Woman Millionaire Admits Killing Autistic Son, and Suicide Attempt

Pharmaceutical millionaire Gigi Jordan, charged with murdering her autistic son Jude, admits in Manhattan court to administering a fatal drug cocktail while also trying to kill herself. Photo: Steven Hirsch

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“Miss Jordan, did you give yourself and your son an amount of drugs that you believed would take your life and his?’’
“Yes, I did,’’ Jordan testified. She started to cry and Justice Charles Solomon handed her a tissues.
The weepy mother confessed to taking Jude Mirra’s life in February 2010 at the swank Peninsula Hotel but insists that it was a ‘mercy killing’ to spare him from abuse at the hands of almost half a dozen people.

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Millionaire admits to ‘mercy killing’ of autistic son
By Rebecca Rosenberg
New York Post
October 8, 2014 | 9:34pm