Wife fatally shot still-missing husband in his sleep after screaming match over her affair: officials

The Utah woman who allegedly murdered her husband in his sleep last month did so after a screaming match about her cheating on him — with her lover being the key witness, according to prosecutors.Jennifer Gledhill, 41, was charged Tuesday with nine felonies — including first-degree murder — for allegedly shooting Matthew Johnson, 51, in their Cottonwood Heights home, then burying him in a shallow grave, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said in a statement.Gledhill had reported her husband missing on Sept.

28 — but a man later came forward and told cops he’d had “an extramarital affair” with her and that she confessed to him about the gruesome murder, the prosecutors said.He claimed Gledhill told him her husband, a Utah National Guard member, had confronted her on Sept.20 — eight days before he was reported missing — 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 statement said.“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 info.She also allegedly smashed her husband’s phone, drove his truck to a different part of the neighborhood and brought her car to a car wash, where surveillance cameras caught her “thoroughly” cleaning it out.Police — who tracked her phone’s GPS data to the exact spot where the truck was later found — still haven’t found his body.The man — who told cops he didn’t come forward sooner because he wasn’t sure if Gledhill was telling the truth — also claimed she “assumed he would be like her, and if her friend told her a hypothetical story, she would say, ‘Let me get my shovel!’ ...