VERSAILLES, KY – A Kentucky man who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old boy back in 2015 has since been fully released from state custody following a brief parole release in late 2025 that was revoked shortly thereafter for failing to register as a convicted felon.
As previously reported in Law Enforcement Today, Ronald Exantus was granted parole in October of 2025 after being convicted of a 2015 home invasion where he brutally murdered a 6-year-old boy, Logan, and nearly took the lives of the boy’s sisters and father.
One of Logan’s sisters, Koral, vividly remembers waking up in the middle of the night back on December 17th, 2025, seeing her brother being stabbed to death by Exantus, telling a local news outlet, “I woke up, and I heard Logan screaming, and all I could see was a man, a big man, over top of him, stabbing him.”
Logan’s other sister, Dakota, was also present during the attack, recalling when Exantus turned his attention toward her, saying, “He stabbed me in the back. And then stomped on my head.”
The murderous commotion taking place in the children’s bedroom resulted in the father, Dean Tipton, waking up and happening upon the horror.
When Dean attempted to stop the knife-wielding invader, Exantus reportedly stabbed him and tossed him to the side roughly ten feet away. While young Logan’s injuries proved fatal, the three other family members survived the attack.
However, when it came time for justice to be served, the surviving family members felt as though the system failed them.
In Exantus’ 2018 trial, a jury found the defendant not guilty of young Logan’s murder by reason of insanity, resulting in Exantus only being found guilty of the non-fatal knife attacks launched at the young girls and Logan’s father. Despite being handed down a 20-year sentence, Exantus was granted parole in October of 2025 and made plans to move to Florida.
According to the Kentucky Department of Corrections, Exantus’ time on parole was short-lived as he reportedly failed to register as a convicted felon on parole in Florida, resulting in a swift termination of his supervised release and a return to custody in Kentucky.
Despite his parole being terminated and his original sentence being 20 years, somehow Exantus was released on July 29th, this time with zero parole or a supervised released tail, as the Kentucky Department of Corrections says he fully completed his sentence.
Exantus had apparently secured “earned statutory sentence credits,” according to a report from Fox News, which recalculated his end-of-sentence to July 29th, with corrections officials confirming they no longer had the authority to keep Exantus confined.
The 2015 case did spark legislation in Kentucky known as Logan’s Law, which was signed by Governor Andy Beshear this past April, with said legislation reportedly barring individuals convicted of crimes like Exantus’ from receiving earned release credits and also prohibiting the splitting of insanity verdicts.
Kentucky State Rep. T.J. Roberts, who cosponsored Logan’s Law, said of the legislation at the time of signing, “There's nothing we can do for Logan Tipton or Jordan Wells, who this bill also honors. What it can do, though, is make sure that incidents like that don't happen again.”
As for Dean, upon hearing the news of Exantus’ complete discharge from prison, he took to social media with the following, “The judge and jury gave this monster a slap on the wrist while handing down a life sentence to my family. Make sure to lock your doors and keep an eye out for baby killers. He will be released today. Watch your house, your neighbor’s house, your kids, your neighbors’ kids. He could be coming to your town. Kentucky justice at its finest.”
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