Sentenced: Missing Boy Found Dead; Police Say ‘Suspicious’

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An 11-year-old Placerville boy who had been reported missing has been found dead, police said Sunday.

Roman Anthony Lopez was last seen Saturday morning at his home in Placerville.

“After an extensive search of the area, involving multiple agencies, Roman was found deceased,” the Placerville Police Department said.

The boy’s death is being investigated as suspicious, according to the department.

Authorities say officers found him after conducting a search of a neighborhood in the community 44 miles east of Sacramento.

Missing 11-Year-Old Boy Is Found Dead in NorCal

An 11-year-old Placerville boy who had been reported missing has been found dead, police said Sunday. Roman Anthony Lopez was last seen Saturday morning at his home in Placerville. “After an …

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this was all over my news feed.

 

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Poor lad.

 

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What a happy looking kid. God, I hope his parents didn’t kill him.

 

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Woman Who Says She Is Roman Lopez's Mom Found Out About His Death Online

For the first time, CBS13 is hearing from the heartbroken mother of an 11-year-old Placerville boy who was found dead.

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This is heart breaking.

 

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Few were taking the news of what police called a suspicious death as hard as Kira Sutkay, who lives in Michigan.

“There’s just no way a child just dies, you know, unexpectedly,” Sutkay told FOX40. “The boy was healthy. My three children, they always played with him.”

She was longtime friends with the 11-year-old boy’s parents, who recently moved to California.

Sutkay’s three biological children were living with the family in the Coloma Street house, Placerville police confirmed. She told FOX40 Lopez’s parents had custody of her kids.

“We were going through tough times and she decided to reach out and offered to help,” Sutkay said.

But hearing of Lopez’s death she said she worried for her own young kids.

“That's why I feel my children are in danger,” she explained.

Police said the seven children living in the home, including Sutkay’s children, were placed into protective custody as the investigation continued.

However, authorities would not comment on any possible suspects and repeated that the case was still considered a “suspicious death.”

Sutkay said she could not help but wonder who is responsible for Lopez’s death but said she knows one thing for sure.

“I want my kids back,” Sutkay said.

7 children in protective custody as Placerville police investigate boy's death

PLACERVILLE, Calif. (KTXL) — The death of an 11-year-old boy has rocked a quiet foothills community. Monday night, police continued to investigate what happened to Roman Lopez, whose body was…

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What a convoluted story! I almost need a flow chart to track the relationships and locations.

 

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The father and stepmother of Roman Lopez, an 11-year-old Placerville boy who died under circumstances police deemed suspicious, have been taken into custody more than a year after the child's death, authorities said Thursday.

Lindsay and Jordan Piper were booked into Calaveras County Jail early Thursday morning, according to an online inmate log. Their charges are not yet known.

Roman was reported missing in January 2020. He was found dead hours later, and police said at the time that his death was suspicious and authorities were investigating.

Since then, officials have been tight-lipped about the ongoing investigation.

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A water main break Thursday damaged and forced the closure of a stretch of Old Auburn Road in Citrus Heights.

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‘Horrific crime’: Father, stepmother of Roman Lopez arrested after 11-year-old's death

The father and stepmother of Roman Lopez, an 11-year-old Placerville boy who died under circumstances police deemed suspicious, have been arrested more than a year after the child's death, authorities said Thursday.

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The parents of Roman Lopez, who are accused of child abuse in the death of the 11-year-old Placerville boy, now each face a charge of murder in the El Dorado County criminal case.

Jordan and Lindsay Piper, Roman’s father and stepmother, were arrested in February in connection with the boy’s death.

The Pipers, Roman’s father and stepmother, are accused of child abuse likely to cause great bodily injury or death and causing cruel and extreme pain for revenge, extortion or sadistic purpose, according to a criminal complaint filed in February in El Dorado Superior Court.

Jordan Piper in February was charged with an additional count of willfully failing to provide food, clothing, shelter and medical attention to the boy.

Lindsay Piper was charged with a separate count of willfully having “mingled a poison and harmful substance with food, drink, medicine, and pharmaceutical product and placed a poison and harmful substance in a spring, well, reservoir and public water supply” knowing it could cause injury. The Pipers in February pleaded not guilty to those charges.

A week before they were arrested, Placerville police officials revealed that “investigators located Roman deceased inside a storage bin in the basement” of the Pipers’ home hours after he was reported missing from his home Jan. 11, 2020.

Both parents now each face a charge of murder in Roman’s death, according to a law enforcement source, who was not authorized to publicly comment about the criminal case.

The Pipers remained in custody Friday at the El Dorado County Jail pending arraignment,

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Jordan Piper, the man accused in the death of his son Roman Lopez in Placerville in 2020, is now suspected of creating and possessing child pornography.

Piper, the father of 11-year-old Roman Lopez, was arraigned on murder charges in 2021, along with Lopez’s stepmother.

A new criminal complaint alleges he sexually exploited a child he was living with in 2019.

The complaint says Piper used a GoPro to record the girl at a home in Groveland, California. Recordings showed the girl “using the bathroom and bathing.”

The complaint says a video made on Oct. 19, 2019 “shows (Piper) in the act of removing the camera from behind a wall outlet in the bathroom of a rental home in Groveland, California.”

“In addition, the video camera was placed in a manner to maximize the chances of recording the genitals of Minor Victim 1 and other users of the bathroom,” the complaint says.


According to the complaint, Piper had over 400 nude still images of the minor on his phone. The images were created from screenshots of the videos recorded. The complaint also notes that there were times when Piper and the girl were alone at the home.

Man accused of causing the death of his 11-year-old son now suspected of possessing child pornography

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — Jordan Piper, the man accused in the death of his son Roman Lopez in Placerville in 2020, is now suspected of creating and possessing child pornography. Piper, the…

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The California stepmother of an 11-year-old boy who died in 2020 was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison with the possibility of parole on Friday.

Roman Anthony Lopez was found dead inside a storage bin in the basement of the family’s home just a few hours after he was reported missing on Jan. 11, 2020. Authorities in Placerville, Calif. arrested the boy’s father Jordan Piper, 36, and stepmother Lindsay Piper, 38, in February 2021 on torture and child abuse charges. Formal murder charges were filed against both of them in October of that year.

“Lindsay Marie Piper willfully and unlawfully mingled a poison and harmful substance with food, drink, medicine and pharmaceutical product,” a criminal complaint filed by the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office alleged.

Lindsay Piper will be eligible for parole in 15 years, according to Sacramento, Calif. NBC affiliate KCRA. Her additional charges of torture, poisoning, and child abuse were dismissed as part of the plea deal.

Judge Vicki Ashworth upbraided the defendant, just before sentencing, saying she “didn’t deserve to be [Roman’s] stepmother, quite frankly” and “the court can think of no more evil person than that,” in comments reported by KOVR.

'No More Evil Person': Stepmother of 11-Year-Old Boy Found Dead in Storage Bin Sentenced to 15 Years to Life After Taking Plea Deal

Lindsay Piper, who pleaded no contest to murdering 11-year-old Roman Anthony Lopez in 2020, will be eligible for parole after 15 years.

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A father who faces murder and child-abuse charges in the death of his 11-year-old son, Roman Lopez, has pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting a girl at his home in the months before the boy disappeared in Placerville.

Jordan Thomas Piper, 37, on Monday was convicted of sexual exploitation of a child in alleged acts that occurred Oct. 3, 2019, through Jan. 9, 2020, in Tuolumne and El Dorado counties, according to an amended criminal complaint filed March 7 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.

The amended complaint includes a criminal forfeiture violation that requires upon conviction for Piper to forfeit all material collected and devices used in the crimes, including a GoPro video camera, a Micro SD digital storage card and his Samsung cell phone.

Piper, wearing an orange jail inmate jumpsuit, appeared Monday morning in federal court in Sacramento. Piper has been in custody without bail since Feb. 4, 2021, when he was arrested in connection with his son’s death.

U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb explained to Piper that pleading guilty would result in a minimum sentence of 15 years up to a maximum 30-year prison sentence. Piper told the judge he understood the consequences of the plea agreement he made with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Yang told the judge that Piper secretly recorded the victim, an underage girl, collecting about 30 nude videos of her and screenshots from the video. The prosecutor said illicit images were found on Piper’s Samsung phone.

Piper admitted in court Monday that he placed a camera inside a bathroom at a Groveland home he was renting to secretly record the girl and captured the screenshots also found on his phone.

Dad, charged with murder in Roman Lopez’s death, is convicted of child sex exploitation

Authorities investigating the boy’s death found secretly recorded videos of a girl.

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A Placerville dad found guilty of killing his 11-year-old son Roman Lopez was sentenced Thursday to 15 years-to-life in prison, according to the El Dorado County District Attorney's Office.

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

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

In Oct. 2023, Piper was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexual exploitation of a girl, which is unrelated to Lopez’s death but was discovered during the investigation into it.

In that case, Piper made 30 recordings of a minor in Groveland in 2019 and made hundreds of screenshots from the recordings showing the girl’s genitals and pubic area.

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.

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