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Letha G. Kraus was 73 when she and her husband Dennis, 74, were found shot to death in their Grand Chute home on April 14, 2019. Letha, a retired nurse who enjoyed gardening and quilting, and her husband had been married 54 years and left two sons and six grandchildren. Both victims were located in the kitchen; an autopsy showed Letha had been shot once in the arm and twice in the head, and Dennis had a single fatal gunshot to the head.

Police say their 17-year-old grandson, Alexander M. Kraus, called 911 and admitted killing his grandparents. Investigators recovered a shotgun with a knife taped to the barrel, a multi-page typed plan to kill found in a red folder, and a book about an executioner in his backpack. Alexander was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide; he pleaded guilty to those charges and entered a plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease. A jury later found he was mentally ill but still understood his actions were wrong. There were also periods when he was found incompetent to stand trial and received treatment.

Does anyone have information about the Kraus family or that neighborhood in Grand Chute around April 2019?