The Psychopath: A True Story(42)
When Mischele asked him about the conviction for sexual offences against a young girl, Will shrugged it off as his wife’s revenge for his affairs – even though he pleaded guilty to that in court and was given a fifteen-month prison sentence for it. He explained to another victim that he had pleaded guilty purely to protect the girl from having to testify at trial, something he now realised was a mistake because that conviction follows him around.
Although Will Jordan didn’t admit to his crimes in this particular three-hour conversation, Mischele was not going to give up.
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In a supreme act of control, Mischele continued to string Will Jordan along day by day, gathering more and more information. She had hours of video footage including conversations with his parents who seemed (just like Will Jordan himself) to be totally relaxed and friendly around her.
Weeks went by and she was getting more distressed and nervous. Mischele’s mother talked to me, worried about her daughter. Not just with regard to her mental state but in case she was in real physical danger from Will.
Then one day I got a frantic message from Mischele’s mother. Mischele had gone missing.
Half a day had gone by and there was no sign of Mischele. Her mum had already called the police and because of the situation (and the fact they had been working with Mischele to assist her in gathering evidence), they ignored the ‘has to be missing for twenty-four hours’ rule and were already looking for her.
I tried to reassure Mischele’s mother that I didn’t think Will Jordan was violent or physically dangerous. However, I was reminded of an account from one of the British victims of how he had exploded in rage and held her against the wall by the throat – all because she had challenged him. I had never seen Will Jordan angry, and only ever once experienced his ire over the phone (after I answered police questions about my car being driven by my ‘husband’, thereby highlighting to them that he was actually a bigamist).
I was worried about Mischele, and her mother was terrified. We called and called Mischele’s phone and sent messages via email and Messenger, just hoping something simple had taken her away and offline.
Finally Mischele reappeared. She had retreated into herself due to the emotional stress and decided to take herself off, away from everything for the day. She had gone down to the beach and walked and walked for hours (having switched her phone off and left it in the car). When she returned, she was embarrassed to see so many calls and messages. We were just so glad that she was OK.
Then eventually, after ten weeks of playing a cat and mouse game of psychological chess with a psychopath, Mischele had the evidence she needed. Will Jordan had confessed on camera to conning her out of the money she paid for her ‘security clearance’ with Tom Chalmers.
In April 2014, working with the police, she contacted Will to arrange to meet in the parking lot of a local shopping mall. Mischele watched as he arrived and was put in handcuffs and was ushered into the back of a police vehicle.
William Allen Jordan was charged with fraud and ‘rape by deception’. What is more, Mischele told me that US Homeland Security were investigating him as he had been claiming to be a foreign spy on American soil!
Mischele could finally relax a little.
Like me, Mischele decided she had nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about and so went public with her story. It came out in the local papers five months later, in September 2014, shortly after Will Jordan was bailed out of jail by his parents.
A few weeks after that, another woman got in touch with Mischele and me. She had seen the photo of her new boyfriend in the papers and decided to make contact. This woman had known Will’s father, John, from the local bowling club for the past five years. One day John had brought Will into the club and introduced him to her. They had clicked right away and started dating – until she saw the newspaper article about his arrest and what he had done to Mischele. The woman was astonished that Will’s father, a man she had known for several years, had thrown her to his son with no concern for her welfare!
Will Jordan was brought to trial on 6 February 2015 and pleaded guilty to fraud. The charge of rape by deception was dropped as it was too difficult to prove, and he had been offered and accepted a three-year plea deal for admitting his guilt to fraud. The Homeland Security investigation wasn’t pursued – presumably when they realised he was not a foreign spy they didn’t think it worth taking further. Mischele was incensed that he was getting away with the personal harm he had done and was only being held accountable for the financial fraud, but there was nothing more she could do. An incredibly strong woman, she was undeterred and heroically set about changing the law in the USA to make ‘sexual assault by deception’ easier to prosecute. That in itself is a different story!
Mischele and I continued to talk regularly then and we still do. She is a formidable and powerful woman who felt just as strongly as I still do about stopping Will Jordan, or at the very least slowing him down. We both felt it really important to do everything we could to protect future victims.
Together we appeared on various TV shows in the USA and UK, shows like The Security Brief and NBC Dateline, as well as making numerous documentaries such as The Internet Date from Hell, Evil Up Close and Handsome Devils.
After each show we were contacted by new victims, each with their own story to tell, but always with the same theme: love-bombing, lies, deception, gaslighting and fraud. Will Jordan repeats his pattern over and over again. The only way to show or prove that is to make those stories public, to tell them over and over again. However, I am sure that my readers understand the pattern by now. Each and every time, when caught, Will Jordan says that he wants to change and that ‘finally’ he has found his ‘soulmate’ and of course he won’t do the same to the next woman.