Jodi spent the weekend prior to her disappearance waterskiing with cornseed and friends. If you don't trust what's in Dead Air, the News Archive section of this website is very complete.

Simon, I've wondered the same thing about several recent posts under several different names. I guess that's part of participating in an "open" forum.

Not correct if you work off the hypothesis.

It was a landmark weekend for the Cornseed Salesman, they had just returned from a weekend away in which he introduced his adult son, He had her back at the house to watch the video of her b-day.

If he was playing it cool, as most smart guys do that know they are infatuated with a girl out of their league. He had been playing the friend thing hard and heavy, and even, unknowing to Jodi, a comment was made that made it very apparent that She is never going to be romantic with him.

Something as simple as, "You are like a father to me, thanks for all you've done." It he slept on it, and it labored, and the anger grew, and he waited....

I've studied the case from afar for years as I am originally from this area, and He is the ONLY person that makes sense.

I totally agree with CyCal. I think Cornseed guy made his moves that evening while showing Jodi the birthday tape, and she rejected him. And it pissed him off after she went home, probably thinking "How dare she reject me after all I've done for her." He has always been the obvious suspect.

Here's the link to the article about the discrepancy in the timeline:

https://www.findjodi.com/2010/128-findjodicom-finds-discrepancy-in-timetable-of-disappearance

I often wondered whether Jodi ever watched that tape at Cornseed guy's place, too. Thanks for the link, Ann 777. Another reason to suspect Cornseed guy's credibility.

I always thought whoever was pounding on her door that night in such a frenzy was involved in Jodi's disappearance.

I'm new here. Live in the Kansas City area and found this site because of links regarding Don Harman. Anyway... I use to travel into Iowa servicing chemistry analyzers and visited Mason City several times, around late 1997 through late 1998. Holy smokes, for a small town, I had no idea such drama played-out there.

Just from what I've read here, the cornseed or someone he put up to the task, abducted and probably murdered this young lady. If it was cornseed or someone else with a boat... she would never be found. Just look at those river videos, it's really moving.

Wonder about a couple of things:
1) What was cornseed doing later in the day (of the abduction) and for a few days following? Did the police tail the guy?

2) Did the police save the palm print? If yes, why not compare with cornseed?

Sorry if this has been answered already. I'll say one more thing- this cornseed does seem a little spooky (like a couple of coaches on the East Coast).

Not an expert or anything but i do know know that palm prints are not taken by LE during arrests.No palm prints are taken or kept on record at all.

For all we know the palm print could be Jodi's.

I do remember hearing some time back that there is a test called Touch DNA and that it was being tried out in this case...Results, if viable, can take months....

Those ARE very good questions, and nowhere have i read, even in Dead Air, if Cornseed's palmprint was taken for comparison. If 10 years later they can try to match it up with others, like they did with TC, then im going to assume they DID try to match it up with him, but wasnt successful. I cant imagine that they didnt try to. Perhaps, at the time, they didnt think they could match it up with anyone with the technology at the time? Maybe by the time they did, Cornseed was long gone....

Im not quite sure how you can call this book FICTION. Its NOT fiction, its a true life story, with interviews taken of real life people and investigators to determine the disappearance of a real life woman. YES there are speculative theories and they are noted clearly by the author in the early section of the book. These theories stem from the POSSIBILITIES of what might have happened to Jodi based on the few known facts, her life, her job, her friends, her activities, her acquaintances, etc. You wont find this book in the fiction section of any bookstore. Im sure if you asked her family members, who supported the writing of this book, they would NOT consider it a work of fiction.

Based on how this book has been written it should be classified as Historic Fiction. Based on the fact that some of the stuff that has happend in the past and has not been proven to be absolutley true. I must remind you theories are not facts. Before you all storm your pc's get at least some facts.