A rich Utah mother accused of capturing her sleeping husband and burying him in a shallow grave after a screaming match over her affair is now whining about not being allowed to contact her children from jail.
The lawyer of alleged husband-killer Jennifer Gledhill, 41, complained about her “misplaced liberty” in a Friday listening to, and accused the decide listening to the case of setting “every thing she loves on hearth” when he barred her from talking together with her three kids, Fox 13 reported.
The kids, ages 5, 7 and 11, have been within the custody of kid providers since their mom was arrested for the alleged slaying of her husband Matthew Johnson of their Cottonwood Heights residence, close to Salt Lake Metropolis.
The cold-blooded killing allegedly got here after an evening of drunken intercourse throughout which Gledhill admitted to sleeping with one other man, the outlet reported.
After a vicious shouting match, officers say she shot Johnson within the head as he slept, buried him in a shallow grave, and enlisted her dad and mom to assist her clear up the crime scene.
Police have but to find Johnson’s physique.
Gledhill had reported her husband lacking, however a person claiming to be her lover knowledgeable police that she had instructed him in regards to the homicide.
Cops picked up her dad and mom — Thomas Ray Gledhill, 71, and Rosalie Christianson Gledhill, 67 — on Thursday for alleged obstruction of justice.
“The defendant instructed the informant that she shot Mr. Johnson [the next day] as he slept of their mattress,” Salt Lake County District Legal professional Sim Gill instructed the court docket.
“She instructed the informant that she put Mr. Johnson’s physique right into a rooftop storage container, slid him down the steps of their residence, and loaded his physique into the again of their minivan.”
Gledhill “then took her husband’s physique north, dug a gap, and buried him in a shallow grave,” the DA added.
Gledhill’s lawyer argued that her kids are neither victims on this case nor of prior home violence, and thus she must be allowed to have contact, in line with Fox 13.
He additionally claimed the unique no-contact order was “incorrectly positioned and allowed.”
Choose Adam Mow agreed to carry the preliminary protecting order however issued a separate no-contact order that barred Glendhill from speaking together with her children. Mow, nonetheless, mentioned he may be prepared to chill out these restrictions because the case proceeds.
Gledhill faces one rely of first-degree homicide, 5 counts of second-degree felony obstruction of justice, and expenses for felony drug possession, witness tampering and desecration of a human physique.
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