# Possible serial killer (up to 70 victims?) exposed in western Iowa **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 24, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-serial-killer-up-to-70-victims-exposed-in-western-iowa/973723 "2022-10-24T22:50:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-serial-killer-up-to-70-victims-exposed-in-western-iowa/973723/1 "2022-10-24T22:50:11Z")
Yeah, some people are calling BS ("Why did she wait almost 10 years after his death?, that kind of thing) but I think she was just plain old that afraid of him, and finally has the courage to come forward. > **[Dad was serial killer, woman says, as cadaver dogs hunt field of nightmares](https://www.newsweek.com/dad-was-serial-killer-woman-says-cadaver-dogs-scour-field-nightmares-1754083)** > > Lucy Studey says her father forced her and her siblings to help bury his murder victims for years. Now she believes cadaver dogs have found the burial sites. TL : DR - She believes that her father picked up, and killed, female sex workers from the Omaha region, and she and her brother (who committed suicide) were forced to help him bury them. Cadaver dogs are indeed finding evidence. Oh, and the kids tried to tell their teachers, etc. but they weren’t believed even though he was a known career criminal. I also suspect that authorities are going to re-investigate his wives’ “suicides.” ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-serial-killer-up-to-70-victims-exposed-in-western-iowa/973723/2 "2022-10-24T23:32:00Z")
Two days since two cadaver dogs got a hit and no one has started digging? It’s in a remote area, so what land owner would be against digging into to it a little a see what’s there? If police thought there was a dead body in my back yard because dogs led them there I would want it at least checked out? A crew of guys with shovels isn’t that much of an expense. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-serial-killer-up-to-70-victims-exposed-in-western-iowa/973723/3 "2022-10-24T23:37:53Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Two days since two cadaver dogs got a hit and no one has started digging? There’s no urgency and it’s just cheaper to have the crews and equipment come out when all of the areas to be dug have been pinpointed. It’s not just guys with shovels; it’s detectives and medical examiners and archeologists and heavy equipment operators and crime scene specialists, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-serial-killer-up-to-70-victims-exposed-in-western-iowa/973723/4 "2022-10-24T23:40:14Z")
But kids buried them, how deep can they be? And once you find one then you send out a full scale team. I guess my point is why is this even in the news if they haven’t gone so far as to find a body? Doesn’t sound like good police work, letting your story leak out like that. Sounds like they are fishing for some funding. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-serial-killer-up-to-70-victims-exposed-in-western-iowa/973723/5 "2022-10-24T23:45:02Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > But kids buried them, how deep can they be? The daughter says they were buried in a 90-100 foot deep well. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-serial-killer-up-to-70-victims-exposed-in-western-iowa/973723/6 "2022-10-25T00:59:19Z")
SOME of them were buried in the well. The well has, of course, been located, but they’re going to have to bring in the proper equipment to open and explore it. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-serial-killer-up-to-70-victims-exposed-in-western-iowa/973723/7 "2022-10-25T01:40:39Z")
I am confused. The very first line of the article says she’d been telling people about him for 45 years. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-serial-killer-up-to-70-victims-exposed-in-western-iowa/973723/8 "2022-10-25T01:41:47Z")
And she was not taken seriously until very recently. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-serial-killer-up-to-70-victims-exposed-in-western-iowa/973723/9 "2022-10-25T02:13:41Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I am confused. The very first line of the article says she’d been telling people about him for 45 years. She probably started telling adults about it when she was a young kid. And it’s very common for adults to believe that young kids are just making things up, especially something like “my Dad’s been killing a bunch of women”–and there aren’t any missing women in the local rural area. Or it could be that as an adult she realized that helping bury murder victims makes you an accessory to first degree murder. So why say something that will put you in prison for a long time?