Authorities 'actively investigating' after woman claims her late father was a prolific serial killer - CNN

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A sheriff successful occidental Iowa says local, authorities and national authorities are “actively investigating” successful a agrarian country wherever a pistillate claimed her precocious begetter disposed of dozens of bodies of radical helium killed decades ago.

“We are actively investigating this, and who wouldn’t?” Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope told CNN Affiliate KETV.

“We person a scene, but we don’t cognize whether it’s a transgression scene,” the sheriff told KETV. “We don’t person victims, bodies. Nothing.”

The hunt follows a Newsweek nonfiction quoting Lucy Studey, who claimed her father, Donald Studey, killed “50 to 70” radical years agone – and that she helped dispose of the bodies successful a good connected spot helium owned adjacent Thurman, Iowa.

Susan Studey, Lucy Studey’s older sister, aboriginal told Newsweek her sister’s claims weren’t true. “My begetter was not the antheral she makes him retired to be. He was strict, but helium was a protective genitor who loved his children … Strict fathers don’t conscionable crook into serial killers … I’m 2 years older than Lucy. I deliberation I would cognize if my begetter murdered,” she told Newsweek.

CNN has reached retired to Lucy Studey for comment.

“All we person is simply a pistillate came guardant and told america a communicative astir bodies successful a well,” Aistrope said. “We did bring a mates cadaver dogs. Cadaver dogs looked successful determination oregon looked astir the area, and they did bespeak successful the area. I’m not going to accidental it was close implicit the well, but they did bespeak successful the area.”

Donald Studey died successful 2013, according to KETV.

“We’re going to bash everything we tin to beryllium oregon disprove determination whitethorn beryllium a transgression scene,” Aistrope said.

Local, authorities and national agencies are involved, including the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and the FBI, Aistrope told KETV.

“They’d asked america to assistance with the probe arsenic good arsenic the FBI and we’re blessed to bash so, you know, and effort to supply manpower and resources,” adjunct manager with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, told KETV.

CNN has reached retired to the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation for much details.