The parents of a woman accused of killing her National Guardsman husband have been arrested on obstruction of justice charges.
Thomas Ray Gledhill, 74, and Rosalie Christianson Gledhill, were arrested on Thursday and face four obstruction counts, KTVX reported. Police say they helped Jennifer Gledhill, 41, clean her home after the alleged murder of Matthew Johnson.
Jennifer Gledhill was accused of killing Johnson, on Tuesday, as CrimeOnline reported. Johnson was deemed AWOL by the National Guard when he didn’t show up for work on September 23. He has not been found, but Gledhill reportedly told a man she was having an affair with that the fatally shot him while he slept and buried him at an undisclosed location.
Witnesses reported seeing Johnson and Gledhill arguing on September 20, and Johnson was last heard from the next day. Another guardsman reported him missing on September 25, and police interviewed Gledhill three days later, when she told them she also wanted to report her husband missing.
Gledhill’s boyfriend spoke to police on September 28, telling them he wasn’t sure if Gledhill had been honest. He said she told him she put his body into a minivan and buried him somewhere north of their Utah home. She had bruises on her body that she said came from lugging the body.
Detectives also said that “significant cleanup” was done at the home after the mruder, including carpet cleaning and wall bleaching. Gledhill reportedly told her boyfriend that she took out several items and destroyed them to hide evidence.
Gledhill remains jailed without bond on charges of murder, obstruction of justice, possession with intent to distribute, desecration of a human body, and witness tampering.
According to KTVX, Gledhill’s parents helped in that cleanup, spending more than five hours at the home, witnesses reportedly told police. A search warrant served on the home on September 28 found blood stains beneath the bed in the master bedroom, but the mattress was brand new. Police said they believe Rosalie Gledhill bought the new mattress.
In an interview earlier this month, the parents told police there were at their daughters home but denied helping her clean up. Witnesses, however, said they saw the elderly parents doing clean up work.
Police said they seized the parents’ cell phones, but they had been reset just before the arrest and all data from that point was lost.
Jail records show the elderly Gledhills currently have no bond.
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[Featured image: Jennifer Gledhill and Matthew Johnson/Facebook]