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Curious Info
May 29, 2011
3:52 pm
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Curious George
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I want to know more about the man who claimed to have had a blind date with Jodi on the evening of the 27th. What was really up with that and why didnt the police take that more serious. His brother told someone about it and they told police. I think it also could have played into something about what the Cindy woman said.

Still think there is still some true in amoungst her statements to police.

May 29, 2011
11:40 pm
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Did Jodi ever hang out in any small towns around North Iowa when she wasn't working,Maybe she found out something from a small town in North Iowa.My other theory was did jodi meet a man at the 1994 Indianapolis 500 by chance who remembered her.

June 7, 2011
4:52 pm
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I read the book this weekend. I stand by my earlier statements. I think they need to press the obvious suspect. I also would like to know if the forensics were done in the apartment, and compared to any of the evidence by the car. Is there any DNA evidence from blood or hair or anything around the car? Compare to DNA from beer cans? Or anything in her bedroom, bathroom, or anywhere else in the apartment?

July 7, 2011
6:02 am
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I haven't read Beth Bednar's book, but I do remember her from KAAL. I'll check it out.

Lots of people from MC go to other NI towns to eat or drink, and Jodi had probably been to all of them at some point reporting from the field. (Bear in mind that 'reporting' usually means your small-town stuff: there's an event, you go there, you say 'event happened' and you leave).

But her favorite 'small town' was Clear Lake. She went there a lot, I gather. Apparently she regularly visited bars there. In general, CL is a bit more upscale than a lot of MC, especially then, so there's nothing really extraordinary about this. Fashionable people in the area went there, and there are some seasonal summertime residents. She was young and attractive, and perhaps something of a partier -- again, not atypical behavior for a single person that age.

July 7, 2011
9:19 am
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Ok, I read it (on kindle). It's a good introduction to the case and very well-written. The analysis was disappointing. Bednar clearly thinks Cornseed is the most likely culprit (but is very elliptical about it and changes the subject). I disagree. Here's how I sum it up:

The case against him:

1) He was infatuated and may have thought he was in love with Jodi
2) She may have been seeing other men.
3) He may have been involved with drugs, somehow, or known something about them.
4) He acted weird after she disappeared.
5) He was suspected of a murder years before, and present at the scene of a manslaughter years afterward.
6) He may be an alcoholic and have a bad temper.
7) He was jealous of Pruin, who may have been murdered.

Why I'm not convinced:

1) His infatuation vs. Jodi's willingness to wrap her legs around his torso. How, in the mind of a middle-aged lech, could he believe it was final even if she subsequently told him no or tried to break things off (we don't know either event happened). He's got a big ego and of course he's going to take that as a "yes, eventually." I reckon he still probably thought she'd come around. As for his hero complex, this is not persuasive after it was used to ruin Richard Jewell's life (remember?). Yes, he probably thought she would be more serious if he protected her from her (real or imagined) stalker. Could this have contributed to his sense of guilt on learning of her abduction?

2) Bednar denies (mostly from listening to Jodi's friends) that Jodi was promiscuous. And clearly she gave Cornseed a lot of attention. Sure, he wanted more. If she, in fact, wasn't sleeping around, what did he have to be worried about?

3) The evidence for this is that he took his van to be serviced at a station that was a degree of separation away from a drug dealer. Most of N. Iowa was a degree of separation away from a drug dealer in the 90s. I would be shocked if none of the farmers he sold corn seed to were dabbling in drugs. It's a hard business to make a living at, and there's plenty of time in the off-season to make extra money doing anything from manning a convenience store to dealing meth.

4) He loved her, or was attached, and beside himself with grief. He was probably also aware how it would look to people that he, having been previously suspected of a murder, was now in a hopeless relationship with a kidnapping and possible murder victim. If I were in his shoes, I'd be in a mental ward. His statements, as reported, are entirely consistent with a man who was both in denial about the crime, and heartbroken, and dealing with those feelings by thinking of himself. A flawed man, but having seen a lot of different varieties of grief, I don't see the insincerity others do.

5) Not many details on his connection to the earlier murder. The later manslaughter, in which no charges were filed after an investigation by America's most reactionary Sheriff, still looks most likely the fault of the known anti-Semite, and may not even have been his fault, except that the old man was simply handled too roughly (involuntary manslaughter, a charge that probably should have been filed against Cornseed's younger colleague). The MO between the alleged crimes isn't auspiciously similar, as far as I can understand.

6) People with outwardly volatile tempers often cool down as fast as they heat up - somehow they realize they are crossing a line. Especially in the stoic Midwest. His drinking problem resulted in non-violent offenses merely; drunk driving is potentially dangerous, but it usually is a selfish and stupid act rather than out of actual malice. Alcoholics are often hypervigilant while sober, just as rageaholics are typically polite most of the time. It's relatively rare that when they kill, they do so with clear forethought. A lot more hot-blooded killings on the spur of the moment from these types. A middle-aged drunk... was he even physically capable of having a sexual relationship pre-viagra? Lots of unaddressed angles here.

7) Pruin's death is unexplained and if he was murdered there's nothing similar about the murders based on available physical evidence.

Cornseed is the reason we don't have the body or the killer. It's not his fault; everyone is fixated on him.

I was unnerved by the weight given to psychic evidence and the possibility she's at Myre-Big Island State Park. To wit: where in N Iowa / S Minn isn't there water in a secluded area near woods? Huge speculation here, totally non-falsifiable, and the most publicized case involving a water burial came later (although the Mafia had done many, long before). Regardless, if Cornseed killed her, wouldn't a logical hiding place be, in fact, a cornfield worked by a farmer whose routine he knew intimately? If the field had been sprayed and cultivated, the farmer probably wouldn't touch it again until harvest. Realize that with the depopulation of the countryside many of these fields are nowhere near a functional farm home and many homesteads were empty and abandoned by 1995.

Still, the book is a good summary of events and well worth reading.

July 7, 2011
5:43 pm
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Thanks for a detailed and informative post William. You made some telling points.

I would be particularly interested in reading any ideas you have regarding the motive behind Jodi's abduction.

July 21, 2011
6:04 pm
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I need to tell you that I was aware of the toilet seat being up back in 1994. I was told by an investigator. The investigator also said they can't be certain that one of the police officers used the toilet on site. He stated at the time, they would never solve this case because they didn't contain the site well enough; people were coming and going. They didn't block off the parking lot. You have to remember....the police department treated this case as a missing person, not an abduction for at least the first 24 hours, then the DCI got involved. People that worked closely with Jodi, but weren't at the news station, did not even get questioned about anything until more than a week went by. Everyone involved at that time wondered why they didn't treat the case differently.

July 21, 2011
6:48 pm
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""I need to tell you that I was aware of the toilet seat being up back in 1994.""

Psychic? She was abducted in 1995.

Sorry, I just had to point that out.

July 21, 2011
7:00 pm
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You probably meant '95...

[i][b]Odd that in Ms. Bednar's book, though she mentions the toilet seat being up, info she obviously got from investigators, she fails to mention the possibility that a PO may have used it...I always thought that could be a possibility because the police may not have thought the apartment was part of crime scene at first.

On the other hand, she mentions this fact in relation to a comment by LE that this whole abduction scenario very possibly began in her apartment.

I think that maybe Jodi had a male visitor that evening. Whether he left before she went to bed, or later during the early morning hours is unclear...perhaps the person who was stalking Jodi became enraged by the fact she had another man in her apt.

Why would this person who, though uninvolved in her disappearance, not come forward to say he was with Jodi that night?

As another poster,(and a forensic astrology analysis) speculated, maybe this man was married and/or was highly visible in the community and could not risk being exposed in that way...[/b][/i]

July 21, 2011
7:11 pm
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[i][b]I think its a bit strange that they didnt treat this as an abduction once they saw the items strewn across the parking lot, the bent key in the lock and the bloody palmprint on her car. To me, if i was a PO on the scene and saw that, i would render it a crime scene and proceed from there...Unless, of course, they saw none of those things before going into Jodi's apartment...Seems no one else noticed any of that stuff in the 2 1/2 hours before LE arrived. [/b][/i]

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