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A deadly fall from a desolate mountain trail.

We had received word that a body had been found

in Glacier National Park.

A newlywed's life cut short

just days after saying "I do."

This was a case that had everybody gripped.

What about to start their life together and one of them

has ended up dead.

Was it simply a terrible accident?

She told law enforcement that they

had gotten into an argument.

Or the result of something far more sinister?

Cody Johnson was born in California in 1988,

and grew up in Montana.

Cody loved being outdoors.

He loved sports, he loved going to his church,

and he also was obsessed with cars.

He loved driving them, fixing them up.

He was a person who loved life and his hobbies.

He was just very popular among his friends.

He was very outgoing.

Cody's hometown of Kalispell

was the county seat of Flathead County.

The county is phenomenally large.

It stretches all the way from the Canadian border

down to the Bob Marshall Wilderness.

The county is a very wide river valley formed by glaciers eons

ago, and there are a number of glaciers in the mountains.

And that's kind of a big reason why people like to come here,

is to go to that remote area.

Cody had been single for some time.

In October 2011, he met Jordan Graham.

Jordan and Cody met at a Halloween party.

Jordan was a little bit shy as she

was slightly more introverted.

Cody was larger than life, really out there, extroverted,

but they got on really well.

They had so much in common.

Both really active, loved the outdoors, loved hiking.

They both were avid church-goers as well.

And the relationship progressed quite quickly.

Cody was head over heels with Jordan.

This was infatuated with her.

He once told a friend that if he

could wake up next to her every day for the rest of his life,

he would be happy.

The relationship moved fast.

And a little over a year later, in December 2012,

Cody proposed.

They're very involved in their church

and would often go at least once a week,

but sometimes twice in one day.

Cody and Jordan were both members

of the Faith Baptist Church, a very conservative

branch of the Christian faith.

Jordan was particularly devout member,

and her beliefs were very much that sex was something

to be reserved for marriage.

On June 29 in 2013,

the couple married in a modest celebration, surrounded

by family and friends.

After the ceremony, the couple had

a one-night honeymoon in a place

called Bigfork in Montana.

Cody really spoiled Jordan that night.

He decorated the room with flowers

to make it a really romantic evening for them.

When they returned from their honeymoon,

the newlyweds moved into their first home together.

The couple had time off work booked in to decorate their new

place together, and Cody was due back into work on Monday,

the 8th of July.

They got up, went to church.

People were asking Cody what they were planning to do that

Sunday, and Cody said that Jordan had told him

that she had a surprise for him,

but he didn't know what the surprise was.

After church, they met some other church members

at the Dairy Queen in Kalispell.

After spending time with their friends, Cody and Jordan went

home about 8:30 that night.

Later that evening, Jordan made an unexpected phone

call to her brother.

On the evening of July 7, at about 11:15,

Jordan calls up her brother and she tells him that her and Cody

had gotten into a fight and he had gotten into a car with some

of his car buddies to go joyriding, and

she didn't know where he was.

And she didn't want to talk to him or look for him that night,

but she just wanted to talk to him the next day.

Later that night, around 1:00 AM,

Jordan drove to her best friend Kimberly's house.

When she turned up on her doorstep,

Kimberly noticed that Jordan seemed nervous.

She told Kimberly that the argument had

happened so quickly, and that she didn't

really want to talk to Cody.

She just wanted to see if he showed

up to work the next morning.

On July 8, Cody was due on the early shift

at the local car dealership where

he worked building custom-made vehicles with his coworker

and close friend, Cameron.

Cameron was expecting

him to show up for work that day, but he never showed.

Cody always came to work

on time, sometimes early, and was a very dedicated worker.

And so for him to not be at work was very unusual.

Two hours later, there

was still no sign of Cody.

Cameron text, he called, but it

went to voicemail every time.

About 4:30, he texted Jordan.

Jordan told Cameron that the couple had gotten into a fight,

and that Cody had taken off with some car bodies,

apparently from Washington.

By July 9, it had been two days

since Cody had last been seen.

Cameron went to Cody and Jordan's house to see

if he could find Cody himself.

When he got there, he started looking around the house

and found the back door unlocked and went inside, but

could not find Cody.

And Cameron continued to get more and more concerned,

so he started to call friends and call police departments

and to see if anyone matching Cody's description showed up.

He called hospitals from Kalispell

all the way to Spokane, Washington,

to see if they had found Cody.

But there was no sign of him anywhere.

Jordan gathered some friends

and began to search around the local area for Cody.

When they were driving back, Jordan

received a call from the police asking her

to come in for questioning.

She goes to the Kalispell Police Department

to talk to a Sergeant Zimmerman and tell him what she

knows about his disappearance.

Jordan said that Cody had received

a phone call that evening that upset him and agitated him.

Jordan speculated that it could

have been a call from somebody called Jose,

who she said owed Cody money.

Then she left Cody that evening

for a little bit because she had forgotten

her phone charger at one of the places

where she worked as a nanny.

When she came home, Cody was gone.

She also told the law enforcement

that she'd seen a dark-colored car pick up Cody

in the driveway and drive off.

A missing persons report was

launched in northwest Montana.

This went out to all of the authorities

in the local area who then began a search.

Dick Sine was one of the officers on duty that day.

In 2013, I was the chief

of detectives for the Flathead County Sheriff's Department.

Under Montana law, the elected Sheriff

is also the elected Coroner.

I know Glacier National Park because I

was a law enforcement ranger there for about eight years.

Hiking on the trails is not recommended at night.

It's rugged.

It's remote.

A lot of times you're on a narrow rock ledge with mountain

to one side of you and a sharp fall off to the other side.

And if you just trip and fall, you

can go downhill a long ways, and some of those falls

can be very fatal.

When someone goes missing, they generally

do a radio broadcast that can be

received by all law enforcement agencies in the area.

So in the summer months, you get these all the time

because of the extreme number of visitors

we have in the area.

Most of these are resolved within a few hours.

They just come out way later than they planned on,

or they overnight somewhere and come out the next day.

Rarely are they actually missing.

The report of Cody Johnson missing

was not an unusual event.

The fact that he stayed missing longer than most than

made it more intense, and more of interest to law enforcement

to be looking with greater diligence.

It's now two days since Cody's last been seen.

His friends and his colleagues were really

starting to get worried.

Cody Johnson had been missing from the Kalispell area

for over two days.

While local police began their search,

his wife of only 10 days, Jordan,

continued to be questioned by detectives.

When asked why she didn't immediately

report him missing, Jordan told law enforcement that she

didn't know that she could.

She thought she had to wait 48 hours before reporting

someone missing.

Jordan also said that she believed

if Cody had come home and found out

that she had called law enforcement, that he

would have gotten upset.

Law enforcement was suspicious of Jordan's story

because she had been telling different people

different things throughout the previous few days.

The following morning on July 10, 2013,

Jordan returned to Kalispell Police Department

along with her mother and some vital new information.

In that email, the person

wrote, "my name is Tony.

There's no bother looking for Cody anymore.

He's gone.

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

and take them for a joyride."

"Three of the guys came back saying that they had

gone for a ride in the woods somewhere,

and Cody got out of the car, went for a little hike,

and they are positive that he fell and 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."

This really turned the investigation on its head.

When she gave this email to law enforcement that essentially

said her husband was dead.

She was acting very unusual.

She wasn't freaked out.

She wasn't crying.

She wasn't sad.

She seemed to be showing almost no emotion at all.

For a woman who's potentially just

found out that her new husband is dead,

this reaction is not what you would expect.

Jordan said that she didn't know who Tony was,

but she gave police contact details for somebody

called Tony Stallcup.

Law enforcement immediately thought the email was sketchy,

but it was still a lead nonetheless.

So they subpoenaed Google for information

about where the IP address of the email had been created,

and they also decided to track down this Tony.

While police tried to trace Tony Stallcup,

Jordan regrouped with her search party.

Armed with this information from this email,

Jordan gathers up her friends, her brother Michael.

They all head to Glacier National Park

and begin a search.

At a few points, they

would stop and get out of the car

and start hiking around looking for Cody.

But it was kind of like finding a needle in a haystack.

Glacier National Park is a million acres.

It's a huge landscape, and so finding a single person in it

would be nearly impossible.

One of the spots that Jordan wanted to look at

was this location called The Loop.

They parked the car and looked around briefly,

but it was getting late and so they went home.

The following day, they went back to the spot,

and Jordan was pretty insistent that they

searched this area again, and so they started walking.

At one point, Jordan started to climb down the embankment.

It's this very steep embankment.

That's over this river.

Very dangerous, but Jordan was insistent about going

down this embankment.

Her brother tries to say to her,

"it's not safe over there."

But she just says to him, "no, I've just got this feeling

that we might find something."

After a few minutes of walking around,

she spotted something in the ravine below.

Her brother Michael came alongside her and there he was.

It was Cody's body at the bottom

of the steep and rocky ravine.

Michael immediately became emotional and started crying,

but Jordan was very cold and didn't

seem to show a lot of emotion at all

about what she had just seen.

With no phone signal on the remote hiking trail,

Jordan and her friends drove to the nearest general store

to alert the authorities.

From there, a call is made to say

that the body has been found.

Park rangers confirmed the presence

of a body, but due to the difficult and dangerous

terrain, recovery teams waited until the following day,

July 12, to attempt to retrieve it from the ravine.

We had received word that a body had

been found in Glacier National Park,

that they suspected that it was, in fact, Cody Johnson.

So I was assigned as a coroner, not as

a detective, but as a coroner, to go

and investigate the death.

We were taken to a spot where you could look over

the edge of the gorge, and you could see

the body and the water below.

And then we came up with a game plan of how to get down to it.

Cody's body was almost 200 feet below

in a creek at the bottom of the canyon.

The fastest and easiest way would have

been to rappel down on ropes.

But because the body was at the bottom of the gorge,

we weren't sure how the cliff faces were involved

in what happened, so we didn't want to disturb

anything on the cliff faces.

So we walked down through wooded area

and followed the creek that he was in and approached him

that way, was not to disrupt any evidence or

forensic findings that might be there.

When we came upon the body, it was in a small pool of water,

which roughly was 3-foot deep.

Prone, arms hanging down at his side, legs down underneath him.

As coroners were taught, everything

is a homicide until the evidence and the information

proves otherwise.

We also know people fall and die in the park

with some regularity.

For the most part, almost three a year.

So you try to start with an unbiased mind.

A number of investigators and myself

took a series of photographs looking

at the body from all angles, so you get a good perspective

of where they're at.

Then we go into the physical examination of the body.

There was no blood.

You could see some skin defects, which is corner

terms for tears and skin.

But with his face down, we couldn't

see any trauma associated with his head or skull

from that position.

In his back pocket was the outline of a wallet.

So I recovered that wallet.

I found a Montana operator's license

which was issued to Cody, and the physical description

matched the general physical description

that we had in front of us.

So now we were able to say that this,

in fact, was Cody Johnson.

We have to put our emotion behind and look at things

from a clinical standpoint.

It was not a pleasant thing to look at by any means,

but it was part of my job and I try

to do my job with the greatest efficiency and

professionalism I can.

As I panned the area taking photographs,

I noticed two objects that were not naturally occurring.

One was a piece of black cloth or fabric,

and another one was a tennis shoe up on the cliff edge.

So that was the first clue from where he came down,

because he could have come down from either side

of that canyon.

But then we knew he came from the south side of it

because of the placement of that shoe.

The plan was made that we would put Cody in a water bag, which

is basically a large mesh bag, and try and hoist

it up the side of a mountain.

In rolling him over to position him in the bag

was the first frontal view of his face

and the frontal lobes of his head.

And he had massive trauma that would be, the descriptor we use

is inconsistent with life.

And that further gave indication

that he fell from altitude.

He didn't just trip and fall there in that body of water.

Everything that we saw, the totality of the information,

suggested that he came from the south rim of that Canyon

up in that loop area and hit rock objects all the way down.

This sets up some big questions.

What was Cody doing there and how did he fall?

Cody's body was airlifted out of the ravine

and sent for autopsy.

Later that day, the autopsy results

confirmed he had died from blunt force

trauma consistent with a fall from 200 feet.

Meanwhile, news of Cody's death spread

throughout the local community.

The discovery of Cody's body

in Glacier National Park was a big story locally.

People go missing in the park with some regularity,

and occasionally people die.

But this was very mysterious about how he ended up

at the bottom of the ravine.

On July 22, 2013, 11 days

after Cody's body was found, friends and family

gathered for his funeral.

Cody's mom, Shari, led the tribute service.

They had a memorial fund there to pay

for some of the expenses, but the room

was full of all of Cody's loved ones,

his friends, his colleagues.

However, the mourners described that Jordan's demeanor

was unusual.

She seemed very disengaged

from the entire event.

She wasn't very emotional, especially

considering that she just lost her husband of eight days.

And some people later said that she spent most of the time

looking at her phone.

Concerned about her best friend

Jordan's Maid of Honor, Kimberly,

contacted the police about some worrying text

messages she'd received from Jordan

in the run up to the wedding.

Jordan had been sending

her a lot of texts about issues that she

and Cody had been having.

She kept saying to Kimberly she wasn't sure if she

wanted to go through with it.

Kimberly said Jordan seemed more concerned

with being a bride than a wife, and

that also she had some nerves around the night

of the wedding.

Because she was deeply religious,

she was nervous about the prospect

that Cody might want to consummate

the marriage that night.

Jordan's doubts about her relationship with Cody

continued in the days following the wedding.

Kimberly told law enforcement

that a lot of the text messages she had received from Jordan

were about how she felt like she had made a mistake.

She wished she hadn't gotten married to Cody.

She was really struggling with settling into married life

and settling into adulthood.

She was also having trouble being intimate with Cody.

She would make up excuses why they couldn't be intimate

together, and she was just really struggling

with that part of marriage.

These messages are about

more than post-wedding blues.

They're not simply a reaction to the end

of the excitement and the anticipation

leading up to the wedding.

These messages imply somebody who feels frightened,

who feels trapped.

What we have here is somebody who

doesn't really have the emotional maturity for

marriage yet.

There was one text message

in particular sent the night Cody went missing that raised

alarm bells for officers.

Kimberly told law enforcement that on the night of July 7,

Jordan had texted Kimberly and said

that she was going to finally bring up

these feelings with Cody and that they

were going to have that conversation that evening.

She also told Kimberly that if she didn't hear from her later,

that she should be worried that something had happened.

As the investigation continued

into the death of Cody Johnson after a fatal fall

in Glacier National Park, his friends

began to question the behavior of his now widow,

Jordan Graham, in the aftermath.

In the days after they found Cody's body,

all of Cody and Jordan's friends

started to look at the events of the previous week

or two in a different light.

They started to remember that at the wedding,

she was acting very unusual, that she

wasn't really expressing a lot of emotion

or even excitement about the wedding.

While she had been excited about the event itself,

she didn't seem to be excited about getting married to Cody.

When she was walking down the aisle,

Jordan was actually crying.

At the time, her friends thought

that maybe they were tears of joy,

but with the passage of time, they

started to think that maybe those were

tears meant something else.

When people reflected back on that wedding

day, it seemed even more suspicious

now Cody had gone missing.

Jordan's behavior during the search

for her missing husband had also taken friends

and family by surprise.

She was giggling.

She was texting on her phone.

And then when they eventually did find her dead husband's

body, she made this comment and say, "oh, well,

they call off the search now.

The detectives can get off my back

and get out of my business."

Later that day, they were

driving home in Cody's car.

One of Jordan's friends was driving

and she was obviously very emotional.

I mean, they just found their friend's body

and they were driving erratically.

And at one point Jordan told this friend, "hey, slow down,

drive safe.

This isn't my car."

And then she paused and said, "well, actually it is now."

That just seemed very unusual to be more focused

on the car that you have, instead

of the fact that you just discovered your dead husband

at the bottom of a ravine.

All of this tells me

that this is someone who's not surprised

by the discovery of the body, who's

not emotionally impacted by the discovery of the body.

Someone who's unaware of the world that she's living in,

who hasn't admitted to herself what's going on.

But what really set alarm bells

ringing was how quickly Jordan found

Cody's body in Glacier National Park, a sprawling wilderness

spanning over 1 million acres.

The odds of finding

a body in Glacier National Park are slim.

The odds of finding your dead husband

in Glacier National Park is probably one in a billion.

The park has hundreds

of miles of trails, hundreds of lakes, several rivers.

If you could look at an acre a day,

it would exceed a human lifetime.

It's beyond reasonable imagination

that they just happen to luck on to the right spot

at the right time.

Just incredibly unusual.

I can't think of another time in my career

that that has happened.

As suspicions swirled around Jordan,

detectives continued to follow up

on the lead she had provided to police when

Cody was reported missing.

Initially, Jordan had told law enforcement

that Cody had received a phone call on the night of July 7

that had upset him.

The police did investigate

this call, which Jordan said Cody received

from Jose in Washington.

Turns out Jose did call Cody, but

this was just about a work-related incident,

so the police quickly cleared him of any suspicion.

Detectives then began to investigate the email.

Jordan had said that this came from a man

called Tony Stallcup.

They made contact with Tony.

He had nothing to do with this email.

The police then subpoenaed Google to find out more

information about the account.

Two key pieces of information were found.

This account was set up on July the 10, the same day

that the email was sent.

And the IP address led back to Jordan's parents' house.

This now strongly suggested that Jordan had set up

this email account to send a fake email

to create a fake narrative about what

really happened to Cody.

Now, if Jordan sent this email to herself,

this tells me that we're dealing with somebody who's

desperately thrashing about, who's

on the back foot scrambling, and

who's simply reacting to events rather than having pre-planned

them in any way at all.

Then came another shocking revelation.

During the course of law enforcement's

investigation, they were able to subpoena

the cell phone data of Jordan's phone

and where it had been on the evening of July 7.

That information told them that Jordan

was headed towards Glacier National Park

and eventually entered the park, where she lost cell

phone service for a while.

Later, it showed her leaving the park

going back to Kalispell.

This confirmed that Jordan, or at least her phone,

had been in the park on the same night

that Cody fell to his death.

And then detectives uncovered another key piece

of evidence that would change the course

of the entire investigation.

On the evening of July 16, Jordan was asked to come

in for further questioning.

Initially, she thought it was just an interview

to wrap things up, but when she got there,

she wasn't talking to detectives

with the Kalispell Police Department anymore.

She was talking to an FBI agent.

The FBI was involved because Cody's body had

been discovered in Glacier National Park,

which is federal jurisdiction.

The agent asked Jordan to explain the night

of Cody's disappearance.

Jordan told him about the car buddies,

how they had gotten into a disagreement.

But at one point, the agent told Jordan to stop

and said that he knew she was lying.

He flips over a photo from the security cameras

at the west gate of Glacier National Park.

Right there was Jordan and Cody and their car

and a timestamp saying that they were there

the night that Cody died.

The police used this piece of irrefutable evidence

of her lying to break Jordan down.

Faced with this evidence, she breaks down and confesses.

Jordan said that they drove into the park

and they decided to go on a hike.

She told law enforcement

that they had gotten into an argument,

that she had finally confronted Cody about her feelings

of not wanting to be married.

And the argument got heated quickly.

In that moment, although I

think she will have been aware at the back of her mind

of the consequences of what she's telling,

I think, actually, Jordan will have

experienced this as a relief to be finally saying the truth.

Following her confession,

Jordan was released and placed under house arrest,

while detectives continued to build a case

to prove this wasn't an accident but

a meticulously planned murder.

That August, she was indicted by a federal grand jury.

Prosecutors managed to secure an indictment against

Jordan for first and second-degree murder

and lying to authorities.

The police department called Jordan

in asking her to return some evidence, but when she arrived,

they arrested her on suspicion of Cody's murder.

The trial began on December 9, 2013,

at a federal court in Missoula, Montana.

Jordan pleaded not guilty to charges

of first-degree murder, second-degree murder,

and making false statements to authorities.

First-degree murder

suggests that it was premeditated

and that she had planned it all out.

Second-degree murder was that it was an accident.

The purpose of the trial was to determine whether or not she

had killed Cody on purpose.

If the prosecution could

prove Jordan was guilty of first-degree murder,

she could be facing life in prison.

On December 9, 2013, just five months after Cody Johnson

died after a fatal fall in Glacier National Park,

his widow, Jordan Graham, stood trial for his murder.

The prosecution brought various pieces of evidence.

These included the fact that Jordan took Cody for a surprise

that night up on the mountain.

The fact that she sent these text messages

on the night of his death to Kimberly,

all of her nerves before the marriage,

as well as her lies after Cody was found dead.

The prosecution is painting a picture of Jordan as somebody

utterly cold, somebody who was able to ruthlessly hold

a secret from her friends and family,

somebody who strategically tried to take

control of the narrative.

There was one further piece of evidence

that prosecutors hoped would convince

the jury that Cody's death had been planned.

There was a cloth that

was found near Cody in the park,

and prosecutors believe that it might have been a blindfold.

Jordan had put a blindfold on Cody

before he had been pushed off the cliff.

Prosecutors tried to introduce the blindfold at trial,

but because it hadn't been put in a proper evidence bag,

they were not able to submit it as formal evidence

in the trial.

They were looking for DNA on it

and it was stored in a plastic bag and it was damp.

Well, things stored in plastic bags that are damp putrefy and

destroy DNA evidence.

Jordan's defense team continued

to claim that Cody's fatal fall had been a tragic accident.

Jordan's attorneys

argued that Jordan was an immature person

and that she wasn't ready for the responsibilities

of marriage, but that she didn't purposely kill Cody.

Their argument was that Cody and Jordan had gotten

into a fight that night in Glacier National Park,

and that she had pushed him off the cliff by accident.

And that everything that she had done in the days

after his death, all the lies she told,

was because she didn't think anyone

would believe her version of events.

There's no doubt this is a plausible explanation.

I'm just not sure it's consistent with somebody

who is also able the next day to create

an email alibi, deflecting blame on somebody else.

During the course of the trial, dozens of witnesses

were called to testify, including

then chief of detectives and county coroner Dick Sine.

I was brought into the courtroom

and the questioning involved was about the location.

How did I take the remains into my care,

and how was the integrity of them going forward to the crime

lab, those mechanical sorts of things which one cannot

take for granted at trial.

They also put his mother on the stand

for a very emotional testimony.

She told the court that Cody was

super happy to have been getting married,

that he'd always wanted to buy a home and start a family,

and that she'd always wanted to become a grandmother.

And so she was kind of on cloud 9 in the days

after Cody and Jordan's wedding.

But unfortunately, those dreams were quickly dashed.

There was a lot of emotional testimony

throughout the course of that week,

but the entire time Jordan showed very little emotion.

It's almost as if her reactions are

the reactions of somebody who doesn't

actually think that she's done anything wrong.

It's as if she's the victim somehow.

As the trial progressed,

more shocking evidence came to light.

One of the investigators

happened to live in Cody and Jordan's neighborhood,

and he was out for a jog when he discovered

that someone at Cody and Jordan's house

had taken out the trash.

Once trash can's on the curb, it's kind of fair game.

And so he took the trash can, brought it home, and dumped out

everything that was inside.

He found cards and Teddy Bears and other gifts

that Cody had given Jordan.

And he also found part of Jordan's wedding dress.

And it was kind of unusual that Jordan just

decided to throw them out, especially immediately

after his disappearance.

This is not somebody sentimentally

holding on to the loss of a loved bereaved partner.

This is somebody cold and calculating.

As the trial was nearing its conclusion,

Jordan's defense were faced with lots of evidence

mounting up against her.

They had her confession, they had the falsified email

that she'd sent, witness testimony,

and the trash can discovery.

It was not looking good for Jordan.

Before the trial, and we are anticipating closing

arguments from both sides.

But after lunch break, everyone got back into the courtroom

and there was a surprise.

Jordan had decided to plead guilty to second-degree murder.

It was a very shocking moment.

The defense realized that there was

no way a jury was going to find her innocent of these charges.

She accepted the charge of second degree murder

in agreement that the charge of first-degree

murder and her lying to authorities would be dropped.

On March 27, 2014, Jordan Graham

was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison

with 5 years of supervised release following her term.

She also had to pay restitution to law

enforcement of about $17,000 to cover the cost

of recovering Cody's body.

It's reassuring that something horrible

that happened to another human being

is not without its penalty.

And there's remorse because a young lady

lost any semblance of a future she

was going to have for a momentary occurrence

where she ruined multiple lives.

She obviously took the life of her husband.

She condemned herself to the bulk of her adult life in jail.

She had family and friends that lost respect for her.

She had other people and other family

members that lost a son, lost a good friend, lost a coworker.

Cody Johnson left behind a family and

friends who loved him dearly.

Dying in his mid-20s when he was

just at the start of his life.

This was such a tragic case.

I don't think anyone doubts

that Jordan did it, but I certainly

do think that even a decade later,

there's a lot of questions that linger

about the entire episode.

Whether she planned it out and lured him

to some cliff with a blindfold on, or whether it was just

an accident and she pushed him off the cliff

in a moment of passion.

The only person who knows for certain what

happened that night is Jordan.

I don't think she was really ready to be married.

She wasn't ready for that type of commitment.

And I do have to wonder-- logically, you

would think, well, if you get married

and you're immediately unhappy, we'll just file for divorce.

But I don't really know if that was an option for her,

you know, considering her very religious background.

That might have been tough for her.

And so I do think she maybe felt

she was trapped in that marriage

and that there was no way to get out of it.

We are all products of our upbringing

and the culture we live in.

You have to ask yourself, are any

of the other people that had those constraints

killing their spouses?

Following the trial, friends and family held

a memorial service for Cody.

And it was-- it was very well attended.

There were a few hundred people, lots of Cody's friends

and family, and just a lot of memories about the type

of person Cody was.

I think while there was a lot of emotion at that event,

I think there was also a lot of relief

that they finally knew what had happened,

or at least as much as they're ever going to know

about what had happened.

But it was very an emotional event.

Cody was a beloved person, and that event reflected that.

This was a real tragedy where two lives were ruined.

Jordan found herself in this situation where she got herself

30 years in prison, and then Cody's family and

friends who loved him dearly have been left with that loss

and that grief of a young man who was

just starting out his life.

With the guilty verdict, the family and friends of Cody

have got justice, but they forever

lost the bubbly, vivacious character that was their son,

their brother, their friend.