Missing Iowa television news anchor Jodi Huisentruit would have turned 53 today.
Instead, this day marks another birthday without answers.
Jodi disappeared on June 27, 1995, weeks after celebrating her 27th birthday with friends in Mason City, Iowa. She planned to go back home to Long Prairie, Minnesota the following weekend to celebrate the wedding of a childhood friend.
Jodi never made it to the wedding. Instead, she was taken away from her friends, her family, and her future in the pre-dawn darkness on her way to anchor the morning news at KIMT-TV.
On Jodi’s birthday last year, we launched the FindJodi Podcast.
On Jodi’s 50th birthday in 2018, we put up our first billboard in Mason City.
The billboards and the podcast are part of our ongoing efforts to help find answers to what happened to Jodi, keep her memory alive, and keep her unsolved case from being forgotten. Those were the goals when Josh Benson and Gary Peterson founded FindJodi in 2003.
On what should have been a day celebrating Jodi’s 53rd birthday, the thoughts of the FindJodi team are with all of those who knew Jodi in life, and especially her family.
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I’ve been a praying mom for Jodi over these many years she’s been missing. May her whereabouts be known to us all.
Heavenly Father, let the truth of this happening become known now. Of anyone who knows the truth, Lord, may the Holy Spirit lead their heart to reveal this knowledge to authorities. If that does not happen, I ask in your name, Jesus, to bring about a situation that will reveal the truth. Let there be a peace to the unknown. If anyone involved is fearful, let them know there is forgiveness in you Lord. Let Your name be glorified in this, Lord. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
Thank you, that brought tears to my eyes. And hope too. Perhaps I’ll read the Book of Revelation in the Bible, and hopefully, it help shed some light. It is the final book of the New Testament, and consequently, it is also the final book of the Christian Bible.
Happy birthday Jodi. There are a lot of people searching for the answers to your abduction, and we aren’t giving up until the perpetrators are caught. You were a beautiful young woman with a smile and a big future, and someone or others took that away from you. But if we can prove this is a federal case, then hopefully they will seek the death penalty for whatever happened to you. You will not be forgotten.
I hope so often that there are answers in this case.Her family and friends deserve to know.The person or persons will answer one day,they might think they have gotten away with it,but justice will be served..The Almighty will make sure of that.
Amen, Marion.