Officials Discussing Next Steps to Find Victims of the Iowa Serial Killer

According to WHO-TV, an Iowa woman named Lucy Studey informed the Fremont County Sheriff's Office in 2007 that her dad, who passed away in 2013, was a serial killer and had made her help get rid of the bodies.

Studey alleged her father mainly targeted sex workers and that he would kill "five or six" women per year and dump their bodies in or around a well on their Iowa property. She believes her father killed 50 to 70 women over three decades.

The sheriff's office got some recent information that led them to search a property right behind the Studey property. During a search on Friday, dogs detected the scent of human remains across the property, reinvigorating Studey's claims.

County Deputy Sheriff Tim Bothwell said: "Studey told us in 2007, and we went out. There was only one well on the property that we could see, and we didn't realize that it was on other people's property."

Federal Bureau of Investigation and Iowa's Division of Criminal Investigation will be meeting with Fremont officials next week to discuss the best way to move forward, which could be an excavation with funding help from the state and federal entities.