Don Studey: Green Hollow's Defensive Wound Changes Everything
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
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Summary
His daughter says she carried the lye. His wife's re-autopsy reportedly revealed a possible defensive wound. And an alleged accomplice has reportedly broken years of silence. The case of Donald Dean Studey and Green Hollow keeps getting harder to ignore.
Lucy Studey-McKiddy alleges her father killed dozens of women over decades in the remote hills near Thurman, Iowa — Fremont County, about forty miles from Omaha — and disposed of them in wells on the family property. The alleged victims were reportedly vulnerable women from bus stops and truck stops near Omaha, women who vanished without anyone coming to look for them.
Studey had a documented criminal history that included domestic violence and threats to kill family members. His own sister reportedly wrote a hundred-and-sixty-eight-page journal describing alleged killings and said her brother had no human compassion. His wife Charlotte reportedly died from a gunshot wound to the head in 1984 in Omaha. She was five-two. She'd reportedly left him after an argument. The death was ruled self-inflicted for nearly four decades — until a 2023 re-autopsy found stippling on her right arm suggesting a possible defensive wound, reclassified the shot from point-blank to indeterminate range, and changed her manner of death to undetermined. The original crime scene photos and autopsy images are missing from Omaha police files.
His first wife reportedly died by hanging in 1970 — and Lucy says her father allegedly admitted for decades that he didn't mean to kill her, that he choked her too hard or too long. In 2022, cadaver dogs alerted at four locations across Green Hollow. The FBI drilled a well and left after three days. Lucy says they got the wrong one.
The Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders reportedly features an alleged accomplice and new witnesses. Green Hollow still has secrets.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:09.7 | This is quite a story. |
| 0:12.9 | It's like, where do we even begin? |
| 0:15.5 | How about here? |
| 0:17.3 | She says she was a little girl. |
| 0:19.9 | The first time her father told her to grab the bags. |
| 0:25.1 | It wasn't, you know, bags of her Barbie dolls and her toys. |
| 0:29.7 | No, it was bags of lie. |
| 0:32.5 | Heavy. |
| 0:34.0 | White bags of lie. |
| 0:50.4 | Chemical that's great for breaking down substances you know bodies and such helps mask smells as well also can make some delicious ludifisk if you're norwegian there's like |
| 0:57.6 | 10 people who got that it's any i'm not going to go to the recipe for ludicc but lie people |
| 1:03.6 | there's a lot of people who heard the word lie and thought oh yeah heavy white bags of life. |
| 1:12.8 | She says she carried them across the property to a well, a dry well, |
| 1:18.5 | deep in the wooded hills of rural Iowa. |
| 1:22.0 | And she knew what they were for. |
| 1:23.8 | Not because anyone explained it to her, |
| 1:25.9 | because you don't have to explain it to a kid when |
| 1:28.5 | the explanation is at the bottom of a 90-foot well. Lucy Studi McKitty says every time her father |
| 1:37.4 | told her they had to go to the well, she knew what it meant. And she says, every time she went, she didn't think she was coming back down that hill |
| 1:47.0 | because she wouldn't keep her mouth shut. |
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