A woman shot dead her National Guardsman husband after he confronted her about having an affair, according to police.
Jennifer Gledhill, 41, reportedly admitted to shooting her husband Matthew Johnson in the head as he slept at their $1million Cottonwood Heights home in Utah last month – but is yet to disclose where she buried his corpse.
The mother-of-three was charged on Tuesday with the first-degree murder of 51-year-old Johnson, a staff sergeant in the Utah National Guard who was reported missing on September 23 after he did not show up to work.
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.
Gledhill claimed she shot Johnson while he slept the next day, according to the informant.
She allegedly put Johnson’s body in a rooftop storage contained and slit it down the stairs and into the back of her minivan.
Gledhill then smashed Johnson’s phone and drove his truck to another area of their neighborhood before driving his body north and burning him in a shallow grave, per police.
The informant told police that Gledhill ‘she 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.
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.