[ominous music playing]
[dramatic music playing]
[Darrell Sr.] She was always so beautiful.
You know, just watching her.
I always loved giving the flowers out to her.
[Charlene speaking]
The hearts and the candy.
[Charlene speaking]
[Shelbi] And we were just having the time of our lives.
[indistinct chatter]
[Charlene speaking]
Your life changes in a flash.
[Charlene] Oh!
[Darrell Sr. laughs]
Whole thing was just...
a nightmare.
[McKenna speaking]
[911 operator speaking]
- [McKenna speaking] - [siren wailing]
[Shelbi] You'd never guess that...
that this is how things ended up.
[police speaking]
[theme music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[Darrell Sr. speaking]
[Mike] I like it.
[narrator] It's October 31st, 1994
in Hudson, Wisconsin.
26-year-old Darrell Wold
and 27-year-old Charlene Bourne
are hosting a Halloween party.
[Darrell Sr. speaking]
[Mike speaking]
[Darrell Sr. speaking]
[narrator] That's Darrell dressed as Count Dracula.
Charlene is the one wearing jeans
and a fan of the opera-style face mask.
I was gonna put on a little fairy hand.
[Darrell Sr.] One of her favorite holidays
was Halloween.
We'd have the decorations in the yard
and the whole Halloween theme.
The group that we hung around
was our four-wheel drive group.
It's called The Jeep Club.
And we all liked to dress up.
And we were a close group.
[Charlene speaking]
[Darrell Sr.] Charlene was the host,
so she would get the games going.
[Charlene speaking]
[Darrell Sr.] The Halloween party was to introduce
everybody into...
into our new home.
[Charlene speaking]
- [Charlene screams] - [laughter]
[narrator] Charlene and Darrell met
just under a year ago here in Hudson,
and they have been together ever since.
[Darrell Sr.] She was such a beautiful woman.
She was just beautiful inside as she was outside.
But it took a little while to, like,
to get the nerve up to ask her
to go get something to eat or have some coffee.
We, like, clicked right away.
We really loved the same music
especially, like, country music and older stuff.
It's like we didn't have to try.
It was just... It just happened,
it just was there.
It was a dream come true.
[narrator] Charlene and Darrell are both
recently divorced.
They each have a son
from their previous relationships.
[Darrell Sr.] Mine was Darrell Jr.
And Charlene's was Logan.
They were pretty similar in age
at five and six.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] There's a reason why Logan is bald.
He has a condition called alopecia
that makes his hair fall out.
[Darrell Sr.] Kids just think you're different.
I mean, they all think
you have cancer or something,
and he's normal besides his hair.
[Darrell Jr.] When you live with the person,
you don't see that he even has a problem, you know.
You don't... You don't really know.
[narrator] Logan's hair loss makes him self-conscious
and shy around others.
But not around his family.
[Darrell Jr.] He was always, you know, just Logan
and just a brother.
I got to know him really well,
and we did a lot together as stepbrothers.
[Charlene speaking]
[Darrell Jr.] Go ahead.
[Charlene speaking]
[narrator] It's Christmas, 1994.
[Charlene speaking]
[narrator] Darrell sets up the camera on a tripod
to capture the action of Christmas morning.
[Logan sneezes]
[Charlene] Thank you very much, boys.
It's our, uh, first Christmas together
with the... with the boys.
[Logan speaking]
I wanna put...
[Darrell Jr.] Christmas when I was little was...
It was fun.
Um, Logan and I always got
pretty much everything we always asked for.
It was always, you know,
the big huge tree decorated.
[Darrell Jr. speaking]
Those were always really happy times.
[indistinct chatter]
[Darrell Jr.] That's Mom's in here.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] In June 1995,
Charlene and Darrell made things official.
[Darrell Sr.] We went to our local church
that we belong to.
And then, we had a wonderful party afterwards.
[narrator] Charlene and Darrell settle
into married life.
And enroll Logan into a wrestling team
to help with his confidence.
[Darrell Sr.] Hudson had a wonderful
youth wrestling program.
It... And it was a big step for Logan,
but it fit him, he was...
He had the strength.
Oh, there you go.
[narrator] Charlene captures his bouts on video.
[Charlene speaking]
[Darrell Jr.] When Charlene had the camera,
usually you didn't get to see
what was actually going on.
[Charlene speaking]
Yeah!
[Darrell Jr.] Because she was either
yelling or screaming or... or, you know,
just trying to cheer you on to do something.
[Charlene] Get him, Logan.
[cheering]
[Charlene] They're giving him some advice.
[narrator] Today, Logan's biological father,
Dan Reese, is a spectator.
He drove 70 miles from his home
in Webster, Wisconsin to cheer on his son.
[Darrell Jr.] Logan, when his dad
would come around,
he was happy,
he loved his dad a lot.
[laughs]
[narrator] Charlene's relationship with Logan's dad
is more complicated.
[Darrell Sr.] Dan was 17 years older
than Charlene.
He was controlling.
And that's what separated them.
She put a restraining order,
so he couldn't come towards the house
or be around us.
Just because he wanted for her
to come back to him.
He didn't want to...
deal with losing her.
He couldn't handle us being together.
He quit his work,
and then moved an hour and a half away
just so he didn't have to bump into us.
[narrator] Charlene and Dan are still fighting
over where Logan should live.
But she tries to keep things civil
for the sake of her son.
[Darrell Sr.] Logan felt very connected with his dad.
And that's what a father-son, you know, needs,
is that connection.
[suspenseful music playing]
[dramatic music playing]
[Darrell Sr. speaking]
[Darrell Sr.] Mine and Logan's relationship
was tricky at first.
[Logan speaking]
[Darrell Sr. speaking]
[Logan speaking]
To go into a relationship where it's,
you have stepchildren is really... is really tough.
They have their own mother and father, you know?
So, you really can't step your boundaries.
- [Logan] I don't expect. - [Darrell Sr. speaking]
[Darrell Sr. speaking]
[narrator] But Logan and the two Darrells
soon bond over a shared passion.
[engine revving]
[Darrell Jr.] We would go to the racetrack
when Dad used to run the race trucks.
[engine revving]
[Darrell Jr.] I would say being a gearhead
is definitely in the Wold DNA.
[dramatic music playing]
[Darrell Sr.] Logan did go-kart racing
when he was young,
that his dad got him into.
[narrator] Logan quickly develops a need for speed.
[Charlene speaking]
[engine revving]
[narrator] There's Logan in car number one,
weaving through the other racers.
[Darrell Jr.] I remember we would go watch him
and he would do really well.
He finally found something he could really enjoy
on his own.
It really did push him out of his shell
and really gave him something to do.
It made him happy.
[Charlene speaking]
[narrator] The blended Wold family settles
into their new life together.
And it's about to welcome a brand new member.
By Christmas 1996,
Charlene is eight months pregnant.
[Darrell Sr.] We were excited for this little person
to come in the world,
being ours together.
[dramatic music playing]
[Charlene] Oh, hi.
[narrator] It's January 1997
and the latest addition to the Wold family
has finally arrived.
[Darrell Sr. speaking]
Here.
[Darrell Sr.] The joy of having Shelbi born
was like... "We have a girl."
A little bit.
That was a joyful time
in our life.
[Charlene speaking]
[Logan speaking]
[Charlene speaking]
[Darrell Sr.] Logan and Darrell seemed to grow up
during that time.
They were good helpers.
[Charlene speaking]
[Shelbi] Logan was the kind of older brother
that was always my protector.
[Charlene speaking]
[Shelbi] It was, like, do everything at all cost
to protect Shelbi.
I think to him,
that was such an important role.
[Charlene speaking]
[Shelbi] He, you know, was a... was a caregiver.
[Shelbi speaking]
[Charlene] Woohoo.
[Logan speaking]
[Shelbi] He really took it upon himself
to be, kind of, my person.
[Shelbi speaking]
[Charlene laughs]
[narrator] The Wold boys start a new school year
in August 1997.
[Logan speaking]
[indistinct]
[Darrell Sr. speaking]
Logan had a tough time going to school
because of his hair.
[Charlene speaking]
Darrell Jr. is a little more outgoing.
[Darrell Jr.] I can... I can talk to anybody
on the... on the street and, you know,
you just try to find ways to be friends with them
or find things in common.
Like, he was pretty much
the complete opposite.
I don't remember him ever having any friends
other than me.
[Charlene] Cheese.
Okay, one more.
[narrator] A few years later,
Logan loses daily contact
with his only friend.
[Darrell Jr.] When I was 10 is when I moved
to my mom's house
and I wasn't at my dad's anymore.
[Shelbi] For Logan, it was difficult
because it was like he lost a brother,
and, um, somebody that he was able to connect with.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] A new arrival fills the void
in Logan's life.
[Darrell Sr. speaking]
[Shelbi] In 1999, my little brother,
Sterling, was born.
Yeah, yeah, he's got it... Oh, yeah.
[dramatic music playing]
[Darrell Sr.] It's a wonderful moment
to watch it afterwards,
and see how special they really are
when they're brand new like that.
[Charlene] The baby home now, honey.
[Darrell Sr.] Having Sterling made our family
as even more as one.
[Shelbi] I remember being extremely jealous
because at that point in time,
I was the youngest and, you know,
was sort of the center of attention.
[Charlene speaking]
[Shelbi speaking]
[Logan] Sterling said, "It's my powder."
[Charlene speaking]
[Shelbi] Logan really enjoyed
having another little mini me around
to sort of follow him and look up to him.
[Darrell Sr.] He was a really good big brother.
He would do anything for them
and loved to help out Charlene.
[Charlene speaking]
[Logan speaking]
[suspenseful music playing]
[Charlene speaking]
[narrator] But the dynamic of the Wold family
- is starting to change. - [Charlene speaking]
[Darrell Sr.] The older kids, kind of,
got put on the sidelines
because they were... they were so much older.
[Charlene speaking]
[Darrell Sr.] We were more centered on...
Sad thing to say, we were centered
on Shelbi and in Sterling.
[Charlene speaking]
[Shelbi speaking]
[Charlene speaking]
[narrator] At the age of 12,
Logan makes a big decision.
[Darrell Sr.] Logan went to live with his dad.
He did everything for Logan...
almost in the wrong way.
[Shelbi] When he was with his dad,
he sort of got to do whatever he wanted.
Sort of, I guess you could say
maybe every kid's dream.
[narrator] Logan's absence devastates Charlene.
[Darrell Sr.] It hurt her a lot,
but a son needs his dad in a...
And that's the way she would see it.
[Shelbi] For us as kids,
Logan leaving was...
It was really hard because Sterling and I
both idolized him, we followed him.
[Charlene] Sterling. Here.
[narrator] Logan's visits home become less frequent
during his early teens.
[indistinct chatter]
[Darrell Sr.] And he wasn't really even
being raised by Dan.
Dan, when he didn't drink,
he was just a wonderful person and dad,
but when he drank,
he wasn't as nice.
[Shelbi] Logan got to do a lot more of what he wanted.
He got to run wild and just do whatever.
[Charlene speaking]
[Charlene laughs]
[Darrell Sr.] At that point, Charlene was
really missing Logan.
[Charlene speaking]
[Shelbi] When Logan was away,
my mom was always very, very sad.
She felt she could really be the only person
that really truly understood him.
[narrator] And when Logan comes to visit
for the holidays,
Charlene is more determined than ever
to keep her son in her life.
[Charlene speaking]
- I got a little tissue. - [Charlene speaking]
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] In the fall of 2003,
Charlene drives 70 miles
to Logan's School in Webster, Wisconsin.
[Shelbi] My mom would set up these times
that she would be able to see Logan
without his dad knowing.
[Charlene speaking]
[Charlene laughs]
[Sterling speaking]
[Shelbi] It's really important for her to,
you know, be able to check in on her baby
and make sure that he's getting the care
that he genuinely needed.
[Charlene speaking]
[narrator] Charlene brings along four-year-old Sterling
and she films the reunion for Sister Shelbi.
[Charlene speaking]
[Sterling] Open it.
[Shelbi] It was the opportunity
to show Logan really how much
our family loved him and needed him.
[Charlene speaking]
[Logan] Me, too.
[Sterling giggles]
[Shelbi] Oh, she's crying.
She's so happy to finally see Logan.
[Logan laughs]
[Charlene] Oh, I miss you.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] After Charlene's visit,
Logan makes a trip home to see his family.
[Charlene speaking]
[Shelbi] He was her everything.
She would go out of her way
to do absolutely anything for him.
I do remember, you know,
my mom really hyping up the days or the weekends
that Logan was gonna be coming home
to spend some time with us.
[Charlene speaking]
[Shelbi] Dan purposefully made it
very, very difficult for my mom to see Logan.
[narrator] But Charlene is determined to win Logan back
even as her health deteriorates.
[Shelbi] She did have quite a few health struggles...
[indistinct chatter]
[Shelbi] ...and all of these, kind of,
resulted in a lot of surgeries.
And then, of course, afterward,
there was a lot of...
a lot of pain and soreness,
and so she did end up needing painkillers
of all different sorts.
[Sterling speaking]
[Charlene laughs]
[narrator] Logan spends Christmas 2004
at the Wold house.
The family sees that he too is suffering
with serious health issues.
[Shelbi] He did have a lot of struggles
with his hearing and with his ear,
and he had multiple surgeries that were done
to repair his hearing
and drain fluid and stuff like that.
[Sterling speaking]
[Charlene laughs]
[Shelbi] After he had surgeries,
he would be provided painkillers as well.
[narrator] Charlene becomes increasingly concerned
about Logan's well-being.
[Darrell Sr.] And then so, he'd get sick after that,
and then he'd come over.
So, medically-wise,
he needed to be watched and helped.
He's 14, 15 at this age,
and he's taking pain pills.
He's throwing up, he's taking more pain pills.
And over a certain amount of days,
his liver's starting to fail.
We almost lose him.
[Shelbi] Wait, I told you.
[narrator] It's the wake-up call
that finally convinces Logan to come home
and live with Charlene and Darrell.
[laughter]
[Charlene] Hold Sterling.
[Charlene speaking]
[Sterling speaking]
No. [laughs]
[Shelbi] Logan coming home was, like,
winning this battle that she had been fighting
for the past year and a half.
[Charlene speaking]
[Shelbi] She was so happy to finally have him back.
[narrator] But in 2005, Logan receives news
that shatters his world.
Logan was just getting back into our lives.
His dad committed suicide.
[Shelbi] He had a lot of his own personal struggles
that he was dealing with,
and Logan's dad
shot himself.
I remember Logan at his dad's funeral,
and just the look in his eyes of,
"What am I gonna do?" You know,
"What am I supposed to do now?"
[Darrell Sr.] It was really tough
to see him go through that.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Shelbi] Logan grieved really by drinking.
That was, kind of, his coping method
and really keeping to himself.
[narrator] Logan, now 18 years old
is struggling to keep his life in balance.
[Darrell Sr.] His mother got him on disability.
So, that wasn't a good thing.
He could have still did things.
The prescription pills were starting to happen more.
Me and Charlene thought, well Logan,
he's stuck in his room doing video games.
[Shelbi] My mom was a bit more understanding
as to why Logan didn't have a job because she,
kind of, understood his health issues.
For my dad, I would say
it was definitely really, really hard.
So, that definitely created some tension.
[narrator] By 2014, Shelbi and Sterling
are in their late teens, and they have grown apart
from big brother, Logan.
[Shelbi] In Logan's adult life,
he really didn't go out of his way to make friends,
he really kept to himself.
I remember being a bit sad because Logan
was really no longer this person
that we wanted to follow and look up to.
[Charlene speaking]
[narrator] On a family vacation to Montana,
Logan hangs back while Shelbi and Sterling
jump off a bridge.
Sterling's new girlfriend, McKenna Anderson
waits her turn to join in the fun.
[McKenna] When I first met Sterling's family,
I met Charlene first, and she, you know,
she greeted me with arms wide open.
[Shelbi] Sterling brought McKenna
into our family's life, and she was, like,
the sister that I never had.
[Charlene speaking]
Awesome.
[Darrell Sr.] McKenna moved in with us.
It was quite a... quite a change.
[narrator] The new addition to the Wold household
makes 26-year-old Logan think about his future.
[Darrell Sr.] Logan moved out at that time
and got his apartment in Glenwood City.
He was taking care of himself as an adult.
[Shelbi] My mom and dad got him
this white Pontiac as a gift.
[narrator] But Logan's newfound independence
is short-lived.
He'd come all the time over,
but as always, when he needed something.
Logan still needed financial help
that Charlene was sneaking in and giving him,
and we were starting to butt heads,
and it didn't help our relationship at all.
[Shelbi] He was really, kind of, tired
of people telling him how he should live
and what the right way to live is.
I think he really just wanted to shut the whole world out.
We didn't know what was going on
in Logan's head.
[suspenseful music playing]
[911 operator speaking]
[McKenna speaking]
[911 operator speaking]
[McKenna speaking]
[911 operator speaking]
[McKenna speaking]
[911 operator speaking]
[McKenna speaking]
[911 operator speaking]
[McKenna speaking]
[Jim] McKenna advises that Darrell Wold
came out of the house after being stabbed by Logan,
Sterling, McKenna,
and Darrell Wold were in the garage.
[sirens wailing]
[911 operator speaking]
- [McKenna speaking] - [911 operator speaking]
[McKenna speaking]
The mother, Charlene, is still unaccounted for.
[911 operator speaking]
[narrator] Deputies from the St. Croix
County Sheriff's Office arrived at the Wold's home.
[Jim] They immediately see spots of blood on the floor.
[911 operator speaking]
[Jim] They're at high alert.
They're going into a situation
believing that the suspect is in the house.
The suspect is armed.
The suspect is dangerous.
They make their way upstairs
and in a back bedroom.
They encounter Charlene.
She was... She was stabbed in the back.
She also had several stab wounds in her...
in her facial area.
[narrator] Medics fight to save Charlene's life.
[Jim] The deputies continue to clear the house
and they were unable to locate Logan.
And then, they meet up
with the people inside the garage.
[Darrell Sr.] Finally, they came.
They asked me where is Logan.
I said, "Is the white Pontiac there?"
Says, "No, that's gone." I said, "He left. He's gone."
[narrator] Darrell tells investigators
what happened to him earlier that evening.
[Darrell Sr.] I just heard a scream.
[Charlene screams]
[Darrell Sr.] Bad, deathly scream.
My feet hit the floor.
I was up out of bed, and I opened the door
and Logan's standing in front of the door
with a knife.
And stabbed me
right in the side of my face.
I mean, it's like,
"What's going on?"
You know, I'm bleeding everywhere.
I can't even protect myself.
[narrator] Darrell runs downstairs
to look for his son, Sterling.
[Darrell Sr.] I can't find him.
And Logan comes back,
and he's got the safe
where Charlene puts her prescription pills in,
telling me to open it.
And I'm like, no, and he threw it at me.
[narrator] Darrell staggers to the garage
and finds Sterling and McKenna.
[McKenna] He was just covered in blood,
and we were so confused.
And I remember Darrell just sitting there
saying, "Sterling, your brother just stabbed me."
[narrator] Sterling races into the house
to look for his mom.
But he finds Logan instead.
[Darrell Sr.] He came back out with a big bleeding knot
on the top of his head
from getting struck by a pool cue.
And he says, "Dad,
I hit him with the pool cue so hard,
he didn't even... It didn't even faze him."
He says, "I didn't see mom.
I didn't see her."
[narrator] Tracking down 28-year-old Logan Reese
is investigators' top priority.
At 12:45 AM, 911 dispatch reports
a fire at an apartment in Glenwood City,
35 miles east of Hudson.
[Dean] Logan has an apartment in Glenwood City,
that apartment is now on fire.
So now, we have crime scene number two.
[police speaking]
[Dean] Law enforcement, and EMS,
and fire arrived there.
Logan is not there.
There's a few firearms still laying
inside the apartment complex.
So, obviously, at that time, the concerns
were what... what were his intentions.
[narrator] At 1:15 AM a Woodville police officer
spots Logan driving north on U.S. Highway 12.
[sirens wailing]
[Dean] Officer Benson observes a white vehicle
fitting the description of Logan's car.
He pulls out.
All of a sudden, he's shot upon.
[police speaking]
Logan fired rounds at his squad car.
- [gunshots] - [911 operator speaking]
[police speaking]
[Dean] This is pretty intense.
[911 operator speaking]
It's an armed and dangerous situation.
[police speaking]
You're looking to kill somebody.
[narrator] Logan Reese is racing
along the Wisconsin State line at high speed
with officers in pursuit.
[Jim] He's showing an utter disregard
for anyone's life at this point.
He's very, very dangerous.
[911 operator speaking]
This needs to end.
And I hope that it ends peacefully
without anybody getting hurt.
[siren wailing]
[narrator] Forty miles away in Hudson,
the Wold family waits for news
about the condition of Logan's mom, Charlene.
[Darrell Jr.] And when I got to the hospital,
and seeing my dad, and his eye was cut open,
and he was crying, and he was really worried
about, you know, where is Charlene
and what happened to her.
[Shelbi] Finally, one of the nurses comes by
and says, "I'm so sorry,
but based off on what I've heard,
it doesn't sound like your mom made it."
[Darrell Sr.] It was like we were watching a movie.
You'd never ever imagine
a son would take his mother's life.
You know, it's just...
It's hard to believe.
[Shelbi] I remember us all sitting there,
looking at each other.
Like, what do we do now?
Like, how do we...
how do we even continue,
you know, without her?
I mean, she was all of our guardian.
[narrator] Officers continue their pursuit of Logan.
[Jim] He's evading law enforcement
on a high-speed pursuit.
He's involved in a stabbing.
He has started a place on fire.
[police speaking]
And he's now firing a weapon
out a window of a moving vehicle.
[narrator] Logan crosses into Polk County
where Amery police pick up the chase.
[911 operator speaking]
[narrator] They deploy road spikes to slow him down.
[police speaking]
[Jim] Attempts to stop the vehicle
using stop sticks didn't work.
[narrator] Logan is on Highway 8
approaching Taylors Falls, Minnesota.
He's heading north towards the Brule River
where his father's ashes were scattered.
So, as it's getting closer to the Taylors Falls area,
I'm continuing to monitor
where it's at and what's going on.
[police speaking]
[narrator] A deputy reports that Logan's car
has crashed into the median barrier.
[siren wailing]
[Grant] There was a lot of smoke in the area,
so it's very difficult to see
who was inside the vehicle.
So I, kind of, started giving commands
for the driver to exit the vehicle
and to show us his hands
and to step out on the passenger side.
[police speaking]
I got no response.
If I try to approach the vehicle,
is he gonna try to use that opportunity
to either shoot myself or one of my partners.
I had to send out a page to our SWAT team leader
or SWAT commander at the time,
advising him of the situation that we had.
[police speaking]
[Grant] We were able to see that the suspect
did self-inflicted a gunshot wound to his head
and that the suspect was deceased.
[narrator] Deputies from the St. Croix
County Sheriff's Office informed the Wold family
of Logan's suicide.
[Shelbi] When I found out that Logan killed himself,
it was almost like a sense of relief.
Because had he not,
we would have been so much angrier.
[narrator] Investigators piece together
the events that ended with Charlene's murder.
[Dean] Based on some of the interviews
with other family members,
Logan had a drug issue with oxycodone.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Jim] When he ran out, he would go into withdrawals
and he would seek medication
from his mom, Charlene.
And when Mom didn't provide that medication
to Logan, things took a turn.
Logan became upset, enraged,
and there was assault on Charlene.
[suspenseful music playing]
[narrator] The Wold family suspect that Logan's plan
was to end his life in the same way his dad did,
suicide.
Logan retrieved weapons and a suit from his apartment
after he fled the Wold home.
[McKenna] He always told Sterling and Charlene
that if he ever wanted to die,
he wanted to be in one of his dad's suits.
[Shelbi] I think he knew
that what he had just done
was irreversible.
[Charlene speaking]
[narrator] Charlene remain devoted to her son
despite all his troubles.
Logan repaid that devotion by taking his mother's life.
[Charlene speaking]
We remember our mom as the most friendly,
loving,
just the kindest person.
I mean, she'd go above and beyond for anybody.
And I mean, anybody. [chuckles]
Not just the people that she loved.
[Darrell Sr.] I was so proud to be with her.
She was a wonderful person.
And I'll miss my dance with you.
And I love her.
We always had challenges in our life.
We always got through it,
made us stronger.
[dramatic music playing]