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News footage of Logan Kruckenberg Anderson in court on Nov. 5 (WMTV).
A shocking case in Wisconsin has concluded with a jury convicting a man for the brutal murder of his newborn daughter. The man, Logan Kruckenberg Anderson, now 21, was unanimously found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and concealing a child’s corpse.
Four years ago, Kruckenberg Anderson committed the heinous act against his infant daughter, Harper. He took the days-old baby into the woods, shot her twice in the head, and buried her under snow. The jury’s decision came swiftly, after just two hours of deliberation, as reported by WMTV, a local NBC affiliate.
At the time of the crime, Kruckenberg Anderson was merely 16. His teenage girlfriend had given birth to Harper in a bathtub on January 5, 2021. Faced with the daunting reality of parenthood, the young couple decided they could not care for the child. Just days later, the girl’s father raised the alarm by calling 911, worried about Harper’s disappearance.
During police questioning, the teenagers initially claimed they had arranged for someone on Snapchat to escort the baby to an adoption agency. However, the truth emerged when Kruckenberg Anderson admitted to the police that he had left Harper in the woods to succumb to the cold. Upon hearing her cries as he walked away, he returned and fatally shot her.
Subsequently, Kruckenberg Anderson led authorities to the site where Harper’s body had been concealed.
WMTV reported that Kruckenberg Anderson’s girlfriend was 14 years old when he got her pregnant. They hid the pregnancy until Harper was born. Kruckenberg Anderson then told his girlfriend that he was taking the baby to a better home. He then stuffed her naked into a backpack and took her to the woods.
Kruckenberg Anderson’s defense attorney, Kevin Smith, attempted to paint the couple as “lying teenagers,” saying that more emphasis should have been placed on the “physical evidence” rather than his client’s multiple confessions.
Prosecutor Adrienne Blais told the court, “It’s about one person fantasizing playing house. It’s about one person bent on erasing a problem, because that was what Harper was to him. A problem to screw up his life, so he got rid of her, so he just tried to make her go away.”
Kruckenberg Anderson is scheduled to be sentenced on March 16, 2026.