Charges filed for woman accused of killing husband in Cottonwood Heights
Oct 15, 2024, 1:17 PM | Updated: 5:23 pm
(Ed Collins, KSL TV)
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah — The woman accused of shooting and killing her husband in Cottonwood Heights in September has been charged with first-degree murder.
Forty-one-year-old Jennifer Gledhill reported her husband, Utah National Guardsman Matthew Johnson, missing in late September. Police arrested her on Oct. 2.
Gledhill allegedly told the man she was having an affair with that she and her husband got in a fight about her infidelity on Sept. 20. The next day she had allegedly shot Johnson dead while he slept in their bed.
The unnamed informant told police that Gledhill admitted to placing his body in a storage container, then driving him in their minivan to bury him in a shallow grave somewhere in northern Utah. When the informant noticed bruising on Gledhill’s body, she claimed it was from moving her husband’s remains and cleaning up the aftermath.
A search of her home uncovered a brand-new mattress and suspicious brown and red stains on the walls, bed frame, and blinds. Investigators also scoured her parents’ house, where they uncovered a plastic tote containing a Glock gun box, linked to the loaded gun Gledhill had shown the informant.
The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office charged Gledhill with nine felonies on Tuesday. Charges include first-degree murder, obstruction of justice, and the desecration of a human body.