The new ideas and new information are thought provoking.

"Am I correct in deducting she may been murdered in the parking lot?"
I'm not too sure on this either. We know that there was a confrontation in the parking lot and she aparently said something along the lines of, "Don't do this, etc." The evidence at the crime scene shows that she was attacked as she went for her car. The evidence at the crime scene doesn't match up with the witness who claimed to hear the confrontation. IMO if a short dialogue occured, she wouldnt have been right next to her car because she would have got into her car if that was the case. Her key was bent which shows that she was unaware of someone or that they were a distance away during the encounter. I doubt the second one, if someone is pissed or confrontational, they get up close and in your face. So that makes me think that she was unaware of the presence of the attacker when she was approaching her car. I do think she was killed in the parking lot with a blunt object hit to the back of the head. What do you guys think?

I know several forum members feel it was somehow linked to illicit drugs but was it really?
You really can't judge a book by its cover. I think there are drugs somewhere in the picture. More likely indirectly linked to Jodi, but could have been a factor in the events leading up to her murder.

There has to be 'something' lurking in this case that we are unaware of.
I agree, if it's a relationship with mr. cornseed or her possible use of drugs, there is definitely something.

My first thought is that the MCPD probably has dozens if not hundreds of people that they have interviewed over the years. Like most police departments around the country are short handed and they find it difficult to devote time on a case that is over 15 years old. What I am finding now is that there is an ever growing list of people that what to see this case brought to a conclusion. There is information that I had initially looked at and "put it on the back burner" and now that material is starting to mean something because a clue suddenly fits with an old bit of information.

I agree that the Timetable is important. It's confusing because if one item proves to be credible then it has a tendency to rule out other pieces of information. For many years I accepted one theory on the time line but now believe differently.

From what I am able to determine Jodi was still at the Country Club until nearly 8pm and had called her friend Kelly Torgason in Mississippi after she returned to her apartment. Because she had told Kelly's husband, Todd to have Kelly call her when she returned up to 9:30pm. This puts Jodi in her apartment from 8:?? until 9:30pm. She wouldn't have left her apartment during that time on the chance that Kelly would call.

From 9:30 until 4:00 we have to believe that Jodi was in her apartment. She had told Todd that after 9:30 she was going to bed. Unless someone else was in her apartment she probably went to sleep until the wake up call from Amy Kuns.

The question presents itself: "What time was she at John VanSice's apartment?

I believe that Jodi's body was disposed of in a lake within an hour after she was abducted. I agree with Jerry that there is a good possibility it was NE of Mason City. According to Jerry the lake had been searched at one time but there was so much algae in the lake they couldn't see. Jerry wants to do a search this winter when its frozen over. A hole would be cut in the ice and an underwater camera would be lowered in. Law enforcement was present during that search.

So, there you have my theories and I would be interested in hearing your's.

Gary, do you know if the key witness to VS the night of the abduction was finally interviewed? Her information of VS insisting she be driven home in a different truck than the one she was getting into is compelling to me.

[b]sixtiesrock wrote:[/b]

I don't share the opinion that she was killed in the parking lot. I've always felt this was a two person operation: a driver and another individual who grabbed/restrained her.

If this was an orchestrated kidnapping with the intent to kill her it would have been done at another location--probably isolated and familiar to the kidnapper(s).

I don't agree that this was drug related in any way. The pages of her journal which were released to the public don't give any indication she was involved with anything illicit. Remember she was big into self improvement and goal driven, even stating in the journal that she was thinking about moving to AZ as a reporter or producer. I don't see someone who was working on a life plan doing something that would put that at risk. Plus if she was involved with a hot story that would change her career she would have stated that in the journal as well. (Remember she states in the journal that her professional life was not going too well.)

("Male from church")I never came across that part, probably did and just forgot, The best place to go if you want people to prematurely trust you or win some one's trust is at church. I've come across many a disceatful indivisuals in sunday an wensday service in the past.

Not to affend the TRULY DEVOUT. If you truly walk with the ANGELS, GOD BLESS.

DREAMER

Totally agree again Vinny :huh:

People are killed when they become a serious threat. At least in the eyes of the perpetrator anyway.

Bill Pruin must have been perceived as a threat to somebody.
The same logic could to apply to Jodi.

Very few adult murders happen on a whim.
If they did, there would be bodies laying everywhere.

Dead people can't talk which is the very reason those who feel threatened want them that way.

If Jodi's abduction wasn't due to her being a threat then 'sex' in one its many guises will be in the background.

Reading all the hypotheses and information I've never heard before has been eye opening. (I'm new here.) I was living in Texas when Jodi disappeared and have just the vaguest memory of hearing about it in passing at the time. Over the years I've seen her case profiled on various shows, and I've read quite a bit about it, so I know more now than I did back when it happened.

I don't know why, exactly, but this case has intrigued and touched me--as it obviously has a lot of others. I think there's something just so...wrong...about a person apparently disappearing into thin air. Yet, as my fellow [b]Nancy Grace[/b] fans know, this actually happens every day.

Janette said
The new ideas and new information are thought provoking.

"Am I correct in deducting she may been murdered in the parking lot?"
I'm not too sure on this either. We know that there was a confrontation in the parking lot and she aparently said something along the lines of, "Don't do this, etc." The evidence at the crime scene shows that she was attacked as she went for her car. The evidence at the crime scene doesn't match up with the witness who claimed to hear the confrontation. IMO if a short dialogue occured, she wouldnt have been right next to her car because she would have got into her car if that was the case. Her key was bent which shows that she was unaware of someone or that they were a distance away during the encounter. I doubt the second one, if someone is pissed or confrontational, they get up close and in your face. So that makes me think that she was unaware of the presence of the attacker when she was approaching her car. I do think she was killed in the parking lot with a blunt object hit to the back of the head. What do you guys think?

I know several forum members feel it was somehow linked to illicit drugs but was it really?
You really can't judge a book by its cover. I think there are drugs somewhere in the picture. More likely indirectly linked to Jodi, but could have been a factor in the events leading up to her murder.

There has to be 'something' lurking in this case that we are unaware of.
I agree, if it's a relationship with mr. cornseed or her possible use of drugs, there is definitely something.

Supposedly she was smashed into her rear view mirrors, but if you look at her car, you will see that they are not very heavy duty. I think he just stunned her by doing this long enough to get her into the trunk. I don't think Jodi was into drugs, but cornseed was deeply involved in selling them. She screamed out "NO (his name) then Don't".