The Joplin & Trice Murders in Blue Mound, Texas Part 8: Deadlocked

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

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🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In 2014, Barry Hinkle moved up to the position of Chief of Police in Blue Mound, Texas. While his responsibilities certainly grew, Hinkle still actively sought to solve the 1976 slayings of Kevin, Brian, Fae, and Wayne Joplin, and family friend Terry Trice. He’d uncovered, or simply investigated, something no investigator in the case ever had – a jailhouse letter written by an inmate to his wife. It implicated a man named Johnny Cotton. As Hinkle investigated Cotton and pieced together a timeline that for the most part was not public knowledge, the jailhouse letter seemed to match. And it looked like the sole surviving Joplin might have hired a man to kill his entire family and set up his former friend as a patsy.

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Grand Jury testimony, an anonymous individual once involved in the investigation, Tom Stephenson’s 2018 article in D Magazine titled “Reopening the Blue Mound Massacre,” and The Dallas Morning-News were used as sources for this episode

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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.
0:09.6	I know who did it.
0:11.2	Mrs. Gladys Trice told a reporter for the Dallas Morning News Fort Worth Bureau in July
0:17.1	of 1979.
0:19.3	I know who killed my son.
0:21.9	However, Mrs. Trice was forced to abandon her almost a million dollar lawsuit against Greg
0:28.9	Joplin for what she called the wrongful, intentional, and malicious murder of her son, 17-year-old
0:36.8	Terry Trice.
0:38.8	She simply could not afford to continue.
0:42.4	But if Gladys Trice was right and Greg killed her son in cold blood, who killed the Joplins?
0:50.8	No one believed Terry did, especially the police.
0:55.5	When Greg's alibi, albeit half-assed, left at least some doubt as to his direct involvement.
1:04.6	When reporter Evan Moore tracked down the soul-surviving member of the Joplin family, he discovered
1:10.8	that Greg had collected today's equivalent of $146,000 from his father's life insurance
1:18.2	policy.
1:19.2	He was married, completed a computer course at a Dallas College, and moved to Oklahoma's
1:24.3	city to work for national computer services.
1:28.7	Greg didn't want to discuss the slangs, relatives told the Dallas Morning News reporter.
1:35.1	He didn't want to remember them.
1:38.2	Meanwhile, many witnesses, some who wished to remain anonymous, were finally divulging
1:44.3	to the press that they'd heard gunshots on the night of February 23, 1976, something
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