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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 lie up to the well
00:26because the lie would help decompose the bodies.
00:32I remember dumping the lie in the well,
00:36and it used to, like, float down like a white powdery, cloudy thing.
00:41And I would just watch it, and it was actually really pretty.
00:45You know? Isn't that weird to think?
00:49How many people do you think Don killed?
00:53I couldn't begin to tell you.
00:56Maybe 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.
01:17I'm not lying! There'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 is sitting
01:43right 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.
02:01Something's coming, something's on its way.
02:06The woman claims her late plotter killed at least fifty women and used his children to help bury them.
02:12And all the children where the blood water's only.
02:17Ain't no devil gonna be where we go.
02:35There had long been a story about the monster of Green Hollow
02:39who would kill people.
02:45There's different nicknames,
02:47but the two that I've heard around here
02:49were the Green Hollow Hacker and the Green Hollow Goatman.
02:54All of the kids, my kids' age,
02:57they're calling him the Green Hollow Mauler.
03:00For real.
03:02Growing up in the area,
03:03we'd heard stories about bodies in a well.
03:07The first time I heard a rumor
03:09was probably while I was in high school.
03:12The road used to run clear through Green Hollow.
03:15Well, that 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
03:23because they'd heard of the Hollow folk.
03:27And they were chased off with guns.
03:29If that's where the rumor is,
03:31do not go up to Green Hollow.
03:34I mean, growing up,
03:35we knew not to go around his place and stay away from him.
03:37It was kind of a boogeyman-type story.
03:40My mother told me a lot of things
03:43that you only thought you knew about in horror stories.
03:50Lucy believes
03:51that the monster of Green Hollow is Donald Dean's studio.
04:07I'm rolling.
04:09Lucy, can you do me a favor?
04:10Can you just clap your hands in front of you?
04:13Okay.
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,
04:19and I am not photogenic.
04:20So, okay, let's get out of here.
04:26Okay.
04:29What time is 8.35?
04:31Okay.
04:37We're going to where my dad used to live,
04:43Green Hollow, Iowa.
04:46I don't know why I have a good memory,
04:48but I remember things
04:51by where we lived
04:52and 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
05:14from the potholes.
05:17I remember that we used to play hide-and-seek,
05:19and I was little,
05:19and I thought if I stood as a statue
05:21on top of the washer or dryer
05:23that I was actually hiding.
05:27My dad was married five times,
05:30and my mom was wife number three.
05:34But she died when I was 10 months old.
05:39I grew up with my dad
05:41and three full-blooded siblings.
05:44My older brother, Gary,
05:47my sister, Susan, and Linda,
05:50and then myself.
05:51I'm the youngest out of us four.
05:56After my mom died,
05:58we were on the road for a few years.
06:01My dad was a degenerate gambler,
06:04and he would bet on the horses.
06:06And when my dad needed money,
06:09he had a pipe with cement in it,
06:11and he would just go find someone to mug
06:14and just beat him,
06:15take the wallet, and leave.
06:17But one time,
06:19outside of Texarkana,
06:21there 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,
06:31he needed someone to watch us.
06:34He would look for women
06:35who didn't have a place to stay.
06:40I guess nowadays you'd call them lot lizards,
06:43but 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,
07:07the physical abuse would start,
07:09and you could be perfect,
07:11and 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,
07:24Darlene, 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.
07:52Unbelievable story.
07:54Bodies in a well.
07:56Like, dozens and dozens and dozens of bodies.
07:59Lucy has told authorities for years
08:01that her father demanded she and her siblings
08:04help them bury the bodies.
08:06A woman claims that her father was a serial killer.
08:09Cadaver dogs searched the area
08:11where Lucy Studi says her father buried bodies.
08:14What is it like,
08:15and what did the cadaver dogs find so far?
08:17They naturally were drawn to both the well
08:20and another spot.
08:21Lucy's story is wild as it may seem
08:25to readers and audiences.
08:28Checked out every word.
08:33The article on Don Studi rocked our world.
08:38Knowing his history with us,
08:40it made me sick to my stomach
08:42to think I lived with that guy.
08:45I saw the article,
08:46and the first thing I thought was,
08:49it's about damn time.
08:51When the Newsweek story came out,
08:54that's when everything got huge.
08:57I finally had to turn my phone off
08:58because, I mean, everybody was calling it.
09:02A lot of reporters start showing up
09:04to the point we actually put a
09:06no trespassing sign at the front of the house.
09:11Once the story broke,
09:13we just kind of like sat back
09:16and watched,
09:17but then we realized
09:20that they were trashing Lucy again,
09:23and we knew she was telling the truth.
09:27After many discussions,
09:29we decided that it was time to reach out
09:32and see if we could contact Lucy.
09:34It had been 39 years
09:36since we had contact with any of the Studis,
09:40so it was a blessing
09:42to 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
09:58that went on up in these hills
09:59that nobody knows about.
10:07Where that trailer house sits
10:09is where the end of our trailer was,
10:11and our trailer went that way.
10:12That old blue and white trailer house
10:14we used to live in,
10:16and then my dad got a better trailer house,
10:20and that's where I remember dad killing the women.
10:28Between 1973
10:31up until at least 1980,
10:35I remember my dad on average
10:39killing at least four people a year.
10:50My name is Eric Firkenhoff.
10:52I'm a reporter at Newsweek.
10:54I focus on investigations.
10:56I remember exactly where I was,
10:58and this woman called.
10:59She's like,
11:00my name's Lucy Studi McKitty,
11:02and my dad has been killing people
11:05for his whole life
11:06and hiding them in Iowa.
11:10You know, you get calls
11:12from people all the time,
11:13especially in investigations,
11:16and vetting these calls
11:18is very important,
11:19but you're never going to properly vet a call
11:22unless you listen.
11:24She said that her dad would find women,
11:28bring them home,
11:29kill these women,
11:30bring them up to a well
11:32on the Studi property,
11:35and would dump their bodies in the well
11:38in the land that they grew up on.
11:41She tells me this story
11:43over an hour, hour and a half,
11:46and she is precise.
11:49She's been making these complaints
11:50and reports for years.
11:54So we run a big story
11:56about this in Newsweek,
11:59and that got enough attention
12:02that the Sheriff's Department
12:05and the DCI and the FBI
12:08decided we're actually going to dig
12:10and find answers.
12:18Well, I'm Sean Smith.
12:20I'm a fourth-generation farmer
12:21in Fremont County.
12:23The property we're talking about,
12:25we think these bodies are
12:26is actually a piece of my ground.
12:32Don called me one evening.
12:34I think he was drunk,
12:36but yeah, he was ranting and raving,
12:39and they started talking,
12:40and he says,
12:41when you're in that well,
12:42did you see cow bones or human bones?
12:45I said,
12:46Don, I've never been down
12:47in a well in my life.
12:47What the hell are you talking about?
12:50And he goes,
12:51well, my daughter says
12:53I put a body in a well,
12:54and the Sheriff's Office
12:55is going to dig it out.
12:57But when he said it,
13:00I don't know,
13:01it was the weirdest feeling.
13:03I mean, why would he call me up
13:04if he wasn't worried about something?
13:08And as soon as I got off the phone,
13:09I called the Sheriff's Office
13:10and love to report with them.
13:13Then several years later,
13:14that's when the stuff all popped up again.
13:20I took the Sheriff's Office,
13:22and I think some FBI guys,
13:24showed them where I thought the well was.
13:26There was a little indentation
13:27where I was pretty sure that's what it was.
13:29We went and made a path down to it.
13:32Then they decided to go ahead
13:35and do the core sample.
13:37They bored three holes 85 feet deep
13:41in one well.
13:43That lasted about two and a half days.
13:47I personally don't think they did a good job,
13:49but that's my opinion.
13:50I think there's a very good chance
13:52that there's a body in that well, yes.
13:55After a several-day excavation
13:57of a reported mass grave in southwest Iowa,
14:00authorities say no evidence
14:01of human remains was found.
14:04As of this time,
14:05we have no...
14:07nothing.
14:08Nothing was popping out of the ground,
14:11and they closed the case.
14:13But according to Lucy,
14:15they dug in the wrong place
14:16and that it was a botched investigation.
14:20When I realized
14:21that they weren't even in the right spot,
14:24they were on the wrong hill,
14:26and they were core drilling into the wrong well,
14:30I was mad.
14:32You know,
14:33I was in Florida,
14:35and I couldn't do a goddamn thing.
14:39She was not allowed on the property
14:41at the time they dug in the well.
14:43She says had she been there,
14:45they would have gone to the correct coordinates
14:47and dug a different well.
14:48The woman's older sister argues
14:50these allegations against her father
14:52are not true.
14:55When I first interviewed with the FBI,
14:57I did tell them,
14:59Lucy'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,
15:09the whole thing's been a lie since day one.
15:13And just because she made Newsweek
15:15doesn't mean she's telling the truth
15:16and I'm lying.
15:18I have pictures that show
15:20the tender moments of my father,
15:22that he was human.
15:24And I have pictures of Lucy and Dad together
15:28showing she was not afraid of him.
15:30This is us at Louisiana Downs.
15:33This is when my dad traveled
15:34the horse racing circuit.
15:36It might have been a little illegal,
15:37but 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.
16:01If she was that traumatized and scared of him,
16:05why 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
16:16right beside my father
16:17with a big smile on her face.
16:20This 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
16:37and you're talking about the FBI.
16:39Here's my father during his 50th birthday.
16:42If we hated him that much,
16:44why 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
16:57after my mother died.
17:00There was nothing in the world
17:01he wouldn't do for us,
17:02even Lucy.
17:03He 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,
17:13but he wasn't to us.
17:16He wasn't a people person.
17:18I will admit,
17:19he was no angel.
17:22But he was no killer.
17:38In this town,
17:39everyone'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
17:50some of the studies are buried.
17:52This is Ira and Rose,
17:56dad's parents.
17:57This is my uncle,
17:59Louie,
17:59and he was involved in criminal activity
18:02with my dad.
18:05That's a dude's studie.
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
18:18and my stepmom, Charlotte.
18:22Dad killed her.
18:24It's listed as a suicide,
18:26but he killed her.
18:29I hope he's burning in hell.
18:36Our mother passed away
18:38February of 1984.
18:44We were told
18:46she killed herself with a rifle
18:47in the car,
18:49but we've always believed
18:52that he killed her.
18:54Don Studi.
18:55Don Studi killed her.
18:57And when we reconnected with Lucy,
19:00Lucy did say
19:01that she believed
19:02her dad killed mom
19:03and asked us
19:05if we would agree
19:06to have our mother exhumed
19:07to help prove
19:10her death was not a suicide
19:11and it was a homicide.
19:13And we all agreed.
19:16Our mom, Charlotte,
19:18was Don's fourth wife.
19:22Growing up,
19:23the three of us
19:23were always close.
19:25A lot of my memories
19:27is our mother
19:28teaching us how to bake
19:29and how to sew
19:30and how to...
19:31Garden.
19:32Garden.
19:33And she loved flowers.
19:35She loved flowers.
19:35We always had flowers.
19:36And birds.
19:37She loved birds.
19:37Birds.
19:38Yep.
19:39Snakes.
19:39She did not like creepy crawlies.
19:41No, we used to go and find them
19:45and we would stick them
19:47in 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
19:57by any means.
19:59She had the drinking problem
20:01and then she would quit.
20:03She was a good mom.
20:05Pretty happy up until
20:07all the crazy with Don started.
20:10The first time I met Don,
20:13I would have been 11.
20:15I remember we were having dinner.
20:18So they came over him
20:20and 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, what I remember about him
20:30is he was charismatic
20:31and he was funny.
20:33Yeah.
20:33And we did have...
20:35places, you know.
20:36I was living at home
20:38when they met.
20:39I was a senior in high school
20:41and I was worried
20:43about how fast it moved.
20:45Here comes this guy
20:46with four kids in the picture
20:48and I said,
20:49you don't know him that well yet?
20:50You know, I don't...
20:51I don't...
20:53I didn't trust him
20:54because he never could have
20:55even looked me in the eye.
20:58And I moved out
20:59before they moved in.
21:02Mom married Don
21:03and once he moved
21:05into our home
21:06with his children,
21:09his personality
21:10started to change.
21:13If Don lost money
21:14at the racetrack
21:15or if Don was drinking
21:17or in a bad mood,
21:19he would come home
21:20and just take it out
21:21on his kids.
21:22Yeah.
21:24I mean, he literally
21:25would take the belt buckle,
21:28the buckle,
21:29and just romp on them,
21:31kick them,
21:32stomp on their heads,
21:33their necks,
21:34their feet,
21:35their hands.
21:37But then he started
21:39taking that on Mama
21:41and it wasn't pretty.
21:44The first time
21:47that I knew
21:49Don beat my mom
21:51was when Marie called me
21:53from the neighbors
21:54and said,
21:56he...
21:57he beat her so bad
21:59she's in the hospital.
22:00And it was so bad.
22:02It was.
22:08When I was 13,
22:10I had come home
22:11from a babysitting job
22:13and when I came in,
22:17I don't even know
22:18how she was still alive.
22:19I really don't.
22:20Neither did I.
22:21He was hitting her
22:23in the face
22:23with the butt of his rifle.
22:26He was just...
22:28Then he put the rifle down
22:30and he just started
22:31punching her.
22:32It was just surreal.
22:34I went in
22:35and of course,
22:36you know,
22:36got in the middle of it
22:37and pulled him off
22:38and then got really mad.
22:41It's just the look
22:42in his face
22:43was complete
22:43and utter evil.
22:46It was...
22:46Red eyes.
22:47Yeah.
22:48And he grabbed me
22:49by the throat
22:50and held me
22:51against the wall.
22:54Somehow I ended up
22:55getting loose
22:55and I took off running
22:58and I just remember
22:59turning around
23:00and he was
23:01at the corner
23:02of the house
23:02with the rifle
23:03pointed at me.
23:06I'm not sure
23:07why he didn't shoot me
23:08but I did get away
23:09and that's where
23:10the cops were called
23:12and they did take her
23:13to the hospital
23:14and that's when
23:14I called Dawn.
23:16And then I went up
23:17to the hospital
23:18and when I went in
23:20and saw her,
23:21I mean,
23:21I can't even explain
23:22to you how bad.
23:23It was...
23:25There weren't
23:26too many spots
23:27on her body
23:27that didn't have a bruise.
23:31The doctors told me
23:32that she was lucky
23:33to be alive.
23:35If it happened again
23:36she probably wouldn't
23:37survive.
23:38They said they had
23:39a psychologist
23:41talking to her too
23:42because she refused
23:43to press charges.
23:44She was terrified
23:45of him.
23:46She was terrified
23:46of him.
23:48And I said,
23:49you know,
23:50Mom,
23:50you need to leave him.
23:51You have to leave him.
23:53And she said,
23:54you don't understand,
23:54I can't.
23:55He told me if I do
23:57he'll kill you kids.
23:58And I said,
23:59well,
23:59he won't do anything
24:01to us kids
24:01if we let the police
24:02know that he's
24:03threatening us.
24:05And then she really
24:06started shaking
24:07and she really
24:08started crying
24:08and she said,
24:09no,
24:09you don't understand.
24:11She said,
24:12you need to leave it alone.
24:14He knows people
24:15and he has connections.
24:23Well,
24:23at least we're
24:24in counts of luffs,
24:25David.
24:25We made it.
24:27Yeah,
24:28long trip though.
24:30We did pretty good
24:31at the time.
24:32We left Wednesday
24:33at 8 p.m.
24:34and it's Friday
24:35at 3.30,
24:36so,
24:37and what was it,
24:38like,
24:391,600 miles?
24:40About.
25:05This looks like our apartment.
25:07Our garage is over there,
25:09David,
25:09opposite end
25:10of where we're going to be.
25:11Oh,
25:12wow.
25:16Yeah,
25:16let's meet a neighbor
25:17by taking off
25:18their mirror.
25:20Nah,
25:20just tow their car.
25:23I'm David McKinney.
25:24I'm not that much
25:25of a talkative person,
25:26so I don't know
25:26what else to say
25:27after that, really.
25:29Your mom says
25:29that you're a magician.
25:32Very lightly, yes.
25:33Mom exaggerates
25:34the amount of tricks
25:35I actually know.
25:36In my wallet,
25:38considering it's
25:38a normal wallet,
25:39but little do people know,
25:41is that it bursts
25:41into flames.
25:44Starting to run out
25:45of fluid on that.
25:49The first time
25:51I remember
25:51Mom talking about
25:53her dad
25:54killing people,
25:56I was around
25:57eight to ten.
26:01Whenever she
26:02hasn't been investigating,
26:03it's been relatively normal.
26:05We've lived normal life.
26:07Whenever we
26:08do end up investigating,
26:10she goes in-depth
26:11with it.
26:11Most of the time,
26:13it causes us to
26:15leave the place
26:16we're at.
26:17It causes us to go
26:18quite downhill
26:19money-wise.
26:20Eventually,
26:21the money problems
26:22would actually,
26:22when I was younger,
26:24get so bad
26:24that she had to
26:26take a break
26:26from the investigation
26:27just because,
26:28if not,
26:29we were going
26:29to be homeless.
26:31So,
26:32she'll stop
26:33for a year to three,
26:35get back
26:36to a good state
26:37financially,
26:38but then
26:39she always thinks,
26:40maybe I can finally
26:41get the justice again,
26:42which begins
26:43the whole
26:43cycle of
26:44going through
26:45the investigation,
26:46getting nowhere,
26:47losing all the money,
26:48restart the cycle.
26:51I'm getting tired
26:52of, like,
26:53moving around a ton.
26:54It has caused
26:55quite a lot of
26:57fighting between us,
26:58some,
26:59but I know
27:00Mom's not
27:00just crazy enough
27:02to, like,
27:03ruin our lives
27:04repeatedly over this.
27:06If Mom's lying,
27:08which I know
27:08she's not,
27:09there'd be
27:10absolute no reason
27:11to at this point.
27:16When I was pregnant
27:17with my son,
27:18David,
27:19and after he was born,
27:21I knew
27:22that I had
27:23to get better.
27:25I wanted to be
27:26a better mom
27:26for David.
27:30But I have
27:31ruined his life
27:31three times
27:32in 23 years
27:34going after
27:34those bodies
27:36where I put myself
27:38on the verge
27:39of bankruptcy
27:39and I get myself
27:42out
27:42and then I put
27:43myself right
27:44back in.
27:46I tried to be happy.
27:49I tried to forget.
27:51I had a husband,
27:53a son,
27:54a house.
27:55I should have
27:56been happy.
27:58but deep
27:59inside,
28:00I wasn't
28:02because
28:04there was
28:05bodies in a well.
28:07I can't forget
28:08about them.
28:09I would look
28:10at my son
28:11and I would think,
28:12what if it was
28:13him in the well?
28:14If my son
28:15was missing,
28:17I would want
28:18to know.
28:24I can't believe
28:25I left Florida.
28:26to move
28:27to Iowa.
28:31I'm sitting
28:31here relaxing.
28:33I'm sunburned.
28:34I'm soaking
28:35wet from sweat.
28:41This better
28:42be worth it.
28:47This,
28:48it better
28:49be worth it.
28:58down in the
29:00willow garden
29:03where me
29:04and my love
29:05did meet.
29:08There we
29:09sat
29:10a cordon,
29:12my love
29:13dropped off
29:14to sleep.
29:16I stabbed
29:17her with
29:18my dagger,
29:20which was
29:21a bloody
29:23knife.
29:24and I threw
29:25her into
29:27the river,
29:28which was
29:30a dreadful sight.
29:33My father
29:34often told me
29:37that money
29:38would set me
29:40free
29:40if I would
29:43murder that
29:44dear little girl
29:45whose name
29:47was Rose
29:47kind of
29:48leave.
29:53We're rolling.
29:54Camera rolling.
29:55And speeding.
29:57Great.
29:58All right,
29:59so, um,
30:00why don't you
30:00start by just saying
30:01your name
30:01and, uh,
30:04what did you
30:04come here
30:05to tell us?
30:07I'm Robert
30:07Masson,
30:08and I helped
30:08Don Studi
30:09carry a body
30:10in with the
30:10reason.
30:26How do you
30:26know for sure
30:28that the body
30:29you helped
30:30carry
30:31is with Don Studi?
30:33When I saw
30:34the newspaper
30:35article,
30:36I recognized
30:37the trailer.
30:39I got just,
30:40boom,
30:40I was there.
30:45I met
30:46Don at
30:47the bar
30:47near Thurman.
30:49I'm not sure
30:49the name of the
30:50town.
30:51I was in my
30:5120s,
30:53being drunk
30:53in stone,
30:54going bar
30:54up,
30:54and I think
30:56that's what
30:56I did.
30:58Don was
30:59working behind
30:59the bar,
31:01and there
31:01weren't very
31:02many patrons
31:03at the bar.
31:05He started
31:05buying me
31:06drinks,
31:08and then
31:08he asked me
31:09if I, uh,
31:10want to earn
31:11a hundred bucks
31:12to help me
31:13move some
31:14stuff.
31:14Sure.
31:20I drove
31:20my car.
31:21We had
31:22separate vehicles,
31:23and I just
31:23followed him.
31:26We ended
31:27up at the
31:27Green Hollow
31:28resident
31:28with the
31:29trailer there.
31:33Oh, yeah,
31:34that's the right
31:34place.
31:35It's just,
31:35a lot of things
31:36have changed.
31:40I'd parked here,
31:40but he asked me
31:41to move my car
31:41over there,
31:42and he parked
31:42his truck back
31:43in here,
31:43and then went
31:44around,
31:45and there was
31:45a body wrapped
31:46up in white.
31:48I don't know if it's
31:49plastic or cloth,
31:50but all I saw
31:52were some black
31:55Converse-like
31:55tennis shoes,
31:56and he said
31:57it was a woman.
32:01He grabbed one
32:02and I grabbed
32:03the other,
32:03and we walked
32:03down this way.
32:09And he was
32:09leading the way,
32:10and he was
32:10going pretty good
32:11clip,
32:12and I was
32:14stumbling behind,
32:15and it was an
32:16awkward feeling,
32:18and this was
32:19just a skinny
32:19path with trees
32:21on both sides,
32:21and it wasn't
32:22open like it is
32:23now.
32:24But we went
32:25back,
32:25and we went
32:28a ways.
32:30This would be
32:31about the most
32:31that I could
32:32have gone with
32:32it.
32:36I was winded,
32:37and I just
32:37dropped the end
32:39of the body I
32:39had,
32:41and he didn't
32:41get mad,
32:42and I just said,
32:42this isn't for
32:43me,
32:43and he said,
32:45go on back
32:45where you were,
32:46and I'll
32:47do the rest
32:49of this.
32:51Hopped in my
32:52car,
32:52and I sped
32:53away.
32:56I remember
32:56it was going
32:57so fast,
32:57I thought I was
32:58going to almost
32:59wreck off this
32:59travel road.
33:03I didn't feel
33:04safe yet.
33:05I still felt
33:06under the
33:09umbrella of
33:10fear I could
33:11have been
33:11buried in the
33:11same hole
33:12or whatever
33:13that he buried
33:13that lady's
33:14body.
33:16Do you
33:16remember what
33:17part of the
33:17body you
33:18were carrying?
33:19I think I
33:20was carrying
33:21the upper
33:22torso,
33:23and he was
33:24carrying the
33:24feet as we
33:25walked.
33:26That was
33:27traumatic to
33:28me.
33:28To him,
33:29it was like
33:31everyday
33:32occurrence or
33:33something.
33:33It was like
33:34no big deal.
33:36This one,
33:37this first
33:38rodeo,
33:39this one,
33:39this first
33:39time.
33:41done this
33:42before.
33:48I'm
33:48uncomfortable
33:49bringing this
33:50stuff up from
33:51the past.
33:51I never shared
33:52it with anyone.
33:53I buried it.
33:55Buried it deep.
33:56I have nothing
33:57to gain
33:59by coming
34:00forward.
34:01I mean,
34:01it's a risk
34:02for my future.
34:05A lot of
34:05people aren't
34:06believing Lucy.
34:08I felt like
34:09compelled to
34:10stand up for
34:11her.
34:12My hope is
34:13that someone
34:14follows Lucy's
34:16story and
34:18finds the
34:18bodies,
34:19because I'm
34:19sure they're
34:20there.
34:21I know there's
34:22at least one
34:23there.
34:32I was
34:3214 years
34:33old in
34:34February of
34:351984 when
34:36Charlotte died.
34:37She was
34:38trying to
34:39leave Dad,
34:40you know?
34:41She had a
34:42place.
34:42She came
34:43home that
34:44night to
34:44get her
34:44belongings,
34:45and she
34:45was trying
34:46to get
34:46her clothes,
34:47and Dad
34:48said,
34:50the bitch
34:50can leave
34:51with nothing.
34:53Here's a
34:53picture of
34:53my father
34:54and my
34:55stepmother.
34:55If you
34:56can tell,
34:56they looked
34:57all lovey-lovey.
34:58They used
34:58to walk
34:58hand-in-hand,
34:59arm-in-arm.
35:00When she
35:01was sober,
35:02she was the
35:02sweetest,
35:03kindest gal
35:03in the world.
35:05Even to this
35:06day,
35:06I miss her.
35:09I really
35:10can't remember
35:11what went
35:11down that
35:12night.
35:12All I know
35:13is once they
35:14started arguing,
35:14we all went
35:15to our rooms.
35:16Lucy and
35:16Linda went
35:16to their
35:17room.
35:17I went
35:17to mine.
35:20I was
35:21watching TV
35:22in the living
35:22room,
35:22and I
35:23just tried
35:23to stay
35:24out of
35:25their fight.
35:26And she
35:27made a couple
35:27of trips
35:28in and out
35:28of the house
35:29through her
35:29car.
35:30And every
35:31time she
35:31left,
35:32she had
35:33clothes clutched
35:34to her because
35:35Dad was trying
35:36to grab him
35:36out of her
35:37hand.
35:40My bedroom
35:41door was
35:41shut and
35:43they were
35:44arguing in
35:44their bedroom.
35:45Maybe I
35:46know how long
35:47it was for a
35:47while.
35:48And then I
35:49heard her
35:49stomping down
35:50the hallway.
35:51I just
35:52remember exact
35:53words, fuck
35:53you, I'll
35:54kill myself.
35:57And she
35:57took off
35:58out the front
35:58door.
36:01Dad left
36:01about an
36:02hour later.
36:03I didn't see him
36:04go out the door,
36:05but I heard the
36:05door slam,
36:06and his car
36:07was gone.
36:10He came home
36:11in the morning,
36:13and the first
36:14thing he said
36:14when he walked
36:15in the door
36:15is, I found
36:16Charlotte dead
36:17in her car.
36:18She committed
36:18suicide, and
36:19he went to
36:20the phone
36:20and called
36:21the police.
36:22After he hung
36:23out, Dad
36:24told Susan
36:24Linden
36:25and me that
36:25we better
36:26say that
36:26he was
36:26home all
36:27night.
36:27So we
36:28did.
36:30But I
36:30do remember
36:32I was
36:33numb because
36:35I knew she
36:36didn't commit
36:36suicide and
36:37that Dad
36:38killed her.
36:39Did your
36:40dad talk
36:40to you about
36:41what to say
36:42to the police
36:43when they
36:43come?
36:43No, not
36:45at all.
36:45He's dead.
36:46Why would
36:47I condone
36:47him now?
36:48Dad was
36:49home that
36:49night.
36:49I got up
36:50to go to
36:50the bathroom
36:50in the
36:51middle of
36:51the night.
36:51There was
36:51a lump
36:51in the
36:52bed.
36:53I have
36:54no idea
36:54what went
36:54down when
36:55she left
36:55that house.
36:56Lucy and
36:56Linda have
36:57no idea.
36:58I wish I
36:59would have
36:59stopped her.
37:00But she
37:01was drunk.
37:02I think if
37:03she would
37:03have been
37:03sober, I
37:05don't think
37:05she would
37:05have killed
37:05herself.
37:09According
37:10to the police
37:10report,
37:11Charlotte shot
37:12herself using
37:13my dad's
37:13rifle.
37:15But that
37:15night,
37:16I saw
37:17her leave
37:17each time.
37:18She never
37:18tucked the
37:19gun.
37:19You can't
37:20shoot yourself
37:21with a gun
37:21if you never
37:22tuck it.
37:24I had my
37:25door shut.
37:25I saw no
37:26gun.
37:27I don't
37:27know where
37:28she got the
37:29gun, but
37:29I swear on
37:30my soul, I
37:32don't care if
37:32people think I'm
37:32lying.
37:33God knows I'm
37:34not lying.
37:35I heard her
37:35say the words.
37:36I heard her
37:37say, fuck
37:38you, I'll
37:38kill myself
37:38the way
37:39wife did.
37:39Susan is
37:42lying, but I
37:45understand why
37:46she's lying.
37:46I really do.
37:48My dad's
37:49manipulation was
37:51master level.
37:52He could convince
37:54you of anything.
37:55He could be
37:57mentally and
37:58physically abusive
37:59to you, and you
38:01still want to try
38:03to please him.
38:05So, being
38:06around dad and
38:07having him twist
38:08your mind like
38:09that, she's
38:10turned him into
38:10a saint.
38:13Did you ever
38:13see your dad
38:14be abusive?
38:17No.
38:18Did you ever
38:19see your father
38:22be abusive to
38:23Charlotte?
38:24I saw both
38:25of them be
38:26abusive towards
38:27each other.
38:28There was times
38:28we pulled
38:29Charlotte off
38:29of dad.
38:29There was times
38:30we pulled dad
38:30off of Charlotte.
38:31There was times
38:31we pulled them
38:32off each other.
38:33Charlotte could
38:33fight.
38:34She was a tiny
38:34woman, but she
38:35could hold
38:36her own.
38:38Men aren't
38:38supposed to
38:39get women,
38:39which is fine.
38:40But you know
38:40what?
38:41When women
38:41hit men, you
38:42got to expect
38:43to get, I
38:44mean, they
38:46both were
38:46innocent.
38:47Do you
38:48remember
38:48threatening
38:48to kill
38:49Charlotte?
38:51They threatened
38:51to kill each
38:52other all the
38:52time.
38:53Then the next
38:53day, oh, I
38:54love you so
38:54much.
38:56Do you think
38:57your father
38:57was piling,
38:59was willing to
39:00sort of beat
39:00someone into
39:01the hospital,
39:01but he would
39:02just stop
39:02short of
39:03killing them?
39:03He would
39:03never
39:04kill them.
39:05Well, maybe
39:07the time
39:07Charlotte went
39:08to the hospital,
39:08but there
39:09was times
39:09dad was
39:10pretty bloody
39:11too, but he
39:11didn't go to
39:11the hospital.
39:12A cat
39:13scratched.
39:28It's 8.35 a.m.
39:32It's 8.35 a.m.
39:32We are going
39:33down to the
39:34Thurman Cemetery.
39:36Charlotte is being
39:38exhumed out of her
39:39grave.
39:41I'm with
39:42Marie and
39:44Charlotte, her
39:45two daughters.
39:46We just exited
39:47Interstate 29,
39:49and we got to
39:50go through Thurman
39:51to get to the
39:52cemetery.
40:00My school
40:01used to be
40:01right here
40:02where that shed
40:02is, Thurman
40:03Elementary.
40:04Charlotte was
40:05there.
40:06Charlotte came
40:07to my school
40:07for some
40:09Christmas patch.
40:10Oh, really?
40:12See, this is
40:12my kind of
40:13country.
40:13It is pretty
40:14here, and
40:15it's peaceful.
40:18And the road
40:18is right here.
40:20Take a left.
40:21Yep.
40:21Oh, the truck
40:22is already there.
40:24They better not
40:25start without us.
40:26Well, it's not
40:279 o'clock yet.
40:28Okay.
40:28They just
40:29probably have to
40:29get themselves
40:30all set up.
40:31Yep, that's us.
40:32Right there is...
40:33They started
40:34already.
40:35They weren't
40:36supposed to
40:36freaking start.
40:37No.
40:38You know.
40:38Okay.
40:39This is what's
40:39wrong with
40:41fucking...
40:42Who in the
40:42hell is up
40:43here?
40:43I don't know.
40:47What's the
40:47question?
40:49Why did you
40:49start?
40:50You weren't
40:51supposed to
40:51start.
40:52Yeah, well,
40:52it takes quite a
40:53bit of time to
40:53get everyone
40:54ready, so that's
40:55why everything
40:56involves dog and
40:56everything.
40:57I mean, we'd
40:57have been here
40:57You guys weren't
40:58supposed to start
40:59without us.
41:00Yep.
41:00That's how we've
41:01got...
41:01Everybody's on a
41:02time schedule.
41:04You guys
41:05didn't tell us
41:06that.
41:07But it takes...
41:08I mean, these
41:09guys have to get
41:09everything.
41:10But when you say
41:119 a.m., it's
41:12supposed to be
41:139 a.m.
41:14No, no, no, no.
41:14I get it, but it
41:16takes hours to dig
41:18this grave.
41:19He had to move
41:19stone.
41:20It just would
41:21have been nice
41:21to know.
41:22Yeah.
41:22We really, truly
41:23wanted to be here
41:23from the start to...
41:24So since I'm a
41:25one-man guy, and
41:26by Iowa law, I
41:27have to be here, I
41:29couldn't say, well,
41:30what time is it
41:30going to come out of
41:31the ground?
41:31I don't know my
41:32schedule.
41:32As soon as you
41:33even broke ground,
41:34you should have
41:34called us.
41:35We could have
41:36came out.
41:37Why did you break
41:38ground without
41:39calling us?
41:40I need one phone
41:40call right now so
41:41I can end this
41:42real quick.
41:43Do you know
41:43what?
41:43I did.
41:44I did.
41:45She's a loose
41:46can.
41:46Why did you
41:47break ground?
41:47Lucy, can you
41:48please stop?
41:49I get that this
41:50has all changed,
41:51but you screaming
41:52at people is not
41:53helping it.
41:54So stop.
41:55He broke ground
41:55and he didn't
41:56I don't fucking
41:57care right now.
41:58Stop.
41:58Those are the
41:59first to live in
42:00Fremont County.
42:01Leave it.
42:05Stop it.
42:06No, because
42:07you're acting like
42:08your fucking
42:09father right now.
42:10So stop.
42:10Why didn't he
42:11call?
42:12Because it
42:13broke ground
42:13and they didn't
42:14call.
42:15Get it.
42:16But it isn't
42:17helping.
42:17Stop it.
42:18If you're going
42:19to be like this,
42:19go sit in the
42:20car.
42:22Wasn't there
42:22nothing but a
42:23bunch of
42:23small town,
42:24small minded
42:25fuck?
42:26That is why
42:26my dad got
42:27away with murder.
42:29Do you know
42:29what?
42:29Maybe my dad
42:30should have put
42:30more fucking
42:31people in the
42:32well.
42:33And he can
42:33start with
42:34that man.
42:35See, don't
42:36hurt my
42:36come on.
42:37You just
42:38dented the
42:38fucking truck.
42:39I did not.
42:39Look at it.
42:40You dented
42:41the fucking
42:42truck.
42:43I'm getting
42:44my shit
42:45out of here.
42:45I'm never
42:45talking to my
42:46stepsisters again.
42:49I'm going to
42:50get my nine
42:50millimeter and
42:51I'm going to
42:51solve it the
42:52way my dad
42:52solves shit.
42:55What is wrong
42:56with people in
42:57Stremont County?
42:58Do you not
42:59know that
43:00there's fucking
43:00bodies up there?
43:01I'm not lying.
43:03There's fucking
43:03bodies up there.
43:05Hey, Miss,
43:06calm down.
43:07Calm down.
43:08Everybody should
43:09be mad.
43:10There's fucking
43:10bodies up there.
43:12Yes, we know.
43:12More bodies
43:13than here.
43:14Lucy, we know.
43:15And you guys
43:16just call me
43:17like, no big
43:18deal.
43:18There's fucking
43:19bodies up there.
43:29My dad goes,
43:30it seems like
43:30every woman I
43:31love dies on
43:32me because I
43:33don't understand.
43:36Charlotte's
43:36duty was found
43:37in a vehicle
43:38in front of
43:39a house.
43:40She had a
43:40bullet wound
43:41at the right
43:41temple.
43:42He said,
43:42your mom
43:43committed suicide
43:44and he said,
43:44no, she didn't.
43:45I saw the
43:46electrical cord
43:47hanging from
43:48the crossbar.
43:49It just
43:50didn't add up.
43:51She's trying
43:52to protect
43:53herself as
43:54the guns fired.
43:55He's got
43:56two wives
43:57and a girlfriend
43:57who he called
43:58in to the police
44:00reporting their
44:00deaths.
44:01What's the
44:02odds of that?
44:02I think he'd
44:03be better off
44:03winning the
44:04lottery.
44:04She said,
44:05how could I
44:06not be loyal
44:07to my brother?
44:08He killed
44:08for me.
44:10I don't
44:10understand the
44:11actions of the
44:12Fremont County
44:13Sheriff's Department.
44:14Do you think
44:14there is any
44:15cover up here?
44:17You don't want
44:17to go down
44:18that path with
44:19me because I
44:19guarantee you,
44:20you will not
44:21like that at
44:30all.
44:31And now he
44:33sits by his
44:34own cottage
44:35door, a
44:36wipe in his
44:37tear-dimmed
44:38eye.
44:39And now he
44:41waits for his
44:42own near
44:43son upon
44:45the scaffold
44:46high.
44:48My
44:48rest is
44:50run beneath
44:51the sun,
44:52though hell's
44:53now waiting
44:54for me.
44:56For I
44:57have murdered
44:58that dear
44:59little girl
45:00whose name
45:01was Rose
45:02Connelly.
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