A person arrested within the South Burlington Public Library final week has agreed to return to New Hampshire, the place he’s wished on two counts of homicide within the deadly shootings of a former Vermont couple final spring.

At a listening to Thursday in Franklin County Superior prison courtroom in St. Albans, Logan Clegg, 26, informed Choose Mary Morrissey he was waiving extradition to New Hampshire to face the fees of second-degree homicide within the deaths of Stephen and Djeswende “Wendy” Reid.

The couple was discovered shot to dying on a strolling path close to their residence in Harmony, New Hampshire. The Reids had beforehand lived in Vermont, residing and dealing in Chittenden County. 

In Vermont, Wendy Reid served as a program coordinator on the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program (now often called USCRI). Stephen Reid labored at Burlington-based Tetra Tech, a rural growth consulting agency. 

“After six months, I’m more than happy they no less than have a suspect in custody and hopefully this may no less than convey some closure to their household and buddies,” stated former Burlington Mayor Peter Clavelle, who labored with Stephen Reid at Tetra Tech and knew Wendy Reid.

“Their homicide was horrific and simply gorgeous, and past comprehension,” Clavelle stated. “For the lifetime of me I can’t perceive what somebody’s motivation could be to take the lives of two very caring, loving folks.”

Clegg was ordered held with out bail throughout Thursday’s listening to. Morrissey gave New Hampshire authorities 10 days to select him up and convey him to that state to reply to the homicide prices.

Performing Franklin County State’s Legal professional John Lavoie stated in the course of the transient listening to that he didn’t imagine 10 days could be wanted, telling the decide that he had communicated with New Hampshire authorities and he understood that they’d choose Clegg up “forthwith.” 

Clegg took half within the listening to by video from the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans, the place he has been held since Oct. 12 following his arrest on the South Burlington Public Library. He was arrested on a fugitive warrant out of Utah, the place he was wished for a probation violation. 

Clegg had a aircraft ticket to fly the next time out of John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport in New York to Berlin, Germany, in accordance with authorities. 

An 11-page police affidavit outlining the New Hampshire investigation was publicly launched Thursday following Clegg’s courtroom look. The submitting tracks the steps police took of their probe resulting in Clegg’s arrest, nevertheless it doesn’t present a motive for the alleged murders.

Lavoie, the Vermont prosecutor, had filed a movement to maintain the submitting beneath seal. Nonetheless, Morrissey stated in the course of the listening to that she wouldn’t grant that request.

Lavoie, talking after the listening to, stated he filed the movement on the request of the New Hampshire Legal professional Normal’s Workplace, which was involved about particulars of the probe changing into public as they continued to analyze.

In response to the affidavit written by Detective Sgt. Gerard Eno of the Harmony Police Division, the Reids had been reported lacking on April 20. Police carried out a search of their house complicated in addition to a wooded space behind it.

Throughout the search of the wooded space, Eno wrote, police “got here into contact” with an individual who recognized himself as “Arthur Kelly.” Police famous that he had had a number of cans of Mountain Dew “Code Purple” soda.

The following day, police discovered the our bodies of the couple in a wooded space off a strolling path lower than a mile from their residence. They’d suffered a number of gunshot wounds and their deaths had been dominated homicides, Eno wrote.

At some point later, in accordance with the submitting, police returned to the place that they had contacted “Arthur Kelly” and noticed that his campsite had been deserted with nothing left behind. 

In reviewing surveillance footage for Mountain Dew Code Purple purchases at a close-by Walmart retailer, police noticed a person “constant in look” with “Arthur Kelly,” although he was sporting a masks that obscured a part of his face.

“This male was known as the ‘Mountain Dew Man,’ and it couldn’t be confirmed that he was the identical man who recognized himself as ‘Arthur Kelly,’” Eno wrote.

Ultimately, by means of cellular phone and credit score and debit card information, detectives discovered connections between the identify Arthur Kelly and Clegg, together with that he had an electronic mail handle that used “kelly” as a part of it, in accordance with the submitting.

“Notably, the creator of the account gave the identify ‘Arthur Kelly’ when the account was first made, however then used the identify ‘Logan Clegg’ for his on-line purchases,” Eno wrote. “This offered additional corroboration that ‘Arthur Kelly’ and Logan Clegg are the identical particular person.” 

Eno wrote that investigators additionally discovered a burnt-out tent web site believed to have belonged to Clegg, situated lower than a half-mile from the crime scene. At that tent web site, Eno wrote, detectives discovered a number of spent shell casings marked “Sig Luger 9mm,” all discovered just a few ft from one another, “which is in keeping with ejection patterns when concentrating on capturing.” Close by timber situated downrange had been additionally discovered to have “obvious bullet defects,” in accordance with the affidavit.

Further ballistic testing on the New Hampshire State Police Forensic Lab in mid-September discovered that 9 shell casings recovered from the tent web site had been fired by the identical gun as the 2 shell casings recovered on the crime scene.

Detectives realized on Oct. 11 that Clegg had booked a flight out of New York Metropolis to Berlin, Germany on Oct. 14. Further data collected concerning the buy of the ticket offered a telephone quantity and handle of 11 Elmwood Avenue in Burlington, which is the federal courthouse in Burlington.

Investigators traced the cellular phone quantity to trace Clegg to the South Burlington Public Library, the place he was taken into custody.

Clegg agreed to speak to a detective and acknowledged dwelling and dealing in Harmony throughout a part of 2021 and 2022, however denied staying in a campsite close to the Reids’ house complicated, utilizing the alias “Arthur Kelly,” or being concerned in killing the Reids, in accordance with Eno’s affidavit.

A search of his backpack led to the restoration of a black Glock 17, absolutely loaded with Sig Luger 9mm ammunition, the identical kind discovered on the tent web site in New Hampshire and the crime scene there, in accordance with the affidavit.

Police obtained a warrant the subsequent day for a campsite believed to have been the place Clegg had been staying within the space of Patchen Street in South Burlington, and located two packing containers of Sig Luger 9mm ammunition, “in keeping with the ammunition recovered in Harmony and from the Glock 17,” in accordance with the affidavit.

The Glock 17 handgun seized from Clegg’s backpack was check fired on the forensic lab, with the outcomes displaying that based mostly “on the lab’s evaluation of the markings on the casings,” Clegg’s gun was the supply of the spent shell casings recovered at each the crime scene and on the burned tent web site, Eno wrote.

Additionally final week, a Harmony police detective and an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spoke with an worker at R&L Archery in Barre, and confirmed {that a} Glock 17 was offered to an Arthur Kelly on Feb. 12.

“Arthur Kelly paid money for the Glock 17 and bought three packing containers of Sig Luger 9 mm ammunition, in keeping with the 2 packing containers present in Logan’s tent,” Eno wrote.

“A Vermont driver’s license was offered for the transaction,” he added, “however the quantity was discovered to be ‘not on file’ indicating that it was seemingly a fraudulent identification card.”