Mary Turner Thomson was married to US-born William Allen Jordan for 6 years until one day a single phone call shattered everything. The story of this woman is nothing less than a Netflix drama and even quite closely resembles the plot of the BBC TV thriller ‘Mrs. Wilson‘.
Mrs. Jordan thought she had a perfect marriage but she discovered her husband has three other Mrs. Jordans and at least 13 children with six women! The 53-year-old Scottish woman from Edinburgh was shocked to find out that her husband was not only a bigamist but also a convicted pedophile and registered s*x offender.
Thomson married William Jordan in 2000 after being in love. The man claimed to be a ‘secret agent’ operating in the CIA. But their marriage abruptly ended in 2006 after their ‘too good to be true’ love story was hit by Jordan’s bigamy. Thomsan met William on a dating site when she was a single mother with a 9-month-old baby girl. He proposed to her for marriage within 2 weeks of dating and after 6 months of their marriage, Mrs. Jordan fell pregnant. This was a shocker for her because he’d claimed that he was infertile.
Jordan, who’d claimed to be a CIA agent would convince her he’s going on secret missions while he would actually be visiting his ‘other’ families. His long absences would sometimes lead to suspicion for Mrs. Jordan but his expert lying would have her convinced. He even conned her over $250,000 claiming to pay to the blackmailers who’d kidnapped their children. She had to sell her house and her car to pay the alleged ransom money.
But it all unraveled in 2006 when Thomsan received a phone call from the ‘other Mrs. Jordan’. The woman, Julie Bringhurst, revealed that she’s Jordan’s wife and he’d married her at the same time feeding her the same lies even about his infertility. Horrifyingly, the conman had also impregnated Bringhurst’s nanny! For Thomsan’s conviction, Bringhurst called Jordan having the former on the other line. The ladies even discovered that Jordan was convicted of molesting a teen girl in 1997, before just 3 years before meeting Ms Thomsan.
Later in 2009, William Jordan was jailed for bigamously marrying 3 women, besides fraud, gun crimes, and failing to register as a s*x offender. Mary Turner Thomson has penned a book ‘The Bigamist: The True Story of a Husband’s Ultimate Betrayal‘ talking about years of his lies and manipulation.