Don Studey: What Green Hollow's Documentary Just Exposed
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A daughter's allegations. A community's reported silence. A failed investigation. And now, reportedly, an alleged accomplice speaking on camera for the first time. The Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders represents the most comprehensive public examination of the case against Donald Dean Studey — a man his daughter Lucy alleges killed dozens of women in rural Iowa over decades and buried them on the family's property near Thurman.
The three-part series, directed by Aengus James, was reportedly built over more than three years of investigation. The production team funded private forensic digs, cadaver dog searches, and the exhumation and re-autopsy of Charlotte Studey — one of Don's wives whose 1984 gunshot death in Omaha has been officially reclassified from self-inflicted to undetermined.
The filmmakers say the documentary reveals previously unreported evidence and new witnesses, including someone described as an alleged accomplice who reportedly kept the secret for years. That testimony — if it holds up — could be what finally forces law enforcement to take another serious look at Green Hollow. But the uncomfortable truth remains: no conclusive human remains have been recovered. Studey is dead. The alleged victims — reportedly vulnerable women, many of them transient — still don't have names and their families may still be waiting for answers.
Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta investigated this case on the ground before the documentary was produced and shares what he knows.
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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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