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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. ...Read More

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Victim Details

Ruth J. Bresnahan

Female

White / Caucasian

Milwaukee

WI

1988-01-04

83

Ruth

J. Bresnahan

06/21/2026