By John David Hernandez
Gilbert Paul Jordan a unique serial killer instead of using knifes, guns or blunt objects he had a different way of killing his victims, Alcohol. Jordan wasn't shy to crime he had been convicted of dunk driving, car theft, hit and run, rape, and abduction. Jordan was also an alcoholic know to drink 50 ounces of vodka each day.
Jordan has been connected to at least ten murders. He would encourage his victims to drink with him and when they pass out he will force alcohol down there mouth. His alleged first victim is Ivy Rose, She was found naked in a Vancouver hotel in 1965 with a blood alcohol level of 0.51. Form the 1980 to 1987 he claimed 7 more victims. The victims include Marry Johnson , Barbara Paul, Mary Johns, Patricia Thomas, Patricia Andrew, Vera Harry, Vanessa Lee Buckner. Three of theses victims were found in his barber shop. A mouth after Vanessa Lee Bucker was found dead another victim was found with his finger prints.
After being apprehend for questioning for the death of Vanessa Buckner the police kept him under surveillance from October 12 to November 26, 1987. In doing this the police managed to save 4 women from becoming his next victims, these women were Rosemary Wilson, Verna Chartrand, Sheila Joe, Mable Jordon. In 1988 Gilbert Jordan was tired before a Judge and was found guilty to manslaughter for the death of Vanessa Bucker and was sentence to fifteen years in prison but it got reduce to nine years but in the end he only served six.
After he was release he was put on probation but this wasn't the last he was in trouble for the law. In 2000 he was arrested for sexual assault and arrested again in 2002 for violating his probation by drinking in the presence of a woman and was sentence to fifteen months and three years of probation. In August 11, 2004 he was arrested in Winnipeg after being identified for binge drinking with Barb Burkley. Barb Burkley was a long term resident of hotel and was a heavy drinker. Burkley was taken to the hospital after found by Cathy Waddington. Waddington Identified Jordan and was arrested but was later acquitted of the charges. But after releasing him the police issued a public warning for Jordan. In 2006 he die of unknown cause.
But he left a cultural impact, in the 1997 episode of Exhibit A: The Secret of Forensic Science they describe the forensic work they use to convict him. A play writer by the name of Marie Clements wrote a play call The Unnatural and Accidental Women which was later turn into a movie Unnatural and Accidental the play focus on the on the victims. Jordan also inspire the first couple of episode of Da Vinci's Inquest in which there was a serial killer stalking prostitutes and killing them with alcohol. Gilbert Paul Jordon is a less know serial killer but is as a unique one too.
Editor's note: this piece ran in Serial Killer Magazine and is published as the author wrote it, spelling and grammar included, with the manuscript's single long block broken into paragraphs and no word changed. The victim's surname is Buckner and appears three ways in the original. Against this archive's roster entry for him, two things need saying. Jordan was charged only once. He was convicted of manslaughter in 1988 over the death of Vanessa Lee Buckner, sentenced to fifteen years, reduced to nine on appeal, and released in 1994 after six. The roster carries eight to ten deaths connected to him, and every one of them except Buckner's rests on the pattern rather than on a verdict. The article's phrase "he claimed 7 more victims" should be read as deaths attributed to him, not as a confession or a finding. The surveillance passage is the part of this case that has been argued about ever since, and the article states it plainly without noticing what it says. Vancouver police followed him from October 12 to November 26, 1987 and, on their own account, interrupted him with four different women in that time. The women were taken out of the rooms. He was not charged for any of those encounters, and he went on to be convicted over a death that had already happened. Most of the women he was connected to were Indigenous, and were living in the Downtown Eastside; that is the reason the case is still raised in Canada, and the article does not mention it. Marie Clements's play is The Unnatural and Accidental Women, and the phrase is not hers. It is taken from the wording used on the death certificates.