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i was in my room and it was all dark. everything was spinning away from me into the blackness. it was terrifying. >> it was a whirlwind romance with mr. right and it morphed into a mind-bending mystery. >> she was like i feel like i am being watched. >> my phone was being followed. he said you could be under surveillance. >> followed her surveillance? stepping into the twilight zone, hidden codes, government agents and undercover spies. >> i was so scared. >> who was this man she was about to marry? >> your brain must be saying holy cow. >> to find the truth she launched the high-stakes game of spy versus spy. >> you were being a detective.
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>> he was not going to stop unless somebody stopped him. hello. welcome to dateline. ask any divorced parent. finding love the second time round can be hard but when mischele lewis met liam allen, he checked all the boxes. charming, smart and something of a jet setter. mischele welcomed him into her heart only to realize her new boyfriend was leading a double life. who was the real liam allen ? it was a riddle that this single mom was determined to solve. here is dennis murphy with tran nine. >> what's love got to do with it ? just about everything.
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the new guy at long last made her tingle like ginger ale head filled her heart. >> i feel very good about myself . he was a wonderful person. >> why should something so good and rare lead to such a dark place. the shadow we world where nothing was as it seen -- seemed and it became the blinding truth. >> it was so intercut, so dark. >> as she got pulled deeper into the rip tide of the hidden underworld of her fianci, she joined forces with the woman an ocean away to undercover the truth. >> it is intruding on every part of your body, of your mind. >> would mischele be is patient and she was in the game of revenge as she was in the game of love? mischele lewis is a born caregiver and is little girl in new jersey she daydreamed about
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working somewhere in medicine to help people. as an adult she got her nursing degree and reported happily to the labor and delivery ward. >> your with the team delivering babies. >> i do. you connect with your patients. i am there with them the whole way. i cry with him and laugh with them >> fellow nurse robin meyer said that michelle was a natural as a nurse and as of best friend. >> she is the light in the darkness. she's wonderful and the one that tries to brighten up someone else's bad day. >> mischele has seen her own share of bad days and for years struggled in a difficult marriage and eventually moving with her kids into her mother, shirley's house. >> she knew she would be a single parent and put her best foot forward to do that. >> after calling it quits with her husband, she started to
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explore the possibility of finding new love. she went online. >> someone established and had their stuff together. >> one man caught her eye. his name is liam allen . >> he seemed to be well traveled and well-versed in everything he said was what i was looking for. >> they meet for coffee at the mall. >> i walked in and he looked just like his photo, a warm smile, nice and charming. i was there four or five hours we sat and talked. >> that is a long cup of coffee. >> i had a very good vibe when we parted. >> as they tarred -- talked more in the days that followed, liam allen opened up about his life. never married, no kids in like herself born in new jersey but raised in the united kingdom . >> i like this accident. >> he was geographically desirable. he had a nice house in the nearby town of cherry hill.
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>> hit sent me photos of it and renovation photos of before, during and after. >> all well and good but she wanted to know more. >> the guy at the mall was nice but you wanted to know more. did you have an idea about him? >> i did go to the internet and type in his name and nothing came up so i thought okay, not a crazy criminal with the past record. michelle could feel herself letting go and feel comfortable starting to see liam more. >> i felt myself again, to be happy >> but mischele soon discovered he came with boundaries and notably could not spend time with her outside of the hours of 9 to 5. >> i thought it was odd. >> he explained that is on schedule was related to the nighttime work with the medical records software company but it
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bothered her why he could barely send a text while on the job. >> did you talk with him about being on the map or off the map? >> that's what i started use, and on the map or off the map, blackout times. >> he started to reveal jaw- dropping information. his true line of work was not in computers but he took out his phone and pointed to the letters at the top of the screen. >> it just says uk and he says it says uk because i worked for the british government. >> liam allen described his assignment for the british ministry of defense as a glorified chauffeur, shuffling foreign dignitaries and other vips back and forth from new york and the see. as for the medical software company, it was real. >> he was asked to obtain personal medical information on targeted people. >> targeted people, so in the
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secret world and he is a spy, mischele? >> pretty much. >> it was a doozy of a secret. liam allen, the easy chatting established man turns out to be a spy for the british government . >> your brain has to be saying holy cow, what is this guy telling me. >> i was a little bit taken back. >> are you drifting out of your body hearing this story? >> i was a little concerned that he was holding my hand through it. there was more. >> to date him seriously she would need to follow his rules, disclosing her entire personal life to the british authorities, and undergoing her own government security clearance. >> he told me in the coming weeks he would bring an application. i said i have to fly to be with you? >> he said no, because i work for the ministry defense you need to be security check. >> he is telling you you need to be introduced into the
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secret life of british intelligence. >> he told me to think about it. >> on the plus side what she got clearance liam said there would be no more blackout period but if she declined in the process she could never meet his parents or visit their house. >> i could not meet them or go to the cherry hill zone and we had no go zones. >> it gets more strange. >> very strange. >> did you think it was very cool or very scary? >> a little bit of both. coming up, what other secrets might this man of mystery beekeeping? you put the name in google and what came back? >> horrific news beyond anything i could have expected. >> one dateline continues. of moderate-to-severe asthmaps that's not for sudden breathing problems. dupixent can cause allergic reactions that can be severe. get help right away if you have rash, chest pain,
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>> the guy that mischele lewis had been dating head been shaping up to be mr. right, right up until the point when he told he worked for the british government as a kind of covert operative but she was willing to make things work. she needed to prove she could keep a secret because liam had just given her an official envelope stuffed with official documents, the security clearance application. >> security application, background information, date
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of birth, so security number and the pages after that was like taking the s.a.t. in an essay format. >> did you fill out the form with two >> i did not. >> but mischele would soon find out that liam had already passed on her name to his bosses and they were already checking up with her. >> in may i received a text message from a person i did not recognize. >> he introduced himself as tom charmers from the five-star realty company and said i understand you made an inquiry regarding one of our overseas properties located in the uk, and specifically the allen home model. >> a lightbulb? >> not at first and it took a minute. >> coming from 202 area code, washington, d.c. >> that is when the lightbulb hit. >> that it was part of your security clearance. did you ride with it and play your part? >> i did because i thought that
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was what was expected of me. i went along with the cold. it was crazy. >> the ride was about to get a lot crazier. >> he said that my phone would be followed. mine and his phone were like dots on a map. >> liam allen told michelle and her mom took >> surveillance at their own house . >> he said don't be surprised if a car rides by. they are just checking you out. 10, 15 or 20 minutes later a car would ride by with dark windows. he says they just see you on the porch. >> she said i feel like i'm being watched. i feel like i am under a microscope. i feel it is starting to creep me out. >> if her life was no longer quite her own, soon she was asked to risk even more. again and coded language, tom charmers instructed her to transfer money into a certain
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account. >> your personal money and what was that for? >> to basically prove i was committed to everything, to liam and the process. >> the money was a few hundred dollars and would be returned when the security clearance was complete. mischele's follow through and held on. >> 's strange gut feeling told me i needed to keep going and that at the other end it would be worth it. >> that liam allen would be worth it? >> that he would be worth it. >> a few months into the relationship liam on the map at home and it turned out he was great with her children, especially her teenage daughter . >> he related to victoria very well and was there for her. >> but behind the scenes michelle was starting to realize how deep and dangerous his covert connections really were. there was the time he showed up late to the summer wedding wearing heavy winter
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clothing only to tell her to keep her eye on the news. >> the following week is when the whole edward snowden story broke. >> she learned that he had sought asylum in the cold country of iceland and realized that her boyfriend must've played a part. >> i knew before it was a big deal which is a little bit creepy. >> it is little bit creepy now, mischele. >> it is creepy. >> that was not the only time that liam tipped her off about a world event before it went public. >> when kate middleton had her baby i had a couple of hours notice on that. syria, i knew about the attacks on syria before it hit mainstream media. >> he was getting secret mojo from somebody. >> he knew someone somewhere that knew something and i knew too. >> then came the strange early morning phone call from one of his british handlers. >> 4:00 microphone starts going
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off and they said wake up and i have to talk to you. >> the handler felt he should be -- she should be clued in on his past and more than a driver and after 9/11 dispatched an elite mission in the middle east to spearhead the takedown of the top bad guys, faces from the military infamous terrorist deck of cards. >> solely him was an operative and commando. >> the question had to be asked , how much did the tariffsã terrorist know about him and any thoughts about terrorist would be pushed aside. a few weeks before christian -- christmas liam asked for and in marriage. >> on his knees and i said yes. >> family and friends were thrilled for her. >> michelle came to work. >> this was what she was wanted so i was pleased with it.
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>> what should've been a happy new chapter together was the start of the descent into chaos. liam begin coming around less and less, skipping celebrations with her family. >> mr. wonderful never showed up >> did not show and i was furious. i was crushed. >> in january mischele discovered she was pregnant . >> how did that conversation of the news go? >> he told me he needed to process. >> hurt and confused, she searched her memory when it all went wrong and recalled the detail about her inscrutable fianci. a few weeks before she had noticed something in his wallet >> something urged me to look in it. i opened it up and pulled out a card and it said william allen jordan. i thought this is not him. it's close but this is not him. >> at the time she tucked the
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information away thinking it must be an alias used for undercover work but now she decided to dig some more. >> you put that name into google and what came back? >> horrific news beyond anything i could have expected. >> you hit enter, enter and enter and it gets worse and worse. >> the more i read, the worse it gets. coming up. >> it did not surprise me. i knew it would happen. >> a revelation from halfway around the world. another woman with another tale about liam allen. >> it was devastating, crushing, like coming out of the major . -- matrix >> when dateline continues. co dangerous ladders. gutter muck. yuck. no wonder you hate cleaning your gutters. good thing there's leaffilter. our patented filter technology keeps leaves and debris
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mischele lewis had been poring over a flood of shocking information she found online about fianci liam allen. >> i was in my room and it was all dark . everything was spinning in the hallway was going away from me like blackness. i was literally sick. >> notorious, no better word for william allen jordan, the true name on his wallet id and someone and even written a book about him, mary turner thompson that lived in scotland emailed -- she emailed the author.
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>> i thought, my god, i'm dating this man right now. >> i immediately sent her my phone number. >> mary had been expecting a call from michelle or someone like her. >> it did not surprise me and i knew it would happen. >> the story that mary turner thompson was telling her back in new jersey was eerily similar to her own. in late 2000 mary was a single mother living in edinburgh and met a man named bill jordan. >> charming and tall, good- looking and seemed to be a very nice guy. >> he told her he was from america and worked in i.t. she found him highly intelligent, humble and family- oriented. spending time with her daughter. >> he would play games and stuff. >> he would say we are going to have fun today. >> but just as mischele lewis would experience years later,
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mary also grew frustrated with his frequent absences. >> i was not happy about it at all so i started digging into his background a bit to find out more about him. >> mary in her private detective mode traced him to an address and after she peeked over the fence into the yard of the house, she's all children stories and confronted him >> he sat down and said i something to tell you. explained to me that he was working for the cia of the uk. >> the house with toys in the yard he explained was actually a safe house for agents but only stage it to look like a family lived there. a female agent on site would sometimes pose as is why. as time passed will jordan gave all the news that she needed to believe him. she spoke with other agents on the phone and when he was called away she would receive his dispatches from the war on terror. >> i cannot really complain because it would be like complaining about superman not coming home for dinner. >> she kept a stiff upper lip
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after postponing their wedding day because he was out on assignment, but they did eventually get married. soon after they welcomed their first child, it was a baby girl . >> he was very fun but then kind of street. it was almost like you knew he cared about you. >> the baby boy, zach, soon followed, but not long after the jordan of -- the work of will jordan threatens mary and the children. >> they threatened him never going to steal the children, and skin bits of them through the post unless we came up with the money to pay them off. >> frantic mary sold her house and emptied her bank account. >> i had nothing left and i thought there was no further down i could go. >> how wrong she was. almost 4 years intermarriage with will jordan, the phone rang. >> i got a phone call that said argue married, argue mary
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turner thompson and i said yes, it just me if i was misses jordan and i said yes and she said she was the other mrs. jordan and she asked me if i was told i love was with an agent and i said yes and she said she was told that too. >> the husband was no special agent. he was just a fraud and a bigamist. >> it was devastating, crushing and like coming out of the matrix. >> now it was her turn, mischele lewis back in new jersey, to absorb the massive import of what mary was telling her. >> everything was a lie. he had been married and had children. >> were you heartbroken or somewhere in between? >> everything. it's like putting your feelings in a blender and hitting the
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high setting. >> more shocking, not only mary and the other mrs. jordan in his life but there were others. oh, yes, there were. >> he had 14 children by six different women, two wives and five fiancis in 2005. >> they lived in several different countries. he had four children within one year by three different women. mary sums up the take on the mo is to target single mothers, get them pregnant, and then siphon away from them money and other valuables. >> he does not pick them women but he picks intelligent women because otherwise is like playing chess with a toddler. >> mary exposes jordan in the book, the bigamist, and after realizing it ultimately taken her for granted thousand dollars, she also wanted to put him in prison. in 2006 he was convicted in the british court of bigamy, fraud and illegal possession of a
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stun gun. after jordan spent two and half years behind bars, he was deported to the u.s. >> within six months i was contacted with the first of his victims from the usa. >> mary heard from a woman in the northeast and another from new mexico. >> after 2010 there was nothing >> that is until the call from mischele lewis. after mischele's head stopped spinning, she knew exactly what she wanted to do. be -- beat will jordan at his own game and bring him down for good. >> i wanted to be one of his last victims ever. >> coming up, liam allen, british spy, meet mischele lewis, superspy . >> to see this stuff going on in the hidden camera stuff. when dateline continues. you can save 5% every day. you got this. and we got you. oooh! i can't wait for this family getaway!
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here is your news update. a jury of 12 people and six alternates have been impaneled in the donald trump hush money
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try with opening statements set to begin monday. prosecutors agreed to give attorneys to the name of one witness if trump does not post anything about that person. despite threats to oust speaker mike johnson, the hardliners are opposed to additional aid for ukraine. johnson said that that is critically important. for now back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. i'm craig melvin. mischele lewis felt hail over heals in love with alive. fianci william allen jordan claim to be a british spy but in reality was a convicted bigamist and fraud. she was not alone. jordan at more than a dozen children with several different
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women around the world. but mischele was determined to be his last victim and hatched a daring plan to stop jordan once and for all. here again is dennis murphy with the mystery man. >> reporter: msnbc.com head spinning like the dry cycle on a washer and too much to take in. according to the woman, mary, and scotland, the woman engaged to mary was a rare devious career criminal and complete fraud. >> he was a phantom and does not even exist. you don't know who this person, this liam allen is. >> everything was a lie. >> did you feel like the biggest fool ever born? >> i could not believe i fell for this. >> mary warned you about that, didn't she question mark >> i said i felt so ashamed and she said don't be because he's been doing it for three decades and is very good. >> of all the things she
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learned about william jordan, one was most chilling. in 2006 he pleaded guilty for failing to register as a sex offender and she found out his prior conviction involved the daughter of one of his victims, a girl around the same age as her own daughter. >> how awful was that? this man bring in to the household is targeting my daughter possibly. >> i don't know what his long- term plans were. >> as tempting as it was for mischele to crawl in a hole and make it all disappear, she couldn't . for one, she was still pregnant with his child and had a supremely difficult decision to make. >> his first wife said mental illness ran throughout the family lines. as a nurse i know how genetic that can be. not only that, but it would have tied me to him for ever to have that baby. thinking long and hard, i chose to terminate it. >> you know is people hear your story that will be judgmental
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about you because of that fact. >> absolutely but they are not walking in my shoes and is not my life they have to live. this monster of a man would be labeled as their father. >> the painful decision made, she vowed to make her broken dreams his last betrayal. >> now it was trying to prevent anyone else from being hurt, to stop his damage. >> but how? first michelle confronted him at the house >> i said who is mary and he looked at me with the tivoli and i said you know, your wife. he just kind of closed his eyes and made a sigh and then i said i know everything. >> instead of disappearing, will jordan the international man of mystery did something surprising. the came clean, sort of, explaining his misdeeds were thing of the past. he tried to woo her back.
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>> you very much.he had his claws in her so deep that she would just roll over and say that is fine and i still love you. >> that gave mischele an idea. if william allen jordan still wanted to play, then mischele would give us good as she got . through the connections with mary turner thomson, she linked up with a video company. >> he brought me a purse which has a camera built into this rivet. he fitted me with a vest that had a camera on it. >> testing, testing. >> now she played the part of a spy and try to catch you making incriminating statements on video. >> did authorities know you are doing this? >> no, they did not, it would probably advise against it for safety purposes. >> she chose a public place for the first meeting and claim to talk over coffee. after some
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chit chat jordan assures her he is still the man that she fell in love with, and that not everything about him is a lie. >> i'm trying to differentiate between what is true and what is not. >> the c suspect anything is going on in this hidden camera stuff? >> i was hoping not. i became very nervous and started fidgeting with my hands and completely shredded a napkin. >> jordan is wondering aloud if she has taken the story to the press. >> that would expose me as well . >> he is the one to bring up all of the allegations against him. >> he tells mischele to put
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those transgressions into perspective. >> but he did not deny any major allegations against him. >> no. he did not deny. he did not outrightly admit them but he did not deny. >> including the sexual attack on a minor child. >> absolutely. >> mischele shows him a picture, a montage of his own children, 11 of the third the known. his response is a shrugged. >> what can i do about it? >> before they wrap up, mischele gives him a piece of her mind. >> my perspective, i feel like i've been amazing to you. >> this date felt light years away from the first long cup of
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coffee they both shared. yet when they part, it's almost as if nothing is different. >> on one of these tapes he says i love you, and you reply i love you too. >> i am like, okay, i cannot take that out of rotation quite yet. he may know something is up. >> after first day of secretly recording william allen jordan, mischele new she had him where she wanted but she was not done with him yet. >> i was not happy with the answers i had that day and i knew that i needed more. >> it was time for mischele lewis to go undercover again and to turn up the heat on william allen jordan. >> because i still want answers. at the end of the day, i still want answers. >> coming up, deeper undercover, but now over her head? >> i thought oh my gosh, do
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after mischele's first undercover session with will jordan, she was eager for more common to capture any more footage of him to be used as evidence practice in a criminal case. >> it was more about gaining evidence against him. can i get him to confess? >> she takes him every chance she got with her purse, her phone or her ipad. she was concerned about him detecting the camera. >> i was so worried about
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wearing the shirt that he would feel it if he tried to hug me. >> she had to work for safety. she had no idea who this man really was or what he was truly capable of. >> i was so scared. every day that i went to go meet him i told mary i was going, i told my mom i was going and i told my friends i was going. >> because mischele was about to turn up the heat on william allen jordan. she asked him more about his prior conviction for sexual assault against an underage girl that he pleaded guilty to. >> he denied it. i said why did you pleaded guilty and he said it would cost him more money and fee to get out of it but but pleading guilty got a lesser sentence. >> two weeks after the first undercover session she set up another secret recording of him but this time in the car. >> i set my ipad to record the audio and i tucked it between
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his seat and the center console with the microphone facing up. >> at the end of the day i still want answers. >> she put jordan on the spot. was he really a british spy question mark his answer was cryptic >> i never lied about what i actually did. i lied about who it was for directly. >> he said he did not lied about his job but that he did lie about who he worked for but did not like about what he did. >> what does that mean and that is little bit ominous? >> it is. he did admit to the wives, the kids, but he denied taking the money that he took. he said that they all knew what was going on. >> back in the car she pressed on. just who was tom charmers, the supposed british chandler. >> the possibility could it be you? not saying it was. >> she wondered why she stopped hearing from the handler's. >> maybe you didn't feel you could --
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>> she also leaned into him about her missing money. those fun she had wired to the handlers for the security clearance. >> for all i know, maybe you spent it. i don't know. i don't have any answers. >> he said neither did he and had nothing to do with the demands they made on her. but ultimately is not about the money for mischele. she has lost so much more . >> in the end, jordan told her the decision about whether to stay with him was hers alone to make. >> and act, she did, with the help of mary. back at home mary is scanned
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through hours of footage in fact checked the stories of jordan with mary. >> i had crazy telephone bills calling her to say this is what he told me and what can you verify. >> as for the take on jordan, mary turner thomson got the sense that her former husband was enjoying every minute of it >> it is the challenge. is the challenge he likes, having let someone down and pulling them back under your control is exciting and entertaining. >> but what jordan did not know was how deeply mischele was now connected to the other women from his past life. >> i introduced mischele to five or six of the other victims because i still talked with the mall. she had a wonderful puzzle piece and had the whole thing. >> with the other women, mischele forced ahead with the undercover subterfuge, right up to the emotional breaking point. >> here she is trying to retrain her old self in front of him, where she is screaming
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inside, wanting to just tear him apart because of what he is done to her and her life. >> the unthinkable happened. mischele went missing. should not checked in with family friends all day, and no one could reach her . >> i kept calling and calling and i thought my gosh, where is she. >> i knew she was supposed to be undercover that day and meeting him, and i got concerned. i thought oh my gosh, did something happen to her? >> had the escalated game of cat and mouse with william allen jordan turn dangerous? >> coming up. >> i thought my gosh, he is here. >> the police are about to enter the pig your. had mischele gone missing ? when dateline continues. surge, it's pretty stressful. (announcer) you can quit. call 1-800-quit-now for help getting free medication. nothing dims my light like a migraine.
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giving millions of fans, like my dad and me, new ways of catching up on their favorite sport. mischele lewis had been playing william allen jordan at his own game, spying on the fakes five. one day after the hidden camera session, she disappeared. >> hours had passed by and i got very concerned >> her mother at even called the police before mischele resurfaced . >> you are now a missing person. >> she reported me missing >> the pressures of undercover work had finally gotten to mischele, and she had taken the
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much needed mental health day off by herself. >> i went on first and apologize profusely to my mom. then i went to the police station. they said what is going on. >> she told them about her year of spiraling down into this enigmatic man's strange world and the lies, of her undercover hunt for the true. the police launched a criminal investigation of their own. they made their move. mischele was debate . >> i said this is where i'm going to be, and this is the route that i think he takes. catch him. >> she set up a date with jordan to run errands, telling him she would pick him up in town. >> i got there about two minutes before the meeting time and for once he was on time. >> she rolled down the window to hear him say he had to pop into the pharmacy, but it would be back in a jiffy >> i get on the phone with the police and tell them he is here and have to come right now.
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i was panicking at that point and hyperventilating on the phone. >> the frantic thought is if jordan jumped into the car before the cops nabbed him, what would he do if he was surrounded question mark now jordan was done with his errant. >> at that point in time it to stop any came out of the pharmacy and about to cross over to the street to me. >> every step poster was terrifying but then the police swarmed in. >> they came in, intercepted him and arrested him. >> he took a good long look to you at that point, didn't he? >> he did. i want to stare him down and let him know i was the one that took him down, but when the time came, i was unnerved by it. >> provided in part by evidence mischele provided them, booked for impersonating a law enforcement officer and third appearance that is surprising to some, sexual assault. mischele lewis claims she was the victim of a crime only starting to get recognized in u.s. courtrooms, sexual assault by fraud. >> because nothing i knew about
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him was true. >> she said she was sexually assaulted by jordan not by force but by his lies. >> i could not give them knowing consent to any kind of sexual relationship because i had no idea who on earth i was sleeping with. >> her case suffered a setback months later when the new jersey grand jury failed to indict him on the sexual assault charge. >> they said i could not prove that he was a harm to me. basically because he had not physically hurt me. >> as the case against jordan moved through the court system, mischele wanted to know were there other victims out there. >> i don't know if there is another victim in new jersey, pennsylvania, new york, b.c. or baltimore, or anyone in between. >> mischele wondered if he was living with another mother and her children in the cherry hill house like he once said two lies and wise in scotland. dateline found out more about
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that cherry hill property >> maybe you don't know that the landlord of the property said he lived there but that he was a victim. he would not pay rent. >> i did not know that. >> had never known that and that he lived there with a woman, identity unknown, and a child? >> that is shocking. that is shocking. there is someone else, at least one someone else but god knows because i don't know if that was his child or her child. >> if there were other children of jordan out there, mary turner thomson's girls were raggedy -- ready to welcome them into their unusual family. she skype's with some of her many siblings >> we all look exactly alike. >> many of the children of jordan felt hurt by all he left behind. >> i know loads of them that are really damaged, really damaged by it. >> the girls were glad to hear
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that jordan had been arrested. >> as nice as it would be to have more siblings, it would be easier for everyone if he just took a break and stopped. >> after his arrest, mary and her children were rooting for mischele lewis as she faced him in the courtroom. in 2015 he pleaded not guilty. >> it is laughable that he pleaded not guilty. i have so much evidence on it, i don't know if he even realizes how much evidence i collected on him. >> after negotiations between attorneys, william allen jordan accepted of plea deal of three years in state prison for theft by deception. three years later he is free and and october 2016 jordan is granted early release from prison with credits for good behavior for his work in prison and time already served in county jail. through his attorney jordan declined to speak to dateline.
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>> this will impact my life for years to come. >> mischele was disappointed with the news but has moved on with her life. she said she hopes to protect other women by changing new jersey law to make rape by deception not only a crime of the heart of prosecutable defense. she will have a great future ahead of her, arms and eyes wide open. >> she will get her happy ever after. she can rest knowing that will jordan is not going to have a happily ever after, not with her anyway. hopefully not with anybody ever again >> that is all for this edition of dateline. i'm craig melvin . thank you for watching.

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