Episode 33: MURDERED: Marie Lisa Peak (The Waverly Three) – Waverly, Iowa

Three young women. Three strangulations. One small Iowa town. Was Lisa Peak’s murder part of something far more sinister?

Episode Summary

In September 1976, 19-year-old Wartburg College student Marie Lisa Peak left her dorm on a quiet Labor Day afternoon to run a quick errand for school supplies. She told friends she’d be back soon and that she had a date later that evening. Lisa never returned.

The next morning, her body was found just outside the city limits of Waverly, Iowa. She had been sexually assaulted, strangled, and left nude in a rural ditch beneath a lone cottonwood tree. Her clothing and belongings were never recovered, and no one has ever been charged with her murder.

Lisa’s story i ...