Former Mason City police officer says police may have taken Jodi Huisentruit

A former Mason City police officer said Thursday two Mason City police officers and a retired state DCI agent may have been involved in the abduction and possible murder of Jodi Huisentruit.

Further, she alleges police officials may be covering up what really happened by their failure to follow up on leads she has provided.

Maria Ohl, who was terminated from the police department last month, made the accusations while speaking to the media after a Civil Service Commission meeting at City Hall Thursday.

The commission set 9 a.m. Sept. 13 as a date for a hearing she requested concerning her termination.

Huisentruit, a KIMT-TV morning anchor, disappeared in June 1995.

Ohl said she received credible information from an informant implicating Lt. Frank Stearns, Lt. Ron Vande Weerd and Bill Basler of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, who is now retired.

Ohl said she first received information in 2007 that police officers might have been involved in some way in the abduction. In 2009, she said, she received further information.

To her knowledge, nothing has been done with the information she supplied.

Ohl was put on paid administrative leave from the police department last year and was terminated Aug. 4. Ohl said the reason given for her termination was her handling of the Huisentruit information.

"All I want is for the truth to come out. I'm trying to get it out in the open so it won't be a secret any more," she said.

 

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  • September 2, 2011 12:20 PM Dan wrote:
    Well the police have been doing this kinda stuff sense the days of Tammany Hall in NYC in the 1800's

    The police are a totally unnecessary, and their racket is being the biggest street gang in the USA.

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