Needs to raise money
William Allen Jordan proposed to Thomson, then didn’t show up for their wedding, or for the birth of their first child. He explained that he’d been stuck in Israel during the April 2002 Jenin massacre and was unable to escape. Jordan even had physical scars to prove his story, although Thomson later came to believe they were self-inflicted.
The couple finally married in October 2002, although Jordan missed the first night of their honeymoon. He promised Thomson he would leave the CIA to build a real family life with her, but to do so, they needed to raise money. At one point he said he’d lost his CIA passport, and it would cost £100,000 to replace it.
Then Jordan said the unsavory characters he dealt with as a CIA agent had discovered his whereabouts and were blackmailing him. If they didn’t pay, Thomson and her children would be hurt, even killed. At the time, Jordan was earning good money as an information technology contractor. He even did work for the Deputy Prime Minister’s office—this was true. But the money wasn’t enough to keep the family safe. He kept asking Thomson for more.
Thomson was so stressed, and so under Jordan’s control, that she sold her flat to help her husband raise funds. Eventually, she gave him a total £198,000. By the time she was pregnant with their second child, Thomson was broke and had to move in with her parents, and Jordan disappeared again.
The Other Mrs. Jordan
In April 2006, Thomson received a phone call from the other Mrs. Jordan. This woman had lived with Jordan in the house that Thomson discovered. She’d been married to Jordan since 1992—that’s when Jordan left the United States—and had five children with him. In fact, Jordan also had two children with their nanny.
Jordan had already told Thomson that he’d been charged with bigamy, but explained that the charge was false and the result of her failure to raise the last bit of blackmail money. However, the CIA would get the charge dropped. Broke, alone, brainwashed and scared, Thomson believed him.
She also believed Jordan when he said that charges of pedophilia against him were also false—they’d been set up years before in a CIA sting to help him extract information from a prisoner and should have been stricken from the record. So even as social workers explained to Thomson that in 1997, her husband had been convicted and spent time in jail for molesting a girl between the age nine and 13, she stood by her man.
The social worker said Jordan had been psychologically assessed and was considered to be a high risk for reoffending because he showed little sympathy for the victim. Jordan explained even this away and arranged for Thomson to talk to a grown girl who posed as the victim to confirm his story.
With the phone call from the other Mrs. Jordan, however, Thomson had to face the truth. Her husband was not a CIA agent; he was a con artist. Her world unraveled as she came to accept that her life for six years had been nothing but a mirage. Thomson eventually learned that not only was Jordan married to two British women at the same time, he was also engaged to, and trying to spend the money of, three other women—all of them single mothers with young daughters.
Jordan appeared in the Oxford Crown Court in December 2006. He admitted bigamy, obtaining funds by deception, failing to register as a sex offender and illegal possession of a stun gun. “You are a con man, a convicted pedophile and a bigamist,†Judge Thomas Corrie said to Jordan, according to BBC News. “You are an inveterate exploiter of vulnerable women, not just financially but emotionally.†Jordan was sentenced to five years in a UK prison.
Deported to New Jersey
William Allen Jordan was released from jail on May 2, 2009 and deported. He returned to New Jersey and immediately posted ads on Match.com. He was soon back to his proven ways, sending long, beautiful, poetic e-mails to the women he met.
Mary Turner Thomson, in the meantime, kept checking the New Jersey Sex Offender Internet Registry for Will Allen Jordan’s name. She never found it.
Lovefraud attempted to bring William Allen Jordan to the attention of New Jersey authorities as a sex offender. The New Jersey Megan’s Law, which requires that convicted sex offenders register their addresses, is administered by county prosecutors. Lovefraud contacted the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office, because according to our information, it was likely that Will Allen Jordan was in Camden County.
An investigator with the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office informed Lovefraud that they could do nothing about the case. Apparently a conviction in the United Kingdom doesn’t count in New Jersey. William Allen Jordan is not obligated to register as a sex offender under New Jersey’s Megan’s law.
He is, therefore, on the loose and looking for the next single mother to have the child he always wanted.
