She carried the bags of lye. She was a child. And she says she knew exactly what was at the bottom of that well. Lucy Studey-McKiddy has spent nearly two decades alleging that her father, Donald Dean Studey, was responsible for the deaths of dozens of women in rural Iowa. The alleged killings reportedly stretched back to the 1970s, centered on a remote wooded area called Green Hollow near Thurman — a place so isolated and so tied to Studey that neighbors reportedly warned their children to stay away. 

Don Studey had a documented violent history. Reports describe threats against family members, domestic abuse, and a reputation that allegedly preceded him everywhere. He reportedly had multiple wives, and the women closest to him have an alarming pattern of death. Charlotte Studey reportedly died in 1984 from a single gunshot wound in Omaha — originally called self-inflicted, now officially reclassified as undetermined after a re-autopsy. 

Lucy's own mother reportedly died from a hanging in 1970 in a scene investigators allegedly described as bloodied. Studey's sister Marilyn Kepler reportedly wrote a journal spanning more than a hundred pages that allegedly documented violence and alleged killings. She reportedly told investigators that her brother confirmed the area near his wells was a graveyard. 

Despite all of it, Donald Studey was never charged with a single homicide. He died in 2013 at 75. Now, criminal defense attorney Bob Motta — who spent over a year investigating this case on the ground — shares what he found and what the public still doesn't know.

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