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My Killer Father The Green Hollow Murders - Season 1 Episode 1
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00:03La primera vez que me recuerdo que mi padre mató a alguien
00:06fue cuando vivimos en Bartlett, Iowa.
00:09Era en 1973 y yo era probablemente cuatro años.
00:16Cuando mi padre mató a alguien,
00:19él les llevaba a la wella.
00:21Y él nos preguntaba a llevar a la lie a la wella
00:27porque la 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
00:40and 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 that 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.
01:08I 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
01:24who committed suicide.
01:26That's a lot.
01:28I came up here tonight to defend my family
01:30against your fat little mouth.
01:31Do you think I like trying to prove
01:33that my dad's a criminal and a murderer?
01:36If your dad did the things you say he did,
01:39what 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 plotter killed at least 50 women
02:10and used his children to help bury them.
02:13Love the children where 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
02:40who 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 Mahler.
03:00For real.
03:02Growing up in the area,
03:04we've heard stories about bodies in a well.
03:08The 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.
03:16That was just a spooky drive you'd do on a Saturday.
03:19Night 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 this place
03:36and stay away from him.
03:38It 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.
03:49Lucy believes
03:51that the monster of Green Hollow
03:53is 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?
04:12Thank 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.
04:22So...
04:22Okay.
04:25Let'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,
04:49but I remember things by where we lived
04:52and locations.
04:57I remember running around that town.
05:00I remember the train would pass through there.
05:05We'd put pennies on the track
05:08and 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
05:20and 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.
05:45My 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.
06:02My dad was a degenerate gambler.
06:04He would bet on the horses.
06:06And when my dad needed money,
06:09he had a pipe with cement in it
06:12and he would just go find someone to mug
06:14and just beat him,
06:16take the wallet, and leave.
06:17But one time outside 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
06:36who didn't have a place to stay.
06:41I 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.
07:36And 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.
07:56Like dozens and dozens and dozens of bodies.
07:59Lucy has told authorities for years that her father demanded she and her siblings help him 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 is wild as it may seem to readers and audiences.
08:27Checked 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.
08:52When the Newsweek story came out, that's when everything got huge.
08:57I 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.
09:28After many discussions, we decided that it was time to reach out and see if we could contact Lucy.
09:35It had been 39 years since we've had contact with any of the Studis.
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.
10:08Where that trailer house sits is where the end of our trailer was.
10:11And our trailer went that way.
10:13That old blue and white trailer house we used to live in.
10:15And then my dad got a better trailer house.
10:20And that's where I remember dad killing the women.
10:28Between 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.
10:53I'm a reporter at Newsweek.
10:54I focus on investigations.
10:56I remember exactly where I was.
10:58And this woman called.
11:00She's like, my name's Lucy Studi McKitty.
11:02And 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.
11:14Especially in investigations.
11:16And vetting these calls is very important.
11:20But 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,
11:31bring them up to a well on the Studi property,
11:35and would dump their bodies in the well, in the land that they grew up on.
11:41She tells me this story over an hour, hour and a half.
11:46And 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.
11:59And that got enough attention that the Sheriff's Department and the DCI and the FBI decided we're actually going to
12:10dig 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.
12:58Don called me one evening.
13:00I 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 as soon as I got off the phone, I called the Sheriff's Office and loved to report with them.
13:12And then several years later, that's when the stuff all popped up again.
13:21I took the Sheriff's Office and 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,
14:00authorities say no evidence of human remains was found.
14:03As of this time, we have no, nothing.
14:09Nothing 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,
14:25they were on the wrong hill and they were core drilling into the wrong well,
14:29I was mad.
14:32You know, I was in Florida and I couldn't do a goddamn thing.
14:39She was not allowed on the property at the time they dug in the well.
14:43She 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.
15:57Here's Lucy in Green Hollow.
15:59Giving my father rabbit ears.
16:02If 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 right beside my father with a big smile on her face.
16:21This is in Green Hollow.
16:23Supposedly 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?
16:33There 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?
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.
16:53But 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 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 and my stepmom, Charlotte.
18:22Dad killed her.
18:24It's listed as a suicide, but he killed her.
18:28My hope he's burning in hell.
18:36Our mother passed away February of 1984.
18:45We were told she killed herself with a rifle in the car, but we've always believed that he killed her.
18:54Don Studie.
18:55Don Studie killed her.
18:56And when we reconnected with Lucy, Lucy did say that she believed her dad killed mom and asked us if
19:05we would agree to have our mother exhumed to help prove her death was not a suicide and it was
19:12a homicide.
19:12And 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.
19:38Yep.
19:39Snakes.
19:39She did not like creepy crawlies.
19:41No, we 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.
20:15I remember we were having dinner.
20:18So they came over him and his four children.
20:22He was very nice, gentlemen.
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...
20:35He would take us places, you know.
20:37I 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...
20:53I 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 womp on them.
21:31Kick them, stomp on their heads, their necks, their feet, their hands.
21:37But then he started taking it out on Mama.
21:41And it wasn't pretty.
21:45The first time that I knew Don beat my mom was when Marie called me from the neighbors and said,
21:56he beat her so bad, she's in the hospital.
22:01And 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...
22:28Then he put the rifle down and he just started punching her.
22:31It was just surreal.
22:34I 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.
22:46It was...
22:47Red eyes.
22:48Yeah.
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
23:04me.
23:06I'm not sure why he didn't shoot me.
23:08But I did get away.
23:10And that's where the cops were called.
23:12And they did take her to the hospital.
23:14And that's when I called Dawn.
23:17And 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.
23:23It 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.
23:39They said they had 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.
24:07And she really started crying.
24:09And 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 at the time.
24:32We left Wednesday at 8 p.m. and it's Friday at 3.30, so...
24:37And what was it, like 1,600 miles?
24:41About.
25:05This looks like our apartment.
25:08Our garage is over there, David.
25:09Opposite end of where we're going to be.
25:11Oh, well.
25:16Yeah, let's meet a neighbor by taking off their mirror.
25:20Nah, just total their car.
25:23I'm David McKinney.
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.
25:36And 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.
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, like, 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.
26:32So, she'll stop for a year to three, get back to a good state financially, but then she always thinks,
26:41maybe 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, but I know Mom's not just crazy enough to, like,
27:04ruin our lives repeatedly over this.
27:06If 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, where I've put myself on
27:38the verge of bankruptcy.
27:39And I get myself out, and then I put myself right back in.
27:47I 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.
28:10I would look at my son, and I would think, what if it was him in the well?
28:15If 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 sunburned.
28:34I'm soaking wet from sweat.
28:41This better be worth it.
28:48It 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.
29:24And 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
29:46Whose name was Rose Connolly
29:53We're rolling.
29:54Camera rolling.
29:55I'm speeding.
29:57Great.
29:58All right, so, um, why don't you start by just saying your name
30:02And, uh, what do you come here to tell us?
30:07I'm Robert Masson, and I help Don Studi carry a body in with the race.
30:25How do you know for sure that the body you helped carry is with Don Studi?
30:33When I saw the newspaper article, I recognized the trailer.
30:39And I just, boom, I was there.
30:45I met Don at the bar near Thurman, I'm not sure the name of the town.
30:51I was in my twenties, being drunk and stoned, going bar hopping.
30:56I mean, that's what I did.
30:58Don was working behind the bar, and there weren't very many patrons at the bar.
31:05He started buying me drinks.
31:08And then he asked me if I, uh, want to earn a hundred bucks.
31:13He might 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.
31:40I'd parked here, but he asked me to move my car over there, and he parked his truck back in
31:43here, and 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 hand, and I grabbed the other, and we walked down this way.
32:09And he was leading the way, and he was going pretty good clip, and I was stumbling behind, and it
32:16was an awkward feeling.
32:18And this was just a skinny path with trees on both sides, and it 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.
33:03I 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.
33:16Do you remember what part of the body you were carrying?
33:19I think I was carrying the upper torso when we were, and he was carrying the feet as we walked.
33:26That was traumatic to me.
33:28To him, it was like everyday occurrence or something.
33:33It was like no big deal.
33:36This one, this first rodeo.
33:39This one, this first time.
33:42I'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 by coming forward.
34:01I mean, it's a risk for my future.
34:05A lot of people aren't believing Lucy.
34:08I felt 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.
34:38She was trying to leave Dad.
34:40You know, she had a place.
34:43She came home that night to get her belongings, and she was trying to get her clothes.
34:48And Dad said, the bitch can leave with nothing.
34:53Here's a picture of my father and my stepmother.
34:55If you can tell, they looked all lovey-lovey.
34:58They 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.
35:13All I know is once they start arguing, we all went to our rooms.
35:16Lucy and Linda went to their room.
35:17I went to mine.
35:21I 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.
35:31And every time she left, she had clothes clutched to her, because Dad was trying to grab them out of
35:37her hand.
35:40My bedroom door was shut, and they were arguing in their bedroom.
35:45Maybe I know how long it was for a while.
35:48And then I heard her stomping down the hallway.
35:51I just remember 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.
36:06And his car was gone.
36:10He came home in the morning.
36:13And the first thing he said when he walked in the door is,
36:16I found Charlotte dead in her car.
36:18She committed suicide.
36:19And 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?
36:44No. Not at all.
36:46He's dead. Why would I condone him now?
36:48Dad was home that night.
36:49I 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 that house.
36:56Lucy and Linda have no idea.
36:58I wish I would have stopped her.
37:00But she was drunk.
37:02I 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.
37:15But that night, I saw her leave each time.
37:18She never tucked the gun.
37:20You can't shoot yourself with a gun if you never tuck it.
37:24I had my door shut.
37:26I saw no gun.
37:27I 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.
37:34God knows I'm not lying.
37:35I heard her say the words.
37:36I heard her say, fuck you, I'll kill myself the way wife did.
37:40Susan is lying.
37:43But I understand why she's lying.
37:47I really do.
37:48My dad's manipulation was master level.
37:52He 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.
38:30There's times we pulled dad off of Charlotte.
38:31There's times we pulled them off 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 get women, which is fine.
38:40But you know what?
38:41When women hit men, you gotta expect to get...
38:44I mean...
38:46They both were innocent.
38:47Do you ever remember threatening to kill Charlotte?
38:51They 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?
39:03He would never kill them.
39:06Well, maybe the time Charlotte went to the hospital.
39:09But there was times dad was pretty bloody too, but he didn't go to the hospital.
39:13A cat scratched.
39:28It's 8.35 a.m.
39:32We 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 gotta 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.
40:06Charlotte came to my school for some Christmas patch.
40:10Oh, really?
40:12See, this is my kind of country.
40:14It is pretty here.
40:15And it's peaceful.
40:18And the road is right here.
40:20Take a left.
40:21The truck is already there.
40:24It better not start without us.
40:26Well, it's not 9 o'clock yet.
40:28They just probably have to get themselves all set up.
40:31Yep, that's us.
40:33Right there is...
40:34They started already.
40:35They weren't supposed to freaking start.
40:37You know.
40:38Okay.
40:39This is what's wrong with fucking...
40:42Who in the hell is up here?
40:44I don't know.
40:47What's the question?
40:49Why did you start?
40:51Well, it's not start.
40:52Yeah, well, it takes quite a bit of time to get everything ready, so...
40:55That's why everything's all dog and everything.
40:57I mean, we've been here...
40:58You guys weren't supposed to start without us.
41:00Yeah.
41:00That's how we've got...
41:02Everybody's on a time schedule.
41:05You guys didn't tell us that.
41:07But it takes...
41:08I mean, these guys have to get everything.
41:10But when you say 9 a.m., it's supposed to be 9 a.m.
41:14I know, I get it, but 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...
41:24Yeah.
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 could end this real quick.
41:43Do you know what?
41:43I'm sorry.
41:44I'm sorry.
41:45She's a loose cannon.
41:46Why did you break ground?
41:47Lucy, 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 living in Fremont County.
42:01Just leave it.
42:05Stop it.
42:07You're acting like your fucking father right now.
42:10So, stop.
42:11Why didn't he call?
42:12Because it definitely happened.
42:13They broke ground and they didn't call.
42:15Get it.
42:16But it isn't helping.
42:18Stop it.
42:18If you're going to be like this, go send the call.
42:22I don't know.
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.
42:35Lucy, don't hurt my...
42:37Oh, come on.
42:37You just dented the fucking truck.
42:39I did not.
42:39Look at it.
42:40It's fine.
42:41You dented the fucking truck.
42:43Fuck you.
42:44I'm getting my shit out of here.
42:45I'm never talking to my stepsisters again.
42:49I'm going to get my 9mm and I'm going to solve it the way my dad solves shit.
42:56What is wrong with people in Fremont County?
42:58Do you not know that there's fucking bodies up there?
43:02I'm not lying.
43:03There's fucking bodies up there.
43:05Hey, Miss.
43:06Calm down.
43:07Calm down.
43:08Everybody should be mad.
43:10There's fucking bodies up there.
43:12Yes, we are.
43:12More bodies than here.
43:14Lucy, we know.
43:16And you guys just caught me like, no big deal.
43:19There's fucking bodies up there.
43:29My dad goes, it seems like every woman I love dies on me because I don't understand.
43:36Charlotte Studi was found in a vehicle in front of a house.
43:40She had a bullet wound to 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 guns 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.
44:31And now he sits by his own cottage door, a wipe in his tear-dimmed eye.
44:39And now he waits for his own dear son upon the scaffold high.
44:47My rest is run beneath the sun, though hell's now waiting for me.
44:56For I have murdered that dear little girl whose name was Rose Connelly.
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