Police have identified one of the three people who were found dead in a home in New Lisbon in Juneau County on Monday.
Elizabeth Kolba, 33, was found dead along with two children, 12 and 13, on Monday afternoon in a home in the 300 block of West Bridge Street, New Lisbon Police Chief Kyle Walker said Thursday. The names of the children have not been released.
Authorities still are searching for Virgil Thew, 47, of New Lisbon, who they say is a "person of interest" in the deaths.
Also on Thursday, the Juneau County Sheriff's Office released a new photo of Thew at the Dollar General store in the New Lisbon on Sunday, when he was last seen.
Thew, who is 5-foot-10 and 150 pounds, was last seen wearing a dark-colored down coat and hat.
The bodies of Kolba and the two children were found in the West Bridge Street home about 4:30 p.m. on Monday, according to Walker.
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Thew is considered armed and dangerous, Walker said, and anyone who sees Thew should call 911 and not confront or approach him.
The Juneau County Sheriff's Office was first notified of a missing Monroe County child about 10 p.m. Sunday by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. Authorities later learned the missing child was last seen with Thew.
During their search for the child on Monday morning, New Lisbon police learned of a second missing child from New Lisbon.
Authorities have not said if the two missing children are the two children found dead in the home, or defined Thew's relationship to the three dead people.
