The Joplin & Trice Murders in Blue Mound, Texas Part 7: Johnny Cotton

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

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🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

After the grand jury wrapped up their investigation into the Joplin and Trice murders, unhappily at that, the media essentially turned their back on the story. More disturbingly, it seems the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office did the same. While most folks the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex over were paying attention to the new high profile murder case in town, residents of Blue Mound were stuck wondering if a murderer walked among them. In 2011, a new Blue Mound cop decided he’d like to get a shot at breaking the Joplin / Trice murder case. It was Deputy Police chief Barry Hinkle who, more than 3 decades after the horrific slayings, uncovered the most promising lead the case had ever known in the form of a guy known as “Johnny Cotton.” Part 7 of 8.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cold Podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
0:06.3	is advised.
0:09.3	On Friday, March 25, 1977, the following was filed in Texas's 17th District Court.
0:18.2	On or about February 23, 1976, Terry Trice died when shot by defendant Greg Joplin at 1717
0:27.0	Glenn.
0:28.0	A lawsuit filed by Terry's mother, Mrs. Gladys Trice, red.
0:33.7	It continued.
0:35.2	On that occasion, Terry Trice entered the premises, engaged in peaceful pursuits, but was approached
0:41.9	by Greg Joplin who obtained a 22 caliber single shot rifle, and thereupon willfully, wrongfully,
0:49.5	intentionally and maliciously shot Terry in the back of the head.
0:55.3	Mrs. Trice's attorneys were correct when they wrote this up, and Greg Joplin used
1:00.5	someone's Volkswagen to pick up Terry that night, luring him into a death trap.
1:07.4	Esther Gomez told at least one reporter that Greg was the driver who had picked Terry up.
1:15.2	Or perhaps Terry Trice was killed before he even entered the Joplin home.
1:21.0	His body dragged into the kitchen by Greg Joplin.
1:25.6	Neighbor Danny Kane, after all, claimed to see the sole surviving Joplin member dragging
1:31.9	something into the family's home.
1:36.0	Either way, the gun-loathing teenager left his home with no shoes and no coat, but he
1:42.3	was found squeezed into a pair of size 9 shoes on his size 11 feet, and wearing a coat
1:49.0	that belonged to a Joplin neighbor.
1:52.5	Terry had given that same Joplin neighbor a very similar pair of shoes some time before,
1:58.4	his mother Gladys said, presumably because he grew out of them.
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