Woman Conned By 'CIA Agent' Who Was Actually Bigamist, Lost Over $200,000

A woman recently shared her experience of finding out how her husband, who she believed was a CIA agent, was actually a bigamist and a conman.

Mary Turner Thomson, 53, from Edinburgh, Scotland, recently opened up about how she was conned into believing her husband, William Allen Jordan, was a CIA agent and that she had a seemingly perfect marriage with him – that is until she discovered he had another wife and at least 13 children with six other women.

Jordan had apparently convinced Thomson that he was a CIA agent and hence had to leave her for various secret missions. The cover – though less-believable – gave the conman the perfect cover to abandon his first wife and make time to visit his second spouse.

“I met William online when I was a single mum with a nine-month-old baby. He was very charming. We started dating and he actually asked me to marry him within two weeks of meeting – I said, ‘No’, but we did eventually get engaged then we were married for four years. After six months of being together, I fell pregnant, which was a huge surprise because he told me he was infertile after having mumps as a child,” she told the Daily Record.

However, Jordan’s lies did not stop at just infertility. He also convinced Thomson that some blackmailers were threatening to harm their children - Robyn, now 19, from Thomson’s previous marriage; Eilidh, now l6, and Zach, now 13 – and successfully made her part with nearly 200,000 pounds ($252,206).

“In 2004 when I was pregnant with Zach, he told me somebody he met on an undercover operation was blackmailing us. They said they were going to kill our kids, kidnap them, rip bits off and send them to us in the post if we didn’t give them money,” she said.

Thomson said she was living in “abject terror” that if she did not pay the blackmailers, she might lose her children. However, the truth about everything surfaced once her husband’s other wife called her a few years later.

“William’s other wife phoned me in April 2006 and said, ‘Are you Mary Turner Thomson?’ I said yes. Then she asked, ‘Are you also Mrs Jordan?’ I said yes, and she replied. ‘Well I’m the other Mrs Jordan,’” Thomson revealed.

The two of them met at a café and after talking to the second wife for almost half a day, Thomson found out what was really happening – which more or less resembled the thriller “Mrs Wilson” on BBC, a real-life inspired story of spy and bigamist Alexander Wilson, who was a man with three other wives.

Without wasting any time, she sent him a text and dumped him. Although Jordan tried to woo his way back into her life again, Thomson remained stern on her decision. This was mostly due to the fact that the conman never wavered from the false background and persona that he had built around him.

In the years that followed, Jordan was convicted of bigamy, illegally possessing a stun gun, fraud, and other offenses twice. Every time he was released from prison, he went back to his old ways of duping women of their money. Thomson documented her story in the bestselling book, “The Bigamist: The True Story Of A Husband’s Ultimate Betrayal.”

In 2017, he was released from prison a second time and has since then, started online dating, trying to find his next prey.

“He came out of prison last year and he’s at large again. The last I heard was from a lady only last week who had met him on a dating site. We think he averages about six women at a time,” Thomson said, The Scotsman reported.

Meanwhile, her experience had made her extra-cautious and to not get trapped by conmen ever again.

“I had a relationship a couple of years after I found out about William but it didn’t last. I didn’t want to have another man come into my children’s lives and be a disaster – I felt it was more important to show them it’s OK to be on your own and happy than with the wrong guy. So, I made a decision to not date,” she said.

However, that did not mean Thomson was not ready to make a difference in the lives of other women. “My mission has been to encourage other women to come forward, and often people say to me, ‘I feel liberated – if you can do it, so can I,’” she said.