Josh Summers
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Perfectly healthy babies don't just suddenly collapse and die. And there's nothing wrong with that child. Something else is going on. I'm Scott Weinberger, investigative journalist and former deputy sheriff.
Of all the cases I prosecute, baby death cases are the ones that affect me the most. I have a two-year-old. I have a child. And, you know, when you look at autopsy photos of an infant, it's just a lot harder than it is to look at autopsy photos of an adult.
So I always tell people I have the best job in the entire world because I get to travel all over the great state of Texas and prosecute some of the worst offenders. You know, my job is to see that justice is done in these cases.
When you talk about baby death cases, no one likes to think that an adult, that someone is capable of murdering a baby. But the sad reality of the world we live in, these things happen.
You know, I always tell people when you talk about being a prosecutor, I tell families and crime victims, I can't change what has happened, but what I can do is make sure that the right thing happens now. So when I step into a case and meet with a family that's lost a loved one, it's really my job to be a strong person and to shepherd them through what may be the darkest time in their lives.
Logan Atkins was a beautiful baby, just a gorgeous little boy, and was just one of those children that, you know, when you see his picture, you could just tell this child was very full of life and full of love.
Billy would regularly spend time with Logan. Billy was someone that Nicole would trust to watch her child. He was almost like a second father to Logan, very much a godfather type figure.
That evening, his mother, Nicole, brought Logan over to Billy Palaszczuk's home, and she left him alone with Billy that evening.
Billy lived in a trailer home kind of behind, I guess, a regular house, you would say. And the three of them were together in the trailer kind of on and off. You know, Billy was coming and going, but Nicole was spending time with Logan and he was kind of napping and playing with her and that sort of thing.
She was there for about two hours the morning of July 4th. And by all accounts, according to Billy later and according to Nicole, Logan was acting normal. He was fine. He was happy. He was healthy.
His mother would later tell police that she didn't see Logan in the back of Billy's vehicle, but she could hear him laughing and giggling and saw Billy turn around to pay attention to the child. And all of this is important because by all accounts, Logan was healthy and acting normally, doing the normal things you would expect a seven-month-old baby to do.
Logan had been alone with Billy for approximately half an hour. At 11.05 a.m. that morning of July 4th, 2016, Billy called Nicole, Logan's mom, and said Logan wasn't breathing, wasn't responding. He was in a panic.
About eight minutes later, as Nicole is frantically making her way to Billy's home, she calls 911.
Billy, contemporaneous to her going to his home, is trying to get Logan to a hospital. They pass each other on a highway and eventually it just happened to be that a DPS trooper was in that area, pulls them over for speeding.
And Billy takes Logan out of his truck, runs frantically over to the state trooper who attempts to resuscitate the child and begins performing CPR on that child.
The trooper did what he could do given the circumstances. He kept his composure and he did everything you would want a member of law enforcement to do. He took that child and immediately began performing CPR on that child and continued to do so until EMS arrived on scene.
First, he is spoken to by a member of the Fayette County Sheriff's Office, and later he's spoken to by a Texas Ranger. And when he's interviewed, he tells law enforcement that he was going to give Logan a bath.
Billy tells the Texas Ranger that he was going to give Logan a bath and that he put Logan in a horse trough that was, I guess, serving as a makeshift bathtub.
He walked about 20 feet away to get some tear-free shampoo, heard a splash, returned to the horse trough, and saw Logan unresponsive laying on his side.
Logan was not dressed, but he was completely dry. His skin was dry, his hair was dry, and so that's kind of out of the gate. Things in Billy's story don't start matching up with the evidence. It didn't make any sense that a perfectly normal, happy, healthy infant would just suddenly collapse in a bathtub and die. That didn't make any sense.
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