IA IA - Jodi Huisentruit: Anchorwoman, 27, Mason City, 27 June 1995

[Leomoon80]

Synopsis of the case:

http://iowacoldcases.org/case-summar...i-huisentruit/

Declared legally dead in 2001, but case remains unsolved.

[NocturnalLady]

Originally Posted by Seajay

What IF JVS came to her place to watch a movie instead of his and she went to bed, leaving him to the movie and then he fell asleep on the couch. She gets the phone call that she's late for work, she gets ready JVS is woken up and still hanging around. They leave together. Outside, he attacks her and drags her into his vehicle and takes off with her? He could have spent the night fantasizing about her in the next room and it was too much for him, so he decided to do something about it? JMO

I think if he was already inside he would have chosen to assault her there - much more private. I think his being "kicked out" was possibly the last straw thing that incited his rage and he hung around outside all night stewing about it.

[NocturnalLady]

Originally Posted by dogperson

I've been watching the Disappeared episode twice on the DVR and just had a few thoughts. Even though I've followed this case for several years I don't remember the toilet seat being mentioned before. I was thinking about other reasons for having the seat up other than a man being in the apartment. The only 2 reasons I ever flip my toilet seat up are to clean the toilet or to vomit into the toilet. It's not very likely she was cleaning her toilet on a morning she overslept and was late for work, but maybe her tummy was upset or maybe she had a hangover that morning. If she was feeling a little under the weather it might explain why she overslept that morning, like maybe she'd gotten up to vomit a couple times or something, or maybe even had taken some medication to settle her stomach which made her drowsy. If that's the case then the toilet seat has nothing to do with her abduction.

As far as JVS he definitely seems to have had a pretty huge crush on Jodi and I get the feeling it was mostly one-sided. The show says he came running over and told LE he was "the last person to see Jodi alive". Did he actually say it in those exact words? At this point in the investigation he was already assuming she was dead when even LE wasn't sure what exactly had happened yet. The more logical thing for him to have said would be something like, "I was probably the last person to see Jodi before this happened," or something along those lines. And how could you even be certain you actually were the last person to see her if you didn't have any idea what happened after she left your apartment?

Also the show mentions he took a lie detector test and LE has never released the results. If he passed it with flying colors I think the results would have been released right away, if not by LE then certainly by JVS in order to get out from under the cloud of suspicion.

I am still on the fence about his involvement, and I still wonder about the white van that a man in a passing vehicle spotted at the apartments, and I wish the timeline was narrowed a little more exactly on that particular item. If it was the abductor then the van had to have sat there for a while because he couldn't possibly have expected her to oversleep that morning, so he would have had to be lying in wait until she finally came out. I would think others in the apartment complex would have spotted the van if it sat there that long. I'm sure LE questioned all the other tenants about the van, but it still seems like it could have been somebody's early morning ride to work, or maybe someone's illicit overnight guest sneaking out of the parking lot before daylight. There could be some reason why a person in the apartments wouldn't want to admit the person in the van had been in their apartment. I think it's possible Jodi's abductor is someone who has been under the radar this whole time and has never been a suspect.

Your reasoning about the toilet seat is def. very valid and a total possibility.

I also dismiss the white van as being involved. It would have been noticed by more people I think. I'm not saying there was never one there but if you knew someone was missing and had seen a white van in the vicinity it would be the first thing that you thought of. It's sort of an obvious boogey man image. There probably was one there but not involved. JMHO

[NocturnalLady]

I wonder about this video JVS claims he watched with Jodi. Was it ever shown to have actually existed? If so where was it found? At Jodi's or in possession of JVS. If it was a video tape was it fully rewound or was it down near the end like it had in fact been recently watched.

Personally I think the video was JVS' excuse to go over to Jodi's knowing she would probably let him in. It's possible he planned to try to "seduce" her that night. He may even have slipped her something in her drink and then "put the moves" on her too early and she was able to still reject him and insist that he leave. Maybe whatever he slipped her made Jodi ill and she threw up (explaining the toilet seat up) and it also caused her to over sleep. The friend who called did mention that she sounded really sleepy and it had taken awhile for her to answer the phone. Maybe Jodi had the after effects of being drugged? Maybe JVS thought she would figure out he had drugged her and panicked and "got rid of her".

I also think inserting himself into the case at the earliest opportunity is a major red flag, as well as his "last one to see her alive" statement.

I also think that the boat named Jodi could easily be why her body was never found. There is easy access to many bodies of water very close by and if he admitted to owning a boat then there is every possibility he used it to dispose of her body. That boat should have been searched.

[neverletgo]

Disappeared: Breaking News (6x10)

Disappeared 6x10 Season 6 Episode 10 Breaking News Full Episode - YouTube

Disappeared 6x10 Season 6 Episode 10 Breaking News Full Episode - YouTube

[MysteryMaven]

I just watched Disappeared since I missed parts of it here and there when it aired. It really implicates John Vansice. Again, I don't want to sling mud at the poor guy if he had nothing to do with it, but the whole situation with him is hinky. If Jodi got home from her golf outing and called a friend from her home at 8:24, how could she have been at the guy's place at 8:00?
Maybe his recollection of the time of night was off, and she arrived at his place later than her realized. However, I doubt Jodi went straight to his house after the golf outing, watched the video, then got home by 8:24. I believe that's what LE was referring to when they say the timeline given by Vansice was "really tight". If she left after the phone call, why didn't she mention her plans to her friend's husband, ie, "Well, gotta go, I'm headed to a friend's house". Also, if you are on your way out to a friend's house, you don't stop to call another friend to chat it up, especially after a long day. Also, when he said he was the last person to "see Jodi alive"-whoa-how did he know she wasn't alive? She hadn't even been missing for very long.

[AnonymousD]

Originally Posted by amber1

any interested in forensic astrology (this has nothing to do with "psychics" or "mediums"):
very interesting, one was done for Jodi as to what happened to her, where she is and who did it supposedly, it will post the link and let you read for yourself to decide
http://forensicastrology.blogspot.co...isentruit.html

I always find her (I assume the astrologist is a her?) posts so fascinating!

If I interpret her chart readings correctly, they match my original instinct.

[AnonymousD]

I can't get any of the links to pull from the www.findjodi.com website.

Is anyone else able to? No matter if I type it in, use a search engine to click, or use a link from further back in the thread, I get nothing. The WhoIs on the domain states it is registered until 2018.

[M86]

Originally Posted by AnonymousD

I can't get any of the links to pull from the www.findjodi.com website.

Is anyone else able to? No matter if I type it in, use a search engine to click, or use a link from further back in the thread, I get nothing. The WhoIs on the domain states it is registered until 2018.

Hmmm, it works for me. Try using a different browser.

Can you post the links you are wanting to see?

[AnonymousD]

Originally Posted by M86

Hmmm, it works for me. Try using a different browser.

Can you post the links you are wanting to see?

Thanks, M86!

Today it works! I tried yesterday with 3 different browsers & I also checked www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com & it showed it was down as well. Now I have my evening planned since I can read up

[amber1]

I thought her episode on Disappeared was done very nicely, and it put everything together very well.
Like before, I am wary of JVS.The time he claims Jodi came over to watch a video with him after golfing does not align with the phone call she made. However, it would have made more sense if he went to her place...after all the toilet seat was found up, which is very odd considering it was just Jodi who lived there. And maybe he never left-maybe he was waiting for her in the parking lot, which would explain the scene. Also, it would take a stalker or someone who knew her well and her routine to know when she was leaving for work...but she was late that day, so even the regular stalker might have left after her normal time she left her apartment for work came and went. It also bugged me how he talked about her in past tense in those interviews they showed...
I don't want to say it was for sure JVS, as I know it turns on tunnel vision-who knows, it could very well have been someone else...but usually it's someone the person knows vs. a random serial killer.
I think it is possible that he wanted to be in a relationship with Jodi, but it seems she was not a girl who desired to be with someone-she was very career minded. That could be a possible motive-he did throw a surprise party for her, and it was mentioned on Disappeared she was thrilled because she was always throwing the parties for everyone else, so that right there may show the extent to his feelings for her...and maybe if she denied him, that upset him, because he did seem like the playboy type who thought he could have any woman he wanted, so her denying him, being a local celebrity and all, would be a major blow to his ego...and, well, he was the last one to see her...alive.

I am very sad to hear her mom is in a nursing home now...I remember years back seeing her on the local news advocating for her missing daughter...so sad, I really hope answers will be found before she passes.

[ThunderKloud]

Originally Posted by Leomoon80

Also, lest we forget, the Police Officer said, they found the "toilet seat up" in Jodie's apartment, which to them meant, a man was there in the apt.

The toilet seat being up may be a red herring designed to point us away from the possibility of a woman committing this crime.

[annoulzz]

^^^ that's what i was thinking to! Just because the toilet seat was up doesn't necessarily mean a man had committed the crime.

[ThunderKloud]

I believe that Jodi did not receive a wake up call that morning, that she would have been on time. This stalker didn't have to wait for the prey. I also believe that Jodi was part of a lover’s triangle, which was the motive for the attack.

[neverletgo]

Originally Posted by ThunderKloud

I believe that Jodi did not receive a wake up call that morning, that she would have been on time. This stalker didn't have to wait for the prey. I also believe that Jodi was part of a lover’s triangle, which was the motive for the attack.

to Websleuths, ThunderKloud.

Thanks for your thoughts and post on Jodi's thread!

[jane_tennison]

So you think 3 members of LE are not involved contrary to what was indicated by a former female officer and two informants?