

He said the FBI had “backed away in the last couple of weeks” for reasons he would not elaborate. Kevin Aistrope, sheriff for 14 years in Fremont County, said this week that the FBI also had talked to McKiddy in 2021 and looked into the case more than a year ago. Southwestern Iowa sheriff: 'I’m not going to let it die' The Register, a part of the USA TODAY Network, could not immediately locate a third Studey daughter.
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Susan Studey said her father was strict but not a serial killer, and she wants to restore his name. Two cadaver dogs, on the site with deputies, zeroed in on specific areas, including the well, suggesting human remains may be nearby.Īnother of Studey’s four children, Susan Studey, has since told Newsweek that McKiddy was not telling the truth.


Last week, she went to the site with Newsweek and pointed out the well. Speaking in 2021 with another deputy, McKiddy claimed a second time that her father had killed several people and that she believed he disposed of their bodies in the well. McKiddy, Bothwell said, denied she took the money but alleged her father had buried bodies in a disused well behind the family’s property, on the former site of a county-run home for the poor.īothwell said he was unable to find the well she described, and the investigation stalled. Interviewed this week, Bothwell said the sheriff’s office's first heard the allegations in 2007, when McKiddy's father claimed she had stolen $16,000 from him. McKiddy, who has not responded to interview requests by the Des Moines Register, told Newsweek her previous attempts to report her father’s killings over the years had been ignored by teachers, counselors, clergy and law enforcement officials in both Iowa and nearby Nebraska. Story continues Daughter said her allegations about killings were long ignored
