{"id":590388,"date":"2026-04-08T14:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/590388\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:36:10","slug":"4-women-married-to-same-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/590388\/","title":{"rendered":"4 women married to same man"},"content":{"rendered":"

W5’s Jon Woodward speaks to a B.C. woman who was surprised to discover that she wasn’t the only person married to her husband. <\/p>\n

This is part one of a multi-story series. Part two is tomorrow. <\/p>\n

When Sara was approached at a B.C. gym and complimented by a strong, confident and charming man in his late thirties, the pair immediately hit it off.<\/p>\n

The man, Jason Washington, told her he was a former U.S. Marine and a mixed martial arts fighter, and came on strong. He proposed in just a week, and eight months later, he and the single mom were married in a simple ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere was this big, strong man that I thought could be a strong shoulder to lean to, a protector, a husband and a father and a good role model to my son,\u201d Sara recalled to W5 in an interview.<\/p>\n

\"\"W5 investigation A W5 investigation has found that one man had four marriage certificates over the course of around a decade that, as of late 2025, were still valid in three different jurisdictions in North America. (Photo provided) <\/p>\n

After the marriage in 2018, she says he changed, alleging he was violent in disciplining her son. Court records show he served one day after an assault conviction about a year later.<\/p>\n

Sara felt her safety was at stake \u2013 one reason CTV News is not using her real name \u2013 and fled. She says she didn\u2019t prioritize completing the divorce paperwork, and the pair\u2019s B.C. marriage certificate is, technically, still valid.<\/p>\n

But she was surprised to find out that it wasn\u2019t the only one.<\/p>\n

A W5 investigation has found that Washington had four marriage certificates over the course of about a decade that were, as of late last year, still valid at the same time in three different jurisdictions in North America.<\/p>\n

Three of those four women were surprised to find out they married a married man, and have questions for the bureaucrats who processed and approved their marriage licence applications.<\/p>\n

Sara says if she\u2019d had any clue that the man who proposed to her was keeping something secret about his past, she would have never made those vows and saved herself years of pain and trauma.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would have been a huge red flag,\u201d Sara said.<\/p>\n

\"\"W5 investigation A W5 investigation has found that one man had four marriage certificates over the course of around a decade that, as of late 2025, were still valid in three different jurisdictions in North America. (CTV News) \u2018Are we dating the same guy?\u2019<\/p>\n

A social media page called \u201cAre we dating the same guy\u201d featured a picture of Washington. One of his wives \u2013 a woman we\u2019re calling Emma \u2013 recognized him instantly.<\/p>\n

Memories from years earlier, in Richmond, B.C, came flooding back to the single mom, including a wedding proposal after only a month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI caught him messaging another girl, and he said, \u2018No, I love you, I just want to get married, and I was trying to buy a ring, but I didn\u2019t know who to ask,\u2019\u201d Emma recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe actually went to my dad and asked for my hand, crying,\u201d she said. \u201cYou know, he\u2019s telling me, he\u2019s telling my dad that he was going to protect me.\u201d<\/p>\n

B.C. authorities granted the marriage licence without any issue, she said.<\/p>\n

Looking back, Emma said she believed he was \u201clove bombing\u201d her to distract her from anything that went wrong in the relationship. She said she was vulnerable at the time and found him creating a wedge between her and her close friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t get him to leave. I felt so stuck and so scared,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

But she said when he spanked her son, she resolved to separate \u2013 and got him another apartment. She wanted him out of her life and didn\u2019t press him to sign divorce papers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just needed him out of the house so that my kids and I were safe again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The marriage certificate for Emma and Jason Washington was also still valid.<\/p>\n

\"\"W5 investigation A W5 investigation has found that one man had four marriage certificates over the course of around a decade that, as of late 2025, were still valid in three different jurisdictions in North America. (Photo provided) More marriages \u2013 and prison time<\/p>\n

Both women were also surprised to find out that court records indicate divorce proceedings involving Washington started in 2013 in B.C. and never concluded. That\u2019s another marriage still on the books.<\/p>\n

Wedding photos posted online show Washington at it again \u2013 another marriage in 2021, this time in Buffalo, N.Y. A wedding cake is shown in the photo with gold lettering: Mr. and Mrs. Washington.<\/p>\n

Bigamy \u2013 marrying more than one person at a time \u2013 is a crime in both Canada and all 50 states within the U.S., as is making a false declaration on a marriage application, though it appears those crimes are rarely prosecuted.<\/p>\n

While he was in Buffalo, Washington would receive his most serious criminal conviction yet: second-degree manslaughter. The Erie County District Attorney\u2019s Office said he crossed a double yellow line while driving drunk and killed another driver in a head-on collision.<\/p>\n

Records show he spent a little over three years in a U.S. prison before being released in 2024.<\/p>\n

\"\"W5 investigation A W5 investigation has found that one man had four marriage certificates over the course of around a decade that, as of late 2025, were still valid in three different jurisdictions in North America. (CTV News) \u2018These are women I loved for many, many years\u2019<\/p>\n

W5 reached Washington by phone. He said he had been married four times and loved each of his wives during the marriages.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are women I loved for many, many years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As for making sure the divorce paperwork was finished and correctly filling out paperwork for a subsequent marriage, he said it was up to his wife to check the paperwork for each one.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a woman\u2019s job. That was my soon-to-be-wife\u2019s job to do all that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

When asked how his soon-to-be-wife would know about the previous marriages, Washington said: \u201cI\u2019ve always been up front, 100 per cent, about who I\u2019ve been married to. They all talk to each other, bro. They\u2019re women.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"W5 investigation A W5 investigation has found that one man had four marriage certificates over the course of around a decade that, as of late 2025, were still valid in three different jurisdictions in North America. (CTV News) <\/p>\n

As for that manslaughter conviction, Washington said he still bears mental scars from his time in the Marines.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was convicted of manslaughter because I have dissociative episodes from f—ing combat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

American military records show that Washington\u2019s service began in August 1997, and he was given a Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, though under deployments, the record is listed as \u201cnone.\u201d <\/p>\n

He was court-martialed in 2001 and given what the records call a \u201cbad-conduct discharge.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. court records show that Washington\u2019s wife in Buffalo had applied for, and received, a divorce as of December 2025.<\/p>\n

Sara and Emma say they\u2019re trying to get their marriages to Washington annulled, arguing no Canadian officials should have processed the paperwork with existing marriages on the books.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this is a huge, huge gap, a huge hole in the system that I fell through, and other women have fallen through,\u201d Sara said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"W5’s Jon Woodward speaks to a B.C. woman who was surprised to discover that she wasn’t the only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-590388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}