(Tabor, Iowa) –  Investigators in southwest Iowa are looking into the claims of a woman who said that, as a child, her father forced her to help dispose of bodies on land he owned west of Tabor. 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, believed to be prostitutes or transients, and that all of them were killed by her father, Donald Dean Studey, over the course of three decades.

The well no longer exists. It was filled-in many years ago, and the woman’s father has long-since died.

Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope acknowledged there have been rumors about the bodies for years, and while cadaver dog picked up a scent of human remains this past weekend at the field, as of Monday, there was no credible evidence to support the woman’s claims, and that cadaver dogs are used as a tool, but are not a definitive sign of evidence being present.