A married couple from Nevada were mysteriously found dead in their hotel room in Mexico. Their children say they may never know how they died.
Lindsay and Nick Jordan were found dead in their hotel room in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on July 14, where they had traveled with work friends to celebrate Lindsay’s 46th birthday. reports the Reno Gazette Journal.
Their son, Deven Simms, has since been combing through and translating police files to try to figure out what happened.
He said Mexican authorities believe their parents’ deaths were caused by drugs, but that there are discrepancies in “every document” about how much drugs were found and what kind.
But because Mexican police have ruled their deaths not suspicious, the family does not have the ability to conduct independent autopsies in the United States.
Lindsay and Nick Jordan were found dead in their Cabo San Lucas, Mexico hotel room on July 14. They are pictured in their last photo
“I know now we’ll never know,” Deven told the Gazette Journal, noting that his father didn’t drink, so it was impossible to believe his parents could have overdosed on drugs.
“They were there with work friends, too,” he said. “They weren’t going to do that.”
The children told their parents how excited they were about the trip and sent them photos of the Mexican report of the first two days of their trip.
In her last Facebook post on July 12, featuring photos of the pool and ocean, Lindsay said it “wasn’t too bad from our room during our long weekend.”
The last photo of the couple, which shows them happy and smiling while having lunch at the resort, was taken by a friend.
“They were just happy and excited to be on this trip,” said their daughter Haley, 19.
Mexican authorities ruled they died of a drug overdose, but their son says there are discrepancies in every document
But on the morning of July 14, Deven said, his parents’ friends went to their hotel room because they hadn’t shown up that morning to discuss plans.
They were then taken away by the police and hotel staff.
Deven said his coworkers called him when they found out their parents had died.
He then called Haley to tell him the bad news, and they arranged to meet at their parents’ house in Reno, Nevada. They would tell their younger sister, Sammy, when she got home from a trip to Disneyland with their grandmother.
“We said it as bluntly as we could,” Deven said. “I didn’t want her to have any questions or not know right away that they were gone.”
But when they told the 12-year-old wrestling prodigy, she ran out of the backyard, through the house and climbed into her mother’s car.
Then she sat in the passenger seat in the driveway.
“That’s where she felt closest to my mom at that time, because she drove Sammy everywhere,” Haley said.
She noticed that she was standing by the car door as her brother climbed into the driver’s seat.
“We just wanted to surround her,” Haley said. “We just wanted her to know she wasn’t alone.”
An online fundraiser has been set up to support the Jordans’ three children
Nevada Elite Wrestling said after the event that it had suffered “a tremendous loss to our wrestling family.”
“The courage of Nick and Lindsay Jordan always brought so much light into every room they entered,” the sports club said. wrote on Facebook.
‘They were incredibly generous, if you had the chance to be around them you knew how special they were.
“The Jordans have done EVERYTHING for our club and have always donated their time, talent and money,” the team added.
a GoFundMe was founded by the mother’s former employer ‘to support Nick and Lindsay’s children as they face the challenges of living without their parents.’
The goal is to “ease the financial burden during this incredibly difficult time,” with money going toward funeral expenses and to help raise Sammy and continue her wrestling career.
In an update Monday, the organizer wrote that the contributions covered their funeral expenses “and the additional support helps provide stability for the children as they adjust to life without their parents.”