meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Frozen Truth

Season 3, Episode 6 – The Last Time I Saw Jodi

Frozen Truth

Scott Fuller

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7652 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Tamara (Tammy) Baker spent a weekend with Jodi Huisentruit in June 1995 on a lake in Iowa City, Iowa. The friends water skied during the day, and the enjoyed the college town night life after dark.

Jodi disappeared the following Tuesday.

Here’s Tamara’s account of Jodi Huisentruit’s final weekend, and of her interactions with the man police have believed could be responsible for Jodi’s disappearance.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Jody Hoosentruth spent the weekend before she disappeared with Tamara Baker.

0:04.5

Back then, Tamara more commonly went by Tammy Baker.

0:08.1

Along with Jody's coworkers at the TV station on Monday,

0:11.0

Tamara Baker would have been one of the last people to spend a significant amount of time

0:14.6

with Jody Hoosentrut before she disappeared before dawn on Tuesday.

0:18.6

And as far as we know,

0:20.4

Tamara Baker, the woman you're about to meet,

0:22.9

was the last person to spend the night with Jody Hoosentrude. She spent Saturday night sleeping in

0:28.8

the same room as Jody in Iowa City that weekend before the TV news anchor vanished. The two of them

0:34.4

spent their days of that weekend on a lake, on a boat.

0:38.2

That boat was owned by the man, who Mason City Police apparently still believed today could

0:42.4

have been responsible for the death of Jody Hoosentrude.

0:45.8

The account that you're about to hear from Tamara Baker, her story of her last weekend

0:50.4

with Jody Hoosentrude in June 1995.

0:54.1

This story was never given to Mason City Police

0:56.4

because they never asked her for it. MCPD interviewed hundreds of people, they claimed,

1:07.2

in the week or so after Jody Housen-Truth disappeared from the parking lot of her apartment complex on her way to work.

1:13.4

But the woman who spent the night with Jody,

1:16.3

and two days of the weekend before with Jody and,

1:19.3

with the man police have believed, killed Jody Hoosentruth,

1:22.5

was never questioned by the Mason City Police Department, she says.

1:26.4

I never heard from them. They never called me.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Scott Fuller, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Scott Fuller and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.