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00:05a deadly fall from a desolate mountain trail we had received word that a body had been found in
00:12Glacier National Park a newlyweds life cut short just days after saying I do this was a case that
00:20had everybody gripped about to start their life together and one of them has ended up dead was it
00:26simply a terrible accident she told law enforcement that they had gotten into an argument to grab my
00:33arm I pushed and whatever or the results of something far more sinister it's important
00:43that I know that you're telling me the truth on it so what I know well I mean and I
00:48understand
00:49that okay but I think that there's more
01:10Cody Johnson was born in California in 1988 and grew up in Montana Cody loved being outdoors he
01:19loved sports he loved going to his church and he also was obsessed with cars he loved driving them
01:25and fixing them up he was a person who loved life and his hobbies it was just very popular among
01:31his
01:31friends it was very outgoing Cody's hometown of Kalispell was the county seat of Flathead County the county
01:39is phenomenally large it stretches all the way from the Canadian border down to the Bob Marshall
01:48local wilderness the county is a very wide river valley formed by glaciers eons ago and there are a
01:58number of glaciers in the mountains and that's kind of a big reason why people like to come here is
02:05to go to
02:05that remote area Cody had been single for some time in October 2011 he met Jordan Graham Jordan and
02:18Cody met at a Halloween party Jordan was a little bit shyer she was slightly more introverted Cody was
02:24larger than life really out there extroverted but they got on really well they had so much in common
02:29both really active loved the outdoors loved hiking they both were avid churchgoers as well and the
02:36relationship progressed quite quickly Cody was head over heels with with Jordan this was infatuated with
02:44her he once told a friend that if he could wake up next to her every day for the rest
02:47of his life he
02:48would be happy the relationship moved fast and a little over a year later in December 2012 Cody proposed
02:59they're very involved in their church and would often go at least once a week but sometimes twice in
03:05one day Cody and Jordan were both members of the faith Baptist church a very conservative branch of the
03:14Christian faith Jordan was particularly devout member and her beliefs were very much that sex was
03:25something to be reserved for marriage on June 29th in 2013 the couple married in a modest celebration
03:35surrounded by family and friends after the ceremony the couple had a one night honeymoon in a place
03:43called Big Fork in Montana Cody really spoiled Jordan that night he decorated the room with flowers to
03:49make it a really romantic evening for them when they returned from their honeymoon the newlyweds moved
03:57into their first home together the couple had time off work booked in to decorate their new place
04:03together and Cody was due back into work on Monday the 8th of July they got up went to church
04:10people
04:10were asking Cody what they were planning to do that Sunday and Cody said that Jordan had told him
04:16that she had a surprise for him but he didn't know what the surprise was after her church they met
04:23some
04:23other church members at the Dairy Queen in Kalispell after spending time with their friends Cody and
04:29Jordan went home about 8 30 that night later that evening Jordan made an unexpected phone call to her
04:42brother on the evening of July 7th at about 11 15 Jordan calls up her brother and she tells him
04:48that
04:48her and Cody had gotten into a fight and he had gone into a car with some of his car
04:55buddies to go joy
04:56riding and she didn't know where he was she didn't want to talk to over or look for him that
05:01night but
05:01she just wanted to talk to him the next day later that night around 1 a.m. Jordan drove to
05:11her best
05:12friend Kimberly's house when she turned up on her doorstep Kimberly noticed that Jordan seemed nervous
05:20she told Kimberly that the argument had happened so quickly and that she didn't really want to talk
05:26to Cody she just wanted to see if she showed up to work the next morning on July 8th Cody
05:33was due on
05:34the early shift at the local car dealership where he worked building custom-made vehicles with his
05:40co-worker and close friend Cameron Cameron was expecting him to show up for work that day but he never
05:49showed
05:52Cody always came to work on time sometimes early and was a very dedicated worker and so for him to
05:58not
05:59be at work was very unusual two hours later there was still no sign of Cody Cameron text he called
06:07but it went to voicemail every time at 4 30 he texted Jordan Jordan told Cameron that the couple had
06:16gotten into a fight and that Cody had taken off with some car buddies apparently from Washington
06:24by July 9th it had been two days since Cody had last been seen Cameron went to Cody and Jordan's
06:32house
06:32to see if he could find Cody himself when he got there he started looking around the house and found
06:38the
06:38back door unlocked and went inside but could not find Cody and Cameron continued to get more and more
06:44concerned so he started to call friends and call police departments and to see if anyone matching Cody's
06:51description showed up he called in hospitals from Kalispell all the way to Spokane Washington to see if
06:56if they had found Cody but there was no sign of him anywhere Jordan gathered some friends and began
07:06to search around the local area for Cody when they were driving back Jordan received a call from the
07:14police asking her to come in for questioning she goes to the Kalispell police department to talk to a
07:23Sergeant Zimmerman and tell him what she knows about his disappearance Jordan said that Cody had received a phone
07:32call that evening that upset him and had agitated him Jordan speculated that it could have been a call
07:39from somebody called Jose who she said owed Cody money then she left Cody that evening for a little
07:46bit because she had forgotten her phone charger at one of the places where she worked as a nanny when
07:52she
07:52came home Cody was gone I got a message saying that he was going to go for a ride or
07:59someone's out of town but
08:00in there visiting she also told the law enforcement that she'd seen a dark colored car pick up Cody in
08:08the
08:08driveway and drive off he always told me this one thing when his friends came to visit he would take
08:16their
08:16place to go to New Yorkshire Park a missing persons report was launched in northwest Montana this went out to
08:24all of the authorities in the local area who then began a search Dick's sign was one of the officers
08:32on
08:33duty that day in 2013 I was the chief of detectives for the Flathead County Sheriff's Department under Montana
08:43law the elected sheriff is also the elected coroner I know Glacier National Park because I was a law
08:52enforcement ranger there for about eight years hiking on the trails is not recommended at night it's rugged
09:00it's remote a lot of times you're on a narrow rock ledge with mountain to one side of you and
09:08a sharp
09:09fall off to the other side and if you just trip and fall you can go downhill a long ways
09:17and some of
09:18those falls it could be very fatal when someone goes missing they generally do a radio broadcast that can
09:28be received by all law enforcement agencies in the area so in the summer months you get these all the
09:37time
09:37because of the extreme number of visitors we have in the area most of these resolve within a few hours
09:45they
09:46just come out way later than they planned on or they overnight somewhere and come out the next day rarely
09:52are
09:53they actually missing the report of Cody Johnson missing was not an unusual event the fact that he stayed
10:03missing longer than most then made it more intense and more of interest to law enforcement to be looking
10:13with greater diligence it's now two days since Cody's last been seen his friends and his colleagues were
10:20really starting to get worried Cody Johnson had been missing from the Kalispell area for over two days
10:35while local police began their search his wife of only 10 days Jordan continued to be questioned by
10:43detectives when asked why she didn't immediately report him missing Jordan told law enforcement that she
10:50didn't know that she could she thought she had to wait 48 hours before reporting someone missing Jordan also
10:57said that she believed if Cody had come home and found out that she'd called law enforcement that he would
11:04have
11:04gotten upset law enforcement was suspicious of Jordan's story because she'd been telling different people different things
11:13throughout the previous few days getting some inconsistencies and what you're telling me with other
11:18information that I've already gathered okay and I spoke to a few people and it's important that I know that
11:25you're
11:25telling me the truth on things I know well I mean and I understand that okay but I think that
11:32there's more
11:35the following morning on July 10th 2013 Jordan returned to Kalispell Police Department along with
11:43her mother and some vital new information
11:48I got an email this morning from some guy all it said was Tony in that email the person wrote
11:54my name's Tony there's no bother looking for Cody anymore he's gone
12:00he'd come with some buddies met up with me on Sunday night at Columbia Falls he was saying he needed
12:05to be with his buddies for a bit and take them for a joy ride
12:08three of the guys came back saying that they had gone for a ride in the woods somewhere
12:13and Cody got out of the car went for a little hike and they are positive that he fell and
12:19he is dead Jordan
12:22I don't know who the guys were but they took off so call off the missing persons report Cody is
12:27gone for sure
12:29this really turned the investigation on its head when she gave this email to law enforcement that
12:36essentially said her husband was dead she was acting very unusual she wasn't freaked out she wasn't crying
12:43she wasn't sad she seemed to be showing almost no emotion at all for a woman who's potentially just
12:52found out that her new husband is dead this reaction is not what you would expect
12:58I just want to go
12:59I just want to go
13:01I just want to go
13:01I just want to go
13:01Jordan said that she didn't know who Tony was but she gave police contact details for somebody called Tony Stolkopf
13:10Law enforcement immediately thought the email was sketchy but it was still a lead nonetheless so they subpoenaed Google for
13:17information about where the IP address of the email had been created
13:20and they also decided to track down this Tony
13:27while police tried to trace Tony Stolkopf Jordan regrouped with her search party
13:34armed with this information from this email Jordan gathers up her friends her brother Michael they all head to Galatian
13:41National Park and begin a search
13:47at a few points they would stop and get out of the car and start hiking around looking for Cody
13:53but it was kind of like finding a needle in a haystack
13:56Galatian National Park is a million acres it's a huge landscape and so finding a single person in it would
14:02be nearly impossible
14:06one of the spots that Jordan wanted to look at was this location called the loop
14:13they parked the car and looked around briefly but it was getting late so they went home
14:18following day they went back to the spot Jordan was pretty insistent that they search this area again
14:24and so they started walking
14:27at one point Jordan started to climb down the embankment it's a very steep embankment
14:35that's over this river very dangerous but Jordan was insistent about going down this embankment
14:43her brother tries to say to her it's not safe over there but she just says to him no I've
14:47just got this feeling that we might find something
14:51after a few minutes of walking around she spotted something in the ravine below
14:58her brother Michael came alongside her and there he was
15:07it was Cody's body at the bottom of the steep and rocky ravine
15:14Michael immediately became emotional and started crying but Jordan was very cold and didn't seem to show a lot of
15:22emotion at all about what she had just seen
15:27with no phone signal on the remote hiking trail
15:30Jordan and her friends drove to the nearest general store to alert the authorities
15:36from there a call is made to say that the body has been found
15:42park rangers confirmed the presence of a body
15:45but due to the difficult and dangerous terrain
15:48recovery teams waited until the following day
15:51July 12th to attempt to retrieve it from the ravine
15:56we had received word
15:58that a body had been found in Glacier National Park
16:01that they suspected that it was in fact Cody Johnson
16:04so I was assigned as a coroner
16:08not as a detective but as a coroner to go and investigate
16:12the death
16:17we were taken to a spot where you could look over the edge of the gorge and you could see
16:21the body in the water below
16:24and then we came up with a game plan of how to get down to it
16:28Cody's body was almost 200 feet below in a creek at the bottom of the canyon
16:34the fastest and easiest way would have been to rappel down on ropes
16:40but because the body was at the bottom of the gorge
16:43we weren't sure how the cliff faces were involved in what happened
16:47so we didn't want to disturb anything on the cliff faces
16:51so we walked down through a wooded area
16:54and followed the creek that he was in
16:58and approached him that way
17:00as not to disrupt any evidence or forensic findings that might be there
17:06possibility would be to do a vertical raise up there
17:09to do a retrieve
17:10when we came upon the body
17:13it was in a small pool of water
17:15which roughly was three foot deep
17:20prone
17:20arms hanging down at his side
17:23legs down underneath him
17:25as coroners we're taught
17:27everything is a homicide
17:29until the evidence
17:31and the information
17:33proves otherwise
17:35Paul's taking some pictures
17:37still pictures of the gully he came down
17:39I'll get over there and take some more in a minute
17:42and down from up there
17:44around this rock
17:46we also know
17:47people fall and die in the park with some regularity
17:50for the most part almost three a year
17:52so you try to
17:53you try to start with an unbiased mind
17:56a number of investigators and myself took a series of photographs
18:00looking at the body from all angles
18:02so you get a good perspective of where they're at
18:06then we go into the physical examination of the body
18:11there was no blood
18:13you could see some skin defects
18:15you could see some skin defects
18:16which is coroner terms for tears in skin
18:18but with his face down
18:20we couldn't see any trauma
18:23associated with
18:25his head or skull
18:27from that position
18:29in his back pocket
18:30was the outline of your wallet
18:32so I recovered that wallet
18:34I found a Montana operator's license
18:37which was issued to Cody
18:38and the physical description
18:41matched
18:42the general physical description
18:44that we had in front of us
18:45so now we were able to say that this in fact
18:48was Cody Johnson
18:52we have to put our emotion behind
18:54and look at things from a clinical standpoint
18:56it was not
18:59a pleasant thing to look at by any means
19:02but it was part of my job
19:04and I try to do my job
19:05with the greatest efficiency
19:08and professionalism I can
19:12as I panned the area
19:13taking photographs
19:15I noticed two objects
19:17that were not naturally occurring
19:19one was a piece of black cloth or fabric
19:22and another one was a tennis shoe
19:25up on the cliff edge
19:28so that was the first clue
19:31from where he came down
19:32because he could have come down
19:34from either side of that canyon
19:36but then we knew he came from the south side of it
19:39because of the placement of that shoe
19:44the plan was made that we would put Cody
19:47in a water bag
19:49which is basically a large mesh bag
19:51and try and hoist it up the side of a mountain
19:54in rolling him over
19:56to position him in the bag
19:57was the first frontal view of his face
20:00and the frontal lobes of his head
20:03and he had massive trauma
20:06that would be
20:08the description we use
20:10is inconsistent with life
20:11and that further gave indication
20:13that he fell from altitude
20:15he didn't just trip and fall there
20:17in that body of water
20:20everything that we saw
20:22the totality of the information
20:24suggested that he came from the south rim
20:28of that canyon
20:30up in that loop area
20:32and hit rock objects all the way down
20:40this sets up some big questions
20:43what was Cody doing there
20:45and how did he fall
20:54Cody's body was airlifted out of the ravine
20:57and sent for autopsy
20:59later that day
21:00the autopsy results confirmed
21:02he had died from blunt force trauma
21:05consistent with a fall
21:06from 200 feet
21:10meanwhile
21:11news of Cody's death spread
21:13throughout the local community
21:14the discovery of Cody's body
21:17in Glacier National Park
21:18was a big story locally
21:19people go missing in the park
21:21with some regularity
21:23and occasionally
21:24people die
21:25but this was very mysterious
21:27about how he ended up
21:28at the bottom of the ravine
21:32On July 22nd, 2013
21:35eleven days after Cody's body was found
21:38friends and family gathered
21:40for his funeral
21:43Cody's mum
21:43Sherry led the tribute service
21:46they had a memorial fund there
21:48to pay for some of the expenses
21:49but the room was full
21:51for all of Cody's loved ones
21:53his friends
21:53his colleagues
21:54however, the mourners described
21:56that Jordan's demeanor
21:58was unusual
22:00She seemed very disengaged
22:02from the entire event
22:03she wasn't very emotional
22:04especially considering
22:05that she just lost her husband
22:07of eight days
22:08and some people later said
22:09that she spent most of the time
22:10looking at her phone
22:16Concerned about her best friend
22:17Jordan's maid of honour
22:19Kimberly
22:19contacted the police
22:21about some worrying text messages
22:23she'd received from Jordan
22:24in the run-up to the wedding
22:27Jordan had been sending her
22:28a lot of texts
22:29about issues
22:30that she and Cody
22:32had been having
22:34she kept saying
22:35to Kimberly
22:36she wasn't sure
22:37if she wanted to go through
22:38with it
22:39Kimberly said
22:39Jordan seemed more concerned
22:41with being a bride
22:42than a wife
22:43and that also
22:45she had some nerves
22:46around the night
22:47of the wedding
22:50because she was
22:51deeply religious
22:52she was nervous
22:53about the prospect
22:54that Cody might want
22:55to consummate
22:56the marriage
22:57that night
22:59Jordan's doubts
22:59about her relationship
23:01with Cody
23:01continued in the days
23:03following the wedding
23:05Kimberly told law enforcement
23:06that a lot of the text messages
23:08she had received
23:09from Jordan
23:09were about how she
23:11felt like she had made a mistake
23:13she wished she hadn't gotten
23:15married to Cody
23:15she was really struggling
23:17with settling into married life
23:19and settling into adulthood
23:20she was also having trouble
23:22being intimate with Cody
23:23she would make up excuses
23:25like they couldn't be intimate
23:26together
23:27and she was just really struggling
23:29with that part of marriage
23:34these messages are about
23:35more than post-wedding blues
23:37they're not simply
23:38a reaction to
23:39the end of the excitement
23:41and the anticipation
23:42leading up to the wedding
23:44these messages imply
23:45somebody who feels frightened
23:47who feels trapped
23:49what we have here
23:50is somebody who
23:51who doesn't really have
23:53the emotional maturity
23:54for marriage yet
23:57there was one text message
23:59in particular
24:00sent the night
24:01Cody went missing
24:02that raised alarm bells
24:03for officers
24:04Kimberly told law enforcement
24:06that on the night
24:07of July 7th
24:08Jordan had texted Kimberly
24:10and said that she was
24:11going to finally bring up
24:13these feelings
24:13with Cody
24:14and that they were going
24:17to have that conversation
24:18that evening
24:18she also told Kimberly
24:20that if she didn't hear
24:21from her later
24:22that she should be worried
24:24that something had happened
24:32As the investigation
24:34continued into the death
24:36of Cody Johnson
24:37after a fatal fall
24:38in Glacier National Park
24:40his friends began to question
24:42the behavior
24:43of his now widow
24:44Jordan Graham
24:45in the aftermath
24:48In the days after
24:50they found Cody's body
24:52all of Cody
24:53and Jordan's friends
24:54started to look
24:55at the events
24:56of the previous week
24:57or two in a different light
25:01They started to remember
25:02that at the wedding
25:02she was acting very unusual
25:04that she wasn't really
25:07expressing a lot of emotion
25:08or even excitement
25:09about the wedding
25:10while she had been excited
25:12about the event itself
25:14she didn't seem to be excited
25:15about getting married
25:16to Cody
25:19When she was walking
25:20down the aisle
25:20Jordan was actually crying
25:22At the time
25:23her friends thought
25:24that maybe
25:25they were tears of joy
25:26but with the passage of time
25:29they started to think
25:30that maybe those tears
25:31meant something else
25:37When people reflected back
25:39on that wedding day
25:40it seemed even more suspicious
25:42now Cody had gone missing
25:47Jordan's behaviour
25:48during the search
25:49for her missing husband
25:50had also taken
25:52friends and family
25:53by surprise
25:54She was giggling
25:56she was texting
25:57on her phone
25:57and then Mother
25:58eventually did find
25:59her dead husband's body
26:02she made this comment
26:03and say
26:04oh well they can call off
26:05the search now
26:05the detectives can get off
26:07my back and get out
26:07of my business
26:10Later that day
26:11they were driving home
26:13in Cody's car
26:14one of Jordan's friends
26:16was driving
26:17and she was obviously
26:18very emotional
26:18I mean they just found
26:19their friend's body
26:20and they were driving
26:23erratically
26:23and at one point
26:24Jordan told this friend
26:26hey
26:26slow down
26:27drive safe
26:28this isn't my car
26:29and then she paused
26:30and said
26:31well actually it is now
26:33that just seemed
26:34very unusual
26:36to be more focused
26:37on the car
26:39that you have
26:39instead of
26:40the fact
26:41that you just discovered
26:42your dead husband
26:43at the bottom of a ravine
26:45all of this
26:46tells me
26:47that this is someone
26:47who's not surprised
26:48by the discovery
26:49of the body
26:50who's not emotionally
26:51impacted
26:52by the discovery
26:53of the body
26:54someone who's
26:55who's unaware
26:56of the world
26:57that she's living in
26:58who hasn't admitted
27:00to herself
27:01what's going on
27:04but what really
27:05set alarm bells ringing
27:06was how quickly
27:08Jordan found Cody's body
27:09in Glacier National Park
27:11a sprawling wilderness
27:13spanning over
27:14one million acres
27:16the odds of finding
27:18a body
27:18in Glacier National Park
27:20are slim
27:20the odds of finding
27:21your dead husband
27:23in Glacier National Park
27:25is probably
27:26one in a billion
27:29the park has
27:31hundreds of miles
27:32of trails
27:33hundreds of lakes
27:35several rivers
27:37if you could look
27:39at an acre a day
27:40it would exceed
27:41a human lifetime
27:44it's beyond
27:46reasonable imagination
27:47that they just
27:48happen to
27:49luck on
27:50to the right spot
27:51at the right time
27:52just incredibly
27:54unusual
27:57I can't think
27:58of another time
27:59in my career
28:00that that has happened
28:03as suspicions
28:04swirled around
28:05Jordan
28:05detectives continued
28:07to follow up
28:08on the lead
28:08she had provided
28:09to police
28:10when Cody was
28:11reported missing
28:13initially
28:14Jordan had told
28:15law enforcement
28:16that Cody
28:17had received
28:18a phone call
28:18on the night
28:19of July 7th
28:20that had upset him
28:24the police
28:25did investigate
28:26this call
28:27which Jordan
28:27said Cody
28:28had received
28:29from Jose
28:29in Washington
28:30turns out
28:31Jose did
28:32call Cody
28:33but this was
28:33just about
28:34a work-related
28:35incident
28:35so the police
28:36quickly cleared him
28:38of any suspicion
28:41detectives then
28:41began to investigate
28:42the email
28:43Jordan had said
28:44that this came
28:45from a man
28:46called Tony Stalkup
28:47they made contact
28:48with Tony
28:48he had nothing
28:50to do
28:50with this email
28:51the police then
28:52subpoenaed Google
28:53to find out more
28:54information about
28:55the account
28:58two key pieces
29:00of information
29:01were found
29:01this account
29:02was set up
29:03on July the 10th
29:04the same day
29:05that the email
29:06was sent
29:06and the IP address
29:08led back to
29:09Jordan's parents
29:10house
29:11this now strongly
29:13suggested
29:14that Jordan
29:14had set up
29:15this email account
29:16to send a fake email
29:18to create a fake
29:19narrative
29:20about what really
29:21happened to Cody
29:23now if Jordan sent
29:24this email to
29:25herself
29:26this tells me
29:26that we're dealing
29:27with somebody
29:28who's desperately
29:30thrashing about
29:30who's on the back
29:31foot scrambling
29:32and who's simply
29:34reacting to events
29:35rather than having
29:36pre-planned them
29:37in any way at all
29:40then came another
29:42shocking revelation
29:43during the course
29:44of law enforcement's
29:45investigation
29:46they were able
29:47to subpoena
29:48the cell phone data
29:49of Jordan's phone
29:51and where it had been
29:53on the evening
29:53of July 7th
29:54that information
29:56told them
29:56that Jordan
29:57was headed
29:58towards Glacier
29:59National Park
30:00and eventually
30:01entered the park
30:02where she lost
30:03cell phone service
30:04for a while
30:05and later it showed
30:06her leaving the park
30:06going back to
30:07Kalispell
30:09this confirmed
30:10that Jordan
30:11or at least her phone
30:12had been in the park
30:13on the same night
30:14that Cody
30:15fell to his death
30:19and then detectives
30:20uncovered another
30:21key piece of evidence
30:22that would change
30:24the course
30:24of the entire investigation
30:26on the evening
30:27of July 16th
30:29Jordan was asked
30:30to come in
30:30for further questioning
30:32Initially she thought
30:33it was just an interview
30:34to kind of wrap things up
30:35but when she got there
30:37she wasn't talking
30:38to detectives
30:39with the Kalispell
30:39Police Department anymore
30:40she was talking
30:41to an FBI agent
30:44the FBI was involved
30:46because Cody's body
30:48had been discovered
30:49in Glacier National Park
30:50which is federal jurisdiction
30:51the agent asked Jordan
30:54to explain the night
30:56of Cody's disappearance
30:58Jordan told him
31:00about the car buddies
31:01how they had gotten
31:02into a disagreement
31:03but at one point
31:07the agent told Jordan
31:09to stop
31:11and said that
31:13he knew she was lying
31:14he flips over
31:16a photo
31:16from the security cameras
31:18at the west gate
31:18of Glacier National Park
31:20right there
31:21was Jordan
31:22and Cody
31:23and their car
31:24and a time stamp
31:25saying that
31:26they were there
31:27the night that Cody died
31:32The police used
31:33this piece of
31:34irrefutable evidence
31:35of her lying
31:36to break Jordan down
31:40faced with this evidence
31:42she breaks down
31:43and confesses
31:48Jordan said
31:49that they drove
31:50into the park
31:50and they decided
31:51to go on a hike
31:57She told law enforcement
31:59that they had gotten
32:01into an argument
32:01that she had finally
32:03confronted Cody
32:04about her feelings
32:05of not wanting
32:06to be married
32:08and the argument
32:09got heated quickly
32:11and the argument
32:12he grabbed my arm
32:13and the jacket
32:13and he said no
32:14I'm going to defend myself
32:15but I let go
32:17and I pushed
32:17and he went over
32:20there was no
32:22planning on your part
32:23to kill Cody
32:25no
32:25okay
32:26you hadn't planned that
32:27this whole thing
32:28just kind of happened
32:29and he did
32:30he did the emotion
32:31and the passion
32:32of that situation
32:40in that moment
32:42although I think
32:43she will have been
32:44aware
32:44at the back
32:45of her mind
32:46of the consequences
32:48of what she's telling
32:49I think actually
32:51Jordan will have
32:52experienced this
32:53as a relief
32:54to be finally
32:56saying the truth
32:57following her confession
32:59Jordan was released
33:01and placed
33:01under house arrest
33:02while detectives
33:04continued
33:04to build a case
33:05to prove this
33:06wasn't an accident
33:07but a meticulously
33:09planned murder
33:13that August
33:14she was indicted
33:15by a federal grand jury
33:18prosecutors managed
33:20to secure
33:20an indictment
33:21against Jordan
33:22for first and second
33:23degree murder
33:24and lying to authorities
33:26the police department
33:27called Jordan in
33:28asking her to return
33:30some evidence
33:30but when she arrived
33:32they arrested her
33:33on suspicion
33:34of Cody's murder
33:41the trial began
33:42on December the 9th
33:432013
33:44at a federal court
33:45in Missoula
33:46Montana
33:47Jordan pleaded
33:48not guilty
33:49to charges
33:50of first degree murder
33:51second degree murder
33:52and making false statements
33:54to authorities
33:56first degree murder
33:57suggest that
33:58it was premeditated
34:00and that
34:00she had planned
34:01it all out
34:02second degree murder
34:03was that it was an accident
34:04the purpose of the trial
34:05was to determine
34:06whether or not
34:07she had
34:08killed Cody
34:09on purpose
34:12if the prosecution
34:13could prove Jordan
34:14was guilty
34:15of first degree murder
34:16she could be facing
34:17life in prison
34:23on December 9th
34:252013
34:26just five months
34:28after Cody
34:29Johnson died
34:30after a fatal fall
34:31in Glacier National Park
34:33his widow
34:34Jordan Graham
34:35stood trial
34:36for his murder
34:37the prosecution
34:38brought various pieces
34:40of evidence
34:40these included
34:41the fact
34:42that Jordan
34:43took Cody
34:44for a surprise
34:45that night
34:45up on the mountain
34:47the fact
34:48that she sent
34:48these text messages
34:49on the night
34:50of his death
34:50to Kimberly
34:51all of her nerves
34:52before the marriage
34:54as well as her lies
34:55after Cody
34:56was found dead
34:57the prosecution
34:58is painting a picture
34:59of Jordan
35:00as somebody
35:01utterly cold
35:03somebody who was
35:04able to ruthlessly
35:06hold a secret
35:07from her friends
35:08and family
35:09somebody who
35:09strategically tried
35:11to take control
35:12of the narrative
35:15there was one
35:16further piece
35:17of evidence
35:17that prosecutors
35:18hoped would convince
35:20the jury
35:20that Cody's death
35:22had been planned
35:24there was a cloth
35:26that was found
35:27near Cody
35:28in the park
35:28and prosecutors
35:30believe
35:31that it might have
35:32been a blindfold
35:34Jordan had put
35:35a blindfold on Cody
35:37before he had
35:38been pushed off
35:39the cliff
35:39prosecutors tried
35:41to introduce
35:42the blindfold
35:42at trial
35:43but because
35:44it hadn't been
35:45put in a proper
35:46evidence bag
35:48they were not able
35:49to submit it
35:51as formal evidence
35:52in the trial
35:52they were looking
35:53for DNA on it
35:54and it was stored
35:55in a plastic bag
35:56and it was damp
35:57well things stored
35:58in plastic bags
35:59that are damp
36:00putrefy
36:00and destroy DNA evidence
36:07Jordan's defense team
36:08continued to claim
36:10that Cody's fatal fall
36:11had been a tragic accident
36:14Jordan's attorneys argued
36:16that Jordan was
36:18an immature person
36:19and that she wasn't ready
36:20for the responsibilities
36:21of marriage
36:22but that she didn't
36:23purposely kill Cody
36:26their argument
36:27was that Cody
36:28and Jordan
36:29had gotten into a fight
36:30that night
36:31in Glacier National Park
36:32and that she had pushed him
36:34off the cliff by accident
36:36and that everything
36:38that she had done
36:38in the days
36:39after his death
36:42all the lies she told
36:43was because
36:44she didn't think
36:45anyone would believe
36:46her version of events
36:47there's no doubt
36:48this is a
36:49a plausible explanation
36:51I'm just not sure
36:52it's consistent
36:54with somebody
36:55who is also able
36:56the next day
36:57to create
36:59an email alibi
37:01deflecting blame
37:02on somebody else
37:05During the course
37:07of the trial
37:07dozens of witnesses
37:09were called
37:09to testify
37:10including then
37:11Chief of Detectives
37:13and County Coroner
37:14Dick Sign
37:15I was brought
37:16into the courtroom
37:17and the questioning
37:18involved
37:19was about the location
37:23how did I take
37:25the remains
37:26into my care
37:27and how was
37:27the integrity of them
37:28going forward
37:29to the crime lab
37:30those
37:32those mechanical
37:33sorts of things
37:34which one cannot take
37:36for granted at trial
37:40They also put his mother
37:41on the stand
37:42for a very emotional testimony
37:44she told the court
37:46that Cody
37:47was super happy
37:48to have been getting married
37:50that he'd always wanted
37:51to buy a home
37:52and start a family
37:53and that she'd always
37:54wanted to become
37:54a grandmother
37:55and so she was
37:57was kind of
37:58on cloud nine
37:59in the days after
38:00or Cody and Jordan's
38:01wedding
38:02but unfortunately
38:03those dreams
38:03were quickly dashed
38:07there was a lot of emotional
38:09testimony throughout
38:10the course of that week
38:11but the entire time
38:12Jordan showed very little emotion
38:19it's almost as if her reactions
38:20are the reactions
38:22of somebody who doesn't
38:22actually think that she's
38:24done anything wrong
38:24it's as if she's the victim
38:26somehow
38:28as the trial progressed
38:30more shocking evidence
38:32came to light
38:33one of the investigators
38:34happened to live in
38:36Cody and Jordan's
38:37neighborhood
38:37and he was out for a jog
38:40when he discovered
38:41that someone at Cody
38:42and Jordan's house
38:43had taken out the trash
38:44once the trash can's
38:45on the curb
38:46it's kind of fair game
38:47and so he took the trash can
38:49brought it home
38:49and dumped out everything
38:51that was inside
38:53he found cards
38:55and teddy bears
38:55and other gifts
38:57that Cody had given
38:58Jordan
38:59and he also found
39:00part of Jordan's
39:01wedding dress
39:04and it was kind of unusual
39:06that Jordan just decided
39:07to throw them out
39:08especially immediately
39:09after his disappearance
39:11this is not somebody
39:13sentimentally holding on
39:14to the loss of a loved
39:17bereaved partner
39:18this is somebody cold
39:20and calculating
39:25as the trial
39:26was nearing
39:26its conclusion
39:27Jordan's defense
39:28were faced
39:29with lots of evidence
39:30mounting up against her
39:32they had her confession
39:33they had the falsified
39:35email
39:35that she'd sent
39:36witness testimony
39:37and the trash can
39:39discovery
39:39it was not looking good
39:41for Jordan
39:45Day four of the trial
39:46and we
39:47are anticipating
39:49closing arguments
39:50from both sides
39:51but after lunch break
39:54everyone got back
39:54into the courtroom
39:55and there was
39:56a surprise
39:59Jordan had decided
40:00to plead guilty
40:02to second degree murder
40:06it was a very shocking
40:09moment
40:09the defense realized
40:10that there was no way
40:12a jury was going to
40:13find her innocent
40:14of these charges
40:15she accepted the charge
40:17of second degree murder
40:18in agreement
40:19that the charge
40:19of first degree murder
40:21and her line to authorities
40:22would be dropped
40:25on March 27th 2014
40:27Jordan Graham was sentenced
40:30to 30 years
40:31in federal prison
40:32with five years
40:34of supervised release
40:35following her term
40:37she also had to pay
40:39restitution
40:39to law enforcement
40:41of about $17,000
40:43to cover
40:44the cost
40:45of recovering
40:46Cody's body
40:46it's reassuring
40:48that
40:49something
40:50horrible
40:51that happened
40:52to another human being
40:53is not without
40:54its
40:55its penalty
40:58and there's
40:59remorse
41:00because
41:00a young lady
41:01lost
41:02any
41:03semblance
41:04of a future
41:05she was going to have
41:06for a momentary
41:08occurrence
41:09where she ruined
41:11multiple lives
41:12she
41:12obviously took the life
41:13of her husband
41:14she condemned herself
41:15to the bulk
41:16of her adult life
41:17in jail
41:18she had
41:19family
41:20and friends
41:21that lost
41:22respect for her
41:23she had
41:24other people
41:25and other family members
41:27that
41:28lost
41:29a son
41:31lost
41:32a good friend
41:32lost a co-worker
41:37Cody Johnson
41:38left behind a family
41:39and friends
41:40who loved him dearly
41:41dying in his
41:43mid-twenties
41:44when he was just
41:45at the start
41:45of his life
41:46this was such a tragic case
41:49I don't think anyone
41:51doubts
41:51that Jordan
41:52did it
41:53but
41:54I certainly do think
41:55that even a decade later
41:57there's a lot of questions
41:58that linger
41:58about the entire
41:59episode
42:02whether she
42:03planned it out
42:04and lured him
42:05to some cliff
42:06with a blindfold on
42:07or
42:08whether it was just
42:09an accident
42:10and she
42:10pushed him off the cliff
42:12in a moment of passion
42:13the only person
42:14who knows for certain
42:16what happened
42:16that night
42:17is Jordan
42:21I guess I don't think
42:22she was really ready
42:23to be married
42:24she wasn't ready
42:25for that type
42:25of commitment
42:26and
42:27I do have to wonder
42:28you know
42:31logically
42:31you would think
42:32well if you get married
42:33and you're immediately
42:35unhappy
42:35we'll just file for divorce
42:36but I don't really know
42:37if that was an option
42:39for her
42:40you know
42:41considering
42:42you know
42:42her very
42:43religious background
42:44you know
42:45that
42:45might have been
42:47tough for her
42:48and so
42:49I do think
42:50she maybe felt
42:50she was trapped
42:52in that marriage
42:53and that there was no way
42:54to get out of it
42:55we are all products
42:57of our upbringing
42:59and the culture
43:00we live in
43:01you have to ask
43:02yourself
43:02are any of the other
43:04people that had
43:05those constraints
43:06killing their spouses
43:14Following the trial
43:16friends and family
43:17held a memorial service
43:19for Cody
43:21and it was very well
43:23attended
43:23there were
43:24a few hundred people
43:26lots of Cody's
43:27friends
43:27and family
43:28and
43:29you know
43:29just a lot of memories
43:30about the type of person
43:31Cody was
43:32I think you know
43:33while there was a lot
43:34of emotion
43:36at that
43:37event
43:38I think there was also
43:38a lot of relief
43:39that they finally knew
43:41what had happened
43:42or at least
43:43as much as they're ever
43:44going to know
43:44about what had happened
43:46but it was very
43:47an emotional event
43:48Cody was a beloved
43:49person
43:50and
43:51that event
43:52reflected that
43:53this was a real tragedy
43:55where two lives
43:56were ruined
43:57Jordan found herself
43:58in this situation
44:00where she got herself
44:0130 years
44:02in prison
44:03and then Cody's
44:04family and friends
44:05who loved him
44:06daily
44:06have been left
44:08with that loss
44:08and that grief
44:09of a young man
44:10who was just starting
44:11out his life
44:12with the guilty verdict
44:14the family and friends
44:15of Cody
44:16have got justice
44:17but they forever lost
44:20the bubbly vivacious character
44:24that was their son
44:25their brother
44:26their friend
44:27their father
44:28the very end
44:56of the death
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