A Washington man accused of killing a Ketchikan surgeon was convicted Thursday by an Anchorage jury on murder and theft charges.
he faced in the death of 58-year-old Dr. Eric Garcia, who was killed in his home in 2017. The two men were in a relationship and had known each other for roughly six years prior to Garcia’s death, a prosecutor said during the opening statement of the trial.Joplin visited Garcia in March 2017 before the men planned to go to Las Vegas, a prosecutor said during the trial. Joplin returned to Washington the day after he arrived in Ketchikan.
Investigators found that nearly $40,000 had been transferred from Garcia’s checking account to Joplin in the days surrounding his death, including some transactions made after Garcia died, the prosecutor said. Joplin also sent three shipping containers of Garcia’s belongings, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, to his Washington home.
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