and what that son of a bit ds k needs to understand is it will be worse if they find him. >> i say tick tock, we're coming, and we ain't giving up. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." i invests my room, it was all dark, and everything was just spinning away from me into like blackness. it was terrifying. >> reporter: it was a whirlwind romance with mr. right that morphed into a mindbending mystery. >> my loved one called. >> she was like, i feel like i'm being watched. >> my phone would be followed.

he said, you could be under surveillance. >> followed? surveillance? she'd stemmed e stpped into the zone -- hidden codes, government agents, undercover spies. >> i was so scared. >> who was this man she was about to marry? your brain has got to be saying holy cow -- >> to learn the truth, she would launch a secret mission of her own. >> testing, testing. >> a high-stakes game of spy versus spy. >> reporter: you were your own detective here. >> i wasn't. he wasn't going to stop unless somebody stopped him. hello, and welcome to "dateline." ask any divorced parent, finding love a second time around can be hard. but when mischele lewis met william allen jordan, he checked all the boxes. he was charming, smart, and something of a jet-setter.

mischele welcomed him into her heart only to realize her new boyfriend was leading a double life. who was the real liam allen? it was a riddle this single mom was determined to solve. here's dennis murphy with "the mystery man." >> reporter: what's love got do with it? well, as mischele lewis tells it, just about everything. love, her new guy at long last made her tingle as though ginger ale had filled her heart. >> i felt good about myself. he was a wonderful person. >> reporter: but why, oh why, should something so good and rare lead to such a dark place? a shadowy world where nothing was as it seemed. where secrets became goggles blinding the truth. >> this is so intrick ate a trt

dark. >> reporter: as she was pulled deeper into the riptide of her fiance's hidden underworld, she joined forces with a woman an ocean away to uncover the truth. >> intruded on every part of your body, of your mind. >> reporter: would mischele be as patient at the game of revenge as she'd been in the game of love? mischele lewis is a born caregiver. as a little girl in southern new jersey, she daydreamed about working some dwhere in medicine helping people. sure enough, as an adult she got her nursing degree and reported happily to the labor and delivery ward. you're with a team delivering babies, right? >> i do. it's wonderful every day. you connect with your patients. i'm there with them the whole way. i've cried with them. i've laughed with them. it's amazing. >> reporter: a fellow nurse said she was a natural as a nurse and a best friend.

>> she's a light in a dark place. she's wonderful. she's the one trying to brighten up somebody else's bad day. >> reporter: but mischele has seen her own share of bad days. for years she struggled in a difficult marriage. eventually moving with her kids into her mother's house. >> she knew that she would be the single parent, and she put her best foot forward to do that. >> reporter: after calling it quits with her husband, she started to explore the possibility of finding new love. she went on line. >> i wanted somebody who was established, had their stuff together. >> reporter: one man caught her eye. his name was liam allen. >> he seemed to be well traveled. well versed. everything he had said was what i was looking for. >> reporter: they agreed to meet for coffee. >> i walked in. he was like his photo. w very warm, charming.

a good four or five hours that we sat and talked. a long cup of coffee. i had a good vibe when we parted. >> reporter: as they talked more in the days that followed, liam allen opened up about his life -- never married, no kids. like mischele, he had been born in new jersey but was raised in the united kingdom. nice hillary clintlilt to the s >> liked the accent. >> reporter: another bonus, he was available. he had a home in cherry hill. >> he had sent me photos of it, renovation photos of before, during, and after. >> reporter: all well and good, but she wanted to know more about his resume. the guy at the mall you met is nice, but i need to know more. and do you have some i.d., bud? >> i go did go to the internet nothing came up. >> reporter: mischele felt

comfortable about starting to see liam more. >> it felt good to be myself again. to laugh again. to be happy. >> reporter: butliam allen had boundaries. he couldn't spend time with her outside of the hours of nine to five. >> he warned me a lot of nights and weekends he wouldn't be available. i thought it was bizarre. >> reporter: he said the odd schedule was related to his night time work with a records company, but still it bothered her. why could he barely send ape text while on the job. he used to talk about being on the map and off the map? >> kind of what i started to use was on the map and off the map for the blackout times. >> reporter: when mischele asked liam about why he was so distant, he began to reveal jaw-dropping information. his true line of work wasn't in computers. he took out his phone and pointed to some letters at the top of the screen. >> and it just says uk.

and he says, you know, this says uk because i work for the british government. >> reporter: liam allen went to describe his assignment for the british ministry of defense as a kind of glorified chauffeur. shuttling dignitaries and vips back and forth between new york and d.c. as for the medical software company, well, it was real. >> he also was asked to obtain personal medical information on targeted people. >> reporter: targeted people? so he's in the secret world? it's a spy, mischele. >> pretty much. >> reporter: it was a doozy of a secret. liam allen, the easy chatting, established man, turns out to be a spy for the british government. your brain has got to be saying holy cow, what is this guy telling me, right? >> yes. i was a little taken aback. >> reporter: are you starting to drift out of your body as you're hearing this story? >> i was concerned. he was willing to hold my hand through it.

>> reporter: and there was more. liam told her to date him seriously she'd need to follow his rules, and that meant disclosing her entire personal life to the british authorities, and undergoing her own government security clearance. >> he told me that in the coming weeks he would bring me an application. i said, oh, i have to apply to be with you? he said, no, he said, because i work for the ministry of defense, you need to be security checked. >> reporter: he's telling you you're going to be introduced into this secret life. >> pretty much. yes. >> reporter: of british sfwen sfwesfwens -- intelligence? >> he told me to think about it. >> reporter: after the clearance there would be no more blackout periods. if she declined the process, she could never meet his parents or visit his house. >> i couldn't meet them. i couldn't go to the cherry him home. like we had like no-go zones. >> reporter: this is getting stranger and stranger. >> very strange. >> reporter: did you think it was quite cool or really scary?

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covert operative. but she was willing to try to make things work. mischele needed to prove she could keep a secret because liam had just given her an envelope stuffed with official looking documents. the security clearance application. >> everything was very personal information, background information, date of birth, social security number. and then in the pajts after that, it was almost -- pages after that, it was almost like the as.a.t.s. >> did you fill out the form? >> i did not. >> reporter: mischele would soon find out that liam had already passed on her name to his bosses, and they were already checking up on her. >> in may is when i first received an odd text message from a number i didn't recognize. >> reporter: the person introduced himself as tom chambers from the five star reality company. he said, i understand that you made an inquiry including one of our overseas properties located in the uk, specifically an allen

home model. a little light bulb there? >> not at first. it took me a minute. >> reporter: she noticed the texts were coming from the 202 area code -- washington, d.c. >> that's when the light bulb hit. oh, these are -- >> reporter: this was part of your security clearance. >> yes. >> reporter: did you ride with it? did you play your part? >> i did because i thought that's what was expected of me. yeah, i did. i went along with the code. it was crazy. >> reporter: and the ride was about to get a lot crazier. >> he said that my phone would be followed. like mine and liam's phones were kind of like dots on a map. >> reporter: and liam allen even told mischele and her mom to expect surveillance at their own house. >> he says, don't be surprised if a car rides by. they're just checking you out. so like ten, 15, 20 minutes later, a car would ride by with dark windows, and he says, they just seen you on the porch.

>> she was like, i feel like i'm being watched. i feel like i'm under a microscope, and i feel like it's starting to creep me out. >> reporter: if mischele's life was no longer quite her own, soon she was being asked to risk even more. again, in coded language, tom chalmers instructed her to transfer money into a certain account. your personal money. >> your personal money. >> reporter: what was that for? >> it was to basically prove that i was committed to everything. i was committed to liam, committed to the process. >> reporter: the money transfers of a few hundred dollars would be returned when the security clearance was complete. mischele followed through and held on. >> i had a strange gut feeling that told me i need to keep going. that the light at the other end will be worth it. >> reporter: liam allen would be worth it. >> he would be worth it. >> reporter: now a few months into their relationship, liam was decidedly on the map at

home. turned out he was great with mischele's children, especially her teenage daughter. >> she related to victoria very well. he was there for her. >> reporter: but behind the scenes, mischele was starting to realize just how deep and dangerous liam allen's covert connections really wereme. she showed up late to a summer wedding wearing heavy clothing telling her to keep an eye on the news. >> the following week was when the whole edward snowden story broke. >> reporter: she realized her boyfriend must have played a part. >> i knew before it was a big deal. which is a little creepy. then the nudes caews came -- >> reporter: it's a little creepy now, mischele. >> tractor-traileit is creepy. >> reporter: not the only time

he tipped her off to a world event before it went public. >> when kate middleton had her baby, had a couple hours' notice on that. syria, i knee about t-- i knew about the attacks in story. >> reporter: he was getting secret mojo from somebody. >> he knew something from somewhere, and i knew, too. >> reporter: then the strange early morning phone call from one of liam's british hammers. >> 4:00 on the dot, my phone starts going off. wake up, i got to talk to you. >> reporter: the handler felt she should be clued in about liam's treacherous past. he was more than a driver. after 9/11, he had been dispatched to an elite mission in the least to spearhead the takedown of top bad guys. faces from the military's infamous terrorist deck of cards. your liam was an operative, a commando in the war against terrorism? >> it was very, very heavy news. >> reporter: the question had to be asked, how much did the terrorists know about him and the people closest to him? a chilling thought. but any fears about terrorists

would be pushed aside. because a few weeks before christmas, liam asked for mischele's hand in marriage. on his knees? >> on his knee. i said yes. >> reporter: her family and friends were thrilled for her. >> mischele came to work, and i looked and she went like this. i was like, ah! >> this is what she wanted. so i was pleased with it. >> reporter: but what should have been a happy new chapter together was the start of a descent into chaos. liam began coming around less and less, skipping christmas celebrations with the family. mr. wonderful never showed? >> didn't showme. i was unfeweriated. i was crushed. >> reporter: then she discovered she was pregnant. how did the news igo? >> he told me he needed to process. >> reporter: hurt, confused, she searched her memory for when it

went wrong. she recalled a detail. a couple of weeks before, she had nosed into liam's wallet. >> something urged me to look in it. i opened it up and pulled out a card. it said, kw women illiam allen . it's close, but it's not him. >> reporter: at the time she tucked the information away thinking it must be an alias used for undercover work. now she decided to dig some more. you put that name into google. >> i did. >> reporter: what came back? >> horrific, horrific news. beyond anything i could have expected. >> reporter: enter, enter, enter, and if gets worse and worse and worse? >> the more i read, the worse it gets. coming up -- >> this is not a surprise to me. i knew this was going to happen. >> a revulation from halfway around the world. another woman with another tale about liam allen. >> it was devastating. it was crushing.

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mischele lewis had been pouring over a flood of shocking information she'd found on line about her fiance, liam allen. >> i was in my room. it was all dark. and everything was just spinning. the hallway was going away from me into like blackness. i was literally sick.

>> reporter: he was notorious, no better word for this william allen jordan. the true name on liam's wallet i.d. she saw that someone had even written a book about him. a woman named mary turner thompson who lived in consolidascotland. she emailed the author. >> i said, i'm dating this man right now. >> i immediately sent her my phone number. >> reporter: mary had been expecting the call from mischele or someone just like her. >> this is not a surprise to me. i knew this was going to happen. >> reporter: the story mary turner thompson in scotland began to tell mischele lewis in new jersey was eerily similar to mischele's own. it began in late 2000. mary was a single mother living in edinborough when she met a man named will jordan. >> he was charming. he was tall. he was good-looking. and he just seemed to be, you know, really, really nice guy. >> reporter: he told her he was from america and worked in i.t. she found him highly intelligent, humble, and family

oriented. >> wow -- >> reporter: spending time with mary's daughter, no older. >> he would play games and stuff. >> yeah. >> it's him. yay, we're going to have fun today. >> reporter: just as mischele lewis would experience years later, mary also grew frustrated with his frequent absences. >> i wasn't happy at all. i started digging into his background a bit and trying to find out more about him. >> reporter: mary in her private detective mode traced will jordan to an address. and when she peeked over the fence into the house's yard, she saw children's toys. she confronted him. >> he sat down and said, i have something to tell you. and he explained to me that he was working for the odci, commonly known in the uk as cia. >> reporter: that house with toys in the yard, he explained it was actually a safe house for agents, only staged to look like a family lived there. a female agent on site sometimes posed as i had wife. and as time passed, will jordan

gave mary all the proof she needed to believe him. she spoke with other agents on the phone. and when he was called away, she received his dispatches from the war on terror. >> i can't really complain. you know, it's rather like complaining about superman not coming back for dinner. >> reporter: mary kept a stiff upper lip when enpostponed their wedding date -- jordan postponed their wedding date after getting an assignment. they did eventually get married. soon after they could wiwelcome first child, a baby girl. >> he was really fun, but then like kind of strict. it was almost like you knew he care good you. >> reporter: a baby boy named zac soon followed. but not long after, will jordan's work talented mary and the children in the most dire way imaginable. >> he explained to me that insurgents that he had dealt with in the past were threatening him. and that they were going to steal the children, kidnap them, and rip bits off and send those

through the post unless we came one money to pay them off. >> reporter: frantic, mary sold her house and emptied her bank account. >> i had nothing left. i thought, you know, there is no further down i can go. >> reporter: how wrong she was. almost four years into her marriage to will jordan, the phone rang. >> april the 5th 2006, she said are you also mrs. jordan? i said yes. she said, i'm the other mrs. jordan. >> reporter: that's when the other mrs. jordan delivered the knockout punch. >> she said, have you been told i'm an agent? and i said, yes. and she said, i've been told you're an agent. >> reporter: mary confirmed the sickening truth. both were married to william allen jordan. and both had children by him. her husband was no special agent, just a fraud and a big ammist. >> it was devastating, crushing, like the whole -- like coming out of "the matrix." >> reporter: now it was mischele

lewis's attorney in new jersey to observe the massive import of -- michelle valles' time in new jersey to observe the massive import of the lies. are you angry, heartbroken, somewhere in between? >> everything. i was like putting all your feelings in the blender and hitting the highest setting. >> reporter: even more shocking -- mischele learned it hadn't just been mary and the other mrs. jordan in this man's life. there were others. oh, yes, there were. >> he has 13 children by six different women. he had two wives and five fiancees in 2005. >> reporter: the bakers dozens of sons and daughters lived in several countries. he had four children in one year by three women. mary sums up her take on his mo, to target single mothers, get them pregnant, then siphon money and other valuables. >> the thing is he doesn't pick dumb women either. he picks intelligent women because otherwise it's like playing chess with a toddler.

>> reporter: mary exposed jordan in her book, and after realizing he'd ultimately taken her for around $300,000, she also helped put him in prison. in 2006 he was convicted in a british daughter of bigamy, fraught fraud, and illegal possession of a stun begun. after 2.5 years behind bars, he was dpoerted to the u.s. >> in about six months i was contacted by the first of his victims in the usa. >> reporter: mary heard from one in northeast, another in mexico. >> the weird thing is after 2010, there was nothing. >> reporter: that is until the call from mischele lewis. and once mischele's head stopped spinning, she knew exactly what she wanted to do -- beat will jordan at his own game. and then bring him down for good. >> i want to be one of his very last victims ever. coming up -- liam allen, british spy, meets

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was in reality a convicted big mist and a fraud. she was not alone. jordan had more than a dozen children with several different women around the world. but mischele was determined to be his last victim and hatched a daring plan to stop jordan once and for all. here again is dennis murphy with "the mystery man." >> reporter: mischele lewis' head spun like the dry cycle on the washer. too much to take in. according to a woman named mary in scotland, the man she was engaged to was a rare bead of devious career criminal and a complete fraus frauad. he's a phantom, you don't know who this william allen is. >> no, certainly wasn't who he portrayeded. everything was a lie. >> reporter: did you feel like you were the biggest fool? >> yes. >> reporter: and mary said something to reassure you.

>> she did. i said i feel ashamed. she said, don't be. he's been doing this for three decades. he's very good. >> reporter: of all the things she learned about liam allen, one was most chilling. in 2006 he also pleading guilty for failing to register as a sex ofender. mischele found his crier conviction included a girl who was the same age as her daughter. >> reporter: this man i brought into the household, is he argue itting my daughter? >> yeah. he was never alone with my kids, but i don't know what his long-term plans were. >> reporter: as tempting as it was to crawl in a hole and make it disasheer, she couldn't. for one, she was still pregnant with this man's child and had a supremely difficult decision to make. >> his first wife said mental illness ran throughout the family lines. and as a nurse, i know how genetic that can be. not only that, but it would have

tied me to him forever to have that baby. so thinking long and hard, i chose to terminate. >> reporter: and you know as people hear your story, they will be judgmental about you because of that fact. >> absolutely. but they're not walking in my shoes. it's not their life they have to live. this monster of a man would be labeled as their father. >> reporter: the painful decision made, she vowed to make her broken dreams his last betrayal. >> now i was trying to prevent anyone else from being hurt. to stop his damage. >> reporter: but how? first, mischele confronted him at her house. >> i said, you know, who's mary? he looked the me a little quizzically. and i said, you know, your wife. and he kind of closed his eyes and kind of sighed. and he said, you know. i said, yes, i know everything. >> reporter: but instead of disappearing, will jordan, the international man of mystery, did something surprising --

first he came clean sort of. explaining his misdeeds were a thing of the past. then he tried to woo mischele right back. >> he very much thought that he had his claws in her so deep that she was just going to roll over and say, okay, that's fine. i still love you. >> reporter: and that gave mischele an idea. if william allen jordan still wanted to play, then mischele would give as good as she got. through mary turner thompson's connections, mischele linked up with a surveillance video company. >> he had brought me this purse which has a camera built into the little rivet here. he fitted me with a vest that had a camera on it. testing. testing. >> reporter: now she'd play the part of a spy and try to catch him making incriminating statements on video. did the authorities know you were doing this? >> huh-uh. no, they did not.

they probably would have asvised against it for safety purposes. >> reporter: she chose a public place agreeing to talk over coffee. how's your parents doing? >> they're okay. >> reporter: after some chit chat, jordan assures her he's still the man she fell in love with and that not everything about him is a lie. >> this is the hard part. i'm trying to differentiate between what's true and what's not. >> you can. at the moment you can. >> reporter: does he suspect anything's going on in this hidden camera stuff? >> i was head coaoping but but nervous and started to fidget. i shredded a poor napkin. >> reporter: overnigjordan even if he's taken the story to the press. >> what's the worst that could happen? a reporter -- >> i'm not -- >> just saying. like i said to you -- >> just trust me. that would expose me, as well. >> reporter: he's the one to bring up all the allegations

against him. >> all of these horrible things i've done and supposedly done and all of the things i'm supposed to have taken and all the people i'm supposed to have hurt -- >> reporter: he tells mischele to put those transgraessions in perspective. >> not beating up little children. not hanging out in the school yards. >> reporter: he didn't deny any of the major allegations against him. >> no. he didn't deny. he didn't outrightly admit them, but he didn't deny, including -- >> reporter: including the sexual attack on a minor child. little girl. >> yeah. absolutely. >> reporter: mischele shows him a picture, a montage of his own children. 11 of the 13 known. his response is a shrug -- >> i can't connect with that because -- >> really? >> no, because look what i did -- >> reporter: before they wrap up, mischele gives him a piece of her mind. >> my perspective is i feel like i have been amazing to you in the last year, and i feel like

[ bleep ] -- >> that would be inappropriate given what you know. >> reporter: this day felt light years away from that first long cup of coffee they'd once shared. yet, when they part, it's help as if nothing is different. >> you know i always love spending time with you. >> thank you. >> that hasn't changed. >> i hope to never does. >> bye, sweetie. >> reporter: on one of these tapes he says, "i love you," and you reply, "i love you, too." >> yeah. okay, i can't take that out of rotation quite yet. he may know something's up. >> reporter: after her first day of secretly recording william allen jordan, mischele knew she had him right where she wanted him. she wasn't done with him yet. >> i wasn't happy with all the answers that i had that day. i knew i needed more. >> reporter: it was time for mischele lewis to go undercover again and turn up the heat on william allen jordan.

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case. >> it was more about gaining evidence against him. can i get him to confess? >> reporter: she taped him every chance she got. with the purse, her phone, her ipad. >> testing. >> reporter: she was concerned about him detecting the camera. >> i was so worried wearing the shirt that he would feel it if he tried to hug me. >> hello. >> hey. how are you? >> fine -- >> reporter: and she had to worry for her safety. she had no idea what this man was or what he was truly capable of. >> i was so scared. every day i went to go meet him, i told mary i was going, told my mom i was going, i told my friends i was going. >> reporter: but mischele box office to turn the heat on -- about to turn up the heat on one ii two. -- heat on liam allen. she asked him about the charge of pleading guilty. >> he said it would have cost more money and legal fees to get

out of it. he said by pleading guilty, i got a lesser sentence. >> reporter: and now, two weeks after mischele's first undercover session, she set up another secret recording of him. this time in her car. >> i would set my ipad to record audio. and i tucked it between his seat and my center console with the microphone facing up. at the end of the day, i still want answers. i don't care if they're blunt, i don't care if they're mean or spiteful, but at least there will be answers. >> reporter: she put jordan on the spot. was he really a british spy? his answer was cryptic. >> i never lie good what i actually did. thought about who it was for directly. >> he said he didn't lie about his job, that he did lie about who woe wohe worked for but dide about what he did. >> that's ominous. >> it is. he did admit to the wives, to the kids, he denied taking the

money that he took. he said they all knew what was going on. >> reporter: back in the car she pressed on. just who was tom chalmers? his handler? >> the possibility is it could have been you -- not that i'm saying that it was. >> could have been me? >> reporter: she wondered why she stopped hearing from the handlers. >> maybe you didn't feel like keeping the charade up beyond that of three different people. i don't know. just me. i mean, you can not believe all the -- >> i think -- >> reporter: she also leaned in to him about her missing money. those funds she'd wired to the handlers for the security clearance. >> for all i know, maybe you spent it. i don't know. i have no answers. >> reporter: he said neither did he. he had nothing to do with the dwemds they made on her. >> ranting at me about it is not beneficial because i can't do anything about it. >> reporter: but ultimately, it's not about the money for mischele. she has lost so much more. >> i just want to stop hurting. that's all. i just --

>> reporter: that's what we're -- >> that's what ewe're trying to do. love does hurt sometimes as you well know. >> reporter: in the end, jordan told her the decision about whether to stay with him was hers alone to make. >> you will have to reach whatever conclusions you reach and act on them. >> reporter: and act she did with the help of mary in scotland. back at home, mischele scanned through her hours of footage and fact checked jordan's stories with mary. >> i racked up cell phone bills saying, this is what he told me. what can you verify? >> reporter: mary turner thompson got the sense that her former husband was enjoying every minute of it. >> it's a challenge. it's the challenge that he likes. having let someone down, then having to pull them back under your control. that's exciting. that's entertaining. >> reporter: but what jordan didn't know is how deeply michelle was now connected to the other women from his past life. >> i introduced mischele to five, six of the other victims.

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michelle lewis had been playing william allen jordan at his own game, spying on the fake spy. after a hidden camera session with him, she disappeared.

>> the hours passed by. i got concerned. have you heard from him? >> reporter: michelle's mother had call ed the police before michelle resurfaced. you were a missing person? >> she reported me missing. >> reporter: turns out the pressures of undercover work had gotten to michelle. and she had taken a much-needed mental health day off by herself. >> i went home first and apologized to my mom. i went to the police station. they said, okay, what's going on? >> reporter: she told them about her year of spiraling down in this man's world. discovering his lies. of her undercover hunt for the truth. police launched a criminal investigation of their own. and then, they made their move. michelle was the bait. >> i said, this is where i'm going to be. and this is the route i think he takes. catch him. >> reporter: then, she set up a date with jordan to run some

errands. >> i got there, two minutes before our meeting time. and for once, he was on time. >> reporter: she rolled down the window to hear him say he had to pop into the pharmacy, but he would be back in a jiffy. >> i get on the phone. he's here. they need to come right now. i was punian panicked at that p. i was hyperventilating on the phone. >> reporter: her thought, if jordan jumped in the car, before they nabbed him, what would he do? now, jordan was done with his errand. >> he came out of the pharmacy. was about to cross the street back to me. >> reporter: every step he got closer was terrifying. then, police swarmed in. >> they came in and intercepted him and arrested him. >> he took a good, long look at you at that point, didn't he? >> he did. i wanted to stare him down so he knew i was the one that took him down. when the time came, i was unnerved by it. >> relying in part on evidence michelle provided them,

authorities booked jordan on theft by deception, impersona impersonating a law enforcement officer and a third offense that may be surprising to some, sexual assault. michelle lewis claims she is a victim of a crime that is only now recognized in courtrooms, sexual assault by fraud. she said she was sexually assaulted by jordan, not by force but his lies. >> i couldn't give him knowing consent to any kind of a sexual relationship because i had no idea who on earth i was sleeping with. >> reporter: but michelle's case suffered a setback months later, when a new jersey grand jury failed to indict him on the sexual assault charge. >> they said i couldn't move that he was a harm to me because he hadn't physically hurt me. >> reporter: as the case went through the court system,

michelle wanted to know, were there other victims out there? >> i don't know if there's another victim in new jersey, pennsylvania, d.c., baltimore, anywhere between. >> reporter: michelle wondered was he living with another woman in his cherry hill house, once he had two wives and two lives in scotland. "dateline" found out more about the cherry hill property. maybe you don't know this. the landlord of the president said he was evicted for failure to pay rent. and he lived there with a woman. identity unknown, and a child. >> wow. that's shocking. that's shocking. there is someone else. at least one someone else. god knows -- i don't know if that was his child, her child. wow. if there were other children of jordan's out there, mary

thomps thompson's girls were ready to welcome them into their family. >> we look exactly alike. >> reporter: still, haley said many of jordan's children felt hurt by all these left behind. >> i know loads of them who are, like, really damaged by it. really damaged by it. >> reporter: the girls were glad to hear that jordan had been arrested. >> as nice as it would be to have more siblings, it would be easier for everyone, if he just, like, took a break. >> yeah. >> reporter: and after his arrest, mary and her children were rooting for michelle lewis, as she faced him in a new jersey courtroom. >> this matter of the state of new jersey -- >> reporter: in 2015, he pleaded not guilty. >> i want to enter a not guilty plea. >> it's laughable that he pled not guilty. i have so much evidence on it. i don't know if he realizes how much evidence i collected on him. >> reporter: after negotiations

between attorneys william allen jordan accepted a plea deal of three years in state prison. two years later, jordan was free. in october 2016, he was granted early release for prison, with credits for good behavior, his work in prison, and the time he had served in county jail. through his attorney, jordan has declined to speak with "dateline." >> this is going to impact my life for years to come. >> reporter: michelle was disappointed with the news. but has moved on with her life. she said she hoped to protect other women by changing new jersey law, to make rape by deception not just a crime of the heart, but a prosecutable offense. family and friends said that whatever happened in the new jersey courts, michelle lewis would have a bright future ahead of her, one she would meet with arms and eyes wide-open. >> she will get her happily ever after. and she can rest knowing that, you know, jordan is not going to

have a happily ever after, not with her and not with anybody ever again. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. ♪ first up, the final 48 hours before the polls open on election day. and in typical 2020 form, it's been no ordinary weekend on the campaign trail. >> tensions between the two campaign trials are rising, after president trump cheered on supporters who surrounded his joe biden campaign bus. trump tweeted the caravan with the caption, i love texas. and cops using pepper spray to break up a rally and march to the polls in north carolina. children and senior