14 DAY TRIAL // A woman has been charged for the murder of her husband, which took place just eight days after getting married.
Jordan Linn Graham has appeared in front of the U.S. District Court in Missoula facing allegations of murder in the second degree.
22-year-old Graham, of Kalispell, killed groom Cody Lee Johnson during a trip to Glacier National Park.
She pushed him off a cliff while they were in the middle of a heated argument, Flathead Beacon reported.
Johnson died on July 7 and he was reported missing on the next day. His body was found on July 12 below the Loop Trail.
Graham reported finding his remains and met with an officer at Lake McDonald Camp Store in Glacier Park.
The trooper got suspicious and told her that it was unusual for her to find the body, CBS added.
She responded that “it was a place he wanted to see before he died” and that “he would come up here with friends to drive fast when his friends were visiting from out of state.”
She eventually confessed to the killing on July 16, and explained that they were arguing on the trail when he grabbed her arm, and she responded by pushing him. She previously said that he went hiking on his own while she was away with a friend.
However, she had been having second thoughts about their marriage that day, and texted another friend to ask for advice.
“Oh well, I’m about to talk to him. [...] But dead serious if u don’t hear from me at all again tonight, something happened,” she wrote in her messages.
25-year-old Johnson's friends had doubts about their union beforehand, and they had advised him not to go ahead with the wedding.
“She was just very distant and reserved,” explains the victim's worker, Cameron Fredrickson, for the Missoulian.