Utah mom Jennifer Gledhill demanded $13K from her dad days before she allegedly killed National Guardsman husband: report
A Utah mom allegedly texted her dad saying she needed significant financial help days before she allegedly shot and killed her husband as he slept, according to reports.“I need 13K by Friday,” Jennifer Gledhill texted her father on Sept.
18, ABC 4 reported, citing an unsealed search warrant and court documents.Gledhill, 42, sent the message to her father, Thomas Ray Gledhill, three days before investigators believe she killed her husband, National Guardsman Matthew Johnson, in the master bedroom of their Cottonwood Heights home — about 15 miles outside of downtown Salt Lake City.Thomas then allegedly sent her $1,000 through Venmo on the same day she requested the money, according to the court documents.It’s unclear why Gledhill needed the money or what the funds were for.Warrants were issued to search Gledhill, her father, and her mother, Rosalie Christianson Gledhill’s Venmo accounts, ABC 4 reported.Investigators also obtained search warrants to review records of Gledhill’s USAA and Chase Bank accounts and “all accounts pertaining to Thomas Gledhill.”Thomas, 71, and Rosalie, 67, were arrested in October — days after her daughter was charged with murder — on four felony counts of first-degree obstruction of justice for allegedly helping their daughter clean up the crime scene.The couple allegedly helped Gledhill clean her home after investigators suspect she fatally shot her husband.Witnesses also placed the elderly couple at her house for over five hours around the time of the killing.Court documents show that Gledhill received a new mattress soon after the suspected killing, and her mother allegedly admitted to investigators to buying it for her through Amazon, ABC 4 reported.Thomas told investigators that he did not enter the master bedroom while at her home.Rosalie also told authorities they were only at their daughter’s residence for an hour while Thomas said he didn’t remember the details of the day.Following Johnson’s death, the m...