Overview
- Steve Ridge, a private investigator, says he compiled about a dozen pages of material and submitted the package to the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation for review.
- Ridge says an elderly woman who once dated an alleged suspect told him the man admitted involvement during a heated roadside moment while he was being tailed by authorities in Minnesota.
- Ridge says the evidence he handed to investigators includes photos, handwritten communications, canceled checks and other items meant to corroborate the woman’s account.
- The Iowa DCI declined to comment and the Mason City Police Department told reporters the materials must be vetted before their legitimacy or evidentiary value can be determined.
- The lead updates a long-running cold case that began when Huisentruit vanished from Mason City, Iowa on June 27, 1995, her body was never found and no one has been charged.