Triple killer Jordan Monaghan subject of new Discovery+ documentary

Monaghan was convicted of killing his young children Logan and Ruby, as well as girlfriend Evie Adams in 2021.

The Killer In My Home: A Deadliest Mums and Dads Special, features the Senior Investigating Officer who led the investigation into Logan and Ruby’s murders and reveals how Monaghan was emotionless as he was charged with triple murder.

Police interview footage also reveals how Monaghan callously told officers he watched the action film Die Hard the same night he smothered baby Ruby as she slept in her Moses basket.

In 2018, five years after the deaths of his two infant children, both apparently of natural causes, an investigation was launched, as Detective Chief Superintendent Pauline Stables remembers.

Jordan Monaghan police interview (Image: Agency)

She said: “The deaths of both Ruby and Logan were subject to review in 2018.

“We gathered all the information the previous investigation filed. It’s really, really difficult.

“You’ve got a loss of evidence from previous investigations because the deaths were treated or deemed to be natural causes.

"You’ve got medical evidence that’s lost, CCTV, so it’s really, really difficult to investigate historical crimes.”

Piecing the investigation together, police made the decision to arrest Monaghan on suspicion of double murder on April 13, 2018.

Captured on police body cam at a construction site where Jordan was working, footage shows Monaghan’s apparent surprise.

“With what evidence are you doing this,” Monaghan asks in handcuffs, before being led into a police van.

At Blackburn Police Station, Monaghan was interviewed under caution.

Seen in police interview footage, Monaghan is asked outright if he killed his children. “No,” he replies.

Probed further on the events leading up to Ruby’s death, Monaghan blankly explains that he was watching TV.

“Watching TV. Yeah, I was watching Die Hard,” he says, fully in the knowledge that he smothered his 24-day old daughter that same evening.

However, the police reluctantly made the decision to release Monaghan on bail and it was while out on bail that Monaghan claimed his third victim - his then girlfriend Evie Adams.

DCS Stables continues: “So when we became aware that his current partner, Evie Adams, had died as a result of a suspected overdose, our suspicions were immediately heightened.

“He was arrested and immediately interviewed, but we didn’t have sufficient evidence at that point to charge him.”

With Monaghan now behind bars, DCS Stables was able to piece together how Monaghan killed Evie by plying her with tablets, covering it up as an apparent suicide.

She said: “Prior to Evie’s death, she went away for a weekend with some friends to a caravan, and during that weekend Evie became ill with a stomach bug. Evie never got better.

“Progressively her symptoms became a lot worse. What we believe is that Jordan has instigated or at least took advantage of Evie’s sickness to give her tablets which ultimately led to her collapse.”

Working around the clock, DCS Stables and her team gathered as much evidence as possible, eventually charging Monaghan with triple murder.

DCS Stables said that the killer showed no emotion for his crimes.

“Jordan’s physical reaction to being charged was…there’s no emotion, no emotion when going through the last moments of their lives,” she says.

“No emotion when reliving the deaths and the circumstances surrounding his three loved ones.”

In December 2021, Monaghan went on trial facing three counts of murder at Preston Crown Court and after painstaking deliberations, the jury returned a guilty verdict on all counts.

Jordan Monaghan was sentenced to 40 years behind bars for the murders of his children, Ruby and Logan, as well as the murder of his girlfriend, Evie Adams. In 2022, Monaghan had his sentence increased by a further eight years.

The Killer In My Home: A Deadliest Mums & Dads Special is available to stream from Saturday April 1 exclusively on discovery+