Don Studey: What the Behavioral Evidence Tells the FBI About Green Hollow

About this episode

The episode discusses the suspicious deaths of Don Studey's wives and the behavioral analysis applied to the case by retired FBI Special Agent Robin Drake.

Three of Don Studey's five wives are dead under circumstances that, when laid side by side, form a pattern no behavioral analyst would ignore. His wife Lucy reportedly died by hanging in 1970. His daughter Lucy McKiddy says her father told her for decades he choked her too hard or too long. His wife Charlotte reportedly died in Omaha in 1984 from a rifle shot to the head — she was five-two, nothing was documented at the scene to explain how she could have triggered the weapon, and the death was classified as self-inflicted for nearly forty years. A 2023 re-autopsy found a possible defensive wound on her arm and reclassified the manner of death as undetermined. The original crime scene and autopsy photos are missing from police records. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Drake applies behavioral analysis to the full scope of the allegations — from the documented deaths of Studey's wives to his daughter's claims that he killed dozens of vulnerable women targeted near bus stops and truck stops in the Omaha area and buried them in wells on a property spanning over four hundred and twenty acres in the remote Green Hollow area near Thurman, Iowa. Drake examines what the FBI's 2022…

People in this episode

Host: Bob Motta

Guest: Robin Drake

Topics covered

• true crime
• behavioral analysis
• FBI investigation
• unsolved deaths
• criminal defense

Keywords

• Don Studey
• behavioral evidence
• FBI
• Green Hollow
• true crime
• unsolved cases
• criminal defense

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Omaha, Green Hollow, Thurman, Iowa

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