New wife charged with pushing husband off cliff (USA News)

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — They were love birds, yet she was having doubts about the 8-day-old marriage, court archives say. The couple drove the short separation from their Kalispell home to Glacier National Park, where they got into a contention. He got her by the arm, yet she pulled away and pushed him confront leading a bluff to his expiration.

Elected prosecutors have given their form of what happened to Cody Lee Johnson, 25, two months after his physique was discovered in a territory of the recreation center so steep and tough that a helicopter must be utilized within the recuperation.

Jordan Linn Graham, 22, seemed Monday in elected court in Missoula on a second-degree homicide indictment in Johnson's July 7 demise. Her lawyer, open protector Andrew Nelson, declined to remark.

Johnson's family and companions had called for an examination since the figure was recuperated July 12 beneath the Loop Trail close to the sheer precipice drops of the recreation center's prominent Going to the Sun Road.

Johnson adored her and was animated for their marriage a two-year later wooing, however his relatives suspected that Graham didn't precisely respond, family companion Tracey Maness said. She was standoffish, would like to invest time with his family, and quieted down when she did, Maness
He told his mother that Graham might change when they got hitched, Maness said.

"No one at any point could have thought something like this could happen," she said.

On the night Johnson bit the dust, Graham advised a companion that she intended to banter with Johnson about "having qualms about having been wedded," consistent with a FBI oath indexed with the criminal protest.

Just after 9 p.m., she messaged the companion that she was going to converse with him.

"Yet dead genuine if u don't get notification from me whatsoever again today evening time, something happened," Graham composed, consistent with the oath.

Johnson was accounted for missing July 8 when he neglected to appear for work, and Graham was addressed the accompanying day.

She initially told specialists that Johnson sent her a quick message the night of his demise, truism he was running for a drive with a companion from away.

She said she touched base to see a dim colored auto hauling out of their carport, and that Johnson was in it.

On July 11, two days after that question, Graham told a recreation center officer in Glacier that she had discovered the figure beneath the ubiquitous Loop range, the oath said.

The recreation center officer remarked that it was curious that she discovered it.

"It was a spot he needed to see before he bit the dust," she said, consistent with the testimony. "He might come up here with companions to drive quick when his companions were going by from away."

Five days after the fact, Graham conceded to compelling voices in a second meeting that she had lied, consistent with the oath. She let them know she and Johnson had a contention, were vexed and chose to head off to the Loop Trail.

They kept contending on the trail, and it strengthened. At one focus, she dismissed walk, however Johnson got her arm, she said.

She turned around, uprooted his hand from her arm and "because of her outrage, she pushed Johnson with both delivers the back, and accordingly, he fell confront leading the bluff," the sworn statement said.

Maness portrayed Johnson as an "enormous goofball" with an extraordinary comical inclination who was into autos, film amusements, four-wheeling and kayaking. He and Graham throughout their engagement might head off to Glacier for a percentage of the simple day climbs, generally as of late in May, she said.

She said the family is alleviated that the examination is at last finish and charges carried two months later.