The Psychopath: A True Story(58)
Shortly after Will Jordan disappeared from New Jersey – in the autumn of 2019 – I was contacted by a woman in Vermont. She had rented out half of her house to Will Jordan and Rachel. After Rachel’s husband appeared at the landlady’s door expecting to move in with his wife – this is someone who has repeatedly been told that she is not with Will Jordan any more – the landlady looked up Will Jordan’s name and came across my website. She was frantic, particularly about the paedophile conviction, because she had two small children living with her at the property. I spoke to the landlady on video chat and she was determined to go to the police. After she had spoken to the local police, she rang me back, furious that they had refused to help. They said that Will Jordan had committed no crime against her yet and she would just have to try and evict them. She then told me she would talk to Will and Rachel later that afternoon and would get back to me after that.
She has not replied since. Although I have messaged her several times she has not answered and I suspect she has been sucked into his story that I am an enemy agent or something.
I have said it before but it needs to be said again. Psychopaths never stop. They just learn new techniques or move onto new victims. Will Jordan will continue to do this. Even if put in prison again, he will continue to manipulate and control those around him, biding his time until he gets out and finds new victims to abuse. He will do this until the day he dies.
I am still trying to help people – still trying to educate potential victims of psychopaths and narcissists. Still trying to support their victims. Still trying to educate the public. It is only through knowledge, understanding and self-awareness that we will recognise and counteract toxic personalities. And the more of us who stand up to be counted and share our experiences without shame or embarrassment, the more that other people will feel empowered to do the same.
THE PRESENT
Because so much of what Will Jordan told me was lies, I recently decided to do a genetics DNA test on my children through ancestry.com. Will Jordan had claimed that he had Native American heritage as well as being partly Caribbean but even that was a lie. The resulting DNA heritage map of my two younger children was fascinating. They had European and Scottish heritage through me, and all-African through Will Jordan but nothing from any other continent. I am sure that in years to come more of my children’s siblings will ask to be DNA tested and even get in touch with me and my family as that DNA connection will possibly answer some questions they may have.
My children have grown into strong and confident individuals. Robyn still has some anxiety but copes with it remarkably well. She has a full-time job now, and works as an illustrator and voice actor. She is pansexual which I initially didn’t understand but now admire a lot. To be pansexual means that you are not solely attracted to same sex, or the opposite sex, or to trans people. In fact someone who is pansexual does not even think about someone’s gender but instead is attracted to the person they are first and foremost. The genitals that an individual has are incidental to the relationship which develops. She is now engaged and in a very loving and stable relationship with a man whom she adores and who adores her.
My middle child, Eilidh, has already left school and is one of the most confident and fiery people I have ever met. She has a sharp brain, determination and a focus to achieve that far exceeds my own. In her first year at high school she got 100% on all her tests; it is obvious that she is very bright. One thing that Eilidh inherited was her father’s aptitude for learning. At eight years old she watched Dance Moms and was inspired. She decided she was going to do the splits, so every day she stretched and practised until finally she was able to do the splits sideways as well as front to back. At fifteen she asked me if I could teach her a particular piece of music on the piano that I used to play. It was a piece from the film The Piano called The Heart Asks Pleasure First, which was a bit of a signature piece of mine. I laughed and said that I had passed my grade 8 piano before I had learnt to play that, and she had never played the piano at all. I told her she would need to learn the basics first and build up to it. Eilidh, being Eilidh, ignored me and decided to teach it to herself. Within two weeks she was playing it and two years later has a wide repertoire of pieces that she has taught herself. She put the same effort into taekwondo, winning medal after medal for patterns, sparring and high-jump kick. She got her black belt in 2018 and in 2019 she won the gold medal at the ITS British Championships.
Eilidh is also in a committed relationship with a bloke who is ideally suited to her. They seem to be perfectly matched and fit together really well – his cool to her fire.
Although I am not overly happy that both of my girls have met men who seem to be ‘Mr Right’ at such a young age, I think they are far better balanced than I ever was at their age. My life might have been very different if I had not ‘played the field’ and then stuck with the man I dated at eighteen! What I do know for certain is that they are strong, confident women who will stick up for themselves. If their relationships do not pan out, I know they will both survive and thrive in moving forward. In the meantime, they are enjoying their relationships and I wish them all the best. If their partners do not turn out to be ‘Mr Right’ then they are at least ‘Mr Right Now’.
Over the last year my son has grown from a boy six inches shorter than me to a young man now taller than me. I am slightly grieving the loss of my little boy but am so proud of the man he is growing up to be. He is a loving and kind soul who aspires either to go to law school or to be a basketball star – or maybe both! He too got his black belt in taekwondo in 2018 and has won numerous medals for sparring and patterns over the years. He was also on the gold medal-winning Scottish team at the International ITS Championships in 2019.