Ruth J. Bresnahan

Ruth J. Bresnahan, an 83-year-old female from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, died on January 4, 1988, in what became part of a frightening cluster of attacks against elderly Milwaukee-area residents inside their homes. Online records identify her birth date as April 2, 1904, and her death date as January 4, 1988. Her death was later treated not as an isolated tragedy, but as one piece of a series of residential burglaries and killings that unfolded across Milwaukee County in the winter of 1987 and 1988. ...

1988 Press Photo James Bresnahan, with a photo of his mother, Ruth