NEW LISBON, Wis. – The victims of what appears a triple homicide were an adult and two juveniles, police said. Without explanation Police Chief Kyle Walker declined to release the victims’ names. Walker confirmed, however, that the search was continuing for 47-year-od Virgil Thew as a person of interest. The bodies were found Monday afternoon in a residence in New Lisbon. Police offered this barebones scenario of events from Monday:
> 7:40 a.m. New Lisbon police were asked by authorities in neighboring Monroe County to help find a missing juvenile. The juvenile reportedly was last seen being picked up by 47-year-old Virgil Thew of New Lisbon.
> Later in day. A second juvenile, this one from New Lisbon, was reported missing.
> 4:29 pm. The bodies of an adult and two juveniles were found inside a house in New Lisbon. The body of the adult, police emphasized, was not Thew.
Called to process the scene: The Wisconsin State Crime Lab, Juneau County sheriff’s detectives, and Monroe County sheriff’s investigators.
Police lines. At the address where the bodies were found. In the 300 Block of West Bridge Street.
Thew. Has vanished. Sought as person of interest.