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My Killer Father The Green Hollow Murders - Season 1 Episode 1
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00:03The first time I remember my dad killing somebody was when we lived in Bartlett, Iowa.
00:09It was around 1973, and I was probably four years old.
00:16When my dad killed somebody, he would take them to the well.
00:21And he would ask us to carry bags of lye up to the well, because the lye would help decompose
00:29the bodies.
00:32I remember dumping the lye in the well, and it used to, like, float down like a white powdery, cloudy
00:40thing.
00:41And I would just watch it, and it was actually really pretty.
00:45You know? Isn't that weird to think?
00:50How many people do you think Todd killed?
00:53I couldn't begin to tell you.
00:57Maybe a hundred?
01:00He loves you, or he hates you.
01:02And if he hates you, you're dead.
01:06He said it was a woman's body.
01:07I was carrying the upper torso.
01:10He just acted nonchalant, like it was an everyday occurrence.
01:14He killed her, and made it look like a suicide.
01:18I'm not lying!
01:19There's fucking bodies up there!
01:21He had three, maybe four, wives and or girlfriends who committed suicide.
01:26That's a lot.
01:27I came up here tonight to defend my family against your fat little mouth.
01:31Do you think I like trying to prove that my dad's a criminal and a murderer?
01:36If your dad did the things you say he did, what you've been looking for all these years
01:42is sitting right behind you under the ground.
01:46There's no question in my mind that Don was a killer.
01:49I think he was the personification of evil.
01:56Police in western Iowa are searching for any sign of a serial killer.
02:06The woman claims her late father killed at least 50 women and used his children to help
02:11bury them.
02:35There had long been a story about the monster of Green Hollow
02:40who would kill people.
02:44There's different nicknames, but the two that I've heard around here were the
02:49Green Hollow Hacker and the Green Hollow Goatman.
02:54All of the kids, my kids' age, they're calling him the Green Hollow Mauler.
03:00For real.
03:02Growing up in the area, we've heard stories about bodies in a well.
03:08The first time I heard a rumor was probably while I was in high school.
03:12The road used to run clear through Green Hollow.
03:16That was just a spooky drive you'd do on a Saturday night with a bunch of your buddies.
03:21People would come out to gawk because they'd heard of the hollow folk.
03:27And they were chased off with guns.
03:29If that's where the rumor is, do not go up to Green Hollow.
03:34I mean, growing up, we knew not to go around his place and stay away from him.
03:38It was kind of a boogeyman type story.
03:40My mother told me a lot of things that you only thought you knew about in horror stories.
03:49Lucy believes that the monster of Green Hollow is Donald Dean's studio.
04:07I'm rolling.
04:09Hey, Lucy, can you do me a favor?
04:10Can you just clap your hands in front of you?
04:13Perfect.
04:14Okay.
04:14Okay, we're ready.
04:15Oh, that's like a take.
04:16That's like, yeah.
04:17Oh, okay.
04:18I never wanted to be in front of a camera and I am not photogenic.
04:20So, okay, let's get out of here.
04:26Okay.
04:29What time is 835?
04:31Okay.
04:37We're going to where my dad used to live, Green Hollow, Iowa.
04:46I don't know why I have a good memory.
04:48But I remember things by where we lived and locations.
04:56I remember running around that town.
05:00I remember the train would pass through there.
05:04We'd put pennies on the track.
05:07And they'd be flattened out.
05:11I remember jumping in mud puddles from the potholes.
05:17I remember that we used to play hide and seek and I was little.
05:20And I thought if I stood as a statue on top of the washer or dryer that I was actually
05:24hiding.
05:27My dad was married five times and my mom was wife number three.
05:34But she died when I was 10 months old.
05:39I grew up with my dad and three full-blooded siblings.
05:44My older brother, Gary, my sister, Susan, and Linda, and then myself.
05:51I'm the youngest out of us four.
05:57After my mom died, we were on the road for a few years.
06:02My dad was a degenerate gambler.
06:04He would bet on the horses.
06:06And when my dad needed money, he had a pipe with cement in it.
06:12And he would just go find someone to mug and just beat him, take the wallet, and leave.
06:17But one time, outside of Texarkana, there was a guy he hit too hard.
06:23And dad thought for sure he killed him.
06:28When dad and us kids moved back to Green Hollow, he needed someone to watch us.
06:34He would look for women who didn't have a place to stay.
06:40I guess nowadays you'd call them lot lizards, but those were like prostitutes at truck stops.
06:47And women at bars.
06:49He called them bar slushes.
06:53And he brought them home.
06:57They had a consensual relationship with my dad.
07:00My dad was a very good-looking, charming man.
07:04But eventually the mental abuse would start, the physical abuse would start,
07:09and you could be perfect, and it would still get worse.
07:15Some of the women were like moms to us.
07:20I remember the lady who started with a D, Darlene, something like that.
07:26I really wanted dad to marry Darlene.
07:29I liked her.
07:31She used to take and trace my ear.
07:35And she'd do that over and over.
07:38And then sometimes she would twist my hair around my ear.
07:42She was nice.
07:45But she did not leave Green Hollow alive.
07:51Unbelievable story tonight.
07:53Unbelievable story.
07:54Bodies in a well.
07:55Like, dozens and dozens and dozens of bodies.
07:59Lucy has told authorities for years that her father demanded she and her siblings help them bury the bodies.
08:06A woman claims that her father was a serial killer.
08:10Cadaver dogs searched the area where Lucy Studi says her father buried bodies.
08:14What is it like, and what did the cadaver dogs find so far?
08:17They naturally were drawn to both the well and other spots.
08:21Lucy's story, as wild as it may seem to readers and audiences, checked out every word.
08:33The article on Don Studi rocked our world.
08:38Knowing his history with us, it made me sick to my stomach to think I lived with that guy.
08:45I saw the article, and the first thing I thought was, it's about damn time.
08:51When the Newsweek story came out, that's when everything got huge.
08:56I finally had to turn my phone off because, I mean, everybody was calling it.
09:02A lot of reporters start showing up to the point we actually put a no trespassing sign at the front
09:09of the house.
09:11Once the story broke, we just kind of like sat back and watched.
09:18But then we realized that they were trashing Lucy again.
09:23And we knew she was telling the truth.
09:27After many discussions, we decided that it was time to reach out and see if we could contact Lucy.
09:34It had been 39 years since we've had contact with any of the Studi's.
09:40So it was a blessing to be able to reconnect with my stepsister.
09:50This is the entrance of Green Hollow.
09:54You can see how isolated it is.
09:56And there's a lot of shit that went on up in these hills that, you know, that nobody knows about.
10:07Where that trailer house sits is where the end of our trailer was, and our trailer went that way.
10:13That old blue and white trailer house we used to live in.
10:16And then my dad got a better trailer house, and that's where I remember dad killing the women.
10:28Between 1973 up until at least 1980, I remember my dad, on average, killing at least four people a year.
10:50My name is Eric Firkenhoff.
10:53I'm a reporter at Newsweek.
10:54I focus on investigations.
10:56I remember exactly where I was, and this woman called.
11:00She's like, my name's Lucy Studi McKitty, and my dad has been killing people for his whole life.
11:06And hiding them in Iowa.
11:10You know, you get calls from people all the time, especially in investigations.
11:16And vetting these calls is very important.
11:19But you're never going to properly vet a call unless you listen.
11:24She said that her dad would find women, bring them home, kill these women, bring them up to a well
11:32on the Studi property,
11:35and would dump their bodies in the well on the land that they grew up on.
11:41She tells me this story over an hour, hour and a half, and she is precise.
11:49She's been making these complaints and reports for years.
11:54So we run a big story about this in Newsweek, and that got enough attention that the Sheriff's Department and
12:05the DCI and the FBI decided
12:08we're actually going to dig and find answers.
12:18Well, I'm Sean Smith.
12:20I'm a fourth-generation farmer in Tremont County.
12:23The property we're talking about, we think these bodies are, is actually a piece of my ground.
12:32Don called me one evening.
12:34I think he was drunk, but yeah, he was ranting and raving.
12:39And then they started talking, and he says, when you're in that well, did you see cow bones or human
12:44bones?
12:45I said, Don, I've never been down in a well in my life.
12:47What the hell are you talking about?
12:50And he goes, well, my daughter says I put a body in a well, and the Sheriff's Office is going
12:55to dig it out.
12:57But when he said it, I don't know, it was the weirdest feeling.
13:03I mean, why would he call me up if he wasn't worried about something?
13:08And then as soon as I got off the phone, I called the Sheriff's Office and loved to report with
13:11them.
13:13And then several years later, that's when the stuff all popped up again.
13:20I took the Sheriff's Office and the, I think some FBI guys, showed them where I thought the well was.
13:26There was a little indentation where I was pretty sure that's what it was.
13:30We went and made a path down to it.
13:33Then they decided to go ahead and do the core sample.
13:37They bored three holes, 85 feet deep, in one well.
13:43That lasted about two and a half days.
13:47I personally don't think they did a good job, but that's my opinion.
13:50I think there's a very good chance that there's a body in that well, yes.
13:55After a several-day excavation of a reported mass grave in southwest Iowa, authorities say no evidence of human remains
14:02was found.
14:04As of this time, we have no...
14:07nothing.
14:08Nothing was popping out of the ground.
14:11And they closed the case.
14:13But, according to Lucy, they dug in the wrong place and that it was a botched investigation.
14:20When I realized that they weren't even in the right spot, they were on the wrong hill, and they were
14:27core drilling into the wrong well, I was mad.
14:32You know, I was in Florida, and I couldn't do a goddamn thing.
14:38She was not allowed on the property at the time they dug in the well.
14:42She says had she been there, they would have gone to the correct coordinates and dug a different well.
14:48The woman's older sister argues these allegations against her father are not true.
14:55When I first interviewed with the FBI, I did tell them, Lucy's right about one thing.
15:00And they perked up.
15:01They go, what's that?
15:02They go, Dad did like the horse races.
15:04And they both giggled.
15:06The whole thing since Newsweek broke out, the whole thing's been a lie since day one.
15:13And just because she made Newsweek doesn't mean she's telling the truth and I'm lying.
15:18I have pictures that show the tender moments of my father, that he was human.
15:24And I have pictures of Lucy and Dad together showing she was not afraid of him.
15:31This is us at Louisiana Downs.
15:33This is when my dad traveled the horse racing circuit.
15:36It might have been a little illegal, but Dad used to bet us horse racing tickets $2.
15:40Dad was actually a pretty good gambler.
15:42Lucy here is drinking a soda.
15:44She doesn't look afraid.
15:45We actually had a lot of fun.
15:48He was a very good father.
15:50He was loving.
15:51Times had felt bad.
15:52He hugged.
15:53Had nightmares.
15:54He consoled us.
15:56Here's Lucy in Green Hollow.
15:59Giving my father rabbit ears.
16:02If she was that traumatized and scared of him, why would she be holding rabbit ears behind his back?
16:07He was caring.
16:08He was loving.
16:11Here is my father holding my son.
16:14And Lucy is sitting there caressing my son right beside my father with a big smile on her face.
16:21This is in Green Hollow.
16:22Supposedly the land of nightmares.
16:25There was no nightmares up there.
16:27Lucy told me one time, I blocked it out.
16:29I didn't block nothing out.
16:31Why do you think they found nothing?
16:32There is nothing.
16:34I mean, you're talking about the Iowa DCI and you're talking about the FBI.
16:39There's my father during his 50th birthday.
16:42If we hated him that much, why would we throw him a birthday party?
16:46There was no trauma.
16:47There was no nothing.
16:49I grew up a normal childhood.
16:51My dad didn't have much money.
16:52But you know what?
16:53He got us through and he got us through happy.
16:56He was committed to keeping us together after my mother died.
17:00There was nothing in the world he wouldn't do for us, even Lucy.
17:04He was honored to walk her down the aisle.
17:06It was one of the best moments of his life.
17:08She was his baby.
17:11He might have been rude to other people, but he wasn't to us.
17:16He wasn't a people person.
17:18I will admit, he was no angel.
17:23But he was no killer.
17:38In this town, everyone's related to everybody.
17:40We just don't know how.
17:42You better check your DNA before you marry.
17:46Let's see here.
17:47This is our row.
17:49This is where some of the studies are buried.
17:53This is Ira and Rose, dad's parents.
17:57This is my uncle, Louie.
17:59And he was involved in criminal activity with my dad.
18:05That's a dude's duty.
18:07He was the local drunk.
18:09He was dad's first cousin.
18:11He was into some of the criminal activity.
18:14Arrests are just related to us.
18:17And this is my dad and my stepmom, Charlotte.
18:22Dad killed her.
18:24It's listed as a suicide, but he killed her.
18:29I hope he's burning in hell.
18:36Our mother passed away February of 1984.
18:44We were told she killed herself with a rifle in the car.
18:48But we've always believed that he killed her.
18:54Don Studi.
18:55Don Studi killed her.
18:56And when we reconnected with Lucy, Lucy did say that she believed her dad killed mom.
19:03And asked us if we would agree to have our mother exhumed to help prove her death was not a
19:11suicide and it was a homicide.
19:13And we all agreed.
19:16Our mom, Charlotte, was Don's fourth wife.
19:22Growing up, the three of us were always close.
19:25A lot of my memories is our mother teaching us how to bake and how to sew and how to
19:31garden.
19:33And she loved flowers.
19:35We always had flowers.
19:36And birds.
19:37She loved birds.
19:38Yeah.
19:39Snakes.
19:39She did not like creepy crawlies.
19:41No.
19:42We used to go and find them and we would stick them in her pocket all the time.
19:48And my mom went to go do laundry.
19:51She would find all my creepy crawlies.
19:53She would get us back, though.
19:56Childhood was not perfect by any means.
19:59She had the drinking problem and then she would quit.
20:03She was a good mom.
20:05Pretty happy up until all the crazy with Don started.
20:10The first time I met Don, I would have been 11.
20:14I remember we were having dinner.
20:18So they came over him and his four children.
20:22He was very nice.
20:24Gentleman.
20:24I mean, nice to us kids.
20:27Nice to his own kids.
20:28Yeah.
20:29What I remember about him is he was charismatic and he was funny.
20:33Yeah.
20:33And he would take us places, you know.
20:36I was living at home when they met.
20:39I was a senior in high school.
20:42And I was worried about how fast it moved.
20:45Here comes this guy with four kids in the picture.
20:48And I said, you don't know him that well yet.
20:50You know, I don't.
20:51I don't, I didn't trust him because he never could have even looked me in the eye.
20:58And I moved out before they moved in.
21:02Mom married Don.
21:03And once he moved into our home with his children, his personality started to change.
21:13If Don lost money at the racetrack or if Don was drinking or in a bad mood, he would come
21:20home and just take it out on his kids.
21:22Yeah.
21:24I mean, he literally would take the belt buckle, the buckle, and just romp on them.
21:31Kick them, stomp on their heads, their necks, their feet, their hands.
21:37But then he started taking that out on Mama.
21:41And it wasn't pretty.
21:44The first time that I knew Don beat my mom was when Marie called me from the neighbors
21:54and said, he, he beat her so bad she's in the hospital.
22:00And it was so bad.
22:02It was.
22:08When I was 13, I had come home from a babysitting job.
22:14And when I came in, I don't even know how she was still alive.
22:19I really don't.
22:20Neither did I.
22:21He was hitting her in the face with the butt of his rifle.
22:26He was just, then he put the rifle down and he just started punching her.
22:31I, I, it was just surreal.
22:34Um, I went in and of course, you know, got in the middle of it and pulled him off and
22:39then got really mad.
22:41It's just the look in his face was complete and utter evil.
22:45I, it was, it was, yeah.
22:48And he grabbed me by the throat and held me against the wall.
22:54Somehow I ended up getting loose and I took off running.
22:58And I just remember turning around and he was at the corner of the house with the rifle pointed
23:03at me.
23:06I'm not sure why he didn't shoot me, but I did get away.
23:09And that's where the cops were called.
23:12And they did take her to the hospital.
23:14And that's when I called Dawn.
23:16And then I went up to the hospital.
23:19And when I went in and saw her, I mean, I can't even explain to you how bad it was.
23:25There weren't too many spots on her body that didn't have a bruise.
23:31The doctors told me that she was lucky to be alive.
23:35If it happened again, she probably wouldn't survive.
23:38They said they had a psychiatrist, a psychologist talking to her too, because she refused to press
23:43charges.
23:44She was terrified of him.
23:46She was terrified of him.
23:48And I said, you know, mom, you need to leave him.
23:51You have to leave him.
23:53And she said, you don't understand.
23:54I can't.
23:55He told me if I do, he'll kill you kids.
23:58And I said, well, he won't do anything to us kids if we let the police know that he's
24:03threatening us.
24:05And then she really started shaking and she really started crying.
24:08And she said, no, you don't understand.
24:11She said, you need to leave it alone.
24:14He knows people and he has connections.
24:23Well, at least we're in counts of bluffs, David.
24:25We made it.
24:27Yeah.
24:28Long trip, though.
24:30We did pretty good at the time.
24:32We left Wednesday at 8 p.m.
24:34And it's Friday at 3.30.
24:36So, and what was it?
24:38Like 1,600 miles?
24:41The hell?
25:05This looks like our apartment.
25:07Our garage is over there, David, opposite end of where we're going to be.
25:11How long?
25:16Yeah, let's meet a neighbor by taking off their mirror.
25:20Nah, just total their car.
25:23I'm David McKitty.
25:24I'm not that much of a talkative person, so I don't know what else to say after that, really.
25:29Your mom says that you're a magician.
25:32Very lightly, yes.
25:33Mom exaggerates the amount of tricks I actually know.
25:36In my wallet, considering it's a normal wallet, but little do people know, is that it bursts into flames.
25:44Starting to run out of fluid on that.
25:49The first time I remember Mom talking about her dad killing people, it was around 8 to 10.
25:59And whenever she hasn't been investigating, it's been relatively normal.
26:05We've lived normal life.
26:07Whenever we do end up investigating, she goes in-depth with it.
26:12Most of the time, it causes us to, like, leave the place we're at.
26:16But, um, it causes us to go quite downhill money-wise.
26:20Eventually, the money problems would actually, when I was younger, get so bad that she had to take a break
26:26from the investigation just because, if not, we were going to be homeless.
26:31So, she'll stop for a year to three, get back to a good state financially, but then she always thinks,
26:40Maybe I can finally get the justice again, which begins the whole cycle of going through the investigation, getting nowhere,
26:47losing all the money, restart the cycle.
26:51I'm getting tired of, like, moving around a ton.
26:54It has caused quite a lot of fighting between us, some.
26:59But, uh, I know Mom's not just crazy enough to, like, ruin our lives repeatedly over this.
27:06Because if Mom's lying, which I know she's not, there'd be absolute no reason to at this point.
27:16When I was pregnant with my son, David, and after he was born, I knew that I had to get
27:24better.
27:25I wanted to be a better mom for David.
27:30But I have ruined his life three times in 23 years, going after those bodies.
27:36Where I've put myself on the verge of bankruptcy.
27:40And I get myself out, and then I put myself right back in.
27:46I tried to be happy.
27:49I tried to forget.
27:51I had a husband, a son, a house.
27:55I should have been happy.
27:58But deep inside, I wasn't.
28:04Because there was bodies in a well.
28:07I can't forget about them.
28:09I would look at my son, and I would think, what if it was him in the well?
28:14If my son was missing, I would want to know.
28:24I can't believe I left Florida to move to Iowa.
28:30I'm sitting here relaxing.
28:33I'm sunburned.
28:34I'm soaking wet from sweat.
28:41But this better be worth it.
28:48It better be worth it.
28:58Down in the well-o'r garden
29:03Where me and my love did meet
29:08There we sat a cordon
29:12My love dropped off to sleep
29:15I stabbed her with my dagger
29:20Which was a bloody knife
29:24And I threw her into the river
29:28Which was a dreadful sight
29:32My father often told me
29:37That money would set me free
29:41If I would murder that dear little girl
29:45Whose name was Rose Connelly
29:53We're rolling.
29:54Yeah, we're rolling.
29:55And speeding.
29:57Right.
29:58Alright, so why don't you start by just saying your name
30:01And what you've come here to tell us.
30:06I'm Robert Masson
30:08And I helped Don Studi carry a body in with a place.
30:25How do you know for sure
30:28That the body you helped carry is with Don Studi?
30:33When I saw the newspaper article
30:36I recognized the trailer
30:39And I just, boom, I was there
30:45I met Don at the bar
30:47Near Thurman
30:49I'm not sure the name of the town
30:51I was in my twenties
30:52Being drunk and stoned
30:54And going bar hopping
30:55I mean, that's what I did
30:58Don was working behind the bar
31:01And there weren't very many patrons at the bar
31:05He started buying me drinks
31:08And then he used to ask me
31:09If I wanted to earn a hundred bucks
31:13If I helped me move some stuff
31:14Sure
31:20I drove my car
31:21We had separate vehicles
31:23And I just followed him
31:26We ended up at the Green Hollow resident
31:28With the trailer there
31:33Oh yeah, that's the right place
31:35It's just, a lot of things have changed
31:40I'd parked here
31:40But he asked me to move my car over there
31:42And he parked his truck back in here
31:43And then went around
31:45And there was a body wrapped up in white
31:48I don't know if it was plastic or cloth
31:50But all I saw were some black Converse-like tennis shoes
31:56And he said it was a woman
32:01He grabbed one end
32:02I grabbed the other
32:03And we walked down this way
32:09And he was leading the way
32:10And he was going pretty good clip
32:12And I was stumbling behind
32:15And it was an awkward feeling
32:18And this was just a skinny path
32:20With trees on both sides
32:21It wasn't open like it is now
32:24But we went back
32:25And we went
32:27Went a ways
32:30This would be about the most
32:31That I could have gone with
32:33It was winded
32:37And I just dropped
32:38The end of the body I had
32:41And he didn't get mad
32:42And I just said
32:42This isn't for me
32:43And he said
32:45Go on back where you were
32:46And I'll get
32:48I'll do the rest of this
32:51I hopped in my car
32:52And I sped away
32:56I remember it was going so fast
32:57I thought I was going to
32:58Almost wreck off this travel road
33:03I didn't feel safe yet
33:05And I still felt
33:06Under the umbrella of fear
33:10I could have been buried
33:11In the same hole
33:12Or whatever
33:13That he buried
33:13That lady's body
33:16Do you remember
33:16What part of the body
33:18You were carrying?
33:19I think I was carrying
33:21The upper torso
33:23And he was carrying
33:24The feet as we walked
33:26That was traumatic to me
33:28To him
33:29It was like
33:31Every day occurrence
33:32Or something
33:33And it was like
33:34No big deal
33:36This one
33:37This first rodeo
33:38This one
33:39This first time
33:41I've done this before
33:48I'm uncomfortable
33:49Bringing this stuff up
33:50From the past
33:51I never shared it
33:52With anyone
33:52I buried it
33:55Buried it deep
33:56I have nothing to gain
33:59Like coming forward
34:00I mean
34:01It's a risk for my future
34:05A lot of people
34:06Aren't believing Lucy
34:08I felt like
34:09Compelled to
34:10Stand up for her
34:12My hope is that
34:14Someone follows Lucy's
34:16Story
34:17And finds the bodies
34:19Because I'm
34:19I'm sure they're there
34:21I know there's
34:22At least one there
34:32I was 14 years old
34:34In February of 1984
34:35When Charlotte died
34:37She was trying
34:38To leave dad
34:39You know
34:40She had a place
34:42She came home
34:43That night
34:44To get her belongings
34:45And she was trying
34:46To get her clothes
34:47And dad said
34:49The bitch can leave
34:51With nothing
34:53Here's a picture
34:53Of my father
34:54And my stepmother
34:55If you can tell
34:56They looked all
34:57Lovey lovey
34:57They used to walk
34:58Hand in hand
34:59Arm in arm
35:00When she was sober
35:02She was the sweetest
35:03Kindest gal in the world
35:05Even to this day
35:06I miss her
35:09I really can't remember
35:11What went down that night
35:12All I know is
35:13Once they started arguing
35:14We all went to our rooms
35:16Lucy and Linda
35:16Went to their room
35:17I went to mine
35:20I was watching TV
35:22In the living room
35:22And I just tried
35:23To stay out
35:25Of their fight
35:26And she made
35:27A couple of trips
35:28In and out of the house
35:29Through her car
35:30And every time
35:31She left
35:32She had clothes
35:34Clutched to her
35:34Because dad was trying
35:36To grab them
35:36Out of her hand
35:40My bedroom door was shut
35:43And they were arguing
35:44In their bedroom
35:45Maybe I know how long
35:47It was for a while
35:48And then I heard her
35:49Stomping down the hallway
35:51I just remember
35:52Exact words
35:53Fuck you
35:53I'll kill myself
35:57And she took off
35:58Out the front door
36:01Dad left about
36:02An hour later
36:03I didn't see him
36:04Go out the door
36:05But I heard the door slam
36:06And his car was gone
36:10He came home
36:11In the morning
36:12And the first thing
36:14He said when he
36:15Walked in the door
36:15Is I found Charlotte
36:16Dead in her car
36:18She committed suicide
36:19And he went to the phone
36:20And called the police
36:22After he hung up
36:23Dad told Susan
36:24Linden me
36:25That we better say
36:26That he was home
36:27All night
36:27So we did
36:30But I do remember
36:31I was numb
36:33Because
36:35I knew she didn't
36:36Commit suicide
36:37And that dad killed her
36:39Did your dad
36:40Talk to you
36:41About what to say
36:42To the police
36:43When they come
36:43No
36:45Not at all
36:46He's dead
36:46Why would I condone him now
36:48Dad was home that night
36:49I got up to go
36:50To the bathroom
36:50Middle of the night
36:51There was a lump
36:51In the bed
36:53I have no idea
36:54What went down
36:54When she left that house
36:56Lucy and Linda
36:56Have no idea
36:58I wish I would have
36:59Stopped her
37:00But
37:01She was drunk
37:02I think if she
37:03Would have been sober
37:04I don't think
37:05She would have killed herself
37:09According to the police report
37:11Charlotte shot herself
37:12Using my dad's rifle
37:15But
37:15That night
37:16I saw her leave each time
37:18She never tucked the gun
37:19You can't shoot yourself
37:21With a gun
37:21If you never tuck it
37:24I had my door shut
37:25I saw no gun
37:26I don't know
37:28Where she got the gun
37:29But I swear on my soul
37:31I don't care
37:32If people think I'm lying
37:33God knows I'm not lying
37:35I heard her say the words
37:36I heard her say
37:37Fuck you
37:38I'll kill myself
37:38The way wife did
37:40Susan
37:41Is lying
37:43But
37:44I understand why
37:46She's lying
37:46I really do
37:48My dad's
37:49Manipulation
37:50Was master level
37:52He could convince you
37:54Of anything
37:55He could be
37:57Mentally and physically
37:59Abusive to you
38:00And you still
38:02Want to try to please him
38:04So
38:05Being around dad
38:07And having him
38:08Twist your mind like that
38:09She's turned him
38:10Into a saint
38:12Did you ever see
38:14Your dad be abusive
38:17No
38:18Did you ever see
38:20Your father
38:21Be abusive
38:23To Charlotte
38:24I saw both of them
38:26Be abusive
38:26Towards each other
38:27There was times
38:28We pulled Charlotte
38:29Off of dad
38:29There was times
38:30We pulled dad
38:30Off of Charlotte
38:31There was times
38:31We pulled him
38:32Off of each other
38:33Charlotte could fight
38:34She was a tiny woman
38:35But she could hold her own
38:38Men aren't supposed to hit women
38:39Which is fine
38:40But you know what
38:41When women hit men
38:42You gotta expect
38:43To get
38:43I mean
38:45They both were innocent
38:47Do you remember
38:48To kill Charlotte
38:51They threatened
38:51To kill each other
38:52All the time
38:52Then the next day
38:53Oh I love you so much
38:56Do you think
38:57Your father was
38:58Piling
38:59Was willing
39:00To sort of
39:00Beat someone
39:00Into the hospital
39:01But he would
39:02Just stop
39:02Short of killing them
39:03He would never kill them
39:05Well
39:06Maybe the time
39:07Charlotte went to the hospital
39:08But there was times
39:09Dad was pretty bloody too
39:11But he didn't go to the hospital
39:13A cat scratched
39:28It's 8.35 a.m
39:32We are going down
39:33To the Thurman Cemetery
39:36Charlotte is being exhumed
39:39Out of her grave
39:40I'm with Marie
39:43And Charlotte
39:44Her two daughters
39:45We just exited
39:48Interstate 29
39:49And we got to go
39:50Through Thurman
39:51To get to the cemetery
40:00My school used to be
40:01Right here
40:02Where that shed is
40:03Thurman Elementary
40:04Charlotte was there
40:05Charlotte came to my school
40:07For some Christmas patch
40:09Oh really
40:11See this is my kind of country
40:14It is pretty here
40:15And it's peaceful
40:18And the road is right here
40:19Take a left
40:20Yep
40:21Oh
40:21The truck is already there
40:23They better not start without us
40:26Well it's not 9 o'clock yet
40:28Okay
40:28They just probably have to get
40:29Themselves all set up
40:31Yep
40:31That's us
40:32Right there is
40:33They started already
40:35They weren't supposed to
40:36Freaking start
40:37No
40:37You know
40:38Okay
40:38This is what's wrong
40:40With fucking
40:42Who in the hell is up here
40:43I don't know
40:44I don't know
40:47I don't know
40:47I don't know
40:49I don't know
40:49Why did you start
40:50Why did you start?
40:51Well it's not start
40:51Yeah well it takes
40:52Quite a bit of time
40:53To get everyone ready
40:54So
40:55That's why everything
40:56Is all dog and everything
40:57I mean we've been here
40:58You guys weren't supposed
40:58To start without us
41:00That's how we've got
41:01Everybody's on a time schedule
41:04You guys didn't tell us that
41:07But it takes
41:08I mean these guys
41:09Have to get everything
41:10But when you say 9 a.m
41:12It's supposed to be 9 a.m
41:14I know I get it
41:15But it takes
41:17Hours to dig this grave
41:19He had to be in stone
41:20It just would have been
41:21Nice to know
41:22Yeah
41:22We really truly wanted
41:23To be here
41:23Yeah
41:24So since I'm a one man guy
41:26And by Iowa law
41:27I have to be here
41:28I couldn't say
41:29Well what time is it
41:30Going to come out
41:31Of the ground
41:31I don't know my schedule
41:32As soon as you even
41:33Broke ground
41:34You should have called us
41:35We could have came out
41:37Why did you break ground
41:39Without calling us
41:40I need one phone call
41:40Right now so I can
41:42End this real quick
41:43Do you know what
41:43I did
41:44I did
41:45She's a loose can
41:46Why did you break ground
41:47Lucy can you please stop
41:49I get that this is all changed
41:51But you screaming at people
41:53Is not helping it
41:54So stop
41:54He broke ground
41:55I don't fucking care
41:57Right now
41:58Stop
41:58Those are the
41:59First stop living in Fremont County
42:01Just leave it
42:05Stop it
42:06No because he
42:07You're acting like
42:08Your fucking father
42:09Right now
42:10So stop
42:10Why didn't he call
42:12Because it just happened
42:13And they didn't call
42:14Get it
42:16But it isn't helping
42:17Stop it
42:18If you're going to be like this
42:19Go sit in the car
42:22When they're nothing but a bunch of small town
42:24Small minded
42:25Fuck
42:25I don't know why
42:27My dad got away with murder
42:28Do you know what
42:29Maybe my dad should have put more fucking people in the well
42:33And he can start with that man
42:35Lucy don't hurt my
42:36Come on
42:37You just dented the fucking truck
42:39I did not
42:39Look at it
42:40You dented the fucking truck
42:43I'm getting my shit out of here
42:45I'm never talking to my stepsisters again
42:49I'm going to get my 9mm
42:51And I'm going to solve it
42:52The way my dad solves shit
42:55What is wrong with people in Fremont County
42:58Do you not know
42:59That there's fucking bodies up there
43:01I'm not lying
43:02There's fucking bodies up there
43:04Hey, miss
43:05Calm down
43:08Everybody should be mad
43:09There's fucking bodies up there
43:12More bodies than here
43:14Lucy, we know
43:15And you guys just call me like
43:17No big deal
43:18There's fucking bodies up there
43:29My dad goes
43:30Seems like every woman I love
43:31Dies on me
43:32Because I don't understand
43:36Charlotte Studi
43:37Was found in a vehicle
43:38In front of a house
43:40She had a bullet wound
43:41At the right temple
43:41He said
43:42Your mom committed suicide
43:44And he said
43:44No, she didn't
43:45I saw
43:46The electrical cord
43:48Hanging from the crossbar
43:49It just didn't add up
43:51She's trying to
43:52Protect herself
43:53As the guns fired
43:55He's got
43:56Two wives
43:57And a girlfriend
43:57Who he called in
43:59To the police
44:00Reporting their deaths
44:01What's the odds of that?
44:02I think he'd be better off
44:03Winning the lottery
44:04She said
44:05How could I not be loyal
44:07To my brother?
44:08He killed for me
44:10I don't understand
44:11The actions of the
44:12Fremont County Sheriff's Department
44:13Do you think
44:14There is any cover-up?
44:17You don't want to go down
44:18That path with me
44:19Because I guarantee you
44:20You will not like that at all
44:31And now he sits by his own cottage door
44:35A-wipe in his tear-dimmed eye
44:39And now he waits for his own dear son
44:44Upon the scaffold high
44:47My rest is run beneath the sun
44:52Though hell's now waiting for me
44:55For I have murdered that dear little girl
45:00Whose name was Rose Connelly
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