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Death?[edit]

how did he died?

I am not sure. All of the links on the page were dead. I have added the ones I have, and am trying to find the newspapers that I have listed on line but no success. Microfiche, I guess. LLD-MA (talk) 00:19, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Description of deaths not correct?[edit]

Commenting on the article as of July 20, 2008. I followed this case as it was reported in The Vancouver Sun local newspaper and as I remember Jordan's modus operandi was to entice his victims to (effectively) kill themselves by alcohol poisoning by offering them money if they would drink a whole bottle of hard liquor (whiskey?) at one go. He didn't (as I remember the reporting) pour alcohol down their throats after they were unconscious -- at least this is known from the surveillance of his last attempt. Perhaps there were some women that did not take his offer that testified to his methods. And he was convicted of manslaughter (or maybe "depraved indifference to human life"), not murder, and sentenced to twelve years which was reduced on appeal -- he had money for lawyers -- and he served only six years in prison. Additionally, what is especially striking about this case (as I remember) is that Jordan reported these deaths to the police over the years, starting from 1965 -- i.e. "I was drinking with this women and she downed a whole bottle in front of me." With manual filing methods and the nature of the victims no one twigged to this for a long time, but I think that someone in the police department eventually noticed that the same guy had reported eight or nine deaths of women by alcohol poisoning in his company. I don't think that Jordan would have reported all these deaths if he had an active physical role in causing them. 137.82.188.68 (talk) 01:19, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have similar questions. According to some reports, not all the women were a) prostitutes, and b) not all were known to be drinkers, certainly not all were alholics. That is why he was investigated, actually. LLD-MA (talk) 00:24, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have updated this page, removed the dead links and used the court cases wherever possible to rectify the questions about the manner of death. Some of the citations needed were on those broken links, I know. I will try to find duplicate newspaper articles which says the same thing but couldn't find them now. Marriedtoaviking (talk) 22:49, 10 January 2010 (UTC)marriedtoavikingMarriedtoaviking (talk) 22:49, 10 January 2010 (UTC) 10 January 2010[reply]

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I have added the infobox and photo, as was requested. I forgot to add that in the summary as I had so much trouble getting the coding to work.LLD-MA (talk) 17:30, 11 January 2010 (UTC)LLD-MALLD-MA (talk) 17:30, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I was looking at http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2007/12/12/a-sordid-history-of-canadian-killers.aspx and saw that Wayback Machine states "This URL [meaning http://network.nationalpost.com/*] has been excluded from the Wayback Machine." Check back on https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2007/12/12/a-sordid-history-of-canadian-killers.aspx in a year or 20 years or something to see if it has been un-excluded. I saved http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2007/12/12/a-sordid-history-of-canadian-killers.aspx via https://web.archive.org/save/ and it stated that it wasn't the first time that URL was archived, so maybe it was archived in 2007-2009. http://www.saanichpolice.ca/crimewatch/media/archives/notificationjordan.htm was first archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20110706203255/http://www.saanichpolice.ca/crimewatch/media/archives/notificationjordan.htm, but the page basically only says "404". However, there may still be hope, for it says "media/archives"; this implies that notificationjordan.htm may have been somewhere else on the website before being put in the archives directory. Ha!! I was right; it's archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20050302014727/http://www.saanichpolice.ca/crimewatch/media/notificationjordan.htm (found via a search of "notificationjordan.htm" at https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.saanichpolice.ca/*). Also, it is interesting that Gilbert Paul Jordan (https://archive.org/details/arsenicmilkshake00barr?q=%22Alcohol+as+a+murder+weapon%22) used alcohol to intentionally murder one or more people. Has anyone else done that? Other things used as murder weapons: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=500&offset=0&profile=default&search=%22As+a+murder+weapon%22&advancedSearch-current={}&ns0=1 & https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22As+a+murder+weapon%22&sin=TXT --User123o987name (talk) 09:06, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]