Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - MURDERED CO-ED LOGAN FEDERICO FATHER BERATES LAWMAKERS OVER POLICIES ALLOWING REPEAT OFFENDER SUSPECT TO WALK FREE

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

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.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A beautiful co-ed found dead in a pool of blood. She was murdered. 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. Now she's dead. Her father looking for answers.

Joining me right now, Logan's dad. Mr. Federico, thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. Really appreciate you taking the time to care about Logan's story. 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 well obviously you know May 3rd 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. When he 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 inch and a half hole in her chest. That's what happened.

It was a premeditated execution. The day we found out that changed everything. May 3rd was a horrible day. But at the end of the day, what we're finding out and realizing now makes it dramatically worse. 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 coming in the room and wake them, and drag her out of bed, naked, forced 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 115 pounds. Bang! Dead. Gone. Why? Because Alexander Devante Dickie, who was arrested third. 49 times, 25 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 in jail for over 140 years for all the crimes he committed. You know how much time he spent in prison? A little over 600 days in 10 years. He's only 30 years old. He was committing 2.65 crimes a year since he was 15 years old, but nobody could figure out that he couldn't be rehabilitated.

Well, you'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 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 Gowdy how pathetic is that that we're letting our 22-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 Irina. And you will not forget her. 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 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. Mr. Federico, what is your message tonight? And do you believe the state will seek the death penalty in this case? You know, that's a tough question. We've had, like I said, we've had no contact with them since May 5th. From what I read, the research I do, no, they're not going to. Why? from what I understand

he's never asked for the death penalty in any cases he doesn't believe in the death penalty so I understand well wait wait wait what the elected district attorney doesn't quote believe in the death penalty from what I understand

and my point to that is this if you follow the wall okay he dots all the eyes and crosses all the tease 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 you let them 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 we 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 it's because

that piece of was okay and there's a reason why he was there's a reason why he has a gun There's a reason why he had access. The key word 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 the trigger. But they gave him the opportunity to do so. And that is it, period.

They can 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 friggin solicitors, the judges that all let 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 know what easy convictions are when you make a deal with somebody?

That's what you call padding the numbers. 39 crimes in 10 years, 25 felonies. Can anybody here explain to me how possibly he could be on the street? Possibly be on the street. How is it possible? I could sit down a room and I can explain the whole process of how it failed,

How South Carolina failed, Logan. How lack of communication. What y'all did, you woke up a beast, and you pissed off the wrong daddy. Because I'm going to 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 a floor for seven hours before somebody in that house recognized.

that something was wrong. And that cure a 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 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.

We wait as justice unfolds. Nancy Grace signing off. Good night, friend.