In the early morning of June 27, 1995, 27 year old Jodi Huisentruit went missing. She got a call from her co-worker that she was running late. In her drowsy conversation, Jodi apologized and rushed to get to the office. That was the last anyone heard from her.
She was an tv news anchor for a small t.v. station in Iowa. It's been over 20 years now and still no sign of her whereabouts. She was pronounced dead in 2001. This story is frightening in that it was more than likely the man she'd reported stalking her prior to her disappearance had did this. The fact there are no real substantial clues to her missing is even more alarming, considering she's such a public figure. There was a struggle outside of her car, and a trail of her bag that contained her news gear.
Yeah, there were crazy folk calling in "tips" such as she was abducted by some shiek in some foreign land for human trafficking and so forth. But...how can anyone just...vanish? Even more scary, the person who did this hasn't been caught.
This isn't just a one time deal either. You start to realize how an obsessive person could go to great lengths to perform this act, isn't going to just end when the object of their affection is obtained. The reason this makes it a perfect disappearance is that it was:
a rural town
Jodi had friends but no real boyfriends
a mother, but no father (he'd died years earlier)
not married
lived alone
suspects were anyone in the area with a television
There just wasn't an angle there to go on. Just...disappeared.
I use to think that crimes are eventually solved. I guess, to be fair, crimes in a small town. Everyone knows everyone. I would say, that a killer walks among them now. A big city crime doesn't sit well with trusting mid-westerners with confusion as to how this could transpire. Worst, that it hasn't been solved. For some reason, it seems more...appropriate in a city of millions that one falls through the cracks. Not one with the population that couldn't fill a football stadium.
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