What Don Studey's Green Hollow Has Finally Exposed
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Sixteen months. Over a hundred hours of phone calls. Multiple trips to rural Iowa. An FBI dig infiltrated in a rental car. A Gacy connection nobody saw coming. Alleged mob ties. An unsolved robbery.
Two sisters telling opposite stories. And a case that refuses to die. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta — host of the Defense Diaries podcast and the man behind the most comprehensive John Wayne Gacy investigation ever produced — tells the full story of his time inside the Don Studey case for the first time.
Don Studey is the alleged Green Hollow Killer — accused by his own daughter Lucy Studey-McKiddy of killing dozens of women and burying them in wells on the family's property near Thurman in Fremont County, Iowa. Bob drove to Green Hollow when the FBI moved on the property, got waved past a checkpoint, watched the dig from the fence line, and discovered that Gacy's first victim Tim McCoy was from the area and related to the Studey family.
In the nearby towns, locals shared decades of stories about the man their parents warned them never to go near. Bob uncovered alleged connections to the Kansas City mob and an unsolved violent crime. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Drake provides the behavioral analysis — real trauma, credible childhood outcry, possible memory exaggeration in the numbers. After three days the agencies closed the case. Lucy says they drilled the wrong well.
The Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders is streaming now. Full conversation with Tony Brueski, Robin Drake, and Bob Motta.
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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 ludicrous. |
| 1:24.2 | Norwegians get like that. |
| 1:26.0 | 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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