I am pretty sure this was or should be a Lifetime movie.
Get ready to go on quite a ride.
A British woman who discovered that her ‘perfect’ CIA agent husband was actually a serial bigamist with more than a dozen children and three different wives has shared her horror at learning about his past – while comparing her life to that of a character in a TV drama.
Mary Turner Thomson, 53, from Edinburgh, made headlines around the world when it was revealed that the husband she thought she knew and loved, New Jersey native William Allen Jordan, 53, was in fact a liar and a scam artist who had duped several other women into marriage, as well as fathering 13 children with six partners.
The couple, who met online in 2000, were together for years before his secret past was uncovered – with Thomson admitting that, until then, Jordan, who claimed he was an active CIA operative on secondment to MI5 in the UK, seemed like the perfect husband and father.
Thomson quickly became entrapped in Jordan’s web of lies, not only falling for his story about being an active CIA agent who would often have to disappear for months at a time on various ‘missions’.
He even persuaded Thomson to find more than $250,000 to pay ‘blackmailers’ he claimed had threatened to kidnap their children Eilidh, now 16, Zach, 13, and her daughter Robyn, 19.
Jordan even came up with an excuse for why police would tell his wife that he was a registered sex offender – insisting that the charge had been fabricated by the CIA in order to allow him to question a real criminal inside a sex offenders’ wing in a jail.
The truth, as she later learned, was that he had in fact been arrested and convicted of molesting a girl between the ages of nine and 13 back in 1997.
But despite the incredible fabrication, Thomson believed him, and it was only when his fake ‘asset’, Julie Bringhurst – who was in fact another of his wives – phoned her, that Jordan’s true deception was made painfully clear to her.
Bringhurst, who had been married to Jordan for 16 years and had five children with him, phoned Thomson, asking if she was ‘Mrs. Jordan’, before saying: ‘Well, I’m the other Mrs Jordan.’
But there is more, flip the page to see how he kept scamming even more women.