Authorities are investigating a woman’s claims that her father was a prolific serial killer and forced her to help bury dozens of corpses on her family’s land.
For years, Lucey Studey has claimed her father, Donald Dean Studey, killed anywhere between 50 to 70 women on her family’s property in rural Iowa. If her claims are accurate, it would make him one of the deadliest serial killers in history.
After filing multiple police reports since 2021, investigators are taking a look at the area she says he buried the bodies, with the help of his children. ‘He would just tell us we had to go to the well, and I knew what that meant,’ Studey told Newsweek.
According to Studey, her father would transport the bodies with a wheelbarrow or toboggan, depending on the season. He would dump them near an old, unused well in the woods. Then he would force the children to cover the bodies in soil and lye.
Last weekend, cadaver dogs brought in by the Fremont County Sheriff’s Department ‘hit’ on the area of forest Studey claims the bodies were buried.