MONROE — Some of an Albany defendants’ statements to police investigating the 2021 disappearance and murder of his baby daughter won’t be allowed into his upcoming trial, a Green County Circuit judge has ruled.

But some statements will be allowed in, such as those made at Rock County Jail, ruled Judge Thomas Vale, in the case of Logan Kruckenberg-Anderson. The 18-year-old faces felony charges of first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse in connection with the newborn’s death. 

Kruckenberg-Anderson, 16, at the time of the murder, is being tried as an adult in the case. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

As part of his upcoming trial, Kruckenberg-Anderson’s defense team argued late last year to suppress his statements to police during a series of interviews in late 2021 following the baby’s disappearance: One beginning after midnight on Jan. 9 and early on Jan. 10 at the Brodhead Police station as authorities continued to frantically search for the missing child; another at the Albany police station after leading police to the infant’s lifeless body; and later statements made while in custody for the crime at Rock County Jail.

“The Court rules and directs statements made by the defendant, at The Brodhead Police Department, The Albany Police Department and the crime scene, will be suppressed and were involuntary statements made due to the circumstances,” court records said, in reference to Vales’ ruling. “The Court will not suppress the last two interviews at Rock County Juvenile Detention Center and Rock County Sheriff’s Department.”

Baby Harper was born on Jan. 5, 2021; according to a lengthy criminal complaint, Kruckenberg-Anderson shot her and abandoned her snow-covered body in some woods near his home after he and the teen mother decided they couldn’t keep her. 

The ordeal of baby Harper led state officials to pass a Safe Haven Laws bill aimed at informing Wisconsin teenagers of their options for safely leaving infants without legal action.

Kruckenberg-Anderson remains in Green County jail on $1 million bond. His next appearance is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1.