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00:03The first time I remember my dad killing somebody was when we lived in Bartlett,
00:09Iowa. It was around 1973 and I was probably four years old. When my dad killed somebody,
00:18he would take them to the well and he would ask us to carry bags of lie up to the
00:25well
00:26because the lie would help decompose the bodies. I remember dumping the lie in the well and it used
00:36to like float down like a white powdery cloudy thing and I would just watch it and it was actually
00:44really pretty, you know? Isn't that weird to think? How many people do you think died killed?
00:53I couldn't begin to tell you, maybe a hundred? He loves you or he hates you and if he hates
01:03you,
01:04you're dead. He said it was a woman's body. I was carrying the upper torso. He just acted
01:10nonchalant like it was an everyday occurrence. He killed her and made it look like a suicide.
01:17I'm not lying. There's fucking bodies up there. He had three, maybe four wives and or girlfriends
01:24who committed suicide. That's a lot. I came up here tonight to defend my family against your fat
01:30little mouth. Do you think I like trying to prove that my dad's a criminal and a murderer? If your
01:37dad did the things you say he did, what you've been looking for all these years is sitting right
01:43behind you under the ground. There'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.
02:00Something's coming. Something's on its way.
02:06The woman claims her late plotter killed at least 50 women and used his children to help bury them.
02:12You're the children where floodwaters only. Ain't no devil gonna be where we go.
02:35There had long been a story about the monster of Green Hollow who 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 Mahler. For 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. That was just a spooky drive you'd do on a Saturday
03:18night with a bunch of your buddies. People would come out to gawk because they'd heard of the Hollow
03:25folk and they were chased off with guns. If that's where the rumor is, do not go up to Green
03:32Hollow.
03:34I mean, growing up, we knew not to go around his place and stay away from him.
03:37It was kind of a boogeyman type story. My mother told me a lot of things that you
03:44only 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.
04:08Hey, Lucy, can you do me a favor? Can you just clap your hands in front of you?
04:14Okay.
04:14Okay, we're ready.
04:15Oh, that's like a take.
04:16That's like, yeah, yeah.
04:17Oh, okay. I never wanted to be in front of a camera and I'm not photogenic, so.
04:24Okay, let's get out of here. Okay.
04:29What time is 835? Okay.
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, but I remember things by where we lived and locations.
04:57I remember running around that town. I remember the train would pass through there.
05:04We'd put pennies on the track and 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 and I thought if I stood
05:20as a statue
05:21on top of the washer or dryer that I was actually hiding.
05:27My dad was married five times and my mom was wife number three. But she died when I was 10
05:36months old.
05:39I grew up with my dad and three full-blooded siblings. My older brother Gary, my sister Susan and Linda,
05:49and then myself. I'm the youngest out of us four. After my mom died, we were on the road for
05:59a few years.
06:01My dad was a degenerate gambler. He would bet on the horses. And when my dad needed money,
06:08he had a pipe with cement in it and he would just go find someone to mug and just beat
06:15him,
06:15take the wallet and leave. But 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. He called them bar slushes.
06:53And he brought them home.
06:57They had a consensual relationship with my dad. My dad was a very good-looking, charming man.
07:04But eventually the mental abuse would start. The physical abuse would start. And you could be
07:10perfect and it would still get worse. Some of the women were like moms to us.
07:20I remember the lady who started with a D, Darlene, something like that. I really wanted dad to marry
07:28Darlene. I liked her. She used to take and trace my ear. And she'd do that over and over. And
07:39then
07:39sometimes she would twist my hair around my ear. She was nice. But she did not leave Green Hollow alive.
07:51Unbelievable story tonight. Unbelievable story. Bodies in a well. Like dozens and dozens and dozens
07:58of bodies. Lucy has told authorities for years that her father demanded she and her siblings
08:04help them bury the bodies. A woman claims that her father was a serial killer. Cadaver dogs searched the
08:11area where Lucy Studi says her father buried bodies. What is it like and what did the cadaver dogs find
08:16so
08:17far? They naturally were drawn to both the well and another spot. Lucy's story is wild as it may seem
08:25to readers and audiences. Checked out every word.
08:33The article on Don Studi rocked our world. Knowing his history with us, it made me sick to my stomach
08:42to think I lived with that guy. I saw the article and the first thing I thought was, it's about
08:50damn time.
08:51When the Newsweek story came out, that's when everything got huge. I finally had to turn my phone
08:58off because I mean, everybody was calling it. A lot of reporters start showing up to the point
09:05we actually put a no trespassing sign at the front of the house. Once the story broke, we just kind
09:14of like
09:15sat back and watched. But then we realized that they were trashing Lucy again. And we knew she was
09:26telling the truth. After many discussions, we decided that it was time to reach out and see if we could
09:32contact Lucy. It had been 39 years since we had contact with any of the Studis. So it was a
09:41blessing to
09:42be able to reconnect with my stepsister.
09:50This is the entrance of Green Hollow. You can see how isolated it is. And there's a lot of
09:57shit 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.
10:12That old blue and white trailer house we used to live in. And then my dad got a better trailer
10:19house.
10:19And that's where I remember dad killing the women. Between 1973 up until at least 1980,
10:36I remember my dad on average killing at least four people a year.
10:50My name is Eric Firkenhoff. I'm a reporter at Newsweek. I focus on investigations.
10:56I remember exactly where I was. And this woman called. She's like,
11:00my name's Lucy Studi McKitty. And my dad has been killing people for his whole life. And hiding them
11:08in Iowa. You know, you get calls from people all the time, especially in investigations. And vetting
11:17these calls is very important. But you're never going to properly vet a call unless you listen.
11:23She said that her dad would find women, bring them home, kill these women, bring them up to a well
11:32on the Studi property, and 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. She's been making these
11:50complaints and reports for years. So we run a big story about this in Newsweek. And that got enough
12:02attention that the sheriff's department and the DCI and the FBI decided we're actually going to dig and
12:11find answers.
12:18Well, I'm Sean Smith. I'm a fourth generation farmer in Fremont 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. I think he was drunk. But yeah, he was,
12:37he was ranting and raving. And they started talking. And he says, when you're in that well,
12:42did you see cow bones or human bones? I said, Don, I've never been down in a well in my
12:47life.
12:47What the hell are you talking about? And he goes, well, my daughter says I put a body in a
12:54well,
12:54and the sheriff's office is going to dig it out. But when he said it,
13:00I don't know, it was the weirdest feeling. I mean, why would he call me up if he wasn't worried
13:06about
13:06something? And as soon as I got off the phone, I called the sheriff's office and loved to report
13:11with them. Then several years later, that's when the stuff all popped up again.
13:20I took the sheriff and the, I think some FBI guys, showed them where I thought the well was. There
13:26was a little indentation where I was pretty sure that's what it was. We went and made a path down
13:32to it. Then they decided to go ahead and do the core sample. They bored three holes 85 feet deep
13:41in one well. That lasted about two and a half days. I personally don't think they did a good job,
13:49but that's my opinion. I 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
14:01of human remains was found. As of this time, we have no nothing. Nothing was popping out of the ground.
14:11And they closed the case. But according to Lucy, they dug in the wrong place and that it was a
14:17botched
14:17investigation. When I realized that they weren't even in the right spot, they were on the wrong hill
14:26and they were core drilling into the wrong well. I was mad. You know, I was in Florida and I
14:36couldn't
14:36do a goddamn thing. She was not allowed on the property at the time they dug in the well. She
14:43says 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. And they perked
15:01up. They go, what's that? I go, Dad did like the horse races. And 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. And I have pictures
15:25of Lucy and Dad together showing she was not afraid of him. This is us at Louisiana Downs.
15:33This is when my dad traveled the horse racing circuit. It might have been a little illegal,
15:37but Dad used to bet us horse racing tickets, two dollars. Dad was actually a pretty good gambler.
15:42Lucy here is drinking a soda. She doesn't look afraid.
15:45We actually had a lot of fun. He was a very good father. He was loving. At times I felt
15:52bad. He
15:52hugged. Had nightmares. He consoled us. Here's Lucy in Green Hollow giving my father rabbit ears.
16:01If she was that traumatized and scared of him, why would she be holding rabbit ears behind his back?
16:07He was caring. He was loving. Here 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.
16:20This is in Green Hollow, supposedly the land of nightmares. There was no nightmares up there. Lucy
16:27told me one time, I blocked it out. I didn't block nothing out. Why 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.
16:39Here's my father during his 50th birthday.
16:42If we hated him that much, why would we throw my birthday party? There was no trauma. There was no
16:47nothing.
16:49I grew up a normal childhood. My dad didn't have much money. But you know what? He got us through
16:54and he got us through happy.
16:55He was committed to keeping us together after my mother died. There was nothing in the world he wouldn't do
17:01for us, even Lucy.
17:03He was honored to walk her down the aisle. It was one of the best moments of his life. She
17:08was his baby.
17:11He might have been rude to other people, but he wasn't to us.
17:16He wasn't a people person. I will admit, he was no angel.
17:22But he was no killer.
17:38In this town, everyone's related to everybody. We just don't know how.
17:41You better check your DNA before you marry.
17:46Let's see here. This is our row.
17:49This is where some of the Studi's 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 Studi.
18:07He was the local drunk. He 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.
18:57And 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.
19:31Garden.
19:33And she loved flowers.
19:34We 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 a very nice gentleman.
20:24I mean, nice to us kids, nice to his own kids.
20:28Yeah, what I remember about him is he was charismatic and he was funny.
20:33Yeah.
20:33And we did have good times.
20:35He 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, I don't, I didn't trust him because he never could have even looked me in the
20:56eye.
20:58And I moved out before they moved in.
21:01And I said, you know, I don't know how fast it was.
21:02Mom married Don and once he moved into our home with his children,
21:09his personality started to change.
21:13If Don lost money at the racetrack or if Don was drinking or in a bad mood,
21:19he would come home and just take it out on his kids.
21:22Yeah.
21:24I mean, he literally would take the belt buckle, the buckle, and just womp on them,
21:31kick them, stomp on their heads, their necks, their feet, their hands.
21:37But then he started taking that on, 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.
22:20And neither did that.
22:21He was, he 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.
22:32I, 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.
22:38And then got really mad.
22:41It's just the look in his face was complete and utter evil.
22:46I, it was.
22:46Red eyes.
22:47Yeah.
22:48And he grabbed me by the throat and held me against the wall.
22:54Somehow I ended up getting loose.
22:56And I took off running.
22:58And I just remember turning around and he was at the corner of the house with the rifle pointed at
23:03me.
23:06I'm not sure why he didn't shoot me.
23:08But 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 and when I went in and saw her, I mean, I can't
23:21even 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 charges.
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 threatening
24:04us.
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, long trip, though.
24:30We did pretty good on the time.
24:32We left Wednesday at 8 p.m. and it's Friday at 3.30, so.
24:37And what was it, like 1600 miles?
24:41About.
25:05This looks like our apartment.
25:07Our garage is over there, David, opposite end of where we're going to be.
25:11Oh, wow.
25:16Yeah, let's meet a neighbor by taking off their mirror.
25:18Oh, wow.
25:19Nah, 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, I was around 8 to 10.
26:01Whenever 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 leave the place we're at.
26:17It 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.
26:42Which begins the whole cycle of going through the investigation, getting nowhere, losing all the money, restart the cycle.
26:51I'm getting tired of moving around a ton.
26:54It has caused quite a lot of fighting between us, but I know Mom's not just crazy enough to ruin
27:04our lives repeatedly over this.
27:06If Mom's lying, which I know she's not, there'd be absolutely 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.
27:29But I have ruined his life three times in 23 years, going after those bodies.
27:36Where I put myself on the verge of bankruptcy, and I get myself out, and then I put myself right
27:44back in.
27:46I tried to be happy.
27:49I tried to forget.
27:52I 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.
28:25I can't believe I left Florida to move to Iowa.
28:31I'm sitting here relaxing.
28:33I'm sunburnt.
28:34I'm soaking wet from sweat.
28:41But this better be worth it.
28:48This, it better be worth it.
28:58Down in the willow garden, where me and my love did meet.
29:07There we sat a cordon.
29:12My love dropped off to sleep.
29:16I stabbed her with my dagger, which was a bloody knife.
29:23And I threw her into the river, which was a dreadful sight.
29:33My father often told me that money would set me free.
29:40If I would murder that dear little girl, whose name was Rose Connolly.
29:53We're rolling.
29:54Camera rolling.
29:55And speeding.
29:57Right.
29:58All right.
29:59So, um, why don't you start by just saying your name, and, uh, what you've come here to tell us.
30:07I'm Robert Masson, and I helped Don Studi carry a body in with a poison.
30:25How do you know for sure that the body you helped carry was Don Studi?
30:33When I saw the newspaper article, I recognized the trailer.
30:38And I just, boom, I was there.
30:45I met Don at the bar near Thurman.
30:49I'm not sure the name of the town.
30:50I was in my 20s, being drunk and stoned, going bar up, and I mean, that's what I did.
30:58Don was working behind the bar, and there weren't very many patrons at the bar.
31:03I was there.
31:05He started buying me drinks.
31:08And then he asked me if I, uh, want to earn a hundred bucks,
31:12to help me move some stuff.
31:14Sure.
31:20I drove my car.
31:21We had separate vehicles, and I just followed him.
31:26We ended up at the Green Hollow resident with the trailer there.
31:33Oh, yeah, that's the right place.
31:35It's just a lot of things have changed.
31:39I parked here, but he asked me to move my car over there, and he parked his truck back in
31:43here,
31:43and then went around, and there was a body wrapped up in white.
31:48I don't know if it was plastic or cloth, but all I saw were some black Converse-like tennis shoes,
31:56and he said it was a woman.
32:01He grabbed one end, I grabbed the other, and we walked down this way.
32:09And he was leading the way, and he was going pretty good clip,
32:12and I was stumbling behind, and it was an awkward feeling.
32:18And this was just a skinny path with trees on both sides.
32:21It wasn't open like it is now.
32:24But we went back, and we went a ways.
32:30This would be about the most that I could have gone with it.
32:36It was winded, and I just dropped the end of the body I had.
32:41And he didn't get mad, and I just said, this isn't for me.
32:44And he said, go on back where you were, and I'll do the rest of this.
32:51I hopped in my car, and I sped away.
32:56I remember it was going so fast, I thought I was going to almost wreck off this travel road.
33:03And I didn't feel safe yet.
33:05I still felt under the umbrella of fear.
33:10I could have been buried in the same hole or whatever that he buried that lady's body.
33:15Do you remember what part of the body you were carrying?
33:19I think I was carrying the upper torso, and he was carrying the feet as we walked.
33:26That was traumatic to me.
33:28To him, it was like an everyday occurrence or something.
33:33It was like no big deal.
33:36This one is his first rodeo.
33:39This one is his first time.
33:41I've done this before.
33:48I'm uncomfortable bringing this stuff up from the past.
33:51I never shared it with anyone.
33:53I buried it.
33:55Buried it deep.
33:56I have nothing to gain.
33:59I like coming forward.
34:00I mean, it's a risk for my future.
34:05A lot of people aren't believing Lucy.
34:08I felt like compelled to stand up for her.
34:12My hope is that someone follows Lucy's story and finds the bodies, because I'm sure they're there.
34:21I know there's at least one there.
34:32I was 14 years old in February of 1984, when Charlotte died.
34:37She was trying to leave Dad, you know?
34:41She had a place.
34:42She came home that night to get her belongings, and she was trying to get her clothes.
34:47And Dad said, the bitch can leave with nothing.
34:52Here's a picture of my father and my stepmother.
34:55If you could tell, they looked all lovey-lovey.
34:57They used to walk hand in hand, arm in arm.
35:00When she was sober, she was the sweetest, kindest gal in the world.
35:05Even to this day, I miss her.
35:09I really can't remember what went down that night.
35:12All I know is once they started arguing, we all went to our rooms.
35:16Lucy and Linda went to their room.
35:17I went to mine.
35:20I was watching TV in the living room, and I just tried to stay out of their fight.
35:26And she made a couple of trips in and out of the house, through her car.
35:30And every time she left, she had clothes clutched to her, because Dad was trying to grab them out of
35:36her hand.
35:40My bedroom door was shut, and they were arguing in their bedroom.
35:45Maybe I don't know how long it was for a while.
35:48And then I heard her stomping down the hallway.
35:51I just remember the exact words, fuck you, I'll kill myself.
35:57And she took off out the front door.
36:01Dad left about an hour later.
36:03I didn't see him go out the door, but I heard the door slam, and his car was gone.
36:10He came home in the morning, and the first thing he said when he walked in the door is,
36:15I found Charlotte dead in her car.
36:18She committed suicide, and he went to the phone and called the police.
36:22After he hung up, Dad told Susan, Linda, and me that we better say that he was home all night.
36:27So we did.
36:30But I do remember I was numb, because I knew she didn't commit suicide, and that Dad killed her.
36:39Did your dad talk to you about what to say to the police when they come?
36:43No. Not at all. He's dead. Why would I condone him now?
36:48Dad was home that night. I got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
36:51There was a lump in the bed.
36:53I have no idea what went down when she left the house.
36:56Lucy and Linda have no idea. I wish I would have stopped her.
37:00But she was drunk. I think if she would have been sober, I don't think she would have killed herself.
37:09According to the police report, Charlotte shot herself using my dad's rifle.
37:14But that night, I saw her leave each time. She never tucked the gun.
37:19You can't shoot yourself with a gun if you never tuck it.
37:24I had my door shut. I saw no gun. I don't know where she got the gun.
37:29But I swear on my soul, I don't care if people think I'm lying.
37:33God knows I'm not lying. I heard her say the words.
37:36I heard her say, Fuck you. I'll kill myself the way wife did.
37:40Susan is lying. But I understand why she's lying. I really do.
37:49My dad's manipulation was master level. He could convince you of anything.
37:55He could be mentally and physically abusive to you.
38:00And you still want to try to please him.
38:05So being around dad and having him twist your mind like that, she's turned him into a saint.
38:12Did you ever see your dad be abusive?
38:17No.
38:18Did you ever see your father be abusive to Charlotte?
38:24I saw both of them be abusive towards each other.
38:28There was times we pulled Charlotte off of dad. There's times we pulled dad off of Charlotte.
38:31There's times we pulled them off of each other.
38:33Charlotte could fight. She was a tiny woman, but she could hold her own.
38:38Men aren't supposed to hit women, which is fine.
38:39But you know what? When women hit men, you got to expect to get, I mean, they both were innocent.
38:47Do you ever remember Brittany to kill Charlotte?
38:50They threatened to kill each other all the time.
38:53Then the next day, oh, I love you so much.
38:56Do you think your father was piling, was willing to sort of beat someone into the hospital,
39:01but he would just stop short of killing them? He would never kill them.
39:05Well, maybe the time Charlotte went to the hospital, but there was times dad was pretty bloody too,
39:11but he didn't go to the hospital. A cat scratched.
39:28It's 8.35 a.m. We are going down to the Thurman Cemetery.
39:36Charlotte is being exhumed out of her grave.
39:41I'm with Marie and Charlotte, her two daughters.
39:46We just exited Interstate 29, and we got to go through Thurman to get to the cemetery.
40:00My school used to be right here where that shed is, Thurman Elementary.
40:04Charlotte was there. Charlotte came to my school for some Christmas patch.
40:09Oh, really?
40:12See, this is my kind of country.
40:13It is pretty here, and it's peaceful.
40:18And the road is right here. Take a left. Yep.
40:21Oop, the truck is already there. They better not start without us.
40:26Well, it's not 9 o'clock yet.
40:28Okay.
40:28They just probably have to get themselves all set up.
40:31Yep, that's us. Right there is...
40:33They started already. They weren't supposed to freaking start.
40:37No.
40:38You know.
40:38Okay. This is what's wrong with fucking...
40:42Who in the hell is up here?
40:43I don't know.
40:46What's the question?
40:48Why did you start?
40:50Well, it's not start.
41:04You guys didn't tell us that.
41:07But it takes... I mean, these guys have to get everything.
41:10But when you say 9 a.m., it's supposed to be 9 a.m.
41:14No, no, no, no.
41:14I know. I get it.
41:15But it takes hours to dig this grave.
41:19He had to be in stone.
41:20It just would have been nice to know.
41:22Yeah.
41:22We really, truly wanted to be here from the start to...
41:24So, since I'm a one-man guy, and by Iowa law, I have to be here,
41:29I couldn't say, well, what time is it going to come out of the ground?
41:31I don't know my schedule.
41:32As soon as you even broke ground, you should have called us.
41:35We could have came out.
41:37Why did you break ground without calling us?
41:40I need one phone call right now, so I can end this real quick.
41:43Do you know what?
41:43I did.
41:44I did.
41:45She's a loose cannon.
41:46I don't know.
41:46Why did you break ground?
41:47Hey, can you please stop?
41:49I get that this has all changed, but you screaming at people is not helping it.
41:54So, stop.
41:55He broke ground and he didn't contact us.
41:56I don't fucking care right now.
41:58Stop.
41:58Those are the first time I live in Fremont County.
42:01Just leave it.
42:05Stop it.
42:06No, because he...
42:07You're acting like your fucking father right now, so stop.
42:10Why didn't he call?
42:12Because it doesn't happen.
42:13They broke ground and 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, go sit in the car.
42:22Wasn't there nothing but a bunch of small town, small minded fuck?
42:26I don't know why my dad got away with murder.
42:29Do you know what?
42:29Maybe my dad should have put more fucking people in the well.
42:33And he can start with that man.
42:35See, don't hurt my...
42:36Oh, come 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 nine millimeter,
42:51and I'm going to solve it the way my dad solves shit.
42:55What is wrong with people in Fremont County?
42:58Do you not know that there's fucking bodies up there?
43:01I'm not lying.
43:03There's fucking bodies up there.
43:04Miss, calm down, Missy.
43:07Calm down.
43:08Everybody should be mad.
43:10There's fucking bodies up there.
43:12Yes, we know.
43:12More bodies than here.
43:14Lucy, we know.
43:15And you guys just calmly like, no big deal.
43:18There's fucking bodies up there.
43:29My dad goes, it seems like every woman I love dies on me,
43:32because I don't understand.
43:35Charlotte Studi was found in a vehicle in front of her house.
43:40She had a bullet wound at the right temple.
43:42He said, your mom committed suicide.
43:44And he said, no, she didn't.
43:45I saw the electrical cord hanging from the crossbar.
43:49It just didn't add up.
43:51She's trying to protect herself as the gun's fired.
43:55He's got two wives and a girlfriend who he called in to the police reporting their deaths.
44:01What's the odds of that?
44:02I think he'd be better off winning the lottery.
44:04She said, how could I not be loyal to my brother?
44:08He killed for me.
44:10I don't understand the actions of the Fremont County Sheriff's Department.
44:13Do you think there is any cover up here?
44:17You don't want to go down that path with me because I guarantee you, you will not like
44:21that at all.
44:22You don't want to go down that path with me because I don't want to go down that path.
45:09you don't want to go down that path.
45:12You don't want to go down that path with me because I don't want to go down that path.
45:15You
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