Anastasia Nicolazzi
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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At the very same time, Billy puts Logan's tiny unconscious body back into his truck and speeds off towards town.
But when the officer approached Billy's truck, he immediately realized that this was no ordinary traffic stop.
Logan was eventually rushed to the local hospital, but there was nothing EMS or doctors could do to save him. The seven-month-old was pronounced dead less than an hour after Billy's call to the child's mother.
Billy lived in a small mobile home on a property cluttered with old appliances and farm equipment. And next to this mobile home was a small wooden shed that for all intents and purposes served as Billy's garage.
This horse trough looked like a large galvanized steel tub or garden container that was about three feet high and about four feet long. According to Billy, he placed Logan into the steel tub with just a few inches of water at the bottom. Then he did what every caretaker is told never to do. He walked away.
The incident is not unlike so many horrific stories of accidental drownings that can occur in any household with a small child. In fact, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says that every year, 90 children drown inside the home, and two-thirds of those occur in a bathtub.
There was, however, visible evidence that the seven-month-old had suffered a head injury.
In other words, Logan had died not from drowning in the tub, but from blunt force trauma to the head, which had caused his tiny skull to fracture and his brain to hemorrhage.
On July 4th, 2016, tragedy struck in the tiny town of LaGrange, Texas, where seven-month-old Logan Atkins was rushed to the hospital with injuries he sustained at the home of a babysitter.
The medical examiner concluded that Logan's injuries were likely the result of a recent and deliberate blunt force trauma. And Texas Rangers were called in to investigate not an accident, but a homicide.
which is why it was crucial to create an accurate timeline of events, including the verified whereabouts of anyone who had access to Logan for the hours leading up to his death, not just a babysitter, Billy Palaszczuk.
Now, there was also nothing in Nicole's past that indicated she was an irresponsible or abusive parent. No history of arrests, no calls to child services, nothing.
And remember, according to both Nicole and Billy on the morning of her visit, Logan was happy and healthy, showing no indications that a child was in distress or that he had suffered a recent injury of any kind and a mom would have known.
And keep in mind the severe nature of Logan's injuries. While sometimes a fatal ailment can go undetected and manifest themselves suddenly and fatally, head injuries as severe as Logan's, they would have been nearly impossible for the child to ignore or not show obvious signs of distress.
When questioned by investigators, Billy continued to deny he had ever put a hand on the child intentionally or otherwise.
As they stepped into a cluttered shed, investigators immediately noticed some things that didn't look quite right. Nothing obvious like a bloody murder weapon or smoking gun, but certain things that awakened the feeling in a cop's gut that something was wrong.
To investigators, it felt like someone had hastily staged the scene in the shed to match what Billy had told Nicole and the police and cleaned up any other evidence that may have contradicted it.
In fact, investigators found it strange that if Billy and Nicole both took off from their respective start locations to meet at the hospital, why was Nicole able to cover nearly five miles in those 13 minutes, while Billy only covered a mile. The only explanation was that Billy did not actually leave immediately after the phone call.
Thankfully, the initial deputy had taken some photographs, and those photographs were compared to the photos later taken by homicide investigators.
what appeared to be blood on the same mattress and pillow where baby Logan had slept. Were they just random old stains on a dirty mattress, as Billy would claim, or were they evidence of a murder?
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