Johnson was reported missing by his partner, 41-year-old Jennifer Gledhill, on September 28; she claimed she hadn’t seen or spoken with him since they’d a battle on September 20. On the time, per police, she said he knowledgeable her he’d be gone for per week and to not identify him. She, however, was arrested after an informant claiming to have had an affair with Gledhill knowledgeable police she confessed to killing him, sooner than burying him in a “shallow grave.”

On Thursday, Gledhill’s mom and father — Thomas Gledhill, 71, and Rosalie Gledhill, 67 — had been arrested on suspicion of obstructing justice. Per arrest affidavits, by the use of KSL, the two are accused of serving to their daughter clear up after Matthew’s murder and disposing of proof.

Salt Lake County District Lawyer Sim Gill beforehand spoke about Gledhill’s mom and father whereas saying the charges in opposition to her in a press launch on October 15.

On the time, Gill said a neighbor knowledgeable police she seen the pair at their daughter’s home cleaning, saying they didn’t depart the home until 11pm; per the affidavit, the neighbor said that they had been there for higher than 5 hours. “When police confronted the defendants’ mom and father about them being on the defendant’s home on September 24, 2024, her mother said she was solely there for an hour. She moreover knowledgeable police she had purchased a mattress from Amazon on the request of the defendant,” said the press launch.

“The defendant’s father said he didn’t keep in mind particulars of the day in addition to that he had been on the defendant’s dwelling for a short time interval,” the discharge continued. “Detectives confronted the defendant’s father about how prolonged he was on the house and if he went into the primary bed room, and he responded, ‘I didn’t go within the place the incident occurred.’”

Per the affidavit, Rosalie’s phone had been reset with all the data erased, whereas data allegedly confirmed Jennifer known as her father sooner than and after her phone was turned off whereas, as police put it, “she was up north disposing of the sufferer’s physique in a shallow grave.”

As for why the mattress component is important, per the DA, detectives seen the mattress within the main mattress room of Gledhill’s home was new, whereas a stain on the carpet below the mattress examined constructive for human blood. “There have been numerous reddish-brown spots on the wall, mattress physique, and blinds of the primary bed room,” added the DA, who said the wall behind the mattress was moreover “lined in bleach.”

Police think about he was murdered on the mattress, attributable to allegations from the informant.

Whereas executing a search warrant on the mom and father’ home, police say moreover they found a plastic tote near the mattress room the place Jennifer allegedly slept whereas staying there. In it, they found a Glock 19x gun subject wrapped in a toddler’s onesie. The container, per the DA, is “consistent with the gun model and shade which she had confirmed to the informant, loaded, on September 19, 2024.”

The particular person claiming he had an affair with Gledhill knowledgeable police that on September 22, she went to his home.

He said she knowledgeable him that on the night of September 20, her husband bought right here home and “yelled at her on account of he knew she had been sleeping with one other particular person.” She moreover allegedly confessed to taking photos her husband “as he slept of their mattress” on September 22.

“She knowledgeable the informant that she put Mr. Johnson’s physique proper right into a rooftop storage container, slid him down the steps of their home, and loaded his physique into the once more of their minivan,” said the DA. “The defendant said she smashed Mr. Johnson’s phone and hid his truck in a close-by neighborhood. The defendant said she then took her husband’s physique north, dug a niche, and buried him in a shallow grave.”

The informant moreover allegedly said he seen Gledhill had bruises all through her physique — nevertheless, “when requested about them, the defendant said that they had been from transferring Mr. Johnson’s physique and cleaning their dwelling.”

Within the similar launch, the DA said GPS information from her phone confirmed that on the day she allegedly said she killed her husband, she “traveled to the place her husband’s truck was later found at spherical 6 am.”

“That afternoon, GPS information put her in Davis County until her phone was turned off at spherical 2:37 p.m.; the phone was turned on spherical 5 p.m. as she was touring eastbound on the West Davis Corridor,” the discharge continued, together with that her car was caught on digicam at a Trip Oil in Salt Lake County, the place she allegedly cleaned the automotive.

She then allegedly went to the informant’s home.

Earlier to her arrest for allegedly murdering her husband, Gledhill had filed for divorce from Johnson in July, as reported by KSL. On August 21, she filed for a brief lived defending order, which was rejected.

After a listening to on the matter, third District Commissioner Russell Minas concluded there was no “abuse,” per courtroom paperwork seen by the outlet. “There was no intentional inflicting or attempting to set off bodily damage,” he dominated.

“Whereas (Johnson’s) conduct in some instances approaches the highway of placing (Gledhill) in low-cost concern of imminent bodily damage, from the proof provided he doesn’t cross that line,” continued the September 16 doc.

He determined that Gledhil appeared “unafraid” in submitted motion pictures as proof, along with stating she looked to be “equally confrontational in the direction of him.” The ruling moreover states that textual content material messages from Gledhill to Johnson had been “repeatedly berating, belittling and demeaning … if not outright attempting to goad him proper right into a violent response.”

“The conduct of the occasions over the earlier numerous months is marketing consultant of a extraordinarily dysfunctional marriage bringing out the worst inside the occasions,” Minas mentioned in his ruling, “clearly suggestive that an movement for divorce should have been filed prolonged sooner than reaching the current state of affairs.”

Gledhill and Johnson are the mom and father of three children, ages 11, 7, and 5, per police. Since her arrest for murder, she has been rapidly barred from speaking collectively together with her children.

Johnson’s physique nonetheless hasn’t been positioned. Gledhill has been charged with one rely of first-degree felony murder, 5 counts of second-degree felony obstruction of justice, one rely of second-degree felony possession with intent to distribute, one rely of third-degree felony desecration of a human physique, and one rely of third-degree felony witness tampering.

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