The Psychopath: A True Story(57)
I know of at least two other women Will Jordan was involved with that overlap his relationship with Jewel.
On 1 September 2019 I got a message from Mischele stating that William Jordan had apparently stolen $10,000 from an employer called Lee – a second-hand car salesman and owner of a used car dealership. I contacted Lee and we spoke via video chat (something I always do with his victims in case it’s Will Jordan trying to disguise his voice).
Shortly afterwards, we were contacted by Andrew, a landlord and another victim of Will Jordan. Along with Jewel’s story it was possible to piece together the picture of what Will Jordan had been up to for the past year.
In 2018 Will Jordan’s mother went into a home. Mischele told me she had found out that Will and his father had sold their family residence in the summer for a fairly decent amount of money and moved into rented accommodation. In January 2019, Will Jordan answered Andrew’s advert on Facebook for a rental property above the offices to a car dealership. The landlord, Andrew, was swayed into believing that Will’s father, John, was going to be living in the apartment on his own and would be helped out with the security deposit by the Navy Federal Credit Union.
Within a short space of time it was clear that not only was John living in the apartment but that Will Jordan and his girlfriend (Jewel) were also living there. Andrew confronted Will Jordan about it who readily agreed to sign an addendum adding him onto the lease.
The first month’s rent was paid up front but the security deposit and further rent never materialised. There was excuse after excuse about delays in accessing the Navy Federal Credit Union funds, bounced cheques and faked bank wire confirmations, etc.
Will Jordan became friendly with the neighbour downstairs – a man called Lee who owned the car dealership – and offered to work in the office in return for pay and helping to set up and refine their computer systems and CCTV. He introduced them to his pregnant girlfriend Jewel who had come to live with him. Lee got to know her quite well. When Will began ducking her calls and ignoring her, Jewel would call Lee to see if Will was working so she could speak to him there. Lee was not impressed with Will Jordan’s behaviour towards his pregnant girlfriend so he pulled him up on it. Will Jordan simply explained that he’d discovered the baby wasn’t his and so he’d ended the relationship, saying she was just trying to get him back but he was having none of it.
Will Jordan then introduced Lee to another girl, Anna, who was blonde and about 5’4” tall. Anna told Lee that she was a fundraising expert, and so he asked Will and Anna to set up websites he had been thinking about to raise funds for hospitals in Cameroon as well as a website for his business.
In May 2019 Andrew served eviction notice on the family but it took another two months to get the Sheriff’s department to finally lock them out of the apartment. In the meantime, Will Jordan was borrowing money from Lee to pay for the rent and food (rent that was never paid on to Andrew).
The car dealership website went live, as did the fundraising sites, but Lee said when he tried to access the funds raised there were none to be found. Also, the functionality of the car dealership website didn’t work. Will Jordan said they were having some issues with the domain and that he would get it sorted. He was being evicted from the apartment and so stored some of his possessions in the office. Will Jordan even had his father stay overnight in the office before moving him on. Will Jordan sold his dad’s car to Lee, but somehow lost the paperwork and although the $2,000 was paid for it, the car never materialised. Will Jordan had told Lee that he was a military veteran and was due money at the end of the month. When that didn’t materialise either, Will told Lee that his father had cancer and he had to pay for chemotherapy instead. Further money went missing in the form of another $2,000 cheque, and then one of Lee’s cars went missing too.
We are not sure what happened to Will Jordan’s father. Some people were told that he has been put in a home, others that Will Jordan put his senile elder on a plane across country to Will’s sister so that she could look after him. Either way, his father is no longer living with him.
In late July Will Jordan moved away to Vermont, seemingly to be with Anna. According to Lee he took with him $10,000 of money from the business as well as a car that did not belong to him. Lee has said that he is pressing charges but doesn’t know where Will Jordan is now.
After Lee described Anna to me I showed him a picture of Rachel. He confirmed that it was the same person. So Rachel was seemingly still with him.
Whilst I was talking to Lee on video chat, Will Jordan telephoned him to explain that he ‘had a past’ and had some issues which they needed to discuss. He explained that he had just finished a job and had some cash for Lee which he would bring by the next day. Lee didn’t believe him but found it interesting that he chose to call and explain things at that precise moment.
After that, Will Jordan would generally call him when someone was in the office with him or he was out. We suspect that Will Jordan was tapping into the CCTV or had bugged the office in order to ensure that he could keep the conversation going without having to actually speak to Lee, thereby preventing criminal charges being pressed. Will Jordan was constantly saying that he would come by imminently with money for Lee to repay him for everything.
Lee certainly said (repeatedly) that he had pressed charges but I don’t think he actually did. I have my suspicions that as a second-hand car dealer he doesn’t want to attract too much scrutiny.