Title: DOE, Jane
Description: Vancouver, BC
Description: Vancouver, BC
Cheryl - July 11, 2006 07:40 AM (GMT)
UNKNOWN WOMAN #5 from Vancouver BC
was one of at least seven native women picked up by Gordon Paul Jordan,
a barber in Vancouver, brought to a cheap hotel room, and fed alcohol until she died.
Trial testimony was that he would pick out vulnerable native women bring them to his hotel room with offers of free booze and money.
He would then say, "Have a drink, down the hatch baby, 20 bucks if you drink it right down; see if you're a real woman; finish that drink, finish that drink, down the hatch hurry, right down; you need another drink, I'll give you 50 bucks if you can take it ... until they died.
He would then, later, call police to say there was a dead woman in the hotel room.
Even after he was convicted, he continued this behaviour, has been re-arrested a number of times on violation of parole charges (being seen in public drinking places, or in the company of women), and he continues to be released from jail to repeat his behaviour. Today he is out of prison.
was one of at least seven native women picked up by Gordon Paul Jordan,
a barber in Vancouver, brought to a cheap hotel room, and fed alcohol until she died.
Trial testimony was that he would pick out vulnerable native women bring them to his hotel room with offers of free booze and money.
He would then say, "Have a drink, down the hatch baby, 20 bucks if you drink it right down; see if you're a real woman; finish that drink, finish that drink, down the hatch hurry, right down; you need another drink, I'll give you 50 bucks if you can take it ... until they died.
He would then, later, call police to say there was a dead woman in the hotel room.
Even after he was convicted, he continued this behaviour, has been re-arrested a number of times on violation of parole charges (being seen in public drinking places, or in the company of women), and he continues to be released from jail to repeat his behaviour. Today he is out of prison.
Cheryl - July 11, 2006 02:46 PM (GMT)
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/20...rber040812.html
'Boozing Barber' caught in Winnipeg
Last Updated Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:06:09 EDT
CBC News
WINNIPEG - After a two-day search through Western Canada, police arrested a 72-year-old convicted killer nicknamed the Boozing Barber at a Winnipeg hotel on Wednesday night.
A spokesperson for the force said officers took Gilbert Paul Jordan into custody without incident.
Gilbert Paul Jordan in 1987 (CP photo)
FROM FEB. 27, 2003: 'Boozing barber' sent back to jail
Authorities issued a Canada-wide warrant for Jordan this week. He had been ordered to stay on Vancouver Island as part of the terms of his release from jail in Victoria last week, but disappeared.
Jordan is known for plying women with alcohol until they succumb to alcohol poisoning.
In 1988, he was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Vancouver resident Vanessa Buckner, who died in a Downtown Eastside hotel room after drinking with him.
The judge in the case described Jordan as "a predator who used alcohol as his deadly instrument of choice."
Buckner was one of seven women who died of alcohol poisoning while drinking with Jordan over the course of 20 years.
The retired barber has been in and out of jail more than a dozen times since his original manslaughter conviction, for breaching his probation by drinking in the company of women.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/T.../pf-580109.html
Fri, August 13, 2004
Watching the drunk girls die
By MICHELE MANDEL
The Boozing Barber, once alleged to be Vancouver's most notorious lady killer, is headed back behind bars after taking a trip to Winnipeg.
Gilbert Paul Jordan, a wealthy 72-year-old former barber, is headed back behind bars, just days after violating his probation by leaving Vancouver Island. He was arrested in Winnipeg on Wednesday night.
He has been linked to the deaths of 10 women who have died suddenly of alcohol poisoning. Jordan would prey on the vulnerable in Vancouver's seedy Downtown Eastside, ply them with dangerous amounts of booze, have sex with them and then watch them die. Three of the women were found in his barbershop; four died in flop hotel rooms he had rented.
At the time, most of the deaths were declared accidental overdoses of alcohol, even though Jordan was involved in reporting many of them -- after consulting his lawyer. But almost all his victims were native alcoholics, and authorities seemed to care as little as he did.
"They were all on their last legs," he coolly told a Vancouver reporter in 2000. "I didn't give a damn who I was (drinking) with. I mean, we're all dying sooner or later."
Jordan has been convicted of manslaughter just once, in the 1987 death of Vanessa Lee Buckner, 27, who was found naked on a hotel room floor after a heavy drinking binge with Jordan.
Her blood alcohol level was more than 11 times the legal limit for driving. Court heard that, as black liquid oozed from her mouth and nose, Jordan fled their hotel room and left her alone to die.
"He poisons them first and then has sex with them," Buckner's angry father, Nick Basaraba, said yesterday. "No parent should have to go through this."
A month after her death, police found Jordan's fingerprints in another Skid Row hotel where Edna Shade's nude body was discovered. Police had him under surveillance 11 days later when they rescued another woman from his hotel room.
"Down the hatch, baby. Twenty bucks if you drink it right down," police overheard Jordan telling her.
"You want another drink? I'll give you 50 bucks if you can take it."
Jordan was arrested, but charged only with Buckner's death.
An alcoholic who consumes more than 50 ounces of vodka a day, Jordan has a criminal record dating back to 1952 that includes convictions for rape, indecent assault, abduction, hit and run, drunk driving and car theft. He has been in and out of jail countless times for breaching his probation after being found drinking in the company of women -- usually native alcoholics.
"Sober people wouldn't go out with me so I didn't have much option," he explained during his 1988 trial. "I didn't want to drink in my room all by myself."
His quest for drunken sex was insatiable. By his own estimation, he was with 200 women a year, hunting for his prey in the city's seediest dives.
In 2000, he was acquitted of sexual assault. A few months later, he was charged again in Victoria with sexual assault and administering a noxious substance -- alcohol. Those charges were eventually stayed.
The savvy predator came close to disappearing completely.
In December, 2000, an innocuous legal notice appeared in the classified pages of a Victoria magazine.
Jordan was quietly serving legal notice that he was changing his name to Paul Pearce. At the time, unlike in Ontario, a B.C. name change application did not require fingerprinting or a criminal background check.
An unsuspecting police officer checking on Paul Pearce would not pick up his history of manslaughter or rape. There would have been nothing to stop him from luring more women into his web.
But once Jordan's bid to change his name became known, authorities moved quickly to close the loophole. He abruptly dropped his bid to change his name.
So the Boozing Barber goes back to jail once more. But only for a short time.
He has admitted that a sizeable inheritance, wise investments and playing the stock market has ensured that he can hire the best lawyers and ensure that he's not declared a dangerous offender.
While his victim's father wonders how many chances a killer should receive.
"He's a worm; he's a lowlife," Basaraba says bitterly over the long distance line from Abbotsford. "He should be squashed, just as he squashed a lot of girls' lives."
http://members.shaw.ca/pdg/gilbert-paul-jordan.html
Louise Dickson
Victoria Times Colonist
Wednesday, February 20, 2002
Gilbert Paul Jordan is to appear in Victoria provincial court today to face two counts of breaching his probation.
A Vancouver sex offender, known as the boozing barber, Jordan had been in the company of at least seven women whose deaths were related to alcohol.
Jordan was released from jail on Feb. 6 after serving two-thirds of his sentence for trying to breach a court-ordered condition.
He began three years probation.
He was arrested in Vancouver Sunday for allegedly breaching his probation conditions of consuming alcohol and being with a woman while in possession of alcohol.
Jordan, who has been held in custody, is being brought back to Victoria to face the new charges because his probation order had been imposed by the Victoria court.
Crown counsel said it intends to seek his detention.
Jordan moved to Victoria in February 2000 and had several run-ins with police. In June 2000, he was charged with sexual assault, assault, negligence causing bodily harm and administering a noxious substance -- alcohol.
The incidents were alleged to have happened June 1 with a woman he met at the Douglas Hotel.
He walked out of jail on the Victoria charges Oct. 19 when the Crown stayed proceedings because there wasn't enough proof. But on Nov. 2, 2000, police found Jordan trying to drink with a woman at the Port Renfrew Hotel.
In May 2001, he was convicted of attempting to breach his court-ordered condition not to be in the company of a woman anywhere alcohol was being consumed.
He was sentenced to 15 months in jail, followed by three years probation with strict conditions.
'Boozing Barber' caught in Winnipeg
Last Updated Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:06:09 EDT
CBC News
WINNIPEG - After a two-day search through Western Canada, police arrested a 72-year-old convicted killer nicknamed the Boozing Barber at a Winnipeg hotel on Wednesday night.
A spokesperson for the force said officers took Gilbert Paul Jordan into custody without incident.
Gilbert Paul Jordan in 1987 (CP photo)
FROM FEB. 27, 2003: 'Boozing barber' sent back to jail
Authorities issued a Canada-wide warrant for Jordan this week. He had been ordered to stay on Vancouver Island as part of the terms of his release from jail in Victoria last week, but disappeared.
Jordan is known for plying women with alcohol until they succumb to alcohol poisoning.
In 1988, he was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Vancouver resident Vanessa Buckner, who died in a Downtown Eastside hotel room after drinking with him.
The judge in the case described Jordan as "a predator who used alcohol as his deadly instrument of choice."
Buckner was one of seven women who died of alcohol poisoning while drinking with Jordan over the course of 20 years.
The retired barber has been in and out of jail more than a dozen times since his original manslaughter conviction, for breaching his probation by drinking in the company of women.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/T.../pf-580109.html
Fri, August 13, 2004
Watching the drunk girls die
By MICHELE MANDEL
The Boozing Barber, once alleged to be Vancouver's most notorious lady killer, is headed back behind bars after taking a trip to Winnipeg.
Gilbert Paul Jordan, a wealthy 72-year-old former barber, is headed back behind bars, just days after violating his probation by leaving Vancouver Island. He was arrested in Winnipeg on Wednesday night.
He has been linked to the deaths of 10 women who have died suddenly of alcohol poisoning. Jordan would prey on the vulnerable in Vancouver's seedy Downtown Eastside, ply them with dangerous amounts of booze, have sex with them and then watch them die. Three of the women were found in his barbershop; four died in flop hotel rooms he had rented.
At the time, most of the deaths were declared accidental overdoses of alcohol, even though Jordan was involved in reporting many of them -- after consulting his lawyer. But almost all his victims were native alcoholics, and authorities seemed to care as little as he did.
"They were all on their last legs," he coolly told a Vancouver reporter in 2000. "I didn't give a damn who I was (drinking) with. I mean, we're all dying sooner or later."
Jordan has been convicted of manslaughter just once, in the 1987 death of Vanessa Lee Buckner, 27, who was found naked on a hotel room floor after a heavy drinking binge with Jordan.
Her blood alcohol level was more than 11 times the legal limit for driving. Court heard that, as black liquid oozed from her mouth and nose, Jordan fled their hotel room and left her alone to die.
"He poisons them first and then has sex with them," Buckner's angry father, Nick Basaraba, said yesterday. "No parent should have to go through this."
A month after her death, police found Jordan's fingerprints in another Skid Row hotel where Edna Shade's nude body was discovered. Police had him under surveillance 11 days later when they rescued another woman from his hotel room.
"Down the hatch, baby. Twenty bucks if you drink it right down," police overheard Jordan telling her.
"You want another drink? I'll give you 50 bucks if you can take it."
Jordan was arrested, but charged only with Buckner's death.
An alcoholic who consumes more than 50 ounces of vodka a day, Jordan has a criminal record dating back to 1952 that includes convictions for rape, indecent assault, abduction, hit and run, drunk driving and car theft. He has been in and out of jail countless times for breaching his probation after being found drinking in the company of women -- usually native alcoholics.
"Sober people wouldn't go out with me so I didn't have much option," he explained during his 1988 trial. "I didn't want to drink in my room all by myself."
His quest for drunken sex was insatiable. By his own estimation, he was with 200 women a year, hunting for his prey in the city's seediest dives.
In 2000, he was acquitted of sexual assault. A few months later, he was charged again in Victoria with sexual assault and administering a noxious substance -- alcohol. Those charges were eventually stayed.
The savvy predator came close to disappearing completely.
In December, 2000, an innocuous legal notice appeared in the classified pages of a Victoria magazine.
Jordan was quietly serving legal notice that he was changing his name to Paul Pearce. At the time, unlike in Ontario, a B.C. name change application did not require fingerprinting or a criminal background check.
An unsuspecting police officer checking on Paul Pearce would not pick up his history of manslaughter or rape. There would have been nothing to stop him from luring more women into his web.
But once Jordan's bid to change his name became known, authorities moved quickly to close the loophole. He abruptly dropped his bid to change his name.
So the Boozing Barber goes back to jail once more. But only for a short time.
He has admitted that a sizeable inheritance, wise investments and playing the stock market has ensured that he can hire the best lawyers and ensure that he's not declared a dangerous offender.
While his victim's father wonders how many chances a killer should receive.
"He's a worm; he's a lowlife," Basaraba says bitterly over the long distance line from Abbotsford. "He should be squashed, just as he squashed a lot of girls' lives."
http://members.shaw.ca/pdg/gilbert-paul-jordan.html
Louise Dickson
Victoria Times Colonist
Wednesday, February 20, 2002
Gilbert Paul Jordan is to appear in Victoria provincial court today to face two counts of breaching his probation.
A Vancouver sex offender, known as the boozing barber, Jordan had been in the company of at least seven women whose deaths were related to alcohol.
Jordan was released from jail on Feb. 6 after serving two-thirds of his sentence for trying to breach a court-ordered condition.
He began three years probation.
He was arrested in Vancouver Sunday for allegedly breaching his probation conditions of consuming alcohol and being with a woman while in possession of alcohol.
Jordan, who has been held in custody, is being brought back to Victoria to face the new charges because his probation order had been imposed by the Victoria court.
Crown counsel said it intends to seek his detention.
Jordan moved to Victoria in February 2000 and had several run-ins with police. In June 2000, he was charged with sexual assault, assault, negligence causing bodily harm and administering a noxious substance -- alcohol.
The incidents were alleged to have happened June 1 with a woman he met at the Douglas Hotel.
He walked out of jail on the Victoria charges Oct. 19 when the Crown stayed proceedings because there wasn't enough proof. But on Nov. 2, 2000, police found Jordan trying to drink with a woman at the Port Renfrew Hotel.
In May 2001, he was convicted of attempting to breach his court-ordered condition not to be in the company of a woman anywhere alcohol was being consumed.
He was sentenced to 15 months in jail, followed by three years probation with strict conditions.