Wisconsin – In a devastating conclusion to a case that has haunted Wisconsin for nearly four years, a 21-year-old man, identified as Logan K. A., has been convicted of first-degree intentional homicide and hiding the corpse of a child for the 2021 murder of his days-old daughter. A jury delivered the verdict on Wednesday after just over two hours of deliberation, bringing legal resolution to one of the state’s most disturbing infanticide cases. Logan was only 16 years old when, according to prosecutors, he executed a calculated plan to dispose of his newborn child, a plan that ended with him shooting the baby twice in the head and burying her body under snow in a wooded area.
The baby was born in a bathtub on January 5, 2021, to Logan’s then-girlfriend, who was just 14 at the time. The teens hid the pregnancy from their families, and days after the birth, the girl’s father contacted police, saying the newborn had not been seen since delivery. When questioned, the teenagers initially claimed they had arranged for someone on Snapchat to adopt the child. Logan described a man named “Tyler” who was supposedly paid $60 to take his newborn daughter to an adoption agency. That story quickly fell apart under scrutiny.
Eventually, Logan confessed to police that he had stuffed the baby into a backpack, taken her into the woods, and left her to die of cold exposure. But after hearing her cry as he walked away, he returned with a firearm and shot her twice in the head. He later led investigators to the baby’s body, where two bullet casings were found in the snow near her remains. Forensic analysis confirmed that the newborn had been alive when the bullets were fired.
In court, the prosecution emphasized the cold, premeditated nature of the crime, and dismantled the defense’s claim that Logan’s actions were those of a confused teenager under pressure. Prosecutors argued that he saw the baby girl as “a problem to screw up his life,” and took action to make her “go away.” Logan’s defense attorney attempted to minimize the weight of his client’s confessions by calling the teen couple “liars” and pushing the jury to focus on physical evidence instead. But the jury, moved by both the forensic details and Logan’s own words, returned a unanimous guilty verdict.
The sentencing for Logan is scheduled for March 16, 2026. He faces life in prison, the maximum sentence for first-degree intentional homicide in Wisconsin. Due to the severity of the crime, he was tried as an adult, despite having been 16 at the time of the murder. Throughout the investigation, it emerged that Logan had deceived his then-girlfriend by telling her he was taking their daughter to a better home. Instead, he carried out the killing in solitude, an act prosecutors characterized as a deliberate and methodical execution.
The case has drawn widespread attention both for the age of the defendant and the brutality of the crime, igniting public discussion on teen pregnancy, juvenile justice, and the hidden tragedies that can unfold in private lives. The newborn’s murder has come to symbolize the irreparable consequences of secrecy, fear, and violence in the face of life-altering responsibility. For now, a jury has spoken, and Logan will await sentencing behind bars. The life he claimed to protect, a baby born into silence and secrecy, was ultimately stolen by the one person who should have protected her.
