Logan Lynn Tucker

Date of Last Contact: June 23, 2002

Location of Disappearance: Woodward, Oklahoma

Physical Characteristics: 3′ 6″ tall, 42 pounds, 6 year old, Caucasian male with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Last Seen Wearing: Unknown

Investigating Agency: Woodward County Sheriff’s Office

(580) 256-3264

Six year old Logan Tucker was last known to have been alive on June 23, 2002. He is missing from the Woodward area.

On July 7th, 2002 a family member of Logan’s mother, Katherine Rutan, called authorities to perform a welfare check on Logan and his younger brother. Logan was no where to be found. At the time, Katherine and her children were living with a friend, who last saw the child on the evening of June 22nd, when she put him to bed. She has reported waking around 3-4am hearing Logan screaming and crying- which she apparently ignored and went back to sleep. Upon waking at 6am for work, the roommate asked Rutan why Logan had been so upset in the middle of the night, to which Rutan said he had been sick. The roommate did not see Logan that morning, and he would never been seen again.

In the following days, Rutan’s story about Logan’s whereabouts would change over and over. First, she said that her brother had come from West Virginia to pick up Logan to take him camping; her brother however did not have Logan and had stated he hadn’t seen the child in over a year- plus, her brother lives in Pennsylvania rather than West Virginia. It turns out that the brother didn’t even know Rutan all that well, the two were given up for adoption as children and raised in different families, so why she would say he would come to get a child he had only met less than a handful of times is unknown. Even though she told the camping story to authorities, Rutan told friends that Logan had been picked up and taken into DHS custody on the 23rd, also a false story.

Preceding Logan’s disappearance, Rutan herself had contacted DHS saying she was in fear that Logan was going to hurt his younger brother, and that the child was prone to violent outbursts and starting fires. She requested that the child be committed to a psychiatric unit. In fact, DHS had custody of both children for a time in the Tulsa area where they lived prior to moving to Fort Supply to live with a boyfriend of Rutan’s. They had only moved in with the friend a short time before Logan went missing, apparently moving at the boyfriend’s request as he couldn’t handle Logan’s behavior any longer.

Within two months of Logan being discovered as missing, Rutan would lose custody of her younger son to his biological father and would move to Bartlesville. She never participated in a search for Logan, would never call to see where the investigation was in regards to him, and to authorities knowledge did not attempt to contact her younger son after losing custody.

In 2006, Katherine Rutan was charged and then convicted of killing Logan. At trial her younger son would make statements that the last time he saw his brother, Logan was being carried by Rutan from the house to the car- and that Logan was pale, slumped forward, and unmoving. He further stated that Tutan placed duct tape over Logan’s eyes and mouth before driving out to an abandoned house in the Fort Supply area, going into the house with Logan, but returning without him and then leaving.

It is believed that Logan’s body is buried somewhere in the vicinity of Fort Supply Lake, however to date authorities have been unable to find him despite an extensive search of the area.

If you have any information in regards to the location of Logan Tucker, please contact the Woodward County Sheriff’s Office at 580-256-3264.