A wealthy wife accused of shooting her National Guardsman husband while he slept did so after he confronted her about having an affair, it has been revealed.
Jennifer Gledhill, 41, allegedly admitted to shooting Matthew Johnson in the head at their $1million home in Utah last month – but is yet to disclose where he is buried.
The mother-of-three was charged with the first-degree murder of the 51-year-old, a staff sergeant in the Utah National Guard who was reported missing on September 23.
Police were tipped off about Gledhill after a man who claimed to be having an affair with her contacted cops in the Salt Lake City suburb.
The informant told police she admitted to killing her husband after he confronted her about the extramarital relationship on September 20, as reported by ABC4.
Jennifer Gledhill is yet to confess to killing her husband Matthew Johnson, who was reported missing late last month, police told DailyMail.com. The couple are pictured together with their three young children
Gledhill claimed she shot Johnson while he slept the next day, according to the informant.
She allegedly put Johnson’s body in an attic storage container and then slid it down the stairs and into the back of her minivan.
Gledhill allegedly smashed Johnson’s phone and drove his truck to another area of their estate before driving his body north and burning him in a shallow grave.
Jennifer Gledhill, 41, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail last week for murder and obstruction of justice after her husband vanished
Gledhill, 41, reportedly admitted to shooting her husband in the head as he slept at their $1million Cottonwood Heights home last month
The informant told police 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 her grave.’
A witness reportedly told detectives they saw Gledhill’s relatives cleaning her house until 11pm 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 one.
Matthew Johnson i said to hve been shot in the head as 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
Gledhill’s father told DailyMail.com his daughter and her three children moved into her parents’ home in Cottonwood Heights when she first filed for divorce, but eventually moved back into their family home with Johnson
Police say they found a brand new mattress when they searched Gledhill’s home, as well as ‘reddish-brown spots’ 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.
‘The three children are living with us for the time being,’ her father Ted Gledhill told DailyMail.com exclusively.
‘They are doing okay, but my wife and I have not told them everything.
‘We told them their father is missing and the police are questioning their mother because they think she may know something about it.’
A court date for Gledhill’s first court appearance has not yet been set and she remains in jail without bond.
