Bernice “Beenie” Peak, 50, a White woman, was attacked in her family’s new home by Hidden Lakes, just off Gunbarrel Road in Grand Island, Nebraska, on the night of September 9, 1972. Her father stopped by the next day to watch television and instead found an eerie quiet and, in the master bedroom, a scene of sudden violence: Bernice; her husband, retired Army Colonel William O. Peak III; and their 14-year-old daughter, Barbara, each shot in the head with a. 22-caliber firearm. William and
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