
The episode discusses Bob Motta's investigation into the Don Studey case and the failed dig at Green Hollow.
A criminal defense attorney with no credentials, no badge, and a rental Chevy Caprice that happened to look like a cop car drove six hours to a remote Iowa crime scene — and got closer to the dig than the local deputies assigned to guard it. Bob Motta had been investigating the Don Studey case for months. The alleged Green Hollow Killer is accused by his own daughter, Lucy Studey-McKiddy, of killing dozens of women over decades and burying them in wells on property near Thurman in Fremont County, Iowa — about forty miles from Omaha. When Bob got word that the FBI, the Iowa DCI, and the Fremont County Sheriff's Office were descending on the property, he packed his car and drove straight to Green Hollow. What happened over the next three days reads like a true crime thriller — arriving in the hollow after dark, going viral on TikTok while local cops watched in real time, getting waved past a checkpoint by a deputy who thought he was law enforcement, being confronted by the sheriff who recognized him from his videos, and ultimately making it onto the fence line to watch federal agents core-drill a well to at least eighty-five feet. fter parts of three days, the agencies announced…
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