Breakthrough in missing Iowa news anchor case pinpoints mystery man | NewsNation Now 

Me, too!

Same. Poor girl😢

I just mentioned this case to my daughters the other day. Something about it always bothered me.

Same!!

Me either. So sad for her and her family. The murderer needs brought to justice.

Me too

Yeah, mixed about it tho. It needs to be investigated and solved, but this guy doesn't instill a lot of confidence. Let's hope he just doesn't come across well here but he'll find something substantive soon.

That's what I thought. At first, I thought the p.i. had discovered a NEW, formerly unknown "secret flame". However, the anchor then said, "I looked into this case & saw that the mystery man was a POI early on but was cleared later"....So, basically John Vansice is still super sketchhh...? Did I miss something?

They trying to keep her memory alive until theres some closure.

@@ladystardust111 But I didn't think he was speculating that this man himself was guilty, rather that someone who resented losing her attention and time had done something to her...? I'm glad at least SOMEONE is still interested in working on it.

Not nescessarily, this investigator isn't going to show all his cards and blab "a, and b, then c . . all over the news) especially with potential perpetrator still at large. And a good one will spill little details that arouse the guilty. Planting seeds of doubt, just for them etc. By the way he speaks, he's thoughtful, patient and methodical. There's a reason he spoke out, now, but probably not to say nothing. I mean, he can't divulge specific info that would tip off suspects!, think about it . . .Just my view of it Always good to see a case solved.

I doubt prayer will help, if God hasn't responded by now.

@@guitarslim56God does not see time like we do, He’s timeless and He always works in mysterious ways. This may be solved years from now or it may never be, but that doesn’t mean that the people involved haven’t been or aren’t going to be punished somehow by God just bc WE don’t have the answers. God already knows who did this.

@@lindsayceara Agreed

We're adults. Stop with the children's fairy tales

​@@lindsaycearaI've always found it mysteries that your god would let 1000s of priest rape little kids, I guess it was for there own good and in his plan to make 10s of 1000s suffer there intire life because someone raped them

I was 10 years old when th is happened I remember

I remember this too! Wow 28 years ago already.

Me too! This is a case I've always hoped would be solved.

So happy to finally see them solving cases I also read they are getting closer to solving the ramsey case I hope everyone gets justice

What a waste of time the prayer vigils were. I guess God just couldn't be bothered answering the prayers.

I understand why you are saying that. I used to say things like that as well. But the prayer vigils drew the town together like nothing else in the 10 years that I lived in that town. God does not promise that nothing bad will happen. But he does promise that he will be with us through it all. My goodness, he let his own son die after some brutal suffering. But that ended well in Waze that people on the scene could not have anticipated. I have found that times of suffering and grief have opened me up to some very important growth spiritually, and emotionally. I sense that you are a young person. Come back to this topic later, maybe much later, and I think you’ll understand better. I hope so. You will also learn how to talk more gently with people on the topic of their grief and loss.

@@pastorpresent1 Your response is admirable. It'll be easy to be rude, but you're true to yourself.

​@@whitemountainapache3297 will you grow the f up 😎

jeeze a gal has disappeared never to be seen again and people just can't be nice in the comments. "it would be easy to be rude"? yeah it would be....RIP JODY

I was just thinking that. So many cases that I followed for years are being solved or arrests have been made in the last couple of months. Perpetrators should be looking over their shoulders a lot

This is nowhere near solved and probably won't ever be. If you're familiar with this case, you know who this investigator is referring to already. They've never been able to pin it on him. He was a bit older, and seeing as it's 30 years later, time is running out (everyone's getting older). I don't think we'll ever see justice for her.

@@sernity1523 yeah.... they knew of this dude years ago. I saw it on 2 different crime programs about this woman and her poor family. I wonder If either of her parents are still alive. This is clickbait.

I really want the Jon benet case to be solved - I just have to know exactly happened that night

@@carolinesavva5376it’s just unfortunate that Jodi’s body hasn’t been found so there’s no dna or much else to examine. That’s what had solved so many of these other cold cases ..At this point we have to just hope someone fesses up

As I recall the bent key and purse etc. were found scattered about her car and not in her apartment - the news media already has reported things incorrectly...

@Squeakywheel, exactly, they got nothing, the info about the guy she newly met and was seeing already came out this past year, the police interviewed him and he was cleared. I think they pretty much know who did it but cant prove it. intials, J.V

@@johnzeszut3170Yes, very annoying! It was around her CAR. So much for the news 🤦‍♀️

@@jo72257💯

Agree…..was thinking the same thing as I came across your post …

Interesting you say that, it has always been my first thought that it was someone living in that same apartment complex that was watching her, became obsessed with her and when he saw her with another man, aka mystery man, that it enraged him....

Will pray as well. God bless you

The problem with missing person cases is that there is usually little or no evidence to investigate. The cases that are now being solved in large numbers are the Doe cases, where they have a body, and often DNA presumably from the killer.

@@pulaski1 Yes, I agree. The case of Jodi Huisentruit is a cold case. I believe she went missing in the 80s but I could be wrong.

Yes, I’m keeping my eyes on the Crystal Rogers case, it’s getting close to being solved I believe.

The biggest problem in this case is we have no body so no dna. DNA is what solved these other cold cases

Yes with DNA technology, these cases are being cracked all the time even if the perpetrators are dead. In 2015 they solved a 37 year old murder case and the killer later confessed.

She’s still alive and is currently being kept in an empty grain silo in Cedar Rapids.

@@mtphill71ur an idiot

@@mtphill71how would you even know? And even if you're joking, why would you?

Thanks…for your USELESS comment!!

@@mtphill71. NOT empty! SHE’s IN there!!!

This was BIG news here in Minneapolis at the time.

@@jmen4ever257It sure was. I went to college with her. 😢

I live in Maine maybe 22 murders a yr. More then half are DV

​@@Flyingtaco82was she in a sorority?

I totally remember that.

John Vansice

IIRC he was 47, and a couple of years later moved to Arizona.

Yes he named his boat after her but I dont think she thought of him as a boyfriend . He may well have become jealous.

Obviously never been to Monaco, or places where the money hangs around, it 20yr olds and 60yr old men

Tell the police about it - the person you knew who may have had an interest in her.

@@TheJanet4321lol I don't think she meant she actually 'knew' the person...

@@m.marrakchi9393perhaps…?

Only way to be solved is prayer!

100%

Yes, they were found outside of her car. I'm from Mason City, Iowa. Amy Kuhns called Jodi from the station, figuring she was running late. Jodi answered the phone and had overslept. Amy reported she sounded fine. The police said Jodi had definitely put up a fight. That's obvious as her things were all over the around her car. And part of her key was broken off in the lock of the car. Because of the struggle police have considered that two people may be involved. At the time, Jodi was taken the Key Apartments had window air conditioners. No one heard anything. But as a tenant said, the air conditioners were pretty loud. A white van had been noticed in the area all that week. So, the police focused on locating a white van. People volunteered to search the area. Farmers were told to check all their properties and buildings for anything unusual. As the report stated, Jodi was very well liked in the community. Hopefully, someday, this will be solved.

@@prall0915 that's all true. And they have known of this so called mystery man for years and I don't think they have ever revealed who it is.

This isn't new info. I think they are trying to keep her story alive.

To maybe help something wash out or someone to come forward.

First time Ive heard that..

WHERE did you hear that detail??

Bullshit.

I still think it’s John V.

There is no breakthrough. It's just this PI grifting using Jodi's case..

He didnt say it was him, CLOWN!

I dont think he did it. He had so many chances when he was alone with her. And she was kidnapped in her parking lot. Aside from that, "John don't!!!" could be him doing something like about to put oatmeal or rice down her garbage disposal.

Nothing has been SOLVED

Yeah it was that UM segment that got me interested in this case too. Jodi, Angela Hammond, and Debra Poe are probably the 3 missing persons from that show I wonder about the most.

Unsolved Mysteries really creeped me out…

@@PraveenSrJ01 me too lol

Its a tactic often used to make people nervous who know something so they spill information with immunity! DUH!

No DNA or fingerprints found at the scene of the crime linking anyone.

@@Millertime50107 What scene of the crime?

@@chhansen9813 she was kidnapped, that is a crime in Iowa.

@@Millertime50107Der, doy, duh, which way did he go, which way did he go? Was she, is that a fact? No! Where is the crime scene, genius? The parking lot couldve been staged. There are a multitude of things that couldve happened to her, NOBODY KNOWS FOR SURE! Yes, she was most likely abducted, but assumptions are the mother to every single screw up! Thanks detective!

The more I study true crime, the less faith I have in police. This kind of thing happens all the time. There was one case where people reported a dead body on the side of the road for two days before the police bothered to have a look at it. Like.. guy reports it, drives past it again the next day and it is still there, so he reports it again. And don't even get me started on cadaver dogs....

It was Joey Vincente

Actually she’s from long prairie Minnesota,which is northwestern Minnesota. She was supposed to be in my cousins wedding. This happened a week before the wedding ,it put a black cloud over the whole event.

We used to go to Mason City in the 70s because it had the only McDonald's around. It was a big night for us. This case was a shock. Crimes like that are very rare in Iowa, or were.

I was 12 when I seen it on um

i was 8 or 9 lol @@danielhenry4614

Well.... you usually need a body for definitive DNA and I don't think they will recover her body but by pure accident if there even is one left.

First we need to find the body

Are you familiar with Kelsie Schelling? She was killed while pregnant by her ex boyfriend. Of course this took place in Pueblo CO. They police never found Kelsie’s body either but the police did have enough circumstantial evidence to convict the ex boyfriend.

To me, that delay lends credence to the dirty cop angle. There just wasn't any justifiable reason to wait that long. It seems they're continuing to cover for someone by withholding information decades later.

I enjoy watching crime documentaries (well made ones) and after many years of watching them, I’ve concluded the vast majority of law enforcement, specifically homicide detectives, are mediocre at best. As for large metro areas, I think over many decades, Los Angeles has had some top notch homicide detectives. IMHO.

@@danc3693 I think you're correct, the smaller the city the less experience in horrific crimes that larger densely populated have. Take Moscow, Idaho... for example. The victims and/or the suspect(s) there have no hope either way.

He didn't say anything new. It has already been told at one point that she had been seeing someone new recently. That's where the neighbor's jealousy theory came into play with the public. They never revealed who the guy was that she had just started seeing. You're right. This guy didn't say anything new that those of us who have paid attention to this case didn't already know.

Interesting thought, but cell phones didn't exist 30 years ago, and it wasn't always easy to find a pay phone if one was out and about.

Cell phones did exist 30 years ago, just not many people could afford them, and they were the size of a brick. Pay phones were literally everywhere.

Her coworker friend called her & woke her up, probably regular home phone. It was something like 4am, so easy to accidentally overslept. This is a tragedy I hope they can solve. She deserves justice & her sister deserves answers as well.

There are a number of YT videos on her story, which you might want to watch as your assumptions are incorrect about what happened that morning (and @roriemcfadden6097 is correct).

I checked Wikipedia late last year to see if any updates? It stated her parents had passed without "KNOWING" ? ? SHE HAS A "SISTER". . Great :) @@roriemcfadden6097

Same thing I was saying her rushing to her job cause she overslept looks like when she was about to go into her car someone grabbed her from behind & it was reported ppl saw a white van around that time before her abduction so someone was definitely watching her every move especially when she gets up a certain time to go host the news even with her stuff scrambled all over the ground she obvious put up a fight as the police said as well yo it’s sad tho!

You beat me too it! Some police have worked with psychics I think they should consult with one even if they’re not taken seriously in a court of law at least work with one so they can get an idea what happened to her or something!