The parents in Tabor and Thurman told their kids the same thing for decades — don't go into the hollow. Stay away from Don Studey. He was the boogeyman of Green Hollow, Iowa, and the community around him allegedly knew exactly what kind of man he was. 

When criminal defense attorney Bob Motta went into those small towns to interview locals about the alleged Green Hollow Killer, everyone wanted to talk. People who knew Don Studey personally told Bob they wouldn't be surprised if bodies turned up in those wells. The younger generation shared the legends they'd grown up hearing. The mayor invited him to dinner. And a deputy sheriff standing on the fence line at the dig site dropped a bombshell that shook Bob to his core — John Wayne Gacy's first known victim, Tim McCoy, was from Green Hollow and was related to the Studey family by blood. 

Bob had just produced the most comprehensive Gacy investigation in podcast history and had been talking to Lucy Studey-McKiddy for months. She never mentioned the connection. Beyond the Gacy revelation, Bob uncovered alleged ties between Don Studey and motorcycle clubs, the Kansas City organized crime outfit, and an unsolved supper club robbery where people were shot and killed — with multiple local sources reportedly naming Studey as one of the participants. 

The Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders is streaming now. Part two of the conversation with Bob Motta.

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