A man convicted in October of a killing a New Hampshire couple as they were out for a walk along a Concord trail has been sentenced to two consecutive terms of 50 years to life in prison for the murders.
Stephen and Wendy Reid were shot dead in April 2022, as CrimeOnline reported. They were missing for three days before their bodies were found in a wooded area. Police even met up with the suspect, Logan Clegg, before finding the bodies, and he told investigators he hadn’t seen them.
“Logan Clegg is a stone-cold, violent murderer, nothing more,” Judge John Kissinger in court, according to WMUR. “He shot and killed Steve and Wendy Reid for no reason. His statements today ring hollow. He deserves nothing less than a sentence that fully reflects the magnitude of his crimes, and for that reason, I’m going to fully impose the sentences as recommended by the state.”
Kissinger described Clegg as a “stone cold, violent murderer.”
Clegg spoke during the hearing, claiming he was innocent and that police cheated him “out of getting a property trial.”
“No man with any pride or dignity gives up when he loses a single battle, especially when he knows he’s in the right,” Clegg said.
No motive for the shooting was revealed before, during or after the trial, and prosecutors said there were no mitigating factors.
“There is no doubt, and the jury found that the defendant brutally murdered Stephen and Wendy and took elaborate steps to try and cover up what he had done,” said Senior Assistant Attorney General Meghan Hagaman.
The Reids’ family members spoke at the sentencing hearing, with their son, Brian Reid, saying he hoped never to hear of the killer again.
“May the defendant’s name fade into the shadows that he inhabits, his actions condemned, his existence confined to four walls for as long as he remains,” he said.
The couple’s niece, Kellan Forey, spoke directly to Clegg, telling him he has “done nothing to contribute to society, and you never will.”
“I pity how weak you are, how empty you must be and how you have wasted a perfectly healthy life,” she said.
Records indicated that Clegg burned the tent he’d been living in at the time of the murders after police questioned him and took a bus to Maine. He went to Vermont a month later.
The 16-person jury found Clegg guilty of second-degree murder, falsifying physical evidence, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
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[Featured image: Wendy and Stephen Reid/New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office]
