Season 3, Episode 5 – Is It You?

Frozen Truth

Scott Fuller

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Mason City, Iowa police have never named a suspect in the 1995 disappearance of television news anchor Jodi Huisentruit, but they have ruled a few people out.

One of those men ruled out by authorities in Jodi’s case was a violent serial rapist who stalked some of his victims before attacking them in their own homes. That man, 21 year-old Tony Jackson, lived two blocks from KIMT-TV in Mason City at the time Jodi vanished.

Some question what information police have kept quiet about Jackson that led to him being quickly ruled out as a possible suspect in the Huisentruit case.

Caroline Lowe broke the story of Jackson’s possible link to the Jodi Huisentruit disappearance for WCCO-TV in Minneapolis three years later in 1998. She joins me on this episode to discuss her research and reporting on Jackson. We also discuss another man often suspected in Jodi’s disappearance, local seed dealer John Vansice, and examine a third possibility in the case: that someone else, previously unknown, is actually the person responsible for one of Iowa’s most notorious abductions.

Transcript

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0:00.0	The first person you encounter is John VanSyce.
0:03.6	Older man, crash off a divorce, enjoyed spending time with Jody, enjoyed being seen with Jody,
0:11.6	bought her things, named his speedboat after Jody, took weekend trips with Jody.
0:17.2	John Van Sice says he was the last person to see Jody, who's in true to lie, said that on television,
0:22.5	hours after she disappeared.
0:25.1	Boom, done.
0:26.0	Case closed.
0:27.0	Well, wait a minute.
0:28.2	Now we have Tony Jackson, violent sexual predator.
0:32.7	Circumstantially extraordinarily interesting in his proximity, in his proclivities, as we'll discuss in this episode.
0:41.1	The further I go, the longer I go into Jody Hoosenskriek, the less convinced I am that either is responsible.
0:55.0	So in this episode, we're gonna build up to murder cases.
1:00.0	Then we're gonna chip away, Adam, basically.
1:04.0	Frozen Truth, episode 17. I'm Scott Fuller.
1:09.0	The WCCOI team explores a new lead in the disappearance of an anchorwoman from Iowa.
1:14.6	Now authorities are exploring it too.
1:17.6	The I-Team first got started on Jody Hoosentrude's story because of a connection between
1:21.6	Mason City, Iowa and a man behind bars in Minnesota.
1:25.6	Investigative reporter Caroline Lowe has our report.
1:32.5	It came about a couple years after Jody was abducted.
1:35.7	I was covering a serial rapist in the Twin Cities,
1:38.4	Tony DeWan Jackson, who was accused of raping poor women in 18 days in the Twin Cities.
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