A wealthy Utah mom accused of shooting her sleeping husband and burying him in a shallow grave after a screaming match over her affair is now whining about not being allowed to contact her kids from jail.
The attorney of alleged husband-killer Jennifer Gledhill, 41, complained about her “lost liberty” in a Friday hearing, and accused the judge hearing the case of setting “everything she loves on fire” when he barred her from speaking with her three children, Fox 13 reported.
The children, ages 5, 7 and 11, have been in the custody of child services since their mother was arrested for the alleged slaying of her husband Matthew Johnson in their Cottonwood Heights home, near Salt Lake City.
The cold-blooded killing allegedly came after a night of drunken sex during which Gledhill admitted to sleeping with another man, the outlet reported.
After a vicious shouting match, officials say she shot Johnson in the head as he slept, buried him in a shallow grave, and enlisted her parents to help her clean up the crime scene.
Police have yet to locate Johnson’s body.
Gledhill had reported her husband missing, but a man claiming to be her lover informed police that she had told him about the murder.
Cops picked up her parents — Thomas Ray Gledhill, 71, and Rosalie Christianson Gledhill, 67 — on Thursday for alleged obstruction of justice.
“The defendant told the informant that she shot Mr. Johnson [the next day] as he slept in their bed,” Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill told the court.
“She told the informant that she put Mr. Johnson’s body into a rooftop storage container, slid him down the stairs of their home, and loaded his body into the back of their minivan.”
Gledhill “then took her husband’s body north, dug a hole, and buried him in a shallow grave,” the DA added.
Gledhill’s attorney argued that her children are neither victims in this case nor of prior domestic violence, and thus she should be allowed to have contact, according to Fox 13.
He also claimed the original no-contact order was “incorrectly placed and allowed.”
Judge Adam Mow agreed to lift the initial protective order but issued a separate no-contact order that barred Glendhill from communicating with her kids. Mow, however, said he might be willing to relax those restrictions as the case proceeds.
Gledhill faces one count of first-degree murder, five counts of second-degree felony obstruction of justice, and charges for felony drug possession, witness tampering and desecration of a human body.
