Don Studey's Green Hollow Dig Failed Before It Started
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
A criminal defense attorney with no credentials, no badge, and a rental Chevy Caprice that happened to look like a cop car drove six hours to a remote Iowa crime scene — and got closer to the dig than the local deputies assigned to guard it. Bob Motta had been investigating the Don Studey case for months. The alleged Green Hollow Killer is accused by his own daughter, Lucy Studey-McKiddy, of killing dozens of women over decades and burying them in wells on property near Thurman in Fremont County, Iowa — about forty miles from Omaha.
When Bob got word that the FBI, the Iowa DCI, and the Fremont County Sheriff's Office were descending on the property, he packed his car and drove straight to Green Hollow. What happened over the next three days reads like a true crime thriller — arriving in the hollow after dark, going viral on TikTok while local cops watched in real time, getting waved past a checkpoint by a deputy who thought he was law enforcement, being confronted by the sheriff who recognized him from his videos, and ultimately making it onto the fence line to watch federal agents core-drill a well to at least eighty-five feet.
fter parts of three days, the agencies announced they found nothing and closed the case. Lucy says they searched the wrong well on a property spanning over four hundred acres. The Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders explores the case further. This is part one.
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| 1:02.1 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske and Robin Dree. |
| 1:09.5 | A daughter says she helped her father carry bodies to a well when she was a little girl. |
| 1:15.4 | You know, father-daughter bonding time. |
| 1:17.2 | She says he covered them in lie to make them disappear. |
| 1:22.4 | And they would have made ludophisks. |
| 1:24.2 | Norwegians get like that. |
| 1:26.3 | She says he allegedly killed dozens of women over decades in rural Iowa and that she's been telling anyone who would listen going all the way back to 2007. |
| 1:39.8 | And there's claims that she was saying this well before then as well. |
| 1:44.0 | Nobody has found those remains nobody |
| 1:45.9 | has proven her wrong either donald dean studley died in 2013 without ever being charged his daughter |
| 1:53.5 | lucy is still fighting and the question at the center of all of it has never been answered what really |
| 1:59.8 | happened in Green Hollow? |
| 2:02.7 | New documentary on Paramount Plus |
| 2:04.3 | asking that question, my |
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