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Park Predators

(BONUS) The Newlywed

Park Predators

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True Crime

4.415.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Wedding bells had barely stopped ringing by the time 21-year-old Jordan Graham pushed her husband of only eight days off of a cliff in Glacier National Park. The couple’s hike was meant to bring their budding marriage closer together, but ended horrifically for Cody Johnson. The events and stories that would unfold after this lethal act changed the fabric of a small religious Montana community and became one of two only documented murders in modern history to occur inside the massive park. Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://parkpredators.com/bonus-episode-the-newlywed/

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0:00.0

Hi Park enthusiasts, I'm your host, Dilya DeAmbra, and today's bonus episode is going to take us to Glacier National Park.

0:08.0

Now I've talked about this park before this season in the Hitchhiker episode.

0:13.0

Something we didn't mention in that episode though is that Glacier National actually straddles the continental divide.

0:20.0

Because of that, extreme weather can crop up at any time.

0:25.0

Opposing Pacific and Arctic air currents collide here with such intensity that they create dramatic weather events in just minutes.

0:34.0

One time just outside of the park's eastern boundary in Browning, Montana, the temperature was noted as dropping 100 degrees in 24 hours.

0:44.0

And it's with that same drastic intensity that a newlywed couples hike inside of the park went from soaring highs to deadly lows in July 2013.

0:55.0

This is Park Predators.

1:15.0

It's June 29, 2013, and 25-year-old Cody Johnson and 21-year-old Jordan Graham are sharing their first dance together as a married couple.

1:26.0

That song you just heard was a custom written and recorded tune that Jordan and one of her friends had spent months writing together.

1:50.0

She wanted a special first dance song that they could remember for the rest of their lives.

1:55.0

The lyrics make reference to the beautiful mountains and skies of Montana that both the bride and groom called home, and it's the place where they fell in love.

2:04.0

All of their friends from church and their families had gathered together on this special day to celebrate the couple.

2:11.0

It had taken months to plan this moment.

2:14.0

Jordan and Cody were young, but already they had plans for their lives.

2:19.0

They bought a house in Calisbel, Montana, where their families lived, and they'd already moved a few things into it.

2:25.0

Both of them were excited to settle in and start life together.

2:30.0

The couple met and began dating in 2011.

2:34.0

Jordan told a lot of her friends that she'd always wanted to meet a nice guy, get married, have kids, and be a stay-at-home mom.

2:42.0

Cody told his friends that for the longest time he just wanted to have a good church girl for a girlfriend, who eventually could become his wife, and Jordan fit that mold for sure.

2:53.0

She'd been raised in church and was devoted to attending and volunteering in ministries at first Baptist in Calisbel.

3:01.0

Their friends described Cody's affection for Jordan as almost worshipping the ground she walked on.

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