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A defense attorney for 48-year-old John Jordan entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf to murder and kidnapping charges.
In court today were loved ones of Tracy Jordan, who was 39 when she was stabbed to death a little over a year ago.
Those present at the brief court appearance were Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler and his wife, Christine, who was related to Jordan.
Jordan is due back in court June 29 for a status conference. He remained held on $3 million bail in the Bergen County Jail.
The two Jordan boys remained with an aunt in Tracey Jordan’s Saddle Brook hometown.
The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office has had a policy the past two years of not offering plea deals in murder cases.
John Jordan was arrested without incident when he arrived in Greenville, S.C., with the boys at 12:45 a.m. on May 10, 2014. Hours earlier, the body of his 39-year-old estranged wife was at her Cynthia Gardens apartments on Garibaldi Avenue.
She’d been stabbed several times in the chest.
At that point, Jordan had already been on the run for several hours, authorities said.
The formal complaints against him:
purposefully causing the death, or serious bodily injury resulting in the death, of Tracy Jordan, along with possession of a knife to use unlawfully against another;
unlawfully removing minor children a substantial distance after the commission of a crime or flight following the crime.
STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia
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