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