Josh Summers
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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There was bruising kind of throughout or all over his head. So you didn't have one focal point of bruising. You had bruising in different places. which would indicate that he was struck several times, which would cut against Billy's story that the child had simply fallen in a bathtub. That didn't make any sense because you wouldn't have multiple impact sites from just one fall.
And in the course of that autopsy, the medical examiner observes contusions to the head, observes that Logan has suffered a skull fracture, and observes hemorrhages to the brain.
When you have hemorrhages to the brain in an infant, there are a limited number of mechanisms that can cause those types of things. A fall from a great height, a high-speed motor vehicle collision, or what we call inflicted trauma or non-accidental trauma, which is simply trauma. fancy words for child abuse.
And so obviously there was nothing to indicate Logan had fallen from a great height or was in a car crash. And when you start eliminating those other possibilities, you're really left with only one conclusion.
it becomes more and more apparent that this isn't just a household accident, that this is a homicide.
Children, you know, they bump their heads, they fall down, and that happens. And normally a child, you would expect them to cry for a little bit, but then they're okay. And for injuries like this to be sustained by a child, a certain amount of force is required.
And the type of force that would result from a bathtub fall, it's just it wouldn't cause the degree, the severity of injuries that Logan had. Only inflicted trauma could do that.
One of the challenges is determining whether the adult caretaker that was alone with the child inflicted the injuries or whether or not someone else inflicted those injuries. And that child was having what medical professionals might call a lucid interval.
In other words, whether the child had been hurt sometime prior to being alone with Billy Palaszczuk, but didn't become symptomatic until he was alone with Billy Palaszczuk.
And so when you talk about the types of injuries that Logan sustained, they could have been inflicted within 24 hours. They could have been inflicted within an hour. And so you've got to look at all of the conduct and behavior and circumstances of other potential suspects.
So in this particular case, it was very, very, very important to rule out the possibility that Logan's mom, Nicole, could have done this.
When you look at her behavior, this was a loving mother who had cared for her child, who had taken him in regularly to doctor's visits, who was very responsible and caring for this child.
And when you construct this timeline, if you will, Nicole was only alone with Logan twice prior to Logan's death, within that 24 hours beforehand. She was alone with Logan when she took him over to Billy's home the evening of July the 3rd. And then she was alone with Logan for periods of time the morning of July 4th when she returned to Billy's to check on Logan.
But nothing at all indicated that anything was wrong with Logan. In Billy's own statement, he said that Logan was healthy and acting normal when Nicole was there.
Moreover, Billy's mother said that although she did not see Logan, she could hear him laughing and giggling in the back of Billy's vehicle. And so that further went to show that this was a normal, happy, healthy baby.
And you would not expect a child who had sustained these types of injuries to be laughing, giggling, taking a bottle, acting normally. You would expect the child who had sustained these types of injuries to be in some state of distress, to be unconscious, or obviously to have passed away.
It was important to show that Logan was healthy and acting normal, according to everyone who had been around that child. And in fact, the only time he wasn't acting normal, the only time he wasn't healthy, was when he was in the sole care, custody, and control of Billy Palaszczuk.
You kind of had two crime scenes. You had Billy's trailer home, and then secondly, you had this makeshift garage. So this garage had a lot of kind of random things stored in it. There was a refrigerator, there was a jet ski, and obviously there was this horse trough where Billy claimed he was going to bathe Logan.
That trough looked like it had been like planted there because one of the things that was important, there was a leaf inside of the trough where he was going to bathe Logan. And that leaf matched up with like a leaf on a tree outside. So we always thought that that trough had been outside and he put it back in that. He moved it into the detached garage to kind of stage a crime scene, if you will.
According to Billy's story, he had stepped about 20 feet away for a minute or two to go get some shampoo to bathe Logan. He heard a thump splash and ran over to see what was the matter. Well, what was interesting is there was a bottle of shampoo neatly placed to the left. And I guess two things stood out to us in examining Logan.
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