NEW LISBON, Wis. (WRN) — The suspect in a Juneau County triple homicide has been found.
According to the Juneau County Sheriff’s Office 47-year-old Virgil Thew was apprehended Thursday in Elroy, about 13 miles from the crime scene in New Lisbon.
Thew is the suspect in the deaths of 33-year-old Elizabeth Kolba, and two girls aged 12 and 13. The bodies were discovered December 30th in a New Lisbon home after one of the girls was reported missing.
It’s unclear when the victims were killed. Thew faces three counts of first-degree intentional homicide.