FREMONT COUNTY, Iowa – Officials with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) said today (Thursday), that “Over the past three days, state, local, and federal law enforcement assisted with an investigation in Fremont County. Authorities brought in an array of experts representing several disciplines and significant assets to excavate, collect and examine soil samples from a site identified by a reporting party. After exhaustive efforts, no evidence or other items of concern were recovered.

Law enforcement agencies coordinating this effort included the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Division of Criminal Investigation and the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office.”

You may recall that in late October, the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office said they were looking into claims from a woman there who said her father murdered many women decades ago and buried the remains in a remote field near Bartlett. The woman claims her late father killed at least 50 women over a span of three decades and used his children to help bury them in a well. The alleged victims are believed to be prostitutes or transients picked up in Omaha and lured to the farmland.

The man who allegedly committed the murders, died in 2013, at the age of 75.