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What do you do when you hire investigators to look into your own organization and they come back saying your top leadership needs to go?
If you're Greater Grace World Outreach, apparently, you publish the report and then do as little as possible about it.
The GRACE investigation was 172 pages. It named four leaders who should be removed. It described an authoritarian culture rooted in fear-based messaging and theological manipulation. It found that leadership had been involved in silencing victims and smoothing over allegations in ways the investigators described as consistent with a cover-up.
The church responded with a general apology that named no specific individuals who failed. They published a roadmap that referenced future leadership transitions with no dates and no commitments. Some lower-level ordinations were revoked. But the senior pastor, the missions director, the youth pastor, and the youth ministry director — all four specifically named — remained in place. Then the church resigned from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability while under governance review.
Elita Galvin has been watching every move. She started publicly investigating Greater Grace in 2023, well before the official process began, and now hosts the Looking for Grace podcast. She understands the investigation findings, the church's response, and the parallels to the IBLP system that our audience already knows from covering the Duggar family.
Oscar, joining us under a pseudonym, offers something different — the voice of someone who left two decades ago and still gets physically sick trying to process the report's contents. This episode is about what broke the silence, what the investigation revealed, and whether this institution is capable of the accountability the report demands.
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Four cadaver dog alerts. A property that reportedly spans over 400 acres. Numerous wells — some wet, some dry, many filled in over the decades. And the FBI spent parts of three days there before announcing they found nothing and walking away. That's the 2022 Green Hollow investigation in a nutshell — and it's the investigation that 
Lucy Studey-McKiddy says was doomed from the start because they allegedly searched the wrong well. Lucy wasn't reportedly on site to guide them. The agencies drilled into what she says was the water well, not the dry well where she alleges her father Donald Studey disposed of the bodies of dozens of women he allegedly killed over decades. Since that investigation closed, the case has only grown more troubling. 
Charlotte Studey — one of Don's wives — reportedly died in 1984 from a single gunshot wound in Omaha. Self-inflicted, they said. A re-autopsy reportedly paid for by a documentary production team concluded the original findings didn't add up. Charlotte's manner of death has been officially reclassified as undetermined. Her three daughters are reportedly fighting Omaha police in court to access the sealed investigation files. 
In May 2025, a private forensic dig at Green Hollow reportedly used ground-penetrating radar and additional cadaver dogs. Both allegedly produced hits in areas that had never been fully searched. No conclusive remains have been recovered from any dig. But the hits keep coming. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta, who investigated this case independently on the ground in Green Hollow, breaks down what happened and what was missed.
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She carried the bags of lye. She was a child. And she says she knew exactly what was at the bottom of that well. Lucy Studey-McKiddy has spent nearly two decades alleging that her father, Donald Dean Studey, was responsible for the deaths of dozens of women in rural Iowa. The alleged killings reportedly stretched back to the 1970s, centered on a remote wooded area called Green Hollow near Thurman — a place so isolated and so tied to Studey that neighbors reportedly warned their children to stay away. 
Don Studey had a documented violent history. Reports describe threats against family members, domestic abuse, and a reputation that allegedly preceded him everywhere. He reportedly had multiple wives, and the women closest to him have an alarming pattern of death. Charlotte Studey reportedly died in 1984 from a single gunshot wound in Omaha — originally called self-inflicted, now officially reclassified as undetermined after a re-autopsy. 
Lucy's own mother reportedly died from a hanging in 1970 in a scene investigators allegedly described as bloodied. Studey's sister Marilyn Kepler reportedly wrote a journal spanning more than a hundred pages that allegedly documented violence and alleged killings. She reportedly told investigators that her brother confirmed the area near his wells was a graveyard. 
Despite all of it, Donald Studey was never charged with a single homicide. He died in 2013 at 75. Now, criminal defense attorney Bob Motta — who spent over a year investigating this case on the ground — shares what he found and what the public still doesn't know.
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Eric Richins called his business partner on Valentine’s Day 2022 with fear in his voice. He’d just eaten a sandwich his wife made him and couldn’t breathe. He broke out in hives. He grabbed his son’s EpiPen. And he told his friend what he believed was happening: his wife was trying to end his life. Two weeks later, he was dead. In part two of our five-part definitive series, we dissect the plan behind Kouri Richins’ murder of her husband — a plan built on three pillars. The affair with a handyman she controlled financially and emotionally. The $2.2 million in life insurance she stacked on Eric’s life through forged applications and secret policies. And the fentanyl she procured in escalating doses through her housekeeper, each purchase confirmed by cell phone location data that neither woman thought to hide. This is the story of how a suburban mom who couldn’t spell “fentanyl” obtained enough of it to ensure her husband would never wake up again.
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The evidentiary landscape across these three cases reveals patterns that your questions have been tracking with precision. From forensic trace analysis in the D4VD case to chain of custody disputes in Idaho to excluded alternative suspect evidence in Delphi, the investigative details expose alleged systemic gaps at every level.
In the D4VD case, prosecutors say LAPD’s Trace Analysis Unit found plastic from an inflatable pool lodged in wounds on Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s remains. Amazon and Postmates records allegedly tie the purchase of that pool, along with chainsaws, a body bag, and a burn cage, to David Anthony Burke under the alias Victoria Mendez. Burke has pleaded not guilty and maintains he did not cause Celeste’s death.
In Idaho, the defense forensic scientist who reviewed the Ka-Bar knife sheath alleges the evidence bag was documented retroactively and that the chain of custody was legally insufficient. The FBI confirmed that a hair found near one of the victims does not belong to Bryan Kohberger. It has reportedly never been fully processed.
In Delphi, Richard Allen’s reply brief details what the defense says the jury was denied: the composite sketch, testimony challenging bullet-matching evidence, audio from Allen’s solitary confinement, the Kegan Kline catfish connection, and evidence pointing to alternative suspects whose interviews were allegedly recorded over and whose weapons were never collected.
Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski take listener questions across all three cases, connecting the forensic, investigative, and procedural threads your messages keep pulling.
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