi Huisentruit case.

The only witness in the case isn’t really an eye-witness to the crime at all. Randy Linderman was driving to work early that morning Jodi disappeared. He says he saw a white van appearing to idle in Jodi’s small apartment parking lot sometime before she disappeared. You’ll hear Mr. Linderman’s account of that morning in this episode.

My thanks to Chief Jeff Brinkley and the Mason City Police Department for their time and accommodation during my time in Iowa this week.

Additional thanks to KETV reporter and anchor James Wilcox for his assistance in this episode.

Thank you for listening to Season 3 of Frozen Truth. We’re not quite done yet; we will have one more regular feed episode to release next week.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm The on location portion of Frozen Truth for season three is now underway.
0:33.5	I spent this last week of March 2019 here in Mason City, recording this on my last night here in my hotel room.
0:42.0	As usual, on location, I know a little bit of what I'm looking for.
0:45.8	I made some appointments to meet with people and had somewhat of an agenda.
0:50.0	But there's also an element of discovery to my time here because you never know what you're going to find when you're on location, the people you're going to meet, you never know what they're going to tell you.
1:00.2	You can't know that, you can't experience that, and you can't react to it until you've actually traveled to a place and started looking into things.
1:08.1	Mason City here is a sprawling Midwestern city, about 30,000 people.
1:11.9	The city centers around the Winnebago River, as does, come to think of it, our mystery in season
1:17.7	three here.
1:18.5	The Winnebago is running high right now, due to a record-setting snowfall the area received
1:23.1	in the last six weeks.
1:24.8	On the date of this recording, we're only a couple of days before the official start of spring, and the temperatures have responded right on time, and the snow melt
1:32.6	has begun. The Winnebago is raging behind the apartment complex that Jody Hoosentruth
1:37.7	disappeared from in June 1995. Just as the Winnebago was running high on that morning, that Tuesday
1:43.0	morning, 24 years ago,
1:45.4	it had rained almost every day that month before Jody went missing, and the Winnebago was one of
1:50.3	the first areas searched for Jody that day. And it's the first place I visited in person. Jody's
1:56.9	apartment complex on Kentucky Avenue has two parking areas. The main parking area for the complex, where Jody's car had been parked, has one way in and one way out.
2:06.7	The entrance and exit that goes on to Kentucky Avenue loops in a zero shape.
2:13.4	And there's space for about 12, maybe 15 cars in that parking lot.
2:18.4	Jody's car on that morning in 95 was parked about 15 yards from the egress point of her apartment
2:23.5	in the complex. So it would have taken her 15 seconds or so for Jody to reach the vehicle
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