Don Studey's Green Hollow Connected to Gacy and the Mob
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
This is the story Bob Motta has been waiting three years to tell — and he's telling it here first. The criminal defense attorney and Defense Diaries podcast host spent sixteen months investigating the Don Studey case on the ground in Iowa. He made contact with Lucy Studey-McKiddy, the daughter who alleges her father was the Green Hollow Killer, and spent over a hundred hours vetting her claims.
He drove to Green Hollow when the FBI moved on the property, arrived in the middle of the night, and started documenting everything on TikTok — going viral in real time. The next morning he talked his way past a federal checkpoint in a rental car that looked like a cop cruiser and watched from the fence line as agents core-drilled a well to eighty-five feet.
A deputy on the fence line dropped a bombshell — Gacy's first victim Tim McCoy was from Green Hollow and related to the Studey family. Bob had just finished thirty-six episodes on Gacy. Lucy never mentioned the connection. In the small towns around Green Hollow, everybody wanted to talk.
Don was the boogeyman — the man parents warned children about for decades. Bob uncovered alleged ties to the Kansas City mob and an unsolved supper club robbery. Lucy's sister Susan drunk-texted Bob throughout calling Lucy a liar. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Drake weighs in on trauma memory, credibility, and whether the numbers add up. The feds closed the case after three days. Lucy says they drilled the wrong well. The full conversation — first time anywhere.
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