Bernice Beenie Peak

Death by Force

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 ...Read More

Getting away with murder: Nebraska cold cases

The Grand Island Independent: Monday Mysteries series: Triple murder in subdivision, to this day, remains an enigma.

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