April 4, 2023 • 44 mins
Evie Adams was murdered by her boyfriend who was also under investigation for killing his children.
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divers I'm Laura and I am Angel. Welcome back. Hello everybody, thanks
for joining us once again. Yeah, here we are with another episode for
you to dive into with us.M what's it called the radio The Beast
of Blackburn? The Beast of Blackburn? Yeah, okay, are we in
Blackburn in England? Then? Yeah? Do you know where Blackburn is the
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football team? Yes, we're inWe're in England. We're in There is
a Blackburn in Scotland somewhere. Yeah, well we're in We're in England.
Were in England? Okay? Shallwe dive in? Yeah? I was
just about to say that let's go, let's go. So Evie Adams was
unfortunately born into an abusive family innineteen ninety six, so there was neglecting,
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a lot of serious abuse factors,and her family were quite well known
for getting into trouble with the place. So she was removed and she was
placed into foster care at three yearsold. She was fostered by a lovely
family who didn't want to let hergo, and they adopted her when she
was six and they lived in Blackburnin England, so she was described as
a bit of a daredevil. Shewould sing all the time and she was
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such a happy child. She lovedher adoptive parents, Bernard and a Vaughan,
and when she was older she wouldsay that they saved her and like
where would she be without them?So yeah, you know, she's obviously
happy. We're adoptive family. Whenshe was fifteen, she got a job
in her family's pub, which hadits vantages as she used to steal beer
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for her and her best friend Holly, and they would like get dunk and
go out shocking behavior that, butusually she used to she really she was
more a homebody. She used tolike staying at home, just chilling out
with family or her friends. Sowhen she left school, she went to
college and I'm trying to be ahairdresser. At sixteen years old, she
knew what she wanted. She wanteda house of her own, she wanted
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a family of her own. Youknow, she had it all planned it.
Yeah, exactly what she wanted.And at sixteen year old, that's
pretty impressive. That's fair enough.So she met a guy called Nathan,
and her family said that he wasa lovely lad. They were done right,
I'm run for dinner, and theyall got on really well and the
relationship seemed to be a happy one. So Avy and Nathan soon moved in
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together. And I think Evie wasabout seventeen at this point, and everybody
had said like they were perfect foreach other. Her family hadn't been happy
at first about her moving out soyoung, because well, I think anybody
any families like that, you know, when they're moving out so young.
But as I said, they likeNathan and it was working for them.
They were independent, they were happy. Oh it was good. So her
family were proud of her. Soa couple of years later, when Avy
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was nineteen, she fell pregnant shewas so happy. She was over the
moon when she found out the babywas a girl. Her family were happy
for her and couldn't wait to welcomethe new baby to the world. But
just as Evie went into labor,a close relative died, so, as
you can imagine, when someone diesthe day a baby is born, there's
going to be mixed. Unfortunately,Evie suffered from postnatal depression and her dad
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later said that they just weren't therefor her when she needed them the most
because they were grieving for this crossmost relative. So I so Evie felt
sort of isolated and she really struggled. Like in the first few weeks of
being a new mom, Nathan wasat work all day and Evie stayed at
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home with the baby. Then whenNathan got home, he would take the
baby around to his mom's and anEvie would again stay at home. So
she spent a lot of time byherself and it started to take her on
a downward spiral, and unfortunately thisaffected her relationship with Nathan and they were
arguing a lot, and eventually theydecided to separate. So Evie's pairing and
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gave her money so that she wouldget her own place. With the baby.
So our friend Holly said that Amydidn't want to be on her own.
She was like, she was scaredof being a single mum. Not
surprisingly, ether that's kind of quitea massive task for anybody be a single
pair a definitely. She was worriedabout money and you know, just about
being alone all the time. Soshe was She started using Tinder and she
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went on a date with twenty eightyear old Jordan Monahan, and after the
day she phoned Holly, her bestpal, and told her that the date
had gone well and Jordan seemed lovely. Holly was happy for her, but
just said just to care for takeit slow. But it wasn't long before
he was at Away's house all thetime, and he actually had a bit
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of reputation in the area, likepeople were always talking about him, like
he always had like pockets of money, Like he would stand on the pub
count and all the notes as thatto say, look at me, young
boys, the money. Yeah,I hope you will do that. There's
like that comes up my work andevery time he comes in, obviously all
paid cash, pulls out his bigwater of money and I'm like, really,
I don't care paying your four quidor whatever you're I don't need to
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see like one hundreds of thousands maybein your hands, are supposed to be
impressed by that. It's like it'salmost like, yeah, I'm like to
me, it's stupid if you're carryingabout that amount of money. As he
comes in drunk quite a bit aswell at night thing because he goes across
the pub across the road and you'llcome in and you know, you always
had a few. So sometimes I'mlike, what if you get that drunk
and you could lose your money.Somebody can see you as an easy target.
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Always had a drink because everybody knowseverybody in the village. So it's
like, why would you be sosilly as to walk around with big wads
of money in your Yeah, Imean I just wouldn't be so silly.
Well, he was like that.He was like, yeah, look at
me, I'm loaded. You know. His brother was the same. So
he had a few businesses and hisbrother had a construction business. They were
put down like paving and driveways.But it didn't suitaly make much sense,
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like how he had that much money, Like that kind of money didn't just
come from doing the construction one whereelse did they ear his money? But
I don't know. I don't thinkyou'll ever find out. I'm not You
can assume, but there's no pointassume it was. Actually, we don't
know they had money, and hewas a twitter about it. And so
Jordan seemed besotted with Evie, likehe would spend loads of money on her.
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He could do what like, whateverhe could, He would do whatever
he could to make her happy,and he was charming, and she just
didn't want to hear what anyone elsehad to say about um. She was
happy with um he was. Itwas good to her and that's all that
mattered. Yeah, sometimes, Imean I agree that you have to be
like that because you can always havepeople's opinions about people, and yeah,
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if you listen to it too much, it can affect it. I do
think you have to make up yourown many I think so. Yeah,
Like I mean, I mean,at that moment, she was obviously very
happy and and very happy with thethings were going. I mean, you
know it sounds all right. Yeah, he wasn't doing anything to her,
I think, like to me,yeah, that's the way you have to
learn. You can't just listen toother people. I mean, for instance,
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when I first started seeing John,so called friend of mine said,
oh, um told me stuff likeoh he's a drug he does this,
he does that, and it wastotally untrue, and oh he's just he's
not in you. Or I can'tremember what else she said, but like
here we are, like twenty oldyears later. Yeah, probably never seen
him touch a drugging the time I'vebeen with only she's got these smokes.
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So I think, yeah, Ithink I don't know, she was just
jealous and didn't want me getting ina relationship with him, or I have
no idea, I don't know,but yeah, sometimes I can understand why
she didn't want to listen, becauseit can work out perfectly fine. I
mean, unfortunately, I'm going toassume in this instance, maybe he's a
bad egg. He is a badegg. But unfortunately, you know,
you got you try to give peoplethe benefit of the doubt, and you
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know, and so anyway, soit was well known in the community as
somebody that you didn't really want tobe with. He was about notorious in
the area that he lived in.Aby's parents didn't know who he was.
They had they hadn't heard of himbut when they asked other people about him,
they would just be told that itwas a bad un and that was
like no explanation, just that itwas a bad un. See. I
always think, well, if you'regoing to call something that, can you
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back up give me something something liketo go on there, because that could
mean that you just maybe you justdon't like him, or I don't know,
maybe he's just or that could belike something that's started off was like
this guy has done one bad thingand it's just kind of like Chinese whispers
kind of it's kind of spiled intoall he's a bad un, but in
this case it is yeah, yeah, So Holly, he was best friend,
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said that she said that she thoughtthere was something about him that was
off. She did try to explainit to Evie what she thought of Jordan,
but she didn't want to know ifshe was smitting with them, and
just as I said before, shedidn't want to hear any bad stuff about
him. According to his ex partner, she had found out that Jordan and
had a gambling addiction when they weretogether. So maybe that's where the words
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are money out gambling and winning winningbig one, but you never win all
the time, so you certainly losea lot. One of the local pub
owners said that he saw Georgian puttingmaybe four hundred or five hundred quid in
the bandit machines and one night,so as you can imagine, him and
these ex regularly argued about money andgambling. So Avie's parents heard about the
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gambling and they thought they thought thatwas bad enough, because like they're like,
no, that's that's not a goodthing to have, you know,
have a gambling addiction. But thenthey heard a rumor about a man who
murdered his children. Oh, yes, Jordan had had two children, well
these x and they had both died. So Jordan was under investigation as both
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of the children had died when theywere in his care. So one night,
we'll can and we'll get onto thatlater, like in detail. So
one night, Ivie and Jordan werein the pub with Holly and someone walked
up to Jordan and glassed him righthind the glass him in the face,
and Holly had said to Evie,well who was that, and he was
like, oh, that was Jordan'sex's cousin, right, So of course
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Holly asked why he was being glassand Evie said that she didn't know,
but Holly found out later it wasactually the children's mum's cousin because Hollywood just
Evie had said it was just orjust an X. His cousin didn't know
which X. Yeah, but itwas the mum's cousin. So Evie downplayed
it by just saying it's just whenit was X. When it was actually
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the mother. It was children's cousinthat he was under suspicion of killing,
so that kind of makes it.Yeah, I didn't understand why he's done
that then. Yeah. So whenhe's parents asked her about this rumor that
Jordan had killed his children, shewas like, oh, how everyone says
that I'm about him. They've gothim wrong, like if he had done
it, he would be in prisonor whatever, you know, which I'm
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thinking, yeah, but I mean, you don't have to guess. It's
all going to come out. SoI know what you're like when I'm telling
you these cases, you're always herreal brains were in there trying you league
think, well, what's happened?Who did that? I'm trying, like
first story before, yeah, um, so by January twenty and eighteen,
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I don't understand Sirey seriously watched.Yeah, I've had to unplug my Alexa
because of that. We'll have unplugyour watch. Um So. By January
twenty and eighteen, Jordan and Eviewere getting closer, but she was becoming
more distant with her family and friends. Her family noticed that she had changed.
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She was being secretive and lying aboutthings. Her dad said that she
lied so much that I just gotto the point where he just didn't believe
a word that was coming out ofher mouth. And like before, Jordan
and Evie and Holly were so closethat they were like sisters, but now
Hollywood only. Evie would only phoneHollywood. She was at her parents' house,
so it was obviously herm you know, yeah, yeah, friends and
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family. Doctor Jessica Taylor, who'sa forensic psychologist said, quote at this
point, Away is probably getting moreand more isolated because she has seen to
be worn voluntarily in this relationship withsomebody who is being excluded from community and
society because he's suspected of murdering children. End quote. So you know,
you've got these rumors going about she'sin this relationship with him, so it's
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going to affect her as well,people aren't going to wat speak to her
and all the rest of it.That kind of guilty by association kind of
thing, isn't it. So,as I said, he was under investigation,
and in January twenty eighteen, Jordanwas arrested on suspicion of the murder
of his two children, but unfortunately, without enough evidence to charge him,
he was released on bail as thepolice continued to investigate the deaths of the
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children. So the police did Warrenaway. They they went to her house
and told her, look, youand your child are at risk, but
for whatever reasons, she chose toignore the warning, and the police were
so concerned that they actually I don'tknow where the tooker, but the tooker
to place of safety and told her, look, you're not safe with this
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man. And they were actually restrainingorders issued to keep Jordan away from Ewe,
even though Ewie didn't want the restrainingorders. But the police were that
concerned about her that they were puttingrestructors restraining orders in the place. But
she coun't keep away from him.She didn't want to. And other people
noticed the unusual dynamic between them,like Holly said, the Awe wouldn't get
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up and dance like it like usuallyshe would get you know, bit of
life and sold the parish we havedancing on the night out, but of
Jordan, as they are, shewouldn't get up and dance. She had
to be by his side the wholenight. And even the bar staff at
their local noticed that Evie wasn't allowedto do anything like she can go off
and dance or go and chat toother people. So it's the point much
sitting there. She had to beby Jordan's side the whole time. Rubbish.
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So Holly said that Jordan had gonefrom this charman I'll do anything for
you kind of person too, You'lldo anything I tell you do and you'll
like it kind of person. Sobefore they has been really nice and kind,
but now he was always angry andhe was alway shouting at Eva.
But as Holly said, quote,it was too late for her. She
was already in love with him endquote. So in January twenty nineteen,
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police again attempted to help away.There was a restraining order in place at
this time and Jordan. Sorry,the police stopped Jordan in the car.
I don't know why it was stopped, but he had eway in the passenger
state and when the police asked whoshe was, he said, Oh,
that's just some bird that I've justmet. Really, but they knew she
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was, Like, maybe that's whyhe was stopped in the first place.
We saw saw him with a girl. I don't know, but he was
actually charged with the breach of therestraining order and they got a twelve week
suspended sentence for it, and thatactually triggered another intervention from Social services.
This time, so they've visited herhouse and basically told her that she had
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to keep Jordan away from her daughter. So by this time Away's parents were
just so worried and wanted her awayfrom him. So they said to her,
why don't you just move to anothertown, don't tell anyone where you
are, will come over every day, like we'll support you, you won't
be alone. But Evie just wouldn'tdo it. She just so she was
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just staying with him. So acouple of weeks later, our EWE phone
Tolly and said, I've just lostmy child. Social Services had taken her
daughter off her because when they visited, Jordan was there. Yeah, so
Away's daughter went to stay at herparents' house. And Aby went was allowed
to supervise visit with her daughter twicea week, but when she showed up
like she would have like bruises onher arms and when asked where they came
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from, she would say that shefell, and obviously, fine, well
what's happening. Yeah, so therewere financial pressures on the relationship as well.
So one night Ewe's dad, hehad went to the pub and his
friend told him that Jordan I hadbeen sacked from his job because people had
been phone in the company that heworked for saying that he was a murderer.
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So they well, they said forwere there for his own safety.
They let him go, but I'mthinking it was probably for their own safety.
They're thinking the probably their reputation damagedas well. Yeah. So Abe
wasn't paying her rent and she wasevicted and ended up in a homeless shelter.
Are you gonna start choking? Okay, that's what you get for taking
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a drink if fizzy juice when we'retrying to record a podcast, just as
well as my episode. Didn't knowyou were. Yeah, so she Abe
it ended up in a homeless shelter. So but at this point she did
she tried to get away from Jordan, and she wanted her daughter back,
so she moved fifty miles away towomen's refuge. But he wasn't given up
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without a fight. He found whereshe was by tracking her phone, and
he would follow her, um,like fifty miles away. He would traveling.
He would wait till she was eatinga boot because when and refuges,
they're usually like nobody knows where theyare. He must have just known the
area that she was in and he'slike waiting for her and followed her.
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And she's been out and about umand like Holly, Holly, she told
Holly and Holly so like phoned thepolice, but a said that she didn't
want to take it that far.So Jordan accused Holly of being with other
men because that's the only reason thathe could understand why she didn't want to
be with him. He couldn't understandit was because he was abusive and he
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was gambling and whatever else. Itwas because she was what other men.
So basically he was trying to makeit like it was her fun exactly,
just his fault. He just wouldn'ttake blame for his art. He just
couldn't understand why why do you notwant to be with me? You must
be with other men? Then it'skind of obvious. Yeah, but she
was adding much she wasn't going backto him. So one day the police
were called as he was standing ona rooftop and pressed in threatening to jump
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because Evie wouldn't have anything to dowith him. And it's not only that
tactic worked so and she went backto him. So whether that was when
I'm feeling guilty or if she thoughthe really did love her and could change,
I don't. I don't know.But of course the relationship just went
back to the way it had beenbefore. Jordan was controlling Evie and isolating
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her from the outside world. Hewould use her childhood like from before being
fostered, to completely undermine her,undermine her celfics, undermine herself esteem,
saying things like you'd never be worthanything because of what happened to you when
you were younger, and you mightas well be wead because nobody else will
have yet things like that, andshe had gone from a happy, bubbly
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person to a lost soul, asHolly described her as a loss soul.
Seriously, you're gonna start how we'rechalking a bit trying not to. I'm
just gonna put my hand over hermouth in a minute so she'd be She
had beaten being beaten down so muchthat she just wasn't Evie anymore. On
the elevenths of October twenty nineteen,Evie and Jordan went for a weekend away
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to Blackpool with their friends Kimberly Edwardsand Jamie Rashid. Unfortunately, though Jordan
became aggressive, he was argumented toand punched a wall and was obviously just
been a complete our dickhead. Soundslike Kimberly saw no Sorry. Kimberly and
Jamie saw Jordan given erie tablets outof a brown glass bottle, saying they
were pain killers. But they thoughtit was a bit odd because tablets don't
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come in those bottles anymore, likewe get them unlike the blister placks.
Now when did when did we inthe UK? When did we used to
get I think it a long longtime the blister packs? Yeah, so
yeah, that was a bit strange, humpain killers in a brown glass ball.
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I hated that I could never getthem open the child blocks. So
when's she got? When they gotback from Blackpool, Evie ended the relationship
and she began looking for a friend, a friend, No, she began
looking for a flat to rent andblackburn. But they get they got back
together and must have been staying togetherat this point. They must have been
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they must find somebody to live intheir emin same place. Jordan joined a
WhatsApp group called UK Tablets and hewas asking for Gaba, Penton Zone and
I as a pattern. So thesetablets can be used for pain relief,
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but in large doses they can beextremely dangerous, like changing people's behaviors.
They resolved their determination, their wholecharacters within a couple of days. Evie
wasn't feeling very well and she didn'teven feel well enough to leave the house,
which is what Jordan wanted in thehouse. Stuck in the house,
Yeah, exactly, the tablets.Yeah, so like she can see other
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people she was with him. That'sthat's where he wanted her. So Evie's
family were really worried, and shetold her dad that she was feeling really
sick and that she'd looked up hersymptoms online and she thought that she had
stomach flue. So her dad said, right, well, I'll come and
get you and I'll take you atthe doctors, but he was like,
no, no, it's fine,I've already made an appointment. So um,
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so she texted Jordan's saying I feellike I'm dying and he exphoned the
doctor surgery made her and made anappointment for her, but Jordan said that
he couldn't take her to the appointment, so she didn't go so her dad
could take me. The following day, the twenty first of October twenty nineteen,
Jordan called one one one, whichis the non emergency medical help line,
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and told him that's Evie had beenvomiting and feeling dizzy for her four
days and an appointment was made forit to see a doctor, but again
she didn't turn up and they werealso return calls from the one one one
service, but they were ignored neverpicked up. So then the following day,
Evie text her friends saying, Jordankeeps stressing, but he won't let
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me see a doctor. But funnilyenough, Jordan actually phoned one one one
again after that, so I thinkhe's seen her phone and saying that's seen
that She's telling her friends that he'snot helping her, so he's like,
oh, okay, So he phonedone on one again and told him that
Evie was having an abdominal pain,but yet two return calls were ignored,
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so he wasn't letting her see adoctor. But as soon as she told
anyone, as soon as she toldanyone that and explained how else she was,
he turned into the loving boyfriend,saying, I'll sort of I'll call
the doctor so that no one elsewould do it for her, So she
wasn't actually getting daughter. She stillnot going to see her freaking doctor.
Or their friends don't think just seeingthe doctor. Well, maybe they decided
maybe she's saying, oh, it'sfine, Jordan's going to take me,
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so they're maybe thinking that she isseeing a doctor. So poor Evie,
she was deteriorating and Jordan was givenher given her tabs that he said would
help her, so she thought thathe was helping her, but she was
just feeling worse and worse, soshe must have been absolutely terrified. Wonder
what's happening to her? And whenEvie missed her daughter, was it with
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her daughter? That's when her parentsknew she must be seriously help because she'd
never miss an appointment were daughter,So the forensic psychologist Jessica Taylor. She
said, quote the state that Eviewould have been in because of the amount
of sedative drug that she's been given, it's likely that she wouldn't have known
what she was taken or how manyshe'd taken in a day and quote,
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so he would have been given hergod knows what and she wouldn't have known
any different by this point. Butthen Evie's mum got a text saying that
m from Evie saying that she'd leftstuff outside her front door. So her
remembers really happy because she's like,oh, Evie must be feeling better because
she's out of the house. Idon't know what, but I'm kind of
confused as to why she would texther say she'd left outside the front door.
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Why would she just not knock onthe front door. Or maybe she
wasn't because she only had supervisors,it were her daughter at certain times that
would seem okay for her just toknock on the door because it was not
a supervised time. I don't know, maybe, and so she's like,
yeah, she lifts uf outside thefront door. So she went and had
a look and it was a wickerbasket, had bits of pieces for her
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daughter, like color and stuff andlittle toys and stuff like that for her
door. But what they didn't knowuntil later because they assumed that that Evie
had done that her. But whatthey didn't know until later when they checked
the CCTV, it wasn't Evie whohad left the basket. It was a
girl that they didn't even recognize.So when they realized that wasn't Away who,
they must have realized that wasn't eventheir text because the texts that said
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that she herself had dropped it off. So they're like, what the hell,
what's going on? But at thetime, this was obviously just something
Jordan planned to keep Evie isolated.So he because I said, they didn't
find out till later that it wasn'tEvie. So while he was isolated in
the house, they're thinking, oh, she's all right shouting about and she's
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texting us, and yes, soshe was, so Jordan, you knew
what I was doing totally, andyou know, so that her parents won't
be worrying about in her county checkon her. So that's obviously what he
was doing. So Holly hadn't spokenAwe for about two months. I mean,
this is her best friend who waslike a sister here. She tried
to call her one day, butshe didn't answer. Evie then text her
and said she couldn't talk right nowand she would phone her when she was
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at her parents' house, but thatphone call never came. My chair keep
squeaking. Let's sit forward. Inten days since Ewe first said that she
was feeling ill, she hadn't seenher doctor, and during this time she
had unknowingly taken a combination of prescriptiondrugs as we know, given to her
by Jordan. And when she sentJordan that message saying that she felt like
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she was dying, she didn't knowthat the purpose of those drugs was to
suppress her system. So her heartrate was probably really low and her breath
and would have slowed down, soshe really would have felt like she was
dying as everything I was shutting down. Wow, So you know what you
say to somebody else feels like I'mdying, she actually was. That's horrible.
So on the twenty fourth of Octobertwenty nineteen, whilst it worked,
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Jordan got a text message from Ewesaying, quote, I've taken the drugs
and I don't want to be anybe here anymore, and I don't want
help end quote. So he calledhis aunt and asked her asked her to
go around to the house to checkon Awe, and his aunt went called
an ambulance. So Jordan arrived shortlyafter and placing the paramedics where they are,
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and he was putting on the actof the devastated boyfriend by crying in
front of them. He handed overthe blister packs of the medication. He
thought that should all look, here'sthis is what she's probably taken. Well.
Of course he didn't tell him wasthat he had taken Evie's phone to
work with him, and that textsand texts that message from her phone to
hisself. Yeah. So that night, at ten past ten, a police
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sergeant knocked at Erie's parents door andtold them the Ewe had taken her own
life. But our family and friendsstruggled to understand what had happened. They
said there was no way that shewould have left her daughter, and they
just knew that in some way Jordanwas to blame. So despite initial evidence
suggesting suicide, just after just twentyfour hours police were sure that Evie hadn't
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taken her own life and that shehad been murdered. Of course, Jordan
is the private suspect, but thepolice had no evidence to charge him.
So as the police we're trying topiece together what had happened to Evie.
Jordan was back to his own ways. He was like drinking, gambling down
the local path. Had happened.Yeah, he made new friends after Evie's
death, and he acted like thegrieving partner, you know, told them
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how Evie hadn't been well and thatshe'd taken her own life. And you
know, of course they were givenhim sympathy because yeah, imagine somebody saying,
home, my girlfriend took her ownlife. I mean, of course
you believe that. Yes, Buteven in our death, he was like
trying to control what happened to Evie. He tried to stop her family making
funeral arrangements. How well. Idon't know the ins and outs of it,
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but he went to a solicitor,and because he was waiting for certain
decisions to be made, they couldn'thave the funeral till a month later.
No idea they should have had,no saying that whatsoever. They weren't married,
No boyfriend and girlfriend that gives youno rights. They don't have kids
together anything, so so I don'tknow how that how much to do that.
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But then he threatened to turn upat the funeral and fireball in the
place. And what you're saying,like you're letting on that you're the graving
boyfriend. Why so why have youturned and said that you're going to fireball
in the place. I like,surely you would be wanting to attend and
pay your respects to your girlfriend thathas just crested suicide, and you were
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very upset about it. Partly soAway's family actually had her body moved to
a different town because they were scaredthat he would break into it. I
don't know, I don't know whereto keep a body till the few and
to the keeper in the mor orin the funeral home or wherever I think
they kept on. Once they movedto the funeral homes, then it's well
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wherever she was anyway, wherever wherevershe was being our body was being kept.
They were scared that he was goingto turn up and do something to
her body, um, you know, like maybe steal it or something.
So um, so imagine how todo that. That's absolutely awful. Our
family were determined to keep Jordan awayfrom the funeral, so he he asked
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a mutual friend if they would puta photo in Ewe's coffin. So the
friend was like, right, okay, and went over to Jordan's house to
get the photo. But when Jordanpicked up the frame, because the photo
that he wanted to put in itwas in a frame, so he picked
up the frame to take the photoout of it, and a suicide note
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just popped out of this frame.Like what a coincident? Yeah? And
I know, I know this seemsa bit strange anyway, I mean,
why would ebe have hidden a suicidenote in a photo frame? But that's
not the strangest part. Why wouldshe hide it in a frame at Jordan's
parents' house. Oh yeah, I'mjust gonna say, not even at her
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house or where she was living withDarda. She wasn't even at these parents'
house as far as we're aware here, So why would she have done it
there? You would have more senseto find a photo at her own house.
But I said that that's just ridiculous. I wou'd even believe that.
So Dardoud obviously set this all upto look to be like, oh,
look, I didn't know that wasthere, But why was it not in
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his house like her house? Likeit doesn't make sense a suicide note were
his parents' house? Just absolutely ridiculous. So handwriting experts were brought in to
try and make sense of this newevidence. Well, Aby's funeral went ahead.
The police guarded the funeral and theweek afterwards to make sure that Jordan
didn't turn up. But I'm like, I see, this is what I'm
getting. Like, if if youkilled her and you're trying act like she's
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committed suicide, why are you causingall this hasshole? Why we're not acting
like the devastated boyfriend? Yeah,like be quiet, quiet, But I
really just seems to be getting it, and it was faces and like doing
the whole suicide though, that's justnor more attention to the fact that actually
you're the one who's killed her,when if you know you want to get
away with it, then you're obviouslydo the grieve with boyfriend of Its just
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it's just an arshold. Totally stupidarshold, like that very much. Um
So, then Eri's tox echology reportcame back and there was concerns about the
level of drugs in our system.So the report stated that the opiate levels
and Erie's blood were the equivalent oftaking twenty traumadol and basically so basically obviously
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people, I mean, I don'tknow about things like that. So if
anyone took more than two traumadol youwould feel unwell, that's how strong they
are. So in her blood itwas the equivalent of taking twenty traml So
now they know what I'd caused.He was death, but they still needed
to find proof of who had causedit. Jordan's set up a company in
Ewe's name, which apparently he usedto rip people off um like obviously,
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nobody knew it at the time,but his new friends said that he always
had wads of cash in his pocketsand he was always offering them alone and
money if they needed it, andthey were like always a great guys,
always up for a drink and alaugh and not playing the graven boyfriend.
One day in August twenty twenty,the police visited one of his friends.
Her name is Sue. This isone of the new friends that he'd made
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since Amy's death. They told herto make sure that she didn't let him
near any children, and she wasabsolutely shocked by it that She's like,
why, what's going on? Andthey're like, well, don't, like,
do you know about Jordan's children,And she's like, well, yeah,
I had two children and they diedabout six years ago, and he
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had told her that it was agenetic condition that they had died from,
so she had no reason not tobelieve it. I mean that it could
be believable exactly. So you know, you can see why people who didn't
know him wouldn't have been suspicious ofhim if he was telling that his children
had died from a genetic condition sixyears ago, and then his partner took
her own life recently. You did, you did? You would take it
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for what it is value, Butokay, if that's so sad tragic,
Yeah, these things happen, exactly, I mean, unfortunately, so police
were closing in. Detective got twelveexperts from a wide range of disciplines to
look not just Arie's death, butalso the death of Jordan's two children.
So nearly a year after Evie packEwe passed, police had a major breakthrough.
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They had examined Jordan's phone and managedto get to all the deleted stuff
and found the WhatsApp group and hismessages to them. So they've seen like
the drugs that he's ordered match upwith the drugs that are in Erie's system.
So it was always, you know, it was obviously what happened.
He started to prove it obviously.Well, Jordan was arrested, it was
re arrested in January twenty twenty one, and he was charged with Erie's death
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and also the deaths of his twochildren. Now I don't actually know how
they figured out how, like howwe killed the children. I don't know.
As I said, like the caseI was reading about was mainly about
away, so but I will tellyou what happened to them. So just
to trigger warning that the next bitis about baby's death. So if anybody
doesn't want to listen to that,you know, I'll skip forward a bit.
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Totally understandable. So Jordan's started seeinga girl called Laura Gray and tooth
it back in two thousand and eight. So Laura was actually friends with Jordan's
sister, so they known each othersince we're kids, and Laura had always
had a massive crush on him.Jordan proposed to her when she was sixteen.
He got a job in construction,she got a job at a care
home, and everything was all good. They were gonna get married, have
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kids, live happily ever after.On the eleventh of November two thousand and
eleven, their son, Logan wasborn, and Laura had everynchour borried so
love being a mom who had thisbeautiful little boy, and Jordan appeared to
be a dote and dad so a. Laura described low Logan as her dream
child. He was perfect, hewas happy, There was no concerns whatsoever
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about his health, and from theoutside there were, you know, a
happy little family, but behind closeddoors, the issue of money was causing
cracks in the relationship. Then Laurafell pregnant again, and shortly after she
found out about the gambling and thathe hadn't been paying the rent. So
that's when she was like, right, relationships over, we're done. But
on that same day she'd told himthat they were done. But that's this
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was the twenty third of September twentytwelve. Logan was rushed to hospital,
so he would have been about tenmonths old, and Jordan told the doctors
that a packet of parasatim will hadbeen left near him and he had eaten
them. But when Logan was checkedover, there was no overdose, so
I think Jordan must have just donethat to give Laura a scare so that
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she wouldn't leave him, and shedidn't, so it worked. So their
daughter, Ruby was born on theeighth of December twenty twelve, and on
the twenty eighth of December, solike twenty days later, Laura was upstairs
and Jordan's screamed for her to comedownstairs. He had Ruby in his arms
and she was completely lifeless, soLaura called an ambulance and Ruby was rushed
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to hospital. So she was keptdown for three days under observa under observation,
and then she was released on NewYear's Eve, and it wasn't known
what had caused Ruby's breathing to berestricted, so that night the couple saw
in the New Year together. Thenjust after midnight, Laura went to bed
and Jordan's said that he would stayup to give Ruby or two am bottle.
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But later Laura was woken up byscreams coming from Jordan downstairs because Ruby
wasn't breathing, so she was againrushed to hospital, but at just twenty
four days old, she was pronounceddead for arrival. God, oh that's
awful. So a routine police investigationdid follow, which meant that both Laura
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and Jordan were inter viewed, butRuby's death was ruled as natural causes,
being acute bronchial pneumonia or bronchiad.I'm not quick sure how you pronounced that,
but what had in fact happened,as it was found out later in
court, was that Jordan had heldhis hand over Ruby's mouth and pinched her
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nose until she stopped breathing, butthat wasn't found out till always six,
seven years later or whatever, soyou know, obviously this after she died
it was natural causes. So afterRuby's death, the couple became closer and
stronger, and Laura became more andmore reliant on Jordan, but that one
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lasted for a little while because themoney issues again started causing problems in their
relationship. She found out that againhe hadn't been paying the rent aid her
a separ he had a separate bankaccount that she didn't know about. There
was just like loads of unpaid bills, so again she told him their relationships
over, but I'm assuming Nus stayedin the same how because of what happened
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the next day. So that wasthe sixteen of the August twenty thirteen,
and the next day she wasn't feelingvery well, so she asked Jordan to
take Logan out just so she couldmaybe have an apple whatever, you know,
and he took him to the localswim pool. So when Jordan and
Logan got home, he left Loganin his buggy and he told Laura to
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go and wake him up while shewent out. Well, he went out
to get pizza, so he left, and Laura said that as soon as
she uncovered her son, she knewhe was dead. She called an ambulance
and she tried CPR, but whenthe paramedics arrived, twenty one month old
Logan was pronounced dead Jesus Christ.So the corner ruled his death as unascertained.
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So Laura never suspected that Jordan haddone anything, and the relationship continued,
but obviously they split up at somepoint down the line for a good
But what I'd actually happened was thatJordan, who had went to the swimming
pool, he paid to get inbecause you see him on the CCTV,
so paid to get in and himand Logan went into the change in cubicles
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and they remained there for twenty sevenminutes. Logan was definitely allow before they
went into the cuble cubicle because hecould be seen on CTV like moving around
in his buggy. But when Jordanwalked out of the building twenty seven minutes
later, so the only went inthe cubicle for twenty seve minutes then came
back out, so then never actuallywent to the sum So twenty seven minutes
later, Logan it couldn't be seenin his buggy as there was a rain
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cover over it, so Jordan musthave suffocated him in the change in cubicle,
took him home and deliberately went outfor pizza so that Laura would find
her son dead. Only I meanagain difficult in that moment because it would
been a a masked panic, abit of being dead. But you would
wonder if Nill came back, wouldshe have noticed the fact that maybe you
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know, I watched beat the swimple. You your hair's wet, isn't it.
So not really depends how if wewalked back. It depends how far
you are away from the little kid'snot gonna much hair. A man's not
doesn't now much here. Remember weused to go swimming. By the time
we got back to my house,my hair was dry. But I shouldn't
have been thinking of that anyway,because she would have been totally panicked that
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her son would had died. Soin October twenty twenty one, Jordan Monahan
appeared at Pressing Crime Court. Thehandwriting experts said that the handwriting of Ewe's
suicide note was nothing like Away's writingsurprise of pus and with the other evidence,
he of course was found guilty ofmurdering twenty three year old Awe Adams.
He was also found guilty of murderinghis twenty one month old son Logan
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and his twenty four days old daughterRuby. Thirty year old Jordan was sentenced
to life imprisonment with a minimum termof forty years. AWE's family set up
a memorial garden and her daughter sitsand talks to her, and when she
sees a butterfly go passed, shetells her granddad that her mummy has just
been watching her. So basically,Jordan murdered when his relationships were ending Evie.
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He knew that Evie wanted out ofthat relationship, so he killed her.
It was like it was almost likethe typical if I can't have you,
no one can, or I'm goingto punish you for for one to
leave me by killing the kids andstuff. Well that's it. I mean,
like on the on when she wantedwhen a lot of wanted to split
up with him, he killed thekids. The kids, he killed one
kid. Then they got back together, they stayed together, but then once
it started the cracks were shown andshe wanted to split up with him again,
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he killed the other one. Honestly, that's despicable. That is absolutely
hope, never hope. He rotsome body jail, Yeah, because he
doesn't deserve to ever ever get outwith jail. And that's why I called
it the beast or blackborm because that'snot even up. I don't I wouldn't
even know what to call him actuallythat there's no words bad enough and for
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to call him what it was,I mean, that's just those poor well
poor Evie, poor children all becauseto him, people from walk because he
wanted to control or yeah, Ithink so, I think he was he
wasn't get getting what he wanted.He wanted the relationship with Evie, he
had her in a controlling relationship blahblah, but then she didn't want to
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be and that's what it's like.Well, no, you're not leaving it.
Why how dare you leave me?I'm gonna do that. You can't
leave me exactly time when Laura andthe children. I mean, I don't
know why you would take it outon the children though, I mean innocent.
I get that he's punishing her,but not the expense of his children's,
Like Jesus Christ, absolutely horrendous.There are just some really despicable people
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that walk this earth. I tellyou, definitely like humans. That are
a lot of evil human beings.The human race is despicable at times.
So I don't like people, no, same, They're just horrible. There's
a lot of nice people in theworld, but there's certainly a lot of
evil monsters in the world. Sothey definitely walk them on us. They
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divers I'm Laura and I am Angel. Welcome back. Hello everybody, thanks
for joining us once again. Yeah, here we are with another episode for
you to dive into with us.M what's it called the radio The Beast
of Blackburn? The Beast of Blackburn? Yeah, okay, are we in
Blackburn in England? Then? Yeah? Do you know where Blackburn is the
(01:42):
football team? Yes, we're inWe're in England. We're in There is
a Blackburn in Scotland somewhere. Yeah, well we're in We're in England.
Were in England? Okay? Shallwe dive in? Yeah? I was
just about to say that let's go, let's go. So Evie Adams was
unfortunately born into an abusive family innineteen ninety six, so there was neglecting,
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a lot of serious abuse factors,and her family were quite well known
for getting into trouble with the place. So she was removed and she was
placed into foster care at three yearsold. She was fostered by a lovely
family who didn't want to let hergo, and they adopted her when she
was six and they lived in Blackburnin England, so she was described as
a bit of a daredevil. Shewould sing all the time and she was
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such a happy child. She lovedher adoptive parents, Bernard and a Vaughan,
and when she was older she wouldsay that they saved her and like
where would she be without them?So yeah, you know, she's obviously
happy. We're adoptive family. Whenshe was fifteen, she got a job
in her family's pub, which hadits vantages as she used to steal beer
(02:46):
for her and her best friend Holly, and they would like get dunk and
go out shocking behavior that, butusually she used to she really she was
more a homebody. She used tolike staying at home, just chilling out
with family or her friends. Sowhen she left school, she went to
college and I'm trying to be ahairdresser. At sixteen years old, she
knew what she wanted. She wanteda house of her own, she wanted
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a family of her own. Youknow, she had it all planned it.
Yeah, exactly what she wanted.And at sixteen year old, that's
pretty impressive. That's fair enough.So she met a guy called Nathan,
and her family said that he wasa lovely lad. They were done right,
I'm run for dinner, and theyall got on really well and the
relationship seemed to be a happy one. So Avy and Nathan soon moved in
(03:28):
together. And I think Evie wasabout seventeen at this point, and everybody
had said like they were perfect foreach other. Her family hadn't been happy
at first about her moving out soyoung, because well, I think anybody
any families like that, you know, when they're moving out so young.
But as I said, they likeNathan and it was working for them.
They were independent, they were happy. Oh it was good. So her
family were proud of her. Soa couple of years later, when Avy
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was nineteen, she fell pregnant shewas so happy. She was over the
moon when she found out the babywas a girl. Her family were happy
for her and couldn't wait to welcomethe new baby to the world. But
just as Evie went into labor,a close relative died, so, as
you can imagine, when someone diesthe day a baby is born, there's
going to be mixed. Unfortunately,Evie suffered from postnatal depression and her dad
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later said that they just weren't therefor her when she needed them the most
because they were grieving for this crossmost relative. So I so Evie felt
sort of isolated and she really struggled. Like in the first few weeks of
being a new mom, Nathan wasat work all day and Evie stayed at
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home with the baby. Then whenNathan got home, he would take the
baby around to his mom's and anEvie would again stay at home. So
she spent a lot of time byherself and it started to take her on
a downward spiral, and unfortunately thisaffected her relationship with Nathan and they were
arguing a lot, and eventually theydecided to separate. So Evie's pairing and
(05:00):
gave her money so that she wouldget her own place. With the baby.
So our friend Holly said that Amydidn't want to be on her own.
She was like, she was scaredof being a single mum. Not
surprisingly, ether that's kind of quitea massive task for anybody be a single
pair a definitely. She was worriedabout money and you know, just about
being alone all the time. Soshe was She started using Tinder and she
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went on a date with twenty eightyear old Jordan Monahan, and after the
day she phoned Holly, her bestpal, and told her that the date
had gone well and Jordan seemed lovely. Holly was happy for her, but
just said just to care for takeit slow. But it wasn't long before
he was at Away's house all thetime, and he actually had a bit
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of reputation in the area, likepeople were always talking about him, like
he always had like pockets of money, Like he would stand on the pub
count and all the notes as thatto say, look at me, young
boys, the money. Yeah,I hope you will do that. There's
like that comes up my work andevery time he comes in, obviously all
paid cash, pulls out his bigwater of money and I'm like, really,
I don't care paying your four quidor whatever you're I don't need to
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see like one hundreds of thousands maybein your hands, are supposed to be
impressed by that. It's like it'salmost like, yeah, I'm like to
me, it's stupid if you're carryingabout that amount of money. As he
comes in drunk quite a bit aswell at night thing because he goes across
the pub across the road and you'llcome in and you know, you always
had a few. So sometimes I'mlike, what if you get that drunk
and you could lose your money.Somebody can see you as an easy target.
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Always had a drink because everybody knowseverybody in the village. So it's
like, why would you be sosilly as to walk around with big wads
of money in your Yeah, Imean I just wouldn't be so silly.
Well, he was like that.He was like, yeah, look at
me, I'm loaded. You know. His brother was the same. So
he had a few businesses and hisbrother had a construction business. They were
put down like paving and driveways.But it didn't suitaly make much sense,
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like how he had that much money, Like that kind of money didn't just
come from doing the construction one whereelse did they ear his money? But
I don't know. I don't thinkyou'll ever find out. I'm not You
can assume, but there's no pointassume it was. Actually, we don't
know they had money, and hewas a twitter about it. And so
Jordan seemed besotted with Evie, likehe would spend loads of money on her.
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He could do what like, whateverhe could, He would do whatever
he could to make her happy,and he was charming, and she just
didn't want to hear what anyone elsehad to say about um. She was
happy with um he was. Itwas good to her and that's all that
mattered. Yeah, sometimes, Imean I agree that you have to be
like that because you can always havepeople's opinions about people, and yeah,
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if you listen to it too much, it can affect it. I do
think you have to make up yourown many I think so. Yeah,
Like I mean, I mean,at that moment, she was obviously very
happy and and very happy with thethings were going. I mean, you
know it sounds all right. Yeah, he wasn't doing anything to her,
I think, like to me,yeah, that's the way you have to
learn. You can't just listen toother people. I mean, for instance,
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when I first started seeing John,so called friend of mine said,
oh, um told me stuff likeoh he's a drug he does this,
he does that, and it wastotally untrue, and oh he's just he's
not in you. Or I can'tremember what else she said, but like
here we are, like twenty oldyears later. Yeah, probably never seen
him touch a drugging the time I'vebeen with only she's got these smokes.
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So I think, yeah, Ithink I don't know, she was just
jealous and didn't want me getting ina relationship with him, or I have
no idea, I don't know,but yeah, sometimes I can understand why
she didn't want to listen, becauseit can work out perfectly fine. I
mean, unfortunately, I'm going toassume in this instance, maybe he's a
bad egg. He is a badegg. But unfortunately, you know,
you got you try to give peoplethe benefit of the doubt, and you
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know, and so anyway, soit was well known in the community as
somebody that you didn't really want tobe with. He was about notorious in
the area that he lived in.Aby's parents didn't know who he was.
They had they hadn't heard of himbut when they asked other people about him,
they would just be told that itwas a bad un and that was
like no explanation, just that itwas a bad un. See. I
always think, well, if you'regoing to call something that, can you
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back up give me something something liketo go on there, because that could
mean that you just maybe you justdon't like him, or I don't know,
maybe he's just or that could belike something that's started off was like
this guy has done one bad thingand it's just kind of like Chinese whispers
kind of it's kind of spiled intoall he's a bad un, but in
this case it is yeah, yeah, So Holly, he was best friend,
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said that she said that she thoughtthere was something about him that was
off. She did try to explainit to Evie what she thought of Jordan,
but she didn't want to know ifshe was smitting with them, and
just as I said before, shedidn't want to hear any bad stuff about
him. According to his ex partner, she had found out that Jordan and
had a gambling addiction when they weretogether. So maybe that's where the words
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are money out gambling and winning winningbig one, but you never win all
the time, so you certainly losea lot. One of the local pub
owners said that he saw Georgian puttingmaybe four hundred or five hundred quid in
the bandit machines and one night,so as you can imagine, him and
these ex regularly argued about money andgambling. So Avie's parents heard about the
(10:24):
gambling and they thought they thought thatwas bad enough, because like they're like,
no, that's that's not a goodthing to have, you know,
have a gambling addiction. But thenthey heard a rumor about a man who
murdered his children. Oh, yes, Jordan had had two children, well
these x and they had both died. So Jordan was under investigation as both
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of the children had died when theywere in his care. So one night,
we'll can and we'll get onto thatlater, like in detail. So
one night, Ivie and Jordan werein the pub with Holly and someone walked
up to Jordan and glassed him righthind the glass him in the face,
and Holly had said to Evie,well who was that, and he was
like, oh, that was Jordan'sex's cousin, right, So of course
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Holly asked why he was being glassand Evie said that she didn't know,
but Holly found out later it wasactually the children's mum's cousin because Hollywood just
Evie had said it was just orjust an X. His cousin didn't know
which X. Yeah, but itwas the mum's cousin. So Evie downplayed
it by just saying it's just whenit was X. When it was actually
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the mother. It was children's cousinthat he was under suspicion of killing,
so that kind of makes it.Yeah, I didn't understand why he's done
that then. Yeah. So whenhe's parents asked her about this rumor that
Jordan had killed his children, shewas like, oh, how everyone says
that I'm about him. They've gothim wrong, like if he had done
it, he would be in prisonor whatever, you know, which I'm
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thinking, yeah, but I mean, you don't have to guess. It's
all going to come out. SoI know what you're like when I'm telling
you these cases, you're always herreal brains were in there trying you league
think, well, what's happened?Who did that? I'm trying, like
first story before, yeah, um, so by January twenty and eighteen,
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I don't understand Sirey seriously watched.Yeah, I've had to unplug my Alexa
because of that. We'll have unplugyour watch. Um So. By January
twenty and eighteen, Jordan and Eviewere getting closer, but she was becoming
more distant with her family and friends. Her family noticed that she had changed.
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She was being secretive and lying aboutthings. Her dad said that she
lied so much that I just gotto the point where he just didn't believe
a word that was coming out ofher mouth. And like before, Jordan
and Evie and Holly were so closethat they were like sisters, but now
Hollywood only. Evie would only phoneHollywood. She was at her parents' house,
so it was obviously herm you know, yeah, yeah, friends and
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family. Doctor Jessica Taylor, who'sa forensic psychologist said, quote at this
point, Away is probably getting moreand more isolated because she has seen to
be worn voluntarily in this relationship withsomebody who is being excluded from community and
society because he's suspected of murdering children. End quote. So you know,
you've got these rumors going about she'sin this relationship with him, so it's
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going to affect her as well,people aren't going to wat speak to her
and all the rest of it.That kind of guilty by association kind of
thing, isn't it. So,as I said, he was under investigation,
and in January twenty eighteen, Jordanwas arrested on suspicion of the murder
of his two children, but unfortunately, without enough evidence to charge him,
he was released on bail as thepolice continued to investigate the deaths of the
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children. So the police did Warrenaway. They they went to her house
and told her, look, youand your child are at risk, but
for whatever reasons, she chose toignore the warning, and the police were
so concerned that they actually I don'tknow where the tooker, but the tooker
to place of safety and told her, look, you're not safe with this
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man. And they were actually restrainingorders issued to keep Jordan away from Ewe,
even though Ewie didn't want the restrainingorders. But the police were that
concerned about her that they were puttingrestructors restraining orders in the place. But
she coun't keep away from him.She didn't want to. And other people
noticed the unusual dynamic between them,like Holly said, the Awe wouldn't get
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up and dance like it like usuallyshe would get you know, bit of
life and sold the parish we havedancing on the night out, but of
Jordan, as they are, shewouldn't get up and dance. She had
to be by his side the wholenight. And even the bar staff at
their local noticed that Evie wasn't allowedto do anything like she can go off
and dance or go and chat toother people. So it's the point much
sitting there. She had to beby Jordan's side the whole time. Rubbish.
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So Holly said that Jordan had gonefrom this charman I'll do anything for
you kind of person too, You'lldo anything I tell you do and you'll
like it kind of person. Sobefore they has been really nice and kind,
but now he was always angry andhe was alway shouting at Eva.
But as Holly said, quote,it was too late for her. She
was already in love with him endquote. So in January twenty nineteen,
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police again attempted to help away.There was a restraining order in place at
this time and Jordan. Sorry,the police stopped Jordan in the car.
I don't know why it was stopped, but he had eway in the passenger
state and when the police asked whoshe was, he said, Oh,
that's just some bird that I've justmet. Really, but they knew she
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was, Like, maybe that's whyhe was stopped in the first place.
We saw saw him with a girl. I don't know, but he was
actually charged with the breach of therestraining order and they got a twelve week
suspended sentence for it, and thatactually triggered another intervention from Social services.
This time, so they've visited herhouse and basically told her that she had
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to keep Jordan away from her daughter. So by this time Away's parents were
just so worried and wanted her awayfrom him. So they said to her,
why don't you just move to anothertown, don't tell anyone where you
are, will come over every day, like we'll support you, you won't
be alone. But Evie just wouldn'tdo it. She just so she was
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just staying with him. So acouple of weeks later, our EWE phone
Tolly and said, I've just lostmy child. Social Services had taken her
daughter off her because when they visited, Jordan was there. Yeah, so
Away's daughter went to stay at herparents' house. And Aby went was allowed
to supervise visit with her daughter twicea week, but when she showed up
like she would have like bruises onher arms and when asked where they came
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from, she would say that shefell, and obviously, fine, well
what's happening. Yeah, so therewere financial pressures on the relationship as well.
So one night Ewe's dad, hehad went to the pub and his
friend told him that Jordan I hadbeen sacked from his job because people had
been phone in the company that heworked for saying that he was a murderer.
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So they well, they said forwere there for his own safety.
They let him go, but I'mthinking it was probably for their own safety.
They're thinking the probably their reputation damagedas well. Yeah. So Abe
wasn't paying her rent and she wasevicted and ended up in a homeless shelter.
Are you gonna start choking? Okay, that's what you get for taking
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a drink if fizzy juice when we'retrying to record a podcast, just as
well as my episode. Didn't knowyou were. Yeah, so she Abe
it ended up in a homeless shelter. So but at this point she did
she tried to get away from Jordan, and she wanted her daughter back,
so she moved fifty miles away towomen's refuge. But he wasn't given up
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without a fight. He found whereshe was by tracking her phone, and
he would follow her, um,like fifty miles away. He would traveling.
He would wait till she was eatinga boot because when and refuges,
they're usually like nobody knows where theyare. He must have just known the
area that she was in and he'slike waiting for her and followed her.
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And she's been out and about umand like Holly, Holly, she told
Holly and Holly so like phoned thepolice, but a said that she didn't
want to take it that far.So Jordan accused Holly of being with other
men because that's the only reason thathe could understand why she didn't want to
be with him. He couldn't understandit was because he was abusive and he
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was gambling and whatever else. Itwas because she was what other men.
So basically he was trying to makeit like it was her fun exactly,
just his fault. He just wouldn'ttake blame for his art. He just
couldn't understand why why do you notwant to be with me? You must
be with other men? Then it'skind of obvious. Yeah, but she
was adding much she wasn't going backto him. So one day the police
were called as he was standing ona rooftop and pressed in threatening to jump
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because Evie wouldn't have anything to dowith him. And it's not only that
tactic worked so and she went backto him. So whether that was when
I'm feeling guilty or if she thoughthe really did love her and could change,
I don't. I don't know.But of course the relationship just went
back to the way it had beenbefore. Jordan was controlling Evie and isolating
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her from the outside world. Hewould use her childhood like from before being
fostered, to completely undermine her,undermine her celfics, undermine herself esteem,
saying things like you'd never be worthanything because of what happened to you when
you were younger, and you mightas well be wead because nobody else will
have yet things like that, andshe had gone from a happy, bubbly
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person to a lost soul, asHolly described her as a loss soul.
Seriously, you're gonna start how we'rechalking a bit trying not to. I'm
just gonna put my hand over hermouth in a minute so she'd be She
had beaten being beaten down so muchthat she just wasn't Evie anymore. On
the elevenths of October twenty nineteen,Evie and Jordan went for a weekend away
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to Blackpool with their friends Kimberly Edwardsand Jamie Rashid. Unfortunately, though Jordan
became aggressive, he was argumented toand punched a wall and was obviously just
been a complete our dickhead. Soundslike Kimberly saw no Sorry. Kimberly and
Jamie saw Jordan given erie tablets outof a brown glass bottle, saying they
were pain killers. But they thoughtit was a bit odd because tablets don't
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come in those bottles anymore, likewe get them unlike the blister placks.
Now when did when did we inthe UK? When did we used to
get I think it a long longtime the blister packs? Yeah, so
yeah, that was a bit strange, humpain killers in a brown glass ball.
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I hated that I could never getthem open the child blocks. So
when's she got? When they gotback from Blackpool, Evie ended the relationship
and she began looking for a friend, a friend, No, she began
looking for a flat to rent andblackburn. But they get they got back
together and must have been staying togetherat this point. They must have been
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they must find somebody to live intheir emin same place. Jordan joined a
WhatsApp group called UK Tablets and hewas asking for Gaba, Penton Zone and
I as a pattern. So thesetablets can be used for pain relief,
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but in large doses they can beextremely dangerous, like changing people's behaviors.
They resolved their determination, their wholecharacters within a couple of days. Evie
wasn't feeling very well and she didn'teven feel well enough to leave the house,
which is what Jordan wanted in thehouse. Stuck in the house,
Yeah, exactly, the tablets.Yeah, so like she can see other
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people she was with him. That'sthat's where he wanted her. So Evie's
family were really worried, and shetold her dad that she was feeling really
sick and that she'd looked up hersymptoms online and she thought that she had
stomach flue. So her dad said, right, well, I'll come and
get you and I'll take you atthe doctors, but he was like,
no, no, it's fine,I've already made an appointment. So um,
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so she texted Jordan's saying I feellike I'm dying and he exphoned the
doctor surgery made her and made anappointment for her, but Jordan said that
he couldn't take her to the appointment, so she didn't go so her dad
could take me. The following day, the twenty first of October twenty nineteen,
Jordan called one one one, whichis the non emergency medical help line,
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and told him that's Evie had beenvomiting and feeling dizzy for her four
days and an appointment was made forit to see a doctor, but again
she didn't turn up and they werealso return calls from the one one one
service, but they were ignored neverpicked up. So then the following day,
Evie text her friends saying, Jordankeeps stressing, but he won't let
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me see a doctor. But funnilyenough, Jordan actually phoned one one one
again after that, so I thinkhe's seen her phone and saying that's seen
that She's telling her friends that he'snot helping her, so he's like,
oh, okay, So he phonedone on one again and told him that
Evie was having an abdominal pain,but yet two return calls were ignored,
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so he wasn't letting her see adoctor. But as soon as she told
anyone, as soon as she toldanyone that and explained how else she was,
he turned into the loving boyfriend,saying, I'll sort of I'll call
the doctor so that no one elsewould do it for her, So she
wasn't actually getting daughter. She stillnot going to see her freaking doctor.
Or their friends don't think just seeingthe doctor. Well, maybe they decided
maybe she's saying, oh, it'sfine, Jordan's going to take me,
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so they're maybe thinking that she isseeing a doctor. So poor Evie,
she was deteriorating and Jordan was givenher given her tabs that he said would
help her, so she thought thathe was helping her, but she was
just feeling worse and worse, soshe must have been absolutely terrified. Wonder
what's happening to her? And whenEvie missed her daughter, was it with
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her daughter? That's when her parentsknew she must be seriously help because she'd
never miss an appointment were daughter,So the forensic psychologist Jessica Taylor. She
said, quote the state that Eviewould have been in because of the amount
of sedative drug that she's been given, it's likely that she wouldn't have known
what she was taken or how manyshe'd taken in a day and quote,
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so he would have been given hergod knows what and she wouldn't have known
any different by this point. Butthen Evie's mum got a text saying that
m from Evie saying that she'd leftstuff outside her front door. So her
remembers really happy because she's like,oh, Evie must be feeling better because
she's out of the house. Idon't know what, but I'm kind of
confused as to why she would texther say she'd left outside the front door.
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Why would she just not knock onthe front door. Or maybe she
wasn't because she only had supervisors,it were her daughter at certain times that
would seem okay for her just toknock on the door because it was not
a supervised time. I don't know, maybe, and so she's like,
yeah, she lifts uf outside thefront door. So she went and had
a look and it was a wickerbasket, had bits of pieces for her
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daughter, like color and stuff andlittle toys and stuff like that for her
door. But what they didn't knowuntil later because they assumed that that Evie
had done that her. But whatthey didn't know until later when they checked
the CCTV, it wasn't Evie whohad left the basket. It was a
girl that they didn't even recognize.So when they realized that wasn't Away who,
they must have realized that wasn't eventheir text because the texts that said
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that she herself had dropped it off. So they're like, what the hell,
what's going on? But at thetime, this was obviously just something
Jordan planned to keep Evie isolated.So he because I said, they didn't
find out till later that it wasn'tEvie. So while he was isolated in
the house, they're thinking, oh, she's all right shouting about and she's
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texting us, and yes, soshe was, so Jordan, you knew
what I was doing totally, andyou know, so that her parents won't
be worrying about in her county checkon her. So that's obviously what he
was doing. So Holly hadn't spokenAwe for about two months. I mean,
this is her best friend who waslike a sister here. She tried
to call her one day, butshe didn't answer. Evie then text her
and said she couldn't talk right nowand she would phone her when she was
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at her parents' house, but thatphone call never came. My chair keep
squeaking. Let's sit forward. Inten days since Ewe first said that she
was feeling ill, she hadn't seenher doctor, and during this time she
had unknowingly taken a combination of prescriptiondrugs as we know, given to her
by Jordan. And when she sentJordan that message saying that she felt like
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she was dying, she didn't knowthat the purpose of those drugs was to
suppress her system. So her heartrate was probably really low and her breath
and would have slowed down, soshe really would have felt like she was
dying as everything I was shutting down. Wow, So you know what you
say to somebody else feels like I'mdying, she actually was. That's horrible.
So on the twenty fourth of Octobertwenty nineteen, whilst it worked,
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Jordan got a text message from Ewesaying, quote, I've taken the drugs
and I don't want to be anybe here anymore, and I don't want
help end quote. So he calledhis aunt and asked her asked her to
go around to the house to checkon Awe, and his aunt went called
an ambulance. So Jordan arrived shortlyafter and placing the paramedics where they are,
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and he was putting on the actof the devastated boyfriend by crying in
front of them. He handed overthe blister packs of the medication. He
thought that should all look, here'sthis is what she's probably taken. Well.
Of course he didn't tell him wasthat he had taken Evie's phone to
work with him, and that textsand texts that message from her phone to
hisself. Yeah. So that night, at ten past ten, a police
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sergeant knocked at Erie's parents door andtold them the Ewe had taken her own
life. But our family and friendsstruggled to understand what had happened. They
said there was no way that shewould have left her daughter, and they
just knew that in some way Jordanwas to blame. So despite initial evidence
suggesting suicide, just after just twentyfour hours police were sure that Evie hadn't
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taken her own life and that shehad been murdered. Of course, Jordan
is the private suspect, but thepolice had no evidence to charge him.
So as the police we're trying topiece together what had happened to Evie.
Jordan was back to his own ways. He was like drinking, gambling down
the local path. Had happened.Yeah, he made new friends after Evie's
death, and he acted like thegrieving partner, you know, told them
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how Evie hadn't been well and thatshe'd taken her own life. And you
know, of course they were givenhim sympathy because yeah, imagine somebody saying,
home, my girlfriend took her ownlife. I mean, of course
you believe that. Yes, Buteven in our death, he was like
trying to control what happened to Evie. He tried to stop her family making
funeral arrangements. How well. Idon't know the ins and outs of it,
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but he went to a solicitor,and because he was waiting for certain
decisions to be made, they couldn'thave the funeral till a month later.
No idea they should have had,no saying that whatsoever. They weren't married,
No boyfriend and girlfriend that gives youno rights. They don't have kids
together anything, so so I don'tknow how that how much to do that.
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But then he threatened to turn upat the funeral and fireball in the
place. And what you're saying,like you're letting on that you're the graving
boyfriend. Why so why have youturned and said that you're going to fireball
in the place. I like,surely you would be wanting to attend and
pay your respects to your girlfriend thathas just crested suicide, and you were
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very upset about it. Partly soAway's family actually had her body moved to
a different town because they were scaredthat he would break into it. I
don't know, I don't know whereto keep a body till the few and
to the keeper in the mor orin the funeral home or wherever I think
they kept on. Once they movedto the funeral homes, then it's well
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wherever she was anyway, wherever wherevershe was being our body was being kept.
They were scared that he was goingto turn up and do something to
her body, um, you know, like maybe steal it or something.
So um, so imagine how todo that. That's absolutely awful. Our
family were determined to keep Jordan awayfrom the funeral, so he he asked
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a mutual friend if they would puta photo in Ewe's coffin. So the
friend was like, right, okay, and went over to Jordan's house to
get the photo. But when Jordanpicked up the frame, because the photo
that he wanted to put in itwas in a frame, so he picked
up the frame to take the photoout of it, and a suicide note
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just popped out of this frame.Like what a coincident? Yeah? And
I know, I know this seemsa bit strange anyway, I mean,
why would ebe have hidden a suicidenote in a photo frame? But that's
not the strangest part. Why wouldshe hide it in a frame at Jordan's
parents' house. Oh yeah, I'mjust gonna say, not even at her
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house or where she was living withDarda. She wasn't even at these parents'
house as far as we're aware here, So why would she have done it
there? You would have more senseto find a photo at her own house.
But I said that that's just ridiculous. I wou'd even believe that.
So Dardoud obviously set this all upto look to be like, oh,
look, I didn't know that wasthere, But why was it not in
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his house like her house? Likeit doesn't make sense a suicide note were
his parents' house? Just absolutely ridiculous. So handwriting experts were brought in to
try and make sense of this newevidence. Well, Aby's funeral went ahead.
The police guarded the funeral and theweek afterwards to make sure that Jordan
didn't turn up. But I'm like, I see, this is what I'm
getting. Like, if if youkilled her and you're trying act like she's
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committed suicide, why are you causingall this hasshole? Why we're not acting
like the devastated boyfriend? Yeah,like be quiet, quiet, But I
really just seems to be getting it, and it was faces and like doing
the whole suicide though, that's justnor more attention to the fact that actually
you're the one who's killed her,when if you know you want to get
away with it, then you're obviouslydo the grieve with boyfriend of Its just
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it's just an arshold. Totally stupidarshold, like that very much. Um
So, then Eri's tox echology reportcame back and there was concerns about the
level of drugs in our system.So the report stated that the opiate levels
and Erie's blood were the equivalent oftaking twenty traumadol and basically so basically obviously
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people, I mean, I don'tknow about things like that. So if
anyone took more than two traumadol youwould feel unwell, that's how strong they
are. So in her blood itwas the equivalent of taking twenty traml So
now they know what I'd caused.He was death, but they still needed
to find proof of who had causedit. Jordan's set up a company in
Ewe's name, which apparently he usedto rip people off um like obviously,
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nobody knew it at the time,but his new friends said that he always
had wads of cash in his pocketsand he was always offering them alone and
money if they needed it, andthey were like always a great guys,
always up for a drink and alaugh and not playing the graven boyfriend.
One day in August twenty twenty,the police visited one of his friends.
Her name is Sue. This isone of the new friends that he'd made
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since Amy's death. They told herto make sure that she didn't let him
near any children, and she wasabsolutely shocked by it that She's like,
why, what's going on? Andthey're like, well, don't, like,
do you know about Jordan's children,And she's like, well, yeah,
I had two children and they diedabout six years ago, and he
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had told her that it was agenetic condition that they had died from,
so she had no reason not tobelieve it. I mean that it could
be believable exactly. So you know, you can see why people who didn't
know him wouldn't have been suspicious ofhim if he was telling that his children
had died from a genetic condition sixyears ago, and then his partner took
her own life recently. You did, you did? You would take it
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for what it is value, Butokay, if that's so sad tragic,
Yeah, these things happen, exactly, I mean, unfortunately, so police
were closing in. Detective got twelveexperts from a wide range of disciplines to
look not just Arie's death, butalso the death of Jordan's two children.
So nearly a year after Evie packEwe passed, police had a major breakthrough.
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They had examined Jordan's phone and managedto get to all the deleted stuff
and found the WhatsApp group and hismessages to them. So they've seen like
the drugs that he's ordered match upwith the drugs that are in Erie's system.
So it was always, you know, it was obviously what happened.
He started to prove it obviously.Well, Jordan was arrested, it was
re arrested in January twenty twenty one, and he was charged with Erie's death
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and also the deaths of his twochildren. Now I don't actually know how
they figured out how, like howwe killed the children. I don't know.
As I said, like the caseI was reading about was mainly about
away, so but I will tellyou what happened to them. So just
to trigger warning that the next bitis about baby's death. So if anybody
doesn't want to listen to that,you know, I'll skip forward a bit.
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Totally understandable. So Jordan's started seeinga girl called Laura Gray and tooth
it back in two thousand and eight. So Laura was actually friends with Jordan's
sister, so they known each othersince we're kids, and Laura had always
had a massive crush on him.Jordan proposed to her when she was sixteen.
He got a job in construction,she got a job at a care
home, and everything was all good. They were gonna get married, have
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kids, live happily ever after.On the eleventh of November two thousand and
eleven, their son, Logan wasborn, and Laura had everynchour borried so
love being a mom who had thisbeautiful little boy, and Jordan appeared to
be a dote and dad so a. Laura described low Logan as her dream
child. He was perfect, hewas happy, There was no concerns whatsoever
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about his health, and from theoutside there were, you know, a
happy little family, but behind closeddoors, the issue of money was causing
cracks in the relationship. Then Laurafell pregnant again, and shortly after she
found out about the gambling and thathe hadn't been paying the rent. So
that's when she was like, right, relationships over, we're done. But
on that same day she'd told himthat they were done. But that's this
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was the twenty third of September twentytwelve. Logan was rushed to hospital,
so he would have been about tenmonths old, and Jordan told the doctors
that a packet of parasatim will hadbeen left near him and he had eaten
them. But when Logan was checkedover, there was no overdose, so
I think Jordan must have just donethat to give Laura a scare so that
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she wouldn't leave him, and shedidn't, so it worked. So their
daughter, Ruby was born on theeighth of December twenty twelve, and on
the twenty eighth of December, solike twenty days later, Laura was upstairs
and Jordan's screamed for her to comedownstairs. He had Ruby in his arms
and she was completely lifeless, soLaura called an ambulance and Ruby was rushed
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to hospital. So she was keptdown for three days under observa under observation,
and then she was released on NewYear's Eve, and it wasn't known
what had caused Ruby's breathing to berestricted, so that night the couple saw
in the New Year together. Thenjust after midnight, Laura went to bed
and Jordan's said that he would stayup to give Ruby or two am bottle.
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But later Laura was woken up byscreams coming from Jordan downstairs because Ruby
wasn't breathing, so she was againrushed to hospital, but at just twenty
four days old, she was pronounceddead for arrival. God, oh that's
awful. So a routine police investigationdid follow, which meant that both Laura
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and Jordan were inter viewed, butRuby's death was ruled as natural causes,
being acute bronchial pneumonia or bronchiad.I'm not quick sure how you pronounced that,
but what had in fact happened,as it was found out later in
court, was that Jordan had heldhis hand over Ruby's mouth and pinched her
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nose until she stopped breathing, butthat wasn't found out till always six,
seven years later or whatever, soyou know, obviously this after she died
it was natural causes. So afterRuby's death, the couple became closer and
stronger, and Laura became more andmore reliant on Jordan, but that one
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lasted for a little while because themoney issues again started causing problems in their
relationship. She found out that againhe hadn't been paying the rent aid her
a separ he had a separate bankaccount that she didn't know about. There
was just like loads of unpaid bills, so again she told him their relationships
over, but I'm assuming Nus stayedin the same how because of what happened
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the next day. So that wasthe sixteen of the August twenty thirteen,
and the next day she wasn't feelingvery well, so she asked Jordan to
take Logan out just so she couldmaybe have an apple whatever, you know,
and he took him to the localswim pool. So when Jordan and
Logan got home, he left Loganin his buggy and he told Laura to
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go and wake him up while shewent out. Well, he went out
to get pizza, so he left, and Laura said that as soon as
she uncovered her son, she knewhe was dead. She called an ambulance
and she tried CPR, but whenthe paramedics arrived, twenty one month old
Logan was pronounced dead Jesus Christ.So the corner ruled his death as unascertained.
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So Laura never suspected that Jordan haddone anything, and the relationship continued,
but obviously they split up at somepoint down the line for a good
But what I'd actually happened was thatJordan, who had went to the swimming
pool, he paid to get inbecause you see him on the CCTV,
so paid to get in and himand Logan went into the change in cubicles
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and they remained there for twenty sevenminutes. Logan was definitely allow before they
went into the cuble cubicle because hecould be seen on CTV like moving around
in his buggy. But when Jordanwalked out of the building twenty seven minutes
later, so the only went inthe cubicle for twenty seve minutes then came
back out, so then never actuallywent to the sum So twenty seven minutes
later, Logan it couldn't be seenin his buggy as there was a rain
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cover over it, so Jordan musthave suffocated him in the change in cubicle,
took him home and deliberately went outfor pizza so that Laura would find
her son dead. Only I meanagain difficult in that moment because it would
been a a masked panic, abit of being dead. But you would
wonder if Nill came back, wouldshe have noticed the fact that maybe you
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know, I watched beat the swimple. You your hair's wet, isn't it.
So not really depends how if wewalked back. It depends how far
you are away from the little kid'snot gonna much hair. A man's not
doesn't now much here. Remember weused to go swimming. By the time
we got back to my house,my hair was dry. But I shouldn't
have been thinking of that anyway,because she would have been totally panicked that
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her son would had died. Soin October twenty twenty one, Jordan Monahan
appeared at Pressing Crime Court. Thehandwriting experts said that the handwriting of Ewe's
suicide note was nothing like Away's writingsurprise of pus and with the other evidence,
he of course was found guilty ofmurdering twenty three year old Awe Adams.
He was also found guilty of murderinghis twenty one month old son Logan
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and his twenty four days old daughterRuby. Thirty year old Jordan was sentenced
to life imprisonment with a minimum termof forty years. AWE's family set up
a memorial garden and her daughter sitsand talks to her, and when she
sees a butterfly go passed, shetells her granddad that her mummy has just
been watching her. So basically,Jordan murdered when his relationships were ending Evie.
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He knew that Evie wanted out ofthat relationship, so he killed her.
It was like it was almost likethe typical if I can't have you,
no one can, or I'm goingto punish you for for one to
leave me by killing the kids andstuff. Well that's it. I mean,
like on the on when she wantedwhen a lot of wanted to split
up with him, he killed thekids. The kids, he killed one
kid. Then they got back together, they stayed together, but then once
it started the cracks were shown andshe wanted to split up with him again,
(42:30):
he killed the other one. Honestly, that's despicable. That is absolutely
hope, never hope. He rotsome body jail, Yeah, because he
doesn't deserve to ever ever get outwith jail. And that's why I called
it the beast or blackborm because that'snot even up. I don't I wouldn't
even know what to call him actuallythat there's no words bad enough and for
(42:52):
to call him what it was,I mean, that's just those poor well
poor Evie, poor children all becauseto him, people from walk because he
wanted to control or yeah, Ithink so, I think he was he
wasn't get getting what he wanted.He wanted the relationship with Evie, he
had her in a controlling relationship blahblah, but then she didn't want to
(43:13):
be and that's what it's like.Well, no, you're not leaving it.
Why how dare you leave me?I'm gonna do that. You can't
leave me exactly time when Laura andthe children. I mean, I don't
know why you would take it outon the children though, I mean innocent.
I get that he's punishing her,but not the expense of his children's,
Like Jesus Christ, absolutely horrendous.There are just some really despicable people
(43:37):
that walk this earth. I tellyou, definitely like humans. That are
a lot of evil human beings.The human race is despicable at times.
So I don't like people, no, same, They're just horrible. There's
a lot of nice people in theworld, but there's certainly a lot of
evil monsters in the world. Sothey definitely walk them on us. They
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