Gilbert Paul Jordan (born Gilbert Paul Elsie; December 12, 1931 – July 7, 2006),[1] known as The Boozing Barber, was a Canadian serial killer who is believed to have committed the so-called "alcohol murders" in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Jordan, a former barber, was linked to the deaths of between eight and ten women between 1965 and 1988; he was the first Canadian known to use alcohol as a murder weapon.
Jordan's lengthy criminal record started in 1952 and includes convictions for rape, indecent assault, abduction, hit and run, drunk driving and car theft.
As would become a pattern, a switchboard operator, Ivy Rose, was found naked and dead in a Vancouver hotel.
[8] Court proceedings show "he sought out approximately 200 women per year for binge-drinking episodes covering the period from 1980 to 1988.
[11] Buckner had recently lost custody of her newborn baby, who had been born with a drug dependency.
Between October 12 and November 26, 1987, police watched him "search out native Indian women in the skid row area of Vancouver.
[14] Jordan was arrested again, in 2002, for breach of probation because he was found drinking, and in the presence of a woman while in possession of alcohol.
JORDAN has a significant criminal record including manslaughter and indecent assault of a female.
[16] Jordan was the subject of the 1997 Canadian television program Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science in an episode called "Dead Drunk".
[17] A dramatization, The Unnatural and Accidental Women was written by Vancouver playwright Marie Clements and performed in, among other places, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto (2004).
In the play, the writer focused on the story of the victims in an attempt to redress the failure of the news media to do so.
The crime series, set in Vancouver, portrayed a serial killer using alcohol as a murder weapon and stalking women involved in prostitution.
The portrayal departed from the facts by having the killer die before he could be arrested; he was murdered by the brother of one of his victims, tipped to his identity by a detective.