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Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas & Nicola Croal

FBI probe after daughter claims dad was serial killer and murdered 70 women

The FBI have teamed up with officers on an ongoing police investigation following shocking claims from a woman who alleges that her deceased father secretly killed around 70 women and made her help him hide their bodies. Lucy Studey has come forward and accused her dad, Donald Dean Studey who died in March 2013 of being a ruthless serial killer that murdered dozens of young women over the course of three decades in their home town of Thurman in Iowa.

The woman revealed to US news magazine, Newsweek, that her late father of four had forced her to assist him in moving the human remains before he buried them in the grounds surrounding their family home, the Mirror reports. Lucy recalls her terror: "He would just tell us we had to go to the well, and I knew what that meant.

"Every time I went to the well or into the hills, I didn’t think I was coming down. I thought he would kill me because I wouldn’t keep my mouth shut."

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