 Within days, Mason City Police reported that the sender had come forward and was identified as the wife of the former Mason City police chief.Although noting that the former chief had taken a copy of the journal home when he left office, the police gave no motive as to why the woman had sent it to the newspaper.In May 2015, all 100 members of the Iowa House of Representatives signed a letter requesting Mason City to declare June 27, 2015 as Jodi Huisentruit Day in honor of her memory and that of all victims in unsolved cases.