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hear.’ ” She was smitten and was eager to marry Allen. By the summer, The Trentonian said, Allen told Lewis that if
they were to wed, it would make their life together easier if she underwent a detailed security clearance. He told her it wasn’t completely necessary, but it would allow her to telephone him on a secure line anywhere, anytime, no matter the nature or location of his secret mission. She agreed. That triggered months of phone calls and text messages
Mischele Lewis, with Liam Allen at their wedding
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N JANUARY 2013, New Jersey nurse Mischele Lewis, who was 36 and recently divorced, created a profile on a dating site, eliciting a message from a man calling himself Liam Allen.
They emailed for a short while and then met in person. He spoke with an appealing English accent, although he, too, had been born in the Garden State. Allen explained that when he was two-and-a-half his parents had shipped him off to England to live with relatives, a couple who were professors at Oxford University, which he would eventually attend. He told Lewis that he was back in the US to reconnect with his parents aſter he had leſt a job with the UK Ministry of Defense, for which he had, among other duties, flown helicopters. “He lived all around the world, so he had never married and
never had children, he told her,” according to the Mail Online. The charming, funny and affectionate man quickly won Lewis’ affection. As they dated, he told her different stories about what he did for a living, including that he owned a medical records company. “He [also] said he escorts foreign dignitaries and their fami-
lies from place to place,” Lewis said. “He was a glorified body- guard, working between DC and New York.” Eventually he confessed to Lewis that he had “a super secret
spy job,” The Trentonian, a New Jersey newspaper, reported. “He also told her everything else she wanted him to say. ‘How pretty I was, how smart I was. All the things a woman would want to
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from two men, sometimes very early in the morning, who required her to respond to a bizarre series of tests that oſten didn’t make sense. She was asked personal questions, the kind that she later realized could be used in identity theſt, and she was instructed “to do a series of financial transfers to prove her worthiness,” she told the Mail Online. She complied, sending, among other payments that she was promised would be reim- bursed, US$4,300 in bank transfers. Allen proposed in December 2013 and Lewis enthusiasti-
cally accepted. A month later she was pregnant, but that news didn’t seem to make her fiancé very happy. His comings and goings, she said later, soon after became increasingly “sketchy,” triggering a level of unease within her. In early February 2014, on a whim, she looked inside his wallet, which he had uncharacteristically leſt out in the open. “Inside she found an immigration card with the name of
William Allen Jordan,” the Mail Online reported. She didn’t investigate the name until a few days later, aſter he had ignored her on Valentine’s Day. A Google search made her sick to her stomach. The first reference to William Allen Jordan that she found
was on a website entitled
Lovefraud.com, which had posted a story on the convicted sex offender and bigamist’s deportation to New Jersey from the UK. As she learned about the man who was father to her unborn child, Lewis started shaking and threw up. She saw a link to a book written by one of his two simultaneous wives in the UK — The Bigamist: The True Story of a Husband’s Ultimate Betrayal, by Mary Turner Thomson. Lewis contacted Thomson, who informed her that Jordan
“had at least 13 kids with eight different women,” the Mail Online said. “At one time, he had two wives, two fiancées and another girlfriend on the side. She learned that Jordan was a pedophile, and had served time for molesting a girl between the ages of nine and 13. She also learned that he had swindled £198,000 — more than $333,000 — from Mary.” Nor had he ever been a spy, just a criminal.
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Courtesy of Mischele Lewis
Jaime Hogge
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