Jordan Joplin, 38, faces a minimum 30-year sentence after an Anchorage jury convicted him of murdering romantic partner Eric Garcia in Ketchikan, then trying to ship his personal belongings to Washington.
issued during the trial’s opening arguments, said that Garcia died from a fatal dose of morphine. Other drugs, including methadone, diazepam and lorazepam, were also found in his system.
That statement also said Joplin had a video showing Garcia, unconscious, in the same clothes and position as when he was found dead —and that Joplin tried to ship about 4,000 pounds of Garcia’s belongings to Washington. Erin McCarthy, an assistant attorney general for the department, told KRBD that Joplin had been in a romantic relationship with Garcia for six years before the surgeon died.
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