Don Studey: The Re-Autopsy That Changed a Forty-Year Ruling

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · May 3, 2026 · 1h 23m

Charlotte Studey's death was classified as self-inflicted for nearly forty years. She reportedly died in Omaha in 1984 from a rifle shot to the head. She was five-foot-two. Nothing was documented at the scene that she could have used to trigger the weapon. The original crime scene and autopsy photographs are missing from Omaha police records. In 2023, a re-autopsy found a possible defensive wound on her arm and reclassified her manner of death as undetermined. Charlotte was one of Don Studey's wives — and not the only one to die under circumstances that have drawn investigative scrutiny…