Agree!!! And I remember reading something about the boat being at Clear Lake, but that may have just been a one day thing. I don't know where it was permanently stored.

I wish I knew if the personal property of Jodi's friends was searched, especially the personal property of the person who allegedly last saw her alive. I wonder, as do others on the forum, if the police MAY have over focused on Jodi's celebrity status and followed the stalker theory, POSSIBLY at the expense of investigating other angles. If so, they may have missed blood, hair and fiber evidence that is now, unfortunately, long gone. Disclaimer: I don't know for sure that they didn't investigate all angles. I just know that there was blood at the scene and you would think that there would have been blood in a vehicle or on the clothes of the person who dragged her from the scene.

Yes, I read that too- wish they would have said the color! Wouldn't it be nice to know everything the police know- bet we would have solved it by now! lol Hopefully the administrators will see these posts and answer some of the questions.....

That would be great. But unfortunately, I think LE has a very good idea of who is responsible for Jodi's disappearance, and they failed to check him for scratches, and his vehicle and home for forensic evidence. I think that's why they are refusing to release public records on a cold case from 16 years ago! Pretty soon, some of the detectives, friends, co-workers and possible witnesses will die off. Any remaining focus on Jodi will be replaced by new cases, and LE will just not want to put energy into a case that has little hope of getting solved. Again, I hope an investigative reporter will dig into this case, including requesting copies of public records to share with the public. Or Gary and Josh will apply some pressure to LE to get copies of public records and post them to this website for us to see. Other sites having to do with crime have quite a bit of records to share with the public. Just don't know what is going on in Jodi's case. For LE to say releasing public records would compromise the evidence in the case is just another way for LE to keep us from finding out how much they bungled the case.

I hope that people who were involved in investigating the case will start to talk sooner, rather than later. It's been 16 1/2 years. Even IF they bungled the case, wouldn't the repercussions be less now than before? The former chief of police is dead and the investigators are closing in on retirement. IMHO, with every year that passes, the potential damage to individual careers and the MCPD reputation diminishes.

As a matter of fact, if they open up the files, perhaps we might see that they did reasonable police work (for the time) and the MCPD would look better than they do now.

He allegedly also told someone, at about 7 a.m. on the day she disappeared, that Jodi was gone. This was either either before or about the time that the police were dispatched to the Key Apartments. Her disappearance hadn't yet been discovered!!!! And the fact that he used the past tense in speaking about her on the day of her disappearance, when everyone else was still hoping/assuming that she was still alive, was very telling.

The guy also has an interesting past. Dead Air goes into it.

for him to be involved would make him more suspicious, and, if he was completely innocent but happened to find her somewhere, he would then certainly be a suspect. it is best for him to stay out of it, if he didn't do it.

I guess I can see where Corn Seed Dude was afraid to join the search, since he was already a person of interest in another Iowa murder case, but I can't imagine letting that fear stop me from searching for someone I cared about. But he lurked in the background. Perhaps his lawyer advised him not to join in the search. But if he is innocent, and if he truly wants her found, he should still be involved in finding justice for Jodi. He seems to have been suspiciously silent.

Cornseed allegedly had a light colored van he used for work.

[img size=800]https://www.findjodi.com/images/fbfiles/images/White_Van_320thstAAA.jpg[/img]

One point I want to make on the picture of the van is, that the van seen by the neighbor did not have windows on the drivers side except for the driver of course. And there were the windows on the passengar side just like the one in this picture. This is a chevy work van.