August 8, 2025 • 53 mins
Logan Federico, 22, takes a break from two jobs and classes at South Piedmont Community College in Waxhaw, North Carolina, to spend a weekend visiting friends who attend USC in Columbia, South Carolina.
The aspiring teacher and her friends were returning from a night out just before three a.m. The young men and women quickly disperse to their rooms, planning to sleep late Saturday morning.
Unbeknownst to them, a burglar is on the prowl in the quiet neighborhood, rummaging through nearby homes. Most of the neighborhood is home to USC fraternity brothers, and with frequent late-night house parties and each roommate on a different schedule, doors are seldom locked.
The burglar gains access to the neighboring home no problem—walking right through one of the doors without a sound to alert anyone of his presence.
Just after 11 a.m. Saturday morning, the brothers and their visiting friends are woken with a start—a gunshot just rang out inside their home.
The panicked young men and women gather in the living room, but Logan hasn’t come out of the guest room. Her friends burst through the door to check on her and find Logan unconscious, lying in a pool of blood. It appears her belongings have been ransacked.
As the friends call 911 to report Logan shot, their next-door neighbor is also calling to report someone stealing his car.
Still on the phone, the owner notices a shotgun is also missing from his home. Law enforcement quickly connects the dots and begins the hunt for Logan’s killer. Just a few minutes later numerous purchases are made in Lexington and Saluda County, using Logan’s debit card.
Checking cameras from the businesses listed in Logan’s bank records, investigators catch their suspect on video and recognize him immediately as frequent flier Alexander Dickey.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Stephen Federico - Father of Logan Federico
- Attorney Mark Peper - THE PEPER LAW FIRM, PA; Charleston, SC; X: @PeperLawFirm
- Dr. Shari Schwartz - Forensic Psychologist (Specializing in Capital Mitigation and Victim Advocacy), and Author: "Criminal Behavior" and "Where Law and Psychology Intersect: Issues in Legal Psychology;" X:@TrialDoc
- Barry Hutchison - Former 26-year Law Enforcement Veteran and Detective; Owner & Chief Investigator for Barry & Associates Investigative Services located in Kansas & Missouri
- Dr. Eric Eason - Board-certified Forensic Pathologist, Consultant; Instagram: @eric_a_eason, Facebook: Eric August Eason, LinkedIn: Eric Eason, MD
- Jennifer Wood - Director of Research at FITSNews; X @IndyJenn_
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
A beautiful co ed found dead in a pool of
blood USC Fraternity Row neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
What happened to Logan? I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
I want to thank you for being with us.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Logan Federico is a twenty two year old girl with
a promising bright future ahead, but a weekend trip with
friends takes a deadly turn.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You know, I don't like what he just said. It
takes a deadly turn, like she just got lost somehow
and now she's dead in a pool of blood. It
was not a deadly turn. She was murdered. At first,
we were told she was killed in her sleep, just
like we were told in the Coburger prosecution. Oh, the
(00:56):
four victims were killed in their sleep, like they fell
asleep and they never woke up. That's not what happened there,
and that's not what happened here. She was forced out
of bed, naked, to kneel, to kneel at the feet
of her chiller before she was executed dead in cold blood.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
That's what happened. Listen to what we know.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Investigators believe the suspect breaks into one of the Cypress
Street homes and he steals keys to a vehicle and
several items, including a firearm. The suspect also breaks into
the home next door. These houses are side by side,
and he steals several items, including a wallet and credit.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
And debit cards.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
While in this residence, we believe that he enters a
room where this Logan is located and fires a fatal shot.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That from our friends at WLTX and blunt forced media. Yeah,
everything he said was right, but it's not like he
enters a room where miss Logan is located and.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Fires a fatal shot.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
No, she was dragged, forced out of her bed where
she's asleep, buck naked and forced to kneel down on
her knees.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
This young co ed girl in the fraternity.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Row neighborhood, mining her own business, kneeling down in front
of the assailant and he shoots her point blank. That's
a lot different from he the enters a room where
miss Logan is and fires a fatal shot.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's no, that is not the way this went down.
What more do we know?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Twenty two year old Logan Federico takes a break from
her two jobs in classes at South Piedmont Community College
and wax on North Carolina to spend a weekend visiting
friends who attend USC and Columbia. South Carolina is firing teacher,
let's loosen with their friends. Returning home on Cyprus Street,
the group quickly dispersed to their rooms, planning to sleep
late Saturday morning, joining us an all star panel.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
But first, I want to go out to a special
guest joining us. We've all heard a fit news before.
Fits news leaped to the forefront of the national consciousness
when Alex Murdog murdered his wife and son.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And joining me right now, Jen Would.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Director research at fitsnews dot Com. Jen, thank you for
being with us. First of all, where was this? I understand?
Is there University of South Carolina forraternity roat neighborhood.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
So it is a neighborhood that's very popular for students.
It's about a half mile to a mile from the
University of South Carolina. I'm campus right by five Points
where all the kids go to the bars, and a
lot of fraternity members have houses there. So yeah, it is.
It's you know what, as a parent, you would hope
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it would be a safe place for your kids to be.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Jen would the way this is being portrayed. It makes
it sound like she was asleep and then she's dead.
That is not at all what happened.
Speaker 8 (04:17):
No, it is not at all what happened. It was
a brutal, brutal homicide. It was so unnecessary, and you know,
just seeing this this young woman, you know, starting her
life out die in that manner.
Speaker 9 (04:32):
And then her.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
Father, Steve also told me that not only did she
die that her epid death, but she'd laid there for
seven hours before anybody discovered her.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You know what's really interesting too, Mark Pepper joining us
from this jurisdiction, a veteran trial lawyer, I might add
at the Pepper Law firm, Mark, why is it that
we heard so much about the Coburger case, which rightfully
we should have because it never did go to trial.
(05:07):
No telling them what would have happened if we hadn't
been watching it. But nobody is talking about Logan's case.
And it's essentially the same scenario. A PERV who goes
from house to house to house burgling, and doctor Sherry
Schwartz is going to explain the weird thrill burglars get
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from pilfering around in your home like coburger. He comes in,
finds this beautiful girl, a co ed, and murders her.
And at first we're told, oh, it all happened in
her sleep, like somehow that's going to make it better.
But that's not what happened. She knew she was being
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attacked and was even forced to kneel naked in front
of the killer.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Tragic set of events snow down, and I commend you
for bringing attention to it. I will say that it
is early in not only the investigation, but the prostitution
of the case. And I don't think that this is
just a problem that our system provides here in South Carolina,
but nationally, law enforcement has to perform their due diligence,
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just like the defense is entitled to build a defense.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I'm sorry, I just right then, but put him up
due diligence, my rear end, do you diligence? This guy
has a rap sheet as long as I seventy five.
He's a career criminal, Jackie. How many entries is twenty
five felonies?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Okay? Twenty five felonies under his spell.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Due diligence and he was out on the street because
of a clerical error.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
That is not due diligence, Pepper, Well.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Due diligence should have been done clearly leading up to
this event, and it needs to be done now. Nancy.
There's an investigation that's going on. We don't know the
facts and circumstances than what we've been told, which is
not a whole lot from the City of Columbia Police Chief.
To your point, I'm simply pointing out that as the
investigation continues, I think more will come to light and
(07:12):
hopefully maybe we start talking about logan rightfully so. But
in the meantime, you know, the defendant is entitled to
his day in court. He's going to get his day
in court. He's also entitled to the constitutional protections of
being a defendant, and I suspect that is being weighed
with the interest of the victim and the family, and
it's probably being played a little close to the vest
(07:34):
at this point. I suspect more information will come out
as days development.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, because I'm going to get the information and I'm
going to put it.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Out there close to the vest.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Not releasing information that's a very far cry, Mark Pepper
from releasing misinformation.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Such as she died in her sleep.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's like she had a bad dream and never woke up,
like maybe she had an aneurism or a heart attack,
maybe a heart defect, and she just drifted off and
never came back. No, that's not what happened at all.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Listen to this Saturday morning. The brothers and their visiting
friends are awoken with a start. A gunshot just rang
out inside their home. The panic young men and women
gather in the living room, but Logan hasn't come out
of the guest room. Her friends burst through the door
to check on her and find Logan unconscious, lying in
a pool of blood. Her belongings ransacked.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So it seems as if she was shot dead and
then the room was ransacked for money or any other valuable.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's cold.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That is cold, And I want to go out to
doctor Eric Eason board first board certified forensic pathologist and consultant.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You can find him on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Eric august Esen, doctor Ethon, thank you for being with us,
Doctor Eson. Question, she wasn't found for at least seven hours?
Will that hander the medical examiner's quest to find out
what happened to her? And this is really important, Aeson,
because I want to clarify and confirm that she was
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kneeling down in front of the killer when he shot her,
and I'm only gonna be able to corroborate that with
the trajectory path of the bullet.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Explain.
Speaker 10 (09:21):
Okay, so yeah, saw it off shotgun. So there would
have been multiple pellets involved, whether it was bird shot
or buckshot. Multiple pellets would have been recovered from her
during the actual autopsy, and the trajectory would have been
all over because once pellets entered the body, they go
all over the place, and so it's usually going front
to back that it's all going up or down. Have
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this thing called a billiard ball effect. All the pellets
just kind of spread once they ender of the body.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Doctor Aerry Aeson, Yes, just slowed down. Because that's a
lot of information, Okay. A shotgun releases a burst of
tiny pellets, as opposed to let's just say too or
any other handgun which releases one bullet at a time,
unless you guys try to see me, or an automatic anyway,
(10:08):
But even with a shotgun releasing multiple pellets, you can
still get a trajectory path. Even though there are multiple
pellets going different ways, you can get.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
An overall path once they enter the body. You know,
the entrance wound for the pellets is on the chest,
on the front of the body. They're all going to
go front to back, but some are going to be
going up, some are going to be going down, left, right,
et cetera. So you can get an overall trajectory up
front to back.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
That's that's sir.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Sure you mentioned a sawed off jin wood? Was the
weapon a saw off shotgun? Mary Hutchison, help me out here.
I've had cases with sawed offs. People carry a saw
off because they can conceal it. A shotgun is this big,
and a sawed off is this big? Right?
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Greg?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
A sawed off in itself is a crime to own
a sawt off shotgun is a crime in itself. Bury,
What is this convicted felon doing with a sawt off?
Speaker 12 (11:10):
Well, you know, Nancy, to me, after reviewing the entire case,
we're looking at the schematics of the case in itself.
I'm looking at the thing as it never should have
happened to begin with.
Speaker 13 (11:20):
Why is this guy on the street.
Speaker 12 (11:24):
I mean, he's got like you said earlier, he's got
a rap sheet as long as your leg, and there's
just been a failure on.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
The level of the judicial system.
Speaker 12 (11:33):
I mean, it's a shame that this young lady lost
her life because of the incomfluence of the system. And
I mean, we're looking at everything hindsight twenty twenty from this,
but the fact of the matter is in my mind
taking place.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Hutchinson, I like you man twenty six years in LA
law enforcement, detective owner, chief investigator, burying Associates, investigative services.
But you're not a preacher. Don't preach to the choir
about this guy should have been behind bars. I'm asking you.
(12:08):
Is possession of a thawt off shotgun a felony.
Speaker 12 (12:12):
It's a federal felony, so that would be a yes,
it would be a yes.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Pepper jump in. What is this guy doing?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
A career criminal breaking in on this girl in the
shadow a fraternity row where everybody spends all their money
and their hopes and their dreams, and they get their
they get their child into college.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
And then this guy is skulking around, he's the new
Brian Coberger and comes in, gets this girl out.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of bed naked, makes her kneel down in front of
him to shoot her. And the last thing I want
to do this is get a tiger by the tail
is to argue with doctor Eric Esen. But while a
shotgun trajectory is much more complex than a single bullet
because of the pellet spray, you can get the trajectory
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based on external ballistics like the pellet size, the velocity,
the choke.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
The pattern, the range.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Now, shotguns are not meant for pinpoint accuracy, but you
can absolutely even though it's a cluster of pellets and
they spray out as they travel, you can still get
a trajectory path.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And why do I care?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Because I believe the prosecutor can prove whether this guy
gives a confession or not, that he had her kneeling
down in front of him.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
When he murdered her with a sawt off pepper.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Which he clearly was not allowed to possess, purchase, or
even carry around with him at any point in time.
It's not only against federal law, but it's against seat
law here in South Carolina, not only because you can't
have assault off shotgun period, but because of his prior
record as a felm, he was not allowed to down
a shotgun. I will say, however, that the reason he
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was able to be on the streets and be in
that fraternity row. Is because of the judicial system. He
was placed on probation for his last don't look.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Are you trying to tell me, okay, here you go.
Are you trying to say it's the system's fault. Yeah,
it's their fault. They let him out on a clerical error,
but nobody made him break in on Logan and shoot
her dead. Let her dead body lay there seven hours
in a pool of blood while he looks around to
(14:46):
see if he can find some spare change. So now,
the probation department, the sheriff's fault, is not the judge,
it's not the calendar clerk.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
It's his fault.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
It is clearly his fault if he's proven guilty of
this crime. But it is the fault of the judicial system.
If you're looking to place blame elsewhere regarding some types
of errors, I would make the valid argument, based on
his rap sheet that I'm not seeing a clerical error.
What I'm seeing is conviction after conviction after conviction. Yet somehow,
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be it through the state, through the prosecutor's office, or
through the cinising judges, he's just never doing much time.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
Unbeknownst to the sleeping college students, A burglar is on
the problem the quiet neighborhood, rummaging through nearby homes. The
neighborhood is home to USC fraternity brothers, and with each
roommate on a different schedule, doors are seldom locked. The
burglar gains access walking right through one of the doors
without a sound to alert anyone of his presence.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
How does a beautiful young co ed their off fraternity
row USC University, South Carolina end up dead? She went
to her room to go to sleep, and now she's
found dead in a pool of blood.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Listen to this as the friends call nine to one.
One their next door neighbor is calling to report someone
stealing his car. Still on the phone, the owner notices
a shot gun missing from his home. Law enforcement connects
the dots and begin the hunt for Logan's killer. Just
minutes later, numerous purchases are made in Lexington and Saluta
County using Logan's debit card.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
We believe that he enters a room where the slogan
is located and fires a fatal shot that from.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Our friends at WLTX straight out to Jenwood, joining us
direct to research Fitsnews dot Com. Jen looking at the timeline,
so the perp breaks in. He finds Logan asleep in bed,
starts ransacking the room, forces her out of bed, puts
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her on her knees, shoots her dead. Then he takes
her credit cards and debit cards and goes and uses
the dead girls cards to just go on a shopping spree.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Yeah, he was on a spending spree.
Speaker 14 (17:05):
In Steve Frederica, Logan's father said that he was on
the seventeenth to hold of a golf course and started
getting alerts from her credit card that it was being used.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Oh my stars, straight out to doctor Sherry Schwartz, joining
US forensic psychologists who specializes in capital mitigation and victim advocacy.
She's the author of Criminal Behavior, where law and psychology
intersect issues in legal psychology. He could have just taken
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her stuff and left she was asleep, but he didn't.
He got her out of bed and shot her dead
with a shotgun point blank range. Then he takes her
debit cards and credit cards and goes on a shopping spree.
(18:04):
If that's not aggravating circumstances, I don't know what is.
She's lying there in a pool of blood, bleeding out
off front row and he thinks nothing of it and
uses her credit cards and debit cards. When I say
aggravating circumstance, I'm talking about a legal aggravating circumstance that
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would support seeking the South Carolina death penalty.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's what I'm talking about. Absolutely.
Speaker 15 (18:36):
It would surprise me greatly if the state doesn't seek
the death penalty in a case like this.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Talking about going in.
Speaker 15 (18:43):
And shooting her in her sleep is bad, it's horrible,
it's the worst. But the argument can be made that
it was an act of impulsivity and it wasn't intended,
but all of the behaviors dragging her out of bed,
wanting to see her suffer, because that's what that was about.
Killing her and then stealing her things and going around
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and spending money in almost a celebratory manner, is a
level of depravity that warrants it to be aggravating and
warrants the seeking of the death penalty in this case.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, You know, Mark Pepper, I'm
just waiting for you to say a burglary gone wrong,
like it's the burglary's fault.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Just go ahead and get it out of your system.
This is a gone wrong went wrong. It didn't go wrong.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You're making it sound like one of those self driving cars.
He just drives off the street and kills somebody. Nothing
just went wrong. This is steeped with premeditation. He breaks
in a lotus shotgun, sees her in bed, forces her
out of the bed, makes her.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Kneel at his knees like a Jahati.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Haven't you seen those horrible videos around September eleven where
Jahattis forced the victim to kneel in front of them
to execute them. That's what happened here. He did this,
and he planned to do it. Premeditation could be formed
in the blink of an eye. It doesn't take a
long thought out plan like poisoning someone over the course of.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Weeks and months.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It can be formed that intent to kill and the
time it takes you to raise the gun and pull
the trigger.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
It can be But I would argue that the premeditation
element of murder in this instance would be much harder.
If it turns out that the gun used to commit
this crime was a gun found in the actual house,
if it belonged to someone that resided.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
There another house, I'm sure you have a premeditation argument.
It wasn't found. Logan wasn't sleeping with the gun. He
stole the gun and enters her room, so it doesn't
matter he brought the gun in, he pointed it at
her after making her kneel down, and shot her execution style.
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I mean, just go ahead and get it out of
your system.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
It's a burglary gone wrong. I know that's what you
want to say.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
It's a burglary really wrong. Okay, it's a burglary gone
really wrong. But the premeditated you.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Really you really see what was up? You get wrong?
It went really wrong?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Well, it's premeditation is going to be toughier Nancy. In
my opinion, as a trial lawyer, as a defense lawyer,
even as being as objective as I'm being today, it's
going to be tough to prove premeditation.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I asked you one quick little drink question. Would you
first of all, where did you go to law school versus.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
South Drona and Columbia. And I'm very familiar with that.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Garry teach you about premeditation malicea forethought, minceorea.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Did I assume that was in your criminal so and.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You do agree with the universally held rule of law
that premeditation does not require any set period of time.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
That it can be formed in the blink of an eye.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
It can be formed in the time it takes you
to raise a gun and pull the trigger.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
I agree, we don't have elements of murder though in
South gold I do agree. Nancy. Yeah, but I don't
know that premeditation would even be needed to be proved,
was my point, and I candidly I still think there
will be an argument against it regardless. It's a murder charge.
If the elements of murder are met a mouse forethought
with the intent to kill, which seems to be present here,
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then not only would it be murder, but to doctor
schwartz point, it would certainly qualify for a capital death
pedally prosecution.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Okay, let me ask you another question. I'm going to
make it really easy.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
South Carolina does have felony murder in the criminal code.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Correct, Yes, but that's typically you when it's the hand
of one hand of all type issue. When it is
just one actor, it would be murder. We don't have
certain degrees of murder.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Do you have felony murder? That's a yes, no, Pepper.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Well, yes, murder is a felony offense. Yes.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Now, the theory of felony murder, when a death occurs
during the commission of a felony, it's felony murder.
Speaker 13 (23:18):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
But typically when we look at the law here.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
You figured it out. I'm not I'm just a JD.
I'm not a DDS.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I don't know how to pull a tooth, but I
am willing to get hand me the plawyers because I
am pulling his tooth and I'm doing it right now.
So in South Carolina you have felony murder. Burglary is
a felony and a death occurred in the commission of
a felony. And in South Carolina, felony murder does qualify
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as a death penalty crime.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
It does. You're right, it does.
Speaker 11 (23:53):
Good.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Okay, let's get back to the facts. Now that I've
gone round two with Mark Pepper.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Now I know why you win so many cases. You
just wear the other side down.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You exhaust them till they finally go fine straight probation.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Now leave, I get it, now, I get it. Take
a listen to this.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Investigators catch their suspect on video and recognize him immediately
as frequent flyer Alexander Dickey of the nearly forty criminal charges.
Alexander Dicky has only been sentenced in eight cases that
involved robbery, drug possession, and larceny. In twenty twenty three,
Dicky pleads guilty to third degree burglary and a sentenced
to five years probation. Dicky's probation would have been it
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after the murder of Logan Federico, but it was shortened.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Joining me right now is a very special guest who
I have waited anxiously to meet, and angry and wounded
father who is distraught not only at his girl's murder,
but what he has uncovered about her murder in her sleep.
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Your fraternity wrote, joining me right now Logan's dad, mister Frederico,
thank you for being with us, Thank.
Speaker 13 (25:14):
You for having me. Really appreciate you taking the time
to care about Logan's story.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Please do not thank me number one. Okay, talking to
you inspires us, it angers us, It gives us the
energy to keep going. So please tell me what happened,
starting with the moment you learned something very horrible had occurred.
Speaker 13 (25:42):
Well, obviously, you know may third changed our lives for
the rest of our lives. But one thing everybody has
to make I want to make something perfectly clear, and
we found this out a couple of weeks ago. My
beautiful daughter wasn't murdered in her sleep, Okay, when he
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entered the room, she woke and approached him, and he
made her get on her knees, naked with her hands
up in front of her, stuck a shotgun in her
left cage under her breast, and pulled the trigger, leaving
an itch half whole in her chest. That's what happened,
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was a premeditated execution. The day we found out that
changed everything May third was a horrible day. But at
the end of the day, what we're finding out and
realizing now makes it traumatically worse.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Logan's father is telling us what he has learned now.
The obvious is, mister Federico, that a crime victim. I
am a crime victim. My fiance was murdered shortly before
our wedding, and I thought I knew it all, mister Federico,
until I had my children. I can't even begin to
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think about what you and your family are going through
when you put all your love, all your love, all
your time, all your energy, all your money, everything into
this child. I remember my dad would get off work
at the railroad long days, drive back in from out
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of town and come to my ball games where I
was just a cheerleader. Right, I was a cheerleader. I
wasn't even on the court playing. He never missed one,
even the ones that were out of town.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
My mom too. And when I think back.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
About all their money to send to college, all their
money to fix our teeth, just and then just like that,
it's all gone. How do you learn Logan did not
die in her sleep the way they wanted us to
think it. This sounds just like coburger for Pete's sake.
Speaker 13 (28:17):
Yeah, yeah, let's let's not bring him up. That's a
tragic story, all honest, for those families and what they
went through, and and in my opinion, they didn't get justice.
He doesn't. He doesn't deserve to be an oxygen chief
any longer. He should be put to death immediately, be
honest with you. But you know, when we learned, unfortunately,
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I wasn't home. I was with some friends out on
a golf course, you know, when it first happened. But
when we learned a couple of weeks ago, we had
a meeting with our attorney just to kind of get
caught up on some stuff and see where we stood.
We had him spoken for, you know, a couple weeks
and which is normal, but we haven't heard from the
the solicitor from that district, I think it's District five.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
His name is Byron.
Speaker 13 (29:03):
Haven't heard from that team since the day this pos
had his first bond hearing in that area. You know,
Dick was able to get a fifteen to twenty minute
meeting with him where we kind of said what we
what we thought should happen, and that that that justice
has to fit the crime, you know, the punishment them
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stating everything's on the table. But again, just haven't heard
from him. So obviously, Dick and I met a couple
of weeks ago and just had filled me in on
some other the details. And that's kind of when we found.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Out what really who is Dick? Who is Dick?
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Let me understand that Dick's are.
Speaker 13 (29:44):
Our attorney that's representing Logan. To make sure that all
the eyes gott get crossed. I had a friend reach
out to me and said, hey, I think you need
some representation here to make sure logan kind of gets you.
And obviously I'm not an attorney, but do you know
a few people. And this great guy reached out to
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me and gave me two names, and I reached out
to Dick and he kind of let let you know,
kind of right reached out to me right away and
let's meet and let's talk about this. And as he
investigated it, uh, he just found out that, look, they
the key word here, Nancy really is access, you know.
And it can be explained in a couple of different ways.
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One is the sheriff's department, which they admittedly already either
shrewd up the fingerprints, either they forgot to take them,
or they lost to them, or they were transferred in
the proper way. They don't know, and they've admitted that.
And the sheriff now I don't think was the sheriff
back then, and he's been great. I've talked to him
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once maybe twice. Then to take a look at the
sled department. You know, everybody in that county from one
I understand and knew who Alexander Dickhea was. And it
wasn't from him selling girl Scout cookies, I can tell
you that. And it wasn't from him stealing nickel pieces
of azuka from the convenience store. Okay, it was from
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his crimes that he committed since twenty thirteen. Okay, you know,
then take a look at the solicitors, you know, he
they want to take the two crimes that the fingerprints
happen with, Let's throw those out.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
He is twenty two other felonies after the fact. That okay.
Speaker 13 (31:35):
So then in twenty twenty three, from what I understand,
he goes and commits another arm robbery. Now, like I said,
I'm not an attorney, but the last time I checked,
when you're a felon and your call committee a crime
with a weapon, that's a pretty serious effect.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
So what we have to really want, man, you know it,
hold on, mister Ferderco. I want everyone to understand exactly
who we're talking about. Not all those arrests, but twenty
five felonies.
Speaker 9 (32:04):
Listen, career criminal Alexander Dickey should not have been free
at the time he is accused of murdering Logan Federico,
with more than a decade of crimes behind him. Rick Hubbard,
the Eleventh Circuit Solicitor, at least the blame on a
clerical error.
Speaker 16 (32:19):
He's committed plenty of other crimes that were on his
rap sheet that should have justified him being in jail
at the time. Whether they missed a fingerprint or missed
a charge on his rap sheet or whatever they call
that thing. He shouldn't have been in the streets, no
matter what.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
From our friends at Fitzneeze, A clerical error, whoa what
twenty five clerical eras where they keep letting him out,
letting him out, felony after felony after felony. Every prosecutor knows,
every felony prosecutor knows that when a burglar comes in
and they find a person, an aggravated assault or a
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murder can happen.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So when you go it's just a it's not just
a burglary, and any part with a gun.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Needs to be stopped right then, no probation, no sweetheart
deal when somebody's walking around with a gun. I want
to get back to how you learned that Logan had
been a victim.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
What happened?
Speaker 13 (33:18):
Two officers had showed up in my house while my
wife was making some lunch. I think she got back
from shopping. She saw two officers walk across the front,
Like I said, we knew where our son was. He
was seven minutes away. We used like three sixty a lot,
so we kind of knew where he was. And honestly,
you know, they opened the door and and Melissa said,
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is it logan, And they basically said, you need to
take a seat, and then they logan. Melissa called me
I was out on a golf course about twenty minutes away.
Obviously immediately left. It took about an hour and fifteen
minutes to get home because the traffic, and really kind
of just thought it was a and just a nightmare
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or something mistake. The hard part is, look, you have
twenty te year old kids, right, you expect a party,
they're at college, and you know, maybe something else happened.
But when somebody tells you she was shot, that's a
whole different ballgame. Then when you find out she was
shot by somebody that's only thirty years old. Thirty years
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old and has been arrested thirty nine times. Okay, thirty
years old, arrested thirty nine times, twenty five of them
are felonies, and it's only done a little over six
hundred days in jail. Now here's the other thing that
most people don't know, and nobody will tell us.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
But I know the.
Speaker 13 (34:49):
Judicial system knows this. Within three years of getting released
from prisons, most offenders are rearrested sixty six percent of
the time. Within six years, it's about seventy three percent
of the time. Within ten years, it's eighty three percent
at a time with state prisons, within ten years, it's
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eighty three percent of the time. Some convicts and most
that would tell me you can't rehabilitate them. There might
be year one or two when unfortunately they're the ones
that have to pay the price for the ones that can't.
But here's a sad thing. We would never know that
about Dickie because you never spent any time in jail,
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at least nothing significant.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
When you learned from the officers that showed up at
your home that Logan was a murder victim, what were
you told about what happened to her?
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Uh? You know.
Speaker 13 (35:46):
I had to make a phone call to one of
the detectives that was on seen. I don't remember her name,
but she filled me in with a few details and
I was already short and sweet. It was not sweet,
but it was short, saying, hey, your.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Daughter was shot so let me understand, mister Federico. You
call and the detective basically blurts out, your daughter's dead,
your daughter was shot.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Bam.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
That that particularly that particular officer.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yes, what did you do?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Then?
Speaker 13 (36:13):
You know what that that set us for a loop.
That was a total meltdown by my wife and myself.
That is something that might be and probably is the
most shocking thing one can hear. Uh, it's it's absolutely
uh to.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
Hear that you're you're you're you're.
Speaker 13 (36:34):
Now the father of a murder victim. I mean that's
how age, not proudly in a way, but that's how
you introduce yourself. I mean, I still have two kids.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
You know, what's your daughter do?
Speaker 10 (36:44):
Uh?
Speaker 13 (36:45):
You know, unfortunately she was she's a murder victim. Murder
victim from a crime that never had to happen, was
a thousand percent.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Preventable mister Federico. After the when the officers came to
your home, which is every parent's worse nightmare, and you
know immediately it's logan, what did that officer tell you
and what if anything, did you do?
Speaker 13 (37:09):
There were like I said, I wasn't home. When I
got home, there were two officers from our county, from
Waxhaw where we live, which they were absolutely phenomenal. They
stayed here as long as we needed them to, and
be honestly, they both cried like we did, true human beings, fathers.
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I believe they actually Logan's reception volunteered to lead the
perception to her celebration of life. But they stayed with us.
They you know, they comfort us. They knew the news
was brutal and it shook them to their core as well.
To be perfectly honest with you, two of the finest
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gentlemen I could have possibly asked that, unfortunately give you
that news.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Have you been to the scene of the crime?
Speaker 5 (37:58):
You know what?
Speaker 13 (37:58):
Surprisingly, Noah had it. My plan is to visit the
scene at some point. I just didn't see the point
as of now, you know, I have.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
I have one minit.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I'll tell you something, mister Federico.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I've never gone.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Back to where my fiance was murdered.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Why.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
I don't want to because it's hard enough sometimes, especially
in the years immediately following his murder, it's hard enough
to put one foot in front of the other. But
I fear now you know, I'm raising the twins if
I were to go back there, it would throw me
into a tail spin.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
And I don't know if I could get out of it.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
And you've got work to do, and if that would
throw you off, then don't do it.
Speaker 13 (38:47):
It's got a cause now. And I'll tell you what
there was for a loop was what when we actually
found out what happened to Logan because we were were
in the.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Healing process, my wife, Melissa, and jacob Son, we're all
doing it kind of our own way.
Speaker 13 (39:04):
And I know this sounds weird, but me getting out
there and letting people know what happened to Logan and
how preventable it is, that's my way. That's therapy for me.
And going back to scene the crime, yeah, I think
it's just going to set me back to where I
don't want to be.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
I agree, I hear you.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
I need to find out more to see. When we
first started investigating Logan's murder, we were told that she
died in her sleep. See that's also what we were
told in the Coburger case. And nothing could be further
than the truth. What have you learned about what happened
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to your girl that night?
Speaker 13 (39:48):
You know, when you find out that your child, especially
you know your daughter, she's twenty two years old, absolutely beautiful,
obviously gets that from her mom. But when you hear
that she was told to get on her knees while
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naked and put her hands up in front of her
and for no reason he executed her. I mean she
was five ft four weigh one hundred and fifteen pounds,
I think, I mean, what was she going to do
to this guy?
Speaker 5 (40:22):
Nothing?
Speaker 13 (40:23):
So, you know, and look when they found When we
found out, it was still very early in the investigation,
you know, and the officers kept me up to speed.
It seemed like every hour. But you know, sometimes you
do need the truth to kind of move on. So
now I kind of know what happened with Logan. I
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kind of know where her mindset was. I do know
she was probably calling for me, and I'd say probably
begging for her life and calling for her mom and
calling for her brother.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
You know, I.
Speaker 13 (41:02):
Could prepare yourself for that, but I had to know something.
Not that her getting gunned down in her sleep would
have been any better, But I'll tell you what, her
being executed and knowing it is a lot worse. I mean,
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that's premeditated. The thirty nine crime just got committed. Who
couldn't see that this wasn't going to get elevated, Who
couldn't see that he was going to graduate? His career
resume for his criminal activities should have justified in twenty fifteen,
twenty sixteen, or twenty seventeen that he did fifteen to
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twenty five years in prison and then him and Logan
never meet. Ever. The community down there should be up
in arms. I wouldn't know how many other people like
Alexander Dickey are on the streets.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Think about that, Nancy, You saw the alleged killer in court.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
What happened?
Speaker 13 (42:11):
Well, luckily my wife grabbed my arm because I think
if any father, I wanted to go over the rail,
no doubt in my mind, love to have a few
minutes with him, maybe even an hour. But all he
said at the end of the end of his end
of his little here and there, was get me back
to jail. You know, no remorse, not a care in
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the world, you know, just his typical way of life.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Tell me about your daughter.
Speaker 13 (42:40):
Ah, yeah, that's a good one. Just a beautiful, beautiful
young lady with a smile and a laugh that would
light up a room, brought joy to people and I've
said this in the past, I'm gonna keep saying. She
fought for the underdog.
Speaker 5 (43:00):
Nancy.
Speaker 13 (43:01):
She was that person in school, whether it was middle
school or high school or whichever, that saw those people
that didn't fit in and pulled them in to try
to make them fit in. She wanted to help people.
She wanted to be a teacher. She worked hard, She
worked two jobs. She was a huge Philadelphia Eagles fan,
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one of the biggest. But she also loved traveling the
schools of visit her friends. That was her big thing.
Speaker 7 (43:29):
You know.
Speaker 13 (43:29):
She used to go to Clemson the visitor friend Ally,
she used to go to University of UNC Charlotte to
visit her friend Eric and all his friends. Then of
course the University of South Carolina, an APT state. So
she just she just was really kind of an easy
person to develop a friendship with. You know, she was loyal.
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She was a loyal friend.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
What did she want to do in life?
Speaker 13 (43:56):
Yeah, she wanted to be a teacher. She finally figured
it out like a light bulb one off, probably last
year around this time, she was babysitting full time for
our extra neighbors too little girls, and just that just
to lit a light bulb in front of her that says,
you know what, this is what I need to do,
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And right off the bat, everything changed. Grades, working hard,
going to school all the time, had structure.
Speaker 5 (44:26):
A couple of weeks, probably before.
Speaker 13 (44:29):
She passed, we'd come up with a game plan that
the University of Charleston would be her next attempt to
kind of finish her schooling for teaching. She loved Charleston.
She had four or five really good friends there, so
it wouldn't be a strange place for her. But she
was set. And uh, and you can see if some
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of these pictures are making my heart melt. She just
was the type of person that people really wanted to
be around. She would have made difference. You know, we
meet people in the world that make differences, and we
lost a good one, and we lost a good one
for absolutely zero reasons.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Your daughter an aspiring teacher. What grade did she want
to teach?
Speaker 13 (45:17):
Probably first second grade? We're elementary preschool. She liked, she
liked she liked bringing around the young kids and kind
of being an influence. She wanted to shape them, all
them to get ready for the later years of school.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
Authorities investigated the shooting death of twenty two year old
Logan Federico suspecting a career criminal behind the young girl's
tragic death.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
You're seeing pictures of Logan with her dad. Guys, this
beautiful young girl, just absolutely beautiful on the inside and
the out, wakened in her sleep near fraternity row by
a career chrim. Now she's dead. Her father looking for answers.
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I understand that you became. I understand that you got
evidence that her ATM card was being used.
Speaker 13 (46:13):
Yes, that was kind of I think, part of the puzzle.
You know, for some reason, we still had notifications set
up for her accounts, and I guess sometime in that morning,
five six in the morning, Melissa started getting emails about
our account being overdrawn, and I think that really kind
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of started putting the couple of pieces of the puzzle together. Obviously,
him using the card and other cards that he had
stolen just just kind of just kind of put him
everywhere he.
Speaker 5 (46:47):
Needed to be.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Mister Federica, what is your message tonight? And do you
believe the state will seek the death penalty in this case?
Speaker 13 (46:55):
You know, that's a tough question. We've had, Like I said,
we've had no contact with him. Since May fifth. From
what I read the research I do. No, they're not
going to why From what I understand, he's never asked
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for the death penalty in any cases. He doesn't believe
in the death penalty.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Understand Well, wait, what what the elected district attorney doesn't
quote believe in the death penalty.
Speaker 5 (47:29):
From what I.
Speaker 13 (47:29):
Understand, and and my point to that is this, if
you follow the law, Okay, he dots all the i's
and crosses all the t's for this punishment, like this
punishment fits the crime. This isn't one of those things
where you're going to come to me and say, hey,
he'll admit to the murder if if, if you let
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him live, No thanks, no deal. He deserves the death
penalty because he took someone's life. He's not he can't
be rehabilitated. He's proven that time and time again. These
solicitors have lessened his charges, so he spent zero time
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in jail most of the time. And this is why
we're at where we are. This is why he had
access to my daughter. This is why it's not because
my daughter was at University of South Carolina. It's because
that piece was okay, and there's a reason why he
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was there. There's a reason why he has a gun,
There's a reason why he had access. The keyword to
this case is access, period. And there are many people
in the Lexington area that are responsible for Logan's execution.
They have blood on their hands. They just didn't pull
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the t but they gave him the opportunity to do so.
Speaker 5 (49:04):
And that is it. Period.
Speaker 13 (49:06):
They could back it up all they want for the
rest of their lives. They should feel guilty for the
rest of their lives. This should haunt them, from the
frat brothers to the owner of the gun, to the
Sheriff's department, the freaking solicitors, the judges that all led
a career criminal on the streets that didn't have to
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be there and factually should not have been there. But
you know what, you know what gets votes, Nancy, What
gets votes are convictions. And you know what easy convictions
are when you make a deal with somebody, that's what
you call padding the numbers.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
Mister Federica, what is your message tonight to other parents?
Speaker 13 (49:48):
You know what my message tonight is this Your kids
have rights one to know who they live with in dormitories,
in frat houses, and how this is that they rent
through frats through not frats.
Speaker 5 (50:03):
If they're in a frat, they're.
Speaker 13 (50:04):
Renting houses that are privately owned, they're still frats.
Speaker 5 (50:10):
Okay.
Speaker 13 (50:11):
They have a right to know who has a gun
in that house, and they have a right to back
out of living in that house.
Speaker 5 (50:19):
They have rights.
Speaker 13 (50:21):
People knew he had a gun there and said nothing.
Read your bylaws of the colleges that you go to
the rules, the regulations, the code of conducts. You have
rights not to be surrounded with people that can do
you harm or not protect you from a gun that
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they own, and are not willing to protect people innocent
people around them by showing it the proper way.
Speaker 5 (50:51):
Period.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Mister Perrico, what is next in your investigation? Are you
asking for the death penalty to be.
Speaker 13 (51:00):
Nancy, there is no other thing. I'm not asking, you know,
and I know it doesn't I don't have the final say.
We're demanding Okay, we're demanding that he gets the death penalty. Okay,
that's what he deserves. Now, we are law abiding people
and we believe.
Speaker 5 (51:20):
In the law.
Speaker 13 (51:20):
He gets what he gets. But at the end of
the day, he has to first start out with the
punishment that fits the crime. We want the death penalty.
He deserves a death penalty. He's not getting any forgiveness
from me, from my son Jacob, or from Melissa or
any of her friends.
Speaker 5 (51:40):
No bleeding hearts here.
Speaker 13 (51:43):
And you know what, if they can't do it, let's
find somebody that can.
Speaker 5 (51:49):
I don't worry about.
Speaker 13 (51:50):
My conscience about putting him to death.
Speaker 5 (51:53):
Okay, I'll be there. I'll be there with bells on,
my son will be there. It won't haunt me.
Speaker 13 (52:00):
What haunts me is the fact that this piece of
was out on the streets and didn't have to be
and that I have to make these decisions. My family
had to make decisions on where to lay my daughter
to rest. Okay, she was visiting friends Nancy and didn't
come home.
Speaker 5 (52:21):
Think about that.
Speaker 13 (52:23):
This wasn't cancer, it wasn't a disease, it wasn't a
car accident. This was an execution style murder that didn't
have to happen. And if somebody's one more time says oops,
we made a mistake. You're sorry your daughter is dead.
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Don't say that in front of me.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
I agree with us.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Tonight is a Logan's father, Mister Federko, thank you for being.
Speaker 13 (52:51):
With us my pleasure, Nancy, and again, thank you for
taking the time to care about Logan and getting her
story out there. It needs to be told, It needs
to get.
Speaker 5 (53:02):
Out there across the world.
Speaker 13 (53:04):
This doesn't have to happen, and I can't let this
happen to anyone else.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
I can't Nancy Gray signing off, goodbye friend,
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
A beautiful co ed found dead in a pool of
blood USC Fraternity Row neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
What happened to Logan? I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
I want to thank you for being with us.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Logan Federico is a twenty two year old girl with
a promising bright future ahead, but a weekend trip with
friends takes a deadly turn.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You know, I don't like what he just said. It
takes a deadly turn, like she just got lost somehow
and now she's dead in a pool of blood. It
was not a deadly turn. She was murdered. At first,
we were told she was killed in her sleep, just
like we were told in the Coburger prosecution. Oh, the
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four victims were killed in their sleep, like they fell
asleep and they never woke up. That's not what happened there,
and that's not what happened here. She was forced out
of bed, naked, to kneel, to kneel at the feet
of her chiller before she was executed dead in cold blood.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
That's what happened. Listen to what we know.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Investigators believe the suspect breaks into one of the Cypress
Street homes and he steals keys to a vehicle and
several items, including a firearm. The suspect also breaks into
the home next door. These houses are side by side,
and he steals several items, including a wallet and credit.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
And debit cards.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
While in this residence, we believe that he enters a
room where this Logan is located and fires a fatal shot.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That from our friends at WLTX and blunt forced media. Yeah,
everything he said was right, but it's not like he
enters a room where miss Logan is located and.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Fires a fatal shot.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
No, she was dragged, forced out of her bed where
she's asleep, buck naked and forced to kneel down on
her knees.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
This young co ed girl in the fraternity.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Row neighborhood, mining her own business, kneeling down in front
of the assailant and he shoots her point blank. That's
a lot different from he the enters a room where
miss Logan is and fires a fatal shot.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's no, that is not the way this went down.
What more do we know?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Twenty two year old Logan Federico takes a break from
her two jobs in classes at South Piedmont Community College
and wax on North Carolina to spend a weekend visiting
friends who attend USC and Columbia. South Carolina is firing teacher,
let's loosen with their friends. Returning home on Cyprus Street,
the group quickly dispersed to their rooms, planning to sleep
late Saturday morning, joining us an all star panel.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
But first, I want to go out to a special
guest joining us. We've all heard a fit news before.
Fits news leaped to the forefront of the national consciousness
when Alex Murdog murdered his wife and son.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And joining me right now, Jen Would.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Director research at fitsnews dot Com. Jen, thank you for
being with us. First of all, where was this? I understand?
Is there University of South Carolina forraternity roat neighborhood.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
So it is a neighborhood that's very popular for students.
It's about a half mile to a mile from the
University of South Carolina. I'm campus right by five Points
where all the kids go to the bars, and a
lot of fraternity members have houses there. So yeah, it is.
It's you know what, as a parent, you would hope
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it would be a safe place for your kids to be.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Jen would the way this is being portrayed. It makes
it sound like she was asleep and then she's dead.
That is not at all what happened.
Speaker 8 (04:17):
No, it is not at all what happened. It was
a brutal, brutal homicide. It was so unnecessary, and you know,
just seeing this this young woman, you know, starting her
life out die in that manner.
Speaker 9 (04:32):
And then her.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
Father, Steve also told me that not only did she
die that her epid death, but she'd laid there for
seven hours before anybody discovered her.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You know what's really interesting too, Mark Pepper joining us
from this jurisdiction, a veteran trial lawyer, I might add
at the Pepper Law firm, Mark, why is it that
we heard so much about the Coburger case, which rightfully
we should have because it never did go to trial.
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No telling them what would have happened if we hadn't
been watching it. But nobody is talking about Logan's case.
And it's essentially the same scenario. A PERV who goes
from house to house to house burgling, and doctor Sherry
Schwartz is going to explain the weird thrill burglars get
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from pilfering around in your home like coburger. He comes in,
finds this beautiful girl, a co ed, and murders her.
And at first we're told, oh, it all happened in
her sleep, like somehow that's going to make it better.
But that's not what happened. She knew she was being
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attacked and was even forced to kneel naked in front
of the killer.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Tragic set of events snow down, and I commend you
for bringing attention to it. I will say that it
is early in not only the investigation, but the prostitution
of the case. And I don't think that this is
just a problem that our system provides here in South Carolina,
but nationally, law enforcement has to perform their due diligence,
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just like the defense is entitled to build a defense.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I'm sorry, I just right then, but put him up
due diligence, my rear end, do you diligence? This guy
has a rap sheet as long as I seventy five.
He's a career criminal, Jackie. How many entries is twenty
five felonies?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Okay? Twenty five felonies under his spell.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Due diligence and he was out on the street because
of a clerical error.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
That is not due diligence, Pepper, Well.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Due diligence should have been done clearly leading up to
this event, and it needs to be done now. Nancy.
There's an investigation that's going on. We don't know the
facts and circumstances than what we've been told, which is
not a whole lot from the City of Columbia Police Chief.
To your point, I'm simply pointing out that as the
investigation continues, I think more will come to light and
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hopefully maybe we start talking about logan rightfully so. But
in the meantime, you know, the defendant is entitled to
his day in court. He's going to get his day
in court. He's also entitled to the constitutional protections of
being a defendant, and I suspect that is being weighed
with the interest of the victim and the family, and
it's probably being played a little close to the vest
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at this point. I suspect more information will come out
as days development.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, because I'm going to get the information and I'm
going to put it.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Out there close to the vest.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Not releasing information that's a very far cry, Mark Pepper
from releasing misinformation.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Such as she died in her sleep.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's like she had a bad dream and never woke up,
like maybe she had an aneurism or a heart attack,
maybe a heart defect, and she just drifted off and
never came back. No, that's not what happened at all.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Listen to this Saturday morning. The brothers and their visiting
friends are awoken with a start. A gunshot just rang
out inside their home. The panic young men and women
gather in the living room, but Logan hasn't come out
of the guest room. Her friends burst through the door
to check on her and find Logan unconscious, lying in
a pool of blood. Her belongings ransacked.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So it seems as if she was shot dead and
then the room was ransacked for money or any other valuable.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's cold.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That is cold, And I want to go out to
doctor Eric Eason board first board certified forensic pathologist and consultant.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You can find him on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Eric august Esen, doctor Ethon, thank you for being with us,
Doctor Eson. Question, she wasn't found for at least seven hours?
Will that hander the medical examiner's quest to find out
what happened to her? And this is really important, Aeson,
because I want to clarify and confirm that she was
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kneeling down in front of the killer when he shot her,
and I'm only gonna be able to corroborate that with
the trajectory path of the bullet.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Explain.
Speaker 10 (09:21):
Okay, so yeah, saw it off shotgun. So there would
have been multiple pellets involved, whether it was bird shot
or buckshot. Multiple pellets would have been recovered from her
during the actual autopsy, and the trajectory would have been
all over because once pellets entered the body, they go
all over the place, and so it's usually going front
to back that it's all going up or down. Have
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this thing called a billiard ball effect. All the pellets
just kind of spread once they ender of the body.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Doctor Aerry Aeson, Yes, just slowed down. Because that's a
lot of information, Okay. A shotgun releases a burst of
tiny pellets, as opposed to let's just say too or
any other handgun which releases one bullet at a time,
unless you guys try to see me, or an automatic anyway,
(10:08):
But even with a shotgun releasing multiple pellets, you can
still get a trajectory path. Even though there are multiple
pellets going different ways, you can get.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
An overall path once they enter the body. You know,
the entrance wound for the pellets is on the chest,
on the front of the body. They're all going to
go front to back, but some are going to be
going up, some are going to be going down, left, right,
et cetera. So you can get an overall trajectory up
front to back.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
That's that's sir.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Sure you mentioned a sawed off jin wood? Was the
weapon a saw off shotgun? Mary Hutchison, help me out here.
I've had cases with sawed offs. People carry a saw
off because they can conceal it. A shotgun is this big,
and a sawed off is this big? Right?
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Greg?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
A sawed off in itself is a crime to own
a sawt off shotgun is a crime in itself. Bury,
What is this convicted felon doing with a sawt off?
Speaker 12 (11:10):
Well, you know, Nancy, to me, after reviewing the entire case,
we're looking at the schematics of the case in itself.
I'm looking at the thing as it never should have
happened to begin with.
Speaker 13 (11:20):
Why is this guy on the street.
Speaker 12 (11:24):
I mean, he's got like you said earlier, he's got
a rap sheet as long as your leg, and there's
just been a failure on.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
The level of the judicial system.
Speaker 12 (11:33):
I mean, it's a shame that this young lady lost
her life because of the incomfluence of the system. And
I mean, we're looking at everything hindsight twenty twenty from this,
but the fact of the matter is in my mind
taking place.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Hutchinson, I like you man twenty six years in LA
law enforcement, detective owner, chief investigator, burying Associates, investigative services.
But you're not a preacher. Don't preach to the choir
about this guy should have been behind bars. I'm asking you.
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Is possession of a thawt off shotgun a felony.
Speaker 12 (12:12):
It's a federal felony, so that would be a yes,
it would be a yes.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Pepper jump in. What is this guy doing?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
A career criminal breaking in on this girl in the
shadow a fraternity row where everybody spends all their money
and their hopes and their dreams, and they get their
they get their child into college.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
And then this guy is skulking around, he's the new
Brian Coberger and comes in, gets this girl out.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of bed naked, makes her kneel down in front of
him to shoot her. And the last thing I want
to do this is get a tiger by the tail
is to argue with doctor Eric Esen. But while a
shotgun trajectory is much more complex than a single bullet
because of the pellet spray, you can get the trajectory
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based on external ballistics like the pellet size, the velocity,
the choke.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
The pattern, the range.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Now, shotguns are not meant for pinpoint accuracy, but you
can absolutely even though it's a cluster of pellets and
they spray out as they travel, you can still get
a trajectory path.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And why do I care?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Because I believe the prosecutor can prove whether this guy
gives a confession or not, that he had her kneeling
down in front of him.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
When he murdered her with a sawt off pepper.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Which he clearly was not allowed to possess, purchase, or
even carry around with him at any point in time.
It's not only against federal law, but it's against seat
law here in South Carolina, not only because you can't
have assault off shotgun period, but because of his prior
record as a felm, he was not allowed to down
a shotgun. I will say, however, that the reason he
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was able to be on the streets and be in
that fraternity row. Is because of the judicial system. He
was placed on probation for his last don't look.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Are you trying to tell me, okay, here you go.
Are you trying to say it's the system's fault. Yeah,
it's their fault. They let him out on a clerical error,
but nobody made him break in on Logan and shoot
her dead. Let her dead body lay there seven hours
in a pool of blood while he looks around to
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see if he can find some spare change. So now,
the probation department, the sheriff's fault, is not the judge,
it's not the calendar clerk.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
It's his fault.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
It is clearly his fault if he's proven guilty of
this crime. But it is the fault of the judicial system.
If you're looking to place blame elsewhere regarding some types
of errors, I would make the valid argument, based on
his rap sheet that I'm not seeing a clerical error.
What I'm seeing is conviction after conviction after conviction. Yet somehow,
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be it through the state, through the prosecutor's office, or
through the cinising judges, he's just never doing much time.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
Unbeknownst to the sleeping college students, A burglar is on
the problem the quiet neighborhood, rummaging through nearby homes. The
neighborhood is home to USC fraternity brothers, and with each
roommate on a different schedule, doors are seldom locked. The
burglar gains access walking right through one of the doors
without a sound to alert anyone of his presence.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
How does a beautiful young co ed their off fraternity
row USC University, South Carolina end up dead? She went
to her room to go to sleep, and now she's
found dead in a pool of blood.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Listen to this as the friends call nine to one.
One their next door neighbor is calling to report someone
stealing his car. Still on the phone, the owner notices
a shot gun missing from his home. Law enforcement connects
the dots and begin the hunt for Logan's killer. Just
minutes later, numerous purchases are made in Lexington and Saluta
County using Logan's debit card.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
We believe that he enters a room where the slogan
is located and fires a fatal shot that from.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Our friends at WLTX straight out to Jenwood, joining us
direct to research Fitsnews dot Com. Jen looking at the timeline,
so the perp breaks in. He finds Logan asleep in bed,
starts ransacking the room, forces her out of bed, puts
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her on her knees, shoots her dead. Then he takes
her credit cards and debit cards and goes and uses
the dead girls cards to just go on a shopping spree.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Yeah, he was on a spending spree.
Speaker 14 (17:05):
In Steve Frederica, Logan's father said that he was on
the seventeenth to hold of a golf course and started
getting alerts from her credit card that it was being used.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Oh my stars, straight out to doctor Sherry Schwartz, joining
US forensic psychologists who specializes in capital mitigation and victim advocacy.
She's the author of Criminal Behavior, where law and psychology
intersect issues in legal psychology. He could have just taken
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her stuff and left she was asleep, but he didn't.
He got her out of bed and shot her dead
with a shotgun point blank range. Then he takes her
debit cards and credit cards and goes on a shopping spree.
(18:04):
If that's not aggravating circumstances, I don't know what is.
She's lying there in a pool of blood, bleeding out
off front row and he thinks nothing of it and
uses her credit cards and debit cards. When I say
aggravating circumstance, I'm talking about a legal aggravating circumstance that
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would support seeking the South Carolina death penalty.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's what I'm talking about. Absolutely.
Speaker 15 (18:36):
It would surprise me greatly if the state doesn't seek
the death penalty in a case like this.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Talking about going in.
Speaker 15 (18:43):
And shooting her in her sleep is bad, it's horrible,
it's the worst. But the argument can be made that
it was an act of impulsivity and it wasn't intended,
but all of the behaviors dragging her out of bed,
wanting to see her suffer, because that's what that was about.
Killing her and then stealing her things and going around
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and spending money in almost a celebratory manner, is a
level of depravity that warrants it to be aggravating and
warrants the seeking of the death penalty in this case.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, You know, Mark Pepper, I'm
just waiting for you to say a burglary gone wrong,
like it's the burglary's fault.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Just go ahead and get it out of your system.
This is a gone wrong went wrong. It didn't go wrong.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You're making it sound like one of those self driving cars.
He just drives off the street and kills somebody. Nothing
just went wrong. This is steeped with premeditation. He breaks
in a lotus shotgun, sees her in bed, forces her
out of the bed, makes her.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Kneel at his knees like a Jahati.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Haven't you seen those horrible videos around September eleven where
Jahattis forced the victim to kneel in front of them
to execute them. That's what happened here. He did this,
and he planned to do it. Premeditation could be formed
in the blink of an eye. It doesn't take a
long thought out plan like poisoning someone over the course of.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Weeks and months.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It can be formed that intent to kill and the
time it takes you to raise the gun and pull
the trigger.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
It can be But I would argue that the premeditation
element of murder in this instance would be much harder.
If it turns out that the gun used to commit
this crime was a gun found in the actual house,
if it belonged to someone that resided.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
There another house, I'm sure you have a premeditation argument.
It wasn't found. Logan wasn't sleeping with the gun. He
stole the gun and enters her room, so it doesn't
matter he brought the gun in, he pointed it at
her after making her kneel down, and shot her execution style.
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I mean, just go ahead and get it out of
your system.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
It's a burglary gone wrong. I know that's what you
want to say.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
It's a burglary really wrong. Okay, it's a burglary gone
really wrong. But the premeditated you.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Really you really see what was up? You get wrong?
It went really wrong?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Well, it's premeditation is going to be toughier Nancy. In
my opinion, as a trial lawyer, as a defense lawyer,
even as being as objective as I'm being today, it's
going to be tough to prove premeditation.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I asked you one quick little drink question. Would you
first of all, where did you go to law school versus.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
South Drona and Columbia. And I'm very familiar with that.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Garry teach you about premeditation malicea forethought, minceorea.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Did I assume that was in your criminal so and.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You do agree with the universally held rule of law
that premeditation does not require any set period of time.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
That it can be formed in the blink of an eye.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
It can be formed in the time it takes you
to raise a gun and pull the trigger.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
I agree, we don't have elements of murder though in
South gold I do agree. Nancy. Yeah, but I don't
know that premeditation would even be needed to be proved,
was my point, and I candidly I still think there
will be an argument against it regardless. It's a murder charge.
If the elements of murder are met a mouse forethought
with the intent to kill, which seems to be present here,
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then not only would it be murder, but to doctor
schwartz point, it would certainly qualify for a capital death
pedally prosecution.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Okay, let me ask you another question. I'm going to
make it really easy.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
South Carolina does have felony murder in the criminal code.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Correct, Yes, but that's typically you when it's the hand
of one hand of all type issue. When it is
just one actor, it would be murder. We don't have
certain degrees of murder.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Do you have felony murder? That's a yes, no, Pepper.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Well, yes, murder is a felony offense. Yes.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Now, the theory of felony murder, when a death occurs
during the commission of a felony, it's felony murder.
Speaker 13 (23:18):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
But typically when we look at the law here.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
You figured it out. I'm not I'm just a JD.
I'm not a DDS.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I don't know how to pull a tooth, but I
am willing to get hand me the plawyers because I
am pulling his tooth and I'm doing it right now.
So in South Carolina you have felony murder. Burglary is
a felony and a death occurred in the commission of
a felony. And in South Carolina, felony murder does qualify
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as a death penalty crime.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
It does. You're right, it does.
Speaker 11 (23:53):
Good.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Okay, let's get back to the facts. Now that I've
gone round two with Mark Pepper.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Now I know why you win so many cases. You
just wear the other side down.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You exhaust them till they finally go fine straight probation.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Now leave, I get it, now, I get it. Take
a listen to this.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Investigators catch their suspect on video and recognize him immediately
as frequent flyer Alexander Dickey of the nearly forty criminal charges.
Alexander Dicky has only been sentenced in eight cases that
involved robbery, drug possession, and larceny. In twenty twenty three,
Dicky pleads guilty to third degree burglary and a sentenced
to five years probation. Dicky's probation would have been it
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after the murder of Logan Federico, but it was shortened.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Joining me right now is a very special guest who
I have waited anxiously to meet, and angry and wounded
father who is distraught not only at his girl's murder,
but what he has uncovered about her murder in her sleep.
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Your fraternity wrote, joining me right now Logan's dad, mister Frederico,
thank you for being with us, Thank.
Speaker 13 (25:14):
You for having me. Really appreciate you taking the time
to care about Logan's story.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Please do not thank me number one. Okay, talking to
you inspires us, it angers us, It gives us the
energy to keep going. So please tell me what happened,
starting with the moment you learned something very horrible had occurred.
Speaker 13 (25:42):
Well, obviously, you know may third changed our lives for
the rest of our lives. But one thing everybody has
to make I want to make something perfectly clear, and
we found this out a couple of weeks ago. My
beautiful daughter wasn't murdered in her sleep, Okay, when he
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entered the room, she woke and approached him, and he
made her get on her knees, naked with her hands
up in front of her, stuck a shotgun in her
left cage under her breast, and pulled the trigger, leaving
an itch half whole in her chest. That's what happened,
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was a premeditated execution. The day we found out that
changed everything May third was a horrible day. But at
the end of the day, what we're finding out and
realizing now makes it traumatically worse.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Logan's father is telling us what he has learned now.
The obvious is, mister Federico, that a crime victim. I
am a crime victim. My fiance was murdered shortly before
our wedding, and I thought I knew it all, mister Federico,
until I had my children. I can't even begin to
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think about what you and your family are going through
when you put all your love, all your love, all
your time, all your energy, all your money, everything into
this child. I remember my dad would get off work
at the railroad long days, drive back in from out
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of town and come to my ball games where I
was just a cheerleader. Right, I was a cheerleader. I
wasn't even on the court playing. He never missed one,
even the ones that were out of town.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
My mom too. And when I think back.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
About all their money to send to college, all their
money to fix our teeth, just and then just like that,
it's all gone. How do you learn Logan did not
die in her sleep the way they wanted us to
think it. This sounds just like coburger for Pete's sake.
Speaker 13 (28:17):
Yeah, yeah, let's let's not bring him up. That's a
tragic story, all honest, for those families and what they
went through, and and in my opinion, they didn't get justice.
He doesn't. He doesn't deserve to be an oxygen chief
any longer. He should be put to death immediately, be
honest with you. But you know, when we learned, unfortunately,
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I wasn't home. I was with some friends out on
a golf course, you know, when it first happened. But
when we learned a couple of weeks ago, we had
a meeting with our attorney just to kind of get
caught up on some stuff and see where we stood.
We had him spoken for, you know, a couple weeks
and which is normal, but we haven't heard from the
the solicitor from that district, I think it's District five.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
His name is Byron.
Speaker 13 (29:03):
Haven't heard from that team since the day this pos
had his first bond hearing in that area. You know,
Dick was able to get a fifteen to twenty minute
meeting with him where we kind of said what we
what we thought should happen, and that that that justice
has to fit the crime, you know, the punishment them
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stating everything's on the table. But again, just haven't heard
from him. So obviously, Dick and I met a couple
of weeks ago and just had filled me in on
some other the details. And that's kind of when we found.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Out what really who is Dick? Who is Dick?
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Let me understand that Dick's are.
Speaker 13 (29:44):
Our attorney that's representing Logan. To make sure that all
the eyes gott get crossed. I had a friend reach
out to me and said, hey, I think you need
some representation here to make sure logan kind of gets you.
And obviously I'm not an attorney, but do you know
a few people. And this great guy reached out to
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me and gave me two names, and I reached out
to Dick and he kind of let let you know,
kind of right reached out to me right away and
let's meet and let's talk about this. And as he
investigated it, uh, he just found out that, look, they
the key word here, Nancy really is access, you know.
And it can be explained in a couple of different ways.
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One is the sheriff's department, which they admittedly already either
shrewd up the fingerprints, either they forgot to take them,
or they lost to them, or they were transferred in
the proper way. They don't know, and they've admitted that.
And the sheriff now I don't think was the sheriff
back then, and he's been great. I've talked to him
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once maybe twice. Then to take a look at the
sled department. You know, everybody in that county from one
I understand and knew who Alexander Dickhea was. And it
wasn't from him selling girl Scout cookies, I can tell
you that. And it wasn't from him stealing nickel pieces
of azuka from the convenience store. Okay, it was from
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his crimes that he committed since twenty thirteen. Okay, you know,
then take a look at the solicitors, you know, he
they want to take the two crimes that the fingerprints
happen with, Let's throw those out.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
He is twenty two other felonies after the fact. That okay.
Speaker 13 (31:35):
So then in twenty twenty three, from what I understand,
he goes and commits another arm robbery. Now, like I said,
I'm not an attorney, but the last time I checked,
when you're a felon and your call committee a crime
with a weapon, that's a pretty serious effect.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
So what we have to really want, man, you know it,
hold on, mister Ferderco. I want everyone to understand exactly
who we're talking about. Not all those arrests, but twenty
five felonies.
Speaker 9 (32:04):
Listen, career criminal Alexander Dickey should not have been free
at the time he is accused of murdering Logan Federico,
with more than a decade of crimes behind him. Rick Hubbard,
the Eleventh Circuit Solicitor, at least the blame on a
clerical error.
Speaker 16 (32:19):
He's committed plenty of other crimes that were on his
rap sheet that should have justified him being in jail
at the time. Whether they missed a fingerprint or missed
a charge on his rap sheet or whatever they call
that thing. He shouldn't have been in the streets, no
matter what.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
From our friends at Fitzneeze, A clerical error, whoa what
twenty five clerical eras where they keep letting him out,
letting him out, felony after felony after felony. Every prosecutor knows,
every felony prosecutor knows that when a burglar comes in
and they find a person, an aggravated assault or a
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murder can happen.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So when you go it's just a it's not just
a burglary, and any part with a gun.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Needs to be stopped right then, no probation, no sweetheart
deal when somebody's walking around with a gun. I want
to get back to how you learned that Logan had
been a victim.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
What happened?
Speaker 13 (33:18):
Two officers had showed up in my house while my
wife was making some lunch. I think she got back
from shopping. She saw two officers walk across the front,
Like I said, we knew where our son was. He
was seven minutes away. We used like three sixty a lot,
so we kind of knew where he was. And honestly,
you know, they opened the door and and Melissa said,
(33:41):
is it logan, And they basically said, you need to
take a seat, and then they logan. Melissa called me
I was out on a golf course about twenty minutes away.
Obviously immediately left. It took about an hour and fifteen
minutes to get home because the traffic, and really kind
of just thought it was a and just a nightmare
(34:02):
or something mistake. The hard part is, look, you have
twenty te year old kids, right, you expect a party,
they're at college, and you know, maybe something else happened.
But when somebody tells you she was shot, that's a
whole different ballgame. Then when you find out she was
shot by somebody that's only thirty years old. Thirty years
(34:26):
old and has been arrested thirty nine times. Okay, thirty
years old, arrested thirty nine times, twenty five of them
are felonies, and it's only done a little over six
hundred days in jail. Now here's the other thing that
most people don't know, and nobody will tell us.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
But I know the.
Speaker 13 (34:49):
Judicial system knows this. Within three years of getting released
from prisons, most offenders are rearrested sixty six percent of
the time. Within six years, it's about seventy three percent
of the time. Within ten years, it's eighty three percent
at a time with state prisons, within ten years, it's
(35:10):
eighty three percent of the time. Some convicts and most
that would tell me you can't rehabilitate them. There might
be year one or two when unfortunately they're the ones
that have to pay the price for the ones that can't.
But here's a sad thing. We would never know that
about Dickie because you never spent any time in jail,
(35:31):
at least nothing significant.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
When you learned from the officers that showed up at
your home that Logan was a murder victim, what were
you told about what happened to her?
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Uh? You know.
Speaker 13 (35:46):
I had to make a phone call to one of
the detectives that was on seen. I don't remember her name,
but she filled me in with a few details and
I was already short and sweet. It was not sweet,
but it was short, saying, hey, your.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Daughter was shot so let me understand, mister Federico. You
call and the detective basically blurts out, your daughter's dead,
your daughter was shot.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Bam.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
That that particularly that particular officer.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yes, what did you do?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Then?
Speaker 13 (36:13):
You know what that that set us for a loop.
That was a total meltdown by my wife and myself.
That is something that might be and probably is the
most shocking thing one can hear. Uh, it's it's absolutely
uh to.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
Hear that you're you're you're you're.
Speaker 13 (36:34):
Now the father of a murder victim. I mean that's
how age, not proudly in a way, but that's how
you introduce yourself. I mean, I still have two kids.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
You know, what's your daughter do?
Speaker 10 (36:44):
Uh?
Speaker 13 (36:45):
You know, unfortunately she was she's a murder victim. Murder
victim from a crime that never had to happen, was
a thousand percent.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Preventable mister Federico. After the when the officers came to
your home, which is every parent's worse nightmare, and you
know immediately it's logan, what did that officer tell you
and what if anything, did you do?
Speaker 13 (37:09):
There were like I said, I wasn't home. When I
got home, there were two officers from our county, from
Waxhaw where we live, which they were absolutely phenomenal. They
stayed here as long as we needed them to, and
be honestly, they both cried like we did, true human beings, fathers.
(37:29):
I believe they actually Logan's reception volunteered to lead the
perception to her celebration of life. But they stayed with us.
They you know, they comfort us. They knew the news
was brutal and it shook them to their core as well.
To be perfectly honest with you, two of the finest
(37:50):
gentlemen I could have possibly asked that, unfortunately give you
that news.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Have you been to the scene of the crime?
Speaker 5 (37:58):
You know what?
Speaker 13 (37:58):
Surprisingly, Noah had it. My plan is to visit the
scene at some point. I just didn't see the point
as of now, you know, I have.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
I have one minit.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I'll tell you something, mister Federico.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I've never gone.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Back to where my fiance was murdered.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Why.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
I don't want to because it's hard enough sometimes, especially
in the years immediately following his murder, it's hard enough
to put one foot in front of the other. But
I fear now you know, I'm raising the twins if
I were to go back there, it would throw me
into a tail spin.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
And I don't know if I could get out of it.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
And you've got work to do, and if that would
throw you off, then don't do it.
Speaker 13 (38:47):
It's got a cause now. And I'll tell you what
there was for a loop was what when we actually
found out what happened to Logan because we were were
in the.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Healing process, my wife, Melissa, and jacob Son, we're all
doing it kind of our own way.
Speaker 13 (39:04):
And I know this sounds weird, but me getting out
there and letting people know what happened to Logan and
how preventable it is, that's my way. That's therapy for me.
And going back to scene the crime, yeah, I think
it's just going to set me back to where I
don't want to be.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
I agree, I hear you.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
I need to find out more to see. When we
first started investigating Logan's murder, we were told that she
died in her sleep. See that's also what we were
told in the Coburger case. And nothing could be further
than the truth. What have you learned about what happened
(39:47):
to your girl that night?
Speaker 13 (39:48):
You know, when you find out that your child, especially
you know your daughter, she's twenty two years old, absolutely beautiful,
obviously gets that from her mom. But when you hear
that she was told to get on her knees while
(40:08):
naked and put her hands up in front of her
and for no reason he executed her. I mean she
was five ft four weigh one hundred and fifteen pounds,
I think, I mean, what was she going to do
to this guy?
Speaker 5 (40:22):
Nothing?
Speaker 13 (40:23):
So, you know, and look when they found When we
found out, it was still very early in the investigation,
you know, and the officers kept me up to speed.
It seemed like every hour. But you know, sometimes you
do need the truth to kind of move on. So
now I kind of know what happened with Logan. I
(40:44):
kind of know where her mindset was. I do know
she was probably calling for me, and I'd say probably
begging for her life and calling for her mom and
calling for her brother.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
You know, I.
Speaker 13 (41:02):
Could prepare yourself for that, but I had to know something.
Not that her getting gunned down in her sleep would
have been any better, But I'll tell you what, her
being executed and knowing it is a lot worse. I mean,
(41:24):
that's premeditated. The thirty nine crime just got committed. Who
couldn't see that this wasn't going to get elevated, Who
couldn't see that he was going to graduate? His career
resume for his criminal activities should have justified in twenty fifteen,
twenty sixteen, or twenty seventeen that he did fifteen to
(41:46):
twenty five years in prison and then him and Logan
never meet. Ever. The community down there should be up
in arms. I wouldn't know how many other people like
Alexander Dickey are on the streets.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Think about that, Nancy, You saw the alleged killer in court.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
What happened?
Speaker 13 (42:11):
Well, luckily my wife grabbed my arm because I think
if any father, I wanted to go over the rail,
no doubt in my mind, love to have a few
minutes with him, maybe even an hour. But all he
said at the end of the end of his end
of his little here and there, was get me back
to jail. You know, no remorse, not a care in
(42:33):
the world, you know, just his typical way of life.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Tell me about your daughter.
Speaker 13 (42:40):
Ah, yeah, that's a good one. Just a beautiful, beautiful
young lady with a smile and a laugh that would
light up a room, brought joy to people and I've
said this in the past, I'm gonna keep saying. She
fought for the underdog.
Speaker 5 (43:00):
Nancy.
Speaker 13 (43:01):
She was that person in school, whether it was middle
school or high school or whichever, that saw those people
that didn't fit in and pulled them in to try
to make them fit in. She wanted to help people.
She wanted to be a teacher. She worked hard, She
worked two jobs. She was a huge Philadelphia Eagles fan,
(43:23):
one of the biggest. But she also loved traveling the
schools of visit her friends. That was her big thing.
Speaker 7 (43:29):
You know.
Speaker 13 (43:29):
She used to go to Clemson the visitor friend Ally,
she used to go to University of UNC Charlotte to
visit her friend Eric and all his friends. Then of
course the University of South Carolina, an APT state. So
she just she just was really kind of an easy
person to develop a friendship with. You know, she was loyal.
(43:53):
She was a loyal friend.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
What did she want to do in life?
Speaker 13 (43:56):
Yeah, she wanted to be a teacher. She finally figured
it out like a light bulb one off, probably last
year around this time, she was babysitting full time for
our extra neighbors too little girls, and just that just
to lit a light bulb in front of her that says,
you know what, this is what I need to do,
(44:18):
And right off the bat, everything changed. Grades, working hard,
going to school all the time, had structure.
Speaker 5 (44:26):
A couple of weeks, probably before.
Speaker 13 (44:29):
She passed, we'd come up with a game plan that
the University of Charleston would be her next attempt to
kind of finish her schooling for teaching. She loved Charleston.
She had four or five really good friends there, so
it wouldn't be a strange place for her. But she
was set. And uh, and you can see if some
(44:52):
of these pictures are making my heart melt. She just
was the type of person that people really wanted to
be around. She would have made difference. You know, we
meet people in the world that make differences, and we
lost a good one, and we lost a good one
for absolutely zero reasons.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Your daughter an aspiring teacher. What grade did she want
to teach?
Speaker 13 (45:17):
Probably first second grade? We're elementary preschool. She liked, she
liked she liked bringing around the young kids and kind
of being an influence. She wanted to shape them, all
them to get ready for the later years of school.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
Authorities investigated the shooting death of twenty two year old
Logan Federico suspecting a career criminal behind the young girl's
tragic death.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
You're seeing pictures of Logan with her dad. Guys, this
beautiful young girl, just absolutely beautiful on the inside and
the out, wakened in her sleep near fraternity row by
a career chrim. Now she's dead. Her father looking for answers.
(46:05):
I understand that you became. I understand that you got
evidence that her ATM card was being used.
Speaker 13 (46:13):
Yes, that was kind of I think, part of the puzzle.
You know, for some reason, we still had notifications set
up for her accounts, and I guess sometime in that morning,
five six in the morning, Melissa started getting emails about
our account being overdrawn, and I think that really kind
(46:34):
of started putting the couple of pieces of the puzzle together. Obviously,
him using the card and other cards that he had
stolen just just kind of just kind of put him
everywhere he.
Speaker 5 (46:47):
Needed to be.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Mister Federica, what is your message tonight? And do you
believe the state will seek the death penalty in this case?
Speaker 13 (46:55):
You know, that's a tough question. We've had, Like I said,
we've had no contact with him. Since May fifth. From
what I read the research I do. No, they're not
going to why From what I understand, he's never asked
(47:16):
for the death penalty in any cases. He doesn't believe
in the death penalty.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Understand Well, wait, what what the elected district attorney doesn't
quote believe in the death penalty.
Speaker 5 (47:29):
From what I.
Speaker 13 (47:29):
Understand, and and my point to that is this, if
you follow the law, Okay, he dots all the i's
and crosses all the t's for this punishment, like this
punishment fits the crime. This isn't one of those things
where you're going to come to me and say, hey,
he'll admit to the murder if if, if you let
(47:51):
him live, No thanks, no deal. He deserves the death
penalty because he took someone's life. He's not he can't
be rehabilitated. He's proven that time and time again. These
solicitors have lessened his charges, so he spent zero time
(48:15):
in jail most of the time. And this is why
we're at where we are. This is why he had
access to my daughter. This is why it's not because
my daughter was at University of South Carolina. It's because
that piece was okay, and there's a reason why he
(48:36):
was there. There's a reason why he has a gun,
There's a reason why he had access. The keyword to
this case is access, period. And there are many people
in the Lexington area that are responsible for Logan's execution.
They have blood on their hands. They just didn't pull
(48:59):
the t but they gave him the opportunity to do so.
Speaker 5 (49:04):
And that is it. Period.
Speaker 13 (49:06):
They could back it up all they want for the
rest of their lives. They should feel guilty for the
rest of their lives. This should haunt them, from the
frat brothers to the owner of the gun, to the
Sheriff's department, the freaking solicitors, the judges that all led
a career criminal on the streets that didn't have to
(49:28):
be there and factually should not have been there. But
you know what, you know what gets votes, Nancy, What
gets votes are convictions. And you know what easy convictions
are when you make a deal with somebody, that's what
you call padding the numbers.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
Mister Federica, what is your message tonight to other parents?
Speaker 13 (49:48):
You know what my message tonight is this Your kids
have rights one to know who they live with in dormitories,
in frat houses, and how this is that they rent
through frats through not frats.
Speaker 5 (50:03):
If they're in a frat, they're.
Speaker 13 (50:04):
Renting houses that are privately owned, they're still frats.
Speaker 5 (50:10):
Okay.
Speaker 13 (50:11):
They have a right to know who has a gun
in that house, and they have a right to back
out of living in that house.
Speaker 5 (50:19):
They have rights.
Speaker 13 (50:21):
People knew he had a gun there and said nothing.
Read your bylaws of the colleges that you go to
the rules, the regulations, the code of conducts. You have
rights not to be surrounded with people that can do
you harm or not protect you from a gun that
(50:42):
they own, and are not willing to protect people innocent
people around them by showing it the proper way.
Speaker 5 (50:51):
Period.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Mister Perrico, what is next in your investigation? Are you
asking for the death penalty to be.
Speaker 13 (51:00):
Nancy, there is no other thing. I'm not asking, you know,
and I know it doesn't I don't have the final say.
We're demanding Okay, we're demanding that he gets the death penalty. Okay,
that's what he deserves. Now, we are law abiding people
and we believe.
Speaker 5 (51:20):
In the law.
Speaker 13 (51:20):
He gets what he gets. But at the end of
the day, he has to first start out with the
punishment that fits the crime. We want the death penalty.
He deserves a death penalty. He's not getting any forgiveness
from me, from my son Jacob, or from Melissa or
any of her friends.
Speaker 5 (51:40):
No bleeding hearts here.
Speaker 13 (51:43):
And you know what, if they can't do it, let's
find somebody that can.
Speaker 5 (51:49):
I don't worry about.
Speaker 13 (51:50):
My conscience about putting him to death.
Speaker 5 (51:53):
Okay, I'll be there. I'll be there with bells on,
my son will be there. It won't haunt me.
Speaker 13 (52:00):
What haunts me is the fact that this piece of
was out on the streets and didn't have to be
and that I have to make these decisions. My family
had to make decisions on where to lay my daughter
to rest. Okay, she was visiting friends Nancy and didn't
come home.
Speaker 5 (52:21):
Think about that.
Speaker 13 (52:23):
This wasn't cancer, it wasn't a disease, it wasn't a
car accident. This was an execution style murder that didn't
have to happen. And if somebody's one more time says oops,
we made a mistake. You're sorry your daughter is dead.
(52:43):
Don't say that in front of me.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
I agree with us.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Tonight is a Logan's father, Mister Federko, thank you for being.
Speaker 13 (52:51):
With us my pleasure, Nancy, and again, thank you for
taking the time to care about Logan and getting her
story out there. It needs to be told, It needs
to get.
Speaker 5 (53:02):
Out there across the world.
Speaker 13 (53:04):
This doesn't have to happen, and I can't let this
happen to anyone else.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
I can't Nancy Gray signing off, goodbye friend,
Host
Nancy Grace
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