A Utah mother allegedly texted her dad saying she wanted vital monetary assist days earlier than she allegedly shot and killed her husband as he slept, in line with experiences.
“I need 13K by Friday,” Jennifer Gledhill texted her father on Sept. 18, ABC 4 reported, citing an unsealed search warrant and court docket paperwork.
Gledhill, 42, despatched the message to her father, Thomas Ray Gledhill, three days earlier than investigators consider she killed her husband, Nationwide Guardsman Matthew Johnson, in the main bedroom of their Cottonwood Heights residence — about 15 miles outdoors of downtown Salt Lake Metropolis.
Thomas then allegedly despatched her $1,000 by means of Venmo on the identical day she requested the cash, in line with the court docket paperwork.
It’s unclear why Gledhill wanted the cash or what the funds had been for.
Warrants had been issued to go looking Gledhill, her father, and her mom, Rosalie Christianson Gledhill’s Venmo accounts, ABC 4 reported.
Investigators additionally obtained search warrants to overview data of Gledhill’s USAA and Chase Financial institution accounts and “all accounts pertaining to Thomas Gledhill.”
Thomas, 71, and Rosalie, 67, had been arrested in October — days after her daughter was charged with homicide — on 4 felony counts of first-degree obstruction of justice for allegedly serving to their daughter clear up the crime scene.
The couple allegedly helped Gledhill clear her residence after investigators suspect she fatally shot her husband. Witnesses additionally positioned the aged couple at her home for over 5 hours across the time of the killing.
Courtroom paperwork present that Gledhill acquired a brand new mattress quickly after the suspected killing, and her mom allegedly admitted to investigators to purchasing it for her by means of Amazon, ABC 4 reported.
Thomas advised investigators that he didn’t enter the main bedroom whereas at her residence.
Rosalie additionally advised authorities they had been solely at their daughter’s residence for an hour whereas Thomas mentioned he didn’t keep in mind the main points of the day.
Following Johnson’s loss of life, the mother of three allegedly disposed of his physique and reported him lacking on Sept. 28 — eight days after detectives consider he was killed.
Johnson’s physique has nonetheless not been discovered.
The paperwork state that information from Gledhill’s mobile phone file reveals she solely contacted her father after Johnson was reported lacking, KUTV reported.
“Based on the evidence and statements made by Jennifer and Thomas, [an officer with the police department] determined Thomas is involved in assisting his daughter, Jennifer, with the disposal of evidence and information leading to the disappearance of Matthew Johnson,” the paperwork state.
Thomas and Rosalie haven’t been charged with Johnson’s homicide.
The cold-blooded killing allegedly got here after an evening of drunken intercourse throughout which Gledhill admitted to sleeping with one other man, in line with investigators.
The alleged killing was delivered to mild after a person got here ahead and advised cops he’d had “an extramarital affair” with Gledhill and that she confessed to him concerning the grotesque homicide, Salt Lake County District Lawyer Sim Gill mentioned in a press release in October.
Her alleged lover — who has not been named — claimed Gledhill advised him her husband had confronted her on Sept. 20 and “yelled at her because he knew she had been sleeping with someone else.”
“The defendant told the informant that she shot Mr. Johnson [the next day] as he slept in their bed,” the assertion mentioned.
“She told the informant that she put Mr. Johnson’s body into a rooftop storage container, slid him down the stairs of their home, and loaded his body into the back of their minivan.”
Gledhill “then took her husband’s body north, dug a hole, and buried him in a shallow grave,” the DA added of her alleged lover’s data.
Prosecutors consider the alleged assassin then smashed Johnson’s telephone, drove his truck to a unique a part of the neighborhood, and introduced her automobile to a automobile wash.
She was caught on surveillance cameras “thoroughly” cleansing out the automobile after the alleged killing and police tracked her telephone’s GPS information to the precise spot the place the truck was later discovered.
Gledhill was arrested on Oct. 2 and pleaded not responsible to homicide. Her trial has been set for December 2025.
Courtroom data revealed the couple was going by means of a contentious divorce and custody battle over their three kids, who’re 11, 7, and 5 years previous. Gledhill had gotten a short lived restraining order in opposition to Johnson in late August
She has been ordered to don’t have any contact along with her youngsters.
