IA IA - Daughter Alleges Father (Donald Studey) is Serial Killer - Searches Yielded No Evidence - Thurman

[Curiosa20]

In the interview with Anderson Cooper, the Newsweek Editor who also investigated Lucy’s story and was out on site when the dogs were working said that the well is in an area inaccessible by road and in a canyon like spot.

 

[ClaireNC]

In the interview with Anderson Cooper, the Newsweek Editor who also investigated Lucy’s story and was out on site when the dogs were working said that the well is in an area inaccessible by road and in a canyon like spot.

Looking at the map in 3D on Google Earth really changes the perspective. The mobile home is somewhat “perched” on a flat area on the side of a hill. There is a valley on the west/southwest sides of the house and the elevation increases on East/Northeast.

 

[Ontheriver]

The other daughter's claim that their father was a decent man flies in the face of every other person who knew this man in life. Neighbors, LE, the daughter, and even just people around town have said that he was feared and not a nice person.

You are correct. Ultimately they will either find bodies in the location she pointed out or they won't. Lucy Studey was very specific about the location and went with law enforcement to point it out. I assume there was only one well on their property so it's not like she would have given them the wrong spot. What surprised me is that apparently the FBI had visited this same location in the past year or so and didn't notify the local Sheriff's office.

 

[Curiosa20]

That article has been out for about a week.
Anything new?
Last I read she (Lucy) had changed her story from her report last year.
And the first time LE heard about the daddy serial killer was when dad accused her of stealing money from him, sometime around 2005.
I'm not believing this until human remains have actually been found.
As much as I want a whole bunch of missing people being found and families getting closure.
Something is off here. imo

Actually, that article was first published 2 days agon on 10/27 and updated yesterday, 10/28.. Much is published there not covered in other teports.
I shared that fragment from it because of the earlier question about the poor farm.
In that same article what I did not copy over was a Sherriff’s statement detailing Lucy’s descriptions including the years she saw several men’s bodies, accomplices too, as well as a description of a 15 year old girl he picked up at a stop on the Interstate and another allegedly homeless woman who he beat in the trailer. There is also a recount of a local man who the Sheriff recalls was last seen around 1988, Doug Semore.
She remembers driving in and out of Arkansas, guns hidden in hollowed out trees, on and in it goes.
She began telling her teachers when she was in 2nd or 3rd grade but was told family matters should be handled within the family.
The Sheriff believes her.
At best this is the history of a person who was severely traumatized since childhood living in a home with mothers mysteriously deceased, repeated calls to authorities for domestic violence, gunshots in the night, etc etc. At worst it is the story mayhem and murder, betrayal of a child, cover up, collusion, and complicity in unfathomable cruelty and crime.
As the Newsweek reporter said, this couldn’t happen in 2022.
IMO MOO

 

[Curiosa20]

This is the preface to the previously cited Des Moines Register article.
I find it disturbing given the small town nature of this drama that LE is not even sure of what or where a residence was.
Unless the trailer pointed out at the address is newer than where the family lived, maybe?
Correction: A Fremont County sheriff’s deputy said Friday that he was no longer certain the house he identified as once the residence of the late Donald Studey, accused of being a serial killer, was in fact Studey's former home. The Des Moines Register has removed an image and video of that house from this article.

 

[Curiosa20]

Looking at the map in 3D on Google Earth really changes the perspective. The mobile home is somewhat “perched” on a flat area on the side of a hill. There is a valley on the west/southwest sides of the house and the elevation increases on East/Northeast.

That’s a great perspective. Thank you!
Described as being “behind” the trailer, maybe the well site would be to the East/Northeast?

 

[Kudzu]

What I find infuriating is that no one believed Lucy (or took her seriously) for 45 years, but as soon as cadaver dogs indicated - then she became credible. MOO

 

[Ontario Mom]

Just came across this from today

 

[Curiosa20]

Looking at the map in 3D on Google Earth really changes the perspective. The mobile home is somewhat “perched” on a flat area on the side of a hill. There is a valley on the west/southwest sides of the house and the elevation increases on East/

Just came across this from today

I apologize but the earlier post is stuck in my phone and it won’t go away. Also my early afternoon posts are stuck in some limbo.
So that one man described the well area as a crater. Newsweek reporter called it a canyon.
Either way it is an unusually depressed area out in the trees and scrub.
I hope they accomplish something before winter sets in.

 

[sgmet]

What I find infuriating is that no one believed Lucy (or took her seriously) for 45 years, but as soon as cadaver dogs indicated - then she became credible. MOO

Picking up social media steam is not necessarily becoming credible. We still have zero confirmation that any of this is true.

 

[RedHaus]

That’s a drilled well. Old country farms and rural area have many “dug” wells even today that can be up to 36 inches wide. They’re a big safety hazard as many are overgrown or weren’t filled in properly. We have a 30-36 inch wide well still pumped today on ancestor’s property, dug originally in the late 1800’s.
Envision the old wells covered with a little roof and encased in brick siding, with a bucket to reel up and down to haul up water. They’re usually not that deep- maybe 50 feet or so but some neighbor’s reached over 80.

Exactly what I imagined. Like the stone sided well in the horror movie The Ring.

 

[AliceInPain]

Picking up social media steam is not necessarily becoming credible. We still have zero confirmation that any of this is true.

I'm waiting patiently too.
And if there were up to 70(?) bodies buried, there would have been a lot more hits by the dogs.
Four random ones is not unusual on a lot of land.
I've seen a lot of stories by bitter kids, pretending their daddies were killers, pretending they were missing people etc. It's always led to nothing except usually mental unhealth is involved.
Saying that, I'm happy they're investigating and I do hope it can lead to a few missing person cases being solved. But I doubt it.
jmo. imo.

 

[Earth]

Even if he wasn't a serial killer, he sounds rather horrible.

 

[AliceInPain]

Even if he wasn't a serial killer, he sounds rather horrible.

He does. Just one person speaking up for him and even she said he was "strict". LE never going out there unless there were more than two of them is giving vibes he was violent and unpredictable.
I also think it would be interesting to hear what the third sister has to say, and why she hasn't said anything...

 

[spiritkiss]

Very strange scenario here. I keep going back to 2 wives commiting suicide. That throws up red flags to me. The guy making excuses or explanations of why others might find bones in the well. An exolanation years ago out of the blue to a neighbor of how his daughter is halucinating/lieing about bodies being in well and on property. I think its worth looking into. The dismissal by police and whole town that daughter keeps telling everyone hes killing people. The ones are also victims that are usually chosen due to noone would look for them or know they were missing. Has anyone said the daughter is a hibitual lier or always known to make stories up since little? Ive never heard of police being so afraid of someone that they leave him alone no matter what is being said about him. Chocking murders up as just talk.

 

[libraryg]

Horseshoe Casino is now where the Bluffs Run dog track used to be, you can still see the oval track. This area had a lot of traffic, both truck stop and dog track. Also a cheap motel and an all-night restaurant. It's all about a 40 minute drive from Thurman. This was, at the time, most definitely a "sketchy" area.

I truly appreciate your info on the
area.

 

[Snoopster]

Very strange scenario here. I keep going back to 2 wives commiting suicide. That throws up red flags to me. The guy making excuses or explanations of why others might find bones in the well. An exolanation years ago out of the blue to a neighbor of how his daughter is halucinating/lieing about bodies being in well and on property. I think its worth looking into. The dismissal by police and whole town that daughter keeps telling everyone hes killing people. The ones are also victims that are usually chosen due to noone would look for them or know they were missing. Has anyone said the daughter is a hibitual lier or always known to make stories up since little? Ive never heard of police being so afraid of someone that they leave him alone no matter what is being said about him. Chocking murders up as just talk.

It is sad, isn't it?
Of course her sister says she's lying. That likely gives LE pause, as it should. It doesn't excuse them from looking into her claims though!
We'll just have to be patient until LE sorts this out. At least they are looking into it now and the public has their eyes on them.

 

[Curiosa20]

This bothers me.
From a KETV.com transcript.: Was there a Serial Killer in Iowa’s Fremont County? 10/24
THE SHERIFF SAYS HE DIDN’T HAVE A LOT OF DEALINGS WITH DONALD AND THAT HE DOESN’T HAVE A PRIOR CRIMINAL RECORD.
Of course the Sheriff, confronted by Newsweek and other media along with state and federal teams, suddenly proclaimed a whole hearted follow up as a concerned authority, vowing to carry out the search. IMO
It was days later when the Lt deputy revealed the violent past, LE encounters and at least partial criminal record of the Green Hollow Mauler.

 

[Curiosa20]

The man who said there had been no encounters or record of DDS..

From 2020-
A 37-year law enforcement veteran, Aistrope first joined the county sheriff's reserves in 1977--two years after graduating from Fremont-Mills High School. He served as Tabor Police Chief from 1983 until becoming a sheriff's deputy in '87. Aistrope served as chief deputy from 1993 until he was elected sheriff in 2008. Now running for his fourth term in office, Aistrope says he's seeking reelection in order to build on previous accomplishments.

Meet the Candidates: Kevin Aistrope

(Sidney) -- KMA News continues its "Meet the Candidates" series, with a report on the incumbent in the race for the Fremont County sheriff's Republican nomination, Kevin Aistrope.

www.kmaland.com

 

[Curiosa20]

And there’s this tidbit. Not knew but maybe overlooked.
Seems that the Deputy Wake was the one who paid attention after Sheriff Aistrope was unable to find a well and blew Lucy off for years.
…
Then, Fremont County Sheriff's Deputy Mike Wake got the call early last year and that was when investigators started taking Lucy Studey's claims seriously.

Wake, along with others in the department, had grown up hearing the stories about an erratic, often violent and inebriated Studey, a slight man who bet and lost frequently and who regularly started fights.

Wake, a former police chief in nearby Tabor, Iowa, became more interested when Lucy Studey was able to pinpoint the well – which sits on land heavily altered by bulldozing and logging – despite the area being so drastically changed. Lucy Studey herself said last Friday that the landscape was nothing like she remembered as two cadaver dogs, of a breed known as Heelers, appeared to show hit after hit of suspected human remains.