Jordan Linn Graham, who had been married to her husband, Cody Lee Johnson, for only eight days when his body was discovered in Montana’s Glacier National Park, allegedly confessed to his murder and lied about Johnson’s death, according to court documents obtained by the Associated Press.
Graham, 22, and Johnson, 25, knew each other for two years when Johnson proposed, but Graham had reservations about getting married, friends said.
“Their interaction with each other, it didn’t seem like a happy, loving relationship that you would normally see. It was just very awkward, I guess,” Cameron Frederickson, a groomsman at the wedding, told the Missoulian. Graham “was just very distant and reserved.”
Eight days after getting married, Johnson’s body was discovered July 12 in Glacier National Park. He had been the park’s first murder victim.
Johnson family friend Tracey Maness told the AP that Graham didn’t like spending time with Johnson’s family, but that Johnson told his mother that his partner would change after they got married.
"Nobody ever could have thought something like this could happen," Maness said.
But Frederickson said he warned his friend not to marry Graham, according to the Missoulian, and that other friends also cautioned Johnson about going through with the marriage.
Authorities claim Graham murdered Johnson on July 7 in Glacier National Park by throwing her husband off a cliff during an argument, according to court papers.
The FBI, which investigated Johnson’s death, alleged Graham texted a friend the night she killed her husband.
"But dead serious if u don't hear from me at all again tonight, something happened," she texted, according to the AP.
Prosecutors say Graham lied about her husband’s death, allegedly telling rangers in Glacier National Park that she discovered Johnson’s body. That was after telling them that he told her in a text that he was going to the park with a friend.
Investigators doubted Graham’s original story, according to the court papers.
"It was a place he wanted to see before he died,” she told them, the documents showed. “"He would come up here with friends to drive fast when his friends were visiting from out of town."
The charges were welcomed by Maness after the two-month long FBI investigation.
"Two months probably isn't very long for an FBI investigation, but when you're waiting for answers, that's a lifetime," she said.
She added to the Missoulian, “basically, we’re just holding onto hope that it will be resolved, that charges will stick and someone will be punished.”
Glacier Park Murder: Jordan Linn Graham Allegedly Confesses To Killing Newlywed Husband Cody Lee Johnson
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