The family of Minnesota native, and Mason City, Iowa TV anchor Jodi Huisentruit is responding to news that investigators recently searched a construction site in Winsted, Minnesota, and wondering if there's a break in the nearly 30-year old cold case.
Former Twin Cities-based television reporter Caroline Lowe has reported on, and followed the disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit, and has come to know the family well.
"They've been through this so many times before, over the years, and it really is an emotional roller coaster," explains Lowe. "You wonder is this is this the one? And then inevitably they go nowhere."
Lowe is concerned that this latest development will deter anyone else from coming forward.
"People seem to get the idea this is it, that this case is really close to being solved, and we are not in a position to say it is or it isn't, but it doesn't feel imminent," Lowe told WCCO's Susie Jones.
Huisentruit was abducted getting into her car in her apartment parking lot in 1995. She was on her way to anchor the morning news at KIMT-TV.
Investigators from Mason City Iowa searched a construction site in Winsted in Mid-October, and that search prompted someone to reach out to the website, FindingJodi.Com.
Despite the search, Lowe says people should not get complacent or assume this is the break that will solve the case.
"Don't think that the case is necessarily solved, that it's necessarily one person," Lowe said. "If you have information, if there's something you've been sitting on, you know, we're coming up on the 30th anniversary next June 27th of Jody's abduction. Don't make her family wait another year for answers. Please come forward."
Lowe says if anyone knows anything to please call police.