COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah (TCN) — A 41-year-old lady was arrested after she allegedly confessed to a confidential informant that she killed her estranged husband, a Utah Nationwide Guardsman, whom she had reported lacking days later.
Salt Lake County Jail information present Jennifer Gledhill was taken into custody on Oct. 2 on prices of homicide and obstruction of justice in reference to the loss of life of her lacking husband, Matthew Johnson.
In line with court docket information cited by KUTV-TV, Gledhill went to the Cottonwood Heights Police Division on Sept. 24 to “report an incident that occurred on or about Sept. 20, 2024, to Sept. 21, 2024, between her, and her estranged husband Matthew Johnson.” 4 days later, an informant spoke with police and stated Gledhill “brazenly admitted” to them on Sept. 22 that she shot Johnson within the head whereas he slept. She additionally reportedly informed the informant that she “eliminated the physique of Johnson and had relocated his stays to a shallow grave at an undisclosed location.”
Investigators went to Gledhill’s house and reportedly discovered a “massive bloodstained spot in the master suite carpet beneath the mattress,” in addition to blood on the mattress body. The affidavit reportedly stated proof exhibits there have been indicators of “vital cleanup,” together with bleaching the partitions and cleansing the carpet. Police stated the proof, in addition to Johnson failing to indicate as much as work and never answering cellphone calls, leads them to conclude that he’s deceased.
In line with KUTV, Gledhill and Johnson had been in the midst of a contentious divorce. Gledhill filed for divorce on July 3 and obtained a brief protecting order Aug. 21 towards Johnson. The court docket commissioner reportedly famous, “The conduct of the events over the previous a number of months is consultant of a extremely dysfunctional marriage bringing out the worst within the events — clearly suggestive that an motion for divorce ought to have been filed lengthy earlier than reaching the present state of affairs.”
The choose dismissed the protecting order on Sept. 16. The 2 had a case administration convention on Sept. 17, and Johnson was final seen alive on Sept. 20.
KSTU-TV experiences Gledhill allegedly bought a brand new mattress on Sept. 24, and it was delivered on Sept. 26.
Johnson’s physique has nonetheless not been discovered.
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