GUILTY CA - Roman Anthony Lopez, 11, found deceased, poisoned , Placerville, 11 Jan 2020 *arrests* #2

[Niner]

Thursday, January 4th:
*Sentencing Hearing (@ am PT) - CA – Roman Anthony Lopez (11) (last seen Saturday morning Jan. 11, 2020, found later in evening dead in a storage bin in the basement, Placerville) – death is being investigated as suspicious. *Jordan Thomas Piper (35/now 38) “father” arrested (2/3/21), charged (2/4/21) & arraigned (2/9/21) with 1 count of child abuse likely to cause injury or death & causing cruel & extreme pain for revenge, extortion or sadistic purpose, 1 count of torture & 1 count with willfully failing to provide food, shelter & medical attention to the child. Plead not guilty. $1.05M bond.
Additional charge (10/29/21) & arraigned (11/19/21) of murder. Plead not guilty.
Info on crime, where children are & court info from 2/4/21 to 10/20/23 reference post #135 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...-11-jan-2020-arrests-2-guilty-2.629673/page-7
10/26/23 Update: Piper accused of murder & child abuse in the death of his 11-year-old son, Roman Lopez, unexpectedly changed his plea Thursday & was convicted in the boy’s death. A preliminary hearing to determine whether Piper should stand trial as charged initially was scheduled to begin next Tuesday morning in El Dorado Superior Court. But that hearing has now been vacated. Instead, Piper appeared Thursday afternoon in Judge Vicki Ashworth’s courtroom & pleaded guilty to 2nd degree murder in Roman’s death. Piper remains in custody & is scheduled to return to court 11/21/23 his sentencing hearing.
11/21/23 Update: The sentencing of Piper was postponed Tuesday after issues getting him logged on to the courtroom's Zoom call. New sentencing date on 1/4/24.
*Lindsay Marie Piper (38/now 41) “stepmother” - Plead no contest (5/16/22) to 2nd degree murder. Sentenced on 7/8/22 to 15 years to life with the possibility of parole. Her guilty plea (deal) will dismiss these charges: child abuse, poisoning & torture.
*Federal Criminal complaint filed (6/21/22) & charged (6/23/22) of sexual exploitation of a child/. Plead guilty on 3/20/23 to a plea deal. Sentenced on 10/23/23 to 15 years in prison & 7 ½ years parole.

 

[Seattle1]

Thursday, January 4th:
*Sentencing Hearing (@ am PT) - CA – Roman Anthony Lopez (11) (last seen Saturday morning Jan. 11, 2020, found later in evening dead in a storage bin in the basement, Placerville) – death is being investigated as suspicious. *Jordan Thomas Piper (35/now 38) “father” arrested (2/3/21), charged (2/4/21) & arraigned (2/9/21) with 1 count of child abuse likely to cause injury or death & causing cruel & extreme pain for revenge, extortion or sadistic purpose, 1 count of torture & 1 count with willfully failing to provide food, shelter & medical attention to the child. Plead not guilty. $1.05M bond.
Additional charge (10/29/21) & arraigned (11/19/21) of murder. Plead not guilty.
Info on crime, where children are & court info from 2/4/21 to 10/20/23 reference post #135 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...-11-jan-2020-arrests-2-guilty-2.629673/page-7
10/26/23 Update: Piper accused of murder & child abuse in the death of his 11-year-old son, Roman Lopez, unexpectedly changed his plea Thursday & was convicted in the boy’s death. A preliminary hearing to determine whether Piper should stand trial as charged initially was scheduled to begin next Tuesday morning in El Dorado Superior Court. But that hearing has now been vacated. Instead, Piper appeared Thursday afternoon in Judge Vicki Ashworth’s courtroom & pleaded guilty to 2nd degree murder in Roman’s death. Piper remains in custody & is scheduled to return to court 11/21/23 his sentencing hearing.
11/21/23 Update: The sentencing of Piper was postponed Tuesday after issues getting him logged on to the courtroom's Zoom call. New sentencing date on 1/4/24.
*Lindsay Marie Piper (38/now 41) “stepmother” - Plead no contest (5/16/22) to 2nd degree murder. Sentenced on 7/8/22 to 15 years to life with the possibility of parole. Her guilty plea (deal) will dismiss these charges: child abuse, poisoning & torture.
*Federal Criminal complaint filed (6/21/22) & charged (6/23/22) of sexual exploitation of a child/*advertiser censored*. Plead guilty on 3/20/23 to a plea deal. Sentenced on 10/23/23 to 15 years in prison & 7 ½ years parole.

Still on the calendar:

Case Number	Case Name	Case Type	Type	Motion/OSC Detail	Event Date/Time	Location Name	Attorneys
P21CRF0062-1	People v. JORDAN THOMAS PIPER	Felony	Sentencing Hearing		01/04/2024 08:30 AM	Department 1	Attorney: Paris Chalfant, Tasha;

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[Niner]

On searching I got about 5 articles - and I can not see any of them....

Here is one with the headlines:

Jordan Piper gets 15 years to life for the murder of his son, Roman Lopez

A Placerville father was sentenced to 15 years to life for the murder of his 11-year-old son.

www.kcra.com

He was sentenced to 15 year to life.... now wondering if he serves this AFTER his Federal sentence of 15 years?? Does it say in any of the articles? TIA!

Justice for Roman!

 

[Megnut]

On searching I got about 5 articles - and I can not see any of them....

Here is one with the headlines:

Jordan Piper gets 15 years to life for the murder of his son, Roman Lopez

A Placerville father was sentenced to 15 years to life for the murder of his 11-year-old son.

www.kcra.com

He was sentenced to 15 year to life.... now wondering if he serves this AFTER his Federal sentence of 15 years?? Does it say in any of the articles? TIA!

Justice for Roman!
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The plea deal prevented the judge from assigning concurrency.

In the end, both adults got 15 to life.

From the same link:

Jordan Piper gets 15 years to life for the murder of his son, Roman Lopez

A Placerville father was sentenced to 15 years to life for the murder of his 11-year-old son.

www.kcra.com

 

[Seattle1]

On searching I got about 5 articles - and I can not see any of them....

Here is one with the headlines:

Jordan Piper gets 15 years to life for the murder of his son, Roman Lopez

A Placerville father was sentenced to 15 years to life for the murder of his 11-year-old son.

www.kcra.com

He was sentenced to 15 year to life.... now wondering if he serves this AFTER his Federal sentence of 15 years?? Does it say in any of the articles? TIA!

Justice for Roman!
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Wow... Judge Ashworth was brutally honest! From the quoted link:

1/4/24

A Placerville father was sentenced to a maximum punishment of 15 years to life in prison for the murder of his 11-year-old son.

Jordan Piper was sentenced by a superior court judge in El Dorado County Thursday after pleading guilty in October to the second-degree murder of Roman Lopez.

[..]

Authorities said that although an autopsy revealed no obvious trauma, Lopez was found to be “severely malnourished and dehydrated at the time of his death.”

Lindsay Piper pleaded no contest in Lopez's death in May 2022. She was sentenced to the maximum possible punishment of 15 years to life in prison.

Jordan Piper’s sentence was the result of a plea agreement between his defense and the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office.

[..]

During Thursday’s court proceedings, nearly a dozen family members and friends read impact statements in court via video call, as many live out of state.

Piper also appeared Thursday via video connection from a federal prison in Michigan where he's serving a 15-year sentence after pleading guilty in a separate case for sexually exploiting an underage girl he secretly recorded.

[..]

Several requests were made by family and friends of Lopez that the judge rule Piper should serve consecutive 15-year terms instead of concurrent terms. Judge Vicki Ashworth said she couldn't do that per the terms of Piper's plea deal.

[..]

[Judge] Ashworth addressed Piper before the conclusion of the sentencing hearing saying that the court wouldn't share parting words of “good luck” and offer hope that he can be rehabilitated.

Instead, she said it is her hope that he thinks of Roman, every single day he's in custody.

"I hope that his memory, quite frankly, haunts you," Ashworth said.

 

[Seattle1]

When Jordan Piper's sentencing last November had to be rescheduled to Jan 4, 2024, I wasn't aware that this was more than a zoom issue, and that about 10 family members were waiting to give victim impact statements, and his mother and other family had traveled from Michigan to CA to attend the hearing in person.

Seems a week before the hearing, JP was was transferred from a local federal facility to a transfer station in Oklahoma City as officials decided where he would eventually be housed in the federal system.

On sentencing date, Court staff, attorneys, and officials spent roughly 45 minutes Tuesday afternoon trying to get ahold of the facility where JP was then being held, and the U.S. Marshals, but could not get ahold of anyone.

I think of Roman's mother Rochelle often, and glad they were at least reunited in death-- they needed each other. MOO

Jordan Piper's sentencing in murder of son Roman Lopez delayed due to technical issues

The sentencing of a Placerville man charged in his own young son's death was postponed Tuesday after issues getting him logged on to the courtroom's Zoom call.

www.kcra.com

11/21/23

KCRA 3 crew members in the courtroom could see loved ones of Roman Lopez, prepared to give victim impact statements during the sentencing Tuesday, visibly upset and crying when they learned of the communication issues and postponement.

[..]

"We’re going to make phone calls, we’re going to talk to the officials where he’s at right now, and where he’s going to be transferred to," Linden said. "We’re going to have contingency plans. We’re going to make sure this delay doesn’t happen again."

 

[Seattle1]

Placerville dad sentenced for killing 11-year-old Roman Lopez

Jordan Piper is already in prison serving a 15-year sentence for unrelated charges of sexual exploitation of a child.

www.abc10.com

1/4/24

“Justice has been served for Roman,” said El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson.

“Both his father and stepmother are now being held accountable for their incomprehensible cruelty, abuse and death of their child and will spend a very long time behind bars.”

Roman's stepmother Lindsay Piper was also convicted of 2nd degree murder and sentenced to 15 years-to-life in prison.

[..]

According to investigators, Roman, his biological father Jordan, stepmother Lindsay and seven other children had recently moved to Placerville around the time of his death.

The case was initially investigated as a suspicious death. Police didn’t find anything in their first search of the home, but they found Roman’s body inside a storage bin in the basement during a second search.

An autopsy found no signs of obvious trauma, though it showed Roman was severely malnourished and dehydrated when he died.

Jordan and Lindsay were arrested in Feb. 2021 and charged with child abuse, poisoning and torture.

It wasn’t until Oct. 2021 that the pair were charged with Roman’s murder, and it wasn’t until May 2022 that Lindsay flipped her plea on a charge of second-degree murder from ‘not guilty’ to ‘no contest.’ She was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

 

[Seattle1]

Roman's mother, Rochelle Lopez, was a soldier who deployed to Iraq when he was 14 months old. After returning, she struggled with heart problems, anxiety and addiction to pain medication, according to police records. Lopez, who died in 2021 at age 34, fought with Jordan in court for years over custody of Roman. (Dec 2, 2023).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/homeschooling-child-abuse-torture-roman-lopez/