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11-13-2013, 11:28am

And yet, it happened in real life...

Montana newlywed blindfolded husband before pushing him off cliff, say prosecutors

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Jordan Linn Graham, 22, says Cody Lee Johnson, 25, fell by accident. His body was found in July in Glacier National Park, four days after his 200-foot fall off a cliff.

Monday, November 11, 2013, 9:27 PM.

A Montana woman accused of pushing her hubby of eight days to his death may have blindfolded the doomed man, prosecutors now allege.

Cody Lee Johnson, 25, was found dead at the bottom of a 200-foot cliff on July 11 in Glacier National Park - four days after cops say Jordan Linn Graham, 22, shoved the man to his death.

Prosecutors are awaiting DNA test results from a piece of cloth found near Lee’s body. Defense attorneys for Graham are working furiously to prevent the blindfold theory from being presented to jurors when the case hits court Dec. 9, the Missoulian newspaper reports, and even filed a motion to dismiss the first- and second-degree murder charges last week.

Defense attorneys for Graham claim the fall was a terrible accident, not murder.

“...It hardly seems plausible that the argument would cease abruptly so Jordan could apply a blindfold,” attorney Michael Donahoe wrote in court documents, HLN reported. “Frankly at this point the defense has no idea of how the government intends to try this case."

Graham, of nearby Kalispell, allegedly confessed to the crime and has been under house arrest since her September arrest. She was ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation.

The newlyweds were walking along “The Loop” trail the evening of July 7 when Johnson fell to his death. In an interview with police, Graham said her husband boasted about walking the steep ledge without his sight.

"I didn’t want to do that trail because I was afraid that, I mean there is a cliff right there," Graham told detectives, HLN reported. "And you could fall. And he said, ‘I could do this with a blindfold on.’ And he said, ‘I could just put it on, take a step but I wouldn’t even fall.’ And I was like - and it just kept going through my head that, um, you are going to fall or something.”

Attorneys for Graham claim parts of her police interrogation were not recorded and that her words were twisted by FBI investigator Stacey Smiedala. Graham says she pushed Lee after he grabbed her arm and he fell by accident.

She eventually led park rangers to his body after originally claiming her husband took off for Glacier with a group of friends.

He was reported missing July 8 after he didn’t show up for work.

"I think I didn't realize that one push would mean for sure you were over," Graham said in the transcript, the Missoulian reported. "I felt like I shouldn't have gotten married at that time, but not, there were not any issues of being with Cody, no. I feel like he's the person I was going to spend the rest of my life with."