The Buried Car at Don Studey's Green Hollow Nobody Will Search

About this episode

The episode explores the conflicting accounts of Lucy Studey-McKiddy regarding her father's alleged crimes and the investigation surrounding it.

Over a hundred hours of phone calls. Sixteen months of investigation. Boots on the ground in Green Hollow. And one question that still doesn't have a clean answer — is Lucy Studey-McKiddy telling the truth about the alleged Green Hollow Killer? Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta approached the Don Studey case the way he approaches every case — looking for the lie. He probed Lucy's stories for red flags. He looked for inconsistencies. He pushed for details that didn't match. What he found was a woman whose accounts were repetitive but locked in — always the same stories told the same way with the same details. Meanwhile, Lucy's sister Susan was drunk-texting Bob during his time in Green Hollow insisting their father wasn't a killer. Two daughters. Opposite stories. No clean resolution. Retired FBI Special Agent Robin Drake brings a behavioral lens — Lucy clearly experienced trauma, and the fact that her outcry started in childhood gives it significant weight. But trauma can also produce exaggerated or distorted memories. Robin notes that serial killers statistically almost never involve family members, making Lucy's account of helping dispose of bodies an outlier. And there's a…

People in this episode

Host: Tony Brueski

Guest: Bob Motta

Topics covered

• true crime
• investigation
• family dynamics
• memory distortion
• serial killers

Keywords

• Green Hollow
• Lucy Studey-McKiddy
• Bob Motta
• Don Studey
• serial killers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FBI

Places: Green Hollow

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