In the late summer of 1972, William Oliver Peak III, a 53-year-old retired Army Colonel, had recently settled in Grand Island, Nebraska, with his family. He, along with his wife Bernice and their 14-year-old daughter Barbara, had moved to the quiet Midwestern city with plans to open a new branch of a family-owned grocery store business. The future seemed promising for the Peak family as they prepared for a City Council meeting on September 11th to discuss the building permit for their new ventur
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