A man arrested in the South Burlington Public Library last week has agreed to return to New Hampshire, where he is wanted on two counts of murder in the fatal shootings of a former Vermont couple last spring.
At a hearing Thursday in Franklin County Superior criminal court in St. Albans, Logan Clegg, 26, told Judge Mary Morrissey he was waiving extradition to New Hampshire to face the charges of second-degree murder in the deaths of Stephen and Djeswende “Wendy” Reid.
The couple was found shot to death on a walking path near their home in Concord, New Hampshire. The Reids had previously lived in Vermont, residing and working in Chittenden County.
In Vermont, Wendy Reid served as a program coordinator at the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program (now known as USCRI). Stephen Reid worked at Burlington-based Tetra Tech, a rural development consulting firm.
“After six months, I’m very pleased they at least have a suspect in custody and hopefully this will at least bring some closure to their family and friends,” said former Burlington Mayor Peter Clavelle, who worked with Stephen Reid at Tetra Tech and knew Wendy Reid.
“Their murder was horrific and just stunning, and beyond comprehension,” Clavelle said. “For the life of me I can’t understand what someone’s motivation would be to take the lives of two very caring, loving people.”
Clegg was ordered held without bail during Thursday’s hearing. Morrissey gave New Hampshire authorities 10 days to pick him up and bring him to that state to answer to the murder charges.
Acting Franklin County State’s Attorney John Lavoie said during the brief hearing that he didn’t believe 10 days would be needed, telling the judge that he had communicated with New Hampshire authorities and he understood that they would pick Clegg up “forthwith.”
Clegg took part in the hearing by video from the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans, where he has been held since Oct. 12 following his arrest at the South Burlington Public Library. He was arrested on a fugitive warrant out of Utah, where he was wanted for a probation violation.
Clegg had a plane ticket to fly the following day out of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to Berlin, Germany, according to authorities.
An 11-page police affidavit outlining the New Hampshire investigation was publicly released Thursday following Clegg’s court appearance. The filing tracks the steps police took in their probe leading to Clegg’s arrest, but it does not provide a motive for the alleged murders.
Lavoie, the Vermont prosecutor, had filed a motion to keep the filing under seal. However, Morrissey said during the hearing that she would not grant that request.
Lavoie, speaking after the hearing, said he filed the motion at the request of the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, which was concerned about details of the probe becoming public as they continued to investigate.
According to the affidavit written by Detective Sgt. Gerard Eno of the Concord Police Department, the Reids were reported missing on April 20. Police conducted a search of their apartment complex as well as a wooded area behind it.
During the search of the wooded area, Eno wrote, police “came into contact” with a person who identified himself as “Arthur Kelly.” Police noted that he had had several cans of Mountain Dew “Code Red” soda.
The next day, police found the bodies of the couple in a wooded area off a walking trail less than a mile from their home. They had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and their deaths were ruled homicides, Eno wrote.
One day later, according to the filing, police returned to where they had contacted “Arthur Kelly” and saw that his campsite had been abandoned with nothing left behind.
In reviewing surveillance footage for Mountain Dew Code Red purchases at a nearby Walmart store, police saw a man “consistent in appearance” with “Arthur Kelly,” though he was wearing a mask that obscured part of his face.
“This male was referred to as the ‘Mountain Dew Man,’ and it could not be confirmed that he was the same man who identified himself as ‘Arthur Kelly,’” Eno wrote.
Eventually, through cell phone and credit and debit card data, detectives found connections between the name Arthur Kelly and Clegg, including that he had an email address that used “kelly” as part of it, according to the filing.
“Notably, the creator of the account gave the name ‘Arthur Kelly’ when the account was first made, but then used the name ‘Logan Clegg’ for his online purchases,” Eno wrote. “This provided further corroboration that ‘Arthur Kelly’ and Logan Clegg are the same individual.”
Eno wrote that investigators also found a burnt-out tent site believed to have belonged to Clegg, located less than a half-mile from the crime scene. At that tent site, Eno wrote, detectives found several spent shell casings marked “Sig Luger 9mm,” all found a few feet from each other, “which is consistent with ejection patterns when targeting shooting.” Nearby trees located downrange were also found to have “apparent bullet defects,” according to the affidavit.
Additional ballistic testing at the New Hampshire State Police Forensic Lab in mid-September found that nine shell casings recovered from the tent site were fired by the same gun as the two shell casings recovered at the crime scene.
Detectives learned on Oct. 11 that Clegg had booked a flight out of New York City to Berlin, Germany on Oct. 14. Additional information collected about the purchase of the ticket provided a phone number and address of 11 Elmwood Avenue in Burlington, which is the federal courthouse in Burlington.
Investigators traced the cell phone number to track Clegg to the South Burlington Public Library, where he was taken into custody.
Clegg agreed to talk to a detective and acknowledged living and working in Concord during part of 2021 and 2022, but denied staying in a campsite near the Reids’ apartment complex, using the alias “Arthur Kelly,” or being involved in killing the Reids, according to Eno’s affidavit.
A search of his backpack led to the recovery of a black Glock 17, fully loaded with Sig Luger 9mm ammunition, the same type found at the tent site in New Hampshire and the crime scene there, according to the affidavit.
Police obtained a warrant the next day for a campsite believed to have been where Clegg had been staying in the area of Patchen Road in South Burlington, and found two boxes of Sig Luger 9mm ammunition, “consistent with the ammunition recovered in Concord and from the Glock 17,” according to the affidavit.
The Glock 17 handgun seized from Clegg’s backpack was test fired at the forensic lab, with the results showing that based “on the lab’s analysis of the markings on the casings,” Clegg’s gun was the source of the spent shell casings recovered at both the crime scene and at the burned tent site, Eno wrote.
Also last week, a Concord police detective and an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spoke with an employee at R&L Archery in Barre, and confirmed that a Glock 17 was sold to an Arthur Kelly on Feb. 12.
“Arthur Kelly paid cash for the Glock 17 and purchased three boxes of Sig Luger 9 mm ammunition, consistent with the two boxes found in Logan’s tent,” Eno wrote.
“A Vermont driver’s license was provided for the transaction,” he added, “but the number was found to be ‘not on file’ indicating that it was likely a fraudulent identification card.”
