Missing Person | Jodi Huisentruit

Mason City police are looking into two vehicles that may be connected to the disappearance of an Iowa news anchor 23 years ago, according to a new report. Jodi Huisentruit was a 27-year-old anchor at KIMT-TV in Mason City on June 27, 1995, when she failed to show up for work to anchor the 6 a.m. broadcast. She hasn't been seen since. FindJodi.com, a site dedicated to Huisentruit's case and run by journalists and retired police officers, reported Friday that the Mason City Police Department executed a search warrant on March 20, 2017, for GPS data on two cars related to John Vansice. Vansice, now 72 and living in Arizona, was a friend of Huisentruit's who may have been the last person to see her before she vanished. Online court records show police were seeking GPS data from a 1999 Honda Civic and a 2013 GMC 1500. Vansice is listed as the interested party on...

Additional Resource: Report: Police serve search warrant connected to Jodi Huisentruit cold case

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KIMT Channel 3

KIMT is a television station in Mason City, IA that serves the Rochester - Mason City - Austin television market. The station runs programming from the CBS network and identifies itself as "News Channel 3". KIMT is a digital full-power television station that operates with 100 kilowatts of power and is owned by Media General.

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Harman’s Suicide Renewed Interest in Huisentruit Case

On November 29, 2011, Kansas City’s beloved Fox 4 meteorologist, Don Harman, 41, succumbed to a lifelong struggle with depression and took his own life in his home outside Kansas City, Missouri.

For 12 years, Harman gave the morning weather report on Fox 4, where he was known for silly antics and costumes, a self-deprecating sense of humor, and ‘Doppler Don,’ a character he created to teach school children about the weather

Harman’s co-worker, Loren Halifax, said co-workers knew Harman was haunted by depression and worked with him to sort through his feelings.

Mark Alford, who had been Harman’s co-worker for more than a decade, said that Harman was disturbed at work on the day of the suicide.

Harman had once worked at KIMT-TV in Mason City, Iowa, with Jodi Huisentruit, who disappeared June 27, 1995.

Harman once said about Huisentruit’s disappearance, “The world fell apart for a lot of us.”

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