COLUMBIA — South Carolina law enforcement officials are urging patience after the father of slain college student Logan Federico — who was murdered in downtown Columbia while visiting friends at the University of South Carolina — accused them of failing to lock up the repeat offender accused of killing her.

During a Sept. 29 satellite hearing of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Oversight in Charlotte, Steve Federico, Logan’s father, slammed South Carolina’s judicial system for systemic failures that allowed his daughter’s alleged killer, 30-year-old Alexander Dickey, to commit the May murder after a more than decade-long criminal history.

His rap sheet included dozens of felony and misdemeanor charges across the Midlands region of South Carolina.

Federico specifically criticized

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