Dad Fights Back: Coed Found in Pool of Blood, USC Fraternity Row Neighborhood

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.

Now, Logan's father, Stephen, lashed out at  lawmakers during a congressional hearing in Charlotte, North Carolina.   He ripped at lawmakers for policies which ensured the suspect was back on the street despite a lengthy criminal record,  39 arrests with 25 felony charges. Listen to his powerful words. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a beautiful co ed found
dead in a pool of blood. She was murdered.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
She was forced out of bed naked to kneel at
the feet of her killer, and he shoots her point
blank in cold blood. He comes in, finds this beautiful girl,
a co ed, and murders her.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Now she's dead, her father looking for answers. Joining me
right now, Logan's dad, mister Frederico, thank you for being
with us, Thank.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
You for having me. Really appreciate you taking the time
to care about Logan's story.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
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 4 (01:13):
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

(01:35):
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, levi
an itch half whole in her chest. That's what happened,

(01:55):
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 5 (02:15):
How many of y'all have kids, I'm just curious. Here's
what I need you to do when I tell you
this story. Think about your kids. Think about your child
coming home from a night out with their friends, laying down,
going to sleep, feeling somebody come in the room and
wake them and drag her out of bed, naked, forced

(02:41):
on her knees with her hands over her head, begging
for her life, begging for her hero, her father me,
that couldn't be there. She was five foot three, she
weighed one hundred and fifteen pound. Bang dead gone. Why

(03:10):
because Alexander Devonte Dickey, who was arrested thirty nine times
twenty five felonies, was on the street. How about that?
How good are we doing for our family? How good
are you doing for your kids. He should have been

(03:34):
in jail for over one hundred and forty years for
all the crimes he committed. You know how much time
he's spent in prison, a little over six hundred days
in ten years. He's only thirty years old. He was
committing two point sixty five crimes a year since he
was fifteen years old. But nobody could figure out that

(03:57):
he couldn't be rehabilitated. He'd have to put him in
prison to see if he could be rehabilitated. Isn't that
the idea of prison? But no, my daughter wanted to
be a teacher. She finally figured it out two weeks
before she was executed. And I haven't heard a damn

(04:21):
word from Byron Gibson in South Carolina, not one word,
four months, no communication. His biggest concern was that he
was pissed off about my interview and how I made
him look on the Fox News Channel with Trey Gowdi.
How pathetic is that that we're letting our twenty two

(04:42):
year old kid visiting friends. It's all she ever wanted
to do was visit friends, and she literally was executed
while on her knees, begging for her life. Her name's
logan Federico, not irena, and you will not forget her.

(05:04):
I promise you you will be sick and tired of
my face and my voice until this gets fixed. I
will fight until my last breath for my daughter. You
need to fight for the rest of our children, the
rest of the innocence, and stop protecting the people that

(05:27):
keep taking them from us. Please, you have the power.
We put you in the power to do what you
have to do. We're asking you, we're begging you all
to stop this.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Mister Federico, what is your message tonight? And do you
believe the state will seek the death penalty in this case?

Speaker 4 (05:53):
You know that's a tough question. We've had. Like I said,
we've had no contact with them 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

(06:13):
for the death penalty in any cases. He doesn't believe
in the death penalty?

Speaker 2 (06:19):
What what? What?

Speaker 4 (06:20):
What?

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Wait? What?

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Wait?

Speaker 5 (06:21):
What?

Speaker 3 (06:22):
The elected district attorney doesn't quote believe in the death
penalty from what I.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Understand, and and and my point to that is this,
if you follow the law, Okay, he dots all the
I's and crosses all the teas for this punishment, like
this punishment fits the crime. That 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

(06:49):
them live. No thanks, no deal. He deserves the death
penalty because he took someone's life. He's he can't be rehabilitated.
He's proven that time and time again. These solicitors have

(07:10):
lessened his charges, so he spent zero time 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, and it's because that

(07:31):
piece was okay. And there's a reason why he 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

(07:55):
blood on their hands. They just didn't pull the trigger,
but they gave him the opportunity to do so. And
that is it. Period. 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

(08:16):
the gun, to the sheriff's department, the frigging solicitors, the
judges that all led a career criminal on the streets
that didn't have to 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

(08:37):
know what easy convictions are when you make a deal
with somebody. That's what you call patting.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
The numbers thirty nine crimes in ten years, twenty five felonies.
Can anybody here explain to me, well, how possibly he
could be on the street, possibly be on the street?
How is it possible? I could sit down a room

(09:03):
and I can explain the whole process I have it failed?
How South Carolina failed?

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Logan?

Speaker 5 (09:08):
Okay, how lack of communication? What y'all did? You woke
up a beast and you pissed off the wrong daddy?
Because I'm gonna put it out there and I'm not
going to be quiet until somebody helps. Logan deserves to
be heard. Everyone on this panel deserves to be heard,
and we will trust me. My daughter laid on the

(09:31):
floor for seven hours before somebody in that house recognized
that something was wrong and that curer criminal an hour later,
went on a spending spree with her debit card. When
they saw his face on a video, they didn't have
to do a check. He was arrested so many times.

(09:53):
They knew who he was, They knew exactly where to
go get him. Pathetic, absolutely pathetic that I'm here today.
Thank you for your time.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
We wait as justice unfolds. Nancy Grace signing off, good
night friend,