Mary Turner Thomson had grown used to her husband’s frequent and often sudden trips away to far-flung locations as well as the secretive nature of his work, which meant he was regularly unable to maintain contact with her. She contented herself that these challenges were a necessary sacrifice when your spouse, William Allen Jordan, was a CIA agent working in counter terrorism in the early 2000s. Or so she thought until a fateful phone call in April 2006 from someone claiming to be ‘The Other Mrs. Jordan’. This is the cat and mouse tale of William Allen Jordan – bigamist, fraudster, father and conman.
Told by Mary, key figures and other victims, this brand new series for ITVX unravels the complex web of ‘other Mrs. Jordans’ and follows, with mounting tension, the realtime manhunt led by retired US Marshal Tex Lindsey to track down the shady figure who left so much pain and confusion in his wake across the globe.
“The people sitting there at home right now, thinking, ‘This could never happen to me, I would never be so gullible or stupid to believe somebody like that’. Don’t ever think it can’t happen to you.”
Mary Turner Thompson / Mrs. Jordan
“I want to find William Jordan but no-one has seen him since 2019. Manhunting has been the entire focus of my career. Hunting the worst of the worst. If you name it, I’ve hunted it. My aim is to put this guy away for the rest of his life.”
Retired US Marshal Tex Lindsey
Editors: Mark Townsend, Felix Buckley, Reva Childs
Composed by: Andrew Skeet & Nathan Klein
Researcher: Tara Huzar
Archive Producer: Katia Lom
Coordinator: Rachel Ingle
Production Manager: Chanel Akinwande
Production Executive: Rebecca Morris
Edit & Drama Producer: Elliott Swinburn
Executive Producers: Matt Robins & Matt Smith
Producer: Felicity Cross
Series Directed by: Olivia Isaacs