I think Jodi might have been late for work on multiple occasions before her disappearance because she was burned out on KIMT. She was looking for an agent and was sending out tapes, but she wasn't getting anywhere and she was stymied on how exactly to proceed. I think it's also possible she was late a lot because of her social life. Someone posted once that she was known to be dating a very successful businessman from Osage. (Nothing improper. According to the writer of the earlier post, the gentleman was not married.)

I grew up on a farm in Iowa and I have never heard of a cornseed salesman.  Cornseed is sold by people that live in the country and store the seed in large buildings.  They always work for a specific company like Pioneer or Dekalb and they are almost always farmers themselves.  The fact that people on here believe he was living in an apartment and selling corn appears laughable to me.  Find me one farmer or fellow employee of the 'cornseed' company that can say he sold a lot of corn seed.  Bet you can't find one person.  How do you think he was really making all that money?

For everyone that thinks Honken is this huge drug kingpen, you are mistaken.  He was this small time chemistry student that made the stuff on his own and had a couple of people selling for him.  Looks like he was a very small player in Northwest Iowa.  I've heard a lot of people say that most of the meth supply came from Arizona.  He deserves to be on death row for killing witnesses, though.

Guilty people like to show that someone else did it.  Every time you start getting close, there is something in the news showing that someone else may have done it.  I saw a post on here from someone that knew the South Dakota Investigator.  Says the investigator thought Honken did it, or it was a simple sex crime.  Totally not true, navyboi.  Investigator never thought that.  I think MCPD knew the Milks story was another example.  What a coincidence, another paranoid meth guy.

I don't believe that Jodi was late for work very often.  Her coworkers probably felt guilty for not calling the cops sooner.  Pretty obvious that is blown out of proportion, because the person in charge at KIMT would have known.  He even confirmed that he never knew about it.  I don't think anyone really believes that Jodi went to view the tape of the birthday party either.  It just doesn't sound right to me.  It sounds like a made-up story in case there is evidence they were together.

The key piece of evidence is that Jodi's toilet seat was up in her apartment.  I heard someone explain that she may have been cleaning before she went to work...really?  There was a man in her apartment that morning.  There is no other explanation.  You know Jodi used the bathroom that morning and a man used it after that.  You have to conclude that the person followed her out to the car from the apartment.  No one was waiting outside in the dark all morning.  I think everyone here has a hard time really believing that.

Obviously that wasn't the best place and time to murder someone, so you have to conclude that it couldn't wait.  I would have to speculate that she was either going to the cops or the hospital because a crime was committed.  Totally a guess, though.  Could have been a fit of rage.  Some people can get very paranoid and do terrible things.

Come on Mason City!  Someone prove me wrong on the amount of corn seed that was sold.  Has to be one farmer, coworker, or acquaintance that can prove me wrong.  Was he an independent cornseed broker?

Have to agree fasteddy.  A couple other questions about the supposed crime scene.  Why would Jodi put the key in the car door if she had a keyless entry remote.  Very few cars had that feature in 1995, and I bet murderer never thought of that.  I believe it was standard on the 1995 Miata.  First year they offered it.  I know one thing...Once I got a keyless remote for my car, I have never put the key in the lock.

Another question...How can you create drag marks on clean, black asphalt?  Supposedly they could see she was dragged.  I would love to see someone reenact that and show me how drag marks are created.  It rained that night, and I can see in the photos that the pavement was clean.  Drag marks...really?  Why would the murderer drag her in the first place?  Jodi was not that big or heavy.  I bet most guys could grab a small gal like Jodi around the waist and carry her like a bag of cornseed.

I thought you hit the nail on the head when you said that, if Jodi had been abducted by someone from the Mason City drug culture, they would have left her body as an example to others. I honestly believe that if Honken or any of his cohorts knew something about Jodi, they would have talked already to get a lighter sentence. 

I actually disagree with this.  Honken and Johnson abducted then killed five people, then disposed of the bodies in shallow graves in a rural area outside of MC.  The only reason the bodies were found is because Johnson is a dumb criminal (trying to get another criminal to take the rap for the crimes).  Honken and Johnson were trying to conceal their crimes and did not leave bodies behind.

I agree with the previous poster.... I do believe she was abducted by someone she knew but I never quite whittled it down to someone specific she may have engaged with the previous week/weekend ; someone that she may have  recently met...For some reason JV's son also tends to stick in my head even tho im sure PD spoke to and cleared him? idk..

I also agree that this case is similar to the Maura Murray case as in there were many other distractions surrounding MM and her life at the time of her disappearance...More than Jodi's even, it would seem. I have followed both these cases over the years, and perhaps it is the very drama surrounding them that keeps many people determined to follow them til the long hoped-for answers are found.... 

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