Posted on 10/03/2025 9:02:55 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A stranger who broke into a family's Kentucky home and murdered their six-year-old son has been freed from prison after serving just half of his sentence.
Ronald Exantus, 42, was released from prison early for good behavior after being sentenced in 2018 for stabbing Logan Tipton to death.
The killer traveled from Indianapolis to Versailles on the night of December 6, 2015 then randomly entered the Tiptons' home as they slept.
The family said that Exantus, a former dialysis nurse, was a complete stranger to them and gained access to the home through an unlocked door.
Armed with a large kitchen knife, he launched a vicious attack on the household, murdering Logan and severely injuring his father and two young sisters.
Logan was stabbed repeatedly in the head with such rage that the blade of the butcher's knife bent out of shape. Exantus later admitted to officers that he had stabbed and killed the child.
He was sentenced to 20 years in 2018 after being found not guilty by reason of insanity for murdering Tipton. He was deemed guilty but mentally ill on assault charges.
Speaking with Lex18 this week after news of his early release broke, the family said Exantus caused them untold heartache.
Logan's mother Heather said: 'He didn't just kill my son. He killed every member of my family, every single one of us.
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Lock your doors.
Just more reparations?
He SHOULD have been PUT TO DEATH!!!
We kill rabid animals.
Rabid people should be no different.................
More “black privilege” here. Unbelievable.
Black on white crime.
He a good boy.
How does a monster who committed premeditated murder of a 6 year old child only get 20 years? How does he only serve 10? You’ve got to be kidding me. If I were that kid’s dad, I’d have to gun him down on the street.
10 years for the cold blooded murder of a kindergarnter? You’ve GOT to be effing kidding me.
“sentenced to 20 years in 2018 after being found not guilty by reason of insanity for murdering Tipton”
I am so sick of this used as an excuse to not be tried and/or punished appropriately for a crime. He killed a kid and injured others, he should be dead. NO excuses as to why he did, I don’t care. Mamby-pamby libs have screwed us with this crap for decades now.
Yep. And if you don’t have a fancy security system, put one of these wedges on the inside next to each door. If the door is forced open, it will emit a very loud alarm. I always take one when I travel, too.
They’re about $8 apiece on Amazon. Two for $12.
The go-to plea: “insanity.” They know how to use it expertly.
What criminal ISN’T insane, at least morally?
“A Time to Kill”
1989
John Grisham
IMHO he should have got the death penalty.
The article says he was found NOT GUILTY by reason of insanity. That means that after he is deemed "sane" again he can be released from confined treatment.
Unfair, but that's what it is.
Defense lawyers have a field day with this plea. They have their own rubber-stamp psychologist on retainer to hand them out by the boatloads.
He didndu nuffin!
If I were the boy's father, that perp would now die at my hands.
Low, but not zero. We don’t know how many houses he tried doors on in the neighborhood.
Best defense against creepers is a barking dog (and locking all your doors and windows at night).
Druggies come through our neighborhood regularly looking for anything left out to steal. Dogs and motion detector floods keep them off our street.
You can always tell when they’ve been through because the neighborhood chat is full of complaints and sometimes uselessly dark video footage. Why to people put up cameras and not flood lights?
Exantus needs to accidentally fall off an unlit bridge over a river in the middle of the night while wearing 50lb ankle weights.
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