The parents of a Utah woman accused of killing her husband after he confronted her about an affair have been arrested for allegedly helping her clean up the crime scene.
Thomas Ray Gledhill, 71, and Rosalie Christianson Gledhill, 67, were arrested Thursday on four felony counts of first-degree obstruction of justice. ABC4 reported.
The couple allegedly helped their daughter, Jennifer Gledhill, clean her home after she allegedly fatally shot her husband, Matthew Johnson, on September 21, the outlet reported.
Witnesses placed the elder Gledhills at their daughter’s home for a five-hour period around the time of the killing, police said.
Jennifer Gledhill reported Johnson missing on September 28 — but a man then came forward and told police he was having an “extramarital affair” with her and that she confessed to killing her husband, prosecutors said.
The man – who has not been publicly identified – claimed Gledhill told him on September 20 that her husband was “yelling at her” about the affair.
“The defendant told the informant that she had shot Mr. Johnson [the next day] while he slept in their bed,” said Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill.
“She told the informant that she placed Mr. Johnson’s body in a storage container on the roof, slid him down the stairs of their home and loaded his body into the back of their minivan.”
Gledhill then “brought her husband’s body north, dug a hole and buried him in a shallow grave,” the prosecutor added.
She also allegedly destroyed Johnson’s phone, dumped his truck in another part of the neighborhood and took her own car to a car wash, where surveillance cameras caught her “thoroughly” cleaning it.
Police tracked Gledhill’s phone GPS data to the exact spot where the truck was later found, but they still haven’t found Johnson’s body.
The mother of three was arrested last week and charged with nine crimes, including first-degree murder.
Her parents were interviewed by police earlier this month, according to ABC4.
The couple denied helping their daughter clean her house. When their mobile phones were seized, police discovered that the devices had been reset and all information from before Gledhill’s arrest had been lost.
