Billboards Go Up for Missing Anchor
Friends and family of KMIT (Mason City) Anchor Jodi Huisentruit are hoping a new billboard campaign will solve the mystery of the morning news anchor’s 1995 disappearance .
Four billboards featuring a photo of Huisentruit and the message “Somebody knows something …is it YOU?” are being installed around the city to mark her 50th birthday on June 5; the first one went up on Wednesday.
Huisentruit was a 27-year-old anchor at KIMT, when on June 27, 1995 she failed to show up for work to anchor the 6 a.m. broadcast. She hasn't been seen since.
“Here we are for another anniversary of Jodi’s disappearance,” said Josh Benson, the cofounder of FindJodi.com, a website devoted to solving the case. “Someone knows what happened. We have to continue to find ways to reach people. We’ve never tried billboards before — and felt this is a good way to saturate Mason City with our message and reach out to those who may know something.”