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To most, a wedding is a joyous affair that symbolizes love & mutual respect between two people who vow to stay together until death. However, in this case, death would come only eight days after 25-year-old Cody Johnson married 22-year-old Jordan Graham.

The first time Jordan Graham saw Cody Johnson, she was at a Taco Bell on a Sunday night after her church service. Cody was an outgoing, popular guy who loved life & cars. The two officially met on October 31, 2011 at a Halloween party. Jordan was a very reserved girl & despite their personality differences, Jordan & Cody quickly began dating. Before he began dating Jordan, Cody wasn’t a very religious person, but they began attending services together at the Faith Baptist Church in Kalispell, Montana, a rural scenic town only 33 miles from Glacier National Park. 

Throughout her life, Jordan was deeply religious & the church had always been the center of her life. She often told friends about her dreams of getting married & starting a family & once said, “I want to meet a nice guy, get married. I want to have kids & I want to be a stay-at-home mom & just have my family.”

Cody was head-over-heels for Jordan & later told a friend, “If I get to wake up every day under the same roof as the woman I love, I’d be happy.” A friend of Jordan’s said that for the longest time, Cody spoke about how he wanted to meet a good church girl & that instantly summed up Jordan.

Their relationship progressed quickly & Cody began to save portions of his paycheck from Nomad Global Communication Services to purchase Jordan’s engagement ring. In December 2012, a little over a year after first meeting, Jordan posted a photo on Instagram announcing their engagement. The photo was an image of her hand with a diamond ring on display with the caption that read, “He proposed!! Best early Christmas ever!!”

They quickly set a wedding date for June 29, 2013 & made the decision to hire a professional songwriter named Elizabeth Shea to compose a custom song for their big day. Jordan flew to California in April 2013 & Shea spent time with Jordan & her 16-year-old brother Michael Ruteledge. It was immediately obvious to Shea that Jordan was an extremely shy girl who didn’t share her emotions & had difficulty opening up. However, when she mentioned the wedding, she immediately lit up & would smile. Jordan referred to this period as “the happiest I have ever been in a long time.”

However, many of Cody’s friends were skeptical of the relationship & even went as far as to jokingly place bets as to how long it would take until they filed for divorce. Cody was not happy with the negativity surrounding his engagement & during one encounter, friends questioned his reasons for marrying Jordan & he stormed out of the restaurant where they’d gathered. 

A close friend of Cody’s, Cameron Fredrickson,  who had known him since they were teenagers & spent a lot of time together fixing up racing cars & working together at Nomad, straight up told him not to marry Jordan. Cameron had reservations about their relationship & didn’t feel it was healthy; he felt Cody was giving his all & Jordan seemed to be giving very little back. When he looked at Cody & Jordan, he didn’t see a happy, loving relationship that you would normally see, but rather a very awkward one. Cody often tried to spend as much time as he possibly could with Jordan whereas she seemed to look for any excuse to avoid him. Friends of the couple later said that they never once saw them kiss, hug or hold hands. Many were shocked when Cody proposed. 

On Saturday, June 29, 2013 Jordan & Cody were married at Woodland Park in Kalispell. As Jordan walked down the aisle, she looked at her grandmother, Linda, who was crying & she herself began to weep. Some in attendance noticed that Jordan looked down during much of the ceremony rather than at her new husband, rarely smiled & looked generally uncomfortable. Her tears seemed more of a picture that she didn’t want to be there, rather than tears of joy.

Using the information that songwriter Elizabeth Shea gathered, she composed their wedding song with lyrics that would later prove to be ominous: 

“Everyone wants a safe place to fall & you’re mine.. You helped me to climb higher for a better view. You’re my safe place to fall. You never let me go.”

On the night of the wedding, the newlyweds headed to Bigfork, about twenty miles away, for a one-night honeymoon. Cody wanted to be sure that the night was perfect so he enlisted one of the bridesmaids to buy flowers for the room. The next day, Sunday, June 24, they returned to their new home in Kalispell to begin their new life together as husband & wife. Cody went back to his job at Nomad & Jordan went back to her babysitting job. Family & friends said that Jordan was most comfortable & at ease with children.

Jordan’s best friend & matron of honor Kimberly Martinez later admitted that Jordan was experiencing cold feet & prior to the wedding, Jordan had asked several times if Kimberly felt she was making the right decision by marrying Cody. It was clear that Jordan was harboring doubts about her decision to go through with marrying Cody almost immediately following the wedding. One week after the wedding, she texted Kimberly at 10:31 pm on June 30, “Totally just had a meltdown. I’m completely second guessing everything. I don’t know if all of this was the right thing to do. So much happened last night.. I just don’t know.”

Kimberly responded, “About what? Are you ok?” Jordan explained that she was having second thoughts about marrying Cody & she was especially worried about being intimate. Kimberly assured her that these feelings were normal, but the next day, Jordan’s worries continued when she texted on July 1 at 9:11 pm, “I cannot freaking pull myself together. I haven’t stopped crying since I was married. I wish someone would have stood up & asked me what I wanted, but I can’t go back & change anything. I should be happy & I’m just not. I don’t feel like myself”

Kimberly chalked these texts up to “post-wedding blues” & encouraged Jordan to talk to Cody about issues in their relationship, but Jordan was hesitant out of fear of hurting him because “he seemed so happy.”

As the week continued so did the texts, “It’s just so freaking hard. I want my happy self back, but I’m a loser who can’t open my mouth & say how I feel.”

On Sunday, July 7, Jordan & Cody attended the morning service at Faith Baptist Church & after, Jordan’s father-in-law, Steve Rutledge, asked Cody if they had plans to take the kayaks out just as they had on the 4th of July. Cody told Steve that they weren’t going kayaking because Jordan had a “surprise” for him. Two of Cody’s friends had also heard about this so-called surprise after he canceled a round of golf for that very reason.

When the couple returned to the evening church service, Steve asked Cody what the surprise was & Cody told him that it hadn’t happened yet. Meanwhile, Jordan continued to text Kimberly about her feelings of depression & the issues within her new marriage. Kimberly pleaded with her friend to talk with Cody & suggested that they set up a meeting with the church’s pastor.

Jordan responded, “Oh, well I’m going to talk to him tonight.” Kimberly told her that she would be praying for her. Jordan responded, “But dead serious, if u don’t hear from me something happened.”

Typically, when the evening church service ends, members of First Baptist go to dinner. On this night, some went to Wendy’s while others went to Dairy Queen. Jordan & Cody were in the group that went to Dairy Queen where they arrived at about 7:15 pm. They spent an hour there & then headed home. Once they arrived, Jordan worked up the courage to speak with her new husband about her concerns which resulted in an argument.

Later that night, Kimberly got a text from Jordan that read, “Now I’m freaking not,” where she likely meant to say, “Now I’m freaking out.” She continued, “I don’t even know what to do right now.” Kimberly asked her friend what happened & tried to get more information from her. She responded, “I talked to him & all it did was cause me to get scratched & him to leave. There’s no way I’m gonna be able to fall asleep. If I do, I won’t wake up.”

As Kimberly worried about what was going on with her friend, Jordan had also called her little brother Michael at 11:15 pm & told him that she & Cody had gotten into a fight. She asked if he would come over so she didn’t have to be alone & he agreed. In the meantime, she was also texting a 17-year-old who was a student at Glacier High School & a member of Faith Baptist, Nikki Blake. The conversation was completely different from what she was telling Kimberly & Michael & instead, Jordan spoke of a couponing event at the church that was being rescheduled. They also discussed dancing & Jordan wrote at 11:05 pm, “Dude, you better work on those sweet moves, although you are pretty amazing already.”  Nikki responded that her dance moves were already superior & Jordan wrote, “Woah, woah, too far homie.” She later said, “We’d kill it on the dance floor.”

As Michael arrived at Jordan’s house, he sat with her in the living room & she explained that she & Cody had gotten into an argument when Cody got a text message & then friends in a dark car with out-of-state license plates picked him up for a joyride. She told her brother that that was the last time she’d seen Cody.

Jordan was telling Kimberly this same story & Kimberly was growing more & more concerned as time went on & offered to go out looking for Cody. Jordan responded, “I really don’t want anyone to talk to him today. It all happened so fast. It’ll just backfire on me. I’d rather wait & see if he shows up to work in the morning.”

Michael went on to fall asleep on the couch & Jordan headed over to Kimberly’s house at 1:20 am. When she arrived, Kimberly found her friend shaking & tried to calm her down so she could understand what was going on. It was Kimberly’s opinion that at the time, Jordan seemed more nervous than upset & chalked it up to the fact that everyone handles stress differently. 

The next day, Monday, July 8, 2013, Cody didn’t report to work at Nomad which was absolutely uncharacteristic of him. Cameron Fredrickson, Cody’s friend & supervisor who had urged him not to marry Jordan, was immediately concerned because Cody was never late to work. At 8:30 am he sent Cody a text message asking him where he was & why he was late, but there was no response.

Two hours went by & at 10:30 am, Cameron called Cody but it went straight to voicemail. At lunchtime, Cameron called various friends to find out if they’d heard from Cody but no one had. At 4:30 pm, Jordan sent Cameron a message asking if Cody had come to work that day. Cameron told her he hadn’t & she went on to tell a similar story to what she told both Kimberly & Michael. This time, she added that he left with “car buddies” from Washington. Cameron was very confused & even more so when he heard a different version of the story from someone else. In this story, Jordan actually followed this mysterious car to Hungry Horse, Montana, 23 miles away, before losing track of it.

The various versions of events immediately concerned Cameron & he believed that Jordan had something to do with Cody’s disappearance. 

Cameron went to Cody & Jordan’s house the next day, Tuesday, July 9; no one was home but the door was unlocked. Cameron let himself in & began to look around, trying to find any clue as to what happened to his friend, but he found nothing. He also contacted the Kalispell Police Department as well as the Montana Highway Patrol. He contacted every hospital from Kalispell to Spokane, Washington, a span of 237 miles, to see if Cody had been involved in a car accident.

In the meantime, Jordan & her friends drove around in search of Cody, including the Hungry Horse Dam, the area where she claimed she’d lost track of Cody. Amy Hess, who was with Jordan at the time, felt that her demeanor did not at all match the situation & noticed that she was giggling & texting & didn’t seem very interested in looking for her missing husband.

As they drove back to town, Jordan received a phone call from Kalispell police Sgt Chad Zimmerman who requested that she come into the station for an interview. Jordan arrived at the police station shortly after 7 pm where she was brought into a room & asked when she last saw Cody. He asked if they had been arguing that night & she told him they weren’t. When they got home from Dairy Queen, she said Cody got a phone call & he became very upset but wouldn’t say who the call was from or why he was upset. She assumed it was a person named Jose who owed Cody money, but because Cody had an app on his phone that cleared his call & text history, she wasn’t able to confirm. 

She told Zimmerman that she & Cody left the house & when they came back, she realized she’d forgotten her phone charger at a house where she works as a nanny & Cody encouraged her to get it. He told her that when she got back, they could watch a movie together. However, when she got back, Cody was gone & texted her that friends from Washington were in town & he wanted to go out with them before they left. She explained that when his friends come into town, Cody likes to take them to Glacier National Park, the Hungry Horse Dam, the town of Plains & sometimes the city of Libby. She spoke of Cody’s phone habits & the fact that Cody always has his phone with him, which made it strange that he would have left it at home. This story clearly did not match what he’d heard reported from others.

When they talked about the fact that it was Cameron Fredrickson that reported Cody missing, she said that she hadn’t contacted authorities because Cameron told her to stay out of it because he would handle it. She said she had tried to contact the Kalispell PD but they wouldn’t allow her to file a report until Cody was missing for 48 hours. It was later clarified that the Kalispell PD did not have a policy to make people wait 48 hours prior to filing a missing persons report.

Zimmerman explained that he was hearing inconsistencies in what he had already been told & said, “I’ve been doing this for a long time & I can pick up things about people.. I feel like you’re not being honest with me.” After 30 minutes of talking, Jordan was allowed to leave.

Early the next morning, July 10, 2013, someone at Jordan’s parent’s house logged onto an email account, carmantony607@gmail.com & sent Jordan a message that read:

My name is Tony. There is no bother looking for Cody anymore. He is gone. I saw your post on Twitter & thought I would email you. 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 & take them for a joy ride. 3 of the guys came back saying that they had gone for a ride in the woods somewhere & Cody got out of the car & went for a little hike & they are positive he fell & 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.

-Tony

Jordan & her mother, Lindy Rutledge went to the Kalispell PD with this email & were met with Detective Cory Clark, who brought them into an interview room. Jordan handed him her phone with the email & Clark asked if she knew a “Tony S” & she said that she didn’t. He asked her why she was so calm & she said that she didn’t like to show emotion in front of others. Lindy explained that her daughter had been hysterical on their drive to the station.

When Clark left the room for a few minutes, Jordan slumped down into her chair & said, “I just want to go home.” Her mom patted her on the back & said, “You’re just overwhelmed, aren’t you?”

Just before noon, Detective Melissa Smith entered the interview room after she had been speaking with Clark about the inconsistencies in Jordan’s account of events. She slid a paper across the table toward Jordan about Miranda rights & explained that she wasn’t under arrest, but she did have the right to remain silent & anything she said could be used against her in a court of law. Jordan signed the piece of paper & continued to talk to Smith.

Jordan told the police the same version of events she had been telling everyone. They asked for her phone because they wanted to view her text messages from Cody, but Jordan explained that both she & Cody had the habit of erasing their messages at the end of the day. When they questioned why, she explained that one of the children she babysits tends to mess with her phone. Smith asked if they could borrow & inspect her phone.

The Kalispell PD sent a subpoena to Google for any information regarding the “Tony S” email address. They later discovered that the account was created at an IP address linked to Jordan’s parents computer that was created on July 10.

On July 11, Jordan, her friends & family headed to Glacier Park & stopped at an area within the park known as The Loop. Jordan walked to a wall & climbed down & around the wall & gazed down into a deep ravine. Her family & friends questioned why she was so focused on this spot. She told them, “I just have a feeling.”

After a few minutes passed & Jordan viewed the area from various angles, she told the group that she had spotted something. Her brother Michael quickly joined her & looked into the ravine & nearly 200 feet below, he could see Cody’s body lying face down in the water. As Michael collapsed & began to cry, Jordan calmly walked away from the ledge.

Jordan got inside the car with one of her bridesmaids, Cecelia Lewellen & the two headed to Lake McDonald Lodge. As they drove, Cecelia described Jordan as rambling & she said, “Now that we found him we can call the detective & he can get out of my business.” This comment surprised her friend.

A few minutes later they stopped & spoke with the manager of the general store at Lake McDonald who called park dispatch & reported that a body had been found. She would later describe Jordan as “surprisingly calm” during their interaction.

At 8:30 pm park ranger Stever Powers received the call & was told to meet with Jordan at Lake McDonald & when he arrived, he spoke with Jordan for a few minutes & she filled out a statement. Her demeanor continued to raise red flags. He found it exceptionally odd that she would have known where to find Cody’s body & when he asked her about that fact, she explained that it was a place that Cody wanted to see before he died.

As this was happening, Kalispell police detective Clark, who had interviewed Jordan the previous morning, was out walking his dog & just so happened to live in Jordan’s neighborhood. As he walked past her house, he noticed something strange in the trash can out front; inside were love letters, teddy bears, Valentines & part of a wedding dress. Clark took the can, dragging it back to his own house where he dumped everything out onto his garage floor & proceeded to take pictures of the contents. He packed it all back up & dragged it back to where he had found it. It was only a short time later that he received the call that Cody’s body had been found.

Clark immediately headed to Glacier Park & by that time, Jordan & her friends were returning home after hours of speaking with authorities at the park headquarters in West Glacier. They had driven Cody’s Audi to the park that day & Jordan’s friend Hannah was behind the wheel. As they drove back home, Hannah was very shaken by the day’s events & was unknowingly speeding when Jordan said, “Don’t speed, this isn’t my car. But now it is.”

The next morning, July 12, members of the Kalispell PD, the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office & the FBI hiked down the ravine to where Cody’s body lay face down in the water; he wasn’t wearing his wedding ring. They found one of his shoes downstream as well as a piece of black cloth which prosecutors later speculated could have been used as a blindfold.

An officer discovered a wallet that positively identified the body as Cody Lee Johnson. After evidence photos were taken, Cody’s body was airlifted out of the ravine. A few days later, a service was held for Cody with a memorial potluck dinner that followed. It was there that some of Cody’s friends noticed that Jordan was distracted on her phone rather than mourning the death of her husband.

Because of the suspicious circumstances of Cody’s death, the FBI opened a full investigation. With this, security cameras from Glacier National Park’s west entrance were reviewed. Footage revealed that at 9:17 pm on Sunday, July 7, Jordan & Cody entered the park.

Jordan was called into the Kalispell PD on July 16 for the third time in one week & believed that she would be meeting with the same detectives she had spoken with before. Instead, she was met with FBI agent Stacey Smiedala. He asked Jordan to tell him her version of events on July 7 & she told him about the dark car with Washington plates & the “car buddies” who wanted to go on a joyride.

After she continued on, Stacey stopped her & told her that he knew she was lying & that she had been in Glacier Park on the night that Cody died. Her eyes immediately filled with tears as Stacey handed over the photo of her entering the park with Cody. When she was advised of her Miranda Rights, she agreed to cooperate with the agent & told them exactly what happened but insisted it was an accident.

On the night of July 7, after Jordan & Cody arrived home from Dairy Queen & they began to argue, they decided to take a drive toward Glacier National Park with hopes of talking about their issue & arrived at the west entrance in Cody’s Audi. The sun set shortly before their arrival, but the Apgar Mountains were still visible in the evening twilight as they drove along Lake McDonald. Twenty-three miles north, they parked their car at a location known as The Loop on the Going-to-the-Sun Road. Despite the fact that Cody had driven the car, he passed his keys over to Jordan & they left their phones in the car since the cell service was limited.

As it was getting darker, the couple walked along The Loop Trail which connects the Sun Road with the Granite Park Chalet. Jordan told Cody that she didn’t like it when he spoke to her as if she were a child & as they made their way down the path, they began to veer off-trail & walked along the bottom of the rock wall & stopped at a stump as their argument continued.

As the argument escalated, Jordan said that as she turned to walk away, Cody grabbed her arm & she turned to remove his hand. After she removed his hand, she, at one point, had admitted that she could have just walked away, but instead, due to her anger, pushed him in the back using both of her hands. In other versions, Jordan indicated that she pushed him because she feared he would restrain her or hold her down. 

The shove caused Cody to fall face first nearly 200 feet down the ravine, hitting a rock outcropping, where his shoe was later found, before landing in a pool of water. The impact crushed Cody’s right eye socket that resulted in a seven-inch skull fracture. His legs were badly bruised, he’d broken multiple ribs during his fall & his heart had been torn open. State medical examiner Gary Dale performed the autopsy & concluded that Cody had died of blunt force trauma & his injuries were similar to those of a victim of a car crash. 

Standing at the top of the cliff, Jordan said she ran back to the car & left because she was scared of what happened. At that moment, she said she didn’t know what to do so she turned back to the trail & headed to the car where she drove back to Kalispell with both of their cell phones in the car. She never checked to see if Cody survived the fall.

Once she reached cell service, she began sending texts & making phone calls to cover the truth of what actually happened. When she finally admitted the truth of pushing Cody off the cliff, she said that she was unhappy after the wedding, in part due to her strict religious upbringing. She elaborated & admitted that she was terrified of having sex with her new husband. She spoke about the fears she held about fulfilling her sexual obligations which made her feel ‘physically ill’ because Cody wanted her to perform sexual acts she wasn’t comfortable with. When Jordan was asked if she had given false statements to authorities during previous interviews about Cody’s disappearance, she clearly responded “yes.”

Cell phone data indicated activity until 9:08 pm on July 7 when their car neared the entrance of Glacier National Park & then resumed again at 10:47 pm. During this lapse in time, Cody & Jordan would have been in the park having their discussion until Cody was pushed from the cliff.

In October 2013 Jordan pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, second-degree murder & making false statements to authorities. 

It is important to note that in order to accuse Jordan of first or second-degree murder, the prosecution would have to prove that she pushed Cody with “malicious intent” & that the incident was not an accident as she claimed.

At a pre-trial hearing on November 15, 2013, Jordan testified that Cody grabbed her & she tried to get him off of her, thinking he was going to push her down. Her first instinct was to get him off. However, the criminal complaint against her discusses what she confessed during the interview with the FBI when she admitted that she could have easily walked away & instead, pushed Cody in a fit of anger. Jordan’s attorney said that the FBI did not record the first hour & 20 minutes of Jordan’s interrogation. He accused an FBI agent of making an “epic effort” to get Jordan to use “key words” in a recorded session that would support a criminal conviction. A defense motion says that in two subsequent recorded FBI interviews, Jordan said she acted in self defense & that her husband’s fall was an accident.

Jordan admits to a degree of responsibility in Cody’s death which was described as an “argument-grab-push-fall” but she is not guilty of first- or second-degree murder, according to her lawyer, Andrew Nelson. He portrayed his client as a young, naive, socially inept girl whose family even described her as withdrawn.

A trial date was set for December 9 & over the course of four days, federal prosecutors presented evidence that Jordan had purposely murdered her new husband. More than 30 witnesses took the stand, including Cody’s mother, who broke down in tears as she recalled her son’s wedding day. “He said it was the best day of his life & that he was going to start a family. I always wanted to be a grandmother.”

On December 12, the government rested its case & handed the floor over to the defense who presented a picture of Jordan as a “child-like” person who found she was not ready for the responsibility of marriage. They referred to the night of July 7 as nothing more than a tragic accident & that Jordan only lied about it out of fear that her story wouldn’t be believed because everyone loved Cody & no one liked her.

At 12:15 pm on December 12, the court was shocked when Jordan pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in exchange for the dismissal of a first-degree murder charge which could have resulted in a life sentence, had she been found guilty. The courtroom sat in stunned silence. Her defense lawyers asked that she be sentenced to 10 years in prison with five years of supervised release while prosecutors requested life imprisonment or at least 50 years.

Based on the piece of cloth found by Cody’s body, investigators theorized that Jordan lured Cody to the area, claiming she had a surprise for him. She blindfolded him, told him to turn around & pushed him over the edge of the cliff. They believe this was a planned, premeditated murder. Jordan initially pleaded not guilty because she said she was having second thoughts which led to an argument while they walked in the park. 

When the judge first asked what happened on the day her husband was killed, Jordan replied, “I wasn’t thinking where we were. It was a reckless act, I just pushed.”

After Jordan accepted a plea deal for second-degree murder, on March 27, 2014 she was sentenced to 30 years behind bars with a five-year observation period upon her release. During her incarceration, she is prohibited from directly or indirectly profiting by divulging information about the murder. She must also undergo mental health treatment & pay $16,910 in restitution to make up for the cost of recovering Cody’s body & pay a $100 special assessment fee. After sitting through numerous pre-trial court proceedings as well as four days of trial, Judge Molloy said that he concluded that Jordan is “very strange” & provided irrational explanations for her actions. “She was a normal person, at least on the surface. But how does a normal person then kill her husband of eight days & then lie & mislead law enforcement.”

Only two people know the full truth of what happened on the night of July 7, 2013 & only one of those people are able to talk & has proven to not be truthful. Judge Molloy felt that Jordan had not been entirely truthful in anything she’s said. Instead of seeking help for her husband, she proceeded to lie, having only concern for herself.

Throughout the search & recovery for Cody as well as during the time leading up to the trial, Jordan seemed more focused on apologizing for inconveniencing law enforcement rather than the fact that she had taken a human life that just so happened to be her husband of eight days.

When she did display a rare moment of emotion, she indicated that she still loves Cody & asks herself daily why she didn’t make different decisions. She said, “It was a moment of complete shock & panic.. I have no other explanation.” 

No drugs or alcohol were involved in the incident & many speculated what must have gone through Cody’s mind in the moment that his new wife pushed him & during the seconds that he plummeted to his violent death. As Cody lay in a pool of water below, Jordan drove away in his car & went on for days, knowing he was there, not telling a soul & going on what prosecutors called a “nine-day campaign” to deceive friends, loved ones & law enforcement. Cody’s family had hoped Jordan would receive 50 years to life behind bars, but feel thankful that she is behind bars, nonetheless, which has allowed them some sense of closure.

Family & friends who knew & loved Cody were devastated after the truth of his death came to light. Those that knew Jordan were stunned, never believing she could be capable of murder. Cody was described as a man who worshiped Jordan & would have given her anything at the drop of a hat. Cody’s mother chose to live in Montana, having moved from California in 2002, because she felt it was a safer environment to raise her son who was a teenager at the time.

In 2015, Jordan’s lawyers appealed the sentence claiming it excessive. The court sided with prosecutors & Jordan remains incarcerated in a low-security correctional institution in Alabama & her release date is listed as June 8, 2040.

References:

1. Justin Franz: A murder in Glacier Park
2. Ati: Why Montana bride Jordan Graham shoved her husband off a cliff eight days into their marriage
3. Jordan Linn Graham affidavit
4. Medium: Newlywed bride pushes husband off cliff 8 days after their wedding
5. CNN: Montana bride Jordan Linn Graham goes on trial in husband’s fatal fall from cliff
6. Missoulian: Timeline: Jordan Graham
7. CNN: Montana newlywed Jordan Linn Graham gets 30 years in husband’s murder
8. KGVO: Second day of Jordan Graham trial focuses on inconsistencies in recorded interviews of Graham with authorities
9. KGVO: Confession & texts from Jordan Graham after husband’s death revealed