Cold Blooded: A Gamble

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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"Cold Blooded" host Chris Connelly and "Start Here" host Brad Mielke discuss the dualities of Ketchikan and the case of Dr. Eric Garcia, as well as the "gamble" Jordan Joplin took by murdering the beloved surgeon. All of "Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska" is out now. You can listen to the entire series for free on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amazon Music⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Deborah Roberts here with another weekly episode of our latest series from 2020 and ABC Audio, Cold-blooded Mystery in Alaska.
0:09.8	Remember, you can get new episodes early if you follow Cold-blooded Mystery in Alaska on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Now, here's the episode.
0:24.5	I'm John Quignores. Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old soldier, vanishes while on duty at an army base in Texas.
0:33.6	Her family demands answers. How can she go missing on a military base?
0:38.3	That's too ridiculous.
0:40.3	The search goes on for months.
0:43.3	And a dark story starts to unfold.
0:50.3	She told her family that she was being sexually harassed and wasn't reporting it out of fear of
0:57.2	retribution and retaliation. What investigators finally uncover is horrifying. Find out how one soldier,
1:06.4	a beloved sister and daughter, ignited a movement and sparked a reckoning in the U.S. military.
1:14.2	Listen to Vanished.
1:15.9	What happened to Vanessa?
1:17.7	A new series from ABC Audio in 2020.
1:21.2	Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
1:27.2	Hey, I'm Brad Milkey.
1:29.1	I'm a reporter at ABC News.
1:30.5	I host our daily news podcast, start here.
1:32.8	And today, we got some men special for you here.
1:35.2	I am with the host of cold-blooded mystery in Alaska.
1:38.9	Chris Connolly, the voice of the series is with me now.
1:43.0	And like many of you, I've been an avid listener of this series.
1:47.0	So I want to ask Chris some of my burning questions about what makes this story's many twists and turns.
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