News footage of Logan Kruckenberg Anderson in court as he heard his guilty verdict on Nov. 5 (WMTV).
A tragic case in Wisconsin involving a young man who deliberately killed his newborn daughter has reached a sentencing milestone, but legal proceedings are still ongoing.
Logan Kruckenberg Anderson, now 21, was only 16 when his teenage girlfriend at the time gave birth to a baby girl in 2021. Shortly after the birth, which occurred in a bathtub, Kruckenberg Anderson placed the infant in a backpack, took her into the woods, and covered her with snow. As he walked away, the baby’s cries prompted him to return and shoot her twice in the head.
On November 5, 2025, Kruckenberg Anderson was found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and concealing a child’s corpse.
During a court appearance on Monday, Kruckenberg Anderson received a life sentence, with the possibility of supervised release after 45 years, for the homicide charge. Additionally, he was given a concurrent sentence of four years in prison, followed by three years of extended supervision for hiding the baby’s body. This includes credit for 1,891 days already served.
The court records show that the defense has filed a motion for dismissal, and prosecutors have 120 days to issue a response. Meanwhile, Kruckenberg Anderson remains in the custody of the Green County Sheriff’s Department and is prohibited from contacting the child’s mother.
As previously reported by Law&Crime, the infant was born on January 5, 2021, to Kruckenberg Anderson’s then 14-year-old girlfriend. The young couple kept the pregnancy a secret until the birth of the baby, named Harper. Concern arose when the girlfriend’s father noticed the baby’s absence and called 911.
Police questioned the teenagers, who claimed that they tried to put Harper up for adoption through someone they met on Snapchat. Kruckenberg Anderson eventually confessed to police, telling them that he intended to leave Harper out in the cold to die of exposure. When she cried, he went back to execute her.
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.”
Court records indicated that a hearing to discuss the motion to dismiss has not yet been set.
