Just before midnight on Sept. 22, 2024, authorities say, mother of three Jennifer Gledhill showed up at the home of the man with whom she was having an affair — and made a frightening confession. Two days earlier, she said, her husband, Utah National Guardsman Matthew Johnson, had angrily confronted her after learning that she was cheating on him.

Gledhill described to her lover how, later that night after Johnson fell asleep in the couple’s bed, she shot her husband in the head with his 9-mm handgun, packed his body inside a vehicle rooftop storage container, loaded it into her minivan and then buried him in a shallow grave north of their home in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, according to prosecutors.

When her lover later told her in a phone call that he was frightened by Gledhill’s confess

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