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I'm Craig Melvin,

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and this is "Dateline:
Secrets Uncovered."

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I dropped to my knees.
I screamed.

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I couldn't believe it.

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My friend is dead.
Kasi is dead.

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A woman has been
found in a condo.

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There had been a gunshot,
and the gentleman

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who found her is
her husband John.

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It was like
a punch in the gut.

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Did we miss something?

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And if we did, would
Kasi still be alive?

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Now we have three victims.

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Three women are dead,
and you could be next.

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I was petrified.

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It was so unbelievable

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that there is that kind
of evil out there.

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You both decided

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that you were going to
record a conversation.

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{\an8}I wired her up.

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What was the strategy?

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Get him to talk.

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I looked right at him
and I thought,

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oh, this is on.

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♪

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Hello, and welcome to
"Dateline: Secrets Uncovered."

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John and Kasi Peek
clicked instantly,

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and within months,
they were married.

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But they only had
a few years together

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before Kasi was murdered.

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When investigators
discovered John had ties

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to a double homicide
almost a decade earlier,

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they wondered,
was it just bad luck, or...

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was John Peek having
a terrible secret?

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Here's Andrea Canning
with "Deadly Omission."

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♪

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I don't think there was
a day that went by

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I didn't think about him
or what he was doing.

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He was the suspect
who slipped away.

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I felt like...

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Lord, I hope that there's
not anything I missed.

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A man who had
everyone fooled.

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He's gonna trick you
into thinking he loves you

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and he doesn't.

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A master manipulator

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disguised as
the perfect catch.

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Just one woman
to the next.

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He's a narcissist.

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He's not gonna stop
until the day he dies.

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He's a dangerous--
a dangerous person.

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Our story begins here
on a Saturday night

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in October 2005.

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Everyone tucked away in
their quiet homes, asleep.

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Ronnie Myers was just getting
home to his condo complex

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outside of Atlanta after
a night at the dog track,

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when he saw it.

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I was backing into
this space here,

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and as I was backing in,

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I noticed something shiny
sitting on the curb.

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So when I got
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I walked back
toward the object,

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and I noticed
it was a purse.

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I yelled to see if
anybody was out here.

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Was the stuff out of
the purse or in the purse?

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No, everything was
contained in the purse.

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Okay. Odd to see a purse
just sitting there.

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Usually you notice
if you've lost your purse.

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I thought-- I thought
it was very suspicious.

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So, first I didn't
want to touch it.

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And I was like,
well, maybe...

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somebody came home intoxicated
and just set it down, and--

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Presumably you'd think

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that the person would
live in this complex.

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Exactly.

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Inside the purse was
a note with the words,

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"I love you, John,"
and an ID with a name,

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Kasi Peek.

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There was also
a cell phone.

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Ronnie scrolled through it
and found a number

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for a John Peek.

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And I said, well,
maybe this is a brother,

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or husband.
- Right.

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He decided to wait until
the sun was up to call.

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And so when I got him
on the phone, I said,

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"I'm trying to reach... Kasi."

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And he said,
"Who is this?"

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I said, "Well, I found
her purse in my complex."

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And he said,
"You did?"

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Ronnie gave him
the address,

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and John picked up
Kasi's purse.

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{\an8}Then, soon after,

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{\an8}at a different complex
down the road...

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{\an8}Within minutes,
officers were at the scene.

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John was waiting outside
and directed them

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to the back door.

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The condo had
been ransacked.

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Cabinet doors were open.

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Things were strewn
across the floor.

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In the bedroom was Kasi,
lying in a pool of blood.

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{\an8}She'd been shot.

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{\an8}An officer spoke
to John outside.

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{\an8}John told the officer he last
spoke to his wife, Kasi,

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{\an8}at 4pm the day before.

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{\an8}To get something
of this magnitude

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{\an8}was pretty unusual
for that complex.

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Detective Ron Waddell from
the Smyrna Police Department

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got the call.

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As I got there, I met
with another detective,

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and we're directed around
to the back of the condo.

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They're doing a crime
scene log in the back.

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And it's just time for us
to go in and see exactly

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what we believe may have
happened inside the condo.

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So you go in pretty
much right away?

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Yes.

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And as you walk into
this condominium,

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what are you seeing?

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All the blinds are shut.
It's dark inside.

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Our victim is
laying in the bed

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and she's got
her glasses on.

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The TV's on, and her glasses
are a little askew on her face.

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And there in the mattress,
a big clue.

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A bullet from
a .30 caliber rifle.

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You could tell that
there had been a gunshot

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that went through her back.

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It exited through the front
and through her forearm

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before getting stuck
in the mattress.

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What do you see
in the condo?

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Is there anything
out of place?

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Is there a murder weapon?

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Unfortunately, there's
no murder weapon there,

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but the rest of the condo has
been completely gone through.

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Kasi's sister Jaquidon
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were driving home from
a wedding in Texas

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when the phone rang.

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I got a call
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and it was Smyrna
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who told me that
my sister was dead.

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I was in shock.

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- He said she'd been found...
- Shot.

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- Dead of a gunshot wound.
- Dead of a gunshot wound.

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It was just horrendous.

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Word spread quickly
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Jan Taylor and Kim Shepner.

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I dropped to my knees,
I screamed.

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I couldn't believe it.

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And I felt like,
"Oh, my gosh,

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"She was just at my house.
She was just here."

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Kim is the friend
John mentioned to the officer.

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She and Kasi had talked
late into the night.

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Kim didn't want
Kasi to go home.

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And I said to her,
"Why don't you stay, Kasi?

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"It's about 45 to 50
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"Why don't you
stay tonight?

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"Come on, girl,
stay here."

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And she just said, "No,

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"I've got things
to do tomorrow."

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What happened
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Horror! Am I in a nightmare?

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You know, it's just
absolute... gut punch.

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A question that unraveled
another mystery...

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You worried
he could kill again.

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- Yes.
- It just made my skin crawl.

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{\an8}And turned families
desperate for answers

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{\an8}into amateur detectives.

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Detective Ron Waddell has
worked hundreds of crime scenes

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in his career,

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but Kasi Peek's murder
is seared into his memory.

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That has always
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the expression
on her face.

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I realize she's deceased,
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an expression of fear?

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Yes, ma'am.
Fear for sure.

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Eyes were open.

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It actually looked
like she was still

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looking at somebody
that was in the room.

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While the detective
launched his investigation,

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Casey's sister, Jaquidon,
and brother-in-law, David,

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flew to Atlanta.

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It was where Kasi,
a computer programmer,

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had built a life for herself
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and friends in Texas.

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She was doing really well.

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She was surrounded by
a Lot of great girlfriends.

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Oh, yeah.

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Friends like Kim and Jan.

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They met Kasi at
the Atlanta Ski Club,

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The club to be in,
in Atlanta.

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I don't think of skiing
when I think of Atlanta.

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- No. And people say that--
- No, most people don't.

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No, but, um, believe me,

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half of the members were
just there for the socials.

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[laughing]

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So Kasi loved
the social element.

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Yes.

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The ladies would
go out often.

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All three were single,
open to finding a partner,

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especially Kasi.

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- She was very intelligent.
- Oh my gosh.

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She was very good
at what she did.

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She didn't need
to rely on a man.

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Exactly.

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She just really
wanted a companion.

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- Okay.
- I mean, she wanted

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to have it all,
to have the career,

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have the love,
have all the things

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that that entails.
- The house.

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And the house.

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Then one day, John Peek
walked through her door.

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You know how--
the old saying,

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you gotta leave your house
if you wanna meet somebody?

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- Get off your couch.
- Get off your couch.

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[laughing]

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- She is--
- That's what I always say.

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She is the one case where...

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the man came to her.
- The man came to her.

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Kasi had a party
at her condo,

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and one of her guests brought
John as their plus one.

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He was a 46-year-old
software engineer

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who worked as a consultant at
an electronic payment company.

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John ended up hitting it off
with the party host.

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Then she sent a picture of him
and a brief little blurb

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and says, "I'm gonna
call you about him.

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"He's really great."
- Oh, my God.

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She went nuts.
- Oh, yeah.

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Good-looking man.

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They became
a couple instantly.

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Was she in love with him?
- Oh, my God, yes.

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- Oh, yeah. Oh, yes.
- Like, lost in love.

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Yes.

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And they got married
very quickly, and...

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- How quickly?
- Like, within...

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I-- was it-- was it
maybe four or five months?

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It was quick.

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John and Kasi both had
been married before.

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This time things
felt different.

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He was one of those
really romantic people,

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and flowers
and notes

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and... scavenger hunt things,

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and taking her out
and stuff like that.

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So she was really
bowled over by him.

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And she hadn't had
anything like that before.

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She felt like
she hit the jackpot.

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- Absolutely.
- Yeah.

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They bought a new home
in an upscale community

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just outside of Atlanta.

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It was a sprawling,
huge mansion.

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- Oh my gosh, a gorgeous house.
- Perfect place to have--

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And the neighborhood, like,
had this beautiful entrance

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and rolling hills...
- Oh it did, it was beautiful.

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...and it was beautiful.

252
00:11:08,285 --> 00:11:10,787
It was definitely
a dream come true for her.

253
00:11:10,887 --> 00:11:13,890
John fit right in with
Kasi's circle of friends.

254
00:11:13,991 --> 00:11:17,694
We did a lot together
and, just, he was very nice.

255
00:11:17,794 --> 00:11:19,529
Nice to all of us.

256
00:11:19,630 --> 00:11:23,166
But after a few years,
Jan and Kim noticed a shift.

257
00:11:23,267 --> 00:11:25,035
It was when John took
a consulting job

258
00:11:25,135 --> 00:11:27,938
with Habitat for Humanity
over 100 miles away

259
00:11:28,038 --> 00:11:29,640
in Americus, Georgia.

260
00:11:29,740 --> 00:11:31,074
And he was down there
all the time,

261
00:11:31,174 --> 00:11:33,377
and he wouldn't come home
on the weekends, and...

262
00:11:33,477 --> 00:11:35,579
So you're thinking
there might be something up?

263
00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:36,847
We were just thinking,
what's up?

264
00:11:36,947 --> 00:11:38,081
Why isn't he coming home?

265
00:11:38,181 --> 00:11:39,016
- Yes.
- Exactly.

266
00:11:39,116 --> 00:11:40,784
Is there another
woman, possibly?

267
00:11:40,884 --> 00:11:42,119
- Yes.
- Exactly.

268
00:11:42,219 --> 00:11:44,655
Even though Kasi was one of
the smartest women they knew,

269
00:11:44,755 --> 00:11:47,190
her friends say she didn't
see what they saw.

270
00:11:47,291 --> 00:11:49,493
She, you know, didn't
really see the forest

271
00:11:49,593 --> 00:11:51,361
for the trees, really.

272
00:11:51,461 --> 00:11:54,564
And I was just like, look,
please open your eyes, you know?

273
00:11:54,665 --> 00:11:57,134
Then she found a charge
on her credit card.

274
00:11:57,234 --> 00:11:58,502
She did.

275
00:11:58,602 --> 00:12:01,838
It was a hotel charge not far
from where she and John lived.

276
00:12:01,939 --> 00:12:03,740
Odd, because John was
supposed to be away

277
00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,009
on a weekend trip
with the guys.

278
00:12:06,109 --> 00:12:08,612
Kasi got in her car
and went looking for him.

279
00:12:08,712 --> 00:12:10,213
So she drives out there,

280
00:12:10,314 --> 00:12:11,481
and she went up
to the front desk,

281
00:12:11,581 --> 00:12:13,150
and she was like,
"My husband is here.

282
00:12:13,250 --> 00:12:14,217
"I just saw the charge."

283
00:12:14,318 --> 00:12:15,752
And they're like, "Sorry,
ma'am, we can't give you

284
00:12:15,852 --> 00:12:18,355
"his room number."
She demanded...

285
00:12:18,455 --> 00:12:21,258
that they give-- and they
gave her the room number.

286
00:12:21,358 --> 00:12:24,227
Kasi stormed up to his room
and banged on the door.

287
00:12:24,328 --> 00:12:25,495
No one answered.

288
00:12:25,595 --> 00:12:28,098
And then security
escorted her out.

289
00:12:28,198 --> 00:12:29,433
Oh, my gosh.
- Oh, my God.

290
00:12:29,533 --> 00:12:31,068
She was devastated.

291
00:12:31,168 --> 00:12:32,536
Even though
she didn't see John,

292
00:12:32,636 --> 00:12:34,471
she suspected the worst.

293
00:12:34,571 --> 00:12:36,106
He tried to deny it,
but it was--

294
00:12:36,206 --> 00:12:38,675
It was obviously
and patently a lie.

295
00:12:38,775 --> 00:12:41,645
John's denying it.
Kasi's not buying it.

296
00:12:41,745 --> 00:12:43,046
What does she do?

297
00:12:43,146 --> 00:12:46,149
So Kasi, uh,

298
00:12:46,249 --> 00:12:49,953
moved out of the house
and moved back to her condo.

299
00:12:50,053 --> 00:12:52,789
That was April 2005,
almost two months

300
00:12:52,889 --> 00:12:55,092
before their fifth
wedding anniversary.

301
00:12:55,192 --> 00:12:57,594
But the estrangement
didn't last long.

302
00:12:57,694 --> 00:12:59,696
Kasi and John decided to
work on the marriage,

303
00:12:59,796 --> 00:13:01,331
and it was going well.

304
00:13:01,431 --> 00:13:03,500
She talked about it with Kim
the night they saw each other

305
00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:05,369
for the very last time.

306
00:13:05,469 --> 00:13:08,739
Everything was really
upbeat and positive.

307
00:13:08,839 --> 00:13:11,808
I mean, she was glowing.
She was so happy.

308
00:13:11,908 --> 00:13:15,145
We had a great conversation.
- She's a Christian person.

309
00:13:15,245 --> 00:13:18,081
She just believes
in forgiveness.

310
00:13:18,181 --> 00:13:20,217
And she believed
in her marriage.

311
00:13:20,317 --> 00:13:22,686
To death to us part.

312
00:13:22,786 --> 00:13:23,887
Back at the crime scene,

313
00:13:23,987 --> 00:13:25,889
Detective Waddell
finished his walkthrough

314
00:13:25,989 --> 00:13:27,658
and met with John,
who was still waiting

315
00:13:27,758 --> 00:13:29,426
outside with the officer.

316
00:13:29,526 --> 00:13:31,628
At that point, uh,
we call him over, uh,

317
00:13:31,728 --> 00:13:33,897
to, you know, see exactly
what's going on with him

318
00:13:33,997 --> 00:13:34,998
and what had happened.

319
00:13:35,098 --> 00:13:36,300
Does he agree to go
with you willingly?

320
00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:38,802
Absolutely, yes.
Yes, mm-hmm.

321
00:13:38,902 --> 00:13:41,905
{\an8}And what a story
they were about to hear.

322
00:13:52,482 --> 00:13:58,922
♪

323
00:13:59,022 --> 00:14:01,491
{\an8}From the beginning, John Peek
was candid with police

324
00:14:01,591 --> 00:14:03,961
{\an8}about the status of
his marriage with Kasi.

325
00:14:10,801 --> 00:14:12,469
{\an8}Even though they were
still living apart,

326
00:14:12,569 --> 00:14:15,706
{\an8}he told the officer they were
seeing each other again.

327
00:14:15,806 --> 00:14:17,007
{\an8}Now Kasi was gone,

328
00:14:17,107 --> 00:14:19,743
{\an8}and John was eager to help
detectives find her killer.

329
00:14:27,985 --> 00:14:29,286
{\an8}John spoke to
Detective Waddell

330
00:14:29,386 --> 00:14:31,088
{\an8}and his partner
at the police station.

331
00:14:33,223 --> 00:14:35,359
{\an8}He told them about the call
from Ronnie about the purse

332
00:14:35,459 --> 00:14:37,527
{\an8}that led him
to check on Kasi.

333
00:14:56,380 --> 00:14:59,116
{\an8}Detectives filled him in
on their investigative process.

334
00:15:13,430 --> 00:15:14,598
{\an8}The detective asked John

335
00:15:14,698 --> 00:15:17,434
{\an8}if he thought Kasi might have
been seeing someone else.

336
00:15:41,258 --> 00:15:42,593
{\an8}Detectives had
more questions

337
00:15:42,693 --> 00:15:44,728
{\an8}about his relationship
with Kasi.

338
00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:51,635
{\an8}He said they had dinner
and watched a movie,

339
00:15:51,735 --> 00:15:53,203
{\an8}and were getting along.

340
00:15:53,303 --> 00:15:54,238
Did you buy his story

341
00:15:54,338 --> 00:15:55,839
that they were working
on the marriage,

342
00:15:55,939 --> 00:15:57,374
that things were
getting better?

343
00:15:57,474 --> 00:15:59,409
I didn't have any
evidence to refute it

344
00:15:59,509 --> 00:16:00,711
one way or the other.

345
00:16:00,811 --> 00:16:03,213
That initial interview,
you tend to take for face value

346
00:16:03,313 --> 00:16:05,482
and, you know, see where
it goes from there.

347
00:16:05,582 --> 00:16:08,218
{\an8}John told them Kasi was
excited to make it work.

348
00:16:26,703 --> 00:16:29,039
{\an8}John told detectives that
Kasi wanted reassurance

349
00:16:29,139 --> 00:16:31,174
{\an8}that there was
no one but her.

350
00:16:47,491 --> 00:16:50,494
{\an8}Lied, because he was
seeing another woman.

351
00:16:50,594 --> 00:16:52,663
Her name was Liza Kent.

352
00:16:52,763 --> 00:16:54,298
He'd met her in
Americus, Georgia,

353
00:16:54,398 --> 00:16:56,800
on that Habitat
for Humanity job.

354
00:16:56,900 --> 00:16:59,403
{\an8}The detectives had a love
triangle on their hands.

355
00:17:10,380 --> 00:17:12,149
{\an8}He's playing both of 'em
against one another.

356
00:17:12,249 --> 00:17:14,818
He told us that Liza
believes that he is

357
00:17:14,918 --> 00:17:17,888
going to divorce his wife.

358
00:17:17,988 --> 00:17:20,257
And he's leading her
to believe that.

359
00:17:20,357 --> 00:17:25,062
But then also, he is
taking his estranged wife

360
00:17:25,162 --> 00:17:28,565
down this road where
he's taking her out for dinner

361
00:17:28,665 --> 00:17:30,534
and movies a couple
of nights a week.

362
00:17:30,634 --> 00:17:32,035
He wants to have his cake
and eat it too.

363
00:17:32,135 --> 00:17:34,638
100%, yes.
Every slice.

364
00:17:35,872 --> 00:17:38,542
John said that after Kasi
moved out earlier that year,

365
00:17:38,642 --> 00:17:40,310
Liza moved in.

366
00:17:40,410 --> 00:17:41,912
{\an8}But he fessed up
to investigators

367
00:17:42,012 --> 00:17:44,481
{\an8}that things weren't
any better with Liza.

368
00:18:14,711 --> 00:18:17,848
It was clear to detectives
that John was not a good husband

369
00:18:17,948 --> 00:18:19,449
or a good boyfriend.

370
00:18:19,549 --> 00:18:22,019
John says something
about his girlfriend

371
00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:24,955
in this interview
that is very eye-opening.

372
00:18:25,055 --> 00:18:27,858
Well, as it turns out,
she's got a gun.

373
00:18:27,958 --> 00:18:31,094
{\an8}And according to John,
Liza knew where Kasi lived.

374
00:18:51,882 --> 00:18:55,085
{\an8}Jealousy, or worried he's going
to get back together with Kasi?

375
00:18:55,185 --> 00:18:56,987
Maybe the divorce
isn't happening as fast,

376
00:18:57,087 --> 00:18:58,655
and she can speed it up
a little bit,

377
00:18:58,755 --> 00:19:01,158
is kind of the way it sounded.

378
00:19:01,258 --> 00:19:04,161
{\an8}Then John revealed that
not only did Liza have a gun,

379
00:19:04,261 --> 00:19:05,929
{\an8}she threatened to use it,

380
00:19:06,029 --> 00:19:07,698
{\an8}on him.

381
00:19:34,424 --> 00:19:36,994
{\an8}But he said Liza
had more than one.

382
00:19:44,768 --> 00:19:47,170
{\an8}Detectives had
to find Liza.

383
00:19:50,407 --> 00:19:52,609
{\an8}John let the police search
his home and his car,

384
00:19:52,709 --> 00:19:54,645
{\an8}and he agreed to take
a gunshot residue test

385
00:19:54,745 --> 00:19:56,680
{\an8}before he left
the station.

386
00:20:09,393 --> 00:20:12,095
{\an8}While the detectives waited
for the results to come back,

387
00:20:12,195 --> 00:20:15,499
{\an8}they went out looking
for Liza, and found her.

388
00:20:26,343 --> 00:20:30,847
♪

389
00:20:30,948 --> 00:20:33,650
Welcome back to
"Dateline: Secrets Uncovered."

390
00:20:33,750 --> 00:20:34,985
I'm Craig Melvin.

391
00:20:35,085 --> 00:20:37,120
Kasi Peek had
been murdered,

392
00:20:37,220 --> 00:20:40,791
and her husband John
had just revealed a secret.

393
00:20:40,891 --> 00:20:43,126
He was seeing another
woman named Liza.

394
00:20:43,226 --> 00:20:45,862
John told police
Liza had a gun

395
00:20:45,963 --> 00:20:47,531
and was not afraid to use it.

396
00:20:47,631 --> 00:20:50,033
Now, Liza was about
to give detectives

397
00:20:50,133 --> 00:20:53,870
intriguing information
about an ultimatum

398
00:20:53,971 --> 00:20:56,106
she had recently given John.

399
00:20:56,206 --> 00:20:59,343
Back to Andrea Canning
with "Deadly Omission."

400
00:20:59,476 --> 00:21:02,980
♪

401
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,182
Officers arriving
at Kasi Peek's condo

402
00:21:05,282 --> 00:21:08,385
first thought they were
looking at a burglary gone bad.

403
00:21:08,485 --> 00:21:10,988
But as technicians took
a closer look at the scene,

404
00:21:11,088 --> 00:21:14,024
it became clear that
nothing was taken.

405
00:21:14,124 --> 00:21:17,394
The dresser is-- all
the drawers are pulled open.

406
00:21:17,494 --> 00:21:19,663
But when you look
into any of those,

407
00:21:19,763 --> 00:21:22,199
nothing has been touched
inside the drawers.

408
00:21:22,299 --> 00:21:23,767
All of the electronics
that would have had

409
00:21:23,867 --> 00:21:26,169
any kind of street value
are all still there.

410
00:21:26,270 --> 00:21:29,573
So this appeared to you
to be staged?

411
00:21:29,673 --> 00:21:32,009
Yes, that's exactly
what it looked like.

412
00:21:32,109 --> 00:21:35,112
It was just
Staged Crime Scene 101.

413
00:21:35,212 --> 00:21:37,414
Plus, there was
no forced entry.

414
00:21:37,514 --> 00:21:40,651
So either she didn't
lock her door,

415
00:21:40,751 --> 00:21:43,787
or the person who came in
presumably had a key?

416
00:21:43,887 --> 00:21:47,391
There was one screen that was
off of a window up front,

417
00:21:47,491 --> 00:21:50,027
but it had been
off for weeks, uh,

418
00:21:50,127 --> 00:21:52,562
and they just hadn't
come out to fix it yet.

419
00:21:52,663 --> 00:21:56,233
But the front door was locked,
but the back door was open.

420
00:21:57,668 --> 00:22:00,604
And there was an important
element that stood out.

421
00:22:00,704 --> 00:22:02,639
When she died,
they covered her up.

422
00:22:02,739 --> 00:22:05,642
Oh, so this feels personal.

423
00:22:05,742 --> 00:22:08,111
Right. Didn't cover her face,
but covered her up to the--

424
00:22:08,211 --> 00:22:09,913
to her neck, yeah.

425
00:22:10,013 --> 00:22:11,915
Waddell believed
Kasi was likely killed

426
00:22:12,015 --> 00:22:13,750
by someone who knew her.

427
00:22:13,850 --> 00:22:17,588
We had that entire
complex canvassed

428
00:22:17,688 --> 00:22:21,425
for anyone who had been there
over the weekend at all,

429
00:22:21,525 --> 00:22:24,328
and not one person
heard that gunshot.

430
00:22:24,428 --> 00:22:27,164
You would think if this
happened in a condo complex

431
00:22:27,264 --> 00:22:30,300
that someone would have seen
something, heard something.

432
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:31,835
Zero.

433
00:22:31,935 --> 00:22:33,236
It's just amazing
to us that we--

434
00:22:33,337 --> 00:22:36,240
we didn't get one witness
out of the complex at all.

435
00:22:36,340 --> 00:22:39,376
{\an8}They did have one lead,
courtesy of John Peek.

436
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,415
{\an8}Detectives found
his girlfriend Liza

437
00:22:45,515 --> 00:22:47,351
{\an8}and brought her
into the station.

438
00:23:16,847 --> 00:23:18,582
{\an8}The detective redirected
the interview

439
00:23:18,682 --> 00:23:21,351
{\an8}and asked Liza about
her relationship with John.

440
00:23:28,725 --> 00:23:30,594
{\an8}Liza told detectives
that when she met John,

441
00:23:30,694 --> 00:23:32,529
{\an8}he said he was divorced.

442
00:23:32,629 --> 00:23:34,665
{\an8}She learned
that was a lie.

443
00:23:40,604 --> 00:23:42,572
{\an8}As they approached their
one-year anniversary,

444
00:23:42,673 --> 00:23:44,608
{\an8}Liza gave him an ultimatum.

445
00:23:58,855 --> 00:24:01,858
{\an8}Detectives asked where she was
the weekend Kasi was killed.

446
00:24:07,798 --> 00:24:09,232
{\an8}She said she was
celebrating a birthday

447
00:24:09,333 --> 00:24:11,802
{\an8}with a friend over
100 miles away.

448
00:24:16,773 --> 00:24:18,809
{\an8}They would have to
check that out, of course.

449
00:24:18,909 --> 00:24:21,878
{\an8}Detectives also wanted to know
about the guns John mentioned,

450
00:24:21,979 --> 00:24:24,214
{\an8}including the one in her car.

451
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:38,829
{\an8}And they probed her
about John's story

452
00:24:38,929 --> 00:24:41,131
{\an8}that she threatened him
with a gun.

453
00:25:10,794 --> 00:25:12,229
{\an8}Disassociate?

454
00:25:12,329 --> 00:25:15,165
Was she saying she might
be capable of murder?

455
00:25:15,265 --> 00:25:17,301
Do you confront her
with this idea

456
00:25:17,401 --> 00:25:19,403
that she might
have killed Kasi?

457
00:25:19,503 --> 00:25:22,339
Yes. And she said as she has
never met the woman before,

458
00:25:22,439 --> 00:25:25,042
never has had any kind of
inclination to do anything

459
00:25:25,142 --> 00:25:27,678
like that, and never
really had the motive

460
00:25:27,778 --> 00:25:30,781
to do it anyway because
John was divorcing her,

461
00:25:30,881 --> 00:25:32,749
so it wasn't an issue.

462
00:25:32,849 --> 00:25:35,385
But of course, John had
been lying to Liza.

463
00:25:35,485 --> 00:25:37,421
{\an8}Perhaps Liza found out
John was reconciling

464
00:25:37,521 --> 00:25:39,489
{\an8}with his wife and lost it.

465
00:25:45,596 --> 00:25:47,965
{\an8}Liza was allowed to leave,
but detectives told her

466
00:25:48,065 --> 00:25:49,967
{\an8}they needed to know
her whereabouts.

467
00:25:53,804 --> 00:25:55,572
{\an8}But something else
was brewing.

468
00:25:55,672 --> 00:25:57,374
{\an8}Detectives learned that
while John had been going

469
00:25:57,474 --> 00:25:59,776
{\an8}on and on about
his love life...

470
00:26:02,913 --> 00:26:06,250
{\an8}He'd failed to mention
one very important detail.

471
00:26:11,288 --> 00:26:13,624
Can you believe it?
- It was a head-shaker.

472
00:26:13,724 --> 00:26:15,192
You've been talking
to us for hours.

473
00:26:15,292 --> 00:26:17,461
How is it that you've never
mentioned this to us?

474
00:26:22,532 --> 00:26:28,739
♪

475
00:26:28,839 --> 00:26:30,941
{\an8}Smyrna detectives were
talking to John Peek

476
00:26:31,041 --> 00:26:33,610
{\an8}about his dead wife Kasi,
when they asked a question

477
00:26:33,710 --> 00:26:35,445
{\an8}that should have
been routine.

478
00:26:38,248 --> 00:26:39,383
{\an8}His answer?

479
00:26:39,483 --> 00:26:42,386
{\an8}Detectives had never heard
anything quite like it.

480
00:26:49,626 --> 00:26:52,095
{\an8}Can you believe it?
- It was a head-shaker.

481
00:26:52,195 --> 00:26:53,597
{\an8}You've been talking
to us for hours.

482
00:26:53,697 --> 00:26:55,399
{\an8}How is it that you've never
mentioned this to us,

483
00:26:55,499 --> 00:26:58,602
{\an8}that you had a previous
spouse murdered?

484
00:27:04,741 --> 00:27:05,709
{\an8}How can you go
through an interview

485
00:27:05,809 --> 00:27:07,144
{\an8}and not have
told us this yet?

486
00:27:07,244 --> 00:27:09,479
It is the ultimate
omission.

487
00:27:09,580 --> 00:27:11,481
Yes, ma'am, 100%.

488
00:27:11,581 --> 00:27:13,517
100% the biggest
omission I've ever had

489
00:27:13,617 --> 00:27:15,652
in any investigation
I've ever done.

490
00:27:15,752 --> 00:27:17,888
Turned out it was not
something John had kept secret

491
00:27:17,988 --> 00:27:20,057
from other people
in his life.

492
00:27:20,157 --> 00:27:22,960
The only thing we knew is
that she had been killed.

493
00:27:23,060 --> 00:27:25,162
His wife had been murdered
and it was devastating.

494
00:27:25,262 --> 00:27:28,365
And because he'd met Kasi,
this was a closure thing.

495
00:27:28,465 --> 00:27:31,702
Did you talk to him about her,
and about the murder?

496
00:27:31,802 --> 00:27:34,538
No. The only things
I knew were

497
00:27:34,638 --> 00:27:38,342
anything that Kasi had told me,
and that it was horrible.

498
00:27:38,442 --> 00:27:40,210
Now Detective Waddell
needed to find out

499
00:27:40,310 --> 00:27:43,013
all about that previous
murder case.

500
00:27:43,113 --> 00:27:45,082
He got on the phone with
Detective Eddie Herman

501
00:27:45,182 --> 00:27:47,384
from the Cobb County
Police Department.

502
00:27:47,484 --> 00:27:49,953
It's like, "Hey, uh,
does the name John Peek

503
00:27:50,053 --> 00:27:52,322
"mean anything to you?"

504
00:27:52,422 --> 00:27:53,890
And just as dead
silent as that.

505
00:27:53,991 --> 00:27:56,093
I was like, I thought
maybe we dropped the phone.

506
00:27:56,193 --> 00:27:58,629
I remember it like
it was yesterday.

507
00:27:58,762 --> 00:28:01,632
♪

508
00:28:01,732 --> 00:28:04,534
That phone call brought
Detective Herman back in time

509
00:28:04,635 --> 00:28:08,472
nearly a decade
to June 14, 1996.

510
00:28:08,572 --> 00:28:10,641
He was working
the night shift.

511
00:28:10,741 --> 00:28:13,944
I got a call from
a Precinct 3 uniform officer,

512
00:28:14,044 --> 00:28:16,747
and an individual by
the name of John Peek

513
00:28:16,847 --> 00:28:19,049
was reporting
his wife missing.

514
00:28:19,149 --> 00:28:21,151
Her name was Carol Marlin.

515
00:28:21,251 --> 00:28:24,054
Carol was a 46-year-old
engineer at aircraft maker

516
00:28:24,154 --> 00:28:25,622
Lockheed Martin.

517
00:28:25,722 --> 00:28:27,357
John said she'd gone to
dinner with a friend

518
00:28:27,457 --> 00:28:29,926
and was expected back at their
home in Marietta, Georgia

519
00:28:30,027 --> 00:28:31,561
around 8:30.

520
00:28:31,662 --> 00:28:34,031
But it was getting late
and he hadn't heard from her.

521
00:28:34,131 --> 00:28:36,166
He worried she'd
been in an accident.

522
00:28:36,266 --> 00:28:37,634
Was there any
weather that night?

523
00:28:37,734 --> 00:28:39,937
You know, rainstorm,
something that could have

524
00:28:40,037 --> 00:28:42,105
caused an accident
or delayed her?

525
00:28:42,205 --> 00:28:44,474
No, it was a clear night.

526
00:28:44,574 --> 00:28:47,010
Still, the detective checked
for any car accidents

527
00:28:47,110 --> 00:28:49,079
involving Carol's
dark blue Camry,

528
00:28:49,179 --> 00:28:50,647
but there were none.

529
00:28:50,747 --> 00:28:53,150
A couple of hours later,
John called back to say

530
00:28:53,250 --> 00:28:55,185
his wife still
hadn't returned.

531
00:28:55,285 --> 00:28:57,888
He wanted to file
a missing person report.

532
00:28:57,988 --> 00:28:59,156
At that time,

533
00:28:59,256 --> 00:29:00,791
I just felt like
I needed to go down there.

534
00:29:00,891 --> 00:29:04,027
The fact that it was made
so early, the report was, uh--

535
00:29:04,127 --> 00:29:05,362
giving you
a weird feeling?

536
00:29:05,462 --> 00:29:08,899
Yes. Not because...

537
00:29:08,999 --> 00:29:11,435
of the report itself.
It was the time frame.

538
00:29:11,535 --> 00:29:13,103
I knocked on the door,
he opened the door.

539
00:29:13,203 --> 00:29:15,272
He invited me in,
sat down in the living room.

540
00:29:15,372 --> 00:29:18,408
And I just went into
the basic background

541
00:29:18,508 --> 00:29:21,612
on him and Carol,
what she...

542
00:29:21,712 --> 00:29:23,547
was doing that evening.

543
00:29:23,647 --> 00:29:25,882
John told the detective
he and Carol had been together

544
00:29:25,983 --> 00:29:27,551
for 11 years.

545
00:29:27,651 --> 00:29:29,186
They weren't
technically married.

546
00:29:29,286 --> 00:29:31,755
They were common law
husband and wife.

547
00:29:31,855 --> 00:29:34,191
They both worked
at Lockheed Martin.

548
00:29:34,291 --> 00:29:38,061
When did John say he last
spoke to Carol... that day?

549
00:29:38,161 --> 00:29:40,998
He had a voicemail
from her at about 4:30.

550
00:29:41,098 --> 00:29:43,433
"I'm going to
pick Maggie up."

551
00:29:43,533 --> 00:29:45,269
Maggie Ginn
was her friend.

552
00:29:45,369 --> 00:29:47,704
She was 64,
and by then retired.

553
00:29:47,804 --> 00:29:49,773
She'd also worked
at Lockheed Martin.

554
00:29:49,873 --> 00:29:53,210
The two women had stayed close,
often had dinner together.

555
00:29:53,310 --> 00:29:55,012
Did you think about
that this could just be

556
00:29:55,112 --> 00:29:58,048
two girlfriends,
time gets away from you...

557
00:29:58,148 --> 00:29:59,783
Well, that's one of
the things I did think about.

558
00:29:59,883 --> 00:30:01,551
You know, maybe--
maybe, uh,

559
00:30:01,652 --> 00:30:03,553
Carol or-- and Maggie
are sitting somewhere,

560
00:30:03,654 --> 00:30:05,555
just talking.

561
00:30:05,656 --> 00:30:07,124
The detective drove
by the restaurant

562
00:30:07,224 --> 00:30:09,359
where John said
the women liked to go.

563
00:30:09,459 --> 00:30:13,630
It was closed, and no sign of
Carol's car in the parking lot.

564
00:30:13,730 --> 00:30:15,732
He also wanted to go
by Maggie Ginn's house,

565
00:30:15,832 --> 00:30:18,402
but John said he didn't
know her address.

566
00:30:18,502 --> 00:30:21,138
He did have her phone number,
which he gave to me.

567
00:30:21,238 --> 00:30:24,141
If I had a phone number today,
obviously we'd be able

568
00:30:24,241 --> 00:30:26,476
to get an address
just like that.

569
00:30:26,577 --> 00:30:28,745
As Detective Herman
was looking for Carol,

570
00:30:28,845 --> 00:30:32,149
John called her sister,
Susie Sutton, in Ohio.

571
00:30:32,249 --> 00:30:33,817
He says she's missing.

572
00:30:33,917 --> 00:30:37,387
And we were concerned, too,
because that wasn't like Carol.

573
00:30:37,487 --> 00:30:41,158
I mean, she could have just
stayed out a little longer,

574
00:30:41,258 --> 00:30:43,627
um, but that would
not be like Carol

575
00:30:43,727 --> 00:30:45,596
to stay out all night.

576
00:30:45,696 --> 00:30:47,931
So you're just waiting
for information?

577
00:30:48,031 --> 00:30:49,132
Yes.

578
00:30:49,232 --> 00:30:52,302
I did think that maybe
somebody had kidnapped Carol,

579
00:30:52,402 --> 00:30:55,005
so that did pass
through my mind.

580
00:30:55,105 --> 00:30:56,406
It was now morning.

581
00:30:56,506 --> 00:30:58,675
Detective Herman drove
over to Lockheed Martin,

582
00:30:58,775 --> 00:31:01,645
where a security guard
gave him Maggie's address.

583
00:31:01,745 --> 00:31:03,647
He and another investigator
headed right over

584
00:31:03,747 --> 00:31:06,450
to her house at the end
of Whippoorwill Drive.

585
00:31:06,550 --> 00:31:09,219
I came in at this
stop sign right here.

586
00:31:09,319 --> 00:31:11,755
When I stopped
and looked,

587
00:31:11,855 --> 00:31:14,691
you could see the blue Camry
in the driveway,

588
00:31:14,791 --> 00:31:17,227
Carol Marlin's
blue Camry.

589
00:31:17,327 --> 00:31:18,996
And you knew that's
the kind of car she drove

590
00:31:19,096 --> 00:31:20,564
because you'd been looking
for her all night.

591
00:31:20,664 --> 00:31:24,201
In fact, we dialed
the phone number, uh,

592
00:31:24,301 --> 00:31:26,403
from outside, and you could
hear the phone ringing

593
00:31:26,503 --> 00:31:29,640
inside the house, uh,
but nobody was answering.

594
00:31:29,740 --> 00:31:32,009
So-- oh, that's--
that's almost sort of eerie

595
00:31:32,109 --> 00:31:33,477
that you can hear
the phone ringing.

596
00:31:33,577 --> 00:31:35,712
Right. I didn't have
a good feeling at all.

597
00:31:35,812 --> 00:31:37,814
The detectives
banged on the door.

598
00:31:37,915 --> 00:31:39,516
You'd think that one
of them would wake up,

599
00:31:39,616 --> 00:31:41,551
though, hearing the...

600
00:31:41,652 --> 00:31:43,887
the knocking and the--
the phone ringing.

601
00:31:43,987 --> 00:31:46,423
Right. I mean, we're
banging on the windows

602
00:31:46,523 --> 00:31:48,692
and the doors, and...

603
00:31:48,792 --> 00:31:51,628
not getting anything.
No response from inside.

604
00:31:51,728 --> 00:31:54,231
Very likely, these two women
are inside this house.

605
00:31:54,331 --> 00:31:56,366
Correct.

606
00:31:56,466 --> 00:31:58,635
Before he went inside,
he wanted permission

607
00:31:58,735 --> 00:32:00,737
from someone in
Maggie's family.

608
00:32:00,837 --> 00:32:02,272
The next door neighbor
had the phone number

609
00:32:02,372 --> 00:32:03,907
for one of her children.

610
00:32:04,007 --> 00:32:05,842
Maggie's granddaughter,
Layla Bryant,

611
00:32:05,943 --> 00:32:07,578
remembers that day.

612
00:32:07,678 --> 00:32:09,880
The police had called
and said that they needed

613
00:32:09,980 --> 00:32:13,951
to get into grandmother's house,
and that the door was locked,

614
00:32:14,051 --> 00:32:17,554
and wanted to
go ahead and break in.

615
00:32:17,654 --> 00:32:18,989
The detectives
kicked the door down

616
00:32:19,089 --> 00:32:21,959
and entered the house.
It was dark inside.

617
00:32:22,059 --> 00:32:25,796
First thing I noticed
were a bag of groceries.

618
00:32:25,896 --> 00:32:28,131
And of course,
then we're on high alert

619
00:32:28,231 --> 00:32:30,867
because we don't know
what we're walking into.

620
00:32:30,968 --> 00:32:34,204
And I shine a flashlight
into the dining room area

621
00:32:34,304 --> 00:32:37,975
and I see the body of
a female on the floor

622
00:32:38,075 --> 00:32:39,376
by the dining room table.

623
00:32:39,476 --> 00:32:40,677
Oh, my gosh.

624
00:32:40,777 --> 00:32:43,046
And I immediately hollered
the team behind me.

625
00:32:43,146 --> 00:32:45,682
I said, "We got one down!"

626
00:32:45,782 --> 00:32:49,453
Um, I checked her.
There was no vitals.

627
00:32:49,553 --> 00:32:50,621
It was Carol.

628
00:32:50,721 --> 00:32:52,990
She appeared to have
been beaten to death.

629
00:32:53,090 --> 00:32:55,525
You know there's
two women missing.

630
00:32:55,626 --> 00:32:56,727
Correct.

631
00:32:56,827 --> 00:32:58,996
So now you're expecting...

632
00:32:59,096 --> 00:33:00,297
possibly another body
in this house.

633
00:33:00,397 --> 00:33:02,666
Correct. So...

634
00:33:02,766 --> 00:33:06,637
we moved on from that area,
went into the other bedrooms.

635
00:33:06,737 --> 00:33:10,207
That's when Detective Herman
made another grim discovery.

636
00:33:10,307 --> 00:33:13,243
Maggie Ginn had also
been beaten to death.

637
00:33:13,343 --> 00:33:15,646
You now have a
double homicide.

638
00:33:15,746 --> 00:33:17,781
Correct.

639
00:33:17,881 --> 00:33:21,351
At that moment, the murders
were a complete mystery.

640
00:33:21,451 --> 00:33:24,087
{\an8}But the detective was
about to talk to John Peek

641
00:33:24,187 --> 00:33:26,757
{\an8}and he had
a curious lead.

642
00:33:30,427 --> 00:33:32,462
{\an8}There was a direct threat
in that letter.

643
00:33:32,562 --> 00:33:34,831
There was.
Yeah, there was.

644
00:33:39,770 --> 00:33:46,577
♪

645
00:33:46,677 --> 00:33:48,679
Detectives working
Kasi Peek's murder

646
00:33:48,779 --> 00:33:52,282
were learning all they could
about a different case.

647
00:33:52,382 --> 00:33:54,885
The 1996 double murder
of Carol Marlin

648
00:33:54,985 --> 00:33:56,753
and her friend Maggie Ginn.

649
00:33:56,853 --> 00:34:00,023
The connection,
John Peek.

650
00:34:00,123 --> 00:34:02,693
You have his deceased
common law wife.

651
00:34:02,793 --> 00:34:04,227
- Right.
- Her friend.

652
00:34:04,328 --> 00:34:06,863
- Mm-hmm.
- And now his current wife.

653
00:34:06,964 --> 00:34:09,132
Less than 10 years apart.

654
00:34:09,232 --> 00:34:10,968
Back in the '80s,
Carol and Maggie met

655
00:34:11,068 --> 00:34:13,237
when they both worked
at Lockheed Martin.

656
00:34:13,337 --> 00:34:16,607
Maggie was a secretary,
Carol an engineer.

657
00:34:16,707 --> 00:34:18,609
They had a pretty
big age difference.

658
00:34:18,709 --> 00:34:20,244
There was a big
age difference.

659
00:34:20,344 --> 00:34:22,713
It felt like maybe Carol
thought of grandmother

660
00:34:22,813 --> 00:34:25,616
more as a mom, you know,
and it felt good that

661
00:34:25,716 --> 00:34:27,651
there was somebody there
to kind of take care of her.

662
00:34:27,751 --> 00:34:28,986
Carol just
loved Maggie,

663
00:34:29,086 --> 00:34:31,688
and I think Maggie
really loved Carol, too.

664
00:34:31,788 --> 00:34:34,257
It's funny too, even with
the 20-year age gap,

665
00:34:34,358 --> 00:34:37,461
sometimes people just
click with each other.

666
00:34:37,561 --> 00:34:38,762
Right, I think they did.

667
00:34:38,862 --> 00:34:40,230
I saw the warmth
and the caring

668
00:34:40,330 --> 00:34:43,700
and the love between them, definitely.

669
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,736
Maggie's family rushed
over to the house

670
00:34:45,836 --> 00:34:47,738
that was now a crime scene.

671
00:34:47,838 --> 00:34:50,741
My dad and my aunt and uncle
just sat on the steps

672
00:34:50,841 --> 00:34:53,710
at the house across
the road and just watched

673
00:34:53,810 --> 00:34:55,846
their childhood home
with police in and out,

674
00:34:55,946 --> 00:34:57,547
knowing that
their mom was there.

675
00:34:57,648 --> 00:34:59,783
John Peek showed up, too.

676
00:34:59,883 --> 00:35:01,985
He was pacing
back and forth

677
00:35:02,085 --> 00:35:05,055
and was holding his hands...

678
00:35:05,155 --> 00:35:06,957
in his face.

679
00:35:07,057 --> 00:35:09,393
Richard Peluso was
also at the scene.

680
00:35:09,493 --> 00:35:11,662
He was a rookie
detective back then.

681
00:35:11,762 --> 00:35:12,829
It was awful.

682
00:35:12,929 --> 00:35:15,332
It was definitely
a lot of trauma.

683
00:35:15,432 --> 00:35:17,034
Was there any sign
of a break in?

684
00:35:17,134 --> 00:35:18,735
Was anything stolen,

685
00:35:18,835 --> 00:35:20,904
that this maybe
was interrupted

686
00:35:21,004 --> 00:35:22,406
when they came home
from dinner?

687
00:35:22,506 --> 00:35:25,409
there were a couple of drawers
that were pulled out,

688
00:35:25,509 --> 00:35:27,244
and there were
a few things

689
00:35:27,344 --> 00:35:29,046
that had been
moved about, disheveled.

690
00:35:29,146 --> 00:35:31,515
She had a lot of nice jewelry
and things like that

691
00:35:31,615 --> 00:35:34,184
in the house, and none
of that was taken.

692
00:35:34,284 --> 00:35:37,154
It did not have the appearance
as your typical burglary

693
00:35:37,254 --> 00:35:39,856
where it's ransacked,
and somebody is looking

694
00:35:39,957 --> 00:35:42,059
for something
in particular.

695
00:35:42,159 --> 00:35:43,627
If not a robbery,
then it looked like

696
00:35:43,727 --> 00:35:45,762
some kind of planned attack.

697
00:35:45,862 --> 00:35:48,265
So one of
these two women...

698
00:35:48,365 --> 00:35:50,834
was targeted,
it appeared.

699
00:35:50,934 --> 00:35:52,135
That's correct.

700
00:35:52,235 --> 00:35:53,670
I remember asking
Eddie, could--

701
00:35:53,770 --> 00:35:55,138
could it have been
more than one person?

702
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,908
Because it was so savage
and it was so much.

703
00:35:58,008 --> 00:35:59,610
But they were in
two different rooms.

704
00:35:59,710 --> 00:36:01,912
Eddie's response was like,
somebody moved fast,

705
00:36:02,012 --> 00:36:04,514
and they knew what-- they knew
what they wanted to do.

706
00:36:04,615 --> 00:36:07,484
It made sense to detectives
that Maggie might be the target

707
00:36:07,584 --> 00:36:08,919
since she lived there.

708
00:36:09,019 --> 00:36:10,654
Maybe her friend Carol
was in the wrong place

709
00:36:10,754 --> 00:36:12,322
at the wrong time.

710
00:36:12,422 --> 00:36:14,057
Did Maggie's kids
have any idea

711
00:36:14,157 --> 00:36:16,026
of who would want
to hurt the ladies?

712
00:36:16,126 --> 00:36:17,894
No, they were in disbelief.

713
00:36:17,995 --> 00:36:19,796
It just didn't make sense
that something like that

714
00:36:19,896 --> 00:36:21,465
would happen.
- Who would murder Maggie?

715
00:36:21,565 --> 00:36:23,600
- Right.
- I'm assuming no enemies?

716
00:36:23,700 --> 00:36:27,037
No. No. I mean,
never. Never.

717
00:36:27,137 --> 00:36:29,873
She was humble
and quiet and--

718
00:36:29,973 --> 00:36:32,442
and... just living her life.

719
00:36:32,542 --> 00:36:37,247
And, you know,
it was unthinkable.

720
00:36:37,347 --> 00:36:39,283
Maggie's family insisted
the police shouldn't

721
00:36:39,383 --> 00:36:42,386
waste their time
digging into her life.

722
00:36:42,486 --> 00:36:45,989
One of them was extremely
upset and said,

723
00:36:46,089 --> 00:36:50,193
my mother is not responsible
for any of this.

724
00:36:50,294 --> 00:36:53,530
Whatever this was-- is about,
it's not about my mother.

725
00:36:53,630 --> 00:36:55,299
I was a new detective,
and I was learning

726
00:36:55,399 --> 00:36:56,633
how to be a detective.

727
00:36:56,733 --> 00:36:59,636
But my gut was
telling me then

728
00:36:59,736 --> 00:37:03,507
that Maggie had nothing
to do with this.

729
00:37:03,607 --> 00:37:06,576
And a big clue told him
his gut might be right.

730
00:37:06,677 --> 00:37:09,112
As detectives got a closer
look at the crime scene,

731
00:37:09,212 --> 00:37:12,082
they noticed a stark contrast
with the bodies.

732
00:37:12,182 --> 00:37:14,151
Looking at the injuries,

733
00:37:14,251 --> 00:37:17,054
particularly after the medical
examiner got on the scene

734
00:37:17,154 --> 00:37:19,256
and we got a better look
at Carol Marlin.

735
00:37:19,356 --> 00:37:22,025
She was a focus.
Whoever did this,

736
00:37:22,125 --> 00:37:24,461
it was overkill
with Carol Marlin.

737
00:37:24,561 --> 00:37:26,063
Because her injuries
were so much worse.

738
00:37:26,163 --> 00:37:28,231
Yes, it was overkill,

739
00:37:28,332 --> 00:37:32,102
and, um, that was huge to me.

740
00:37:32,202 --> 00:37:34,605
For Carol's sister Susie,
the brutality made it

741
00:37:34,705 --> 00:37:37,174
all the more difficult
to understand.

742
00:37:37,274 --> 00:37:39,509
Carol was always
so full of life.

743
00:37:39,610 --> 00:37:40,944
She was bubbly.

744
00:37:41,044 --> 00:37:43,580
She had this oversized
personality.

745
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,116
She just was
a joy to be around.

746
00:37:46,216 --> 00:37:47,684
And smart, too.

747
00:37:47,784 --> 00:37:49,152
Carol met John at
Lockheed Martin,

748
00:37:49,252 --> 00:37:51,955
where she handled
military contracts.

749
00:37:52,055 --> 00:37:54,691
So she was dealing
with some high level...

750
00:37:54,791 --> 00:37:57,160
security stuff in her job.

751
00:37:57,261 --> 00:37:59,062
Yes, she was.
She was, yeah.

752
00:37:59,162 --> 00:38:02,366
I mean, I love hearing
about how she's in this,

753
00:38:02,466 --> 00:38:04,334
you know, sort of
a man's world,

754
00:38:04,434 --> 00:38:06,370
really making it
in aerospace technology.

755
00:38:06,470 --> 00:38:08,005
Right, right.

756
00:38:08,105 --> 00:38:10,407
Carol could really
hold her own,

757
00:38:10,507 --> 00:38:14,077
and she was very gifted
and very talented.

758
00:38:14,177 --> 00:38:15,679
Carol had been
married before,

759
00:38:15,779 --> 00:38:17,514
she wasn't looking
for a husband.

760
00:38:17,614 --> 00:38:19,483
But then she met
John at work.

761
00:38:19,583 --> 00:38:21,418
John could be
very charming.

762
00:38:21,518 --> 00:38:23,720
I think they had
a lot of romance.

763
00:38:23,820 --> 00:38:25,522
I was happy that
she'd found somebody

764
00:38:25,622 --> 00:38:29,259
that it seemed like
she loved a lot.

765
00:38:29,359 --> 00:38:31,128
Detectives wanted to
get as much information

766
00:38:31,228 --> 00:38:33,063
from John as possible.

767
00:38:33,163 --> 00:38:34,598
{\an8}He went with them to
the police station

768
00:38:34,698 --> 00:38:36,433
{\an8}for an interview.

769
00:39:00,357 --> 00:39:03,560
{\an8}She was a friend
to everybody, um,

770
00:39:03,660 --> 00:39:06,630
and he could not think
of anybody or any reason

771
00:39:06,730 --> 00:39:08,899
why she would be murdered.

772
00:39:08,999 --> 00:39:10,834
{\an8}The detective had to ask
him where he'd been

773
00:39:10,934 --> 00:39:12,803
{\an8}the night
she didn't come home.

774
00:39:20,344 --> 00:39:22,346
{\an8}John said he left work at 5:00
and went to pick up

775
00:39:22,446 --> 00:39:24,982
{\an8}some filtered water,
and then he grabbed dinner.

776
00:39:35,826 --> 00:39:37,594
{\an8}Even though John couldn't
think of anyone who would

777
00:39:37,694 --> 00:39:41,531
{\an8}want to hurt Carol, he did
want police to know this.

778
00:39:41,632 --> 00:39:42,699
{\an8}A few days earlier,

779
00:39:42,799 --> 00:39:45,002
{\an8}Carol received a threatening
letter at the office.

780
00:39:49,273 --> 00:39:51,108
{\an8}What is this threatening
letter about?

781
00:39:51,208 --> 00:39:54,778
It went to her and it went
to four other employees,

782
00:39:54,878 --> 00:39:57,147
and it had to do
with personnel stuff

783
00:39:57,247 --> 00:39:59,850
that Carol Marlin and none
of the other employees,

784
00:39:59,950 --> 00:40:02,019
as it turns out,
had anything to do with.

785
00:40:02,119 --> 00:40:04,554
What was the threat
in the letter?

786
00:40:04,655 --> 00:40:08,458
{\an8}The threat was essentially
"You're going to do right,

787
00:40:08,558 --> 00:40:10,360
{\an8}"or you're going to
pay the consequences."

788
00:40:19,770 --> 00:40:22,072
According to John,
Carol blew it off

789
00:40:22,172 --> 00:40:25,409
and didn't think anything
about it, laughed about it.

790
00:40:25,509 --> 00:40:29,880
But he insisted that
Lockheed Security be notified.

791
00:40:29,980 --> 00:40:33,016
And back at the crime scene,
detectives found another clue

792
00:40:33,116 --> 00:40:34,985
pointing in the direction
of the company.

793
00:40:35,085 --> 00:40:37,054
Something in
Maggie's hand.

794
00:40:37,154 --> 00:40:39,022
She's laying slumped
in the chair.

795
00:40:39,122 --> 00:40:41,692
and in her hand was
a torn piece of paper.

796
00:40:41,792 --> 00:40:44,761
It was a invoice from
Lockheed Martin.

797
00:40:44,861 --> 00:40:46,763
So now you have
a threatening letter

798
00:40:46,863 --> 00:40:50,434
that Carol received
regarding Lockheed Martin.

799
00:40:50,534 --> 00:40:53,737
And now Maggie has a piece
of paper in her hand

800
00:40:53,837 --> 00:40:55,005
that says Lockheed Martin.

801
00:40:55,105 --> 00:40:57,841
That's a common
denominator.

802
00:40:57,941 --> 00:41:01,044
The name Barry Webb was
signed on the invoice.

803
00:41:01,144 --> 00:41:03,280
But before detectives
could track him down,

804
00:41:03,380 --> 00:41:05,082
he called them.

805
00:41:05,182 --> 00:41:08,418
Barry Webb says to me
in the phone call.

806
00:41:08,518 --> 00:41:11,755
"Hey, I just saw the news.
I know these people.

807
00:41:11,855 --> 00:41:13,523
Barry claimed to have
information relevant

808
00:41:13,624 --> 00:41:17,227
to the case, so investigators
brought him in for questioning.

809
00:41:17,327 --> 00:41:19,229
{\an8}Detective Herman didn't
know if he was sitting

810
00:41:19,329 --> 00:41:22,099
{\an8}across from the killer or
someone who could provide them

811
00:41:22,199 --> 00:41:23,900
{\an8}with a break
in the case.

812
00:41:27,771 --> 00:41:29,273
{\an8}Who is Barry Webb?

813
00:41:29,373 --> 00:41:31,074
He's a Lockheed employee.

814
00:41:31,174 --> 00:41:32,309
{\an8}Got to be very
good friends

815
00:41:32,409 --> 00:41:35,078
{\an8}with John Peek
and Carol Marlin.

816
00:41:42,619 --> 00:41:45,188
{\an8}Detective Herman cut to
the chase and asked Barry

817
00:41:45,289 --> 00:41:47,691
{\an8}about the invoice found
at the crime scene.

818
00:42:12,082 --> 00:42:13,817
{\an8}But Barry was more
interested in telling them

819
00:42:13,917 --> 00:42:16,253
{\an8}why he called in
the first place.

820
00:42:21,291 --> 00:42:23,093
{\an8}You know,
you can't make this up.

821
00:42:23,193 --> 00:42:26,797
I mean, this is like...
straight out of a movie.

822
00:42:32,235 --> 00:42:37,107
♪

823
00:42:37,207 --> 00:42:39,876
Welcome back to
"Dateline: Secrets Uncovered."

824
00:42:39,977 --> 00:42:41,278
I'm Craig Melvin.

825
00:42:41,378 --> 00:42:45,449
John Peek had lost not one,
but two wives to murder.

826
00:42:45,549 --> 00:42:47,851
In 1996, his wife,
Carol Marlin,

827
00:42:47,951 --> 00:42:50,220
and her co-worker,
Maggie Ginn,

828
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,522
were both found
beaten to death.

829
00:42:52,623 --> 00:42:54,891
A clue at the scene
pointed police

830
00:42:54,992 --> 00:42:57,194
to their colleague
Barry Webb.

831
00:42:57,294 --> 00:43:00,330
Well, now Barry was about
to tell detectives

832
00:43:00,430 --> 00:43:04,635
an astonishing story
about a break-in at his home.

833
00:43:04,735 --> 00:43:07,938
Back to Andrea Canning
with Deadly Omission.

834
00:43:11,441 --> 00:43:13,176
Layla Bryant's teenage years
were shattered

835
00:43:13,277 --> 00:43:15,045
by her grandmother's murder.

836
00:43:15,145 --> 00:43:18,015
Her sense of safety
and security, gone.

837
00:43:18,115 --> 00:43:20,150
And I can remember
constantly walking around

838
00:43:20,250 --> 00:43:22,085
to make sure that
the doors were locked.

839
00:43:22,185 --> 00:43:23,053
It brings an awareness

840
00:43:23,153 --> 00:43:24,788
that there is that
kind of evil out there

841
00:43:24,888 --> 00:43:27,991
that you just kind of lived
not knowing about before.

842
00:43:28,091 --> 00:43:29,259
It's stealing
your innocence.

843
00:43:29,359 --> 00:43:32,329
Yeah.
Yeah, it really is.

844
00:43:32,429 --> 00:43:34,531
At the time, Cobb County
police detectives

845
00:43:34,631 --> 00:43:36,600
were doing everything
they could to catch the killer

846
00:43:36,700 --> 00:43:39,636
of Maggie Ginn
and her friend Carol Marlin.

847
00:43:39,736 --> 00:43:42,706
They received a call
from a man named Barry Webb.

848
00:43:42,806 --> 00:43:45,442
Curious timing, because
they'd also found that name

849
00:43:45,542 --> 00:43:47,678
on an invoice
at the crime scene.

850
00:43:47,778 --> 00:43:50,280
When they brought him in
for questioning, Barry launched

851
00:43:50,380 --> 00:43:53,383
right into a story
about a break in at his house.

852
00:44:17,007 --> 00:44:20,177
{\an8}He said he shoved the door open
and confronted an intruder.

853
00:44:38,595 --> 00:44:41,498
{\an8}But he told detectives
he heard something.

854
00:44:41,598 --> 00:44:42,933
The bag had something
in there,

855
00:44:43,033 --> 00:44:45,869
like a metallic
clinking type sound.

856
00:44:45,969 --> 00:44:48,872
Barry hadn't called the police
just to report the break in.

857
00:44:48,972 --> 00:44:51,341
{\an8}He wanted them to know
who had broken in.

858
00:44:54,511 --> 00:44:56,713
The intruder
was John Peek.

859
00:44:56,813 --> 00:44:58,448
And if this guy
was telling the truth,

860
00:44:58,548 --> 00:45:00,183
it happened the night
of the murders,

861
00:45:00,284 --> 00:45:03,220
the same night John
reported Carol missing.

862
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,022
{\an8}Barry Webb then
told investigators

863
00:45:05,122 --> 00:45:07,991
{\an8}John called him soon after
and apologized.

864
00:45:13,530 --> 00:45:16,199
But why would John be looking
for Carol at Barry's house?

865
00:45:58,508 --> 00:46:01,378
They took a hair sample
from Barry and let him go.

866
00:46:01,478 --> 00:46:04,548
They certainly wanted
to talk to John Peek again.

867
00:46:04,648 --> 00:46:06,850
Do you not think
it's important

868
00:46:06,950 --> 00:46:08,952
to tell the investigating
detective

869
00:46:09,052 --> 00:46:12,155
that you got caught breaking
into a co-worker's house

870
00:46:12,255 --> 00:46:13,624
during this time frame?

871
00:46:13,724 --> 00:46:15,158
You confronted him
about Barry Webb,

872
00:46:15,259 --> 00:46:16,593
but by that point,
he had an attorney.

873
00:46:16,693 --> 00:46:18,629
- Yeah.
- And he wouldn't talk about it.

874
00:46:18,729 --> 00:46:20,597
No, he would not.

875
00:46:20,697 --> 00:46:22,599
Investigators went over
what they knew

876
00:46:22,699 --> 00:46:25,302
and had a bad feeling
about John Peek.

877
00:46:25,402 --> 00:46:26,737
Back at the crime scene,

878
00:46:26,837 --> 00:46:29,539
his behavior had
seemed like an act.

879
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:31,842
And I looked at him and was
amazed on what I was seeing

880
00:46:31,942 --> 00:46:35,212
because he was not
acting at all like somebody

881
00:46:35,312 --> 00:46:37,848
that just learned something
like this had occurred.

882
00:46:37,948 --> 00:46:40,884
He was, like, trying to--
trying to create emotion

883
00:46:40,984 --> 00:46:42,786
that really wasn't there.

884
00:46:42,886 --> 00:46:44,621
But the fact that John
showed up at all

885
00:46:44,721 --> 00:46:46,890
was even more suspicious.

886
00:46:46,990 --> 00:46:48,959
Every conversation
I'd had with John Peek

887
00:46:49,059 --> 00:46:52,996
leading up to him
showing up at the scene was

888
00:46:53,096 --> 00:46:55,532
he did not know
where Maggie Ginn lived.

889
00:46:55,632 --> 00:46:57,034
John claimed
he'd gotten the address

890
00:46:57,134 --> 00:47:00,470
from Lockheed Martin
that morning, but...

891
00:47:00,570 --> 00:47:02,706
John had installed
a VCR for Maggie,

892
00:47:02,806 --> 00:47:05,409
so he knew perfectly well
where she lived.

893
00:47:05,509 --> 00:47:09,212
And everybody knew that John
had been to the house before.

894
00:47:09,313 --> 00:47:12,115
In fact, he had made some
little repairs around the house.

895
00:47:12,215 --> 00:47:14,885
It's very sad looking back,
because in her journal,

896
00:47:14,985 --> 00:47:18,555
she had written how nice it was
that John would take the time

897
00:47:18,655 --> 00:47:20,924
to come over there
and fix something.

898
00:47:21,024 --> 00:47:23,827
That single lie was enough
to convince Maggie's family

899
00:47:23,927 --> 00:47:27,798
that John was the killer
and Carol was the real target.

900
00:47:27,898 --> 00:47:30,567
Once they knew for a fact
that he had told the police

901
00:47:30,667 --> 00:47:32,703
that he didn't know
where Grandmother lived,

902
00:47:32,803 --> 00:47:35,872
that took all the other options
off the table for them.

903
00:47:35,973 --> 00:47:37,774
Detective Herman agreed.

904
00:47:37,874 --> 00:47:39,843
But building a case
against John would be harder

905
00:47:39,943 --> 00:47:42,179
than anyone could
have imagined.

906
00:47:42,279 --> 00:47:43,747
I don't think there was
a day that went by

907
00:47:43,847 --> 00:47:46,316
I didn't think about him
or what he was doing.

908
00:47:46,416 --> 00:47:48,218
He was about to find out.

909
00:47:48,318 --> 00:47:50,954
Two wives, two murders.

910
00:47:51,054 --> 00:47:52,756
Just no.

911
00:47:52,856 --> 00:47:55,792
And Kasi's family
would try whatever it took

912
00:47:55,892 --> 00:47:57,094
to get answers.

913
00:48:02,733 --> 00:48:05,502
Did you fear that John Peek
could kill again?

914
00:48:05,602 --> 00:48:08,138
Absolutely.
Without a doubt.

915
00:48:20,884 --> 00:48:25,122
Back in 1996, almost a decade
before Kasi Peek was killed,

916
00:48:25,222 --> 00:48:27,391
detectives were trying
to unravel the mystery

917
00:48:27,491 --> 00:48:28,926
of what happened
to Carol Marlin

918
00:48:29,026 --> 00:48:31,261
and her friend Maggie Ginn.

919
00:48:31,361 --> 00:48:33,830
John Peek had stopped
talking to investigators,

920
00:48:33,931 --> 00:48:37,134
but his wife Carol's family
had lots to say.

921
00:48:37,234 --> 00:48:38,735
Detective Herman said,

922
00:48:38,835 --> 00:48:42,940
"Do you think John would have
done something like this?"

923
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,576
And my mom said, "Oh, John
wouldn't hurt a fly,"

924
00:48:45,676 --> 00:48:49,112
you know, and I said,

925
00:48:49,212 --> 00:48:50,514
"I'm not sure about that."

926
00:48:50,614 --> 00:48:51,715
Why did you think that?

927
00:48:51,815 --> 00:48:55,485
John liked to be secretive
about things.

928
00:48:55,585 --> 00:48:59,222
Susie described how the ever
so charming man Carol first met

929
00:48:59,323 --> 00:49:01,825
eventually started
acting like a creep.

930
00:49:01,925 --> 00:49:04,594
And he was sort of...

931
00:49:04,695 --> 00:49:08,432
slightly sleazy,
even with me.

932
00:49:08,532 --> 00:49:10,033
Susie recalled
something that happened

933
00:49:10,133 --> 00:49:12,803
during a wilderness
canoe trip.

934
00:49:12,903 --> 00:49:17,040
He kept teasing me
about taking a shower,

935
00:49:17,140 --> 00:49:20,911
and I wouldn't do it,
and it made me uncomfortable.

936
00:49:21,011 --> 00:49:23,380
Like, did he want you to,
like, take your clothes off

937
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:24,514
and take a shower?

938
00:49:24,615 --> 00:49:28,218
Well, that was sort
of the implication.

939
00:49:28,318 --> 00:49:30,253
John had been married
and divorced twice

940
00:49:30,354 --> 00:49:32,122
before he met Carol.

941
00:49:32,222 --> 00:49:33,957
Susie told investigators
she suspected

942
00:49:34,057 --> 00:49:36,193
John had cheated
on her sister.

943
00:49:36,293 --> 00:49:38,829
He definitely seemed like
a big womanizer

944
00:49:38,929 --> 00:49:41,898
or at least loved
the attention of women.

945
00:49:41,999 --> 00:49:44,801
And, you know, moving from
one woman to the next.

946
00:49:44,902 --> 00:49:48,972
Yes. I think he had affairs
that Carol didn't know about.

947
00:49:49,072 --> 00:49:50,707
I think they fed his ego.

948
00:49:50,807 --> 00:49:52,709
He needed to be,
like, pumped up.

949
00:49:52,809 --> 00:49:54,845
He liked that affection,
that attention?

950
00:49:54,945 --> 00:49:57,514
Yes, very much.

951
00:49:57,614 --> 00:49:59,283
Susie also told
investigators that

952
00:49:59,383 --> 00:50:01,051
in the year
leading up to the murders,

953
00:50:01,151 --> 00:50:03,320
Carol and John
weren't getting along.

954
00:50:03,420 --> 00:50:05,055
They were arguing a lot,

955
00:50:05,155 --> 00:50:08,392
and also that their sexual
relationship had ended,

956
00:50:08,492 --> 00:50:11,561
that John had ended it.

957
00:50:11,662 --> 00:50:13,697
Investigators had
no physical evidence

958
00:50:13,797 --> 00:50:15,465
tying John to the scene,

959
00:50:15,565 --> 00:50:18,769
but they knew he lied about
not knowing where Maggie lived

960
00:50:18,869 --> 00:50:22,940
and could not explain that odd
break-in at Barry Webb's house.

961
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:25,042
I just felt like
he was our guy.

962
00:50:25,142 --> 00:50:26,910
It was just going to be
a question of

963
00:50:27,010 --> 00:50:29,947
how do we prove it?
How do we get there?

964
00:50:30,047 --> 00:50:32,649
They went to talk to
the Cobb County DA.

965
00:50:32,749 --> 00:50:35,686
How did the DA feel about
the case you had put together?

966
00:50:35,786 --> 00:50:38,755
The DA felt good
about the case.

967
00:50:38,855 --> 00:50:41,024
Circumstantial, but did not
want to move forward

968
00:50:41,124 --> 00:50:43,727
with an arrest
at that time.

969
00:50:43,827 --> 00:50:47,064
What he was saying to us,
keep working it,

970
00:50:47,164 --> 00:50:48,899
maybe something will come up,

971
00:50:48,999 --> 00:50:51,835
but we don't want to take
a chance in charging him,

972
00:50:51,935 --> 00:50:54,972
arresting him, and he's
tried and he's acquitted,

973
00:50:55,072 --> 00:50:56,473
and then he can never
be charged again.

974
00:50:56,573 --> 00:50:59,676
- Frustrating.
- Very frustrating.

975
00:50:59,776 --> 00:51:01,078
They kept digging,

976
00:51:01,178 --> 00:51:04,314
but the double murder
investigation hit a wall.

977
00:51:04,414 --> 00:51:07,684
Months ticked by.
Then years.

978
00:51:07,784 --> 00:51:10,754
Did the family just think
that this is what

979
00:51:10,854 --> 00:51:13,457
we have to live with,
that we'll never know?

980
00:51:13,557 --> 00:51:15,525
I think that they had come
to terms with the fact

981
00:51:15,626 --> 00:51:17,961
that there may
never be an arrest.

982
00:51:18,061 --> 00:51:22,099
I know I was disappointed.
I was kind of hard on myself.

983
00:51:22,199 --> 00:51:26,169
I mean, what did we miss?
What did we miss?

984
00:51:26,270 --> 00:51:28,672
And so every two weeks or so,

985
00:51:28,772 --> 00:51:31,408
we'd pull that file out
and go over it.

986
00:51:31,508 --> 00:51:32,342
I don't know
if there's anything

987
00:51:32,442 --> 00:51:35,879
we could have done
differently.

988
00:51:35,979 --> 00:51:38,148
We just didn't have
any physical evidence

989
00:51:38,248 --> 00:51:39,616
or eyewitnesses.

990
00:51:39,716 --> 00:51:42,386
All we needed was one person.
One person.

991
00:51:42,486 --> 00:51:45,722
In those frustrating years,
John moved on.

992
00:51:45,822 --> 00:51:48,759
He met Kasi
and started a new life.

993
00:51:48,859 --> 00:51:52,763
He had a $700,000 windfall
from Carol's life insurance

994
00:51:52,863 --> 00:51:55,632
and was living
in that huge house.

995
00:51:55,732 --> 00:51:59,336
Kasi's friends heard about
John's previous wife, too.

996
00:51:59,436 --> 00:52:02,406
He set the record straight
with her very early.

997
00:52:02,506 --> 00:52:03,373
Oh, yes.

998
00:52:03,473 --> 00:52:04,841
Look, I need to let you
know this, Kasi.

999
00:52:04,942 --> 00:52:08,612
I was a suspect
in a murder case in 1996.

1000
00:52:08,712 --> 00:52:10,914
I didn't do it.

1001
00:52:11,014 --> 00:52:12,983
Of course, he downplayed it.
He never mentioned

1002
00:52:13,083 --> 00:52:15,719
that he was still
the one and only suspect.

1003
00:52:15,819 --> 00:52:17,321
It never went cold.

1004
00:52:17,421 --> 00:52:19,323
Why do you say
it never went cold?

1005
00:52:19,423 --> 00:52:23,527
I was intentionally
going down to Peek's house,

1006
00:52:23,627 --> 00:52:24,861
knocking on his door.

1007
00:52:24,962 --> 00:52:26,563
Detective Herman hoped
that he'd get John

1008
00:52:26,663 --> 00:52:28,632
to say something, anything.

1009
00:52:28,732 --> 00:52:32,035
But nothing ever came
of Herman's unannounced visits.

1010
00:52:32,135 --> 00:52:35,272
Sometimes he'd run into
John Peek randomly.

1011
00:52:35,372 --> 00:52:38,442
One time I was jogging
down at the River Trail,

1012
00:52:38,542 --> 00:52:39,576
and I saw him.

1013
00:52:39,676 --> 00:52:40,744
Did you try to
talk to him?

1014
00:52:40,844 --> 00:52:43,447
- I did. I ran up behind him.
- Oh, what did he--

1015
00:52:43,547 --> 00:52:44,448
- Nothing. He just--
- How did he react?

1016
00:52:44,548 --> 00:52:45,549
He didn't even comment.

1017
00:52:45,649 --> 00:52:47,784
You know, he just kind of
went off to the side.

1018
00:52:47,884 --> 00:52:50,754
That can't feel good
when you see him out jogging.

1019
00:52:50,854 --> 00:52:51,855
- No. No.
- And you believe

1020
00:52:51,955 --> 00:52:53,924
he's responsible
for a double homicide.

1021
00:52:54,024 --> 00:52:55,492
- No, and--
- What we're feeling

1022
00:52:55,592 --> 00:52:58,028
ain't nothing compared to
what the families are feeling.

1023
00:52:58,128 --> 00:53:00,931
Remember, we had to go back
to the families

1024
00:53:01,031 --> 00:53:05,402
and say, look,
we can't make it happen,

1025
00:53:05,502 --> 00:53:06,904
and they got to live with it.

1026
00:53:07,004 --> 00:53:10,140
You're working more cases,
but guess what?

1027
00:53:10,240 --> 00:53:11,808
That's their only case.

1028
00:53:11,909 --> 00:53:13,377
Hard enough
to lose somebody,

1029
00:53:13,477 --> 00:53:15,412
but to know that
there's no justice

1030
00:53:15,512 --> 00:53:18,715
and that a killer's
walking around free.

1031
00:53:18,815 --> 00:53:21,618
Did you fear that John Peek
could kill again?

1032
00:53:21,718 --> 00:53:24,888
Absolutely.
Without a doubt.

1033
00:53:24,988 --> 00:53:27,391
And then after almost
a decade of trying,

1034
00:53:27,491 --> 00:53:30,160
his worst fear was realized
when he got that call

1035
00:53:30,260 --> 00:53:33,530
from Detective Ron Waddell
in the next town over.

1036
00:53:33,630 --> 00:53:36,433
What were you feeling?
- I was kind of numb.

1037
00:53:36,533 --> 00:53:37,768
I had a knot
in my stomach.

1038
00:53:37,868 --> 00:53:40,604
When Ron said, "Does the name
John Peek mean anything to you?"

1039
00:53:40,704 --> 00:53:43,574
I'm like,
what's he done now?

1040
00:53:43,674 --> 00:53:47,844
I felt like, lord,
I hope that there's not anything

1041
00:53:47,945 --> 00:53:49,913
I missed
or we missed.

1042
00:53:50,013 --> 00:53:54,384
Because now
Kasi Peek's dead.

1043
00:53:54,484 --> 00:53:56,620
Now investigators
from two murder cases

1044
00:53:56,720 --> 00:53:59,489
were joining forces,
and they were about to learn

1045
00:53:59,589 --> 00:54:03,026
a lot more about
the real John Peek.

1046
00:54:03,126 --> 00:54:06,163
Beforehand,
he was a nice guy.

1047
00:54:06,263 --> 00:54:08,966
After, he was a monster.

1048
00:54:22,012 --> 00:54:23,880
The investigation
into Kasi Peek's murder

1049
00:54:23,981 --> 00:54:27,050
was only hours old when
Detective Ron Waddell discovered

1050
00:54:27,150 --> 00:54:30,821
that Kasi wasn't John Peek's
only dead wife.

1051
00:54:30,921 --> 00:54:33,357
This changes
the total trajectory

1052
00:54:33,457 --> 00:54:36,026
of all of our investigation.

1053
00:54:36,126 --> 00:54:38,161
He'd become their
main person of interest.

1054
00:54:38,261 --> 00:54:41,398
But Detective Waddell still
had other leads to check out,

1055
00:54:41,498 --> 00:54:43,967
including John's girlfriend,
Liza.

1056
00:54:44,067 --> 00:54:46,169
She admitted to police
that she had a gun

1057
00:54:46,270 --> 00:54:48,372
and she'd been frustrated
with how slowly

1058
00:54:48,472 --> 00:54:50,540
John's divorce
was moving.

1059
00:54:50,641 --> 00:54:53,510
But she seemed genuinely
surprised when investigators

1060
00:54:53,610 --> 00:54:56,013
told her John was getting
back together with Kasi.

1061
00:55:19,903 --> 00:55:22,539
That's when she learned John
was lying to her about his wife

1062
00:55:22,639 --> 00:55:25,108
and figured out he was
pointing the finger at her.

1063
00:55:25,208 --> 00:55:27,444
So he's throwing you
under the bus

1064
00:55:27,544 --> 00:55:29,746
in that interview room?
- Yes. Yes.

1065
00:55:29,846 --> 00:55:30,914
It didn't work.

1066
00:55:31,014 --> 00:55:34,084
Liza told us
what the detectives told her.

1067
00:55:34,184 --> 00:55:36,520
They're like, we know
that you didn't kill anybody.

1068
00:55:36,620 --> 00:55:39,022
We can tell that you're not
that kind of person.

1069
00:55:39,122 --> 00:55:41,258
Actually, John Peek
is trying to manipulate

1070
00:55:41,358 --> 00:55:42,960
our detectives as we speak.

1071
00:55:43,060 --> 00:55:45,862
Trying to take
the focus off of him

1072
00:55:45,963 --> 00:55:48,532
and put it on someone else.

1073
00:55:48,632 --> 00:55:52,102
That's a far cry from where
their relationship started.

1074
00:55:52,202 --> 00:55:54,805
She said they met when John was
working that out of town job

1075
00:55:54,905 --> 00:55:57,541
in Americus, Georgia,
where she lived.

1076
00:55:57,641 --> 00:56:00,510
It was a romance story
that sounded familiar.

1077
00:56:00,611 --> 00:56:03,080
He was good looking,
he was intelligent,

1078
00:56:03,180 --> 00:56:05,849
and he knew how
to treat a lady.

1079
00:56:05,949 --> 00:56:08,785
You open the door,
you take them to dinner.

1080
00:56:08,885 --> 00:56:10,153
He did all
the right things.

1081
00:56:10,253 --> 00:56:12,155
He did and said
all the right things.

1082
00:56:12,255 --> 00:56:16,426
Made me feel like a queen.

1083
00:56:16,526 --> 00:56:18,495
Just as John
had done with Kasi,

1084
00:56:18,595 --> 00:56:20,030
he showered her
with attention

1085
00:56:20,130 --> 00:56:22,766
and over the top
romantic gestures.

1086
00:56:22,866 --> 00:56:26,403
He insisted on having
a party at my house.

1087
00:56:26,503 --> 00:56:28,438
He said, "Don't worry
about a thing.

1088
00:56:28,538 --> 00:56:30,307
"I'm going to do
all the cooking."

1089
00:56:30,407 --> 00:56:32,175
I didn't have
to lift a finger.

1090
00:56:32,276 --> 00:56:34,845
I didn't have
to pay for anything.

1091
00:56:34,945 --> 00:56:37,581
Just had to invite
the right people.

1092
00:56:37,681 --> 00:56:39,116
Sounds like you found
the perfect guy.

1093
00:56:39,216 --> 00:56:42,886
[laughs]
- That's kind of what I thought.

1094
00:56:42,986 --> 00:56:45,622
John also opened up about
what happened to Carol.

1095
00:56:45,722 --> 00:56:48,959
He put his hand over mine
and took a deep breath

1096
00:56:49,059 --> 00:56:51,895
and said,
"About 10 years ago,

1097
00:56:51,995 --> 00:56:54,364
"my wife was murdered.

1098
00:56:54,464 --> 00:56:57,067
"You actually remind me
a little bit of her."

1099
00:56:57,167 --> 00:56:58,702
- Ooh...
- Yeah.

1100
00:56:58,802 --> 00:57:00,737
What's going through
your mind when you hear this?

1101
00:57:00,837 --> 00:57:02,139
I felt sorry for him.

1102
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:05,709
I felt sympathy that, you know,
he had lost his wife.

1103
00:57:05,809 --> 00:57:07,978
He seemed to have
really loved her

1104
00:57:08,078 --> 00:57:12,149
and thought a lot about her.

1105
00:57:12,249 --> 00:57:17,621
And said that they-they
never caught the person.

1106
00:57:17,721 --> 00:57:19,256
Liza and John
spent time together

1107
00:57:19,356 --> 00:57:21,325
whenever he was
in town for work.

1108
00:57:21,425 --> 00:57:24,661
But on one occasion,
Liza met him in Atlanta.

1109
00:57:24,761 --> 00:57:26,029
That was the night
Kasi showed up

1110
00:57:26,129 --> 00:57:28,665
banging on their
hotel room door.

1111
00:57:28,765 --> 00:57:32,736
This woman was yelling,
"John? John? Are you in there?"

1112
00:57:32,836 --> 00:57:35,205
All along, he told me
he was divorced.

1113
00:57:35,305 --> 00:57:39,509
He told me that she was
very insecure

1114
00:57:39,610 --> 00:57:42,779
and didn't like herself
very much

1115
00:57:42,879 --> 00:57:45,682
and kind of alluded
that she was a little,

1116
00:57:45,782 --> 00:57:47,985
you know, nuts.

1117
00:57:48,085 --> 00:57:49,920
Liza continued seeing
him after that.

1118
00:57:50,020 --> 00:57:51,755
They were even
talking marriage.

1119
00:57:51,855 --> 00:57:55,459
But after a while, she says
John's charm started to fade.

1120
00:57:55,559 --> 00:57:58,662
I started
to feel like he was

1121
00:57:58,762 --> 00:58:00,831
controlling some things.

1122
00:58:00,931 --> 00:58:02,432
She says John
started demanding

1123
00:58:02,532 --> 00:58:03,800
to know who she was with

1124
00:58:03,900 --> 00:58:07,271
and tracking her mileage
to confirm where she'd been.

1125
00:58:07,371 --> 00:58:10,040
She also suspected
he'd hacked into her email.

1126
00:58:10,140 --> 00:58:11,808
The things
that he was saying,

1127
00:58:11,909 --> 00:58:14,011
only things that I had
put in email.

1128
00:58:14,111 --> 00:58:18,348
So I said,
"You've hacked into my email."

1129
00:58:18,448 --> 00:58:21,418
And he goes, "No, no, no,
I didn't do anything like that."

1130
00:58:21,518 --> 00:58:23,620
Liza said when she started
pulling away,

1131
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:25,889
John's behavior
became frightening.

1132
00:58:25,989 --> 00:58:29,059
He told me that he wanted
to take me to dinner.

1133
00:58:29,159 --> 00:58:32,362
And as we were driving, I said,
"Oh, where are we going?"

1134
00:58:32,462 --> 00:58:35,499
He said, "Anywhere
I want to take you."

1135
00:58:35,599 --> 00:58:36,800
- Like controlling.
- Yes.

1136
00:58:36,900 --> 00:58:38,635
Anywhere I want
to take you.

1137
00:58:38,735 --> 00:58:40,637
- I'm in charge.
- It was, "I'm in charge,

1138
00:58:40,737 --> 00:58:43,240
"I'm gonna take you
wherever I want to,

1139
00:58:43,340 --> 00:58:45,375
"and you have no choice."

1140
00:58:45,475 --> 00:58:46,743
Kasi's friends
had heard stories

1141
00:58:46,843 --> 00:58:49,746
about the not so charming
side of John Peek.

1142
00:58:49,846 --> 00:58:52,182
He was the definition
of a love bomber.

1143
00:58:52,282 --> 00:58:54,685
Overly romantic
and doting at first,

1144
00:58:54,785 --> 00:58:57,287
but over time,
he became manipulative,

1145
00:58:57,387 --> 00:58:59,856
controlling,
and sometimes cruel.

1146
00:58:59,957 --> 00:59:02,059
He told Kasi
she needs to lose weight.

1147
00:59:02,159 --> 00:59:03,026
Yes.

1148
00:59:03,126 --> 00:59:05,495
And so Kasi actually
got liposuction

1149
00:59:05,596 --> 00:59:07,564
- Because of what John said?
- Because of what John said.

1150
00:59:07,664 --> 00:59:09,132
He told her she was gaining
a little too much weight.

1151
00:59:09,232 --> 00:59:10,434
Oh...

1152
00:59:10,534 --> 00:59:12,169
And she did
what she needed to do.

1153
00:59:12,269 --> 00:59:14,738
She would do anything
to keep that marriage.

1154
00:59:14,838 --> 00:59:17,374
She was focused.
She was focused on that.

1155
00:59:17,474 --> 00:59:20,010
When Kasi told them she was
giving John a second chance,

1156
00:59:20,110 --> 00:59:21,778
they didn't approve.

1157
00:59:21,878 --> 00:59:23,714
Kim talked to Kasi
about it over dinner

1158
00:59:23,814 --> 00:59:25,816
the last night she was alive.

1159
00:59:25,916 --> 00:59:27,117
I said, "Kasi,

1160
00:59:27,217 --> 00:59:31,455
"you're such an amazing
friend, person,

1161
00:59:31,555 --> 00:59:35,225
"and you just don't
need to go back to him.

1162
00:59:35,325 --> 00:59:38,929
"You need to be on your own,
and you need to enjoy

1163
00:59:39,029 --> 00:59:40,931
"because you have
so much to offer."

1164
00:59:44,968 --> 00:59:47,204
A week after Kasi's murder,
her friends and family

1165
00:59:47,304 --> 00:59:50,140
gathered in Georgia
for a memorial service.

1166
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:51,608
Her friends brought pictures,
you know,

1167
00:59:51,708 --> 00:59:54,344
and put them all against
the wall and everything.

1168
00:59:54,444 --> 00:59:56,280
The service was held
at the same funeral home

1169
00:59:56,380 --> 00:59:59,316
as Carol's service
nearly a decade earlier.

1170
00:59:59,416 --> 01:00:01,652
Police were keeping tabs
on John.

1171
01:00:01,752 --> 01:00:05,956
He drove by the funeral home
five or six times

1172
01:00:06,056 --> 01:00:08,458
before he would
even go in.

1173
01:00:08,558 --> 01:00:11,628
John must have known
all eyes would be on him.

1174
01:00:11,728 --> 01:00:13,997
We both assumed,
with good reason,

1175
01:00:14,097 --> 01:00:15,732
that he was guilty
of the murder,

1176
01:00:15,832 --> 01:00:18,769
because, I mean, this is
a matter of probabilities.

1177
01:00:18,869 --> 01:00:21,838
One guy, two wives,
two murders.

1178
01:00:21,939 --> 01:00:23,473
Just no.

1179
01:00:23,574 --> 01:00:26,710
We never had not one doubt.
Not one doubt.

1180
01:00:26,810 --> 01:00:28,011
- Not one doubt.
- That--

1181
01:00:28,111 --> 01:00:29,346
- It was John.
- That it was John.

1182
01:00:29,446 --> 01:00:31,348
Even before you found out
how she died,

1183
01:00:31,448 --> 01:00:32,683
you felt it was John?

1184
01:00:32,783 --> 01:00:33,917
We were on the phone
together, remember? And--

1185
01:00:34,017 --> 01:00:35,485
Yeah. We knew.

1186
01:00:35,585 --> 01:00:37,587
And she said,
"He did it. He did it."

1187
01:00:37,688 --> 01:00:41,158
And I said, "Yeah,
because how could this happen?"

1188
01:00:41,258 --> 01:00:43,927
At the funeral,
John finally showed his face.

1189
01:00:44,027 --> 01:00:45,329
What was his
behavior like?

1190
01:00:45,429 --> 01:00:47,431
He came in,
sat in the back, left.

1191
01:00:47,531 --> 01:00:49,599
We didn't really
talk to him.

1192
01:00:49,700 --> 01:00:51,902
When Kasi's friend Kim
got up to speak,

1193
01:00:52,002 --> 01:00:54,871
she concluded with a message
for Kasi's killer.

1194
01:00:54,972 --> 01:00:56,740
I just looked right out
and I said,

1195
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:58,875
"We're gonna find the person
that did this."

1196
01:00:58,976 --> 01:01:03,013
And I looked right at him
and I felt the coldest--

1197
01:01:03,113 --> 01:01:05,515
I mean, like,
there's nothing there.

1198
01:01:05,616 --> 01:01:08,785
And I thought,
oh, this is on.

1199
01:01:08,885 --> 01:01:11,255
This guy is scary.

1200
01:01:11,355 --> 01:01:14,491
To police, John Peek
was the obvious suspect.

1201
01:01:14,591 --> 01:01:18,395
Problem was, just like in the
double homicide years before,

1202
01:01:18,495 --> 01:01:21,898
they had no physical evidence
tying him to the crime.

1203
01:01:21,999 --> 01:01:24,468
As the detectives
continued their investigation,

1204
01:01:24,568 --> 01:01:26,436
Kasi's sister
and brother in law

1205
01:01:26,536 --> 01:01:27,838
were starting their own.

1206
01:01:45,722 --> 01:01:48,325
Welcome back.
Detectives were convinced

1207
01:01:48,425 --> 01:01:52,462
John Peek murdered three women
in less than 10 years.

1208
01:01:52,562 --> 01:01:56,099
Kasi Peek, Carol Marlin,
and Maggie Ginn.

1209
01:01:56,199 --> 01:01:58,702
But suspicion wasn't proof,

1210
01:01:58,802 --> 01:02:01,071
and they needed evidence
to charge him.

1211
01:02:01,171 --> 01:02:04,942
Now police were about to get
help from an unlikely source:

1212
01:02:05,042 --> 01:02:09,012
A husband and wife team
willing to go undercover

1213
01:02:09,112 --> 01:02:11,515
to unmask a killer.

1214
01:02:11,615 --> 01:02:14,484
Back to Andrea Canning
with Deadly Omission.

1215
01:02:17,788 --> 01:02:19,790
As Smyrna police conducted
their investigation

1216
01:02:19,890 --> 01:02:21,625
into Kasi Peek's murder,

1217
01:02:21,725 --> 01:02:24,161
John's girlfriend Liza
was on edge.

1218
01:02:24,261 --> 01:02:27,030
She'd been a wreck ever since
she spoke to police.

1219
01:02:27,130 --> 01:02:30,400
They said that they didn't
have enough evidence to hold him

1220
01:02:30,500 --> 01:02:33,237
and that they advised
I leave town.

1221
01:02:33,337 --> 01:02:36,206
- How scared were you?
- I was petrified.

1222
01:02:36,306 --> 01:02:39,710
I didn't want to stay with
anybody that he knew I knew.

1223
01:02:39,810 --> 01:02:42,379
So it's like you're
on the run, sort of.

1224
01:02:42,479 --> 01:02:45,148
Because you don't know
for sure that he's after you,

1225
01:02:45,248 --> 01:02:46,583
but you feel like
you're on the run?

1226
01:02:46,683 --> 01:02:47,784
Yeah. Oh, yes.

1227
01:02:47,884 --> 01:02:52,022
And I slept with a knife
under my pillow.

1228
01:02:52,122 --> 01:02:54,791
Did you just look at her
and say, "Honey,

1229
01:02:54,891 --> 01:02:57,794
"you absolutely could
be the next target of John?"

1230
01:02:57,894 --> 01:02:59,363
Oh, 100%.

1231
01:02:59,463 --> 01:03:02,366
Investigators were well aware
John had been the prime suspect

1232
01:03:02,466 --> 01:03:04,768
in his previous wife
Carol's murder.

1233
01:03:04,868 --> 01:03:06,870
And they were struggling
to find direct evidence

1234
01:03:06,970 --> 01:03:09,172
linking him
to Kasi's murder.

1235
01:03:09,273 --> 01:03:11,141
The gunshot residue test
they'd given him

1236
01:03:11,241 --> 01:03:14,211
while he was at the police
station came back negative.

1237
01:03:14,311 --> 01:03:15,946
They'd also searched
Kasi's condo,

1238
01:03:16,046 --> 01:03:18,148
but they didn't find
anything useful.

1239
01:03:18,248 --> 01:03:19,983
They kept looking.

1240
01:03:20,083 --> 01:03:21,251
You get a search warrant?
- Yes.

1241
01:03:21,351 --> 01:03:23,086
For John-- all of John's
properties or--

1242
01:03:23,186 --> 01:03:25,389
All of them, yes.

1243
01:03:25,489 --> 01:03:27,324
In addition to the house
John lived in,

1244
01:03:27,424 --> 01:03:29,359
investigators searched
his lake house

1245
01:03:29,459 --> 01:03:31,828
and investment properties
looking for a weapon

1246
01:03:31,929 --> 01:03:33,630
that matched
the .30 caliber bullet

1247
01:03:33,730 --> 01:03:35,632
found in Kasi's mattress.

1248
01:03:35,732 --> 01:03:37,935
Did John own
a .30 caliber rifle?

1249
01:03:38,035 --> 01:03:41,271
Not that we were able to find.
Investigating this,

1250
01:03:41,371 --> 01:03:44,207
I was able to find
a couple of different people

1251
01:03:44,308 --> 01:03:47,511
who he had actually
asked to buy

1252
01:03:47,611 --> 01:03:49,613
a hunting rifle from,

1253
01:03:49,713 --> 01:03:53,350
but we were never able to find
the rifle that was used.

1254
01:03:53,450 --> 01:03:55,953
In a storm drain
outside John's house,

1255
01:03:56,053 --> 01:04:00,190
investigators did discover
an unfired .30 caliber bullet.

1256
01:04:00,290 --> 01:04:03,026
Inside the house, they noticed
John had a fascination

1257
01:04:03,126 --> 01:04:04,494
with true crime.

1258
01:04:04,594 --> 01:04:06,196
He had quite the library

1259
01:04:06,296 --> 01:04:09,266
of all of the different
murder shows.

1260
01:04:09,366 --> 01:04:11,435
There must have been
50 or 60 different tapes

1261
01:04:11,535 --> 01:04:14,972
of multiple
different shows that--

1262
01:04:15,072 --> 01:04:17,908
similar to the one
that we're doing here.

1263
01:04:18,008 --> 01:04:20,043
Police had eyes on John again
as he traveled

1264
01:04:20,143 --> 01:04:23,413
to Kasi's home state of Texas
for her burial service.

1265
01:04:23,513 --> 01:04:26,149
While there, he asked Kasi's
sister and brother in law

1266
01:04:26,250 --> 01:04:28,986
to meet for coffee
to clear the air.

1267
01:04:29,086 --> 01:04:32,856
They agreed, but only after
consulting with Smyrna PD.

1268
01:04:32,956 --> 01:04:35,592
Jaquidon and David
were asked if they would

1269
01:04:35,692 --> 01:04:39,029
actually do a wire
to get John on tape.

1270
01:04:39,129 --> 01:04:42,799
And we went and bought
a recorder and I wired her up.

1271
01:04:55,112 --> 01:04:57,781
- What was the strategy?
- Get him to talk.

1272
01:04:57,881 --> 01:04:59,850
Get him to talk,
gauge his demeanor,

1273
01:04:59,950 --> 01:05:02,519
how he answered questions.

1274
01:05:02,619 --> 01:05:05,789
See if he divulged anything
that we didn't know

1275
01:05:05,889 --> 01:05:07,624
that might help.

1276
01:05:07,724 --> 01:05:10,394
On their way to coffee,
David coached Jaquidon

1277
01:05:10,494 --> 01:05:12,129
on how to handle John.

1278
01:05:26,310 --> 01:05:28,779
When they arrived, John was
already waiting for them.

1279
01:05:42,893 --> 01:05:44,428
We talked about
the relationship

1280
01:05:44,528 --> 01:05:46,530
and what was going on

1281
01:05:46,630 --> 01:05:48,765
and why he was
cheating on her

1282
01:05:48,865 --> 01:05:51,501
and whether or not he really
wanted to get back together

1283
01:05:51,602 --> 01:05:54,571
and stuff like that.

1284
01:05:59,876 --> 01:06:02,746
{\an8}He spent a lot of
the conversation as it developed

1285
01:06:02,846 --> 01:06:05,449
{\an8}basically painting Kasi
in a very negative light.

1286
01:06:05,549 --> 01:06:08,585
{\an8}Very hard to live with,
very demanding, unforgiving.

1287
01:06:11,922 --> 01:06:13,590
{\an8}He's trying to paint
a picture of a person

1288
01:06:13,690 --> 01:06:15,592
{\an8}that we certainly
didn't know.

1289
01:06:29,206 --> 01:06:32,142
After she's died, he's going
after her character?

1290
01:06:32,242 --> 01:06:33,877
Correct.

1291
01:06:33,977 --> 01:06:37,381
And yet John insisted he still
wanted to be with Kasi.

1292
01:06:37,481 --> 01:06:39,583
In fact, he said he and Kasi
had been planning

1293
01:06:39,683 --> 01:06:41,251
to recommit
to their marriage.

1294
01:06:56,900 --> 01:06:59,269
{\an8}John told them
it was under one condition.

1295
01:07:29,199 --> 01:07:31,802
We were rather surprised,
to say the least,

1296
01:07:31,902 --> 01:07:34,338
about some of the things
that he was saying.

1297
01:07:34,438 --> 01:07:36,673
He's working to both
assassinate in character

1298
01:07:36,773 --> 01:07:38,742
and paint himself
in a sympathetic light.

1299
01:07:48,752 --> 01:07:51,054
He's painting himself
as unlucky.

1300
01:07:51,154 --> 01:07:54,324
- That's correct.
- And a victim.

1301
01:07:54,424 --> 01:07:56,426
"Poor me."

1302
01:07:56,526 --> 01:07:57,594
As she listened,

1303
01:07:57,694 --> 01:08:00,163
Kasi's sister could not
keep her skepticism quiet.

1304
01:08:30,127 --> 01:08:32,629
After nearly three hours
of back and forth,

1305
01:08:32,729 --> 01:08:35,332
Jaquidon and David
had heard enough.

1306
01:08:35,432 --> 01:08:37,868
As they left the coffee shop
and walked to their cars,

1307
01:08:37,968 --> 01:08:40,470
Jaquidon worried that John
might have been on to them.

1308
01:08:40,571 --> 01:08:42,572
There had been a mishap
with the recorder.

1309
01:08:54,418 --> 01:08:56,853
They went home
sure of one thing.

1310
01:08:56,954 --> 01:08:59,222
There's that old saying,
what you can know

1311
01:08:59,323 --> 01:09:00,991
and then what you can prove
are two different things.

1312
01:09:01,091 --> 01:09:03,593
But there was no doubt
after that conversation.

1313
01:09:03,694 --> 01:09:05,796
We knew.
We knew.

1314
01:09:05,896 --> 01:09:07,064
You knew he killed Kasi?

1315
01:09:07,164 --> 01:09:08,899
- Absolutely.
- No doubt.

1316
01:09:08,999 --> 01:09:11,468
In the end, their undercover
work didn't provide much

1317
01:09:11,568 --> 01:09:14,004
to move the investigation
forward.

1318
01:09:14,104 --> 01:09:17,040
But Jaquidon and David
were not done sleuthing.

1319
01:09:17,140 --> 01:09:18,342
They were about
to find something

1320
01:09:18,442 --> 01:09:21,245
that might be just what
the detectives needed.

1321
01:09:21,345 --> 01:09:23,847
This really shows,
I would imagine,

1322
01:09:23,947 --> 01:09:26,249
for the police, premeditation.

1323
01:09:26,350 --> 01:09:28,719
It shows premeditation
and clear intent.

1324
01:09:40,430 --> 01:09:43,500
I don't care how long
you're in this business,

1325
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:44,668
man, if anybody's in it

1326
01:09:44,768 --> 01:09:46,803
and says they don't take
the cases personal,

1327
01:09:46,904 --> 01:09:49,539
that's BS.

1328
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:51,909
The double murder of
Carol Marlin and Maggie Ginn

1329
01:09:52,009 --> 01:09:55,178
had remained unsolved
for almost a decade.

1330
01:09:55,279 --> 01:09:56,980
But after Kasi Peek
was murdered,

1331
01:09:57,080 --> 01:10:00,083
the detectives were looking back
through their files.

1332
01:10:00,183 --> 01:10:03,020
Both fell under
the Cobb County DA's office.

1333
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:05,022
Now, detectives in both cases
were meeting with

1334
01:10:05,122 --> 01:10:07,924
Assistant District Attorney
Jason Saliba.

1335
01:10:08,025 --> 01:10:11,161
We reopened the case
with Detective Herman,

1336
01:10:11,261 --> 01:10:12,362
which was the first set
of murders,

1337
01:10:12,462 --> 01:10:13,630
and started going
back through it

1338
01:10:13,730 --> 01:10:15,499
to see if there was anything
else that needed to be done,

1339
01:10:15,599 --> 01:10:16,100
if there was any testing.

1340
01:10:17,100 --> 01:10:19,036
At the same time,
the Smyrna detectives

1341
01:10:19,136 --> 01:10:20,370
were working their case.

1342
01:10:20,470 --> 01:10:22,773
So all your minds
have to come together

1343
01:10:22,873 --> 01:10:24,274
to create a game plan.

1344
01:10:24,374 --> 01:10:26,009
It's not just one agency
we're talking about.

1345
01:10:26,109 --> 01:10:27,644
- Correct.
- It's prosecutors, police.

1346
01:10:27,744 --> 01:10:30,881
The two detectives,
both of them agreed

1347
01:10:30,981 --> 01:10:32,983
to work any parts
of their cases that overlapped

1348
01:10:33,083 --> 01:10:34,217
and to help the other one.

1349
01:10:34,318 --> 01:10:37,754
As we sit down and start
going over our similarities,

1350
01:10:37,854 --> 01:10:39,623
I think we wound up
with two and a half pages

1351
01:10:39,723 --> 01:10:42,793
off of a legal pad
of different similarities

1352
01:10:42,893 --> 01:10:46,330
to the cases
that really tied them together.

1353
01:10:46,430 --> 01:10:47,664
Of course, in both cases,

1354
01:10:47,764 --> 01:10:49,499
John Peek's wives
were the victims,

1355
01:10:49,599 --> 01:10:52,836
and John was the one
to alert police.

1356
01:10:52,936 --> 01:10:55,706
The scenes were amateurishly
staged as robberies.

1357
01:10:55,806 --> 01:10:57,441
And in both cases,
he lied

1358
01:10:57,541 --> 01:11:00,310
about having access
to the crime scenes.

1359
01:11:00,410 --> 01:11:01,712
In the murders
of Maggie and Carol,

1360
01:11:01,812 --> 01:11:04,214
he told detectives he didn't
know where Maggie lived,

1361
01:11:04,314 --> 01:11:06,750
something the family
knew wasn't true.

1362
01:11:06,850 --> 01:11:10,153
And with Kasi, he told police
this about her condo.

1363
01:11:10,254 --> 01:11:11,488
Out at the scene,
he told us

1364
01:11:11,588 --> 01:11:13,490
that he did not
have a key.

1365
01:11:13,590 --> 01:11:14,791
And he told us that
a couple of different times

1366
01:11:14,891 --> 01:11:18,128
that he did not have a key
to her condo.

1367
01:11:18,228 --> 01:11:20,530
But Kasi's friends knew
that John had just

1368
01:11:20,631 --> 01:11:22,232
gotten a key from Kasi.

1369
01:11:22,332 --> 01:11:23,734
He says to her, "Kasi,

1370
01:11:23,834 --> 01:11:25,502
"let's really try
to get back together."

1371
01:11:25,602 --> 01:11:27,471
He says,
"I'm looking for a job.

1372
01:11:27,571 --> 01:11:31,475
"I don't have a computer.
Let's trade house keys."

1373
01:11:31,575 --> 01:11:34,444
And so they traded house keys.

1374
01:11:34,544 --> 01:11:35,946
And there was this.

1375
01:11:36,046 --> 01:11:37,981
The detectives
felt evidence was planted

1376
01:11:38,081 --> 01:11:41,852
to throw the investigation
off track in both crimes.

1377
01:11:41,952 --> 01:11:43,420
Kasi's purse seemed
to have been left

1378
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:45,722
in that parking lot
for a reason.

1379
01:11:45,822 --> 01:11:47,591
It has always been our belief
he didn't expect

1380
01:11:47,691 --> 01:11:48,692
to get a phone call
the next morning

1381
01:11:48,792 --> 01:11:49,927
that her purse
had been found.

1382
01:11:50,027 --> 01:11:51,328
He thought somebody would
pick up the credit cards,

1383
01:11:51,428 --> 01:11:53,463
take them,
use them.

1384
01:11:53,563 --> 01:11:54,932
In Carol and Maggie's case,

1385
01:11:55,032 --> 01:11:57,801
detectives suspected John
wrote that threatening letter

1386
01:11:57,901 --> 01:12:00,837
to the Lockheed Martin employees
as a red herring

1387
01:12:00,938 --> 01:12:03,440
and placed that invoice
in Maggie's hand,

1388
01:12:03,540 --> 01:12:05,742
the one with Barry Webb's
name on it.

1389
01:12:05,842 --> 01:12:06,910
We thought
John picked him

1390
01:12:07,010 --> 01:12:10,047
and he was absolutely going
to frame him for murder.

1391
01:12:10,147 --> 01:12:11,515
The prosecutor
developed a theory

1392
01:12:11,615 --> 01:12:13,350
of what happened
that night.

1393
01:12:13,450 --> 01:12:15,852
When the women returned
to Maggie's house after dinner,

1394
01:12:15,953 --> 01:12:17,454
John either
followed them inside

1395
01:12:17,554 --> 01:12:19,456
or he knocked on the door.

1396
01:12:19,556 --> 01:12:22,225
They recognize who it is.
They say, "Yeah, come on in."

1397
01:12:22,326 --> 01:12:25,495
Yes, that certainly
was a possibility.

1398
01:12:25,596 --> 01:12:27,864
Once inside,
John bludgeoned the women,

1399
01:12:27,965 --> 01:12:29,967
possibly with a hammer.

1400
01:12:30,067 --> 01:12:32,936
While Carol was John's target,
the prosecutor believes

1401
01:12:33,036 --> 01:12:36,306
he killed Maggie to make it look
like a random crime.

1402
01:12:36,406 --> 01:12:39,810
Then he took the murder weapon
and went to Barry Webb's house.

1403
01:12:39,910 --> 01:12:43,814
We have always been convinced
that the reason

1404
01:12:43,914 --> 01:12:46,683
he was going into Barry Webb's
was to plant the murder weapon.

1405
01:12:46,783 --> 01:12:49,853
He had a bag full of something
metal clanging in it,

1406
01:12:49,953 --> 01:12:51,955
breaking in the night
of the murder.

1407
01:12:52,055 --> 01:12:53,857
The prosecutor
pored over what he had

1408
01:12:53,957 --> 01:12:55,959
and decided that
Carol and Maggie's case,

1409
01:12:56,059 --> 01:12:59,830
as old as it was,
was the stronger of the two.

1410
01:12:59,930 --> 01:13:01,898
So two weeks
after Kasi was killed,

1411
01:13:01,999 --> 01:13:05,268
the DA was ready to charge
John Peek with murder.

1412
01:13:05,369 --> 01:13:06,603
How does that work?

1413
01:13:06,703 --> 01:13:09,539
Because the District Attorney's
office with Carol and Maggie

1414
01:13:09,640 --> 01:13:11,208
initially did not
want to charge

1415
01:13:11,308 --> 01:13:13,910
because there just
wasn't enough evidence.

1416
01:13:14,011 --> 01:13:15,579
Circumstantial case.

1417
01:13:15,679 --> 01:13:17,281
We have another murder,

1418
01:13:17,381 --> 01:13:19,850
but nothing has really
changed, per se,

1419
01:13:19,950 --> 01:13:23,453
with Maggie
and Carol's murders.

1420
01:13:23,553 --> 01:13:24,588
Nothing really changed.

1421
01:13:24,688 --> 01:13:26,189
You've got a different set
of eyes looking at it.

1422
01:13:26,290 --> 01:13:28,926
Those of us that were looking
at it decided we did have enough

1423
01:13:29,026 --> 01:13:30,694
and that it wasn't going
to get any better.

1424
01:13:30,794 --> 01:13:32,562
Eddie Herman had
contacted me and asked,

1425
01:13:32,663 --> 01:13:36,099
could he be the one that
actually cuffed John Peek.

1426
01:13:36,100 --> 01:13:39,036
And to this day, I can still
remember Eddie's expression

1427
01:13:39,136 --> 01:13:41,471
on his face when John
came to the door that morning.

1428
01:13:41,571 --> 01:13:43,507
I looked at him
when he opened that door.

1429
01:13:43,607 --> 01:13:44,808
I said,
"It's been a long time."

1430
01:13:44,908 --> 01:13:46,176
- Ooh.
- "Been a long time."

1431
01:13:46,276 --> 01:13:47,511
Oh, that gave me chills.

1432
01:13:47,611 --> 01:13:49,913
And I said,
"You're under arrest.

1433
01:13:50,013 --> 01:13:51,949
"You're under arrest for
the murders of Carol Marlin

1434
01:13:52,049 --> 01:13:53,050
"and Maggie Ginn."

1435
01:13:53,150 --> 01:13:55,686
I felt
a huge sense of relief,

1436
01:13:55,786 --> 01:13:59,456
although I also felt scared
because it was circumstantial.

1437
01:14:00,958 --> 01:14:03,994
Maggie's family had been
hungry for justice, too.

1438
01:14:04,094 --> 01:14:05,429
The senselessness
of her murder

1439
01:14:05,529 --> 01:14:07,564
was hard to wrap
their heads around.

1440
01:14:07,664 --> 01:14:10,300
There's pictures
along those walls

1441
01:14:10,400 --> 01:14:13,403
of all of Grandmother's kids
and her grandkids.

1442
01:14:13,503 --> 01:14:15,672
And all I could think was,
how could a person do that?

1443
01:14:15,772 --> 01:14:18,542
How could a person look
in somebody's house

1444
01:14:18,642 --> 01:14:20,477
and see their life
on the walls

1445
01:14:20,577 --> 01:14:22,913
and see the people
that are going to miss them

1446
01:14:23,013 --> 01:14:24,448
and not even care?

1447
01:14:24,548 --> 01:14:26,316
You call it
collateral damage.

1448
01:14:26,416 --> 01:14:29,853
She was collateral
damage for him.

1449
01:14:29,953 --> 01:14:31,154
With John behind bars,

1450
01:14:31,254 --> 01:14:33,924
detectives kept working
Kasi's murder.

1451
01:14:34,024 --> 01:14:35,792
They knew that after
the first murders,

1452
01:14:35,892 --> 01:14:39,863
John received $700,000
in life insurance from Carol.

1453
01:14:39,963 --> 01:14:41,999
Now detectives wanted
to know if he was expecting

1454
01:14:42,099 --> 01:14:45,302
another financial windfall
from Kasi's death.

1455
01:14:45,402 --> 01:14:49,139
Her sister had just talked to
her about her life insurance.

1456
01:14:49,239 --> 01:14:53,310
I suggested that she did not
need to have life insurance

1457
01:14:53,410 --> 01:14:56,013
because she didn't
have anybody

1458
01:14:56,113 --> 01:14:58,515
that needed to be supported,
like children,

1459
01:14:58,615 --> 01:15:01,318
to be supported
for life insurance.

1460
01:15:01,418 --> 01:15:04,121
Kasi's family didn't know
if she kept the policy or not,

1461
01:15:04,221 --> 01:15:07,424
but they wanted to make sure
John didn't get a dime of it.

1462
01:15:07,524 --> 01:15:10,560
We filed a civil lawsuit

1463
01:15:10,661 --> 01:15:14,798
for the purpose of tying up
all of his assets

1464
01:15:14,898 --> 01:15:17,467
so that he could not
spend them.

1465
01:15:17,567 --> 01:15:19,603
He was not going to profit
from anything

1466
01:15:19,703 --> 01:15:21,271
that had to do with my sister.

1467
01:15:21,371 --> 01:15:24,541
As part of that, they got
a lot of financial documents

1468
01:15:24,641 --> 01:15:28,145
that had been relatively
well hidden from the police

1469
01:15:28,245 --> 01:15:31,882
and from our office,
and they shared those with us.

1470
01:15:31,982 --> 01:15:33,684
One of the things
they found out,

1471
01:15:33,784 --> 01:15:36,787
not only did Kasi still have
the life insurance policy,

1472
01:15:36,887 --> 01:15:39,856
but John had secretly been
making extra payments

1473
01:15:39,957 --> 01:15:42,192
leading up to the murder.

1474
01:15:42,292 --> 01:15:44,695
In the event that
she, you know,

1475
01:15:44,795 --> 01:15:47,264
just stopped
paying the policy,

1476
01:15:47,364 --> 01:15:49,100
he wanted to make sure
that the policy was intact,

1477
01:15:50,100 --> 01:15:52,703
even if she stopped payment
and didn't tell him.

1478
01:15:52,803 --> 01:15:55,072
Because I had advised it
and he knew it.

1479
01:15:55,172 --> 01:15:56,573
That is sneaky-sneaky.

1480
01:15:56,673 --> 01:15:59,343
If you're planning a murder
to gain insurance proceeds,

1481
01:15:59,443 --> 01:16:00,978
makes sense to do
whatever is necessary

1482
01:16:01,078 --> 01:16:03,513
to keep that insurance policy
intact, doesn't it?

1483
01:16:03,614 --> 01:16:05,115
It wasn't just
the insurance.

1484
01:16:05,215 --> 01:16:07,851
There was a lot of personal
property, belongings, cars,

1485
01:16:07,951 --> 01:16:09,753
joint bank accounts,
retirement accounts.

1486
01:16:09,853 --> 01:16:13,323
There was a lot,
a lot of money at stake.

1487
01:16:15,025 --> 01:16:16,627
The prosecutor believed
that's why John

1488
01:16:16,727 --> 01:16:18,428
was leading Kasi on.

1489
01:16:18,528 --> 01:16:19,696
He needed to get this money

1490
01:16:19,796 --> 01:16:21,732
before this divorce
went through.

1491
01:16:21,832 --> 01:16:23,166
That's what we've
always believed.

1492
01:16:23,267 --> 01:16:25,269
Do you think that John Peek
got a taste

1493
01:16:25,369 --> 01:16:29,072
of maybe how easy it was
to get rid of Carol,

1494
01:16:29,172 --> 01:16:32,209
get the life insurance money,
whatever assets they had,

1495
01:16:32,309 --> 01:16:35,445
and then, you know,
maybe he needs money again.

1496
01:16:35,545 --> 01:16:38,649
I'll just do the same thing.
It worked the first time.

1497
01:16:38,749 --> 01:16:40,484
I think so.
And I think it's greed.

1498
01:16:40,584 --> 01:16:43,020
It's easy money.

1499
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:46,256
And Liza, the girlfriend
John was talking about marrying,

1500
01:16:46,356 --> 01:16:49,960
turns out she was going
to inherit some family money.

1501
01:16:50,060 --> 01:16:52,562
Liza's about to get
a bunch of money.

1502
01:16:52,663 --> 01:16:53,563
Exactly.

1503
01:16:53,664 --> 01:16:56,266
Do you think he would
have killed Liza,

1504
01:16:56,366 --> 01:16:59,269
if given the opportunity,
for her money?

1505
01:16:59,369 --> 01:17:01,138
Well, he'd already
done it twice.

1506
01:17:01,238 --> 01:17:04,708
Absolutely. I believe he 100%
would have done it again.

1507
01:17:04,808 --> 01:17:08,412
Did you feel like he was
capable of killing you?

1508
01:17:08,512 --> 01:17:12,616
Yes. Yes, I did, or sending
somebody to kill me.

1509
01:17:12,716 --> 01:17:16,086
I really would not have put
anything past him at that point.

1510
01:17:16,186 --> 01:17:19,723
I didn't know
how far he would go.

1511
01:17:19,823 --> 01:17:22,092
To investigators,
there was a clear pattern,

1512
01:17:22,192 --> 01:17:25,028
and the financial documents
Jaquidon and David discovered

1513
01:17:25,128 --> 01:17:27,097
helped to bolster
their case.

1514
01:17:27,197 --> 01:17:28,765
You're getting more and more

1515
01:17:28,865 --> 01:17:30,667
incriminating evidence
against John Peek.

1516
01:17:30,767 --> 01:17:33,003
Absolutely.

1517
01:17:33,103 --> 01:17:34,571
The DA decided
he had enough

1518
01:17:34,671 --> 01:17:37,140
and charged John Peek
with Kasi's murder.

1519
01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:38,609
But then...

1520
01:17:38,709 --> 01:17:40,877
You and your team were
prepared to go to trial.

1521
01:17:40,978 --> 01:17:45,449
And then something unexpected
happened in the last hours.

1522
01:17:45,549 --> 01:17:47,384
And we were
absolutely stunned.

1523
01:17:59,463 --> 01:18:02,566
John Peek sat behind bars
denying he had anything to do

1524
01:18:02,666 --> 01:18:04,768
with the murders
of three women.

1525
01:18:04,868 --> 01:18:08,372
Then, assistant DA Jason Saliba
got word of a confession,

1526
01:18:08,472 --> 01:18:10,340
but not from John.

1527
01:18:10,440 --> 01:18:15,245
Another man is saying
he killed Maggie and Carol.

1528
01:18:15,345 --> 01:18:16,780
There had been
a prison confession

1529
01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:18,849
to the murders
of Maggie and Carol.

1530
01:18:18,949 --> 01:18:22,319
We had one gentleman
who came forward

1531
01:18:22,419 --> 01:18:26,823
and actually told us that he had
been in jail with a gentleman

1532
01:18:26,923 --> 01:18:30,294
who admitted to him,
jailhouse confession,

1533
01:18:30,394 --> 01:18:33,864
that he had killed two women
over by Cobb General Hospital,

1534
01:18:33,964 --> 01:18:35,799
and he killed them
with a hammer.

1535
01:18:35,899 --> 01:18:38,702
The alleged killer knew
how the women were killed

1536
01:18:38,802 --> 01:18:41,805
and that Maggie's house
was near a hospital.

1537
01:18:41,905 --> 01:18:43,774
Investigators confronted
him with the story

1538
01:18:43,874 --> 01:18:45,609
they'd heard from
that other inmate.

1539
01:19:07,064 --> 01:19:09,199
He was adamant he didn't
know Carol or Maggie

1540
01:19:09,299 --> 01:19:11,368
and had nothing to do
with their murders.

1541
01:19:11,468 --> 01:19:14,771
And investigators couldn't
find any connection either.

1542
01:19:14,871 --> 01:19:17,107
Someone wasn't
telling the truth.

1543
01:19:17,207 --> 01:19:19,276
What we were able to do
is to go back

1544
01:19:19,376 --> 01:19:21,878
and see that our tipster

1545
01:19:21,979 --> 01:19:25,249
that said this gentleman
had confessed to him in prison

1546
01:19:25,349 --> 01:19:28,118
had actually been
John Peek's cellmate.

1547
01:19:28,218 --> 01:19:31,555
So he was manipulating
this person in jail.

1548
01:19:31,655 --> 01:19:33,156
Right. Trying his best
to manipulate

1549
01:19:33,257 --> 01:19:35,826
people in the investigation
as best he could.

1550
01:19:35,926 --> 01:19:37,561
And he kept at it.

1551
01:19:37,661 --> 01:19:40,097
There was a long
list of inmates

1552
01:19:40,197 --> 01:19:43,967
that he attempted to pay
to spread false information.

1553
01:19:44,067 --> 01:19:46,870
He was asking that they go out
and give false narratives

1554
01:19:46,970 --> 01:19:48,538
of the evidence
to news outlets,

1555
01:19:48,639 --> 01:19:52,509
to his attorneys,
to make up alibis.

1556
01:19:52,609 --> 01:19:53,543
To investigators,

1557
01:19:53,644 --> 01:19:56,179
it seemed John Peek
thought he was in control

1558
01:19:56,280 --> 01:19:59,049
even of their investigation,
manipulating it

1559
01:19:59,149 --> 01:20:01,451
just like he'd done
with the women in his life.

1560
01:20:01,551 --> 01:20:04,988
He has no empathy.
He has no caring.

1561
01:20:05,088 --> 01:20:07,958
He's going to trick you
into thinking he loves you

1562
01:20:08,058 --> 01:20:09,493
and he doesn't.

1563
01:20:09,593 --> 01:20:12,996
It's all about
how can you benefit him.

1564
01:20:13,096 --> 01:20:16,533
He is the most dangerous
kind of con man, really.

1565
01:20:16,633 --> 01:20:17,834
That's true.

1566
01:20:17,935 --> 01:20:21,305
From behind bars, John was
still trying to control Liza.

1567
01:20:21,405 --> 01:20:22,973
Here he is talking
to his brother about her

1568
01:20:23,073 --> 01:20:24,241
on a recorded call.

1569
01:20:36,386 --> 01:20:38,355
Investigators gave Liza
the green light

1570
01:20:38,455 --> 01:20:41,291
to meet with the brother,
see what they were up to.

1571
01:20:41,391 --> 01:20:43,060
What he had to give me
from John

1572
01:20:43,160 --> 01:20:45,629
was a rose
and a card.

1573
01:20:45,729 --> 01:20:49,066
Inside the card,
John professed his love.

1574
01:20:49,166 --> 01:20:51,401
John says he's still
in love with you.

1575
01:20:51,501 --> 01:20:53,537
How does that
make you feel?

1576
01:20:53,637 --> 01:20:55,505
Sick.

1577
01:20:55,606 --> 01:20:57,441
I felt creeped out.

1578
01:20:57,541 --> 01:21:01,912
I don't-I don't care
what he thinks or feels.

1579
01:21:02,012 --> 01:21:04,348
And he's a psychopath.

1580
01:21:04,448 --> 01:21:07,851
They don't really
feel these things.

1581
01:21:07,951 --> 01:21:10,153
For what he'd been doing
in jail, the DA tacked on

1582
01:21:10,254 --> 01:21:13,423
additional charges
of criminal solicitation.

1583
01:21:13,523 --> 01:21:15,559
But there were still
two very circumstantial

1584
01:21:15,659 --> 01:21:17,261
murder cases to prove.

1585
01:21:17,361 --> 01:21:18,996
We were in touch with
the prosecutors

1586
01:21:19,096 --> 01:21:22,733
and the detectives,
and they were scared.

1587
01:21:22,833 --> 01:21:24,901
They weren't sure
if they had the evidence

1588
01:21:25,002 --> 01:21:27,271
to get a conviction.

1589
01:21:27,371 --> 01:21:29,039
Although John had
initially been arrested

1590
01:21:29,139 --> 01:21:30,941
for the murders
of Carol and Maggie,

1591
01:21:31,041 --> 01:21:34,845
prosecutors decided to try
Kasi's murder first.

1592
01:21:34,945 --> 01:21:37,714
Did you feel you had more
evidence in Kasi's murder

1593
01:21:37,814 --> 01:21:39,283
or was it fresher?

1594
01:21:39,383 --> 01:21:42,119
You know, time wise?
- It was fresher.

1595
01:21:42,219 --> 01:21:43,887
It was fresher.

1596
01:21:43,987 --> 01:21:45,956
Investigators prepared
to tell the jury

1597
01:21:46,056 --> 01:21:47,557
their theory of the crime,

1598
01:21:47,658 --> 01:21:49,359
that John arrived
at Kasi's condo

1599
01:21:49,459 --> 01:21:51,128
while she was still
at her friend's house

1600
01:21:51,228 --> 01:21:54,231
and let himself in using the key
she'd recently given him.

1601
01:21:54,331 --> 01:21:56,099
Then he hid
in the coat closet.

1602
01:21:56,100 --> 01:21:59,670
He lets her come home,
he lets her get in bed,

1603
01:21:59,770 --> 01:22:03,574
and he gives it enough time
to be able to go in quietly,

1604
01:22:03,674 --> 01:22:05,409
ambush her in her sleep.

1605
01:22:05,509 --> 01:22:06,810
And then he went
and staged the apartment

1606
01:22:06,910 --> 01:22:10,414
to make it look like a theft.
Took her purse,

1607
01:22:10,514 --> 01:22:13,650
went to the other
apartment complex,

1608
01:22:13,750 --> 01:22:15,886
laid her purse out.

1609
01:22:15,986 --> 01:22:18,055
If they got a conviction
in Kasi's case,

1610
01:22:18,155 --> 01:22:19,856
the DA planned
to seek the death penalty

1611
01:22:19,957 --> 01:22:21,892
for Carol and Maggie's case.

1612
01:22:21,992 --> 01:22:24,261
Because now you can show he
clearly is going to kill again.

1613
01:22:24,361 --> 01:22:25,495
He's done it.

1614
01:22:25,596 --> 01:22:27,864
Nine years later, he did exactly
what we're going to allege

1615
01:22:27,965 --> 01:22:32,102
he would do if he was not
on death row.

1616
01:22:32,202 --> 01:22:33,370
A few weeks before trial,

1617
01:22:33,470 --> 01:22:35,806
John's attorney
approached the DA.

1618
01:22:35,906 --> 01:22:39,309
And he said,
"I believe he will plea

1619
01:22:39,409 --> 01:22:42,012
"if you offer him
a life sentence."

1620
01:22:42,112 --> 01:22:44,681
The prosecutors talked
to the victims' families.

1621
01:22:44,781 --> 01:22:46,650
Carol's mother
was very elderly,

1622
01:22:46,750 --> 01:22:48,185
and the potential of a trial

1623
01:22:48,285 --> 01:22:50,354
and then the appeals
that go behind that,

1624
01:22:50,454 --> 01:22:52,689
that she might not ever
see this case completed

1625
01:22:52,789 --> 01:22:55,959
before she passed on
if we didn't take a plea.

1626
01:22:56,059 --> 01:22:58,862
So the DA made an offer.
Life in prison.

1627
01:22:58,962 --> 01:23:02,299
And on Friday,
April 13, 2007,

1628
01:23:02,399 --> 01:23:04,167
John appeared in court.

1629
01:23:04,268 --> 01:23:07,571
I figured there was a 50/50
chance that, knowing him,

1630
01:23:07,671 --> 01:23:09,506
he could take that last ditch,
no, you know what?

1631
01:23:09,606 --> 01:23:11,408
I've changed my mind.
I don't want to do this.

1632
01:23:11,508 --> 01:23:13,777
And down another
rabbit hole we go.

1633
01:23:13,877 --> 01:23:15,212
How do you plead
to the charge?

1634
01:23:15,312 --> 01:23:17,714
Guilty or not guilty?
- Guilty, sir.

1635
01:23:17,814 --> 01:23:20,417
- But he did.
- But he did. He pled guilty.

1636
01:23:20,517 --> 01:23:23,820
And they sent him off to
the Georgia State Penitentiary.

1637
01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:25,455
It was a good day.

1638
01:23:25,555 --> 01:23:27,724
John was in his 70s
when we last spoke

1639
01:23:27,824 --> 01:23:29,793
to Assistant DA Saliba.

1640
01:23:29,893 --> 01:23:32,696
Still, the prosecutor
said John was not done.

1641
01:23:32,796 --> 01:23:35,399
We are the better part
of 20 years later,

1642
01:23:35,499 --> 01:23:37,401
and he's still trying to
manufacture evidence in prison

1643
01:23:37,501 --> 01:23:40,137
of other people
who committed the crime.

1644
01:23:40,237 --> 01:23:41,738
Periodically, we have people
come forward

1645
01:23:41,838 --> 01:23:43,473
and give us evidence
of what he's doing.

1646
01:23:43,574 --> 01:23:44,908
You just feel
it's more of his lies,

1647
01:23:45,008 --> 01:23:47,511
more of his manipulation?
- Absolutely.

1648
01:23:47,611 --> 01:23:50,347
He is a manipulator.
He's a narcissist.

1649
01:23:50,447 --> 01:23:53,750
He's not going to stop
until the day he dies.

1650
01:23:53,850 --> 01:23:55,752
For the family and friends
of his victims,

1651
01:23:55,852 --> 01:23:58,055
they want what happened
to serve as a wake up call

1652
01:23:58,155 --> 01:24:00,624
for anyone
in a similar situation.

1653
01:24:00,724 --> 01:24:04,695
If this could be
a sort of a beacon

1654
01:24:04,795 --> 01:24:07,264
for women to see that

1655
01:24:07,364 --> 01:24:09,800
it's easy
to get manipulated

1656
01:24:09,900 --> 01:24:13,070
even if you are the smartest
person in the room.

1657
01:24:15,772 --> 01:24:18,008
How do you want Kasi
to be remembered?

1658
01:24:18,108 --> 01:24:20,444
For being such
a wonderful friend

1659
01:24:20,544 --> 01:24:22,579
and an excellent person.

1660
01:24:22,679 --> 01:24:25,949
She was someone
who dreamed big,

1661
01:24:26,049 --> 01:24:27,651
had a huge heart,

1662
01:24:27,751 --> 01:24:30,687
and she was a joy
to be around.

1663
01:24:30,787 --> 01:24:34,224
Carol was so cheerful
and so full of life.

1664
01:24:34,324 --> 01:24:37,261
I look at pictures of her
and I think about her.

1665
01:24:37,361 --> 01:24:39,863
I wish Carol were here.

1666
01:24:39,963 --> 01:24:43,500
My grandmother was a wonderful
role model for me.

1667
01:24:43,600 --> 01:24:46,303
I got her for 16 years,
and I have the memories, and--

1668
01:24:46,403 --> 01:24:48,372
that I can share those
with my kids,

1669
01:24:48,472 --> 01:24:51,675
and I'm just grateful.

1670
01:24:56,446 --> 01:25:00,550
{\an8}That's all for this edition
of "Dateline Secrets Uncovered."

1671
01:25:00,651 --> 01:25:03,620
{\an8}I'm Craig Melvin.
Thank you for watching.