Don Studey: Green Hollow's Silence Allegedly Broken on Camera
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
For years, it was Lucy Studey-McKiddy's word against silence. She alleged her father killed dozens of women in rural Iowa. Agencies investigated, found nothing, and closed the case. Her siblings were divided. The public moved on. Now, reportedly, someone else is talking.
The Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders features what's described as testimony from an alleged accomplice — someone who reportedly witnessed what happened in Green Hollow and kept quiet for years. That's a significant shift. If credible, it means Lucy is no longer the sole source. The documentary is a three-part series that's the product of more than three years of investigation by director Aengus James and his production team.
They reportedly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars funding private forensic work — including the exhumation and re-autopsy of Charlotte Studey, whose 1984 gunshot death in Omaha has been officially reclassified from self-inflicted to undetermined. They brought in cadaver dogs, ground-penetrating radar, and forensic anthropologists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. And they say they found evidence that hasn't been made public until now. No human remains have been conclusively recovered. Donald Studey died in 2013. The alleged victims are still nameless. But the pressure is building. Criminal defense attorney
Bob Motta, who investigated this case independently in Green Hollow, discusses the documentary, the new testimony, and whether this is finally enough to reopen the case.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Dree. |
| 0:07.9 | Paramount Plus is where you can watch The Doc My Killer Father, the Green Hollow Killer. |
| 0:12.5 | It is available right now. |
| 0:14.0 | It's a three-part documentary that reportedly promises new witnesses and previously unreported evidence in the case against Don Stutey. The filmmakers say they |
| 0:22.6 | spent over three years and reportedly hundreds of thousands of dollars investigating. Charlotte |
| 0:28.2 | Study's death has been reclassified. Witnesses have allegedly come forward, including someone |
| 0:33.0 | described as an accomplice who reportedly kept the secret for years and still no human remains have |
| 0:40.1 | been conclusively recovered from that Iowa hillside. I want to talk about that. The documentary |
| 0:46.0 | and the testimony from someone describing themselves as an accomplice who allegedly kept the |
| 0:52.2 | secret for years about what happened in Green Hollow. |
| 0:55.5 | Bobby, if that is real, if this person is true to what they're saying, if someone is on camera |
| 1:01.3 | saying they were involved or witnessed what Don Studio allegedly did, what does it take |
| 1:06.1 | for that to move from a streaming show and do an actual active investigation when you have a living soul saying, |
| 1:14.7 | yeah, I was there. I helped. It depends because he dipped. Like, you know, like he started with |
| 1:23.4 | carrying the body. And it sounds like they walked past the trailer. |
| 1:28.6 | And there was a way to get up like so the way that you would get up to kind of the |
| 1:35.1 | entrance on the bluff up there was to walk past that trailer. |
| 1:40.1 | Because that's why I was saying like I made the mistake of climbing up this, |
| 1:45.8 | this kind of rock wall. And it was really just dirt and it was you know 15 17 feet high and I didn't know at that time |
| 1:53.2 | because I just couldn't get the lay of the land from from my perspective from where where I was |
| 1:58.8 | looking and trying to figure out ways to get up to where I was going |
| 2:02.3 | or wanted to get to. |
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