Posted on 11/25/2003 9:30:33 AM PST by presidio9
GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Hundreds of volunteers streamed into the University of North Dakota's hockey arena early today to join the search for Dru Sjodin, a 22-year-old UND senior missing since Saturday night.
The volunteers were given identification badges and assigned to teams to search for Sjodin, who police believe may have been abducted.
``I was up all night, because I've just been itching to get out and do this,'' said Jerrod Arneson, one of the volunteers. ``You never think something like this would happen here, and when it does, you want to do something.''
Michelle Vogt said she lived on the same dormitory floor as Sjodin when the two were freshmen.
``She is an awesome person, very fun and outgoing,'' Vogt said. ``I don't know why you wouldn't want to come out and help. I think it's great the way every one is coming together.''
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
"Her mother, Linda Walker, said her daughter was talking to her boyfriend on her cell phone about 5 p.m. Saturday when her boyfriend heard her say, ``Oh, my God.'' Walker said the phone then went dead."
Does not sound good.
Wonder why that doesn't work with people like Helen Thomas?
Sort of. See this.
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Sort of. See this.
The four students disappeared in November 2002. The most recent article in your link is from March 2002 and is about an anchorwoman who went missing in 1995. Here's a link to an article about the students.
Go further back among the reports on the Huisentruitt disappearance, and consider the possibility that someone who abducted her and got away with it may have found it to be fun, and has done it again.
February 21, 1999 MINNEAPOLIS - Possible new evidence in the June 1995 disappearance of KIMT-TV anchorwoman Jodi Huisentruit was reported Sunday night by Twin Cities WCCO-TV I-Team investigative reporter Caroline Lowe. The report, that also aired on KIMT-TV Channel 3, Mason City, during its 10 p.m. newscast, suggested Huisentruit's body may have been buried in a silo near the Johnson County town of Tiffin and alleges a possible connection to Tony Jackson, a convicted rapist who was linked to Huisentruit's disappearance by the I-Team in an earlier WCCO report. See the full article from the Mason City Globe Gazette.
July 10, 1998 -- The assistant county attorney who successfully prosecuted Tony Dejuan Jackson for rape in Minnesota said she believes he is responsible for the disappearance of an Iowa TV anchorwoman three years ago. "In my own mind and in my own heart, I think he did it," Assistant Ramsey County Attorney Melinda Elledge told the Des Moines Register for a story published today. A Ramsey County judge sentenced Jackson, 24, Wednesday to life in prison as a "patterned sex offender" for the rape of a St. Paul woman. He would have to serve at least 47 years before being eligible for parole. "Knowing what I know about him and the way he has been involved as a rapist, I would bet my bottom dollar" that Jackson abducted Jodi Huisentruit, Elledge said. Jackson is being investigated in the disappearance of Huisentruit, a native of Long Prairie, Minn., who vanished on June 27, 1995. Jackson lived a few blocks away from her Mason City TV station at the time. In April, Jackson was sentenced for raping an 18-year-old Cottage Grove, Minn., woman and for burglary. He faces trial this fall for the rape of an Inver Grove Heights, Minn., woman, and may be retried in Washington County, where a jury was unable to reach a verdict in the rape of a Woodbury woman. Iowa authorities said their investigation of Jackson and the Huisentruit case continues. Steve Conlon, a spokesman for the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, declined to discuss the details. "It would be fair to say that we're looking at further trying to pin down his whereabouts and the manner in which he committed the crimes in Minnesota," Conlon said. Jackson has maintained his innocence.
February 9.1998 (Mason City) -- Mason City police aren't commenting so far on news from Minneapolis about a possible development in the case of missing T-V anchor Jodi Huisentruit. A Minneapolis T-V station reports that information about a Twin City rapist has been sent to Mason City police. W-C-C-O T-V says F-B-I and state investigators may compare the palm print of 24-year-old Tony Jackson with an unidentified print found on Huisentruit's car. Huisentruit was the morning and noon anchor at K-I-M-T T-V who vanished on June 27, 1995. W-C-C-O says Jackson, who's charged with four rapes in 1997, lived two blocks from K-I-M-T T-V at the time of Huisentruit's disappearance. Mason City police say they found NO connection between Jackson and Huisentruit's disappearance during earlier investigations. Jackson repeatedly denied involvement in the case to W-C-C-O reporters.
So did Jackson have any known associates or accomplices who might be carrying on the activity they once pursued together? Or might Jackson's relative success have inspired a copycat?
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And Wolf Blitzer had a piece on CNN. Don't know if they'll be rerunning that one or not.
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Sarah Millard and Amber Vestall, friends of Dru Sjodin, taped a poster to the front door of the Fisher Cafe in Fisher, Minn. Richard Sennott
Star Tribune
Published November 25, 2003
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