The wealthy Utah wife accused of shooting her National Guard husband while he slept did so after he confronted her about having an affair, police say.
Jennifer Gledhill, 41, allegedly admitted to shooting her husband Matthew Johnson in the head at their million-dollar Cottonwood Heights home in Utah last month, but has not yet revealed where she buried his body.
The mother of three was charged Tuesday with the first-degree murder of Johnson, 51, a sergeant in the Utah National Guard who was reported missing on Sept. 23 after he failed to show up for work.
Police received a tip about Gledhill after a man claiming to be having an affair with her contacted police in the Salt Lake City suburb.
The informant told police she admitted to killing her husband after he confronted her about the extramarital affair on Sept. 20, according to reports. ABC4.
Jennifer Gledhill has not yet confessed to killing her husband Matthew Johnson, who was reported missing late last month, police told DailyMail.com. The couple appears in the photo together with their three young children.
Gledhill, 41, allegedly admitted to shooting her husband in the head while he slept in their million-dollar Cottonwood Heights home last month.
Gledhill claimed he shot Johnson while he was sleeping the next day, according to the informant.
He allegedly put Johnson’s body in a rooftop storage room and cut him down stairs to the back of his minivan.
Gledhill then smashed Johnson’s phone and drove his truck to another area of his neighborhood before driving his body north and burning it in a shallow grave, according to police.
The informant told police that Gledhill ‘assumed he would be like her and if her friend told her a hypothetical story, she would say, “Let me get my shovel!” and take the information to his grave.
A witness reportedly told detectives that they saw Gledhill’s relatives cleaning his house until 11 p.m. on September 24, three days after the alleged murder.
One of Gledhill’s relatives told police they bought her a new mattress after she asked for it.
Matthew Johnson said he was shot in the head while he slept. His wife allegedly confessed to a friend that she had dumped his body in a shallow grave.
Jennifer’s parents, Rose and Ted Gledhill, said they are now struggling to break the tragic news to the couple’s three children that their mother allegedly killed their father.
Police say they found a new mattress when they searched Gledhill’s home, as well as “reddish-brown stains” on the wall and bed frame and bleach stains on the stairs.
Gledhill’s parents previously told DailyMail.com they were struggling to break the tragic news to the couple’s three children that their mother killed their father.
“All three children are living with us at the moment,” their father, Ted Gledhill, told DailyMail.com exclusively.
‘They are fine, but my wife and I haven’t told them everything.
“We told them that their father was missing and the police are questioning their mother because they think she may know something about it.”
A date for Gledhill’s first court appearance has not yet been set and she remains in jail without bail.