Jordan Graham Confesses, Takes 2nd Degree Plea

Just before her trial ended yesterday, Jordan Graham confessed to recklessly pushing Cody off the cliff.  She took a plea deal from prosecutors for 2nd degree murder.

While each state’s definition of 2nd degree may vary, a general definition of 2nd degree murder from the FreeDictionary.com website is, “a non-premeditated killing, resulting from an assault in which death of the victim was a distinct possibility.”

Jordan was quoted by the Great Falls Tribune as saying, “It wasn’t planned, but was ‘definitely reckless with an extreme disregard’ for life.”

I do not believe Jordan that this event wasn’t premeditated.  I believe 100% that it was–her actions make that undeniably clear.

Jordan, in my perspective, is an extremely dangerous, cold and callous woman who should not see the freedom again.

Jordan will be sentenced in March.

Looking at Cody’s photo, I tell he was a warm, and very trusting soul. He would have never believed Jordan was capable of what she did, sadly, and I suspect Jordan profiled him.

Newly Wed Jordan Graham on Trial for Murder

The murder trial for Cody Johnson started this week in Montana.  Just eight days after being married, Cody dies allegedly falling face-first to his death at the hands of his wife, Jordan Graham.

At first, Jordan claimed she wasn’t with Cody when he disappeared.  Then later after being seen on video surveillance, she confesses up, but quickly changes her story to self-defense. Oh, and she also ironically found his body and when she did, her face was deadpan and emotionless.

Hmm…

Jordan is embroiled in so many lies, its over-the-top, and yet legal experts say proving that she did it legally will be a challenge.

Based on common sense and logic, there is little doubt they have the right person on trial (can you believe she is not in custody?), but logic doesn’t always prevail in court as we have seen over the last few years.

If there is any questionable testimony that comes out from this trial, please let me know and I’ll be happy to shed some light on it!

Norma Patricia Esparza Writes for Huffington Post

Norma Esparza took to writing a blog post for the Huffington Post.  Have you seen it?

It’s truly worth a read.  What hotspots do you see when you read it?
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Lottie Spencer Blatz and Waseem Daker on Dateline

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If you caught Dateline NBC last weekend and watched the featured story, your jaw likely dropped and hit the floor.  The story was a mind-blowing.

A woman, Lottie Spencer Blatz, claimed she had been relentlessly stalked by a younger man, Waseem Daker.  She said they met playing paintball and became friends, but she said they never had a romantic relationship.  Then Daker, according to Blatz, started stalking her and became obsessed with her.

Blatz filed charges against Daker multiple times for stalking and Daker ended up getting locked up for 10 years.

In the middle of all of this, Blatz ‘s attractive neighbor, Karmen Smith, who lived in the same house that Blatz did (on a different floor) was murdered.  When it happened, Blatz told police she knew who it was.  It was Daker, the man who stalked her.

That hit me as very unusual and strange. Stalkers may kill the person they are obsessed with, but not typically their neighbors.

Blatz talks about when she was being harassed by Daker, she took her phone off the hook and as soon as she did, she heard Daker start calling Karmen Smith and shortly after Smith was murdered.  What are the odds?

Over the Dateline broadcast, Blatz does an about face now that Daker is convicted of murder, and she tells us and the courts that she lied.  She says that Daker never stalked her, and that she had a consensual relationship with him after all.  She is now calling Daker the victim here.

When you are watching the show, you are left confused and unsure what to believe.

When I watched Blatz tell her original story, I saw a lot of red flags and I didn’t believe her.  Yet when she did an about face, her clues dramatically subsided.

I think Blatz has some serious mental health issues, but I also believe she is a pathological liar and even worse, she may be a master manipulator.

At the end of the show, from what I saw, I couldn’t help but wonder if Blatz manipulated and toyed with Daker’s emotions, and pulled his strings like a puppet and got great joy out of it.  By pushing his buttons, she may have pushed him to the brink–causing him to do stupid things.

And when I think that Blatz was so sure of who killed her neighbor, I immediately wonder what evidence there was to convict Daker.  Blatz claims she gave a blanket to Smith before she was killed, but only Daker’s hairs were on the blanket — not Blatz’s.  How does that happen?

I can’t help but question if Blatz set up Daker.  I would put Blatz in the target of my investigation.  She would have had the motive to kill Karmen Smith out of pure jealousy if Daker gave her any attention.  Or she could have manipulated Daker to kill Smith and refused all contact with Daker until he did.  Both are plausible.

I fear this story is way more twisted than anyone knows and the dark one behind all of this may very well be Blatz and not Daker.  I can say I do believe Blatz this time around on some elements–enough that the whole case needs to be reassessed, hands down.