The most disturbing crime between loved ones you've heard of
Cody Johnson was a 25-year-old country boy who loved cars and the wilderness.
He was looking for a church-oriented woman he could share his life with. He met the tall, pretty brunette, Jordan Graham and they began dating.
You would have never guessed they had issues if you saw their smiling pictures on Facebook. They presented a great front and Cody didn’t grasp the depth of their problems.
Cody was head over heels in love with Jordan. He cooked for her and brought her gifts and gave her tons of much attention.
A week after meeting Jordan, Cody told his mother, “I think I met the woman I’m going to marry.”
However, Cody’s friends grew concerned as the relationship seemed one-sided. They’d never seen the two of them kiss or hold hands. Jordan was cold and distant.
Jordan was extremely religious and wanted to wait until marriage before having sex. Cody was fine with it.
But he could hardly get her to kiss him. She reassured Cody that she loved him.
One year into dating, he proposed and she said yes — which is where the path to ruin began.
The wedding plans
Jordan’s friends said she was excited anytime they talked about planning the wedding, the party, and all it involved — but never said anything about Cody.
On her wedding day, as Jordan walked down the aisle crying, onlookers smiled, but her maid of honor, Katrina Martinez, was horrified.
She knew Jordan and knew this wasn’t a “good cry”.
Jordan had been asking Kristina in the weeks leading up to the wedding if she should go through with it.
Katrina told Jordan, “I can’t make that decision for you. You need to talk to Cody.”
Cody’s best man knew there was trouble beforehand too. He said he told Cody not to marry her. Something was off.
He could tell Jordan wasn’t in love with him.
But Cody was blinded by his own feelings.
The day before getting married, Jordan had a massive meltdown, telling her friend she’d “Made a mistake”. But then changed her mind and moved forward.
Ominously, they had a custom song made for their wedding and one of the lyrics said, “You helped me climb higher for a better view. You’re my safe place to fall.”
The murder — 8 days later
They attended church on the Sunday morning of July 7th, 2013. On the way out, witnesses said she’d told her husband she had a “big surprise” for him.
Prosecutors later alleged Jordan had promised to do something sexual with Cody. He made excited comments to friends before they left. And they later found a blindfold at the crime scene.
The next day, Cody’s work called and asked where he was. His boss, Cameron, was excited to congratulate him on the wedding.
Cody didn’t answer his phone so Cameron went to his house looking for him.
Nobody answered the door. Cameron sensed something was wrong and broke the door in.
Nobody was inside. He said the home gave him a terrible vibe.
He wandered through the quiet house and eventually found Cody’s phone on the ground in the garage — which was totally unlike him. Cody always had his phone.
Cameron rushed to the police station and reported Cody missing.
The cops immediately wondered why his wife wasn’t the one reporting her husband missing. A friend finally got ahold of Jordan and asked her if she’d seen Cody.
She said she didn’t know but later told cops, “He went out with a bunch of friends I’ve never met. I don’t know anything more, any of the whereabouts or anything.”
Friends and cops were immediately struck by how unemotional Jordan was with Cody’s disappearance.
When friends came to her house to provide support and comfort, she grew agitated that they were there rather than upset Cody that was missing.
At one point, she got upset and threw her wedding ring across the room — which caught sent a chill down everyone’s spine.
Then, there was a random email that Jordan received from a mysterious man named Tony The Carman, “Hello Jordan. My name is Tony. There is no bother in looking for Cody anymore.”
Cody is gone. Call off the search. He fell off a cliff at Glacier National Park.”
She took the message to the cops.
Search parties went out. Jordan participated and drove with her friends to the park.
During the drive, she was happy, singing songs and hanging her hand out the window, flying it in the wind. You’d have never known her husband was missing.
At the park, Jordan led her group to the exact location of Cody’s body. She said she “Just had a feeling he’d be there.”
His body was at bottom of a steep, remote cliff, in terrible condition.
She told her friends, “Cody told me he wanted to see this spot before he died.”
This drew even more scrutiny to Jordan. She started fudging details and changing her story during an interrogation.
Jordan didn’t help herself when authorities asked, “How did you locate his body so fast?”
This time she said the spirit of Jesus Christ led her to his body.
Cody’s best man said, “I almost instantly thought Jordan did something.”
At Cody’s funeral, Jordan sat in the front row, playing on her phone, smiling and unaffected.
People who only passingly knew Cody were more emotional than his own wife. It was at this point that her friends all concurrently knew that Jordan had murdered her husband.
Cops later confirmed that the mysterious email from Tony the Car Man had been sent by Jordan on her dad’s device.
The partial confession
Jordan admitted to pushing Cody.
She said they’d been in a fight. She said she was so upset that when he turned his back to her, she shoved him hard in the back, sending him over the edge.
He fell 300 feet to his death, landing headfirst.
There wasn’t even a struggle or self-defense argument made. She said she just did it because she was angry.
But because of so many other lies, mounting evidence, and a complete lack of caring for her dead husband, it was an obvious case of murder.
She entered a guilty plea.
On March 27th, 2014, Jordan was sentenced to 30 years in prison with no possibility of parole.
Cody’s mother is inconsolable and his family is still coping with the loss.
Cody was murdered eight days after their wedding ceremony. It’s hard to imagine how things could go so wrong so fast.
It’s even harder to fathom how someone could find breaking a person’s heart harder than killing him. But stranger, darker things have happened.
Rest in peace Cody. You didn’t deserve it. Continue reading
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