My LUCY STUDEY Story (Part 1): How I Got Pulled Into the Don Studey "Green Hollow Monster" Case

This isn't a recap of Paramount+'s "My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders." This is the story they couldn't tell. Since the original 2022 Newsweek bombshell about Lucy Studey McKiddy and her father Donald Dean Studey — the so-called Monster of Green Hollow — criminal defense attorney Bob Motta has been on the ground in Thurman, Iowa, investigating the Don Studey Green Hollow Murders alongside Lucy herself. Tonight on Defense Diaries LIVE, Bob kicks off a multi-part series telling his own story for the first time.

Part 1 — The Introduction. How Bob first got pulled into the case after the Newsweek article broke. How he and Lucy met. How a professional inquiry turned into a friendship....or was it? What it was like standing on the property in Fremont County, Iowa, searching for the abandoned wells with the woman who says her father made her help dump bodies into them. And what it was like being present for the initial FBI investigation at the site.

This is a story about Lucy. Not the headlines, not the documentary, not the 50-to-70 number. Lucy — the person Bob has known since this case became public.

Tonight, Part 1 covers:

• How Bob first heard about Don Studey and what made him pick up the phone

• Meeting Lucy Studey McKiddy and the moment he knew this was different

• Standing on the Green Hollow property for the first time

• Being on the ground during the initial FBI / Iowa DCI investigation

• What's coming in the next parts of this series

This is Bob's story. Pull up a chair.

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News Article

- "Dad Was Serial Killer", Woman says, as Cadaver Dogs Scour Field of Nightmares. (10/2022)

Calls/Texts start between Bob/Ali and Lucy Studey. Commentary & reading the texts

Commentary

Comments, questions & super chats 02:30:20 Updates on other cases and final announcements.

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