The Joplin & Trice Murders in Blue Mound, Texas Part 3: Damage Control

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

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🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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After Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper reporters uncovered relatively solid evidence that 17-year-old Terry Trice did not kill Wayne, Fae, Brian, and Kevin Joplin, Tarrant County Sheriff Lon Evans became heavily involved in the investigation. In fact, it seemed as though he didn’t want anyone making any decisions or talking to any reports other than himself and his Chief Deputy Earl Brown. Damage control began. As the Sheriff and his right hand man sorted through mistakes made by both the Blue Mound Police Chief and his own deputies, Lon Evans became frustrated at the lack of cooperation from the sole surviving Joplin family member. Part 3 of ?

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0:00.0	The Gone Cold Podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
0:06.9	is advised.
0:10.0	A significant number of commuters coming in to downtown Fort Worth, Texas via Bellnab
0:16.0	Street past the jailhouse.
0:19.0	likely a very small percentage of them know anything at all about the man for which it
0:24.7	is named, even proud locals.
0:28.2	But they should.
0:30.2	Born in Fort Worth on Christmas Day, 1911, Lawn Worth Evans was not only the longest
0:37.2	serving sheriff in Tarant County history, but the man is also credited by many as ending
0:43.5	area law enforcement's Good Old Boy Network.
0:48.0	As a kid, Lawn became a popular fixture in the city as his father's drugstore delivery
0:54.1	boy.
0:55.9	It was his football career at Polytechnic High School, however, that began his journey
1:01.4	to becoming one of the most storied and perhaps prolific Fort Worthyans.
1:08.1	By his junior and senior high school years, Lawn had already grown to stand six feet tall
1:14.4	to weigh a bulky 200 pounds and was a force to be reckoned with on the gridiron, whether
1:20.9	he was starting a game playing his usual position, center, or was filling in his tackle.
1:28.0	Either way, Lawn Evans was always a starter.
1:32.8	Even as a freshman and sophomore, he was one of only two non- Letterman starters at Polytechnic.
1:40.9	The year 1928 was bittersweet for Lawn.
1:45.0	At 17 years old, he was happy to graduate high school, but in March of that year his
1:50.7	father died young, at 53 years old, after a long battle with illness.
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