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

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 investigation — cadaver dogs alerting at four locations, followed by a three-day dig that recovered nothing — reveals about how the case was assessed and why the search was limited to a fraction of the property.

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta — host of Defense Diaries — brings sixteen months of on-the-ground investigation to the conversation. He spent over a hundred hours with Lucy McKiddy testing her story. He infiltrated the FBI dig site in a rental car that got waved past a checkpoint. A local deputy connected the Studey family to the first victim of John Wayne Gacy. Residents of Tabor and Thurman described Don as the man everyone feared. Bob uncovered alleged ties to the Kansas City mob. Don's sister Marilyn Kepler reportedly wrote a hundred-and-sixty-eight-page journal describing alleged killings and put the potential count at a hundred.

Drake and Motta examine the case from opposite angles — behavioral pattern analysis and on-the-ground investigative instinct — and both arrive at the same conclusion: the investigation that occurred does not match the scale of the allegations. Lucy's sister Susan insists the claims are fabricated. The family remains deeply divided. No bodies have been recovered from the property.

The Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders is streaming now with new witnesses and alleged accomplice testimony The wells have not been fully searched. The women Lucy says are down there have never been identified, and nobody has gone back to look.

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