More than two decades after Iowa TV anchor Jodi Huisentruit disappeared, "48 Hours" reveals new information into the investigation. CBS News chief investigative and senior national correspondent Jim Axelrod reports.
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and, at this hour, investigator still have few clues about where jody, whose true might the fbi is now involved in the case and are beginning to concentrate their as our stocks turn up close, but tonight it remains untested evidence. Where is she
Those something hasn't come forward. Caroline low is in iowa with an update right now, caroline we'll Amelia tonight, there's a stain silent
in a journalist. I know what gets covered and that's why we do things like billboards to try to get the attention. We really wish we weren't here today. Twenty three years later, what happened to jodi is still a mystery. You are watching news channel three daybreak. The time is
xbox sixty four degrees. Some showers falling in north iowa jody grew up in minnesota. Then she went to mason city in ninety. Ninety three: to become
what a morning anchor
this morning our morning anchor twenty seven year old joanie whose and fruit apparently disappear. She was running. Late appeared the jody open it
from behind and then dragged away from her car and her system,
scattered behind. I called her and I talk to her. She was there
it sounded like. I woke her up. Her first question was: what time is it as a job as ten after four you need to come in? That was the last contact.
he has had with jodie, it's been thirty eight hours now sense. Anyone has spoken to jody whose intrude good evening everyone. I heads,
just strange colors
Emotions residents from all across
your firewall or in turn, filling the emotion and the desperation for jody safe return, and I thought
her so well and all of these folks who are
watching on tv right now feel like they really know or to they had around
their home every morning and they loved her. She has a hard last name whose trip after the twenty seventh of june she's jodie, doesn't need a last name anymore, chill always be just jody.
The clock is ticking undrawn shrine from K. I am to television, mason city iowa. We need your help
One of our news anchors is missing. It's been forty two hours since we last heard from our dear friend jody. There are lots and lots of theories about fight John. I would classify him as a friend
jody spent more time with John van size in the last month that she was amazing. City
than anybody that we know of, and he said I was the last person to see. I interviewed him the next day in the police,
the kid it with your assessment, normal,
Well, the indication they've me twice, but they haven't given any indication on the suspect
if anybody live in mason city,
Instead, they're now concentrating their efforts on twelve people have been detained. Most there's only been people that have been interviewed. It can be somebody, we least expect. Did she ever expressed concern that she was being stalked? Yes, in this cases,
not going to go away
investigators this to in tips, psychic leads, we ve, never close the case. It's never been occurred case for us,
it's been an active investigation since it happen the more we
This story alive it might show
unlock the puzzle. I may be walking around my king in and maybe in a wheelchair, but I'm staying on this until we find jody. Somebody knows something is it you are and
the
I,
When I saw music, I'm gonna send things right back to the studio. Thank you
much sarah
are they? Are they not be being ring
Here's a look at what we are working on for currency needs. Three and five
The yellow ribbon is still there twenty five years after anchor jody, whose interests
vanished on her way to work in may
city iowa. I said,
later. There's no way they shall have those old ass, but- and here it s, there is Joe old desk stewart.
You pay the same spot in the k I m t tv newsroom, I'm certain it is dug murdoch was the new directive
Then I have been back in fifteen years. Robin wool from was also an anchor makes me sad to be re here. For some reason, saddening peaceful to jody was more than a colleague. She was a friend what
words pop into mind when you think of joey, I think the first word that comes to my mind is effervescent good.
Wednesday morning, welcome to daybreak june fifteenth already, I'm jody, whose intrude ten
but would often described as bubbly part of a bright light. In the morning, people started for the day
she was your cup a jew lottery aim I wanna live for. This was not
be your last stop. Mason said she always talk about being on national television. We always would have.
conversations, the two of us she was beautiful. She was engaging. She was smart, the elevation
overcome was that Minnesota accent present.
Clinton leaves this morning for the group of seven summit, nova scotia and she was working.
was working really hard on that one, but jody
intrudes dream of making it big ended. The morning of Tuesday june, twenty seven nineteen, ninety five,
anchor of K. I m t six, a m newscast. She you
truly arrived at work by three thirty. In the morning,
if she's not there between three thirty and four, I give her a call. Hey. Are you awake producer, Amy coons noticed nothing unusual when she called and woke jody up about ten after
that morning. She was asking about the show she was concerned,
at the show and she said I'll be right there, but it five thirty, still, no jody, and this being a time before cell phones.
We tried or at home again and got her answering machine at six. A m Aimee had to step up and down
the news in jody's place. She loves her shop,
I let her show you know she wouldn't miss it for anything. The police were called shortly after seven when they arrived at jodi's apartment. She wasn't home, but they found her shoes, hair, dryer and keys scattered on the ground near her beloved red mazda miata.
jack sleeper was police cheap then we do have things would make us believe that could be foul play here. There were also a
and drag marks near her car signs
struck the vehicle is pro
First, on the outside, we did process for fingerprints police.
someone's palmprint on the car
Sure canine units quickly began a search of joey's apartment, complex and the banks of the winner bagel river.
This is three this evening addition evening edition the police are investigating the disappearance. But our saying much else at this time that evening carry empties. We'd story was the devastating news about one.
Its own journey, whose interest was and still is a very dear friend of mine as well as all of us here- came teamwork, inviting all of you to join us and keeping
her family, in your prayers,
The first thing you ve ever done in your career. Probably now I dont know what it looked like to. The viewer
but I just know inside it was a mass police.
Descended on the newsroom searching joey's desk for any evidence of an angry or obsessed viewer. Dodi's natural warmth
made her a target. Now she went grocery shopping and it took her two hours because she talked to three people along the way and she always had time for everybody. Joanna macy is Jodie sister, so definitely was not thinking that maybe some of those people watching or had their own potentially troubling ideas, yeah. That's what I worry about that
in all. Was too personable we're gonna stay away agrarian revealing too much? Maybe what you do
data day I live by a big swimming pool, and I can hear the children swimming and splashing and yelling for everyone when she met
ter. Do you know how many people think she was a best friend, sir,
He stein men and Kim faced actually war jody best friends, Jim I'm listening
named so stupid things and her nickname was focus. She wanted us to call her focus
grew up together in the small town of long prairie minnesota in high school jody lived up to her nickname when she helped the gulf team when to state championships. She just doesn't fair but which he say about what she wanted to achieve.
Life shouldn't be famous yeah. She wanted to be friends. She knew that in high school that she wanted to be a news anchored the twin cities,
natural areas among the top twenty areas in the nation, in total population Joad,
pursued her dream at saint cloud state university,
starring role on the schools tv station
I call on iran- and I bear show, has to come to a close. She was just twenty five when she learned the six year, an u anchor slots k. I am telling you asked
I'm right now, six thirty right on the button. Now she was gone jody vanish just
he's before she was to be an stacy's wedding party, leaving stacy to struggle with whether to go ahead with it
a good friend of ours was a priest and
and went away to asia
now is the time to keep people together. This is when we need for and pray for, and
dont council, the wedding, spend thirty eight hours now sense. Anyone has spoken to jody, whose intrude channel three co anchor disappear.
last june, twenty eightth nineteen, ninety five,
the was expand
As for the eyes you give us some assistance and Judy story was national moves.
There is growing and one iowa fond town. Someone is missing, not a face in the crowd, but one of the
familiar faces in town ages.
Struck me as so so sad, and there was a second
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yellow red and yellow ribbon their everywhere. You go
all along the road news director
more back was overwhelmed by mason city show of support after jody disappeared twenty five years ago.
It really gives you a boost to know that people care the really love jody. She was not just a person on tv every morning. She wasn't a friend somebody's gotta know something
to bring your home? It's now been nearly two and a half days since the person who usually sits in this chair, disappeared
June twenty nine ninety ninety five, investing
say they have now narrow their focus to around a dozen people. They like to continue questioning the police
also reveal jody had reported a possible stalker nine months before she disappeared. We get fired
What's that joey did major report and an her what she was
with jogging. How long ago was that report that I believe that was in october of ninety nine before she got shot?
one day when she was out hiking jogging on a trailer backtrack had followed her
but the police never got to the bottom of that incident in jody. Never
Where did another one and now joanne navy was pleading on tv for her baby sisters. Return just pray that whoever has
well. Just just remember she saw Sweden good should never hurt anyone just let her go when eighty four,
Hours now jody, whose intro the twenty seven year old colleague of ours, disappear three and a half days ago was posted June thirtieth. The fire department has intensified its search in the winnebago river in case of
he is floated to the surface. It's a scenario. No one wants to think about I've. Never
finally talked with jury, but
often everyone else does it want to find your way
July. First, this announce now
officially press find this dog several me
I have told police. They heard a screen around the time. Jody disappeared, but no one had called for help. This type of white
van was also seen in the parking lot. That morning I couldn't even
outside in the dark
because I was so afraid of how it happened in Joey's parking lot. Euro police escorts,
whoever two jody seem to be familiar with her schedule. Could it have been
someone she knew to find out, investigators were piecing together, the last days of jodie's life and
This man popped up on their radar. Declaring he'd been the last person to see joey a lie:
they ve been really twice, but they have a communication on a speck jody.
and John Van Cise told robin in an interview that jodie had visited his home the night before she was abducted, she's laughing the whole time she's there and she laughed by the time she left out of the strike you,
way too happy and gleeful and he wanted to be interviewed. She was like a daughter to me. She was just like my own child. I treat her like my own child and
so who exactly is John van size? Drilling down into that question is complicated by the passage of time, but this certainly helps days after jody disappeared,
Forty eight hours was in mason city. We.
in time with the man who had put himself at the centre of the case,
I swear she is alive somewhere. I just hope she's not hurt, hope, she's. Okay, I hope you come back so back in nineteen. Ninety five, we caught up with John van cise and Jodie's close friend, Annie cruz, dark side where we learned the three, often water, skied off his boat events. I certainly wasn't
if or acting like someone under a cloud of suspicion, she would watch Sarah home and cry and sob she'd want the all having fun, because that was her, isn't it. It is everything as it is telling that it was already clear in the days directly after jody disappears. You're speaking,
in present tense. She was one of my closest friends he or she was coming home. I really thought that
size, who was a seed salesmen, was recently divorced. He had once lived in joey's apartment complex, but johnny, and I had met him at a bar after device offered ranks
we started. Talking turban did know how he felt about him, and then we read it again and again, and although he was
two years older than jody. He became part of her inner circle, just a bunch of people. They along five,
together and have a good time. Two weeks before jody disappeared van
size help Donnie, throw a surprise birthday party for her. That's the latter skiing take a look at the pictures and she smiling she's
oh, beautiful and happy and she's in a prime. Then the week before, Joey's abduct
She, and I were out on vance ices boat
these news channel threes daybreak on Monday, jody was back at work for the last
good monday morning, marking the day break its june twenty six thirty, whose ensure better after noon. She played in a charity golf tournament where she complained: she'd been getting some prank phone call. She told some people this gulf tournament tat. She was going to have to change your phone number. I do, sir,
I think I got the police. It was later that Monday evening the advanced sys claims jody came over to his home to watch a video of that surprise birthday party. There we walked
tape and weak chuck. Only last week, a god we re here,
We did everything that we're going to cut this portion out of the taper and got this portion out of the tape. Then we laugh about it. The next morning jodie was gone.
John Van sites have a reason to harm ani, couldn't think of any that it out. I had no no question that there is no doubt in my mind if ever the police were also ask
annie what she knew. Investigators are asking you about. John Baird said yes and you're, saying it couldn't be John he's a friend for me. I'm thinking, why would you hurt somebody that that brought so much joy in your life
but robin headlong suspected advance size had feelings for jody weren't mutual.
I truly believe that he had
a strong and deep feelings for joey and something he told her back then sent chills down, doubtless spine. I only my vote because this just because she's Jodie can have another
You just can't help a lower when he said I named my boat after that's when I said bachelor
fashion I remember, holding under the microphone engine,
feeling so ill at ease and thinking to myself, I think you might have done it.
In the followed ninety ninety five, some three months after jody whose intrude disappeared, her family allowed a local tv reporter,
inside her. What's definitional strange man here, there were no obvious signs of a struggle. Dishes were still pile
up in the sink woman, anxious tat work had jody taken. The time
neatly make the bed before rushing to work. Other people had been in the apartment, so we know
oh know for sure, has a message. She never had a chance to retrieve it'll that back, except that carried out jointly with one,
John Van sites remained under suspicion. Forty eight hours,
Greece has learnt jody befriended him during what seems to have been a turbulent time in his life
it was his recent divorce and he'd been,
to install a breath eliza device. In his van
at a series of arrests related to drunken driving, then
Anne's life improved just through his connection to jodie. Absolutely she brought so much joy into his life and he didn't have a lot of friends, and you know all of a sudden, now he's kind of accepted. You know he's hanging out with us. We're having fun on a cruise says: jody thought van size understood the boundaries in their relationship. She knew she knew he had an interest, but just blew it off. You know he's like a father to me. She made that mentioned a few times in front of him
but some of jodi's friends doubted he got the message I cautioned her terrorists said jody, there's going to come a point in time when he's going to want more when she told
he named has borne. After her. We go.
Was that like cage and things where this is a little much, but she didn't see it as odd. No, she laughed. I think she was like honored like hey. It's kind of cool
jody sister, Joanne and other family members met John Van size a few days after jody disappearance
in loving we were. We had a class together. We just laugh at my ipad fire.
Forty eight hours was there, as Van Cise told them about his friendship with jodie. I just loved watching the funds Joe in found.
Demeanor again I try to watch over a trial
I was not always anguish. Was one says you get it.
there's a good chance that he is linked to show case some way or other. What makes you say that it's just
tat. He was so obsessed with her record your barbara, thereby margareta sure she like worthwhile
advanced size has never been arrested,
never been named a suspect. I know he hasn't if he is the one. Let's get the evidence, but we have to be objective. We have to have an open mind. It could be somebody, we least expect looking back twenty three years later on. He now believes Van cise could have harmed jody when you think maybe it was john
What would his motive have been? Maybe being rebuffed, maybe finally saying to her: I'm not your father. I want to be your boyfriend and that's the only thing I can think of
but the thing that has always puzzled me like why in the morning in the parking lot could what was in the parking lot? It had something to do with it. Forty eight hours obtained a copy,
the search warrant for jody ninety. Ninety one miata and learned was not in her name when she vanished it,
this licence is listed to John, was sorry. The previous owner, pending title transfer,
John. The sword is a prominent business man. He told forty eight hours,
sound jodi, was arranged by a friend who was a car salesman, the friendly since died, but his son remembers the sale. She were tired for she was proud,
I've getting that car. She was excited about it about cars,
be on John Van cise is mine. His close friend madonna Woodford claims. He told her the car was a birthday gift to jodie from a boyfriend he said, but she doesn't like what the car she's going to get the baton
she never said anything about a gentleman buying at are paying for it or anything like that. So I think that's hogwash, inconceivable to you
the site says the only time he met jody was to hinder the car keys, ani, says van size and a history of jealousy when it came
jody if we were out somewhere if she was visiting with somebody, he would come join the conversation to swoop in pretty much.
Wonder make sure that everybody knew jody was his, but we're gonna, insist
and size had no romantic, interesting, jody and no reason to hurt. When you talk about charity, it was like I'm protecting her she's. Like my daughter,
if, on june, twenty sixth and then into the morning of june, twenty seventh, what if John Van size had picked then to share with jody that he wanted to take it
the next level, and people always asked me that question is this? What I say he would not do it or they think he did it where she was abducted. He used to live in those apartments. Everybody knows him
Madonna feels ran. Size has been unfairly singled out by police and the community system
look what they ve done. He lost his best friend and it's sad
They said, and the danish says she knows where events ice was the morning jody was abducted. He was out taking a walk with her. It was their routine as you walk through this neighborhood did. He seem anxious anything else.
She seemed himself and nothing seemed unusual when she called earlier to confirm their plans and content on six o in the morning
I say: hey john: are we going to workout today? You felt when you called him that morning that he was up there sleeping yeah. Absolutely we didn't have cell phones, so I know he was home and that is why Ladonna believes she is his alibi. I called her and I talked to her
he was there remember. Joey's producer spoke to her at around for ten a m laid down a believes that
and size, even though we lived only five minutes away would not have had enough time to abduct jody, possibly dispose of her body and be home by sixty.
I know the time frame of when I called him.
When I met with him when we walked
most impossible for him to have done this police
we confirmed in the fall of nineteen. Ninety five events size had passed the polygraph test, something he'd been telling friends all along,
but he remained on the radar
and soon another man would join him
twenty jackson is a predator. You gotta, look at the sky. Take a tour of jodi's apartment at forty
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follow american scandal. Wherever you get your podcasts guests, you can listen ad free on the amazon, music or iap. May fourth, nineteen. Ninety six we're going to head down to the river. Nearly a year after jody disappeared, the society on a cruise was holding onto a sliver of hope. Father ever let her friend could still be found. They said eighteen and angel. They hope to find any type of evidence
oh yuck, any type of clues? You know earrings, first, anything that we can find she let a search party through woods start coming back yeah the rivers already at two miles from jodi's apartment exercise. Despite all these efforts, nothing spent two and a half years after Jodie vanished somewhere
Some one hundred forty miles away started her own search for answers to test potential evidence nature
excuse and true case. Caroline Lowe was an investigative reporter at w c c, o t v in minneapolis. She started reporting on jody while covering the terrifying crime spree in the minneapolis ST paul area.
I covered a serial rapists who is accused of raping for women in eighteen days. The way
was this man. Tony Jackson, he was arrested
Ninety, ninety, seven after a routine traffic, stop believe
found in his car. The tools of his trade he's got rope, he's got handcuffs, he's got his gun, he's got duct tape, basic rights are rape, get jail, bury, formerly a detective with the woodbury minnesota. Please
department worked the jackson case. All victims are, we know of. There is an element of stocking J explored tony jackson's pass.
He learned. Jackson was living in iowa when jody disappeared and not just anywhere a back. Our investigation puts them in mason city two blocks from the tv station there,
jody work. Then this is where jackson lived. This is where jody worked. Two blocks chilling it s like a bolt when you see that eke out, while this guy may be involved in georgie's case, we need to get this
isn't down to the mason city authorities. Caroline visited the mason city police three months after Jay had sent them the jackson information. Like I said she noticed the filed budget didn't seem to hold much interest: woodbury police at mason city, a fat file about the twins.
These rates, a file that has been gathering dust, one source of me, a copy
and there's that was caroline was trying to get answers to questions about jackson's best. She learned he was once a promising college basketball player, and I was
waldorf college, the he was a star basketball player problem is, he would do well and then
with snap and he would get into violent episodes of people when he was kicked out at the college virgin a year and a half
Four jody disappeared. He unrolled it.
North iowa community college in mason city.
where he showed an interest in broadcasting. He does a couple talk shows, and so is it you're thought that to start watching,
People in town who are on tv doing the news, charities
I can see how they go about doing their job. Time is six eleven sixty two degrees and james theory is jackson, might have watched jody onto you, re known or schedule and even start
Caroline also learn something that troubled her when he snapped he snapped. She spoke within it.
girlfriend of jackson's. Who said they broke up five days before jody vanished
I very violent. I mean it was a totally different person. It was like the devil second side of him and just took over
I sat in the living room with this girl and she looks a lot like jody. It was chilling, the woman did get back together,
if, with jackson until she says his anger, took another scary turn and she described how he had tried to choke her and they took
the custody. Although jackson was arrested for that attack, the charges were ultimately draft. When the woman moved away and declined to proceed. Four months later, you would go on to commit the minnesota.
Perhaps the verdict is guilty on all counts, for local man, accused of being a serial rapist jackson with sends to the equivalent of life.
Pressed still caroline kept digging into
connection jody case I want to get this guy is that is the way in the police. Do you do she learned about a former jail made? Jackson's. He says I adopted are anchored woman and killed her. The man said: jackson boasted about what he done in a rap song. Just not wanting to forget the lyrics. The jail, mate and wrote them
Now you said she's a stiff and around tiffin and pilots asylum in by low below thinking, that might mean jody was buried in a farm.
you're, a silo in the town of tiffin.
A few hours formation city, caroline headed there. She brought law enforcement, simplicity, the entry and cadaver jobs or work this side and meet you in the back.
search for human remains too. In the three dogs alerted
which is a sign that something had been there and of the boards
I found there were sent to the state climb lad, but, like so often and jones case, the lee lead nowhere any forensics tying tony jackson jody none that we now none on may fifth. Ninety ninety nine, the mason city police, issued the following statement. After conducting a thorough investigation which included interview, crime, laboratory analysis, records review and polygraph examination, tony jackson is not considered at this time.
A viable suspect in the investigation by italian I've wondered about him too. He is on the list. Jody sister Joanna can't closed. The book on Jackson is away.
certain living in the area, but please say no that he
no way, and I I don't know, though forty eight hours wanted to earth jack said about Judy's case, but he declined to speak with us. He would not
sir specific questions, but in a rambling email wrote. I stand firm in my integrity regarding the jody, whose intrude
I'm going right now, and so the hunt for clues crawls on with another look at John Van sites.
a my asked. Your master receive your work is forty eight hours.
The,
John Van sizes friend Ladonna Woodford says roughly two years after jody disappearance, she received a visit from an fbi
age. Any said I have a subpoena for you to appear at the grand jury to testify for John Ben size, they're trying to indict him- and I was like really like- are you kidding me
I went in to the grand jury and I just told my story what I knew how many times you says she was questioned about John van size for fun,
bowers? Why do they have on John? Why did I have to go to this grand
why were they turned and diet him because
the day. You don't think it's gonna, be him, I'm shocked. Did you ever have any contact with the fbi again after that there would be no indictment of John Vance rice
police, continued to work the case and the mystery of who abducted jody remain.
So yeah. It's there was hard. They went solving. We went finding it on me for teeth.
Thousand one: now, six years after jody disappeared, she was declared legally dead. Joey's family was forced to make the tough.
Fishing in order to settle her estate state like they end of the end of the book, but you still have the hope, even though you know
Realistically your mind to saying you know: she's, probably not coming home and despite the hundreds of reeds
active generated early in the investigation, overtime tips low, do a trick
detectives were assigned to the case. That's when in two thousand three
journalists, Gary petersen and Josh benson, created the website for
jody dot com. They were later joy.
By a team of former reporters and retired detective jail. Beria who's gonna consistently look for charity. If we don't do it. She's one of ours there gone
to keep jody story, a lie and ukraine. The case
you feel they were overmatched the mason city police, investigate. This is a very big case. I think this is something that they were not accustomed to deal with
from the beginning. Ani says she was concerned with how detectives process the crime scene. You know I was very surprised that was not sectioned off the whole area. Wasn't police taped off not first day or so, but there's all kinds of evidence. It could have gotten compromise. That's that's what I thought and what about jody com, a key piece of evidence that car was the only crime scene they have. This is the case with so little evidence until they find her body. They don't have. Another crime seems that car issue,
interesting, but investigators didn't hold on to that car for very long. It was released to jody's family just a couple of months after she disappeared. So if the car is your crime scene, why would they give it back to the family? I think that's a question for the police was that car given back too quickly, maybe
Just Brinkley is mason cities; fourth police chief since jody disappeared, because the evidence that could have been in that car
Finally, given the technological advances since then could be important today, but you don't have that.
But we just have to live with. What ve got got and try to do is get us you can with that chief brinkley says they do
have some dna samples and then there is that palm print, but police won't tell us exactly what other residents there
is tony jackson. Still a person of interest. I'm not a comment on that is John Beresford is still a person of interest. I can't comment on that, but find jodi dot com broke the news that in two thousand and seventeen john Van cise currently lives in arizona was still on police radar,
the mason city police, obtained a search warrant for gps information on to advance. Ices vehicles would you make that very intrigue
because it's the first thing we'd seen in years of any kind of official documents
The war is shield, but caroline thinks police were looking for. Information could have.
To Joe body
We
her eyes that they must have been trying to see it
was leading going to visit some site that he might have Barry jody. That piece didn't pan out, like we'd hoped. No one was coming back from out of state to check out a potential body site. We get information,
it's useful, whatever information the police may have on anyone, they're, not sharing. Why won't you talk about any specifics? In this case? I don't want to let the cat out
bag. I think that this to that,
in the bag. Do you had lately? No, no! I don't think we do yet, but I think that were very close. So does that mean we talking about weeks months? I don't think it's fast. It's not that. I don't think it's fast. You ready in forty eight hours travelled. The phoenix too asked John Van size what he knows about Joe these disappear,
the john, my name's, Jim Axelrod CBS news broadcast forty eight hours, korea were conducting an investigation into the disappearance of jodi. I don't want to want to ask you a couple of questions that a lot of people on june fifth
two thousand a eighteen on what would have been jody fiftieth birthday,
fine jody dad come team officially unveiled for billboards,
around mason city, it's time
jody home until then,
these are the last images of jody friends and family hold on
even when I think about it, I think about funding the we had welcome back to news channel through neighbouring chad, a lot of sunshine too many people's world
sixty four degrees already abundant sunshine. Here, mason city we're not given up
jody stuck in and go away. I am staying on this until we find jody. Somebody knows something
we have plenty of happy farmers, alter I'm sure with the tomato plants and lawns and all that stuff. Welcome to midday, I'm jody who is intro to the
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