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Before we dive into today's cases, I want to talk about a couple stories I've been keeping an eye on lately. In Orange County, Florida, a former sheriff named Anthony Shea has been denied bond in connection to the murder of his estranged wife Ellie Shay and staging it after as a suicide. He was just denied bond and now awaits trial with no public date announced yet. We'll keep you updated as soon as new details emerge and breaking news out of North Texas. Cindy Rodriguez Singh, who was previously indicted for the 2022 capital murder of her six year old son, just got hit with four additional charges including child abandonment, leaving a child without proper care and and two counts of injury to a child. Singh was captured by the FBI in India in August after being placed on the top 10 most wanted list. She remains held in Tarrant county jail on a $10 million bond. As always, head over to our social media rimehouse24seven for any breaking news updates. For our first case, we're covering a story out of Salt Lake City, Utah where a woman named Jennifer Gledhill is is accused of murdering her husband Matthew Johnson. Jennifer's parents have also been charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly helping her cover up Matthew's murder. So far she's pleaded not guilty and her trial is slated to begin in December 2025. But there's a chance that could change. Jennifer's pre trial conference is scheduled for November 6, which is also her last chance to change her plea. Prosecutors have offered her a deal. The question is, will Jennifer take it? Let's get into it. Matthew Johnson's life seemed defined by loyalty to his country, his community and to his family. After serving in the Marine Corps. He joined the National Guard in Utah. Along the way, he married a woman named Jennifer Gledhill. They settled in a Salt Lake City suburb of Cottonwood Heights and had three kids together. By all accounts, he was a great dad and a treasured friend. But when it came to Matthew's marriage, things eventually broke down. It's September 2024, and 51 year old Matthew and 42 year old Jennifer are struggling through a bitter divorce. It's not clear what led them to this point, but both of them seem to think that the other is a threat. Jennifer has asked multiple times for protective orders against Matthew. However, the court has deemed that Jennifer is the quote, instigator of the problems. And over the past few weeks, Matthew has spent most nights sleeping at his barracks because he's reportedly afraid for his safety. It's clearly a volatile situation at the home. And on September 28, 2024, it reaches a climax. That day, Jennifer calls the Cottonwood Heights Police Department to report her husband missing. She says she hadn't seen or heard from her husband since the 20th after they had a fight. According to Jennifer, Matthew said he'd be gone for a week and he explicitly said not to contact him. If true, this is a little out of character for Matthew, whose friends describe him as a devoted dad. No matter how mad he is at Jennifer, he wouldn't just leave them like that. It's looking like his fears may have been warranted, because shortly after Matthew disappears, someone calls the Cottonwood police with a tip. The anonymous caller claims that he's been having an affair with Jennifer. He says that just before midnight on September 22, two days after Jennifer said Matthew went missing, she came by his house and told him what really happened. Jennifer reportedly said that Matthew wasn't missing. He was dead and she had killed him. Jennifer apparently told him that on the 20th, Matthew revealed that he knew she was having an affair. The accusation allegedly led to another explosive fight. And the next night, when Matthew was sleeping, she shot him in the head with a 9 millimeter handgun. After that, Jennifer grabbed their minivan's rooftop storage container, put Matthew's body inside, and slid it down the stairs. She managed to load it into the trunk of the car, but before going anywhere, Jennifer smashed Matthew's phone and hid his truck in a nearby neighborhood. Once she got home, she drove the minivan somewhere north, where she buried Matthew's body in a shallow grave. Jennifer asks her boyfriend not to tell anyone what she just said. She seems to think that she can trust him with this awful secret. She's wrong. Jennifer's boyfriend is horrified, and instead of becoming her accomplice, he decides to turn her in. In the following days, he starts recording their phone calls and snapshotting their texts. One conversation is especially frightening. When Jennifer's boyfriend says he's scared about what she told him, she gets angry. She tells him, quote, wow, if you think I could even hurt a fly like, he just. He is. He's not a person. He wasn't a person anymore. He wasn't Matt. Jennifer's boyfriend isn't able to shake it off so easily, though. He goes to the police and gives them everything he has on Jennifer. Before they do anything else, they want to corroborate his story. Investigators talked to one of Jennifer's neighbors who said they heard Jennifer and Matthew arguing on the night he was allegedly killed. And the next morning his truck was gone. Not only that, but on the 24th, the neighbor saw that Jennifer's parents were over cleaning the garage and inside the house. Police wonder if they were there to help cover up Matthew's murder. And Shortly after, on September 30th, they find his truck parked 0.3 miles away from the house with his broken phone inside. A neighbor's doorbell camera shows that it was parked there at 6:15 the morning after Jennifer allegedly killed Matthew. So far, her boyfriend's story is lining up. The police get a search warrant for Jennifer's house and find more suspicious details. The mattress on her bed is brand new and the wall behind it seems to have been recently wiped with bleach. But the room wasn't cleaned thoroughly. Investigators find reddish brown spots on the walls, bed frame and blinds. And the carpet below the right side of the bed tests positive for human blood in wide circles, which would be consistent with the theory that Jennifer had shot Matthew in the head. The GPS data on her cell phone also shows her going near where his truck was found and later that day driving north before the phone was shut off that afternoon. Investigators also locate surveillance footage of Jennifer stopping at a car wash to thoroughly clean their minivan that night, right before she went to see her boyfriend. It all paints a very bad picture for Jennifer. But with DNA results still pending on the blood, there's nothing directly linking her to Matthew's murder. But it's not long before they find a crucial piece of evidence. The police get a warrant to search Jennifer's parents house. And when they look in the room where she sleeps, when she visits, they discover something that changes everything. When police search Jennifer Gledhill's parents house, they focus on the bedroom where Jennifer sleeps anytime she visits. Inside, they find a gun box for a Glock 19X which is a 9 millimeter pistol. The same kind of gun Jennifer's boyfriend said she used to kill Matthew. They hadn't found his body yet, but they didn't need it. On October 2, 2024, four days after Jennifer reported her husband missing, she's arrested for Matthew's murder. After that, police turned their attention to her parents when questioned. Rosalie Gledhill admits to being in her daughter's home on September 24, but claimed that she was only there for about an hour. Investigators also asked Thomas Gledhill if he was there that day and if he went into the master bedroom. His response was, quote, I did not go in where the incident happened. It would later come out that Jennifer had sent her father a text that asking for 13 grand just two days before her husband disappeared. Shortly after that, she asked her mother to purchase her a new mattress on Amazon. A few weeks later, on October 24, 2024, both of her parents are arrested and charged with obstruction of justice. After Jennifer's arrest, she's denied bail and kept in custody. In February of 2025, she appears in Salt Lake City's Matheson Courthouse in a blue prison jumps. She's charged with first degree murder, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, desecration of a human body and felony drug charges. Based on discoveries police made while searching her and her parents homes. She pleads not guilty and waives her right to a preliminary hearing. This means a judge can decide on their own whether the case will go to trial. And in this case, they decide to move forward. Even though as of this recording, Matthew's body has not been found. Jennifer's trial is set to begin in December of 2025. She has pleaded not guilty. Her lawyer has confirmed that the prosecution has offered a plea bargain as of Aug. 13. He hasn't said if she's considering it or not, but the clock is ticking. Jennifer's final pretrial conference is on November 6th. It's her last chance to change her plea. So if there are any developments, we should be hearing about them soon. For today's second story, we're covering the latest developments surrounding Karen Reid and the death of her boyfriend, John o'. Keefe. In the wake of Karen's acquittal in criminal court this summer, John's family is proceeding with a civil lawsuit against her. And recently, Karen moved to have some of those accusations dismissed. In case you're not caught up, I'll give you A quick recap of how it all played out and then I'll focus on Karen's upcoming civil case. But before we get into where everything currently stands, let's dive into the background of this case. Early on the morning of January 29, 2022, Karen Reed discovered John O' Keeffe's body on the front lawn of a home belonging to their two friends Brian and Nicole Albert. An autopsy revealed the cause of death to be impact injuries to the head and hypothermia. The night before, Karen and John, who was a Boston police officer, had been out drinking before John was invited to the Alberts house for a party. Karen says she dropped John off at the house around midnight. But when John didn't come back out, Karen claimed she got impatient and drove away. According to her, this was the last time she had ever seen seen him alive. However, prosecutors with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts suspect that night had gone differently than Karen said. They alleged that Karen and John had been fighting and that Karen had struck John with her car and left him in the snow to die. But the public soon finds out there's a lot more to the story than anyone is letting on. And a new theory begins to take shape after. As people start looking into the story, they realize that John's friend Brian Albert is a police officer. They start to wonder if John had actually died inside the Alberts home and Karen is being framed for it. Her first trial started last year with Karen facing charges of second degree murder, manslaughter while operating a motor vehicle under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death. Along with unorthodox evidence handling Karen's lawyers also show that the lead investigator on this case had acted extremely unprofessionally. In text messages he called Karen names and even said he looked for nudes when he searched her cell phone. When the trial concludes on July 1, 2024, there's apparently enough reasonable doubt that the jury agrees that Karen hadn't murdered murdered John. But they can't come to a decision on the manslaughter charge, which means the case ends up with a hung jury and that Karen has to go through a retrial. The second trial goes from April to June of 2025, and this time Karen's found not guilty of all major charges except a less serious charge of operating under the influence. She's sentenced to one year probation but no jail time. Karen's legal battle isn't over yet though, because after her criminal trial ends, a civil suit against her moves forward. And there's no guarantee that it will end in the same way.
