ABC News' docuseries 'Her Last Broadcast: The Abduction of Jodi Huisentruit' sheds new light on the anchor's disappearance.
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Three decades have passed since Jodi Huisentruit, an Iowa morning news anchor, disappeared from her apartment complex early one morning as she was about to head to work. Though it’s suspected she was kidnapped, the case remains unsolved.

The incident captured national attention at the time and continues to do so, now becoming the focus of a three-part documentary series by ABC News Studios titled “Her Last Broadcast: The Abduction of Jodi Huisentruit.”

“We were really given some extraordinary access to explore what it is like to pursue a lead in this case,” executive producer Maria Awes shared with On The Red Carpet. “For those who have been following this case, I assure you there is a wealth of new information that hasn’t been revealed before.”

The documentary crew spoke with a friend of Huisentruit’s who, after watching a “20/20” special on the case, gave police a new lead to follow.

“I mean this is a this is an active case for Mason City Police and it always has been. There is nothing that they want to do more than solve this case and bring some justice here,” Awes said.

One particularly poignant moment in the docu-series was when Awes and the team visited KIMT News, where Jodi was a morning anchor.

“KIMT today, her station, it’s like a time capsule, right? I mean, I’m walking in there and seeing these tapes and like having my own memories about what that time period really was like,” Awes recalled. “But just the fact that her desk, it really is still there. I opened the drawers and I sat there for a minute. You know, it was kind of a surreal experience. I’ve been working on Jodi’s story really for years but this was the first time I’d had the opportunity to go to KIMT. It was very easy to picture her there, almost like you walk in and you can feel what that newsroom would have felt like back then and what a presence she would have had there.”

Awes hopes the docu-series is a call to action to anyone who may have information on the case.

“Everybody wants to hopefully be part of helping to solve this case, you know, or to encourage people to come forward with that missing information that is out there somewhere that could help help us find her,” she said.

“Her Last Broadcast: The Abduction of Jodi Huisentruit” is streaming now on Hulu.

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