Triple killer told police he watched Die Hard as he murdered his daughter
Chilling footage shows the moment a triple murderer told police officers he had been watching Die Hard after smothering his infant daughter to death.
Jordan Monaghan brazenly told police that he watched Bruce Willis’ film as 24-day-old Ruby slept in Moses’ basket next to him after being arrested for murder six years after her death.
Police footage, which will be broadcast as part of a documentary about the ruthless killer, also shows him protesting as officers put him in a police van to take him to the station.
The Blackburn man would later be found guilty of murdering Ruby and her 21-month-old brother Logan months later, as well as poisoning his partner Evie Adams in 2019.
He is currently serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 48 years for their murders, as well as the attempted murder of a third child who cannot be identified for legal reasons.
Jordan Monaghan chokes daughter Ruby (pictured left), on New Year’s Day 2013, and son Logan (pictured right), eight months later
Monaghan smothered both Ruby (pictured left) and Logan (pictured right) by blocking their airways
Chilling footage showed the killer admitting to watching Die Hard the night of Ruby’s murder
Monaghan was first questioned by police in connection with the death of his children in August 2013, but was released.
In January 2019, he was arrested again on suspicion of their murders, but released on bail, allowing him to kill his girlfriend in November of that year – he was not officially charged with one of the murders until January 2021.
In shocking footage from January 2018 – six years after he killed his 24-day-old daughter Ruby in his home and smothered his son Logan at a swimming pool – Monaghan is seen protesting his innocence to arresting officers.
As he is led into the back of a police van by officers, Monaghan asks, “What evidence are you doing this with?”
“It will be explained to you when you come to the police station,” an officer replies.
In excerpts from Monaghan’s interview, the interrogator asks directly, “Are you responsible for Ruby’s or Logan’s death?”
After Monaghan denies responsibility, the officer asks him what he was doing downstairs with Ruby the night of her New Year’s Day 2013 murder.
He replies, “I was watching TV. I was watching Die Hard.’
When the police asked him where Ruby was, the callous killer replied, “In Moses’ basket. If we stayed up late, we would bring down Moses’ basket.
“It was comfortable for her, too.”
In reality, Monaghan was already planning to kill his daughter at that time.
In heartbreaking testimony from Ruby’s mother and Monaghan’s ex-partner Laura Gray, she revealed how he had quietly killed her while she slept by blocking her baby’s airways.
She said, “The kids were in bed and we watched a movie and saw in the new year before I went to bed. Jordan stayed up to give Ruby her 2 a.m. bottle.
“I woke up in the early hours of Jordan screaming that she wasn’t breathing. I ran downstairs and I could see, the moment I looked at her, she was gone. We called an ambulance and I took her to the hospital, but it was too late.’
A routine police search ensued and Ruby’s death was attributed to acute bronchial pneumonia.
Eight months later, Monaghan took his toddler Logan to the local Waves swimming pool and smothered him in the changing rooms.
He pushed the toddler home in his stroller with the rain cover down, making it look like he’d fallen asleep on the way.
When questioning Monaghan about the death of his second child Logan, officers asked, “Was he awake when you left Waves?”
‘No. Not when I left,” he replied, “[he fell asleep] just when we got out of Waves.”
On the Discovery+ program The Killer In My Home: A Deadliest Mums & Dads Special, Detective Superintendent Pauline Stables shared how the police handled both tragic cases.
She said: “We sought advice from the forensic pathologist, pediatric pathologist, neurologist, cardiologist, infectious disease specialist, geneticist, all to rule out any possible natural cause for Ruby’s death.
So in the end, the overall evidence supported Jordan blocking Ruby’s airway by pinching her nose and putting his hand over her mouth.
“We now know that Jordan traveled to Waves, pushed Logan in his stroller into a locker room inside Waves, spent some time in the locker room, where we believe he blocked Logan’s airway and ultimately killed him.”
She continued, noting on Monaghan’s interview footage, “Jordan’s physical response to accusation was… There’s no emotion, no emotion in going through the last moments of their lives.”
“No emotion in reliving the dead and the circumstances surrounding his three loved ones.”
Laura Gray was sleeping upstairs when Monaghan smothered her daughter Ruby
Pictured: Jordan Monaghan and his former partner Laura Gray left Blackburn Coroners in 2014 following the inquest into their son Logan’s death
Logan (left) and Ruby’s graves, which still read “Mommy and Dad.”
After six years of evading justice and bail for the murder of his two children, he murdered his new girlfriend, 23-year-old Evie Adams, in October 2019 with a deadly cocktail of prescription drugs.
During a trial that exposed the struggle police and prosecutors had to bring Monaghan to justice, it was revealed that officers arrested and interviewed under caution six years earlier after Logan’s death.
But they didn’t have enough evidence to charge him with any of the murders, and he was released on bail.
After more information came to light about the collapse of another child, who cannot be named, police assessed the deaths of Ruby, aged 24 days, and Logan, aged 21 months, and in 2018, Monaghan was arrested.
But amazingly, he was then released on bail, with the investigation appearing to have progressed little further.
In January 2019, Monaghan was in a relationship with Evie Adams. The police were so concerned about her well-being that they took her to a safe place.
But the manipulative Monaghan ignored their orders and continued to see her. At one point, when the pair were put in a car together, he claimed she was “a bird I just met.”
Eight months later, in October 2019, Miss Adams was found dead of an apparent drug overdose.
Monaghan was also found guilty of murdering his girlfriend Evie Adams (pictured) in 2019 by giving her an overdose of tramadol and diazepam, which he bought on the black market
After her death, Monaghan posted this photo of him proposing to Ms Adams, saying she ‘would be missed’
In reality, Monaghan had illegally purchased strong prescription drugs from the black market through WhatsApp and other contacts.
Miss Adams was found to have tramadol, diazepam, amitriptyline, zopiclone and pregabalin in her system after her collapse and death on October 24, 2019.
She died from the toxicity of tramadol and diazepam.
Monaghan then forged a suicide note from Miss Adams, which had apparently fallen out of a picture frame by chance when he removed the couple’s favorite picture of himself to place in her coffin.
The killer was arrested again in January 2021 and charged with all three murders.
In December 2021, after a 10-week trial and 26-hour deliberation, Monaghan was finally convicted and sentenced to three life terms, with a minimum term of at least 40 years.
The Killer In My Home: A Deadliest Mums & Dads Special will be streaming exclusively on discovery+ starting Saturday, April 1