FBI agents along with state and local police swooped on the farmland in Thurman, Iowa, to investigate by a 53-year-old woman that her dead dad is America’s most prolific serial killer

Investigators intend to dig under a well and on mushroom trail where Lucy Studey McKiddy she insists he dumped 70 women’s bodies

McKiddy claims that her father Donald Dean Studey, who died in 2013,  murdered between 50 to 70 women, as well as two men

Investigators believe his daughters claims, which would make Studey one of the most prolific serial killers in American history 

Authorities believe that he lured women from Nebraska to his five-acre farmland in Iowa before killing them

Fremont County Sheriff’s office confirmed that cadaver dogs alerted to on four spots on the property, with one receiving multiple hits

Studey died in March 2013 and officials now probing the allegations are probing for potential burial sites on the five acre farm land he owned 

McKiddy said ‘finally’ when told of the search on Tuesday, said she has pushed for an investigation for at last 45 years.s

Police investigating allegations a farmer in Iowa murdered up to 70 women and dumped their bodies in a well are testing soil at the property in Iowa.
Lucy Studey McKiddy, 53, claims that her father, Donald Dean Studey, was a serial killer who forced her and her siblings to dump the bodies of women he killed into a 100ft well. The alleged killer dad forced his children to pile dirt and chemical lye on top of the bodies after dumping them into the well, according to the reports.
McKiddy claims that her father who died in March 2013 aged 75, was ‘routinely drunk’ and liked to kill women by smashing or kicking in their heads inside a trailer.
Investigators believe his daughter’s claims, which would make Studey one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.

Studey told authorities that she was forced to use a wheelbarrow in the warmer months and a toboggan in winter to move the corpses across the farmland in Thurman, Iowa.
His four children did their father’s bidding when he told them to ‘go to the hills’ because they were terrified they ‘wouldn’t come back’, according to his daughter. 
Studey was ‘routinely drunk’ and liked to kill women by smashing or kicking in their heads inside a trailer, McKiddy said. 
Fremont County Sheriff’s office confirmed that cadaver dogs raised alerts on at least four spots on the property, with the last getting multiple ‘hits’.  
Studey, who died in March 2013 aged 75, survived two wives. Police records have confirmed one spouse died after strangling herself with an electrical cord and the other shot herself. 
Investigators believe his daughter’s claims, which would make Studey one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.   
He has been accused of killing anywhere between 50 to 70 women and at least two men – one in his 40s and one in his 20s – over three decades dating to at least the 1970s.
Investigators believe that he lured woman, thought to be sex workers from Omaha, Nebraska, to his five acres of land before murdering them.
McKiddy claims her father’s female victims were all white with had dark hair, in their 20s and 30s, except for a 15-year-old runaway. All were buried clothed and wearing jewelry. Except, the daughter claims, her father kept gold teeth as trophies.

Witnesses reported several 15 vehicles arrive along with heavy equipment, as local and federal law enforcement begin collecting dirt samples to test for human remains from the area where Studey claims the women were buried.
Newsweek reports that the plan was to bore into the week where McKiddy claims the bodies were buried. The investigators had paved part of the hard-to-reach property to allow easy access to investigators in case remains are found by core-drilling at the well and testing for shallow graves on the land.
The Fremont County Sheriff’s office confirmed that three of the cadaver dogs hit four sites with potential for decomposing bodies on the property, as well as the neighboring land. One of the sites received multiple hits.
McKiddy said ‘finally’ when told the news on Tuesday and said she has pushed for an investigation for at last 45 years.
She added: ‘I hope that the authorities dig in the right locations and find all the bodies.’

Deputy Sheriff Tim Bothwell said that McKiddy had previously told them about her father’s alleged history in 2007 – which prompted them to excavate a portion of the property.
The process cost the county more than $300,000 but deputies are now planning a second excavation after they searched land behind the Studey property.
Contradicting McKiddy, her elder sister Susan is denying the allegations against their father.
‘I’m two years older than Lucy. I think I would know if my father murdered,’ Susan told Newsweek.
‘I would know if my dad was a serial killer. He was not, and I want my father’s name restored.
‘He was strict, but he was a protective parent who loved his children. Strict fathers don’t just turn into serial killers.’
Susan believes the cadaver dogs were fooled by the remains of their stillborn infant sister, who was buried in a shoe box on the property, as well as the body of a golden retriever.

McKiddy has been accused of giving ‘conflicting claims’ surrounding her father, with her elder sister Susan denying the allegations against their father
Deputy Bothwell said that he doubted McKiddy’s credibility, after she admitted stealing $16,000 from her father and the officer was unable to find the well.
But Sheriff Kevin Aistrope said that the FBI have backed away from the investigation in recent weeks, adding: ‘I’m not going to let it die. I’m just not gonna let that happen.
‘We’ve got to go with Lucy. No matter if they say it’s not true or say she’s crazy or whatever they can say, we have to look into it. We have no other choice.’
McKiddy told deputies in 2021 that she had ‘heard stories that there could be up to 15 bodies’ buried on her father’s land but she only knew about five personally, the Des Moines Register reported.

However, those claims were different to those she made to Newsweek, telling police that she watched her father and two others carry a body from the trunk of a vehicle.
She suspected that her father sexually assaulted and killed a 15-year-old girl in the 1970s or 80s when she was in the car with him, with the girl vanishing the next morning.
Speaking with Newsweek that the victims could be as many as 70, and that her father kept the gold teeth as trophies, as opposed to the 15 body count she speculated in her first report.

Studey, who had ‘love’ and ‘hate’ tattooed on his knuckles, is understood to have a criminal history but was known to use several aliases. He reportedly had a history of violence and run-ins with the law, including threatening to kill relatives.
Her served jail time in Missouri in the 1950s for petty larceny Again in Omaha in 1989 for a drunk driving offense. Local law enforce who were ‘wary’ of him admit they rarely went to his trailer home.
“I’ve talked to the FBI several times over the past decades – why didn’t they do something then, when he was alive?” McKiddy said.
“I look forward to the authorities digging up the bodies, identifying the people, giving their families closure and the victims a proper burial. My father was a lifelong criminal and murderer.”