When a popular Iowa news anchor fails to arrive at the studio in time for the morning broadcast, all evidence suggests that she was abducted.

Police investigate a man who may have wanted to be more than just friends, a potential obsessed stalker, and more in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

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Jody Housentruth was last seen alive on June 27, 1995.

When she disappeared her entire hometown of Mason City, Iowa, noticed right away,

and that's because many of them were used to starting their day with Jody.

She was a local news anchor who reported the morning news at 6 a.m. Monday through Friday,

and the day of her disappearance was no different.

Or at least, it wouldn't have been if she'd made it to work. Getting ready for a news broadcast takes a lot of time,

so much so that Jody was supposed to be at work by 3 a.m. On the morning of her disappearance,

though, Jody awoke not to her alarm clock, but to a phone call from one of her studio's producers, Amy.

When Amy asked where she was, Jody realized that she'd overslept and immediately began getting ready for work.

There was nothing odd about that first phone call.

Both Jody and Amy had to get up incredibly early for work, and every once in a while, one of them

would accidentally over sleep. It happened. Amy told Unsolved Mysteries that, quote,

Everything sounded normal like I had just woken her up. What time is it? She asked the question,

so I told her Jody, it's about 10 to 4, you need to come into work. How much time is left to produce

on the show? I mean, she was obviously thinking she was aware. She knew she had overslept,

and she had to get into work. I didn't hear anything out of the ordinary. Nothing. End quote.

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