Harper Kruckenberg-Anderson was born in Albany, Wisconsin, on January 5, 2021, in a private, unplanned delivery. The newborn’s parents were teenagers; the father, 16-year-old Logan Kruckenberg-Anderson, initially discussed surrendering the baby to an adoption agency but then told the mother he would find someone else to take her.

Kruckenberg-Anderson placed the infant in a backpack and left the home. He first told investigators he had given the baby and sixty dollars to a man named Tyler whom he met on Snapchat, but his account changed under questioning. He admitted leaving the naked newborn in a snow-covered fallen tree in a remote wooded area and later led law enforcement to the body. An autopsy showed Harper had been shot twice in the head; casings found near the body matched a firearm that Kruckenberg-Anderson had given to another teenager days after the death.

Kruckenberg-Anderson was arrested, charged as an adult with first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse, and a jury found him guilty on both counts. If anyone knew Harper or has information about the events surrounding her birth and death, please come forward.