Can We Ever Solve The Jodi Huisentruit Case?

This is an old one from Iowa. Hulu is apparently doing a docuseries on it shortly.

There are so many angles to this one, it can make your head spin. Let’s start, then, with the basics. Jodi Huisentruit was a TV anchor in Iowa. She disappeared in June 1995. She had the morning shift and typically woke up around 3am; on the day she went missing, she overslept and woke up at 3:45am when her station called her. She was rushing to work, thusly, but she never actually made it — she appears to have been abducted right by her car, as police arrived and found the key broken off in the lock and possessions scattered. This was June 27, 1995 — meaning that a year from this June, she’ll have been missing 20 years (she was declared legally deceased in May of 2001). You do see cases solved 20–30 years out periodically these days, so there’s hope here — but there also seem to be a whole host of people potentially involved.

There’s a central website about this case, as well as a book about it. Those obviously have way more detail than I can scrape together here, but here are a few essential things to know:

1. The distance from her door to her car has been reported as about 12–15 steps. If the abductor was thus somebody that didn’t know her, he got extremely lucky in terms of…