Now here's a question you don't hear asked every day:
Iowa state and Fremont county investigators Monday were laying the groundwork for the next steps in an investigation into the claims of a woman who says that, as a child, her father forced her to help dispose of bodies on land he owned west of Tabor, Iowa.
In an article posted Friday on Newsweek.com, the woman suggested there may be as many as 70 bodies at the bottom of a 100 foot well. All of them people killed by her father, Donald Dean Studey, over the course of three decades. ...
[Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope] said once the location of the well was finally determined, Fremont County brought in cadaver dogs. Both dogs reacted to something in the area.
Cops out there looking for those bodies like:
Here's the kicker, folks:
"It's been a rumor around for years," [the sheriff] said on Monday.
Local residents when finding out that their sheriff has for years been aware of this "rumor" of several dozen murder victims buried out in the county:
