Cold Blooded: Jordan

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Speaker 5 In the weeks after Dr.

Speaker 6 Eric Garcia's death, police learned a lot about Jordan Joplin.

Speaker 8 They came to believe Jordan was a thief, that he stole Dr.

Speaker 11 Garcia's vast collection of valuables.

Speaker 12 Police also surmised that Jordan and Dr. Garcia had been involved romantically, judging from the handwritten notes found in both men's homes.

Speaker 11 And police also found a disturbing video on Jordan's cell phone.

Speaker 4 It appeared to show Dr.

Speaker 2 Garcia gasping for for air and near death, lying on the couch where police discovered his body.

Speaker 18 The video put Jordan in the room with Dr.

Speaker 19 Garcia as he lay dying.

Speaker 17 But damning as the video was, it wasn't quite a smoking gun.

Speaker 10 Police knew Dr.

Speaker 15 Garcia's ultimate cause of death was a morphine overdose.

Speaker 15 But remember, No morphine had been found in Dr.

Speaker 4 Garcia's house.

Speaker 17 Police still didn't know how that fatal dose ended up in the doctor's system.

Speaker 8 So, what happened before Jordan began recording that video?

Speaker 8 What unfolded between Jordan Joplin and Dr.

Speaker 18 Eric Garcia was years in the making.

Speaker 15 What in Jordan Joplin's life led him to this moment? And how did his relationship with Dr.

Speaker 4 Garcia

Speaker 2 go so terribly wrong?

Speaker 20 I'm Chris Connolly from ABC Audio and 2020.

Speaker 8 This is Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska.

Speaker 20 Episode five:

Speaker 8 Jordan.

Speaker 21 Jordan's dream was just to take care of everybody. He just wanted to take care of everybody.
He always said that.

Speaker 21 When I get older, Aunt Sandy, I'm going to get rich and I'm going to take care of all of you.

Speaker 13 Sandra Flores was raising three boys in rural Washington when her younger sister moved to town after a divorce.

Speaker 18 Her sister's youngest, Jordan, was a year and a half old at the time.

Speaker 24 They were living in Forks, Washington.

Speaker 11 Forks was once a prosperous logging town.

Speaker 24 Today, it's better known as the hometown of dreamy fictional vampires, as in the movie Twilight.

Speaker 26 If you hate the cold and the rain so much, why'd you move to the wettest place in the continental U.S.?

Speaker 23 Stephanie Meyer, the author of the Twilight Books, said she picked Forks for its climate.

Speaker 6 She thought it was a logical habitat for vampires.

Speaker 2 For young Jordan, the dark mossy woods were a place to explore and expend almost endless kinetic energy.

Speaker 8 And Sandy says Jordan spent his childhood climbing trees and catching snakes.

Speaker 21 Because he was curious, he was rambunctious. But it got rough for him after a while because he was very

Speaker 21 impulsive. I think it's the word to use.
He would, instead of thinking about it, he would just do something and then go, oh, wow, that was fun. Let's do it again.

Speaker 20 Jordan was one of five children in the house.

Speaker 25 He had two older sisters from his mom's previous marriage, plus his stepdad's two kids.

Speaker 28 In that busy household, Sandy says she thinks Jordan often felt overlooked.

Speaker 21 I think Jordan was getting into trouble for attention.

Speaker 21 And I think that's what it was. He realized he was getting more attention getting into trouble than doing good things and not getting attention.

Speaker 21 And we told him that. We straight up told him that you're doing this just to get attention.
And he's like, oh yeah, nobody pays attention to me. And he's right.
He was right.

Speaker 29 Sandy says she thinks Jordan especially craved attention from his mother.

Speaker 21 Jordan looked for a lot of solace from his mom, which she gave him. You know, she gave him a lot of love and comfort.

Speaker 21 that he really needed that he couldn't get anywhere else but from his mom.

Speaker 30 But as Jordan got older, it seemed he was able able to find love and attention in other places.

Speaker 21 Jordan had lots of girlfriends. I met lots of girlfriends.

Speaker 21 He'd have to bring them by and show Aunt Sandy, this is so-and-so, Aunt Sandy. I met her and so-and-so.

Speaker 7 We're really in love.

Speaker 21 It's like, okay, well, the next month will be somebody different.

Speaker 1 He was very like high energy. And so that was just that positivity was kind of infectious.

Speaker 9 Jordan was all grown up by the time he started dating Jessica Everton.

Speaker 11 They met in Bonnie Lake, Washington, working at a food bank that was run by Jessica's father.

Speaker 29 Jessica knew Jordan was there for community service.

Speaker 32 What she says she did not know is that it was ordered after Jordan was convicted of two felonies, after abandoning his car and then claiming it had been stolen.

Speaker 9 Investigators became suspicious when they noticed Jordan had filed an insurance claim three hours before reporting he had left the vehicle on the side of the road.

Speaker 31 Jordan began doing his community service, and soon he and Jessica were seeing each other.

Speaker 1 His zest, his positivity, I mean, he was intoxicating. He was very, very big into his appearance, and so he was big into his muscles.
He was definitely good arm candy.

Speaker 29 But Jessica says Jordan's focus on his appearance wasn't only to keep her interested.

Speaker 1 He was an aspiring stripper.

Speaker 33 How did he look with his shirt on?

Speaker 1 Gorgeous.

Speaker 33 You would take him out and meet your friends with him?

Speaker 1 Yes. Usually he would perform some kind of sexual dances with them if we were out at the bar.
I would tell him how I did not appreciate those dance moves.

Speaker 1 I didn't need to see him having sex with my friends on the dance floor.

Speaker 16 Jessica learned to live with Jordan's gyrations.

Speaker 28 But in December 2010, Jessica says she got a wake-up call.

Speaker 1 We were shopping at Walmart and then we walked out and as we walked out, we got swarmed. They're accusing me of stealing and I'm flabbergasted.

Speaker 24 Walmart Security accused the couple of shoplifting a number of GPS units from the store.

Speaker 1 The police showed up and we were arrested. We were both placed in the same squad car.

Speaker 23 The police report noted that Jessica and Jordan both said the theft was his idea, but both were charged.

Speaker 33 And what happened to the charges against you?

Speaker 1 They ended up getting deferred because I wanted the whole thing over behind me. I wanted no part of any of it.
I said I'll do my community service.

Speaker 2 I won't commit this crime again.

Speaker 9 Jordan, on the other hand, pleaded guilty to theft.

Speaker 28 He received a suspended jail sentence and more community service.

Speaker 18 Jessica says after the Walmart incident, she ended the relationship.

Speaker 1 We broke up, and then

Speaker 1 I came home one day to dozens and dozens and dozens of roses,

Speaker 1 vases of roses, all over my front steps.

Speaker 27 Jessica took this grand gesture as Jordan asking her to take him back.

Speaker 15 But she did not.

Speaker 23 And she says that made Jordan angry.

Speaker 1 Jordan's not very nice when he's angry. So when I quit responding to his phone calls and to his text messages, and when I block him, And then he starts having other people call me and text me.

Speaker 33 What are those messages saying that you're getting?

Speaker 1 At one point, it was if I can't have you nobody can.

Speaker 1 He did have somebody call me at work. It was a female.

Speaker 1 I'm not sure who this female was because when I got on the phone it was him saying he wanted me to take him back and he started threatening my family.

Speaker 1 I knew the lengths he was going to try to get in touch with me. I didn't put it past him.

Speaker 27 Jessica took action.

Speaker 1 I went to the courthouse. I told them exactly what he did, exactly what he said.
I get a restraining order against him.

Speaker 33 What happened after you got the restraining order?

Speaker 1 He stopped.

Speaker 14 In court papers, Jordan Joplin denied all of Jessica's claims.

Speaker 11 He said he had moved on with his life and had a new girlfriend.

Speaker 9 And other women in Jordan's life remember him in more positive terms.

Speaker 37 I used to work in public transportation as a dispatcher,

Speaker 37 mainly with taxis.

Speaker 24 Back in 2012, Crescenta Lawrence was on duty and down in the dumps.

Speaker 9 She says that's when a kind stranger came into her life.

Speaker 37 On a horrible day of mine, he randomly called and

Speaker 37 was asking for a cab, but he noticed that I didn't sound too upbeat or too ecstatic, I guess. He asked me if I was okay and told me his name.

Speaker 37 And he was like, you know what, I think I just want to hang out with you. And I was really down in my life at that time when he called.
And

Speaker 2 I just felt so lifted.

Speaker 37 I actually did meet him for a drink one day. And I just sat there and listened to him talk.

Speaker 16 The stranger, of course, was Jordan Joplin.

Speaker 9 Over the course of that drink, And in the days and months after, Chrysanta says she and Jordan became close friends.

Speaker 6 She says Jordan opened up about his life, about his travels, and about his son, whom he loved deeply.

Speaker 11 And she says Jordan listened to her troubles.

Speaker 32 He became her rock.

Speaker 23 Jordan made certain to

Speaker 37 be there, helped me with the bills when I didn't even ask for it. He was an angel.

Speaker 37 I was just happy to be a piece of furniture in his life.

Speaker 37 He radiated such

Speaker 37 energy about him that anybody would want to be around him.

Speaker 20 And anybody sometimes meant just about everybody.

Speaker 37 He was so confident he'd have two, three girlfriends out at the same time, as a matter of fact, in the same truck, showing up at my house.

Speaker 37 One of the girls, she goes, I don't know what it is, but I can't seem to stay away from him.

Speaker 9 Eventually, Crescenta helped Jordan with some networking.

Speaker 37 I had a few connections that I got him into

Speaker 37 the adult industry. He started working as a dancer first, but what he wanted was more attention based on him.
He was such an attention hog.

Speaker 37 He got that from dancing, but Jordan wanted to really, really make a name for himself. So we got him into something a little bit more heavier.

Speaker 38 James Logan, here to see the house.

Speaker 37 He started making some movies, same-sex.

Speaker 15 In one film, titled The Garage Part 4, Jordan starred as a college student looking to rent a room.

Speaker 39 Beautiful house. So you like it? Yeah, it's very big.

Speaker 8 Jordan performed under multiple names, including Rob Stonebridge and Logan Cruz.

Speaker 31 Remember, Logan is the name he used when he made one of those welfare check calls.

Speaker 40 Nobody's heard from him yet.

Speaker 40 What's your name?

Speaker 40 My name's Logan. Oh, my real name is Jordan Joplin, but everybody calls me Logan.
Sorry.

Speaker 15 Around the time Jordan was beginning to pursue a career in adult entertainment, he got some news from back in Forks.

Speaker 12 In January 2015, his mom died after a battle with cancer.

Speaker 30 She was 51.

Speaker 23 Jordan's aunt Sandy says, after that, Jordan didn't seem the same again.

Speaker 21 That affected Jordan big time, losing his mom. That was his only link to sanity, was his mom.

Speaker 21 To this day, I don't think he's gotten over it. Jordan and I talked at least once a month, and then after his mom passed, we started talking at least once a week.

Speaker 21 But once he hit Alaska, I didn't see much of him after that.

Speaker 21 Once he went up to Alaska,

Speaker 21 everything kind of changed.

Speaker 24 Over the next two years, Jordan made frequent trips to Ketchiken, Alaska to visit Dr.

Speaker 10 Garcia. Dr.

Speaker 20 Garcia sought to keep the relationship a secret, telling loved ones close to nothing about Jordan.

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Speaker 29 the story of Jordan Joplin's life contained chapters that were quite risque.

Speaker 7 Friends say he dated multiple women at once, worked as a stripper, acted in adult films, and grew cannabis without a license.

Speaker 6 Sometimes his impulses took him not just outside polite society, but outside the law, and he had the rap sheet to prove it.

Speaker 17 Dr. Eric Garcia's life could not have been more different.

Speaker 13 different.

Speaker 6 His path in life was a picture of respectability.

Speaker 10 As a teenager, he'd become fascinated by medicine.

Speaker 9 He went on to become a skilled surgeon, beloved by his colleagues and patients.

Speaker 24 In his free time, he traveled the world, often treating his mom and dad to luxury cruises.

Speaker 7 He was a good son, a good doctor.

Speaker 12 And one would think he might have made a good life partner.

Speaker 20 But loved ones say Dr.

Speaker 23 Garcia's devotion to work often left little room for a personal life.

Speaker 8 Here's his brother, Saul.

Speaker 45 I know that he dated when he was young, and mostly I know this from my sister, because my sister actually got more into his business than I did. So

Speaker 45 I think I left those topics alone.

Speaker 9 Saul didn't discuss romantic matters with his older brother. That's just how their relationship was.
And as years went by, that's how it stayed.

Speaker 45 I got married, my brother got married, my sister got married, then it was just him that hadn't been married. I was wondering, will he get into a relationship with somebody?

Speaker 45 But as time went on, I realized that

Speaker 45 that was just not in his cards.

Speaker 19 By all accounts, Dr.

Speaker 12 Garcia was kind, charming, accomplished, and of course, flush with cash.

Speaker 11 Why hadn't he found someone to share his life with?

Speaker 15 The easiest explanation was his work, that he was totally devoted to his job.

Speaker 9 But Saul Garcia suspected there might have been something else that his brother was grappling with.

Speaker 45 I never really challenged him or questioned him as to,

Speaker 45 you know,

Speaker 45 his preferences.

Speaker 45 But certainly it would have been

Speaker 45 something hard to discuss with my mom or my dad. So I think my brother saw that too.
So he didn't want to go there.

Speaker 24 A few years after moving to Ketchikin, Dr.

Speaker 10 Garcia went to the doctor himself after experiencing shortness of breath.

Speaker 12 He was told he needed heart surgery.

Speaker 27 We mentioned this in episode two.

Speaker 7 He was medevaced to Seattle, where doctors performed a triple bypass.

Speaker 6 Saul Garcia remembers that brush with death as a turning point.

Speaker 45 I was there for the surgery and afterwards, and I don't know if it was the anesthesia or the sedation that they gave him, but he was like, oh, I love you so much.

Speaker 45 And I mean, he was just expressing that he should have been with us more, that he spent so much time, you know,

Speaker 45 working. And

Speaker 45 well, I mean, he kind of fell into a little bit of a depression right after,

Speaker 45 and he re-evaluated his life. And

Speaker 45 he thought, well, maybe it's time for me to enjoy my life some more.

Speaker 24 It was around this time that Jordan says he gave Dr.

Speaker 9 Garcia a massage and that the doctor tipped him $500.

Speaker 35 He had been without any relationship, without anything for so many years, so lonely.

Speaker 34 Carlos Gonzalez was one of Dr.

Speaker 10 Garcia's closest friends.

Speaker 35 He knows that he's older now, and I believe it's kind of like catching up all those things that he had missed

Speaker 35 through his life.

Speaker 19 Loved ones say, even if they weren't privy to Dr.

Speaker 15 Garcia's full romantic history, their impression was that his experience with dating was very limited.

Speaker 6 And even with his renewed interest in romance, Dr.

Speaker 4 Garcia remained the same as he ever was in one key way.

Speaker 35 Totally private. He never mentioned anything about

Speaker 35 any type of relationship or romantic involvement with anybody or anyone.

Speaker 39 He kept a lot of his personal life to himself. I didn't know a lot about him until after his passing.

Speaker 28 Bob Jackson, Dr.

Speaker 10 Garcia's realtor, turned friend.

Speaker 24 Remember, Bob was among the first people in Dr.

Speaker 2 Garcia's life to meet Jordan Joplin.

Speaker 20 It was that chance encounter at Bob's office, where Dr.

Speaker 10 Garcia clammed up and seemed eager to get his new friend out of there.

Speaker 39 I didn't even ask who he was. I mean, I,

Speaker 39 and Dr. Garcia introduced him as his friend.

Speaker 22 Uh,

Speaker 39 and after that, said almost nothing.

Speaker 2 So the whole thing was awkward.

Speaker 9 On that day in Bob's office, Bob says Dr.

Speaker 31 Garcia seemed to freeze.

Speaker 25 He seemed unwilling or unable to explain who Jordan was or who Jordan was to him.

Speaker 2 In hindsight, his loved ones wondered: had Dr.

Speaker 25 Garcia, this deeply private man, inexperienced in love, had he gotten in over his head?

Speaker 24 In life, Dr.

Speaker 9 Eric Garcia was able to keep private a relationship he pursued in secret.

Speaker 11 But after his death, that control was gone.

Speaker 24 Police Sergeant Eric Matson.

Speaker 46 During the investigation, we were able to secure a warrant to search Jordan Joplin's cell phone. There were several files in the phone, pictures, videos, text messages.

Speaker 29 The relationship between Dr.

Speaker 9 Garcia and Jordan Joplin was mostly long-distance. And so the contents of Jordan's phone provided a detailed record of their romantic relationship.

Speaker 9 A lot of what police found was standard fare for a new relationship.

Speaker 23 There were flirty texts, Jordan, you look hot.

Speaker 7 Eric, just for you, my love.

Speaker 5 There were statements of devotion.

Speaker 2 Jordan, you are more than the love of my life.

Speaker 13 Eric, you are everything to me.

Speaker 8 And then there were also more challenging moments.

Speaker 36 Jordan, I miss you.

Speaker 2 Eric, I don't know if you realize that the weekends are when I miss you the most, since I am not working or interacting with other people, and I am home alone by myself, and I am not doing anything.

Speaker 31 except thinking about you.

Speaker 2 Police also found signs of a more toxic side to the relationship.

Speaker 14 In a text exchange a few months before Dr. Garcia's death, Jordan told Dr.

Speaker 25 Garcia that he had had surgery to have a tumor removed.

Speaker 10 Dr.

Speaker 24 Garcia wrote, cancer from where?

Speaker 8 What part of the body? Jordan replied, colorectal.

Speaker 5 Dr.

Speaker 25 Garcia wrote, I'm completely devastated.

Speaker 9 But police found nothing else in Jordan's phone to indicate he had cancer.

Speaker 14 No mentions in texts with other friends.

Speaker 11 No emails from doctors.

Speaker 31 Only those messages to Dr.

Speaker 10 Garcia.

Speaker 8 Jordan later admitted that he had lied to Dr.

Speaker 31 Garcia about having cancer.

Speaker 28 He said he lied because he wanted sympathy.

Speaker 32 Jordan's play for sympathy came a few weeks after an alleged incident that left Dr.

Speaker 31 Garcia's friend Carlos deeply troubled.

Speaker 6 troubled.

Speaker 35 On his birthday in 2016,

Speaker 35 I called him to say, to wish him happy birthday. I called him a few times.
I believe like two or three days, just he just disappeared. He didn't answer my calls.

Speaker 24 A few days later, Dr.

Speaker 23 Garcia called Carlos back.

Speaker 9 He said he'd been hiking and fell.

Speaker 24 He sent Carlos a photo showing his lower back all torn up.

Speaker 10 Unrelated to his back injury, Dr.

Speaker 11 Garcia said he was scheduled to have hernia repair surgery in Seattle.

Speaker 32 He asked if Carlos would accompany him.

Speaker 36 Carlos said yes.

Speaker 35 Two or three days before the surgery, he told me, listen, I have something to tell you.

Speaker 37 He said that,

Speaker 35 well, I have been involved with this person.

Speaker 35 That person was with me for my birthday here in Ketchikan.

Speaker 35 He told me, listen, wait here, I'm going to prepare this drink for you.

Speaker 35 That was the last thing he remembered.

Speaker 10 Carlos says that Dr.

Speaker 9 Garcia told him when he came to, he was naked, lying on the second floor of his house.

Speaker 6 Carlos said that Dr.

Speaker 9 Garcia found this odd.

Speaker 11 because he remembered having that drink on the first floor.

Speaker 10 And that Dr.

Speaker 28 Garcia then said his lower back injury was not from hiking, it was consistent with being dragged up a flight of stairs. And Carlos says Dr.
Garcia told him something else.

Speaker 35 He said,

Speaker 35 Today I found something that really scared me.

Speaker 35 I found a note

Speaker 35 with his handwriting saying,

Speaker 35 if you are going to be suicidal, we cannot continue as a couple.

Speaker 35 And I said, you have to call the police, you have to call the police, this is dangerous.

Speaker 28 For months afterward, when Carlos called Dr. Garcia, he said he would raise these concerns.

Speaker 35 Have you been in contact with this person? Has he called you?

Speaker 35 He told me, no, no, no, we have not been in contact any longer. I was always asking about this person, Jordan Joppling.
He was always denying that he was there.

Speaker 9 In fall 2016, Dr.

Speaker 28 Garcia had that hernia procedure, and Carlos flew to Seattle to be with him.

Speaker 35 We talked on the phone many times later, but that was the last time I saw him alive.

Speaker 24 A few days after police found Dr.

Speaker 11 Garcia's body, they took into evidence a letter that was discovered at the doctor's home office.

Speaker 15 The letter appears to have been written by Jordan, stating that he no longer wants to be in Dr.

Speaker 30 Garcia's life because the doctor is suicidal.

Speaker 11 Later, when police reviewed the contents of Jordan's cell phone, they found several photos taken around the time of the alleged incident that Carlos describes.

Speaker 36 In the photos, Dr.

Speaker 23 Garcia appears to be unconscious on a couch, his shirt covered in what looks to be vomit.

Speaker 6 Loose pills and pill bottles are scattered on the floor around him.

Speaker 25 A few photos are close-ups of the pill bottles.

Speaker 6 The labels read Valium and Oxycodone.

Speaker 15 Months later, when Jordan called in the welfare checks, he told police he was concerned about Dr. Garcia, in part because of a previous incident involving pills.

Speaker 40 He was told me that he wanted to commit suicide and I haven't heard from him. So I'm getting worried.
And the last time he did this, he actually did take a bunch of pills and stuff. Okay.

Speaker 38 I don't know how

Speaker 46 Jordan and Dr. Garcia continued a relationship.

Speaker 38 I don't know.

Speaker 46 And I don't think I will ever know.

Speaker 24 By the summer of 2017, Sergeant Eric Mattson had learned more about Jordan Joplin than he ever wanted to know.

Speaker 9 From text messages, bank records, evidence collected at Jordan's house, and much more, Ketchik and police had uncovered the tangled web that was Jordan's life.

Speaker 6 With all that evidence in hand, police settled on a theory of the case.

Speaker 11 Officer Devin Miller.

Speaker 47 Dr. Garcia,

Speaker 47 with all his amazing abilities, was a vulnerable man. He met

Speaker 47 a predator by the name of Jordan Joplin,

Speaker 47 who was able to convince this man to support him in every way. And he stole everything of value that Dr.
Garcia had, including his life.

Speaker 9 And yet, this unifying theory had a missing piece.

Speaker 46 Dr. Garcia had died by a lethal dose of morphine.

Speaker 46 There was still the question out there as where did the morphine come from?

Speaker 25 There was no direct evidence that put morphine, Dr.

Speaker 31 Garcia's ultimate cause of death, in Jordan's possession.

Speaker 17 A year passed without any such evidence.

Speaker 2 Then another.

Speaker 23 And then...

Speaker 48 He was like, you know, if I wanted to be able to just like off myself one day, like, how much do you think I would need? And I was like, well, why would you talk like that?

Speaker 23 Police have a breakthrough.

Speaker 19 Cold-Blooded, Mystery in Alaska is a production of ABC Audio and 2020. Hosted by me, Chris Connolly.
Produced by Camille Peterson, Shane McKeon, and Kiara Powell.

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