PLACERVILLE, CA — A man already awaiting trial for the torture and murder of his 11-year-old son has been sentenced to over a decade in prison for federal child sexual exploitation charges.
Jordan Thomas Piper, 38, received his federal sentence after pleading guilty in March to making illicit recordings of a minor. Federal prosecutors charged him with this offense in June 2022.
In a separate state case, Piper and his wife, Lindsay Piper, 40, face charges for the 2020 murder of Roman Anthony Lopez, their 11-year-old son. The boy’s body was found hidden in a storage bin in the family’s Placerville basement. The couple was initially charged with torture and child abuse over the boy’s death in February 2021.
While investigating Lopez’s murder, officers from the Placerville Police Department seized multiple digital devices from the Piper home. Authorities found child sexual abuse materials on the devices, produced between October 2019 and January 2020 in Tuolumne and El Dorado counties.