Hi New,

Welcome to the discussion.

I highly recommend the book Dead Air by Beth Bednar. It should answer a lot of your questions.

I'm starting to read Dead Air right now. I didn't see too much answered in that regard. Does it cover John V's personal information?

oh ok ... I apologize if using his name was out of line. I was browsing through the forums and was wondering who Cornseed guy was. Is there any video of him linked any where? I found excerpts of some interview but it was a tiny bit in sections.

Just finished dead air. It doesn't really get into the other women in Cornseed's life. It covers a couple of his "possible" connections with drug dealers and etc. I would like to know who these women are ... were THEY involved with the drug business? The author kept asking the question of where Cornseed was getting his money from .... Who knows if this lady whom she never got a name from was a possible funder. There's way too much speculation about possible connections he had with people but some of that didn't really cover the same time in which concerns Jody. Focusing strictly on the time he was around Jody the author clearly says Cornseed spent a lot of time with another 40 year old something lady. There was no wiff of a name or idea of who or what this person was to him. I believe this author needed to fill up a lot of pages so there was more speculation than any solid concrete evidence in the mix in regards to other areas. Everyone is always going to think there's something fishy about Cornseed ... he was the last person to see her alive and all that. Its obvious many of Jody's close friends didn't know much about Cornseed either. She obviously kept whatever connection they had as quiet as possible. I think Cornseed whether he had anything to do with it or not ... whether he knows or not ... is a strong person of interest cause possibly somebody he was involved with wanted to hurt Jody.

Maybe Cornseed wasn't handling business anymore and was getting sloppy. Maybe somebody wanted to take out Jody because the more Cornseed focused on her the less he focused on business. Was the attention Cornseed was giving to Jody causing others to lose money? Any old business partners of Cornseed whether it be legal or illegal feel a certain way about that? Any females in Cornseed's life that wanted him all for themselves? I know that whatever the author put in her book ... that investigators have drawn up all of these conclusions and broke as much as they could down. Maybe they are focusing on the wrong leads. Maybe they should check business transactions at the time of Jody's abduction ... any weird transactions for a large sum of money go down? Any other violent crimes related in a circle Cornseed was involved with? I think the lead to break this case wide open lies in attaching Cornseed to putting Jody in harms way ... Not attaching Cornseed into being that himself. For the author to suggest some motive towards Cornseed regarding love, obsession, and emotion ... it doesn't hold up. People who do things in reaction to strong emotions don't get away with something like this. Whoever did this ... did this so carefully and methodically that they've managed to befuddle the police and even the FBI. With all the evidence and possible leads there's as much information on this case now than their was when it first happened ... literally nothing concrete enough to point at a more thorough direction. This crime has to be taken ... I believe ... in the highest regard. I think this was done by a hired professional.

Agree with previous post completely. I don't think the murder/kidnapping was professional or even premeditated, but the result of all-consuming rage, probably fueled by alcohol. Jodi got creeped out by Cornseed, but too late to save herself. Sad, sad, sad.

Those things are true, but according to the book Dead Air, he has also been somehow a part of (if I'm not mistaken) 5 other cases where people were either killed or disappeared... sorry, but it does make one wonder!

Perhaps i missed it somewhere but after following this case for some time and reading Dead Air, I am curious about who or what his alibi was for 4am the morning Jodi disappeared?

A previous "opportunity" may not be considered as such if the urge or idea to hurt or abduct Jodi was a recent or impulsive decision.

But you can ruleout the cornseed fellow

Oh, if it were only that simple.

Did they ever check the telephone records from her fellow workers? Folks I am telling you where there is smoke there is fire!