 Describing the fear she felt as she allegedly moved the bodies, Lucy told Newsweek: "He would just tell us we had to go to the well, and I knew what that meant. "Every time I went to the well or into the hills, I didn't think I was coming down. I thought he would kill me because I wouldn't keep my mouth shut." Donald's killings continued at all times of year, she said, with the children forced to use a wheelbarrow in the warmer months and a toboggan in winter. Initial searches of the site by cadaver dogs from Fremont County Sheriff's Office followed in the days after her new claims, with local news station WHO-TV reporting that they will now be conducting a full excavation of the area around the property. Cadaver dogs reportedly found traces of human remains in four locations, including a well ( Fox News) The canines detected the scent of human remains in four locations, with one of the positives including a 90-foot well. An excavation back in 2007 cost $30){kind=link}
Police are starting excavations near a family home after a woman claimed her father had murdered as many as 70 women over several decades – and made her throw the bodies down a well
Police are to begin a dig on land surrounding a family home after a woman said her dad had murdered up to 70 women and made her hide the bodies.
Lucy Studey claimed her late father, Donald Dean Studey, had been a serial killer for several decades in a shocking interview with Newsweek late last month.
She told the magazine that he had forced her and her siblings to help transport dozens of human remains across farmland near the property in Iowa, United States before depositing them down a nearby well.
The victims are claimed to have been women from the local area, many of them sex workers.