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This is Greg Joplin, 1717, Glenn Drive.

My whole family is dead, they have been shot, I have killed the man who did it.

Send me a policeman.

Other than the Tarant County District Attorney's Office, apparently being told Greg introduced

himself as Mr. Joplin, which Greg vehemently denied.

It was established at the Grand jury investigation into the killings of the Joplin family and

Terry Trice, that this is what was said to Blumount Police Dispatch.

Though the fact that Greg Joplin told both Dispatch and Blumount Police Chief Gary Irwin

at the scene that his whole family was deceased, that they'd all been shot, he readily admitted

that he had not gone into the back bedrooms where his brother's bodies laid.

Perhaps seeing his parents' bodies was enough to assume his brothers too had been killed,

but grand jurors and authorities seemed to be having a hard time believing that was

the case.

On March 9, 1976, as Greg Joplin's testimony continued in the grand jury investigation

of his families and Terry Trice's murders in Blumount, Texas, the events only became

further shrouded in mystery.

Upon discovering his entire family had been slain and subsequently shooting and killing

the alleged intruder who had done it, Joplin family friend Terry Trice, Blumount Police

Chief Gary Irwin, took Greg across the street to the home of Martha Boyles, a long time

close friend of his mother, Fay Joplin.

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