When an elderly couple was found murdered inside their Dan B Vermont home in the fall of 1989,

it had residents of the small town looking over their shoulders and double checking their door locks at night.

State police identified a suspect early on in the investigation,

but the evidence they had against this person

was largely circumstantial, and the physical evidence, a single drop of blood, wasn't enough to point to a suspect.

And so the double murder sat unsolved for over 30 years, until 2020, when the case was reopened

with the hope that new forensic DNA analysis could finally shine a light on long concealed answers.

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of George and Catherine Peacock

on Dark Down East Down East.

Every day without fail, 76 year old George Peacock picked up a copy of the Rutland Herald newspaper at a store near his house in Dan B. Vermont.

It was such a routine of his that people noticed when George didn't show up at the store on Wednesday, September 13, 1989, or the next day or the next day.

It was also unusual when on Sunday September 17th

George didn't clock in for his shift at the Rutland Travel Lodge. He worked part

time three days a week from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and was fastidious about his schedule.

He did not miss work or appointments, period.

The desk clerk at the lodge was a little concerned so they talked to a friend of the peacocks, a woman from out of town named Lorraine, who happened to be staying at the travel lodge that day.

Lorraine said she hadn't seen George. staying at the Travel Lodge that day.

Lorraine said she hadn't seen George or his wife, 73-year-old Catherine recently either,

but she and her husband would stop by their house later to check in.

When they pulled into the yard of George and Catherine's Red 1.5 story house

just off Route 7 in Danby, Lorraine could see that their car was in the yard and there was a light on in the living room,

but all the doors were locked. The peacocks were known to be extremely security conscious and safety obsessed,

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