The Psychopath: A True Story(25)
MIND GAMES, MEGAN’S LAW AND PHYSICAL CONFIDENCE
Once deported, Will Jordan got back in touch with his ex-wife in the UK. She was still calling me regularly and we talked on the phone two or three times a week. She told me he had been in touch and wanted her to go to America with the children to be with him again. She clearly felt the tug but talking it through with me seemed to settle her a bit.
Once she called me in an excited state. She had just been contacted by Will Jordan’s psychiatrist in the USA who was treating him for pathological lying.
‘He’s finally sought treatment and wants to get better,’ she said, talking rapidly and in a slightly high-pitched voice. ‘The psychiatrist wanted to talk to me to ascertain what’s true, so he can best treat Bill’s pathology. We talked for over an hour about his treatment and what Bill is doing to recover. He really wants to be cured.’
‘Take a breath,’ I said, ‘and keep calm. You need to take a step back.’
I knew this routine well, and I knew to be suspicious of basic principles of anything connected to this man.
‘Firstly,’ I said, ‘a psychiatrist would never, NEVER call someone’s ex-wife to verify anything their patient said. It would be totally unethical and against all their rules. So the only logical conclusion is that the person who called you was actually Will Jordan himself.’
She quickly realised I was right. It couldn’t possibly be anyone else. She described this ‘psychiatrist’ as having a strong American accent and a very different voice to Will. I advised her not to entertain him because there was no benefit to doing so but she decided to string him along. She spoke to the ‘psychiatrist’ again for a couple of hours and noticed that his accent started to slip. The ‘psychiatrist’ tried to lay the groundwork for him to suck her back into his life but knowing it was him made her realise what he was doing. She was not swayed. Realising the ploy was not working the ‘psychiatrist’ didn’t call her again.
Another time she called me in a frantic voice and said, ‘He’s dead! He’s been shot.’
To some degree I would not be surprised if some victim, or member of a victim’s family had cracked and decided to end Will Jordan’s life. However, I was now conditioned not to react nor believe anything that was not proven and externally verified when it was about him. So without even a momentary flinch, I replied, ‘How do you know. Who told you?’
She went on to tell me that her eldest son had been told by Will’s adopted sister that he’d been shot and killed the previous day. The other wife had sat her children down and told them and then called me.
‘Is there anyone that can verify it? Anyone you know that you can call?’
‘I can talk to his uncle,’ she said.
‘OK. Do that, then call me back,’ I said.
Ten minutes later she was back, much quieter and rather subdued. ‘He’s not dead,’ she said simply. ‘His uncle saw him alive and well this morning.’
I’m not sure what he was trying to achieve by informing her he was dead. I suspect it was to stop me/us from paying attention to what he was doing, or maybe it was just to continue manipulating her and their children. Maybe it was just an impulsive act designed only to mess with his ex-wife’s mind again. One thing seemed clear though, he still had people helping him.
When Will Jordan was deported, I got in touch with the New Jersey State Police in 2009 to inform them that a convicted sex offender was now living there and should be registered under Megan’s Law. This law states that no matter where you have been convicted of a sexual offence, you must be registered as an offender when living in the USA.
This is the online register in the USA for all sex offenders which was sparked into existence after seven-year-old Megan Kanka was kidnapped, raped and murdered by her neighbour in May 1997. Her parents said they would never have let her play outside if they had known their neighbour was a convicted sex offender (he had lured her into his house to meet his new puppy). That statement sparked a nationwide outcry and led to Megan’s Law being passed, requiring communities to be notified when a sex offender moves into the neighbourhood.
The woman I spoke to at the New Jersey State Police said that Will Jordan’s case was not relevant because they interpreted that to mean ‘no matter where in the USA you have been convicted’. She told me that different countries have different laws, and something that might be considered a ‘sexual offence’ in Saudi Arabia might not be considered a sexual offence in the USA. Aghast, I said that British law was not that different to USA law and that he was a convicted paedophile for sexual offences against a girl under the age of thirteen! The police officer just shrugged me off, saying that was the law.
I even talked to Interpol, and the policeman who dealt with Will Jordan’s bigamy case in the UK, and asked them to contact the New Jersey police, but had no luck.
As it turns out, the New Jersey State police officer was wrong. In 2008, the law had changed to encompass anyone convicted of sex offences in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia. If they moved to America they had to be registered along with everyone convicted in the USA.
It was incredibly frustrating knowing there was a sexual predator and psychopath roaming around the USA, one that should by law have to register his address to help protect the children and communities around him. Although I had met with dead end after dead end, I wasn’t going to give up. This wouldn’t be the end of the story.