‘I need 13K by Friday’: Wife accused of killing sleeping National Guardsman husband requested cash from dad days before alleged murder

New details person been revealed successful the lawsuit of a 42-year-old parent of 3 successful Utah accused of fatally shooting her sleeping husband aft helium confronted her astir having an extramarital affair.

In recently released tribunal documents, authorities allege that successful the days earlier Jennifer Gledhill allegedly killed 51-year-old Matthew Johnson, she asked for much than $10,000 from her parents — some of whom are accused of helping her screen up her husband’s murder.

Jennifer Gledhill was arrested successful October 2024, little than a period aft reporting her hubby missing, and charged with Johnson’s murder. Authorities judge the fatal shooting took spot betwixt Sept. 20 and Sept. 21, 2024.

Gledhill’s parents, Thomas and Rosalie Gledhill, were arrested days aboriginal and charged with obstruction of justness for allegedly assisting their girl aft the shooting by cleaning the location and purchasing a caller mattress to regenerate the 1 wherever the unfortunate was killed.

Johnson was a subordinate of the National Guard astatine the clip of his presumed death. His assemblage has not been recovered.

According to a precocious unsealed probable origin affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, investigators looking into Johnson’s whereabouts conducted interviews with Gledhill’s neighbors and learned that Thomas Gledhill was seen astatine his daughter’s location astatine astir 5 p.m. connected Sept. 24, 2024.

“Neighbors reported they observed Thomas, and Jennifer successful the location ‘Cleaning,'” the affidavit states. “The neighbors reported they observed Thomas leaving the location precocious astatine approx. 2300 hrs. Data from Jennifer Gledhill’s compartment phone, shows she lone contacts her father, Thomas Gledhill, erstwhile Matthew is past seen oregon heard from.”

Investigators obtained a hunt warrant for Thomas Gledhill’s cellphone, which they accidental showed “messages betwixt him and Jennifer astir wealth being transferred and purchases made.”

Data from Jennifer Gledhill’s telephone besides showed messages betwixt her and her begetter astir “financial assistance.”

On Sept. 18, Jennifer messages Thomas and states, ‘I request 13K by Friday.’ Messages amusement the victim, Matthew Johnson, transferred wealth to Thomas’s relationship to beryllium fixed to Jennifer’s account. On Sept. 18, I observed a transportation from Thomas to Jennifer’s Venmo relationship of $1,000.00,” the affidavit states. “On Sept. 19, Jennifer sends a connection to Thomas to ‘Don’t hide to springiness maine your paper information.'”

The recently revealed affidavit does not authorities wherefore Jennifer Gledhill allegedly sought the $13,000 from her father.

As previously reported by Law&Crime, Jennifer Gledhill is facing a full of 9 charges: 1 number of first-degree felony murder, 5 counts of second-degree felony obstruction of justice, 1 number of second-degree felony possession with intent to distribute, 1 number of third-degree felony desecration of a quality body, and 1 number of third-degree felony witnesser tampering.

Prosecutors said her apprehension was based successful ample portion connected accusation provided by the antheral with whom Jennifer Gledhill was having the extramarital affair.

He allegedly told investigators that Jennifer Gledhill, who has 3 young children with Johnson, came implicit to his location connected Sept. 22, 2024. He relayed that she described to him however her hubby had travel location connected Sept. 20 and “yelled astatine her due to the fact that helium knew she had been sleeping with idiosyncratic else,” prosecutors claim. She allegedly told her person that the adjacent day, connected Sept. 21, she changeable Johnson arsenic helium slept successful their bed.

“She told the informant that she enactment Mr. Johnson’s assemblage into a rooftop retention container, slid him down the stairs of their home, and loaded his assemblage into the backmost of their minivan,” prosecutors wrote.

Gledhill allegedly “smashed” Johnson’s telephone and ditched his motortruck successful a adjacent neighborhood. She past drove his assemblage “north” and buried him successful a shallow grave, according to prosecutors. The informant noticed bruises connected Gledhill’s body; she allegedly told him she got them portion burying her husband’s assemblage and cleaning the house.

Authorities person immoderate corroborating grounds to backmost the lover’s claims. GPS information from Gledhill’s telephone places her successful the determination wherever she allegedly near Johnson’s motortruck the greeting aft the alleged murder. Later that afternoon, information reportedly shows she was successful Davis County — which is northbound of Salt Lake City — until she turned her telephone disconnected soon aft 2:30 p.m. When she turned the telephone backmost connected astir 5 p.m., it showed she was driving on a Davis County highway, prosecutors said.

Surveillance video astatine a car lavation allegedly shows her “thoroughly” cleaning her conveyance astir 11 p.m. earlier driving to her lover’s location soon earlier midnight.

Neighbors besides told cops they saw Gledhill’s parents cleaning successful her location for respective hours connected Sept. 24. When confronted with this fact, her parents claimed they were lone determination for a abbreviated play of time, prosecutors said. Detectives asked her begetter if helium went into the maestro chamber and helium allegedly responded “I did not spell successful wherever the incidental happened.”

Perhaps astir eye-popping of all, Gledhill allegedly bought a caller mattress to regenerate the 1 wherever Johnson was changeable to death, but that seemingly didn’t halt investigators from uncovering a “large blood-stained spot successful the maestro chamber carpet underneath the bed” and humor connected “the furniture framework slats[.]”

Gledhill’s parents claimed they bought her a caller mattress connected Amazon astatine their daughter’s request.

Investigators besides searched her parents’ home. In a chamber wherever Gledhill would sleep, they allegedly recovered a greenish and tan Glock 19x container wrapped successful a baby’s onesie successful a tote bag. The weapon wasn’t there, but prosecutors judge the container contained the execution weapon.

Cops arrested Gledhill connected Oct. 2. She has been successful jailhouse ever since.

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