Bombshell new twist in case of wealthy Utah mom ‘who murdered husband after confessing her affair’

The parents of a Utah woman accused of killing her husband after she confessed to an affair have been arrested for helping her clean up the crime scene.

Thomas Gledhill, 71, and Rosalie Gledhill, 67, have been charged with obstruction of justice for helping their daughter Jennifer Gledhill clean her home after she allegedly shot and killed her husband Matthew Johnson while he slept.

Police say witnesses saw the parents cleaning 41-year-old Jennifer’s home for five hours, with Rosalie suspected of buying a new mattress for her daughter, as reported by ABC4.

Detectives believe Johnson was killed while lying on the new mattress, which has not yet been found. Bloodstains were reportedly found under Jennifer’s bed when a search warrant was served on September 28.

Jennifer’s parents told police earlier this month that they had been to her home but denied helping her with the cleaning.

Jennifer Gledhill has yet to confess to killing her husband Matthew Johnson, who was reported missing late last month, police told DailyMail.com. The couple is pictured with their three young children

Thomas and Rosalie’s cellphones were reportedly reset before being seized by police.

Four of them face obstruction of justice, which is a second-degree felony.

Police say Jennifer shot her National Guard husband, Matthew Johnson, in the head last month as he slept in their $1 million home in Cottonwood.

Johnson was reported missing on September 23, with Gledhill arrested after her unnamed lover told police she had told him about her husband’s murder.

In a police interview after her arrest on October 3, Jennifer claimed she separated from Johnson, talking to him and drinking liquor the evening of September 20.

She said they had intercourse that evening and “informed the officer that due to the intoxication from the whiskey, she had difficulty remembering the events that occurred after she and Matthew had sex,” according to the search warrant.

Gledhill, 41, has reportedly admitted to shooting her husband in the head last month while he slept in their $1 million home in Cottonwood Heights

Jennifer Gledhill, 41, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail last week on murder and obstruction of justice charges after her husband disappeared

Jennifer said Johnson “became upset” during their evening together, but could not remember why.

But she gave conflicting excuses for the bruises on her body, it is claimed.

Jennifer told police that Johnson struck her “several times” with a closed fist, leaving bruises on her arms, hands, face and legs.

Her secret lover – whose name has not been released – says Jennifer told him she got the bruises “from moving Matthew’s body and cleaning up the mess in the house.”

The man contacted police after Gledhill allegedly confessed to the murder, leading to her arrest.

When asked by an officer why she hadn’t reported her husband’s alleged domestic excuse, Jennifer claimed she had made “a deal” with him.

She is said to have had a “long history of calling the police on Matthew for non-criminal altercations.”

Matthew Johnson said he was shot in the head while he was sleeping. His wife admitted to a friend that she had dumped his body in a shallow grave

Jennifer told police they agreed he would return to work at Camp Williams State Military Reservation the night after they had sex.

The alleged murderer says the first she knew of Johnson’s disappearance was a message from his co-workers saying he had missed work.

But her lover offered an alternative version of events.

He claims Jennifer told him she shot Johnson in the head while he slept.

She then allegedly placed his body in a storage container in the attic before sliding it down the stairs into the back of her minivan.

Jennifer allegedly destroyed Johnson’s phone and drove his truck to another part of their property before driving his body north and burning him in a shallow grave.

Her parents previously told DailyMail.com that they struggled to break the tragic news to the couple’s three children that their mother had killed their father.

“The three children are living with us for the time being,” her father told DailyMail.com exclusively.

‘They are doing well, but my wife and I haven’t told them everything yet.

“We told them their father is missing and the police are questioning their mother because they think she might know something about it.”