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00:04¡SuscrÃbete al canal!
00:42It's important that I know that you're telling me the truth on this.
00:46So what do I know?
00:47Well, and I understand that, okay, but I think that there's more.
01:10Cody Johnson was born in California in 1988 and grew up in Montana.
01:16Cody loved being outdoors.
01:18He loved sports.
01:20He loved going to his church.
01:21And he also was obsessed with cars.
01:23He loved driving them, fixing them up.
01:26He was a person who loved life and his hobbies.
01:29It was just very popular among his friends.
01:32It was very outgoing.
01:34Cody's hometown of Kalispell was the county seat of Flathead County.
01:38The county is phenomenally large.
01:43It stretches all the way from the Canadian border down to the Bob Marshall Wilderness.
01:49The county is a very wide river valley formed by glaciers eons ago.
01:56And there are a number of glaciers in the mountains.
02:01And that's kind of a big reason why people like to come here is to go to that remote area.
02:09Cody had been single for some time.
02:12In October 2011, he met Jordan Graham.
02:17Jordan and Cody met at a Halloween party.
02:20Jordan was a little bit shy.
02:21She was slightly more introverted.
02:23Cody was larger than life, really out there extroverted.
02:26But they got on really well.
02:28They had so much in common.
02:30Both really active, loved the outdoors, loved hiking.
02:33They both were avid churchgoers as well.
02:35And the relationship progressed quite quickly.
02:39Cody was head over heels with Jordan.
02:42This was infatuated with her.
02:44He once told a friend that if he could wake up next to her every day for the rest of
02:48his life, he would be happy.
02:50The relationship moved fast and a little over a year later, in December 2012, Cody proposed.
02:59They were very involved in their church and would often go at least once a week, but sometimes twice in
03:05one day.
03:07Cody and Jordan were both members of the Faith Baptist Church, a very conservative branch of the Christian faith.
03:15Jordan was a particularly devout member, and her beliefs were very much that sex was something to be reserved for
03:27marriage.
03:30On June 29th in 2013, the couple married in a modest celebration surrounded by family and friends.
03:40After the ceremony, the couple had a one-night honeymoon in a place called Big Fork in Montana.
03:45Cody really spoilt Jordan that night.
03:48He decorated the room with flowers to make it a really romantic evening for them.
03:53When they returned from their honeymoon, the newlyweds moved into their first home together.
03:59The couple had time off work booked in to decorate their new place together, and Cody was due back into
04:06work on Monday, the 8th of July.
04:08They got up, went to church. People were asking Cody what they were planning to do that Sunday.
04:13And Cody said that Jordan had told him that she had a surprise for him, but he didn't know what
04:19the surprise was.
04:21After church, they met some other church members at the Dairy Queen in Kalispell.
04:27After spending time with their friends, Cody and Jordan went home about 8.30 that night.
04:34Later that evening, Jordan made an unexpected phone call to her brother.
04:42On the evening of July 7th, at about 11.15, Jordan calls up her brother, and she tells him that
04:48her and Cody had gotten into a fight.
04:51And he had gotten into a car with some of his car buddies to go joyriding, and she didn't know
04:58where he was.
04:58She didn't want to talk to him or look for him that night, but she just wanted to talk to
05:03him the next day.
05:06Later that night, around 1 a.m., Jordan drove to her best friend Kimberly's house.
05:13When 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 to Cody.
05:26She just wanted to see if he showed up to work the next morning.
05:31On July 8th, Cody was due on the early shift at the local car dealership, where he worked building custom
05:38-made vehicles with his co-worker and close friend, Cameron.
05:45Cameron was expecting him to show up for work that day, but he never showed.
05:52Cody always came to work on time, sometimes early, and was a very dedicated worker.
05:57And so, for him to not be at work was very unusual.
06:01Two hours later, there was still no sign of Cody.
06:06Cameron text, he called, but it went to voicemail every time.
06:10At 4.30, he texted Jordan.
06:14Jordan told Cameron that the couple had gotten into a fight and that Cody had taken off with some car
06:20buddies, apparently, from Washington.
06:24By July 9th, it had been two days since Cody had last been seen.
06:30Cameron went to Cody and Jordan's house to see if he could find Cody himself.
06:35When he got there, he started looking around the house and found the back door unlocked and went inside, but
06:41could not find Cody.
06:42And Cameron continued to get more and more concerned.
06:44So, he started to call friends and call police departments and to see if anyone matching Cody's description showed up.
06:53He called in hospitals from Kalispell all the way to Spokane, Washington to see if they had found Cody.
06:59But there was no sign of him anywhere.
07:04Jordan gathered some friends and began to search around the local area for Cody.
07:10When they were driving back, Jordan received a call from the police asking her to come in for questioning.
07:20She goes to the Kalispell Police Department to talk to a Sergeant Zimmerman and tell him what she knows about
07:25his disappearance.
07:28Jordan said that Cody had received a phone call that evening that upset him and had agitated him.
07:37Jordan speculated that it could have been a call from somebody called Jose, who she said owed Cody money.
07:44Then she left Cody that evening for a little bit because she had forgotten her phone charger at one of
07:49the places where she worked as a nanny.
07:52When she came home, Cody was gone.
07:56I got a message saying that he was going to go for a ride with someone's out of town when
08:00they were visiting.
08:03She also told the law enforcement that she'd seen a dark colored car pick up Cody in the driveway and
08:10drive off.
08:12He always told me this one thing.
08:14When his friends came to visit, he would take them to Glacier Park.
08:19A missing persons report was launched in northwest Montana.
08:23This went out to all of the authorities in the local area who then began a search.
08:33In 2013, I was the chief of detectives for the Flathead County Sheriff's Department.
08:42Under Montana law, the elected sheriff is also the elected coroner.
08:49I know Glacier National Park because I was a law enforcement ranger there for about eight years.
08:56Hiking on the trails is not recommended at night.
08:59It's rugged.
09:01It's remote.
09:02A lot of times you're on a narrow rock ledge with mountain to one side of you and a sharp
09:09fall off to the other side.
09:11And if you just trip and fall, you can go downhill a long ways.
09:17And some of those falls, it could be very fatal.
09:21When someone goes missing, they generally do a radio broadcast that can be received by all law enforcement agencies in
09:31the area.
09:32So in the summer months, you get these all the time because of the extreme number of visitors we have
09:41in the area.
09:42Most of these resolve within a few hours.
09:45They just come out way later than they planned on or they overnight somewhere and come out the next day.
09:51Rarely are they actually missing.
09:55The report of Cody Johnson missing was not an unusual event.
10:01The fact that he stayed missing longer than most then made it more intense and more of interest to law
10:11enforcement to be looking with greater diligence.
10:15It's now two days since Cody's last been seen.
10:18His friends and his colleagues were really starting to get worried.
10:30Cody 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 detectives.
10:44When asked why she didn't immediately report him missing,
10:48Jordan told law enforcement that she didn't know that she could.
10:52She thought she had to wait 48 hours before reporting someone missing.
10:56Jordan also said that she believed if Cody had come home and found out that she had called law enforcement
11:04that he would have gotten upset.
11:06Law enforcement was suspicious of Jordan's story because she'd been telling different people different things throughout the previous few days.
11:14I'm getting some inconsistencies in what you're telling me with other information that I've already gathered, okay?
11:21And I've spoke to a few people, and it's important that I know that you're telling me the truth on
11:26things.
11:27Why do you think what I know?
11:28Well, and I understand that, okay?
11:32But I think that there's more.
11:35The following morning, on July 10th, 2013, Jordan returned to Kalispell Police Department, along with her mother, and some vital
11:45new information.
11:48I got an email this morning from some guy out that said it was Tony.
11:52In that email, the person wrote, my name's Tony.
11:55There's no bother looking for Cody anymore.
11:58He's gone.
12:00He had come with some buddies, met up with me on Sunday night in Columbia Falls.
12:04He was saying he needed to 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, and Cody
12:14got out of the car, went for a little hike, and they are positive that he fell, and he is
12:19dead, Jordan.
12:22I don't know who the guys were, but they took off, so call off the missing persons report.
12:27Cody is gone for sure.
12:30This really turned the investigation on its head.
12:34When she gave this email to law enforcement that essentially said her husband was dead, she was acting very unusual.
12:41She wasn't freaked out.
12:43She wasn't crying.
12:43She wasn't sad.
12:44She seemed to be showing almost no emotion at all.
12:49For a woman who's potentially just found out that her new husband is dead, this reaction is not what you
12:56would expect.
12:58I just want to go.
13:00I'm going to speak to the kitchen and cover all the crows.
13:03Jordan said that she didn't know who Tony was, but she gave police contact details for somebody called Tony Stolkopp.
13:10Law enforcement immediately thought the email was sketchy, but it was still a lead nonetheless.
13:15So they subpoenaed Google for information about where the IP address of the email had been created, and they also
13:21decided to track down this Tony.
13:27While police tried to trace Tony Stolkopp, Jordan regrouped with her search party.
13:34Armed with this information from this email, Jordan gathers up her friends, her brother Michael.
13:40They all head to Galatia National 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,
13:54but it was kind of like finding a needle in a haystack.
13:56Galatia National Park is a million acres.
13:58It's a huge landscape, and so finding a single person in it would be 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.
14:18The following day, they went back to the spot.
14:21Jordan 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.
14:30It's this very steep embankment.
14:35That's over this river.
14:38Very dangerous.
14:39But Jordan was insistent about going down this embankment.
14:43Her brother tries to say to her, it's not safe over there.
14:46But she just says to him, no, I've just 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.
15:17But Jordan was very cold and didn't seem to show a lot of emotion at all about what she had
15:23just seen.
15:27With no phone signal on the remote hiking trail, Jordan and her friends drove to the nearest general store to
15:34alert 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, but due to the difficult and dangerous terrain, recovery teams waited until
15:50the following day, July 12th, to attempt to retrieve it from the ravine.
15:56We had received word that a body had been found in Glacier National Park, that they suspected that it was,
16:03in fact, Cody Johnson.
16:05So I was assigned as a coroner, not as a detective, but as a coroner to go and investigate the
16:12death.
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.
16:41But because the body was at the bottom of the gorge, we weren't sure how the cliff faces were involved
16:46in what happened.
16:48So we didn't want to disturb anything on the cliff faces.
16:51So we walked down through a wooded area and followed the creek that he was in and approached him that
16:59way.
17:00It was not to disrupt any evidence or forensic findings that might be there.
17:05The possibility would be to do a vertical raise up there to do a retrieve.
17:10When we came upon the body, it was in a small pool of water, which roughly was three foot deep,
17:20prone, arms hanging down at his side, legs down underneath him.
17:25As coroners, we're taught everything is a homicide until the evidence and the information proves otherwise.
17:35Paul's taking some pictures, still pictures of the gully he came down.
17:39I'll get over there and take some more in a minute.
17:42Down from up there, around this rock.
17:46We also know people fall and die in the park with some regularity.
17:50For the most part, almost three a year.
17:52So you try to start with an unbiased mind.
17:56A number of investigators and myself took a series of photographs looking 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.
18:12There was no blood.
18:13You could see some skin defects, which is coroner terms for tears in skin.
18:18But with his face down, we couldn't see any trauma associated with his head or skull from that position.
18:28In his back pocket was the outline of your wallet.
18:32So I recovered that wallet.
18:34I found a Montana operator's license, which was issued to Cody.
18:38And the physical description matched the general physical description that we had in front of us.
18:45So now we were able to say that this, in fact, was Cody Johnson.
18:52We have to put our emotion behind and look at things from a clinical standpoint.
18:56It was not a pleasant thing to look at by any means, but it was part of my job.
19:04And I try to do my job with the greatest efficiency and professionalism I can.
19:11As I panned the area taking photographs, I noticed two objects that were not naturally occurring.
19:19One was a piece of black cloth or fabric, and another one was a tennis shoe up on the cliff
19:27edge.
19:28So that was the first clue from where he came down, because he could have come down from either side
19:35of that canyon.
19:36But then we knew he came from the south side of it because of the placement of that shoe.
19:44The plan was made that we would put Cody in a water bag, which is basically a large mesh bag,
19:52and try and hoist it up the side of a mountain.
19:54In rolling him over to position him in the bag was the first frontal view of his face and the
20:01frontal lobes of his head.
20:03And he had massive trauma that would be, the description we use is inconsistent with life.
20:12And that further gave indication that he fell from altitude.
20:15He didn't just trip and fall there in that body of water.
20:20Everything that we saw, the totality of the information suggested that he came from the south rim of 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, and how did he fall?
20:54Cody's body was airlifted out of the ravine and sent for autopsy.
20:58Later that day, the autopsy results confirmed he had died from blunt force trauma, consistent with a fall from 200
21:07feet.
21:10Meanwhile, news of Cody's death spread throughout the local community.
21:15The discovery of Cody's body in Glacier National Park was a big story locally.
21:19People go missing in the park with some regularity, and occasionally people die.
21:25But this was very mysterious about how he ended up at the bottom of the ravine.
21:32On July 22nd, 2013, 11 days after Cody's body was found, friends and family gathered for his funeral.
21:43Cody's mom, Sherry, led the tribute service.
21:46They had a memorial fund there to pay for some of the expenses.
21:49But the room was full for all of Cody's loved ones, his friends, his colleagues.
21:55However, the mourners described that Jordan's demeanor was unusual.
22:00She seemed very disengaged from the entire event.
22:03She wasn't very emotional, especially considering that she'd just lost her husband of eight days.
22:08And some people later said that she spent most of the time looking at her phone.
22:16Concerned about her best friend, Jordan's maid of honor, Kimberly, contacted the police about some worrying text messages she'd received
22:24from Jordan in the run-up to the wedding.
22:27Jordan had been sending her a lot of texts about issues that she and Cody had been having.
22:34She kept saying to Kimberly she wasn't sure if she wanted to go through with it.
22:39Kimberly said Jordan seemed more concerned with being a bride than a wife, and that also she had some nerves
22:46around the night of the wedding.
22:50Because she was deeply religious, she was nervous about the prospect that Cody might want to consummate the marriage that
22:57night.
22:59Jordan's doubts about her relationship with Cody continued in the days following the wedding.
23:05Kimberly told law enforcement that a lot of the text messages she had received from Jordan were about how she
23:11felt like she had made a mistake.
23:13She wished she hadn't gotten married to Cody.
23:16She was really struggling with settling into married life and settling into adulthood.
23:20She was also having trouble being intimate with Cody.
23:23She would make up excuses why they couldn't be intimate together, and she was just really struggling with that part
23:30of marriage.
23:33These messages are about more than post-wedding blues.
23:37They're not simply a reaction to the end of the excitement and the anticipation leading up to the wedding.
23:44These messages imply somebody who feels frightened, who feels trapped.
23:49What we have here is somebody who doesn't really have the emotional maturity for marriage yet.
24:04Kimberly told law enforcement that on the night of July 7th, Jordan had texted Kimberly and said that she was
24:11going to finally bring up these feelings with Cody and that they were going to have that conversation that evening.
24:18She also told Kimberly that if she didn't hear from her later, that she should be worried that something had
24:25happened.
24:33As the investigation continued into the death of Cody Johnson after a fatal fall in Glacier National Park,
24:40his friends began to question the behavior of his now-widow, Jordan Graham, in the aftermath.
24:48In the days after they found Cody's body, all of Cody and Jordan's friends started to look at the events
24:56of the previous week or two in a different light.
25:01They started to remember that at the wedding, she was acting very unusual, that she wasn't really expressing a lot
25:08of emotion or even excitement about the wedding.
25:10While she had been excited about the event itself, she didn't seem to be excited about getting married to Cody.
25:19When she was walking down the aisle, Jordan was actually crying.
25:22At the time, her friends thought that maybe they were tears of joy, but with the passage of time, they
25:30started to think that maybe those tears meant something else.
25:37When people reflected back on that wedding day, it seemed even more suspicious now Cody had gone missing.
25:47Jordan's behavior during the search for her missing husband had also taken friends and family by surprise.
25:54She was giggling, she was texting on her phone, and then when they eventually did find her dead husband's body,
26:02she made this comment and say,
26:04oh, well, they can call off the search now, the detectives can get off my back and get out of
26:08my business.
26:10Later that day, they were driving home in Cody's car.
26:15One of Jordan's friends was driving, and she was obviously very emotional.
26:18I mean, they just found their friend's body, and they were driving erratically.
26:24And at one point, Jordan told this friend, hey, slow down, drive safe, this isn't my car.
26:29And then she paused and said, well, actually, it is now.
26:33That just seemed very unusual to be more focused on the car that you have instead of the fact that
26:42you just discovered your dead husband at the bottom of a ravine.
26:45All of this tells me that this is someone who's not surprised by the discovery of the body,
26:50who's not emotionally impacted by the discovery of the body,
26:54someone who's unaware of the world that she's living in, who hasn't admitted to herself what's going on.
27:03But what really set alarm bells ringing was how quickly Jordan found Cody's body in Glacier National Park,
27:11a sprawling wilderness spanning over one million acres.
27:16The odds of finding a body in Glacier National Park are slim.
27:20The odds of finding your dead husband in Glacier National Park is probably one in a billion.
27:29The park has hundreds of miles of trails, hundreds of lakes, several rivers.
27:38If you could look at an acre a day, it would exceed a human lifetime.
27:44It's beyond reasonable imagination that they just happen to luck on to the right spot at the right time.
27:53Just incredibly unusual.
27:57I can't think of another time in my career that that has happened.
28:03As suspicions swirled around Jordan, detectives continued to follow up on the lead she had provided to police when Cody
28:10was reported missing.
28:14Initially, Jordan had told law enforcement that Cody had received a phone call on the night of July 7th that
28:20had upset him.
28:24The police did investigate this call, which Jordan said Cody had received from Jose in Washington.
28:31Turns out Jose did call Cody, but this was just about a work-related incident.
28:35So the police quickly cleared him of any suspicion.
28:41Detectives then began to investigate the email.
28:43Jordan had said that this came from a man called Tony Stolkup.
28:47They made contact with Tony.
28:49He had nothing to do with this email.
28:52The police then subpoenaed Google to find out more information about the account.
28:58Two key pieces of information were found.
29:02This account was set up on July 10th, the same day that the email was sent, and the IP address
29:08led back to Jordan's parents' house.
29:11This now strongly suggested that Jordan had set up this email account to send a fake email to create a
29:19fake narrative about what really happened to Cody.
29:23Now, if Jordan sent this email to herself, this tells me that we're dealing with somebody who's desperately thrashing about,
29:30who's on the back foot scrambling, and who's simply reacting to events rather than having pre-planned them in any
29:38way at all.
29:40Then came another shocking revelation.
29:43During the course of law enforcement's investigation, they were able to subpoena the cell phone data of Jordan's phone and
29:51where it had been on the evening of July 7th.
29:55That information told them that Jordan was headed towards Glacier National Park and eventually entered the park, where she lost
30:03cell phone service for a while.
30:05And later it showed her leaving the park, going back to Kalispell.
30:09This confirmed that Jordan, or at least her phone, had been in the park on the same night that Cody
30:15fell to his death.
30:19And then detectives uncovered another key piece of evidence that would change the course of the entire investigation.
30:26On the evening of July 16th, Jordan was asked to come in for further questioning.
30:32Initially, she thought it was just an interview to kind of wrap things up.
30:36But when she got there, she wasn't talking to detectives with the Kalispell Police Department anymore.
30:40She was talking to an FBI agent.
30:45The FBI was involved because Cody's body had been discovered in Glacier National Park, which is federal jurisdiction.
30:52The agent asked Jordan to explain the night of Cody's disappearance.
30:58Jordan told him about the car buddies, how they had gotten into a disagreement.
31:04But at one point, the agent told Jordan to stop and said that he knew she was lying.
31:15He flips over a photo from the security cameras at the west gate of Glacier National Park.
31:20Right there was Jordan and Cody and their car and a timestamp saying that they were there the night that
31:28Cody died.
31:32The police use this piece of irrefutable evidence of her lying to break Jordan down.
31:40Faced with this evidence, she breaks down and confesses.
31:48Jordan said that they drove into the park and they decided to go on a hike.
31:57She told law enforcement that they had gotten into an argument, that she had finally confronted Cody about her feelings
32:05of not wanting to be married.
32:08And the argument got heated quickly.
32:11She grabbed my arm and rejected it and said, no, I'm going to defend myself.
32:16I said, I want to go and I pushed and he went over.
32:20There was no planning on your part to kill Cody?
32:25No.
32:26Okay.
32:26You hadn't planned that?
32:27This whole thing just kind of happened in the heat of, yeah, he did the emotion of the passion of
32:32that situation.
32:35I want to be your first heart, though.
32:41In that moment, although I think she will have been aware at the back of her mind of the consequences
32:48of what she's telling,
32:50I think actually Jordan will have experienced this as a relief to be finally saying the truth.
32:57Following her confession, Jordan was released and placed under house arrest, while detectives continued to build a case to prove
33:06this wasn't an accident, but a meticulously planned murder.
33:13That August, she was indicted by a federal grand jury.
33:18Prosecutors managed to secure an indictment against Jordan for first and second degree murder and lying to authorities.
33:26The police department called Jordan in, asking her to return some evidence, but when she arrived, they arrested her on
33:33suspicion of Cody's murder.
33:40The trial began on December the 9th, 2013, at a federal court in Missoula, Montana.
33:47Jordan pleaded not guilty to charges of first degree murder, second degree murder, and making false statements to authorities.
33:56First degree murder suggests that it was premeditated and that she had planned it all out.
34:02Second degree murder was that it was an accident.
34:05The purpose of the trial was to determine whether or not she had killed Cody on purpose.
34:12If the prosecution could prove Jordan was guilty of first degree murder, she could be facing life in prison.
34:23On December 9th, 2013, just five months after Cody Johnson died after a fatal fall in Glacier National Park,
34:33his widow, Jordan Graham, stood trial for his murder.
34:37The prosecution brought various pieces of evidence.
34:41These included the fact that Jordan took Cody for a surprise that night up on the mountain,
34:47the fact that she sent these text messages on the night of his death to Kimberly,
34:52all of her nerves before the marriage, as well as her lies after Cody was found dead.
34:57The prosecution is painting a picture of Jordan as somebody utterly cold,
35:03somebody who was able to ruthlessly hold a secret from her friends and family,
35:09somebody who strategically tried to take control of the narrative.
35:15There was one further piece of evidence that prosecutors hoped would convince the jury that Cody's death had been planned.
35:24There was a cloth that was found near Cody in the park,
35:29and prosecutors believe that it might have been a blindfold.
35:34Jordan had put a blindfold on Cody before he had been pushed off the cliff.
35:40Prosecutors tried to introduce the blindfold at trial,
35:44but because it hadn't been put in a proper evidence bag,
35:48they were not able to submit it as informal evidence in the trial.
35:52They were looking for DNA on it, and it was stored in a plastic bag, and it was damp.
35:57Well, things stored in plastic bags that are damp putrefy and destroy DNA evidence.
36:07Jordan's defense team continued to claim that Cody's fatal fall had been a tragic accident.
36:14Jordan's attorneys argued that Jordan was an immature person,
36:19and that she wasn't ready for the responsibilities of marriage,
36:22but that she didn't purposely kill Cody.
36:26Their argument was that Cody and Jordan had gotten into a fight that night in Glacier National Park,
36:32and that she had pushed him off the cliff by accident.
36:36And that everything that she had done in the days after his death,
36:41all the lies she told,
36:43was because she didn't think anyone would believe her version of events.
36:47There's no doubt this is a plausible explanation.
36:51I'm just not sure it's consistent with somebody who is also able,
36:56the next day, to create an email alibi deflecting blame on somebody else.
37:05During the course of the trial,
37:08dozens of witnesses were called to testify,
37:10including then Chief of Detectives and County Coroner Dick Sign.
37:15I was brought into the courtroom,
37:17and the questioning involved was about the location.
37:24How did I take the remains into my care,
37:27and how was the integrity of them going forward to the crime lab?
37:32Those mechanical sorts of things which one cannot take for granted at trial.
37:40They also put his mother on the stand for a very emotional testimony.
37:45She told the court that Cody was super happy to have been getting married,
37:50that he'd always wanted to buy a home and start a family,
37:53and that she'd always wanted to become a grandmother.
37:55And so she was kind of on cloud nine in the days after Cody and Jordan's wedding.
38:02But unfortunately, those dreams were quickly dashed.
38:07There was a lot of emotional testimony throughout the course of that week,
38:11but the entire time, Jordan showed very little emotion.
38:19It's almost as if her reactions are the reactions of somebody
38:22who doesn't actually think that she's done anything wrong.
38:25It's as if she's the victim somehow.
38:28As the trial progressed, more shocking evidence came to light.
38:33One of the investigators happened to live in Cody and Jordan's neighborhood,
38:37and he was out for a jog when he discovered that someone at Cody and Jordan's house
38:43had taken out the trash.
38:44Once the trash can's on the curb, it's kind of fair game.
38:47And so he took the trash can, brought it home,
38:50and dumped out everything that was inside.
38:53He found cards and teddy bears and other gifts that Cody had given Jordan.
38:58And he also found part of Jordan's wedding dress.
39:04And it was kind of unusual that Jordan just decided to throw them out,
39:08especially immediately after his disappearance.
39:11This is not somebody sentimentally holding on to the loss of a loved, bereaved partner.
39:18This is somebody cold and calculating.
39:25As the trial was nearing its conclusion, Jordan's defense were faced
39:29with lots of evidence mounting up against her.
39:32They had her confession, they had the falsified email that she'd sent,
39:36witness testimony, and the trash can discovery.
39:39It was not looking good for Jordan.
39:45Day four of the trial, and we are anticipating closing arguments
39:50from both sides.
39:52But after lunch break, everyone got back into the courtroom,
39:55and there was a surprise.
39:59Jordan had decided to plead guilty to second-degree murder.
40:06It was a very shocking moment.
40:09The defense realized that there was no way a jury
40:13was going to find her innocent of these charges.
40:15She accepted the charge of second-degree murder
40:18in agreement that the charge of first-degree murder
40:21and her line to authorities would be dropped.
40:25On March 27, 2014, Jordan Graham was sentenced
40:30to 30 years in federal prison,
40:32with five years of supervised release following her term.
40:37She also had to pay restitution to law enforcement
40:41of about $17,000 to cover the cost of recovering Cody's body.
40:47It's reassuring that something horrible
40:51that happened to another human being
40:53is not without its penalty.
40:58And there's remorse, because a young lady lost
41:03any semblance of a future she was going to have
41:06for a momentary occurrence where she ruined multiple lives.
41:12She obviously took the life of her husband.
41:14She condemned herself to the bulk of her adult life in jail.
41:18She had family and friends that lost respect for her.
41:23She had other people and other family members
41:27that lost a son, lost a good friend, lost a co-worker.
41:37Cody Johnson left behind a family and friends
41:40who loved him dearly, dying in his mid-twenties
41:44when he was just at the start of his life.
41:46This was such a tragic case.
41:49I don't think anyone doubts that Jordan did it,
41:53but I certainly do think there, even a decade later,
41:57there's a lot of questions that linger
41:58about the entire episode.
42:02Whether she planned it out and lured him
42:05to some cliff with a blindfold on,
42:07or whether it was just an accident
42:10and she pushed him off the cliff in a moment of passion.
42:13The only person who knows for certain
42:16and what happened that night is Jordan.
42:21I don't think she was really ready to be married.
42:24She wasn't ready for that type of commitment.
42:27And I do have to wonder, you know,
42:31logically you would think, well, if you get married
42:33and you're immediately unhappy,
42:35we'll just file for divorce.
42:37But I don't really know if that was an option for her,
42:40you know, considering, you know,
42:42her very religious background, you know,
42:45that might have been tough for her.
42:48And so I do think she maybe felt
42:50she was trapped in that marriage
42:53and that there was no way to get out of it.
42:56We are all products of our upbringing
42:59and the culture we live in.
43:01You have to ask yourself,
43:03are any of the other people
43:05that had those constraints killing their spouses?
43:14Following the trial,
43:16friends and family held a memorial service for Cody.
43:21And it was very well attended.
43:23There were a few hundred people,
43:25lots of Cody's friends and family,
43:28and, you know, just a lot of memories
43:30about the type of person Cody was.
43:32I think, you know, while there was a lot of emotion
43:36at that event,
43:38I think there was also a lot of relief
43:39that they finally knew what had happened,
43:42or at least as much as they're ever going to know
43:44about what had happened.
43:46But it was very an emotional event.
43:48Cody was a beloved person,
43:49and that event reflected that.
43:53This was a real tragedy
43:55where two lives were ruined.
43:57Jordan found herself in this situation
44:00where she got herself 30 years in prison,
44:03and then Cody's family and friends
44:05who loved him dearly
44:06have been left with that loss
44:08and that grief of a young man
44:10who was just starting out his life.
44:12With the guilty verdict,
44:14the family and friends of Cody
44:16have got justice,
44:18but they forever lost
44:21the bubbly, vivacious character
44:24that was their son,
44:26their brother,
44:26their friend.
44:27She was.
44:33She was.
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45:04Gracias por ver el video.
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