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I just had the strangest realization.
I'm sitting in the same chair, I'm

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in the same room, I have
the same coffee cup. All that's missing

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is my son walking through that door
asking me to open a snack. And

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we'd be right back to episode one
of season one, almost to the day,

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three years ago, almost to the
day we recorded that first episode of

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Frozen Truth. Some things do change
though time goes by. My son is

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now in school because he's in first
grade. Now. Three years ago.

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I started this podcast not knowing what
it was going to become or it's future,

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of course, and today, almost
three years to the date, I

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have an announcement for you about the
future of Frozen Truth, and that is

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coming up next. I want to
play for you here a promo for another

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podcast project I'm involved in with a
fine Jody team, and then we'll get

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to the announcement for Frozen Trooth season
four on the other side. On the

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early morning of June twenty seventh,
nineteen ninety five, twenty seven year old

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television news anchor Jody Whosin Troop disappeared
from the parking lot of her apartment complex.

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She was an hour late for work
and after that moment, she was

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never seen again. We covered Jody's
case in season three of Frozen Truth,

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and now from myself and the rest
of the Finds Jody team, there is

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the Fines Jody Podcast. Our next
story comes from Mason City, Iowa.

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A friendly place, a classic Middle
American town. They even used it as

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the model for the town in the
movie The Music Man. It's a kind

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of a place that usually doesn't make
the national news, but all that changed

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this summer when a popular local news
anchor named Jody whosin Troop disappeared. The

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Mason City Police Department has established an
eight hundred number for anyone with any information

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about Jody's disappearance. If time you
see a little red car with a little

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blond in you know you look,
we keep happen. Channel five takes you

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deeper into the Who's in True investigation
next week. We have talked extensively with

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Jody's family members about their fears and
suspicions, and yet, mayor, in

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your area, there have been only
five murders in the last eight years.

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Are people being more careful since Jody
disappeared? Well, you'd hope so.

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Penny and we have had some defense
training at one of our fitness centers recently,

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and they had to expand the class
they were going to have to three

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classes because there were so many young
women that were interested in defense mechanism protect

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themselves. Since then, the conventional
wisdom has been that whoever abducted her would

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have had to drive north the northeast
out of town. That is the fastest

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way out of town, and the
psychics who have been employed to work on

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this case all agree with that scenario. So we obviously again don't know if

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the white van is involved in Jody's
case, But Marie, think about it,

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given the media attention that this case, God, don't you think the

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white van driver might have come forward
in herself over the years if it weren't

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involved. So first of all,
they're talking to see us she abducted and

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dragged off to the nearby area and
assaulted, killed. Other items were strewn

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near the car, But that car
is a key piece of the crime scene.

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And to see that very same car
driving down the road and then turning

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into the parking lot and then getting
to see it and sit inside the vehicle

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myself was absolutely surreal. And also
how could such a potentially important piece of

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possible evidence have been leaked from the
police station with those points. Well,

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then it turns out soon thereafter we
find out that the former police chief,

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David Ellingson took a copy home with
him from that dot crossed all the way

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down because she went been right there. It's physically impossible. Okay, all

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these years later and it keeps on
getting brought up. Yeah, they would

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like this all to come to an
end. We're just trying to help and

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try to find the answers for the
family. The answers are out there,

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and what's exciting to me is we
have such a case file now that is

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so deep. If we spend some
time going through the video and going through

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the notes, I think the answers
are in those emails, they're in the

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correspondence, they're in the video,
and all we could do is keep generating

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the lead. So look back,
cross reference the notes, and if people

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can reach out and talk to us, that it's going to solve the case.

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So I'm hopeful and I think this
can get done. For more information

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about our ongoing efforts to advocate for
Jody's case, visit finds Jodia dot com,

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The Finds Jody Podcast picks up where
Season three of Frozen Truth left off.

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If you haven't done so already,
subscribe now and listen to the first

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ten episodes, available for free wherever
you listen. As I say, three

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years ago, I started this podcast
without knowing anything, really not knowing what

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I was doing in many ways,
not knowing how the show would evolve,

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how I would evolve, how anything
was going to become, And over three

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seasons since. In these three years, I've investigated three fairly high profile unsolved

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cold cases, and in the most
involved a way you can on the ground,

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in person, speaking at the locations, with investigators and family members,

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anyone else who might be able to
shed some light on the truth. That's

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what we were after from episode one
of season one, hence the title we

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were not a truth. We were
after the one and only Frozen Truth,

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what actually happened to each of these
victims. Now three years have gone by,

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and the podcast itself has come to
a crossroads. I've evolved in the

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meantime as a creator, as a
human being. I'm involved with other projects.

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Of course, I have personal obligations, and you have to ask yourself

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every so often, is the track
I'm on? What I want to keep

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doing just in everything in life,
not to mention the podcast universe has changed

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quite a bit. There are now
several shows that do something similar to what

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I do on Frozen Truth, and
they do it very very well. And

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so the time has come, really
came to a head this week. The

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time has come for me to decide
the future of Frozen Truth. If I

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was going to fold and move on, now would be the time. And

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I thought about that, and I
thought about several other options too, maybe

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changing the premise of the show to
better fit what seems to be the changing

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landscape of podcasts out there right now, and even that's changed in the three

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years since I started. But I
guess I came to a realization finally when

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I was up against it. Then
I'm not done. And there will be

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a season for a Frozen Truth.
And as I say, I've learned and

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I've evolved, and this time the
folks for season four will be on another

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cold case, but it will be
on a case this time that needs the

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attention. Season four will be a
case that many, if not most,

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have all but forgotten because one of
the accurate critiques of Frozen Truth over the

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years has been that I focus on
certain types of cases, well known cases,

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and that's true. All three of
our cases had some national media attention,

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but one of the realizations that I've
come to is that there are thousands

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that have not, and that is
where you and I can focus. That's

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where I can focus our efforts,
and that is hopefully where we can do

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some good. So over the rest
of this year, I will be releasing

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twenty episodes of season four beginning on
Friday, March fifth. There will not

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be a regular schedule for these episodes. Though they will not be weekly,

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they will not be bi weekly,
and that might be different than what you're

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used to. Another evolution of mine
as a content creator of this particular type

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of podcast has taught me the episode
is ready when it's ready. But I

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am making a twenty episode commitment to
our season four case to you right now,

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and the premise of the podcast has
not changed at the end of the

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day, not one bit. I'm
still going to go to our season four

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location and I'm still going to talk
to everyone. I have to thank our

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Patreon supporters, many of whom have
been with us since season one, and

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there are two and three and five
dollars per month levels of support that you

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if you're not a Patreon supporter yet, you can show your support. They

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get you various perks, ad free
episodes, early access to episodes, exclusive

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content. You can read more about
it at Patreon A t R e o

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N dot com slash Frozen Truth.
I'd also like to mention briefly that the

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website Frozen Truth podcast dot com may
not be available here for the coming weeks.

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It will be back under the same
domain name. I'm just doing some

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maintenance on it. That is my
announcement to you. That's my update.

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I'll speak to you all again on
March fifth, and Patreon supporters sooner than

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that. Thank you all for your
support of this thing. Three years ago

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I decided to create called Frozen Truth
and here is hoping for a coming thaw

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and answers to our questions