Investigation underway into daughter's allegation Iowa man was prolific serial killer

[BlueGreenLady]

Daughter says there were about 70 victims, sheriff says
The woman, identified at her request in a Newsweek article Monday by her maiden name, Lucy Studey, said her father killed roughly 70 women, mostly prostitutes and runaways, and buried them on the family's rural 5 acres, Aistrope said. The tract is about 40 miles from Omaha, Nebraska.

Aistrope said he and his deputies began looking into her claims in 2021 when she contacted the sheriff's office for at least the second time to report that there were "five or six" dead women buried on the land her father lived on until his death in 2013.

She told them the bodies had been buried in and around the old well in a wooded area that was later logged. Sheriff's investigators spent much of the last year attempting to find the well and get permission from the current owners of the property and neighboring properties to conduct searches, Aistrope said.

The well, since filled in, was 90 feet deep and excavating it would be a major undertaking, Aistrope said.

He said it's hard to believe that many women could have disappeared from the Omaha area — where Studey's daughter told Newsweek her father hunted for victims — without drawing attention. But if some of the women were from other cities, Aistrope said, he can imagine it was possible.

https://www.amestrib.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2022/10/24/alleged-thurman-iowa-serial-killer-donald-dean-studey-investigation-evidence/69586206007/

https://www.amestrib.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2012/12/17/tornado-mangles-thurman-iowa/372867007/

[MontanaMama]

1. Authorities state that their cadaver dogs

hit on the presence of a body but that’s not enough to go on?

[msongs]

2. if she knew about this when daddy was alive and said nothing is she an accomplice of some sort? nt

[BlueGreenLady]

3. Maybe she was scared she

would be another victim???

[Hekate]

4. I'd bet she was terrorized by him, threatened and abused

[Hekate]

5. Prostitutes & runaways are 2 groups that the cops do not look for, so I find Aistrope disingenuous...

… at best. He didn’t know these women and girls were missing because he never bothered looking for them.

[msongs]

6. one suspects police only go looking when a citizen reports someone missing or abducted nt

[Hekate]

7. A small child gets an Amber Alert. A teenager is considered absent by her own volition...

So is a grown woman. And a prostitute? Need I tell you that slut-shaming is a thing in law enforcement?

Tens of thousands of people go missing every year. A pretty blond girl gets more interest than a Black girl, btw. To be sure, a certain percentage must not want to be found. But how do we know if cops take a report and don’t have the resources (or interest) in following up?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. It's pretty much the same for Indigenous Women, too.

https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Sometimes, not even then.