Witness Interview: Mark Jordan

Witness Interview: Mark Jordan

Mark Jordan was a passenger on the 4:16 a.m. Magnolia Transit bus to the Memphis airport on Monday, February 2nd. He and the other passengers on the manifest were contacted on March 2nd following Ms. Dawes' interview for more information on the dark car she witnessed. Mr. Jordan is a resident of Abbeville, MS and works as a heavy equipment operator for The University of Mississippi. He boarded the bus in Abbeville and was traveling to the Memphis airport to catch a noon flight to Chapel Hill, South Carolina, to visit his brother.

N = Detective Terrence Nelson
J = Mark Jordan

N: Mr. Jordan, please state your name and address for the record.

J: My name is Mark Kenneth Jordan, and I live at 918 Jefferson Avenue in Abbeville. I work for the University of Mississippi.

N: Mr. Jordan, you were on the Memphis airport shuttle bus on Monday, February 2nd, is that correct?

J: That is correct. I was catching a place to South Carolina to visit my brother for a week of vacation.

N: Mr. Jordan, have you remembered seeing anyone else at the Big Star stop in Oxford that morning?

J: I haven't. I think I would have remembered those skaters if I'd seen them. They always wore those shiny capes, right?

N: Not in public. I think that was one of their skating outfits. But they would have probably been dressed alike in warm-ups and sat together.

J: Then I don't remember seeing them at all, no. I think I would have remembered them. There was just the one lady that got on in Oxford.

N: Do you remember seeing anything suspicious in the Eastgate Shopping Center area, in the area where the bus stopped? Another person who was on the bus remembers seeing a two-door dark, maybe black hatchback car parked right down from McDonald's. Do you remember seeing such a car?

J: I don't. I was sitting in the back of the bus talking to this fella I know named Cadillac.

N: Cadillac?

J: Yeah. His real name is Earl, but he loves buying old junk Cadillac's and work on them. He's got two or three nice ones. He was going to Memphis to buy another durn Cadillac, I think.

N: Another passenger remembers hearing a car peel it's tires right after the bus pulled out. Do you remember hearing anything like that?

J: Nope. I was talking to Cadillac about manifolds and fenders and things. I was half-awake anyway.

N: So you didn't see the Taylors, and you didn't see the black car, and you didn't hear anything out of the ordinary?

J: That's right.

N: Well, Mr. Jordan, I thank you for your time anyway. We'll contact you if we need anything else from you. I trust that you'll be available?

J: I'm very easy to find. Just call the university physical plant and ask for me. I'm always around.

N: Thank you.