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 accordance with studies.
“I want 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 imagine she killed her husband, Nationwide Guardsman Matthew Johnson, in the master suite of their Cottonwood Heights residence — about 15 miles exterior of downtown Salt Lake Metropolis.
Thomas then allegedly despatched her $1,000 by way of Venmo on the identical day she requested the cash, in accordance with the court docket paperwork.
It’s unclear why Gledhill wanted the cash or what the funds have been for.
Warrants have 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 evaluate information of Gledhill’s USAA and Chase Financial institution accounts and “all accounts pertaining to Thomas Gledhill.”
Thomas, 71, and Rosalie, 67, have 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.
Court docket paperwork present that Gledhill obtained a brand new mattress quickly after the suspected killing, and her mom allegedly admitted to investigators to purchasing it for her by way of Amazon, ABC 4 reported.
Thomas advised investigators that he didn’t enter the master suite whereas at her residence.
Rosalie additionally advised authorities they have been solely at their daughter’s residence for an hour whereas Thomas stated he didn’t bear 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 imagine he was killed.
Johnson’s physique has nonetheless not been discovered.
The paperwork state that information from Gledhill’s mobile phone report exhibits she solely contacted her father after Johnson was reported lacking, KUTV reported.
“Primarily based on the proof and statements made by Jennifer and Thomas, [an officer with the police department] decided Thomas is concerned in helping his daughter, Jennifer, with the disposal of proof and knowledge resulting in 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 accordance with investigators.
The alleged killing was dropped at mild after a person got here ahead and advised cops he’d had “an extramarital affair” with Gledhill and that she confessed to him in regards to the grotesque homicide, Salt Lake County District Lawyer Sim Gill stated 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 as a result of he knew she had been sleeping with another person.”
“The defendant advised the informant that she shot Mr. Johnson [the next day] as he slept of their mattress,” the assertion stated.
“She advised the informant that she put Mr. Johnson’s physique right into a rooftop storage container, slid him down the steps of their residence, and loaded his physique into the again of their minivan.”
Gledhill “then took her husband’s physique north, dug a gap, and buried him in a shallow grave,” the DA added of her alleged lover’s data.
Prosecutors imagine the alleged assassin then smashed Johnson’s telephone, drove his truck to a unique a part of the neighborhood, and introduced her automotive to a automotive wash.
She was caught on surveillance cameras “completely” cleansing out the automotive 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.
Court docket information revealed the couple was going by way of a contentious divorce and custody battle over their three kids, who’re 11, 7, and 5 years outdated. Gledhill had gotten a short lived restraining order towards Johnson in late August
She has been ordered to don’t have any contact together with her children.
