Utah spouse, Jennifer Gledhill, arrested after saying she shot her estranged husband in his sleep

A Utah lady has been arrested for investigation of homicide after she instructed a confidential informant that she shot her estranged husband in his sleep and buried him in a shallow grave however didn’t disclose the situation, police stated.

Jennifer Gledhill, 41 of Cottonwood Heights, was arrested Wednesday and is jailed in Salt Lake County with out bond, in line with court docket information.

The physique of Matthew Johnson, 51, had not been discovered as of Thursday, police stated.

The Utah Nationwide Guard member was reportedly shot late Sept. 20 or early Sept. 21, the informant instructed police Sept. 28 — six days after Gledhill “brazenly admitted” to killing Johnson, police information stated.

Gledhill stated she shot Johnson on the mattress, buried his physique and eliminated objects from the home and destroyed them to cowl up the crime, the informant stated.

A search of the home discovered a bloodstain on the carpet below the mattress, blood on the mattress body and proof the wall had been bleached.

Gledhill additionally had a brand new mattress, in line with paperwork supporting her arrest.

Johnson has had no contact with anybody since Sept. 20, and he didn’t report back to work Sept. 23, officers stated. Investigators consider he’s useless.

Different court docket information point out the couple was going by a contentious divorce and a custody dispute involving their three kids.

Gledhill had obtained a short lived protecting order towards Johnson in late August, however a everlasting order was denied Sept. 16 — simply days earlier than the capturing — after the court docket commissioner watched movies that Gledhill had taken of arguments and reviewed textual content message exchanges between the 2.

Commissioner Russell Minas decided that no abuse had occurred. Glehill was equally confrontational, Minas stated, and looking for a restraining order seemed to be “a litigation tactic” of their pending divorce, which had been filed in July.

“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,” Minas wrote.

Gledhill’s attorneys within the restraining order and divorce circumstances declined to remark Thursday. No legal professional is listed for her in court docket information.