Nine years after Logan's death, the Tipton family is being "re-victimized" by a system that won't even return their calls.

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Dean Tipton learns about developments in his son's case the same way you do- through news reports, social media, and TikTok personalities.

Nine years after his 6-year-old son Logan was stabbed to death in their Versailles home, Tipton finds himself in an unthinkable position: waiting to see if Kentucky officials will keep his son's killer behind bars.

"We're the victims of this whole thing, and we're left in the dark," Tipton told me. "That's wrong. I don't know what to do."

Ronald Exantus

On October 1st, Ronald Exantus walked out of a Kentucky prison despite the state parole board voting unanimously to keep him locked up. A Kentucky law requiring mandatory supervision forced his release after just seven years- even though he'd been sentenced to 20.

The reason? The assault charges Exantus was convicted of aren't considered "violent offenses" under Kentucky law, meaning he didn't have to serve the majority of his sentence. This despite the fact that in 2015, Exantus broke into the Tipton home and attacked the family in what Dean describes as "a random act of violence." Logan died from his injuries. Dean's oldest daughter, Coral, fought Exantus off until her father could get upstairs.

"The kids are having a rough time with it. They're scared, you know? They're scared that he's going to come back and finish what he told them that he was going to do," Dean said.