The Oglethorpe Echo
After roughly 45 minutes of deliberation, the jury returned with a verdict of guilty for all four counts in the trial of The State of Georgia vs. Robert David Jordan.
The charges included malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and concealing the death of Jimmy Lee Anglin, a 27-year-old Oglethorpe County resident. Jordan was arrested in 2019 following the search and identification of a skull in a wooded area behind 4030 Comer Road, Jordan’s residence at the time.
This skull was later analyzed by the FBI DNA Casework Unit with kinship analysis — a form of genetic profiling that is commonly used in missing person cases to find possible familial gene patterns based on DNA samples. The skull was found to fit the DNA profile of Jimmy Anglin’s mother, Vicky Anglin, and brother, Randy Anglin, said state witness Constance Fisher, a biologist and forensics examiner.
This evidence was combined with jail calls where Jordan gave directions to the suspected murder weapon — a Stoeger 22-gauge shotgun — located in a wooded area in Banks County.
The hearing for Jordan’s sentencing will take place at 10 a.m. March 31 in the Oglethorpe County Courthouse and will be presided over by Judge Jeffery S. Malcom.
The state was represented by Senior Assistant District Attorney Jeff Lee and Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Durfee alongside special agent Mary Crawley. Jordan was represented by Howard Anderson and Leslie Jones.