About this episode

The episode discusses the FBI's brief investigation into Don Studey's property in Green Hollow, Iowa, amidst allegations of multiple murders.

Cadaver dogs alerted at four locations across Don Studey's property in Green Hollow, Iowa. The FBI drilled. After three days, they packed up and said they found nothing. Lucy Studey-McKiddy — the daughter who has been alleging since 2007 that her father killed dozens of women and buried them in wells on that land — says they searched the wrong well. The property spans over four hundred and twenty acres. The investigation that was supposed to answer decades of allegations barely scratched the surface. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta — host of Defense Diaries — spent sixteen months on the ground investigating this case before anyone with a camera showed up. He drove six hours after reading a Newsweek article about Lucy's allegations. He spent over a hundred hours probing her story. When the FBI moved in, he got waved past a checkpoint in a rental Caprice that looked like a cop car and watched the dig from the fence line. A deputy told him the first victim of John Wayne Gacy was from Green Hollow and related to the Studey family — a connection nobody had publicly reported. In Tabor and Thurman, locals lined up to tell Bob their stories. Don Studey was the man everyone in those…

People in this episode

Host: Tony Brueski

Guests: Lucy Studey-McKiddy, Bob Motta

Topics covered

• true crime
• investigation
• allegations
• FBI
• missing women
• local stories

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FBI

Places: Green Hollow, Iowa, Omaha

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