The case of Donald Dean Studey
Lucy McKiddy believes her father, Donald Dean Studey, was a murderous man who preyed on women and dumped their bodies in wells and along mushroom trails in the remote western Iowa area known as Green Hollow.
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Donald Studey died in 2013. But his memory is kept bizarrely alive by a daughter, whose allegations he killed dozens of people and buried some…
An Iowa woman claims her father was a killer and dozens of victims are buried outside Omaha. Will renewed interest from Hollywood filmmakers result in new leads?
There are those who firmly believe Lucy McKiddy's allegations that her father killed scores of people. Then there are those calling her a rampant liar.
The journal by Marilyn Kepler tells of a horrendous life for the Studeys, filled with abuse, severe beatings of family members and random robbery victims and arsons.
Of particular interest is the death of one of Donald Studey’s wives, who allegedly died of suicide but whose manner of death recently was reclassified as undetermined.