The Joplin & Trice Murders in Blue Mound, Texas Part 6: “No. Hell no.”

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The first two-thirds of Gregg Wayne Joplin’s testimony at the grand jury investigation into the murders of his entire family and friend Terry Trice were riddled with inconsistencies and, seemingly, impossibilities. The final hour or so was no different. After he was dismissed, Terry Trice’s close friend Valdemar Gomez Junior took the stand. It’s unclear if the teenager was nervous or simply could not recall details well, but his testimony, too, contradicted the testimony of others and even his own. In the end, grand jurors were unable to suggest an indictment or even provide many answers. The case, from that point on, was unofficially concluded.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cole podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
0:06.3	is advised.
0:09.2	The grand jury investigation into the February 23rd, 1976 shooting deaths of Wayne
0:16.1	Joplin, Fay Joplin, Brian Joplin, and little Kevin Joplin got underway on March 3rd, 1976.
0:25.2	Mr. Tarant County Sheriff Lawn Evans decided their subpoena powers were the only thing that
0:30.9	might get the sole surviving family member, 20-year-old Greg Joplin, to talk.
0:37.9	Several other witnesses had already appeared, and though Greg had declined by his actions
0:43.7	to testify when invited to, he was officially subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury
0:50.0	on Tuesday, March 9th, 1976.
0:54.5	When asked if he might need to advise his client to plead the Fifth Amendment to any questions,
1:00.6	Greg Joplin's attorney George Thompson told a reporter, no sir, I don't foresee any
1:06.0	at this time.
1:08.2	By Greg's account, he came home that night to find his family's slain.
1:14.0	After hearing what he called someone shuffling, bumping, and groping around in the dark,
1:19.7	Greg said he picked up his 22 caliber rifle by the front door of the family's Blue
1:24.8	Mount Texas home and fired at a silent and darkened figure, the alleged intruder who
1:31.3	had killed everyone in the house.
1:34.5	The figure fell and was later identified as close Joplin family friend, Terry Trice.
1:41.7	By Greg's own admission, 17-year-old Terry was familiar with the Joplin home, which begged
1:47.8	the question, why was he fumbling around in the dark as if he were unfamiliar with the
1:53.9	surroundings, to use Greg's words?
1:57.9	That was certainly not the only detail that didn't make sense in assistant district attorney
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