Investigators announced Thursday that Virgil Thew was taken into custody and charged with three homicide counts after a weeks-long manhunt

Elizabeth Kolba, 33, and two girls ages 12 and 13 were found shot to death at a house in New Lisbon on Dec. 30. The suspect knew the victims, according to a criminal complaint. Area law enforcement had been searching for the suspect since the killings with the help of the FBI and federal marshals.

Virgil Thew has been charged with killing his 37-year-old girlfriend and two girls, aged 12 and 13. NEW LISBON, Wis. — Law enforcement authorities in Wisconsin have arrested and charged a man they believe killed two juveniles and an adult in late December.

The Wisconsin man wanted in a triple murder of a woman and two young girls, who has been on the run for more than a week, has been arrested after a statewide manhunt.