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The episode discusses the re-autopsy of Charlotte Studey, which reclassified her death and explores the allegations against her husband, Don Studey.

Charlotte Studey's death was classified as self-inflicted for nearly forty years. She reportedly died in Omaha in 1984 from a rifle shot to the head. She was five-foot-two. Nothing was documented at the scene that she could have used to trigger the weapon. The original crime scene and autopsy photographs are missing from Omaha police records. In 2023, a re-autopsy found a possible defensive wound on her arm and reclassified her manner of death as undetermined. Charlotte was one of Don Studey's wives — and not the only one to die under circumstances that have drawn investigative scrutiny decades later. Don Studey's first wife Lucy reportedly died by hanging in 1970. Their daughter, Lucy Studey-McKiddy, has alleged since 2007 that her father killed dozens of women and buried them in wells on the family's property in the Green Hollow area near Thurman, Iowa — Fremont County, approximately forty miles from Omaha. The alleged victims were reportedly vulnerable women targeted near bus stops and truck stops. Don's sister Marilyn Kepler reportedly wrote a hundred-and-sixty-eight-page journal describing alleged killings and indicated the body count could reach a hundred. Studey died in…

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