By Nina Mandell
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
Nearly three days after the shocking murder of an 8-year-old autistic boy in the Peninsula Hotel, his body sits unclaimed in the Medical Examiner's morgue.
His mother, Gigi Jordan, a wealthy pharmaceutical executive, is locked in a psychiatric ward at Elmhurst Hospital, in Queens, awaiting arraignment on charges she murdered the little boy called Jude Michael Mirra with a drug overdose.
His biological father, who had not seen Jude in years and gave up custody so he could be adopted by Jordan's second husband, lives in California.
"Jude is alone. Nobody has identified his body," the father, Emil Tzekov, told the New York Post.
As Jude waited to be claimed, friends and family described how Jordan had become increasingly obsessed with finding a "cure" for his autism.
The wealthy pharmaceutical executive “went to clinics all over the country looking for a treatment, grasping at straws,” one source told the New York Daily News about Jordan's erratic behavior.
A friend told DNAinfo on Friday that Gigi had devoted herself to researching the disease, even as her marriages to two men crumbled.
On Friday, a relative in Belgium called police after Jordan sent an e-mail threatening to kill herself and the child, which led the NYPD to track the pair to a room at the Peninsula Hotel, on Fifth Avenue.
Inside the room, police found little Jude dead on the bed and his mother lying on the floor, barely alive, next to him. Police said she had killed the boy by feeding him a drug overdose.
Jordan has been charged with murder in the second degree.
The woman described in reports had become withdrawn and desperate over the past few years. Friends also told the News that Jordan cut all ties six months ago as she became increasingly desperate to fix her son's condition.
She once claimed her child was being molested by a satanic cult and was detained by Wyoming police, authorities told the New York Post.
She also made similar claims in a rambling letter to a Wyoming sex-crimes investigator, and more recently in a rambling 20-page suicide note the Post said.
Jordan also indicated the mob was after her, according the report.
