What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Heath and I'm your host Daphne.

And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody.

Thank you for tuning in today. And for everybody who checked out episode 500 of Going West,

it is crazy to be past that milestone. And as you guys know, we interviewed Holly Madison.

So in general, just a very special episode. We talked about the summer of hell, which is a series of murders that was just wild that took place in the early 1980s.

So if you haven't checked it out yet, please do.

Yeah, definitely go check it out.

But today we have a story for you guys that takes a lot of twists and turns.

It's one that I hadn't heard of before.

I didn't see anybody recommend

it, but if you did, thank you for doing so. But yeah, guys, we are going to go on quite the ride today.

And in such a beautiful setting as well. So without further ado, let's get into this one.

All right, guys, this is episode 501 of going west, so let's get into it. I'm I'm I'm

I In June of 2013, a 25-year-old newlywed vanished in the picturesque mountains of Montana,

just days after saying, I do.

What began as a missing person's case in a tight-knit community quickly turned into

something far darker, as investigators uncovered chilling secrets, a cryptic email

regarding his death, and a truth that no one saw coming.

This is the murder of Cody Johnson.

This is the murder of Cody Johnson was born on April 8, 1988 in San Jose, California to his mother Sherry Johnson, who by the time

Cody was born, had divorced Cody's biological father. So it appears that he was not in the picture.

Cody was an only child, so it is safe to say that he was the light of his mother's life,

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