A man arrested in the South Burlington Public Library last year and charged with murdering a former Vermont couple in New Hampshire has been sentenced to two consecutive 50-years-to-life prison terms.
Logan Clegg stood at the defense table in Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord, New Hampshire, on Friday morning as Judge John Kissinger imposed the sentences for the two murder charges in the deaths of Stephen and Djeswende “Wendy” Reid in April 2022.
The Reids, who previously lived in and worked in Chittenden County, were shot to death while walking on a path near their Concord home.
“My hope in imposing these sentences,” Kissinger said, “is that the defendant never again walks the streets as a free man.”
While living in Vermont, Stephen Reid worked at Tetra Tech, a Burlington-based rural development consulting firm and Wendy Reid worked at the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program, now known as USCRI, as a program coordinator.
Clegg was convicted of fatally shooting the couple while they walked on a trail near their apartment. The motive remains unclear. He had been living in a tent in the woods in Concord near where the Reids lived at the time of their murders.
Police arrested Clegg in October 2022 inside the South Burlington Public Library. Authorities said at the time that Clegg had been living at a campsite in the area of Patchen Road in South Burlington. According to court filings, he had a gun in a backpack as well as a plane ticket to Berlin, Germany when he was arrested.
Kissinger, the judge, described Logan in court Friday as a “stone-cold violent” murderer.
“He shot and killed Steve and Wendy Reid for no reason,” the judge said. “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.”
