Wisconsin man gets life for burying newborn daughter in the snow, shooting her in the head

MONROE, Wis. (TCN) -- A man has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of two felony charges in connection with the death of his newborn daughter when he was 16 years old.

Logan Kruckenberg Anderson, now 21, was sentenced March 16 for the 2019 death of his daughter, Harper, WKOW reports. In November 2025, he was found guilty of one count each of first-degree intentional homicide and hiding the corpse of a child. 

WMTV reported at the time of the conviction that Harper’s 14-year-old mother, whose name had not been released, gave birth in a bathtub on Jan. 5, 2021. She reportedly told police she and Kruckenberg Anderson had decided they were unable to keep the child. According to Law & Crime, Kruckenberg Anderson told his girlfriend he was taking Harper to a better home. He then took the child into the woods in a backpack.

Four days after Harper was born, her maternal grandfather called police to say Kruckenberg Anderson had taken Harper.

Harper had been placed in the snow inside a fallen tree in the woods near the home, according to WMTV. Kruckenberg Anderson then shot her twice in the head.

According to Law & Crime, when the teens were initially questioned by the police, they said Harper had been taken to an adoption agency by someone they met on Snapchat. Later, Kruckenberg Anderson led police to Harper’s body. He said he had brought her to the woods so she would die of exposure, but then he shot her when he heard her start crying.

No charges were filed against Harper’s mother, Law & Crime reports.

Prosecutor Adrienne Blais said that Harper’s mother and Kruckenberg Anderson were in over their heads, adding, “It’s about one person fantasizing playing house. It’s about one person bent on erasing a problem, because that was 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.”

On the first-degree intentional homicide count, Kruckenberg Anderson will be eligible for the possibility of extended supervision after 45 years. On the count of hiding the corpse of a child, he was sentenced to four years of initial confinement followed by three years of extended supervision; the sentences will run concurrently, according to WKOW. Law & Crime reports Kruckenberg Anderson has 1,891 days of credit for time served.

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