PI Says Tipster Heard Suspect Confess in Jodi Huisentruit's 1995 Disappearance, Offers $100,000 Reward
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 3
PI Says Tipster Heard Suspect Confess in Jodi Huisentruit's 1995 Disappearance, Offers $100,000 Reward
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 3
Summary
Steve Ridge said a woman who briefly dated a person of interest told him the man confessed to killing Jodi Huisentruit during a heated roadside stop in Minnesota while authorities were tailing them.
Ridge said he verified the tipster's link to the suspect with photos, handwritten letters, canceled checks and other materials, then turned the evidence over to the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation.
No suspect was named, no body has been recovered and no one has been charged in Huisentruit's June 27, 1995 disappearance from Mason City, Iowa.
Ridge said he wants a $100,000 reward paid to anyone who leads investigators to Huisentruit's remains, as the case nears three decades unsolved.
The update comes two years after John Vansice — the last person known to have seen Huisentruit alive and a longtime person of interest — died in 2024 after denying any role.