Kasi Alane Peek, a 44-year-old computer programmer, was found dead in her Smyrna, Georgia home on October 2, 2005, the victim of a fatal gunshot wound. Investigators reported the bedroom had been staged to look like a burglary, with dresser drawers pulled out, but no valuables were missing, leading police to conclude the scene had been manipulated and the motive was likely personal. Authorities described the killing as an act of overkill, which focused suspicion on people close to Kasi.

Attention quickly turned to her estranged husband, John Peek, who had placed the 911 call saying he discovered her body. Detectives learned the couple had been separated after Kasi discovered his infidelity. Kasi’s sister told police that John Peek’s first common-law wife, Carol Marlin, had been murdered in 1996 along with her friend Margaret Ginn, a cold case that gained renewed scrutiny after Kasi’s death. If anyone has information about Kasi, the other victims, or the earlier 1996 case, please come forward.