On March 20, 1987, 73-year-old Lila Bush was killed inside her north-side La Crosse home in a violent attack that also claimed her son, Kenneth Bush, and Kenneth’s girlfriend, Debra Reget. The three victims were attacked in different rooms; investigators concluded the assailant entered through a basement window and forced open a locked interior door. Lila had been beaten and shot, and investigators linked the same .25-caliber handgun to all three killings. About $1,500 was taken from Lila’s purse and the killer stole the victims’ car when he left.

Investigators identified fugitive Michael Tenneson, who had failed to return from a jail work-release program on March 10, 1987, as the intruder. Tenneson later confessed that he selected the house as a burglary target, confronted Kenneth and shot him, then shot Lila in the back of the head after she verbally confronted him. He also found and fatally shot Reget and then fled, eventually traveling to Denver where he committed two more murders before being arrested. Tenneson pleaded guilty to the three La Crosse murders on June 14, 1988, receiving three life sentences.

Did anyone in the neighborhood recall seeing a vehicle or person around that house in mid-March 1987?