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Police are investigating allegations that a farmer in Iowa killed up to 70 women – after his daughter told authorities “I know where the bodies are buried.”
Lucy Studey claims her father Donald Dean Studey was a serial killer who forced her and her siblings to transport the bodies of women killed by him to a 100-foot pit.
She told authorities she had to use a wheelbarrow in the warmer months and a toboggan run in the winter to move the corpses across farmland in Thurman, Iowa.
His five children obeyed their father’s orders when he told them to “go to the hills” because they were terrified they “wouldn’t come back,” his daughter said.
The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that cadaver dogs alerted to at least four spots on the property, with the latter receiving multiple “hits.”
Studey, who died in March 2013 at the age of 75, is charged with murdering between 50 and 70 women and at least two men – one in his 40s and one in his 20s.
Investigators believe his daughters claim Studey is one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.
Lucy told News week: ‘He just said we had to go to the well, and I knew what that meant.
Donald Dean Studey has been accused by his daughter of killing between 50 and 70 women, as well as two men. He died in 2013
The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that cadaver dogs were alerted in several spots on the property, as well as some on adjacent land
Lucy Studey claims her father Donald Dean Studey was a serial killer who forced her and her siblings to transport the bodies of women killed by him to a 100-foot pit.
“Every time I went to the pit or into the hills, I didn’t think I’d come down. I thought he was going to kill me because I wouldn’t shut up.
‘I don’t feel anything for my father. Nothing. I wanted justice when my father was alive, but he’s gone. I just want some closure and a decent funeral for the families.’
Studey reportedly forced his children to pile dirt and chemical lye on the bodies after dumping them in the pit.
Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope confirmed the investigation, saying “I believe her 100 percent there are bodies” and saying that if they excavate the site, it will be a “big mission.”
He added that the cost of drilling the well would be about $25,000, while a full excavation would be more than $300,000.
Both of his wives died before him, with police reports confirming that one died after strangling herself with an electrical cord and the other shooting herself.
The property, on Green Hollow Road, is not an official crime scene as officers have not yet discovered any remains
Authorities were made aware of her allegations, in which she describes using a wheelbarrow in the warmer months and a toboggan run in the winter to move the corpses across farmland in Thurman, Iowa.
Lucy claims she and her four siblings kept quiet for fear that their father, who died in March 2013 at age 75, would kill them
The FBI and Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation are both assisting local law enforcement in the investigation.
Studey, who had “love” and “hate” tattooed on his knuckles, is said to have a criminal past, but was known to use different aliases.
He was jailed in Missouri in the 1950s for petty robbery, in Omaha in 1989 for drink-driving – as police confirmed, they rarely went to the trailer he lived in because they were “war of” him.
Law enforcement officers suspect he lured a woman, believed to be sex workers, from Omaha, Nebraska, to his five acres of land before killing them.
Lucy claims the women all had dark hair, were white, and most were in their 20s and 30s, except for a 15-year-old runaway — and two men.
They were all dressed and buried in jewels, with Lucy claiming that her father kept the gold teeth as trophies.
Investigators believe his daughters claim Studey is one of the most prolific serial killers in American history
The FBI and Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation are both assisting local law enforcement in the investigation
She added: “All I want is for these sites to be excavated, for people to be shut down and for these women to have a decent burial. My father was a lifelong criminal and murderer.”
It is unclear if her siblings cooperated with authorities, with her brother Gary committing suicide at the age of 39.
Lucy claims she’s told her stories to several people over the years to get something done, but “no one wanted to listen to her.”
According to his daughter, Studey was “routinely drunk” and liked to kill women by smashing or kicking the heads of the women in a caravan.