New evidence in the Montana murder trial of Jordan Linn Graham suggests the newlywed may have blindfolded her husband before pushing him off a cliff in Glacier National Park just 8 days after the two were married.
Michael Donahoe, a federal defender says "the government is awaiting DNA test results being run on a piece of cloth found on a shoal in the river in the same general vicinity as where Cody [Johnson's] body was recovered."
It's unclear whether the prosecution plans to use this information in Graham's murder trial, scheduled to begin December 9, or just use it to trump up the charges against the defendant in order to gain leverage for a plea bargain.
The complaint against Graham, Donahoe believes, does not contain all of her statements made to the police while also misrepresenting what she did say. According to her attorney, the information about a supposed blindfold and Graham taking the time to use it just doesn't add up.
Jordan Linn Graham, who confessed to pushing her husband face first off a cliff, told authorities that she did not know her husband would fall to his death before she pushed him. During their scuffle atop the cliff, he grabbed her arm, said "let go," and then she pushed him in the back with both hands.
She asserts that the movement which resulted in Cody Johnson's death was a continuous one, and one not made with the purpose of killing him.
Graham was released from jail while she awaits trial and despite both sides requesting that the trial be postponed until February, the judge presiding over the case has set the trial to begin in early December. An evidentiary hearing is scheduled for Friday.
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