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Debra Reget was a 35-year-old White woman killed during a violent home invasion at her boyfriend Kenneth Bush’s north-side La Crosse residence on March 20, 1987. An intruder entered through a basement window, forced through a locked upstairs door, and the incident escalated from a burglary into a triple homicide. Kenneth, Debra, and Kenneth’s mother, Lila Bush, were each found shot in separate rooms; investigators determined .25-caliber bullets had been used. Lila had also been beaten and about $1,500 was stolen before the killer fled in the victims’ automobile.

Detectives developed a footwear impression on the kitchen linoleum and traced the entry method to a suspect, Michael Tenneson, who had absconded from a La Crosse County work-release outing ten days earlier. Witnesses linked newly purchased tennis shoes and a .25-caliber Raven pistol to Tenneson, and the stolen vehicle led investigators to track his movements out of state. Tenneson was arrested in Denver on May 21, 1987; after waiving rights he confessed to selecting the Bush home at random and shooting Kenneth, Lila, and Debra, then fleeing in the victims’ car. He later pleaded guilty in Wisconsin to three counts of murder and received three life terms to follow his Colorado sentences.

Did anyone in the La Crosse area remember seeing suspicious activity around March 20, 1987, or recognize details about the footwear impression or the stolen car?