The Abduction of Jodi Huisentruit – Part 3

The Consult: Real FBI Profilers

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Talk Radio, True Crime

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🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

During the early morning hours of Tuesday, June 27, 1995, Iowa television news anchor Jodi Huisentruit was abducted outside her Mason City apartment as she rushed to get to work. Since that day, there have been no signs of Jodi. In the final episode on this case, Julia, Angela, Susan, and Bob discuss the likely characteristics of the person who abducted Jodi. You can report information about Jodi’s abduction one of the following ways: Call the Mason City Police Department at (641) 421-3636. Call the Iowa Department of Public Safety, DCI, at (641) 423-2600. Email DCI Special Agent Ryan Herman at [email protected]. Call the FindJodi.com anonymous tip line at (641) 999-1109. Submit an anonymous tip to FindJodi.com. For more information about Jodi's case, please visit FindJodi.com. Follow us on social media: Instagram.com/theconsultpod Twitter.com/theconsultpod Music by John Hanske. You can listen to John’s music on Spotify.

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0:00.0	In the consult, we discuss cases that are sexually violent in nature.
0:06.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:08.0	Welcome to the consult.
0:24.8	This is Julia Cowley, retired FBI agent and profiler, and I am joined again by Angela Serser,
0:32.2	Susan Costler Drew, and Bob Drew, who are also retired FBI profilers.
0:37.8	And this is part three of our analysis of the abduction of Jody Housentrute,
0:45.1	who was abducted outside her Mason City, Iowa apartment as she rushed to get to work
0:53.2	during the early morning hours of June 27, 1995.
0:58.9	In the first part, we were joined by retired crime reporter Caroline Lowe, who provided us with a
1:05.8	summary of the case and answered our questions. In part two, we discussed Jody's victimology
1:12.6	and began assessing her risks,
1:15.6	which were mostly posed by her profession as a news anchor.
1:26.6	Let's talk about her personal relationships.
1:28.6	And when we talk about her victimology and all of the personal relationships that she was involved in or that she had,
1:36.6	there's only the one relationship that stands out as potentially being problematic that we know of that has been discussed by many people. And that is
1:46.5	the relationship with John Van Sice. Lots of speculation that this was a jealousy or somehow he made a
1:56.9	pass at her. She rejected him. And then he killed her because of that. What are our thoughts
2:02.4	on that? It would be a more common scenario. And we do have our timeline, which indicates that she
2:09.5	had seen him, well, at least based on what he reported. And again, I'm not here to try to hang
2:16.3	John Van Sice out to dry as the suspect, but he is somebody that should be considered because it would be the more likely scenario.
2:24.9	Someone close to her.
2:26.4	Right.
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