True Crime with Kimbyr - She Disappeared-Days Later Police Find A Burn Barrel - The Chilling Murder of Autumn Strickland: Part 3

Episode Date: July 20, 2025

Part 3 of True Crime with Kimbyr brings the emotional and investigative journey to a powerful close. Kimbyrleigha walks us through the suspect’s arrest, the community’s response, and the painful court proceedings that followed. As Autumn’s loved ones seek justice, shocking revelations about the suspect’s behaviour and motives emerge. How could someone commit such a calculated act—and why Autumn? True Crime with Kimbyr offers a compassionate yet thorough final look into a life cut short, a case still unfolding, and a mother whose memory continues to echo through those fighting for the truth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm sure you get the context of what's happening here. This is right outside of Trinity's dorm room. It is dark. You can see some lights outside. And you can even see the staircase that she was trying to climb up when he's following behind her. He said to her, I swear, take a chance and let me show you something. I swear, take a chance and let me show you some still. She says, show me what?

Show me what. And he says, take the time to go with me to the house and just sit down. Let's talk. Let me show you everything that I know. Take the time to go with me to the house and just sit down and us talk. Let me show you everything that I know. No, I can't do that. At this point, she is protesting.

She's saying, no, I can't do that. Telling the stranger, I don't know who you are. I don't know who you are. And it's creepy. Trinity turns around and as she made her way up those stairs to her dorm, she tells Logan, I wouldn't recommend touching women again. And I wouldn't recommend touching women again. He's like, say what?

And she repeats, I wouldn't recommend doing this. I wouldn't recommend doing this. I just moved back. And to me, it seems like he said something along the lines of I just moved back here, and she's like, I know. But it's like, you came up to me and you grabbed me and wouldn't let me go. I wouldn't recommend doing that.

I know, but you like came up to me and you grabbed me and you wouldn't let me go. I wouldn't recommend doing that. And you can kind of hear him say, I was giving you a hug. Now, this is three weeks before Autumn encountered Logan around the same area where Trinity was confronted by him. He was clearly on the prowl again. And Autumn, just like Trinity, didn't even know Logan.

Although we can't know exactly what transpired outside in that parking lot as Autumn walked to her car, we can imagine it was something similar to this situation. Authorities believe as she was making her way to her car, somehow Logan might have convinced her to give him a ride home. We know he was using ploys like, can I use your phone? I ran out of gas. So maybe Autumn considered that.

Or maybe he just made him just made. made a move, she resisted, and he attacked her and grabbed the keys to her car, and then chased her down and ran her over twice before fleeing and abandoning it. And in a now eerie tweet, Logan once posted, quote, I'm not the type to be ran over, end quote. But apparently he's the type that runs someone over and leaves them to die. He was already awaiting trial for the charges against him relating to threatening to kill his parents allegedly, and now it was attempted murder. And while Logan was being held at the Lauderdale County Detention Center,

officers executed a search warrant on his property where he was living. Now I have to say the pictures of the outside of his home, it looks very different to the one he posted on Facebook just a couple years before this. Now it looks run down and haunting. There's like an old tire outside, a doorframe that's broken, and it looks like there's nothing inside his house. But it's especially creepy knowing what was found on the premises, a burn barrel. And when they looked inside, there was evidence that there had been a fire in that barrel at some point,

and that fire was used to destroy a human body. Because under further investigation, human remains were found in the bottom of that burn barrel. This was not the outcome that anyone wanted or expected. Autumn was still missing, and now there was a high likelihood that this was her body inside. side of that burn barrel. Florence Police Department held a press conference at the same day on May 20th, and here is what was presented to the public.

Good evening, my name is Jason Ford, and I'm the captain of the Criminal Investigation Division at Florence Police Department. I want to provide you an important update into the investigation of the missing person, Autumn Strickland. Earlier this afternoon, detectives discovered human remains at a residence in the 2200 block of Northwood Avenue.

This is the same residence where early this morning our suspect Logan Rogers was taken into custody. Based on this discovery, his charges haven't upgraded to murder. He's being held without bond pending in a Nio's law hearing. He is still currently in the Lauderdale County Detention Center. Those remains will be sent to a forensics lab to be analyzed for proper identification. I want to commend our detectives for their tireless work throughout this entire case and also for the continued support and assistance from the community.

They had to have forensics confirm the identity of those remains, but everyone already knew the truth. Logan had not only run over this beautiful, innocent mother who lost her child due to cancer and was now becoming a mother for the second time and happy in her life. But he took her back to his house and he burned her body. Two days later on May 22nd,

her friend from back in Florida, Lindsay Maldonado, did an interview with the news. She said she had just spoken to Autumn a month ago and said she was ready to move back to Florida after spending two years in Alabama. But this is what else Lindsay had to say. Just devastated. It sounds like a date line or crime junkie episode, but it's my friend. You know, it's not, it's not right. Just happy. Silly, you could always call Autumn, you know, she was just always fun. Very easy to be around and have fun with. She loved horseback riding, the beach, boating, all everything that South Florida has to offer. She was about it. Maudeano says Strickland had a son who passed away from cancer.

But a few years later, she welcomed her daughter into the world. And Maudeau has strong words for whoever killed that little girl's mother. You're heartless. And you really deserve to be done to you what you did to her. It seems like just punishment. What a monster. And at this point, D.A. Chris Connolly said, there was no known connection or relationship between Logan and Autumn. By all accounts, they were strangers.

And this made this crime baffling and frightening, especially to the public. It seemed like a random act of violence perpetrated against a woman who simply happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It also meant investigators had to work from scratch to figure out how and why he targeted Autumn. Those answers were still elusive as Logan was led away in handcuffs as he maintained his silence. Now, there are details from court documents that I obtained from Alabama trial records, which explained the video evidence and the police affidavits, and they helped investigators reconstruct what they believe happened to Autumn in those early morning hours of May 17th.

According to the criminal complaint, Logan Rogers was allegedly driving Autumn's 2012 Kia Soul on the 1600 block of Northwood Avenue, approximately 1.5 miles from the Strickland Hotel, where Autumn had been earlier. It appeared to authorities that something caused Autumn to flee from her own vehicle. They stated perhaps it was an argument or a sudden attack. because surveillance footage showed her running across Northwood Avenue in a panic, while the Kia was driving after her. Then Logan allegedly struck Autumn with her car, knocking her down, then he turned around, drove at her again, running her over for a second time.

They stated in this complaint that the deliberate manner of this double impact led them to believe it was an intentional act of murder, not a hidden run accident. In fact, the DA described this video evidence, which I have not seen yet. It's still pending a foreign request right now. I have submitted one that it shows Logan Rogers running Strickland over with her own car in front of a local business and then coming back to inflict more harm. The records state that Autumn likely died almost immediately from her injuries. But Logan Rogers' actions that night did not end there. He didn't call for help or even remain at the scene. Instead, he fled, driving away in her car,

then leaving it at a random location to avoid suspicion. Now without a car, he allegedly called someone he knew for a ride or found another way back to his house, where he picked up his truck. Interestingly, this isn't the first time the Logan has reached out publicly asking for a ride somewhere. His last post on Facebook on March 3rd of 2025 at 6.49 p.m. asked, quote, anyone in Hamilton, I could pay for a ride, end quote. Well, that early morning, someone must have said yes to that same question two months later after Logan ran Autumn down. Because according to these investigators roughly 30 minutes after the fatal incident, Logan returned to the scene.

This time driving his pickup truck, he retrieved Autumn's body, and under the cover of the night, he loaded her remains into his truck. But after Autumn's body was in the back of his truck, Logan drove back to his own residence on Northwood Avenue, the same property where he would be later arrested. And for a couple days, Autumn's ultimate fate still remained unknown. She was just missing. And Logan was in custody for her attempted murder. because nobody had been found. But that changed on May 20th, like I explained. When Florence Police executed that search warrant,

in the backyard of that property, that is where they made the discovery, a burn barrel containing human remains, charred human remains inside that container that were believed to be Autumn Strickland. They were immediately sent to a forensic laboratory for DNA testing, and there would be an autopsy to confirm the cause of death.

Even though there was no forensic confirmation, authorities were compromised. confident enough that it was autumn, they upgraded Logan Rogers' charge from attempted murder to murder. This missing person's case became a homicide investigation. And outside Logan's home, there was crime scene tape, forensic teams were combing the area,

and they collected the burn barrel and its contents. And he traces of blood or DNA inside of his truck and his house and other potential evidence. Neighbors in this normally quiet neighborhood were looking on in shock. The idea that a woman's body had been burned just yards away from their homes was too much for them to process. And of course, Autumn's tragic death deeply affected everyone who knew her.

Her family and friends took to social media to mourn her and call for justice in her name, vowing to keep her memory alive as the case proceeded. There was one neighbor that recounted how he looked over at her house, and she had been working on a project where she was fixing a door, and now the screen door was just propped up on her porch. And when he looked at it, all it brought him with sadness. And something else that I found so sad was that in an ironic twist, the same friend, Nico, who posted the GoFundMe to help Autumn's son Lane's cancer treatment,

now created a GoFundMe to assist in helping Autumn's mother Lisa care for her now two-year-old daughter. It is just so heartbreaking, and Nico wrote, Please help support Aspen after an unimaginable loss. Quote, our hearts are shattered as we share the devastating news of the loss of Sweet Autumn, a loving mother, daughter, and friend. Eight years ago, Autumn lost her first child, Lane, to a brain tumor. Lane was her world, and the pain of his passing was unimaginable. But then came Aspen, her rainbow baby.

Aspen brought light, laughter, and healing back into Autumn's life. Autumn was finally happy again, full of love and purpose as she raised her precious little girl. But now, heartbreak has struck once more. Autumn was tragically taken from us far too soon, killed by a stranger in a senseless act that has left our entire community devastated. Aspen, now just two years old, is left without her mother and her only sibling. She is being lovingly cared for by Autumn's mother Lisa in Alabama,

but the emotional and financial toll of this loss is overwhelming. We're asking for your help. Any donation, no matter how small, will go directly toward supporting Aspen's future. We want to ease the financial burden for this grieving family and surround Aspen with the love and support. she deserves. If you cannot donate, please consider sharing this page and keeping Aspen and her family in your prayers. We know Autumn would be so grateful to see her baby girl surrounded by kindness and compassion in this time of unimaginable grief. Thank you

from the bottom of our hearts." Now this is a message for all of you from me. I would love it. If we could get this GoFund me to its goal. And if you can't do anything financially, I would just ask you to please share the link, whether that's on your Instagram stories, on your Facebook, right here on YouTube, there is a post aspect if you have the community post section. As a parent myself, it's devastating when I hear about cases like this, especially when I have to research cases like this,

and I know all of the devastating details. Autumn was more than just a name and a headline. She was a mother, a neighbor, a friend, a daughter, and a sister. She was an innocent human being who couldn't escape the evil man. He is a monster, and now her young child faces a future without her mother. But wait, I have more to tell you, because there have been developments.

The following day on May 21st, 2025, Logan Rogers was brought before a judge in Lauderdale County for an initial appearance and bond hearing. The prosecutors argued because of the facts of this case how horrific they were that he should not be released on bail. And Judge Will Motlow agreed. He formally denied Bond, ordering that Logan Rogers be held in jail because he posed a potential danger to the community.

The judge wrote, quote, due to the brutal nature of the alleged offense and the defendant's history of domestic violence, the court finds no conditions or set of conditions can adequately ensure the safety of the public, end quote. To me, the strong statement not only keeps him behind bars, but it also highlights the court's view of this man as a threat because of both his current allegations and his past behavior.

And the district attorney, Chris Connolly, has indicated that his office is assessing whether capital murder charges might actually be appropriated, in this case. In Alabama, a murder can be elevated to a capital offense when certain circumstances apply, for example, if it involves kidnapping, occurs during another felony like robbery, or is especially heinous, and I would believe this would be. The sheer brutality of this alleged desecration of a body definitely means that the maximum charges could possibly be put against him, and I think they should be. But when all of this was going on, Trinity Bradley, that student I told you about and that video

I showed you still hadn't been shown to the public. It wasn't even known. It was just last month when Trinity Bradley came forward after seeing Logan's mugshot in the news, and she was shocked. She then remembered the encounter that she recorded on her phone that night in front of her dorm building. She immediately went to the police.

And this is her recounting that night in her own words to the media. Calls out to me and says, hey, can I borrow your phone? I'm low on gas. Just need to call somebody. But then his, he says, he says, he says, he'll borrow your phone. his tone changed. He told me he didn't call me over there because he needed my phone, but I thought you were

attractive and I wanted to get your number. And I was like, oh, I'm sorry. I'm not interested. Bradley says she then turned away and the man came up behind her. That's when he got out of his truck. And then he wrapped his arms around me and told me that he really needed a hug. So I kind of broke free from that. But I started to panic because I feel like he crossed the boundary.

She broke free from the man and then headed towards the staircase to get to her. dorm. She caught the next interaction on her phone with it recording while tucked in her waistband. Florence Police Department confirmed with me that the man in the video is Logan Rogers, who was charged with the murder of Autumn Strickland. Three weeks after this encounter. Now looking in hot side, I think it was like a ploy to get women to go with him, but obviously just kind of creep me out. So I still was backing away. I'm like, I'm sorry I can't go with you. He did finally just walk away and back off and I used that chance to walk up the stairs. When she made it to her dorm, Bradley filed a police report.

Florence police tell me they sent a Bolo out on Rogers truck but was unable to locate him that night. Police asked if she wanted to press charges. But Bradley told me she thought Rogers was having a mental health episode, so she told officers no. A few weeks later, she saw the same man's face on social media. Logan Rogers charged with crimes involving a missing woman, Autumn Strickland. I looked at the mugshot and then compared it to my picture. I didn't even have to compare it. Like, I just immediately knew.

And it had the same. He told me his first name and he had the same first name. And it was like, it was just a surreal moment because in that moment that it happened to me, I was scared. But then that just took it to a whole different level of like, wow, I escaped something so much worse than I could have even imagined. Bradley tells me she feels lucky, but felt like she could have saved Autumn's life. I know it wasn't necessarily in my control that somebody did get murdered and I didn't, but it definitely made me feel like I could have pursued it further,

so he could have gotten caught, you know, that night, or maybe he wouldn't have continued on to do what he did. But my immediately thought when I did call the police was that he's not going to stop at this. This showed Logan's motive when it came to. to females walking in downtown Florence at night. It is now abundantly clear. The Logan Rogers had the intent to bring these women forcefully back to his house.

What he intended to do once they were there will never be known, but the fact that he would put his hands on a stranger, a student, a young woman that was just walking to her dorm room that night, it shows where his mentality was. He's a predator. Now, I don't know what your thoughts are when you watch that video, but to me, he looks unhinged.

He looks unstable. I don't know if he is on some kind of substance. I'm not really sure, but he doesn't have to be in order to act this way. And I am sure he will most likely undergo a psychological evaluation. He does have counsel at this point. And a preliminary hearing is now scheduled for July 14th, at which point a judge will review the evidence in this case to determine if it should go to a grand jury for indictment.

I am truly hoping that he is indicted, that this case moves forward, that there will be a trial. But of course, I want to know what your thoughts are. Leave them below in the comments, and I will get to as many as I possibly can. But thank you so much for being here for Autumn's case. I will see you in my next video. Bye.