The local sheriff and an FBI source claim the groups are working together with state authorities to investigate whether an alleged serial killer’s victims are buried beneath a rural area of Iowa. The investigation began after a woman claimed her father buried dozens of young women he had killed.
From NEWSWEEK:
Lucy Studey had alleged for 45 years that her father was a murderer, abducting and killing the women and at least two men. Few had paid her much attention. But last week, cadaver dogs sniffed out suspected human remains at the site she had long identified as a burial ground in Thurman, Iowa, about 40 miles south of Omaha. At least one agent from the Omaha field office of the FBI is in direct communication with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and the Fremont County Sheriff's Office, which has overseen investigations so far, the local sheriff said. All will be at a meeting as early as next week to discuss next steps in investigating the allegations by Studey, 53, against her father, Donald Dean Studey, who died in 2013 at the age of 75. ... Lucy Studey's older sister, Susan Studey, told Newsweek that the allegations their father was a serial killer were untrue. Susan Studey said by phone she believed the cadaver dogs that searched the property last week must have been fooled by animal bones, including a golden retriever buried on the land, and the remains of a stillborn sister of Donald Studey, who was buried in a shoebox on the property. Both the dog handler and the sheriff said they believed the dogs had found human remains. The dogs are trained to ignore animal bones.
