Three years after Jordan Tompkins disappeared, a group of supporters gathered Tuesday, April 22, to walk from the Medina Lake Country Club Bar and Grill to her former residence and back in a push for answers.
During the walk, a wig was discovered near the bar and turned in to the Bandera County Sheriff’s Office, raising new questions and hopes for leads in the cold case.
BULLETIN PHOTO/Veronica Rector
Tompkins was last seen leaving the Medina Lake Country Club Bar and Grill on foot along Park Road 37 on April 22, 2022. In the years since, frustration has mounted among Lakehills residents. But perhaps no one is more concerned than Jordan's mother, Kristy Tompkins.
“I just want to hug her one last time,” Kristy told the Bulletin through her interpreter, Deb Franz.
“She knows that the likelihood of Jordan being alive is small,” Franz said. “We have accepted that possibility.”
“But I can’t help but hope,” Kristy said. “When I don’t know for sure, I hold on to hope.”
“We have heard all the theories,” Franz added. “We just hope someone will finally come forward.”
Those theories were outlined during the walk by Randy McMahon, whose daughter Brittany McMahon died just weeks after Jordan disappeared.
One theory mentioned by McMahon Tuesday suggests Jordan was given a “hot shot,” heroin mixed with a cocktail of opioids and other synthetic opiates, leading to convulsions that caused her to hit her head on a rock and die.
Another theory posits that she was sex-trafficked, a possibility Kristy prays is not true.
Other theories were shared, but the base of each story remained consistent: there were people with Jordan the night she disappeared.
“I will be releasing some messages that we have received,” Randy McMahon said at the event. “These tweekers that know what happened to Jordan have 24 hours to come forward themselves or I will be releasing these messages.”
The messages, shared with the Bulletin prior to public release and provided to the Bandera County Sheriff’s Office, describe a “get together” at an undisclosed room where Jordan was allegedly given the fatal injection.
According to the messages, Jordan convulsed, struck her head, and died. Her body was then reportedly placed in Lost Valley, behind the tennis courts where a water hole used to be.
One message claims a femur was found and that the rest of the remains might still be located in that area.
“We have heard that cadaver dogs were taken to that location already,” McMahon said. “We don’t believe it, because that would have been noticed by somebody.”
Regardless of theory or rumor, Kristy asks that anyone who knows any information regarding Jordan’s disappearance come forward.
“You can be anonymous,” she said. “Just please tell me where she is.”
Kristy said Jordan, who grew up loving animals and singing, had told her mother she loved her on a video call just a day before she went missing.
“She had an app that made her face look funny,” Kristy recalled. “She had mouse ears, things like that. I told her she was silly and that I loved her. That was the last time I spoke with her.”
“Grief has brought Kristy and I together,” Franz said. “I lost my father, and she’s lost her daughter. We keep each other company and we make each other laugh. I just want her to be able to find a conclusion in all this.”
“We worry that cases like this aren’t taken seriously,” said Susan McMahon. “Jordan and my daughter Brittany fell in with the wrong people. But they are still people. They deserve justice.”
Brittany’s cause of death, officially ruled a suicide, is being contested by the McMahon family. The 33-year-old was last seen June 19, 2022, off Old Loop 173. Her skeletal remains were discovered by a resident in the Bandera Pass subdivision near his property on July 3.
Investigator Matthew Jacobsen said he is actively reviewing Jordan’s case but was unable to comment at the time of publication.
Anyone with information about the disappearance of Jordan Tompkins is urged to contact the Bandera County Sheriff’s Office at (830) 796-4323.
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