NEW LISBON, Wis. – Police have decided that 47-yea-old Virgil Thew is a murderer. A criminal complaint with three counts of first-degree murder was filed with Juneau County court in nearby Mauston, the county seat. Thew earlier was listed as a person of interest. Thew has been at large four days. Meanwhile, new details about the victims, earlier withheld by New Lisbon police without explanation, have been confirmed: Elizabeth Kolba, age 33, was Thew’s girlfriend. One teen-age victim was his stepdaughter. The relationship of the second teen-age girl remained unclear. The girls were 13 and 12. The bodies were found shot to death Monday in a locked bedroom of Thew’s home in New Lisbon.
