A millionaire drug company executive convicted of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son more than 10 years ago, was found dead in her apartment in NYC by suicide. On Wednesday, January 4, the medical examiner’s office confirmed that Jordan placed a plastic bag filled with nitrogen gas over her head. 

Her death occurred a few hours after US Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor gave an order that would have sent her back to prison. 

Gigi Jordan, 62, was found dead just after midnight on Friday, December 30. 

Jordan was convicted of murdering her autistic son, Jude Mirra, in February 2010 in a luxury suite at an NYC hotel.  According to prosecutors, she killed her son with a mixture of sleeping pills, tranquilizers, painkillers, orange juice, and alcohol. After she killed him, she tried to commit suicide, but she survived. 

During the trial, her attorneys argued that at the time of the murder, the mother was distraught and under extreme emotional distress due to her fear that her ex-husband would kill her son.

According to the prosecutors, after she forced her son to take the concoction of pills, she withdrew $125,000 from the boy’s trust fund.

A jury in 2014 acquitted Jordan on the first-degree murder charge but found her guilty of manslaughter. She was sentenced in 2015 to 18 years in prison, but her manslaughter conviction was overturned in 2020 due to an alleged procedural error.

In 2020, a US magistrate judge ruled that the sealing of the courtroom during the trial, which the defense team objected to, violated Jordan’s right to a fair trial, even though the sealing of the courtroom had not harmed the defense’s case. 

Due to the overturn of her conviction, Jordan was released in December 2020 after having served more than a decade in prison. She was ordered to be confined to her home on a $250,000 bond for the duration of the appeal of her case. She was also ordered to stay in NYC, wear an ankle monitor, avoid committing any other crime, and not be in possession of illegal firearms or drugs.

However, on Thursday, December 29, Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor issued an order reversing the previous order that allowed Jordan to stay confined to her home, which would have sent her back to jail.

According to Norman Siegel, Jordan’s lawyer, Jordan called him at about 7 pm on Thursday, a few hours before she was found dead. He called her back, and when she picked up the phone, she asked if he had called her, and he told her it must have been a butt dial, and they laughed about it. Siegel said she sounded like she was in good spirits. 

The next news Siegel had about his client was on Friday morning when he was called from her home to tell him that police were in the home and that she was dead.