Jordan Linn Graham, 22, appeared in federal court in Missoula, Mont., Monday, accused of pushing her husband of eight days off a cliff.
Cody Lee Johnson, 25, was found at the bottom of the cliff in Glacier National Park two months ago. Friends and family of Johnson are not surprised Graham is suspected.
Johnson family friend Tracey Maness told local publication the Missoulian: “She’d been telling people she knew she never wanted to be married, she just wanted to have a wedding, and that’s apparently what they were arguing about.”
Court documents cited by the Missoulian and CBS say Graham admitted to lying. She had originally said Johnson told her he was going for a drive on the night he went missing and that she saw him pull out of his driveway. She later admitted they had a fight and went for a walk on the Glacier National Park trail.
He grabbed her arm, she pushed him out of anger, and he fell over the cliff. She faces a second-degree murder charge.
According to an FBI affidavit, cited by CBS, Graham had sent text messages to a friend the night Johnson died saying she meant to talk to him about “having second thoughts about having been married.”
She wrote: “But dead serious if u don’t hear from me at all again tonight, something happened.”
