In 2022, Lucy Studey McKiddy accused her father of murdering more than 50 women while she was growing up in rural Iowa. Her accusations are at the center of a new crime documentary on Paramount+ premiering in April.
She said she remembers helping her dad, Donald “Don” Dean Studey, bury the bodies, some of which he tossed down into a well on their property near Thurman, Iowa.
McKiddy is estranged from her siblings, who insist their father wasn’t a serial killer.
Following her allegations, local sheriff’s deputies, FBI agents and state criminal investigators conducted searches on a site McKiddy identified in December 2022.
“After exhaustive efforts, no evidence or other items of concern were recovered,” an Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation news release said at the time.
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Now, a docuseries releasing on Paramount+ is trying to put the pieces together to determine whether or not Studey was truly a serial killer. A Newsweek article in 2022 said that if he were, Studey would rank as one of America’s most prolific serial killers.
The series “My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders” will premiere Tuesday, April 28, exclusively on Paramount+.
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All three episodes will be available to stream at launch.
Lucia Cheng is a service and trending reporter at the Des Moines Register. Contact her at lcheng@gannett.com or 515-284-8132.
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