I just had the strangest realization. I'm sitting in the same chair, I'm
in the same room, I have the same coffee cup. All that's missing
is my son walking through that door asking me to open a snack. And
we'd be right back to episode one of season one, almost to the day,
three years ago, almost to the day we recorded that first episode of
Frozen Truth. Some things do change though time goes by. My son is
now in school because he's in first grade. Now. Three years ago.
I started this podcast not knowing what it was going to become or it's future,
of course, and today, almost three years to the date, I
have an announcement for you about the future of Frozen Truth, and that is
coming up next. I want to play for you here a promo for another
podcast project I'm involved in with a fine Jody team, and then we'll get
to the announcement for Frozen Trooth season four on the other side. On the
early morning of June twenty seventh, nineteen ninety five, twenty seven year old
television news anchor Jody Whosin Troop disappeared from the parking lot of her apartment complex.
She was an hour late for work and after that moment, she was
never seen again. We covered Jody's case in season three of Frozen Truth,
and now from myself and the rest of the Finds Jody team, there is
the Fines Jody Podcast. Our next story comes from Mason City, Iowa.
A friendly place, a classic Middle American town. They even used it as
the model for the town in the movie The Music Man. It's a kind
of a place that usually doesn't make the national news, but all that changed
this summer when a popular local news anchor named Jody whosin Troop disappeared. The
Mason City Police Department has established an eight hundred number for anyone with any information
about Jody's disappearance. If time you see a little red car with a little
blond in you know you look, we keep happen. Channel five takes you
deeper into the Who's in True investigation next week. We have talked extensively with
Jody's family members about their fears and suspicions, and yet, mayor, in
your area, there have been only five murders in the last eight years.
Are people being more careful since Jody disappeared? Well, you'd hope so.
Penny and we have had some defense training at one of our fitness centers recently,
and they had to expand the class they were going to have to three
classes because there were so many young women that were interested in defense mechanism protect
themselves. Since then, the conventional wisdom has been that whoever abducted her would
have had to drive north the northeast out of town. That is the fastest
way out of town, and the psychics who have been employed to work on
this case all agree with that scenario. So we obviously again don't know if
the white van is involved in Jody's case, But Marie, think about it,
given the media attention that this case, God, don't you think the
white van driver might have come forward in herself over the years if it weren't
involved. So first of all, they're talking to see us she abducted and
dragged off to the nearby area and assaulted, killed. Other items were strewn
near the car, But that car is a key piece of the crime scene.
And to see that very same car driving down the road and then turning
into the parking lot and then getting to see it and sit inside the vehicle
myself was absolutely surreal. And also how could such a potentially important piece of
possible evidence have been leaked from the police station with those points. Well,
then it turns out soon thereafter we find out that the former police chief,
David Ellingson took a copy home with him from that dot crossed all the way
down because she went been right there. It's physically impossible. Okay, all
these years later and it keeps on getting brought up. Yeah, they would
like this all to come to an end. We're just trying to help and
try to find the answers for the family. The answers are out there,
and what's exciting to me is we have such a case file now that is
so deep. If we spend some time going through the video and going through
the notes, I think the answers are in those emails, they're in the
correspondence, they're in the video, and all we could do is keep generating
the lead. So look back, cross reference the notes, and if people
can reach out and talk to us, that it's going to solve the case.
So I'm hopeful and I think this can get done. For more information
about our ongoing efforts to advocate for Jody's case, visit finds Jodia dot com,
The Finds Jody Podcast picks up where Season three of Frozen Truth left off.
If you haven't done so already, subscribe now and listen to the first
ten episodes, available for free wherever you listen. As I say, three
years ago, I started this podcast without knowing anything, really not knowing what
I was doing in many ways, not knowing how the show would evolve,
how I would evolve, how anything was going to become, And over three
seasons since. In these three years, I've investigated three fairly high profile unsolved
cold cases, and in the most involved a way you can on the ground,
in person, speaking at the locations, with investigators and family members,
anyone else who might be able to shed some light on the truth. That's
what we were after from episode one of season one, hence the title we
were not a truth. We were after the one and only Frozen Truth,
what actually happened to each of these victims. Now three years have gone by,
and the podcast itself has come to a crossroads. I've evolved in the
meantime as a creator, as a human being. I'm involved with other projects.
Of course, I have personal obligations, and you have to ask yourself
every so often, is the track I'm on? What I want to keep
doing just in everything in life, not to mention the podcast universe has changed
quite a bit. There are now several shows that do something similar to what
I do on Frozen Truth, and they do it very very well. And
so the time has come, really came to a head this week. The
time has come for me to decide the future of Frozen Truth. If I
was going to fold and move on, now would be the time. And
I thought about that, and I thought about several other options too, maybe
changing the premise of the show to better fit what seems to be the changing
landscape of podcasts out there right now, and even that's changed in the three
years since I started. But I guess I came to a realization finally when
I was up against it. Then I'm not done. And there will be
a season for a Frozen Truth. And as I say, I've learned and
I've evolved, and this time the folks for season four will be on another
cold case, but it will be on a case this time that needs the
attention. Season four will be a case that many, if not most,
have all but forgotten because one of the accurate critiques of Frozen Truth over the
years has been that I focus on certain types of cases, well known cases,
and that's true. All three of our cases had some national media attention,
but one of the realizations that I've come to is that there are thousands
that have not, and that is where you and I can focus. That's
where I can focus our efforts, and that is hopefully where we can do
some good. So over the rest of this year, I will be releasing
twenty episodes of season four beginning on Friday, March fifth. There will not
be a regular schedule for these episodes. Though they will not be weekly,
they will not be bi weekly, and that might be different than what you're
used to. Another evolution of mine as a content creator of this particular type
of podcast has taught me the episode is ready when it's ready. But I
am making a twenty episode commitment to our season four case to you right now,
and the premise of the podcast has not changed at the end of the
day, not one bit. I'm still going to go to our season four
location and I'm still going to talk to everyone. I have to thank our
Patreon supporters, many of whom have been with us since season one, and
there are two and three and five dollars per month levels of support that you
if you're not a Patreon supporter yet, you can show your support. They
get you various perks, ad free episodes, early access to episodes, exclusive
content. You can read more about it at Patreon A t R e o
N dot com slash Frozen Truth. I'd also like to mention briefly that the
website Frozen Truth podcast dot com may not be available here for the coming weeks.
It will be back under the same domain name. I'm just doing some
maintenance on it. That is my announcement to you. That's my update.
I'll speak to you all again on March fifth, and Patreon supporters sooner than
that. Thank you all for your support of this thing. Three years ago
I decided to create called Frozen Truth and here is hoping for a coming thaw
and answers to our questions