Utah mom Jennifer Gledhill demanded $13K from her dad days before she allegedly killed National Guardsman husband: report

A Utah mom allegedly texted her dada saying she needed important financial thief days earlier she allegedly shot and killed her husband arsenic he slept, according to reports.

“I request 13K by Friday,” Jennifer Gledhill texted her begetter connected Sept. 18, ABC 4 reported, citing an unsealed hunt warrant and tribunal documents.

Gledhill, 42, sent nan connection to her father, Thomas Ray Gledhill, 3 days earlier investigators judge she killed her husband, National Guardsman Matthew Johnson, successful nan maestro chamber of their Cottonwood Heights home — astir 15 miles extracurricular of downtown Salt Lake City.

Thomas past allegedly sent her $1,000 done Venmo connected nan aforesaid time she requested nan money, according to nan tribunal documents.

It’s unclear why Gledhill needed nan money aliases what nan costs were for.

Warrants were issued to hunt Gledhill, her father, and her mother, Rosalie Christianson Gledhill’s Venmo accounts, ABC 4 reported.

Investigators besides obtained hunt warrants to reappraisal records of Gledhill’s USAA and Chase Bank accounts and “all accounts pertaining to Thomas Gledhill.”

Thomas, 71, and Rosalie, 67, were arrested successful October — days aft her girl was charged pinch execution — connected 4 felony counts of first-degree obstruction of justness for allegedly helping their girl cleanable up nan crime scene.

The mates allegedly helped Gledhill cleanable her location aft investigators fishy she fatally changeable her husband. Witnesses besides placed nan aged mates astatine her location for complete 5 hours astir nan clip of nan killing.

Court documents show that Gledhill received a caller mattress soon aft nan suspected killing, and her mother allegedly admitted to investigators to buying it for her done Amazon, ABC 4 reported.

Thomas told investigators that he did not participate nan maestro chamber while astatine her home.

Rosalie besides told authorities they were only astatine their daughter’s residence for an hour while Thomas said he didn’t retrieve nan specifications of nan day.

Following Johnson’s death, nan mom of 3 allegedly disposed of his assemblage and reported him missing connected Sept. 28 — 8 days aft detectives judge he was killed.

Johnson’s assemblage has still not been found.

The documents authorities that information from Gledhill’s compartment telephone grounds shows she only contacted her begetter aft Johnson was reported missing, KUTV reported.

“Based connected nan grounds and statements made by Jennifer and Thomas, [an serviceman pinch nan constabulary department] wished Thomas is progressive successful assisting his daughter, Jennifer, pinch nan disposal of grounds and accusation starring to nan disappearance of Matthew Johnson,” nan documents state.

Thomas and Rosalie person not been charged pinch Johnson’s murder.

The cold-blooded sidesplitting allegedly came aft a nighttime of drunken activity during which Gledhill admitted to sleeping pinch different man, according to investigators.

The alleged sidesplitting was brought to ray aft a man came guardant and told cops he’d had “an extramarital affair” pinch Gledhill and that she confessed to him astir nan gruesome murder, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said successful a statement successful October.

Her alleged person — who has not been named — claimed Gledhill told him her hubby had confronted her connected Sept. 20 and “yelled astatine her because he knew she had been sleeping pinch personification else.”

“The suspect told nan informant that she changeable Mr. Johnson [the adjacent day] arsenic he slept successful their bed,” nan connection said.

“She told nan informant that she put Mr. Johnson’s assemblage into a rooftop retention container, slid him down nan stairs of their home, and loaded his assemblage into nan backmost of their minivan.”

Gledhill “then took her husband’s assemblage north, dug a hole, and buried him successful a shallow grave,” nan DA added of her alleged lover’s info.

Prosecutors judge nan alleged murderer past smashed Johnson’s phone, drove his motortruck to a different portion of nan neighborhood, and brought her car to a car wash.

She was caught connected surveillance cameras “thoroughly” cleaning retired nan car aft nan alleged sidesplitting and constabulary tracked her phone’s GPS information to nan nonstop spot wherever nan motortruck was later found.

Gledhill was arrested connected Oct. 2 and pleaded not blameworthy to murder. Her proceedings has been group for December 2025.

Court records revealed nan mates was going done a contentious divorcement and custody conflict complete their 3 children, who are 11, 7, and 5 years old. Gledhill had gotten a impermanent restraining bid against Johnson successful precocious August

She has been ordered to person nary interaction pinch her kids.