The man has deceived women in the UK, US and Mexico, was captured and released. Now he continues to swindle women.
Will Jordan seemed the perfect man: stable, affectionate, and kind. An American nothing out of the ordinary, at least that was the impression he gave to Mary Turner Thomson, a Scottish woman who married him.
Everything seemed normal, until after marrying him and giving birth to his two daughters he discovered that he was a bigamist, he had another woman — five fiancées. Here she discovered that it was not her affectionate husband, but a swindler who had cheated dozens of women in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The story is told by Mary in her book “The Psychopath”, which will go on sale in the UK on March 1. However, part of the story is known because the Daily Mail published a preview that includes the first-person narrative and how she managed to get her husband deported and imprisoned in the United States.
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“The man I fell in love with turned out to be a monster who not only made women pregnant to swindle them with money, but tortured them psychologically and abused them all their lives, leaving them mentally incapacitated. , emotionally and financially just for their own fun, ”explains Mary.
He says he met Jordan online 21 years ago, they were both 35 years old. She was a single mother, recovering from a failed relationship and devoting time to raising her one-year-old baby. She hoped to find love in an affectionate man and the American, characterized by good speech and self-confidence, seemed ideal.
“He used the kind of techniques that sect leaders and abusers use, filling me with love from the beginning, before I even knew him. When we started talking on the Internet, he sent me long emails about his past and about the person he was, and I told him my dreams and aspirations. We wrote to each other three, four, five times a day. It became something intoxicating. I let myself be carried away by romanticism, “he said. narrate the writer.
Will Jordan has been women from the United States, the United Kingdom and Mexico. Facebook photo Mary Turner Thomson
Jordan assured her that she had had childhood mumps and was infertile, a factor that Mary found much more beneficial because she already had a daughter: “I liked that a man spoke to me so openly about his feelings. His infertility made him in a much more appropriate perspective, since I already had a daughter and wanted a father figure in her life. Everything was easy … but it was a lie. “
The couple eventually married in 2002, they had two children and Jordan convinced her that he had miraculously healed her infertility.
In addition, he convinced her that he worked for the CIA in the computer industry, thus justifying his long and frequent absences, time he used to see his other family. He also told her that there were dangerous men who wanted to kidnap their children.
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“It sounds silly, but he gave me evidence, including paychecks. I was in a state of constant panic and believed he was the only person who could keep us safe,” he commented.
Despite the constant fear, Mary believed she had a happy marriage. However, it all collapsed when she received a call: “A woman called and introduced herself as her husband’s other wife, and revealed that she had had five children with him. My world was torn to pieces. “.
Mary was horrified to discover the double life of her husband and that she too had been the victim of a cruel financial scam because Jordan had forged her name on several credit cards, accumulating debts of $ 78,000. He also convinced her to sell her house, apparently to pay a ransom that would prevent dangerous men related to their work in the CIA from kidnapping their children.
“He had been telling me blatant lies. Not only did he already have at least six children when I met him in 2000, but both his wife and his wife’s nanny were pregnant with him at the time.” , he said.
This March 1, the book Psychopath is published where he explains how he was a victim of Will Jordan. Facebook photo Mary Turner Thomson
He found out he was a convicted sex offender, who had five fiancées, two wives, and 13 children.
He denied it all: “He was a psychopath: he looked boring in court, like he was fined for parking, and when he was sentenced there was not even a blink of emotion. His eyes were dead,” Mary said. , who wrote his experience in his first book, The Bigamist.
Mary managed to get him imprisoned but after two and a half years in a British prison, he was released and deported to New Jersey in 2009. Seven months later, history repeated itself.
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New victims, now Americans contacted her. One woman had become pregnant and homeless after meeting Jordan at a dating site, another was a Mexican woman with a sister with Down syndrome whose family he had ruined financially.
The opportunity to catch her came in 2014 when 36-year-old American nurse Mischele Lewis contacted Mary. “Like me, she was a single mother who had been in an unhappy situation before meeting a man who seemed to be the right gentleman. Like me, she committed to him, she lost money with he and then discovered the truth. “
The two women devised a bold plan for Mischele to secretly record Jordan with a hidden camera he wore as a button until he confessed to having swindled her. Police arrested him and he was jailed.
But when he was released from prison in 2017, Jordan continued to attack vulnerable women. Mary realized that the best way to stop was to write a book, building on her own experiences and teaching women how to spot the telltale signs of a predator like Jordan.
“I thought it was my fault, but I found that I have a high score on the empathy scale, and Will Jordan focuses on women who are empathetic, putting them to the test from the start to see if they feel sorry for his sobbing stories about a terrible childhood, ”he explained.
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And he added, “I used to blame myself for letting myself be fooled by him, but I realized that the reason women like me are so confident is that, as empathetic, we would never do such a horrible thing to another. person, it just doesn’t get into our thought processes. ”
Jordan continues his raid. “In the last count he had 14 children. He will never stop. He is a psychopath with no ability to love and no conscience. All I can do now is warn other women about him,” Mary says.