S111: The Bigamist

PRETEND

Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.7 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mary Turner Thomas says she married a bigamist. She claims her husband, William Allen Jordan, was involved with 8 different women and fathered 13 kids. At one point, he had two wives, two fiances and a girlfriend on both sides of the Atlantic. William Allen Jordan and Mary Turner Thomson How in the world did Mary not know about these other relationships? How can one man pull off a con this big? It's easy to dismiss Mary as being naive. However, William Jordan was a skilled con man. Once you listen to how they met, and fell in love, it's easy to understand how he could steal her heart. Little did she know he will eventually steal much more than that. Mary says that William conned her out of £200,000. How did he do it? He led her to believe that he was a contractor for the CIA and terrorist were holding his family for ransom. As unbelievable as this sounds, he crafted evidence to back up his claims. Listen to Mary Turner Thomas describe the tactics he used to con her and learn how he finally got caught. This story was originally reported by my friend Lanie Hobbs at the True Crime Fan Club. I highly recommend you check out their show. You can find Mary’s book titled The Bigamist on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3uI9OkS She is also on Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheBigamistBook or at http://maryturnerthomson.com/book-inner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Creative Apple.
0:04.0	Hello everyone. Hello everyone. So we've made it. Episode 11. I have to admit I had no idea what
0:20.6	to expect when I first started this show.
0:23.0	I mean, half of the stories I had planned for you
0:25.4	either fell through or just were dropped
0:28.1	because they weren't good enough.
0:31.4	This also happens to be the last episode of season one of Pretend Radio.
0:36.4	No, no, no, don't be sad. I already started working on season two and have a couple
0:41.6	episodes already in the can. It's just going to be a short break I promise.
0:46.5	So here we are the last episode of season one. This one's a little different. It's a little different because it wasn't produced by me. In fact, it was reported by my new pod friend, Lainie Hobbs, from the True Crime Fan Club podcast.
1:03.0	When I first listened to this episode, I knew you guys would love it.
1:07.0	This is a true story about a bigamus whose name is William Allen Jordan.
1:15.0	A bigamus is someone who has more than one's spouse.
1:18.0	Usually the spouses don't know about each other.
1:21.0	That's why it's illegal in most Western countries. So who the heck falls for
1:26.0	a bigamist? I mean, wouldn't you think it's weird that your partner goes missing for long periods
1:31.0	of time? I mean, come on, I've heard urban legends before about this,
1:35.0	but I've never heard of a real person admit to being conned by one.
1:39.0	Well, you're about to meet someone who married a bigamis and was wrapped up in so many lies
1:45.2	that it's hard to tell what's true and what's not.
1:49.2	I'm Javier Leyva and this is pretend radio. Stories about real people pretending to be someone else.
2:00.0	Mary is a very strong woman and I'll be honest I had some preconceived notions that she was
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