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Cold Blooded: 'Legion of Lies'

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In episode six of Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska, investigators race to get their smoking gun before the case heads to trial. To catch up on the entire series, follow "Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska" 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. What happened to Vanessa? A new series from ABC Audio in 2020.

1:21.2

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

1:25.9

After Jordan Joplin was arrested for theft in Washington State in April 2017,

1:31.3

he was extradited to Alaska and held on $200,000 bail in the Ketchikan Correction Center,

1:39.4

just 500 yards from Dr. Garcia's house. By that summer, investigators were confident that Dr. Garcia's house.

1:44.7

By that summer, investigators were confident that Dr. Garcia's house was the scene of

1:50.0

more than a theft.

1:52.1

They believed Jordan murdered Dr. Garcia by slipping him morphine and then trying to make

1:57.5

his death look like a suicide or an accident.

2:01.6

Armed with their evidence and theory of the crime,

2:04.6

prosecutors brought their case to a grand jury.

2:07.6

The jury returned an indictment with charges of theft

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