Hulu series names new suspect in Jodi Huisentruit case

A new suspect in the abduction of Mason City Iowa TV news anchor Jodi Huisentruit is identified in an ABC News documentary that premieres Tuesday on Hulu and Hulu on Disney The three-part series Her Last Broadcast The Abduction of Jodi Huisentruit names for the first time a Wisconsin resident the ex-husband of a friend of Huisentruit s as a person of interest in the June scenario Huisentruit s friend commented she reached out in to Mason City Iowa police about her ex-husband for a second time after a segment Gone at Dawn on the Huisentruit affair aired The woman explained she had emailed police in about her suspicions but nothing came of it according to Her Last Broadcast The show that s why I reached out to Mason City police the woman says in the documentary I m positive he went to Mason City and he met with Jodi I m -percent positive He consistently sought about Jodi He necessities to be looked at The couple s divorce was finalized on June Huisentruit went missing four days later This year marked the th anniversary of her disappearance Mason City Iowa Police Investigator Terrance Prochaska who is featured prominently in the new documentary talks with the friend on camera We ve had a lot of people call and say My ex-husband did it Prochaska revealed But we know that you were one of her close friends We call this a very high-priority lead The tip led investigators last year to Winsted Minn where they searched for human remains in an area near where the man had owned property No human remains were identified The search is featured in Her Last Broadcast The man reportedly drove a white Ford Econoline van for work a van matching that description was seen near Huisentruit s apartment around the time of her abduction according to the series A composite sketch of a man neighbors saw in the parking lot of Huisentruit s apartment complex looked so much like the friend s ex-husband that she got goosebumps when she saw it she says in the series He also reached out to his ex-wife on the th anniversary of Huisentruit s abduction according to the series The man who was questioned by police declined to be interviewed for Her Last Broadcast The Pioneer Press typically does not name individuals until they are charged Persons of interest The man is one of four persons of interest named as persons of interest in the episode in Her Last Broadcast Maria Awes the documentary s director and executive producer explained it was critical to examine all the evidence to see if any of the four may have had something to do with Huisentruit s abduction It s also to show that for Mason City police this isn t really a cold-case for them she disclosed They ve been working on it for decades We required to get all this information out there keep Jodi and her story her legacy top of mind Hopefully somebody who has any missing piece of information pertaining to any person of interest featured here or otherwise will contact police That s just so critical for getting this development solved A tipster published seeing a white van in the parking lot of Huisentruit s apartment around the time frame that they think she disappeared Awes reported It wasn t as though somebody saw her being put into this van or something like that but it s inevitably been a van that law enforcement has desired to find she announced They did an enormous amount of work trying to locate white vans As you can imagine there s a lot of those Trying to sift through literally every white van in Iowa you know and also even in Minnesota I know that they were looking and trying to figure out whose van could this have been and so the fact that this man had a white van that was certainly something that piqued Mason City Police Department s interest Local celebrity Awes who grew up in Richfield was studying broadcast-journalism at the University of St Thomas in St Paul when Huisentruit disappeared and Huisentruit s affair was discussed at length in class she explained In the s local TV news anchors like Huisentruit were celebrities according to Awes It was very different then she stated People recognized them all over the place and there are dangers that come with that type of local fame You really can t discount that It was a serious thing You also have just that generalized fear that all you know women kind of have where you re alone It s dark You re going to your car Could something happen to you And in this affair something did Related Articles Charges dropped against Utah practitioner accused of throwing away in COVID vaccine doses Man accused of sending threats to federal North Dakota agents pleads not guilty At present we get justice sister of chef fatally shot at St Paul funeral reception says in court He cared for everybody Mother remembers Columbia Heights teen allegedly killed by father Two charged after gunfight at downtown St Paul pool party I think the bulk women know what that experience is like I think that s one of the reasons Jodi s event resonates so much with people is because of that fear It s something very identifiable for a lot of people Who does Awes think is responsible People ask me that all the time she revealed I perpetually say it s really not for me to necessarily comment on that other than to say you know I think my job is really I just want to get that information out there I think people can evaluate it on their own and come to their own conclusions And certainly the majority crucial thing is not what I think or what anybody thinks but really who definitely did it and what s the evidence The hard evidence And how can you prove that in court Jodi Huisentruit documentary Her Last Broadcast The Abduction of Jodi Huisentruit premieres Tuesday July on Hulu and Disney The three-part series was produced by ABC News Studios and Committee Films a Minneapolis company that produced an ABC episode on Huisentruit s abduction in