The Secrets Green Hollow Kept About Don Studey for Decades

The Secrets Green Hollow Kept About Don Studey for Decades

Author: Hidden Killers Podcast April 29, 2026 Duration: 21:51

Everybody in town had a story about Don Studey. And they'd been waiting for somebody to ask. When criminal defense attorney Bob Motta left the Green Hollow dig site and drove into the nearby towns of Tabor and Thurman, the floodgates opened. 

People who had grown up in the shadow of the alleged Green Hollow Killer were reaching out by the hundreds through TikTok DMs — they wanted to meet, they had stories, they wanted someone to finally listen. The mayor invited Bob to dinner. Locals sat with him and shared firsthand accounts of Don Studey — a man whose own neighbors told their children to stay away from, a man the older generation believed was capable of exactly what Lucy Studey-McKiddy has been alleging for years. But the biggest revelation came from a deputy sheriff standing on the fence line at the dig site. 

He told Bob that John Wayne Gacy's first known victim, Tim McCoy, was from Green Hollow — and was related to the Studey family. Bob had just finished a thirty-six-episode deep dive on the Gacy case. Lucy never mentioned the connection. And the stories didn't stop there — alleged ties to motorcycle clubs, the Kansas City organized crime outfit, and an unsolved supper club robbery where people were killed. Green Hollow's secrets run deeper than anyone realized. Tony Brueski, Robin Drake, and Bob Motta break it all down in part two.

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