Logan Kruckenberg Anderson, now 21, received a life sentence with possible release after 45 years for fatally shooting his newborn daughter in 2021. The case continues as his defense filed a post-sentencing motion. Prosecutors described the act as an attempt to erase a problem.
Logan Kruckenberg Anderson was 16 years old in January 2021 when his then-14-year-old girlfriend gave birth to a baby girl named Harper in a bathtub. The couple had hidden the pregnancy. Days later, after the girlfriend's father called 911 upon not seeing the baby, police questioned the teens, who initially claimed they tried to arrange adoption via Snapchat. Anderson later confessed to placing the naked newborn in a backpack, taking her to the woods, and covering her with snow intending for her to die of exposure. Hearing cries as he left, he returned and shot her twice in the head with a gun from his vehicle. He was convicted on November 5, 2025, of first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse. On Monday prior to March 17, 2026, Dane County court sentenced him to life in prison with supervised release possible after 45 years for homicide, plus four years imprisonment and three years extended supervision for hiding the corpse, to run concurrently, crediting 1,891 days served. He was remanded to Green County Sheriff's custody with no contact ordered with the mother. The defense filed a motion to dismiss, giving prosecutors 120 days to respond; no hearing date set. Prosecutor Adrienne Blais stated in 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.”