Don Studey: The Green Hollow Story Nobody Believed

Everybody reportedly knew. Neighbors allegedly told their kids to stay out of Green Hollow. Law enforcement allegedly treated Don Studey's property as a danger zone. His own family members reportedly described him as someone who would take a life if you crossed him.

And still, Donald Dean Studey lived to 75 and died without ever being charged in connection with a single homicide. His daughter Lucy Studey-McKiddy says the reason is simple — nobody wanted to look. She alleges her father killed dozens of women over decades in remote western Iowa, burying them in wells and along trails on the family's sprawling property near Thurman. She says she was there as a little girl. She says she carried the lye.

She says she's been telling this story since 2007 and before that, trying to get someone — anyone — to listen. Multiple women connected to Studey are dead under circumstances that remain unexplained. Charlotte Studey reportedly died in 1984 from a gunshot wound to the head — a ruling that has now been officially reclassified from self-inflicted to undetermined. Lucy's mother reportedly died by hanging in 1970 in what investigators allegedly described as a violent scene. Studey's sister reportedly left behind a handwritten journal documenting alleged killings. The pattern is staggering.

And the question at the center of everything is one that should make anyone uncomfortable: how does an entire community allegedly know a man is dangerous and still let him allegedly operate for a lifetime? Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta investigated this case on the ground in Green Hollow and joins the conversation.

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