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A deadly fall from
a desolate mountain trail.

We had received
word that a body had been found

in Glacier National Park.

A newlywed's
life cut short

just days after saying "I do."

This was a case
that had everybody gripped.

What about to start their life
together and one of them

has ended up dead.

Was it simply
a terrible accident?

She told
law enforcement that they

had gotten into an argument.

Or the result
of something far more sinister?

Cody Johnson was
born in California in 1988,

and grew up in Montana.

Cody
loved being outdoors.

He loved sports, he loved
going to his church,

and he also was
obsessed with cars.

He loved driving
them, fixing them up.

He was a person who loved
life and his hobbies.

He was just very
popular among his friends.

He was very outgoing.

Cody's
hometown of Kalispell

was the county seat
of Flathead County.

The county
is phenomenally large.

It stretches all the way
from the Canadian border

down to the Bob
Marshall Wilderness.

The county is a very wide river
valley formed by glaciers eons

ago, and there are a number
of glaciers in the mountains.

And that's kind of a big reason
why people like to come here,

is to go to that remote area.

Cody had been
single for some time.

In October 2011, he
met Jordan Graham.

Jordan and Cody
met at a Halloween party.

Jordan was a little
bit shy as she

was slightly more introverted.

Cody was larger than life,
really out there, extroverted,

but they got on really well.

They had so much in common.

Both really active, loved
the outdoors, loved hiking.

They both were avid
church-goers as well.

And the relationship
progressed quite quickly.

Cody was head
over heels with Jordan.

This was infatuated with her.

He once told
a friend that if he

could wake up next to her every
day for the rest of his life,

he would be happy.

The relationship moved fast.

And a little over a year
later, in December 2012,

Cody proposed.

They're very
involved in their church

and would often go
at least once a week,

but sometimes twice in one day.

Cody
and Jordan were both members

of the Faith Baptist
Church, a very conservative

branch of the Christian faith.

Jordan was particularly
devout member,

and her beliefs were very
much that sex was something

to be reserved for marriage.

On June 29 in 2013,

the couple married in a modest
celebration, surrounded

by family and friends.

After the ceremony,
the couple had

a one-night
honeymoon in a place

called Bigfork in Montana.

Cody really spoiled
Jordan that night.

He decorated
the room with flowers

to make it a really
romantic evening for them.

When they returned
from their honeymoon,

the newlyweds moved
into their first home together.

The couple had time off work
booked in to decorate their new

place together, and Cody was
due back into work on Monday,

the 8th of July.

They got
up, went to church.

People were asking Cody what
they were planning to do that

Sunday, and Cody said
that Jordan had told him

that she had
a surprise for him,

but he didn't know
what the surprise was.

After church, they met
some other church members

at the Dairy Queen
in Kalispell.

After spending time with their
friends, Cody and Jordan went

home about 8:30 that night.

Later that evening,
Jordan made an unexpected phone

call to her brother.

On the evening of July
7, at about 11:15,

Jordan calls up her brother and
she tells him that her and Cody

had gotten into a fight and he
had gotten into a car with some

of his car buddies
to go joyriding, and

she didn't know where he was.

And she didn't want to talk to
him or look for him that night,

but she just wanted to talk
to him the next day.

Later that
night, around 1:00 AM,

Jordan drove to her best
friend Kimberly's house.

When she
turned up on her doorstep,

Kimberly noticed that
Jordan seemed nervous.

She told
Kimberly that the argument had

happened so quickly,
and that she didn't

really want to talk to Cody.

She just wanted
to see if he showed

up to work the next morning.

On July 8, Cody
was due on the early shift

at the local car
dealership where

he worked building custom-made
vehicles with his coworker

and close friend, Cameron.

Cameron
was expecting

him to show up for work that
day, but he never showed.

Cody
always came to work

on time, sometimes early, and
was a very dedicated worker.

And so for him to not be
at work was very unusual.

Two
hours later, there

was still no sign of Cody.

Cameron
text, he called, but it

went to voicemail every time.

About 4:30, he texted Jordan.

Jordan told Cameron that the
couple had gotten into a fight,

and that Cody had taken
off with some car bodies,

apparently from Washington.

By July 9,
it had been two days

since Cody had last been seen.

Cameron went to
Cody and Jordan's house to see

if he could find Cody himself.

When he got there, he started
looking around the house

and found the back door
unlocked and went inside, but

could not find Cody.

And Cameron continued to get
more and more concerned,

so he started to call friends
and call police departments

and to see if anyone matching
Cody's description showed up.

He called hospitals
from Kalispell

all the way
to Spokane, Washington,

to see if they had found Cody.

But there was
no sign of him anywhere.

Jordan
gathered some friends

and began to search around
the local area for Cody.

When they were
driving back, Jordan

received a call from
the police asking her

to come in for questioning.

She goes to the
Kalispell Police Department

to talk to a Sergeant
Zimmerman and tell him what she

knows about his disappearance.

Jordan said that
Cody had received

a phone call that evening that
upset him and agitated him.

Jordan speculated
that it could

have been a call from
somebody called Jose,

who she said owed Cody money.

Then she
left Cody that evening

for a little bit
because she had forgotten

her phone charger
at one of the places

where she worked as a nanny.

When she came home,
Cody was gone.

She also told
the law enforcement

that she'd seen a dark-colored
car pick up Cody

in the driveway and drive off.

A missing
persons report was

launched in northwest Montana.

This went out to all
of the authorities

in the local area who
then began a search.

Dick Sine was one of
the officers on duty that day.

In 2013,
I was the chief

of detectives for the Flathead
County Sheriff's Department.

Under Montana law,
the elected Sheriff

is also the elected Coroner.

I know Glacier
National Park because I

was a law enforcement ranger
there for about eight years.

Hiking on the trails is
not recommended at night.

It's rugged.

It's remote.

A lot of times you're on a
narrow rock ledge with mountain

to one side of you and a sharp
fall off to the other side.

And if you just
trip and fall, you

can go downhill a long ways,
and some of those falls

can be very fatal.

When someone goes
missing, they generally

do a radio broadcast
that can be

received by all law enforcement
agencies in the area.

So in the summer months,
you get these all the time

because of the extreme
number of visitors

we have in the area.

Most of these are resolved
within a few hours.

They just come out way
later than they planned on,

or they overnight somewhere
and come out the next day.

Rarely are they
actually missing.

The report of Cody
Johnson missing

was not an unusual event.

The fact that he stayed
missing longer than most than

made it more intense, and more
of interest to law enforcement

to be looking with
greater diligence.

It's now two days
since Cody's last been seen.

His friends and his
colleagues were really

starting to get worried.

Cody Johnson had been
missing from the Kalispell area

for over two days.

While local police
began their search,

his wife of only
10 days, Jordan,

continued to be
questioned by detectives.

When asked
why she didn't immediately

report him missing, Jordan
told law enforcement that she

didn't know that she could.

She thought she had to wait
48 hours before reporting

someone missing.

Jordan also said
that she believed

if Cody had come
home and found out

that she had called law
enforcement, that he

would have gotten upset.

Law enforcement was
suspicious of Jordan's story

because she had been
telling different people

different things throughout
the previous few days.

The following
morning on July 10, 2013,

Jordan returned to Kalispell
Police Department

along with her mother and some
vital new information.

In that
email, the person

wrote, "my name is Tony.

There's no bother
looking for Cody anymore.

He's gone.

He had come with some buddies,
met up with me on Sunday

night in Columbia Falls.

He was saying he needed to be
with his buddies for a bit

and take them for a joyride."

"Three of the guys
came back saying that they had

gone for a ride
in the woods somewhere,

and Cody got out of the car,
went for a little hike,

and they are positive that he
fell and he is dead, Jordan."

"I don't
know who the guys were,

but they took off.

So call off the missing
persons report.

Cody is gone for sure."

This really turned
the investigation on its head.

When she gave this email to law
enforcement that essentially

said her husband was dead.

She was acting very unusual.

She wasn't freaked out.

She wasn't crying.

She wasn't sad.

She seemed to be showing
almost no emotion at all.

For a woman who's
potentially just

found out that her
new husband is dead,

this reaction is not
what you would expect.

Jordan said that
she didn't know who Tony was,

but she gave police contact
details for somebody

called Tony Stallcup.

Law enforcement immediately
thought the email was sketchy,

but it was still
a lead nonetheless.

So they subpoenaed
Google for information

about where the IP address
of the email had been created,

and they also decided
to track down this Tony.

While police tried
to trace Tony Stallcup,

Jordan regrouped with
her search party.

Armed with this
information from this email,

Jordan gathers up her
friends, her brother Michael.

They all head
to Glacier National Park

and begin a search.

At a few points, they

would stop and get
out of the car

and start hiking around
looking for Cody.

But it was kind of like
finding a needle in a haystack.

Glacier National Park
is a million acres.

It's a huge landscape, and so
finding a single person in it

would be nearly impossible.

One of the spots that
Jordan wanted to look at

was this location
called The Loop.

They parked the car
and looked around briefly,

but it was getting late
and so they went home.

The following day, they
went back to the spot,

and Jordan was pretty
insistent that they

searched this area again,
and so they started walking.

At one point, Jordan started
to climb down the embankment.

It's this very
steep embankment.

That's over this river.

Very dangerous, but Jordan
was insistent about going

down this embankment.

Her brother tries
to say to her,

"it's not safe over there."

But she just says to him, "no,
I've just got this feeling

that we might find something."

After a few
minutes of walking around,

she spotted something
in the ravine below.

Her brother Michael came
alongside her and there he was.

It was Cody's
body at the bottom

of the steep and rocky ravine.

Michael immediately became
emotional and started crying,

but Jordan was very
cold and didn't

seem to show a lot
of emotion at all

about what she had just seen.

With no phone signal
on the remote hiking trail,

Jordan and her friends drove
to the nearest general store

to alert the authorities.

From there, a call
is made to say

that the body has been found.

Park rangers
confirmed the presence

of a body, but due
to the difficult and dangerous

terrain, recovery teams waited
until the following day,

July 12, to attempt
to retrieve it from the ravine.

We had received
word that a body had

been found in Glacier
National Park,

that they suspected that it
was, in fact, Cody Johnson.

So I was assigned
as a coroner, not as

a detective,
but as a coroner, to go

and investigate the death.

We were taken to a spot
where you could look over

the edge of the gorge,
and you could see

the body and the water below.

And then we came up with a game
plan of how to get down to it.

Cody's body
was almost 200 feet below

in a creek at the bottom
of the canyon.

The fastest and easiest
way would have

been to rappel down on ropes.

But because the body was
at the bottom of the gorge,

we weren't sure how
the cliff faces were involved

in what happened, so we
didn't want to disturb

anything on the cliff faces.

So we walked down
through wooded area

and followed the creek that
he was in and approached him

that way, was not
to disrupt any evidence or

forensic findings
that might be there.

When we came upon the body, it
was in a small pool of water,

which roughly was 3-foot deep.

Prone, arms hanging down at his
side, legs down underneath him.

As coroners were
taught, everything

is a homicide until the
evidence and the information

proves otherwise.

We also know people
fall and die in the park

with some regularity.

For the most part,
almost three a year.

So you try to start
with an unbiased mind.

A number of investigators
and myself

took a series
of photographs looking

at the body from all angles,
so you get a good perspective

of where they're at.

Then we go into the physical
examination of the body.

There was no blood.

You could see some skin
defects, which is corner

terms for tears and skin.

But with his face
down, we couldn't

see any trauma associated
with his head or skull

from that position.

In his back pocket was
the outline of a wallet.

So I recovered that wallet.

I found a Montana
operator's license

which was issued to Cody,
and the physical description

matched the general
physical description

that we had in front of us.

So now we were able
to say that this,

in fact, was Cody Johnson.

We have to put our emotion
behind and look at things

from a clinical standpoint.

It was not a pleasant thing
to look at by any means,

but it was part
of my job and I try

to do my job with
the greatest efficiency and

professionalism I can.

As I panned the area
taking photographs,

I noticed two objects that
were not naturally occurring.

One was a piece of black
cloth or fabric,

and another one was a tennis
shoe up on the cliff edge.

So that was the first clue
from where he came down,

because he could have
come down from either side

of that canyon.

But then we knew he came
from the south side of it

because of the placement
of that shoe.

The plan was made that we would
put Cody in a water bag, which

is basically a large mesh
bag, and try and hoist

it up the side of a mountain.

In rolling him over
to position him in the bag

was the first frontal
view of his face

and the frontal
lobes of his head.

And he had massive trauma that
would be, the descriptor we use

is inconsistent with life.

And that further
gave indication

that he fell from altitude.

He didn't just trip and fall
there in that body of water.

Everything that we saw, the
totality of the information,

suggested that he came from
the south rim of that Canyon

up in that loop area and hit
rock objects all the way down.

This sets
up some big questions.

What was Cody doing there
and how did he fall?

Cody's body was
airlifted out of the ravine

and sent for autopsy.

Later that day,
the autopsy results

confirmed he had
died from blunt force

trauma consistent with
a fall from 200 feet.

Meanwhile, news
of Cody's death spread

throughout the local community.

The discovery
of Cody's body

in Glacier National Park
was a big story locally.

People go missing in the park
with some regularity,

and occasionally people die.

But this was very mysterious
about how he ended up

at the bottom of the ravine.

On July
22, 2013, 11 days

after Cody's body was
found, friends and family

gathered for his funeral.

Cody's mom,
Shari, led the tribute service.

They had a memorial
fund there to pay

for some of the expenses,
but the room

was full of all
of Cody's loved ones,

his friends, his colleagues.

However, the mourners described
that Jordan's demeanor

was unusual.

She
seemed very disengaged

from the entire event.

She wasn't very
emotional, especially

considering that she just lost
her husband of eight days.

And some people later said
that she spent most of the time

looking at her phone.

Concerned
about her best friend

Jordan's Maid
of Honor, Kimberly,

contacted the police
about some worrying text

messages she'd
received from Jordan

in the run up to the wedding.

Jordan
had been sending

her a lot of texts
about issues that she

and Cody had been having.

She kept saying to
Kimberly she wasn't sure if she

wanted to go through with it.

Kimberly said Jordan
seemed more concerned

with being a bride
than a wife, and

that also she had some
nerves around the night

of the wedding.

Because she was
deeply religious,

she was nervous
about the prospect

that Cody might
want to consummate

the marriage that night.

Jordan's doubts about
her relationship with Cody

continued in the days
following the wedding.

Kimberly
told law enforcement

that a lot of the text messages
she had received from Jordan

were about how she felt
like she had made a mistake.

She wished she hadn't
gotten married to Cody.

She was really struggling with
settling into married life

and settling into adulthood.

She was also having trouble
being intimate with Cody.

She would make up excuses
why they couldn't be intimate

together, and she was
just really struggling

with that part of marriage.

These
messages are about

more than post-wedding blues.

They're not simply
a reaction to the end

of the excitement
and the anticipation

leading up to the wedding.

These messages imply somebody
who feels frightened,

who feels trapped.

What we have here
is somebody who

doesn't really have the
emotional maturity for

marriage yet.

There was
one text message

in particular sent the night
Cody went missing that raised

alarm bells for officers.

Kimberly told law enforcement
that on the night of July 7,

Jordan had texted
Kimberly and said

that she was going
to finally bring up

these feelings with
Cody and that they

were going to have that
conversation that evening.

She also told Kimberly that if
she didn't hear from her later,

that she should be worried
that something had happened.

As the investigation continued

into the death of Cody
Johnson after a fatal fall

in Glacier National
Park, his friends

began to question
the behavior of his now widow,

Jordan Graham,
in the aftermath.

In the days
after they found Cody's body,

all of Cody
and Jordan's friends

started to look at the events
of the previous week

or two in a different light.

They started to remember
that at the wedding,

she was acting very
unusual, that she

wasn't really expressing
a lot of emotion

or even excitement
about the wedding.

While she had been excited
about the event itself,

she didn't seem to be excited
about getting married to Cody.

When she was walking
down the aisle,

Jordan was actually crying.

At the time, her
friends thought

that maybe they
were tears of joy,

but with the passage
of time, they

started to think
that maybe those were

tears meant something else.

When people
reflected back on that wedding

day, it seemed even
more suspicious

now Cody had gone missing.

Jordan's
behavior during the search

for her missing husband
had also taken friends

and family by surprise.

She was giggling.

She was texting on her phone.

And then when they eventually
did find her dead husband's

body, she made this
comment and say, "oh, well,

they call off the search now.

The detectives can
get off my back

and get out of my business."

Later
that day, they were

driving home in Cody's car.

One of Jordan's
friends was driving

and she was obviously
very emotional.

I mean, they just found
their friend's body

and they were
driving erratically.

And at one point Jordan told
this friend, "hey, slow down,

drive safe.

This isn't my car."

And then she paused and said,
"well, actually it is now."

That just seemed very
unusual to be more focused

on the car that
you have, instead

of the fact that you just
discovered your dead husband

at the bottom of a ravine.

All
of this tells me

that this is someone
who's not surprised

by the discovery
of the body, who's

not emotionally impacted
by the discovery of the body.

Someone who's unaware of the
world that she's living in,

who hasn't admitted
to herself what's going on.

But what
really set alarm bells

ringing was how
quickly Jordan found

Cody's body in Glacier National
Park, a sprawling wilderness

spanning over 1 million acres.

The odds of finding

a body in Glacier
National Park are slim.

The odds of finding
your dead husband

in Glacier National Park is
probably one in a billion.

The park
has hundreds

of miles of trails, hundreds
of lakes, several rivers.

If you could look
at an acre a day,

it would exceed
a human lifetime.

It's beyond
reasonable imagination

that they just happen
to luck on to the right spot

at the right time.

Just incredibly unusual.

I can't think of another
time in my career

that that has happened.

As suspicions
swirled around Jordan,

detectives continued
to follow up

on the lead she had
provided to police when

Cody was reported missing.

Initially,
Jordan had told law enforcement

that Cody had received a phone
call on the night of July 7

that had upset him.

The police
did investigate

this call, which Jordan
said Cody received

from Jose in Washington.

Turns out Jose
did call Cody, but

this was just about
a work-related incident,

so the police quickly
cleared him of any suspicion.

Detectives then began
to investigate the email.

Jordan had said that
this came from a man

called Tony Stallcup.

They made contact with Tony.

He had nothing to do
with this email.

The police then subpoenaed
Google to find out more

information about the account.

Two key pieces
of information were found.

This account was set up
on July the 10, the same day

that the email was sent.

And the IP address led back
to Jordan's parents' house.

This now strongly suggested
that Jordan had set up

this email account
to send a fake email

to create a fake
narrative about what

really happened to Cody.

Now, if Jordan
sent this email to herself,

this tells me that we're
dealing with somebody who's

desperately thrashing
about, who's

on the back foot
scrambling, and

who's simply reacting to events
rather than having pre-planned

them in any way at all.

Then came another
shocking revelation.

During
the course of law enforcement's

investigation, they
were able to subpoena

the cell phone data
of Jordan's phone

and where it had been
on the evening of July 7.

That information
told them that Jordan

was headed towards
Glacier National Park

and eventually entered
the park, where she lost cell

phone service for a while.

Later, it showed
her leaving the park

going back to Kalispell.

This confirmed that
Jordan, or at least her phone,

had been in the park
on the same night

that Cody fell to his death.

And then detectives
uncovered another key piece

of evidence that would
change the course

of the entire investigation.

On the evening of July 16,
Jordan was asked to come

in for further questioning.

Initially, she thought
it was just an interview

to wrap things up,
but when she got there,

she wasn't talking
to detectives

with the Kalispell Police
Department anymore.

She was talking
to an FBI agent.

The FBI was involved
because Cody's body had

been discovered
in Glacier National Park,

which is federal jurisdiction.

The agent asked Jordan
to explain the night

of Cody's disappearance.

Jordan told him about
the car buddies,

how they had gotten
into a disagreement.

But at one point, the agent
told Jordan to stop

and said that he
knew she was lying.

He flips over a photo
from the security cameras

at the west gate
of Glacier National Park.

Right there was Jordan
and Cody and their car

and a timestamp saying
that they were there

the night that Cody died.

The police used this piece
of irrefutable evidence

of her lying
to break Jordan down.

Faced with this evidence, she
breaks down and confesses.

Jordan said that they
drove into the park

and they decided
to go on a hike.

She
told law enforcement

that they had gotten
into an argument,

that she had finally confronted
Cody about her feelings

of not wanting to be married.

And the argument
got heated quickly.

In that
moment, although I

think she will have been
aware at the back of her mind

of the consequences
of what she's telling,

I think, actually,
Jordan will have

experienced this as a relief
to be finally saying the truth.

Following
her confession,

Jordan was released
and placed under house arrest,

while detectives
continued to build a case

to prove this wasn't
an accident but

a meticulously planned murder.

That August, she was indicted
by a federal grand jury.

Prosecutors managed
to secure an indictment against

Jordan for first
and second-degree murder

and lying to authorities.

The police department
called Jordan

in asking her to return some
evidence, but when she arrived,

they arrested her
on suspicion of Cody's murder.

The trial began
on December 9, 2013,

at a federal court
in Missoula, Montana.

Jordan pleaded
not guilty to charges

of first-degree murder,
second-degree murder,

and making false
statements to authorities.

First-degree murder

suggests that it
was premeditated

and that she had
planned it all out.

Second-degree murder was
that it was an accident.

The purpose of the trial was
to determine whether or not she

had killed Cody on purpose.

If the prosecution could

prove Jordan was guilty
of first-degree murder,

she could be facing
life in prison.

On December 9, 2013, just
five months after Cody Johnson

died after a fatal fall
in Glacier National Park,

his widow, Jordan Graham,
stood trial for his murder.

The prosecution brought
various pieces of evidence.

These included the fact that
Jordan took Cody for a surprise

that night up on the mountain.

The fact that she sent
these text messages

on the night of his
death to Kimberly,

all of her nerves
before the marriage,

as well as her lies after
Cody was found dead.

The prosecution is painting
a picture of Jordan as somebody

utterly cold, somebody who
was able to ruthlessly hold

a secret from her
friends and family,

somebody who strategically
tried to take

control of the narrative.

There was one
further piece of evidence

that prosecutors
hoped would convince

the jury that Cody's
death had been planned.

There
was a cloth that

was found near
Cody in the park,

and prosecutors believe that
it might have been a blindfold.

Jordan had put
a blindfold on Cody

before he had been
pushed off the cliff.

Prosecutors tried to introduce
the blindfold at trial,

but because it hadn't been
put in a proper evidence bag,

they were not able to submit
it as formal evidence

in the trial.

They were looking
for DNA on it

and it was stored in a plastic
bag and it was damp.

Well, things stored in plastic
bags that are damp putrefy and

destroy DNA evidence.

Jordan's
defense team continued

to claim that Cody's fatal fall
had been a tragic accident.

Jordan's attorneys

argued that Jordan
was an immature person

and that she wasn't ready
for the responsibilities

of marriage, but that she
didn't purposely kill Cody.

Their argument was that
Cody and Jordan had gotten

into a fight that night
in Glacier National Park,

and that she had pushed him
off the cliff by accident.

And that everything that
she had done in the days

after his death, all
the lies she told,

was because she
didn't think anyone

would believe her
version of events.

There's no doubt this is
a plausible explanation.

I'm just not sure it's
consistent with somebody

who is also able
the next day to create

an email alibi, deflecting
blame on somebody else.

During the course of
the trial, dozens of witnesses

were called
to testify, including

then chief of detectives
and county coroner Dick Sine.

I was brought
into the courtroom

and the questioning involved
was about the location.

How did I take
the remains into my care,

and how was the integrity of
them going forward to the crime

lab, those mechanical sorts
of things which one cannot

take for granted at trial.

They also
put his mother on the stand

for a very emotional testimony.

She told the court
that Cody was

super happy to have
been getting married,

that he'd always wanted to buy
a home and start a family,

and that she'd always wanted
to become a grandmother.

And so she was kind
of on cloud 9 in the days

after Cody
and Jordan's wedding.

But unfortunately, those
dreams were quickly dashed.

There was a lot
of emotional testimony

throughout the course
of that week,

but the entire time Jordan
showed very little emotion.

It's almost
as if her reactions are

the reactions
of somebody who doesn't

actually think that she's
done anything wrong.

It's as if she's
the victim somehow.

As the trial
progressed,

more shocking evidence
came to light.

One
of the investigators

happened to live in Cody
and Jordan's neighborhood,

and he was out for a jog
when he discovered

that someone at Cody
and Jordan's house

had taken out the trash.

Once trash can's on the curb,
it's kind of fair game.

And so he took the trash can,
brought it home, and dumped out

everything that was inside.

He found cards and Teddy
Bears and other gifts

that Cody had given Jordan.

And he also found part
of Jordan's wedding dress.

And it was kind of unusual
that Jordan just

decided to throw them out,
especially immediately

after his disappearance.

This is not
somebody sentimentally

holding on to the loss
of a loved bereaved partner.

This is somebody
cold and calculating.

As the trial
was nearing its conclusion,

Jordan's defense were
faced with lots of evidence

mounting up against her.

They had her confession,
they had the falsified email

that she'd sent,
witness testimony,

and the trash can discovery.

It was not looking
good for Jordan.

Before the trial,
and we are anticipating closing

arguments from both sides.

But after lunch break, everyone
got back into the courtroom

and there was a surprise.

Jordan had decided to plead
guilty to second-degree murder.

It was a very shocking moment.

The defense realized
that there was

no way a jury was going to find
her innocent of these charges.

She accepted the charge
of second degree murder

in agreement that
the charge of first-degree

murder and her lying to
authorities would be dropped.

On March 27,
2014, Jordan Graham

was sentenced to 30
years in federal prison

with 5 years of supervised
release following her term.

She also had
to pay restitution to law

enforcement of about
$17,000 to cover the cost

of recovering Cody's body.

It's reassuring that
something horrible

that happened
to another human being

is not without its penalty.

And there's remorse
because a young lady

lost any semblance
of a future she

was going to have
for a momentary occurrence

where she ruined
multiple lives.

She obviously took
the life of her husband.

She condemned herself to the
bulk of her adult life in jail.

She had family and friends
that lost respect for her.

She had other people
and other family

members that lost a son, lost
a good friend, lost a coworker.

Cody Johnson
left behind a family and

friends who loved him dearly.

Dying in his
mid-20s when he was

just at the start of his life.

This was such a tragic case.

I don't
think anyone doubts

that Jordan did
it, but I certainly

do think that even
a decade later,

there's a lot
of questions that linger

about the entire episode.

Whether she planned
it out and lured him

to some cliff with a blindfold
on, or whether it was just

an accident and she
pushed him off the cliff

in a moment of passion.

The only person who
knows for certain what

happened that night is Jordan.

I don't think she was
really ready to be married.

She wasn't ready for that
type of commitment.

And I do have to wonder--
logically, you

would think, well,
if you get married

and you're immediately unhappy,
we'll just file for divorce.

But I don't really know
if that was an option for her,

you know, considering her
very religious background.

That might have
been tough for her.

And so I do think
she maybe felt

she was trapped
in that marriage

and that there was no
way to get out of it.

We are all
products of our upbringing

and the culture we live in.

You have to ask
yourself, are any

of the other people that
had those constraints

killing their spouses?

Following the trial,
friends and family held

a memorial service for Cody.

And it was--
it was very well attended.

There were a few hundred
people, lots of Cody's friends

and family, and just a lot
of memories about the type

of person Cody was.

I think while there was a lot
of emotion at that event,

I think there was
also a lot of relief

that they finally knew
what had happened,

or at least as much
as they're ever going to know

about what had happened.

But it was very
an emotional event.

Cody was a beloved person,
and that event reflected that.

This was a real tragedy
where two lives were ruined.

Jordan found herself in this
situation where she got herself

30 years in prison,
and then Cody's family and

friends who loved him dearly
have been left with that loss

and that grief
of a young man who was

just starting out his life.

With the guilty verdict,
the family and friends of Cody

have got justice,
but they forever

lost the bubbly, vivacious
character that was their son,

their brother, their friend.