A Montana woman on trial for killing her newlywed husband at Glacier National Park told the FBI "I pushed him and I took off." 
 
 The statement by 22-year-old Jordan Graham was heard on Wednesday, the third day of her trial. She is charged with first-degree murder and second-degree murder in the July 7 death of Cody Johnson, 25. 
 
 Flathead County Deputy Coroner Richard Sine testified that Johnson had an 8-inch fracture on his forehead and was not wearing a wedding ring when his body was found. 
 
 Jordan Graham's statement was in a recoding made by an FBI agent in Kalispell on July 16 
 
 Graham has said she and Johnson argued in the park and he accidentally fell when she tried to remove his hand from her arm. 
 
 Johnson was reported missing on July 8. Graham concocted a story that her husband of eight days had gone off with friends and had not returned. His body was found by Graham near the Loop on July 11. 
 
 In the recording, Graham calmly told FBI agent Stacey Smiedala that she and Johnson were having a fight and decided to drive to Glacier to discuss their issues. While venturing off trail near the Loop, Graham said Johnson grabbed her arm. Graham then took Johnson's hand off her and pushed him over the cliff. 
 
 "It was a quick thing, I just wanted to get him off me," she said in the recorded interview. "I don't feel like I killed him; I mean I pushed him, but it was an accident." 
 
 Sherry Johnson testified that her son was excited to marry Graham. She also said she tried to console Graham during a prayer service after her son's death. 
 
 "I put my arm around her and said everything will be OK," Sherry Johnson said tearfully. "Cody's with Jesus now." 
 
 Graham didn't respond, Sherry Johnson testified. 
 
 Graham's trial resumes Thursday. 

 Dec 11, 2013 11:00 AM by Dennis Bragg - Missoula 
 
 Brother testifies during murder trial of Jordan Graham 
 
 MISSOULA - During the second day of the murder trial of Jordan Linn Graham in U.S. District Court in Missoula, Graham's brother Michael Rutledge tearfully said that his sister should have "told the truth" about her husband's death in Glacier National Park. 
 
 Graham is accused of pushing her husband Cody Johnson over a cliff to his death in Glacier National Park in July 2013. 
 
 Rutledge, 16 years old, said that Graham seemed "focused" on looking for Johnson in the days after he vanished along The Loop Trail. 
 
 Rutledge was with her when they spotted Johnson's body lying in a pool of water at the foot of the cliff. 
 
 Rutledge, who described Johnson as a close friend, broke down under cross-examination as he was asked whether he was still mad at his sister. 
 
 "Now not so much," Rutledge told the jury as he started to cry. "But she could have told us the truth. She had to keep telling lies to cover it up." 
 
 Defense attorneys have said their case will show Graham played a "central role" in Johnson's death, but that she fabricated stories because she was scared after Johnson's fall during a heated argument. 
 
 The jury got its first look at the telling of those various stories on Tuesday, as prosecutors began playing video-taped interviews from Kalispell police officers - some before she was considered a suspect and recorded by hidden camera. 
 
 During the interviews, detectives say they know of inconsistencies in Graham's stories about Johnson riding away with friends in a "dark car" the night he vanished. 
 
 "You're not being honest with me," says Sgt. Chad Zimmerman during an initial interview, to which Graham replied: "I'm telling you everything I know." But Zimmerman told the jury Tuesday he felt Graham "was being less than honest." 
 
 Graham showed up back at the Kalispell Police Department two days later with a supposed email from someone named "Tony," claiming Johnson has been harmed. Prosecutors say that Graham fabricated that email herself. 
 
 During the second interview, the jury saw her break into tears when the detective left the room, telling her mother "I just want to go." 
 
 A few minutes later she was read her Miranda rights, although she still wasn't arrested. 
 
 Judge Molloy is hoping to wrap up testimony in the case this week.
– The bride accused of pushing her new husband off a cliff to his death wrapped day three of her trial yesterday, and this was the day's standout line: "I pushed him and I took off." That was what Jordan Graham said to the FBI in a recorded statement five days after Cody Johnson's body was found in Glacier National Park—with an 8-inch fracture on his forehead and without his wedding ring, the AP reports. She said the two argued, and Johnson grabbed her arm. "It was a quick thing, I just wanted to get him off me," she said to the FBI. "I don't feel like I killed him; I mean I pushed him, but it was an accident." Meanwhile, Johnson's mom said she consoled Graham after her son's death. "I put my arm around her and said everything will be OK," she said, noting her son had been excited to marry Graham. "Cody's with Jesus now," she told Graham; she got no response. But another family member—Graham's 16-year-old brother Michael Rutledge—had a more emotional turn on the stand the day before. KRTV reports he considered Johnson a good friend, and started crying when he was asked if he was still angry with his sister. "Now not so much. But she could have told us the truth. She had to keep telling lies to cover it up." The trial resumes today.