I agree with this 100%. Guys, I am not trying to be negative or trying to protect people. I have followed this case since it happened in '95. All I'm saying is [u]keep your mind open to other possibilities.[/u]

Like I said in another post, she does an outstanding job at sucking the reader in to believe the story she tells which is full of holes. Most of the stuff talked about in the book has not been proven at all.

I'd like to reinterate what Jim Feldhaus said a few days back: "If only it was that simple." Jim is the leading investigator on this case the way I see it. There are so many facets in this case that pinning it on Mr. Cornseed is next to impossible.

And by using stories from the Globe Gazette (aka the Glob, you can guess what type of glob) is not good investigative reporting. The Globe has been a joke for years and everyone knows it. By using them as a source of information is shoddy reporting at best. Just clarifying that for people who are not from the North Iowa area. In fact, they just filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week. They've been in financial trouble for years due to declining sales because honestly, their reporting was horrendous.

I pulled out the book to read it a second time to pull out holes and things she got wrong to review the book in a new topic for newcomers to the forum. I got to the second paragraph and that was enough for me to prove my point.

I quit reading at that point. Take it as you will.

I have read their opinions. Lol and by all means they can have them lol but some are so ludacriss that I can not help but to comment on them. One person wrote here the police let him leave the area. Lol what were they supposed to do???? Last I heard he was living in Arizona if the F.B.I. Would ever find any hard evidence as the person of the crime they could go there at anytime and bring him back to stand trial. Or???? Then if this cornseed fellow was so irritating to her why she golfing, waterskiing and just plain hanging out with him??? Does that even sound right that all of a sudden he would get rid of her???? Oh and then there was this great post about him passing a LTD which should be pretty convincing being that everyone else who passed one was almost all but ruled out. It was almost like they thought he went to Walmart and bought one.

Disregard the other part of the quote please. You didn't get my point which was that this book is her opinion, speculation, and observations. Like I mentioned before, she connects dots that I don't think are actually connected and fills in holes with her [i]speculation and opinion[/i].

I know Muskgrove on the forums here had an awesome theory a few years back about Honken being involved. She could have easily wrote the same book, but instead fed you the argument that he did it and everyone would have ate it up the same way.

All I'm saying is keep an open mind. This case is full of red herrings and most of what has been put out in the media is not important.

Just a few thoughts on the comments made about "Dead Air" being fiction or non-fiction.
I can see both sides of the argument here. Though the book is structured in basic facts it is filled in with speculations and theories.This does not qualify it as "historical fiction"(such as "Gone With The Wind" ) as someone suggested. In fact, there is a precedence to books similar to this, though they were written by writers with more experience, literary style and finesse. Think "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote. "Marilyn" or "The Executioner's Song" by Norman Mailer. "The Dead Girl" (to a lesser extent) by Melanie Thernstrom. All those books had strong basic facts and research.All had real people, not "characters". All contained speculation, theories, imagined or re-created conversations, thoughts and scenarios. All were challenged(except "The Dead Girl" ) for those very reasons. Instead, these books were sometimes cross classified, but mostly remembered and found in bookstores, etc. under non-fiction, true crime or biograpy for their basic truths. A few can also be found in "Literature" Take that as it is.
A true writer does not write for only $. To spend months and years on a single subject denotes passion for the subject or one that has gotten under the writer's skin that needs to be exorcised. Truman Capote never wrote another full length book afterward. It took him agonizing years to finish his book. Norman Mailer never quite got Marilyn Monroe out of his system and wrote a play "Strawhead" and another book "Of Women and Their Elegance" about her.

Changing the topic here, nowhere have i read that Cornseed was "irritating" to Jodi. I believe she was flattered by him and liked him very much as a person, as she was very social and friendly. I think she got too deep into this friendship and, I will take the Dead Air account, gleaned from friends and family, that Jodi was a very non-confrontational person and finding herself in a complex situation, probably avoided being straight up about her feelings for fear of hurting him or causing him anger. In the end, if she finally did tell him the definitive truth about her feelings, that very well could have caused him to lose it.

As for the lie detector test. They are notoriously unreliable. I have read of cases where the innocent party failed them, and vice versa. Of course, without other evidence, neither result is very helpful in any case.

Did you notice that Don Harmon died on the 27th day also? Interesting.

Don Harman died on the 29th.

Thank you Muskgrove. There are a lot of newcomers to the forums since Bednar's book was written as well as Harman's death attracted attention to the case again. Muskgrove has more knowledge on this case than anyone on here except for Jim Feldhaus and the investigators themselves.

When I originally started following this case, I thought cornseed was the culprit as well. But the case isn't as 'simple' as what it appears in the media (including Beth's book).

Hello Colby ... Read the new thread about the MCPD and DCI if you would like more info on what my experience was with how the investigation is going today.

[b]Muskgrove wrote:[/b]

Do they drag people away to a witness protection program?
I would think if thats the case then someone in her family would have been notified before she left. I dont think WPP would stage an abduction scene, complete with blood and a palmprint.
What would be the reason?

Considering the other interesting theories you have presented on this forum, this one doesnt seem to fit....