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A Utah mom allegedly shot her missing husband to death in their bed in September and tried to cover up the evidence, according to Cottonwood Heights police.Salt Lake County authorities have charged Jennifer Gledhill with first-degree murder, five counts of obstruction of justice, possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, abuse of a human body and tampering with a witness.A Salt Lake County judge also ordered Gledhill be held without bail after prosecutors alleged in court documents obtained by Fox News Digital that she was “very calculating in her crimes in that she arranged for the children to stay with her parents during the evening Matthew was killed.”Gledhill’s husband, Matthew Johnson, was initially considered missing for days when a member of the Utah National Guard contacted the Cottonwood Heights Police Department on Sept. 25 asking for a wellness check on Johnson, stating he had not come into work, “which was very unusual,” a probable cause affidavit states.FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XOn Sept. 28, Gledhill reported her husband missing to police, saying she had not heard from him since Sept. 20. She also claimed “Matthew told her that he was going to be gone for a week and not to call him.” She seemed “distracted and at times nervous” during the call, according to the court documents.An informant then came forward to police with information about Gledhill, saying he was having an extramarital affair with her. The informant told Cottonwood Heights police that on Sunday, Sept. 22, Gledhill came over to his house and told him that she was “likely going away for a long time.”SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTERShe apparently told the informant that she and Johnson had gotten in a fight on Sept. 20 “because he knew she had been sleeping with someone else,” and allegedly went on to admit to the informant that on the evening of Sept. 21, she shot her husband in the head with his 9 mm Glock “as he slept in their shared bed.”She further told the informant “that she loaded Matthew’s body into a rooftop storage container, slid him down the stairs by herself, and loaded him into the back of her minivan.”Gledhill said she transported Johnson’s body “north, dug a hole, and buried him in a shallow grave,” court documents state.UTAH MOM KEPT MISSING DAUGHTER, 5, HIDDEN IN CULT ‘COMPOUND’ FOR MONTHS WITH HELP FROM ADULT SONS: DOCSJohnson’s body has yet to be recovered, though detectives found his truck located 0.3 miles from his home with his cellphone inside the vehicle.In text and WhatsApp messages, Gledhill allegedly told the informant that if she were told a story like the one she told him, “she would take it to the grave,” the probable cause affidavit says.A neighbor told police that on Sept. 24, she saw Gledhill’s parents inside the home “cleaning” the garage and “moving things around.” UTAH CHILDREN’S BOOK AUTHOR SENT DAMNING TEXT TO LOVER BEFORE HUBBY POISON PLOT: DOCSWhile serving a search warrant at Gledhill’s residence, detectives noticed that the mattress in the master bedroom “appeared to be brand new.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE TRUE CRIME FROM FOX NEWS”Additionally, the entire wall behind the master bed appeared to have fresh wipe marks from cleaning. Several reddish-brown spots were located on the walls, bed frame, and blinds of the master bedroom. Detectives noted that the wall behind the master bed was covered in bleach,” court documents states.Investigators also noted “a strong smell of chlorine in the basement” and bleach stains on “several stairs” with black carpeting.MOM OF UTAH AUTHOR ACCUSED OF POISONING HUSBAND POSSIBLY ‘INVOLVED IN PLANNING’ HIS DEATH, POLICE SAYDuring a search of the suspect’s vehicle, detectives located bags of what appeared to be drugs that were packaged “for individual sale” and about $200 in cash.Police also served a search warrant at Gledhill’s parents’ home, where they located a tote bag by the room she would sleep in containing “a Glock 19X gun box (green/tan in color) with one of the handles broken,” which was “wrapped in a child’s onesie.”Gledhill’s cellphone records show that “at no point” after Sept. 21, when her husband last communicated with friends and family, “did she ever attempt to contact” Johnson, prosecutors said.Gledhill’s mother told detectives she went to her daughter’s home on Sept. 24 and admitted to purchasing a new mattress from Amazon at Gledhill’s request. 911 CALL REVEALS SHOCK OF UTAH MOMMY BLOGGER’S ALLEGED CHILD ABUSE: ‘SHE’S A BAD LADY’When police asked the suspect’s father if he entered the master bedroom, he responded, “I did not go in where the incident happened.”Gledhill previously made “unsuccessful attempts to secure a protective order against Matthew during the course of their marriage and was found by the Court to be an instigator and one to goad Matthew into a response in order to get him in trouble,” according to records obtained by prosecutors. “The evidence is significant that defendant obstructed the investigation by removing the mattress she admitted to Informant that she shot Matthew on while he was sleeping and replaced days later with a new mattress,” prosecutors said.CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPInvestigators have collected samples of carpet that tested positive for human blood spatter and are awaiting the results of DNA testing. Fox News Digital has reached out to Gledhill’s attorney’s office.”Our hearts go out to the loved ones of Mr. Matthew Johnson, not only a father and son but a member of the Utah National Guard. Our office will continue to work closely with investigators as we seek justice for Mr. Johnson,” Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said in an Oct. 15 statement. “We appreciate Cottonwood Heights Police Department detectives working with our prosecutors as they worked to collect the evidence necessary to file these charges. All persons accused of wrongdoing are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.”



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A tearful Patty Morin expressed her frustration with Vice President Kamala Harris failing to give direct answers during a hard-hitting Fox News interview, where the presidential hopeful was pressed on the border crisis and whether she should apologize to families devastated by migrant crime.”I think that she does [owe us an apology]. I think that actions speak louder than words, and she’s had almost four years to prove her mettle, and, by her actions, I would say that she puts illegal immigrants above the American people, and she has allowed all these deaths to happen on her watch,” Morin said Thursday on “Fox & Friends.”Morin’s 37-year-old daughter, Rachel, was found raped and murdered after leaving for a run in Maryland last year. According to reports, suspect Victor Martinez Hernandez, an El Salvador native, hid in a drainage culvert and attacked Morin as she passed him.The high-profile case has since dominated conversations about border security as Morin’s family continues their search for peace.WATCH: BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE OF MIGRANT ACCUSED IN MURDER, RAPE OF MARYLAND MOM RACHEL MORIN”I understand that loss [of a child], and it’s something that never goes away. Some days, you’re okay, but a day never goes by where I don’t think about Rachel, I don’t cry for Rachel, that I don’t think about her children,” Morin said, her voice breaking.”I talk to people that have lost children, and they say the pain never goes away, that I’m going to walk with it the rest of my life. That’s an unbearable thing. I want to feel happy again, and I don’t know how to do that,” she said through tears.In a tense interview that aired during “Special Report” on Wednesday, Bret Baier pressed the vice president on the tragic deaths of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, Georgia nursing student Laken Riley and Morin, all young women who were assaulted and murdered by suspects who entered the country under the Biden-Harris administration.”Do you owe their families an apology?” Baier asked.‘OUR PEOPLE ARE DYING’: RACHEL MORIN’S MOM SOUNDS ALARM ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AFTER DAUGHTER’S MURDER “First of all, those are tragic cases. There’s no question about that, and I can’t imagine the pain that the families of those victims have experienced for a loss that should not have occurred. So that is true,” Harris replied.She shifted her focus back to former President Trump, blaming him for allegedly torpedoing a bipartisan border security bill so that he could keep the issue alive for political gain. “It is also true that if border security had actually been passed nine months ago, it would be nine months that we would have had more border agents at the border, more support for the folks who are working around the clock trying to hold it all together to ensure that no future harm would occur, and this election in 20 days will determine whether we have a President of the United States who actually cares more about fixing a problem, even if it is not to their political advantage in an election because there was a solution,” she continued.However, as “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy pointed out, Morin’s murder occurred over a year ago, so the bill, discussed in May, would not have made a difference.RACHEL MORIN’S MOM COMES FACE-TO-FACE WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MURDER SUSPECT FOR FIRST TIME IN COURT”I think the only reason why they tried to push this border bill was to save face, because they knew that this invasion happened on their watch,” Morin said, reacting to Harris’ response. Morin told Doocy she “completely and totally” blames the Biden-Harris administration for her daughter’s death and slammed them for rescinding Trump-era border policies.”Those policies were in place. Mr. Trump had them in place. And they revoked them more out of spite towards Mr. Trump, I believe, than anything. And they completely opened up our border to a massive invasion of illegal immigrants like none ever seen in the history of our country. So, yes, I completely and totally blame them,” she said.



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Former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., is suddenly gaining steam in his bid for Michigan’s open Senate seat, with polls showing a tightening race down the stretch.”It’s clear the momentum is fully behind Mike Rogers,” Chris Gustafson, communications director for the Rogers campaign, told Fox News Digital. “It’s no surprise as Mike crisscrosses the state talking to families and small business owners while our unprecedented field operation contacts millions of voters at the doors.”The comments come as Rogers has gained ground on his Democratic opponent, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, in the critical Senate race in recent weeks, moving from over five points down as recently as September 23 to just 2.7 points down as of Wednesday, according to the Real Clear Politics polling average.The race, which is to replace retiring Michigan Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow, is rated as “Lean Dem” by Fox News Power Rankings, 270toWin and RacetotheWH, representing one of the few races that will help determine control of the Senate in this year’s election.WHAT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLLS IN THE 2024 ELECTION SHOW However, while former President Donald Trump was able to crack the fabled “Blue Wall” in 2016 and became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Michigan since 1988, GOP Senate candidates have not fared so well in the state in recent elections.The outgoing Stabenow has held this seat in the Senate since being elected in 2000, while Michigan’s other Senate seat has been held by a Democrat since 1975, first by longtime Sen. Carl Levin and currently by Sen. Gary Peters. The last Republican to win a Senate campaign in Michigan was Spencer Abraham in 1994, serving only one term before losing the seat to Stabenow.CHECK OUT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS However, Peters narrowly defeated Rep. John James, R-Mich., by just over one percentage point in his race in 2020, signaling potential renewed Republican strength in the state for Rogers to capitalize on.Republican sources in the state believe Rogers is beginning to capitalize on that momentum, stressing that GOP operatives up and down the ballot have been working in tandem to knock on thousands of doors for the party’s candidates.The push has included integration between the Trump and Rogers campaigns, one GOP source on the ground in Michigan told Fox News Digital, noting that Rogers is also winning on issues most important to Michigan voters, such as inflation and resistance to electric vehicle subsidies.The Rogers campaign has continued to stress those issues as the election nears, signaling optimism as the race enters its final days.”Whether it’s a dangerous border, record prices for gas and groceries, or job-destroying EV Mandates, Slotkin has made it abundantly clear that she does not share our Michigan values,” Gustafson said. “Mike Rogers has proven that he’ll fight for the people of Michigan like he always has. With just three weeks to go, Mike is well positioned to win and help elect Republicans up and down the ballot.”The Slotkin campaign did not respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment by publication deadline.Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.



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A bipartisan panel condemned the Secret Service’s handling of former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, saying the agency needs “fundamental” changes to be effective.The panel, made up of former senior law enforcement and government officials, warned that if there are not extensive reforms at the Secret Service, then “another Butler can and will happen again.”Butler, Pennsylvania, was the site of the first assassination attempt against Trump this year. The Secret Service faced heavy criticism for negligence and sluggish reaction speed.This is a developing story. Check back soon for updates.



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Ryan Fitzpatrick was the last New York Jets quarterback to even come close to leading the team to the playoffs.He helped New York to their only 10-win season since they made it as far as the AFC Championship during the 2010 season. However, while Fitzpatrick was on the cusp of getting to the postseason, the team narrowly missed out in 2015. The team has not been any closer.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMThe Jets and their fans are expecting Aaron Rodgers to take them to the Promised Land, but so far, it has been a load of disappointment. Rodgers was hurt for 17 out of the 18 weeks of the 2023 season, and this year, New York is 2-4.After the miscues on Monday night and Rodgers publicly criticizing Mike Williams for running the wrong route on the team’s final play against the Buffalo Bills and then defending himself on “The Pat McAfee Show,” Fitzpatrick criticized the quarterback’s leadership.”This response is the biggest thing I don’t understand about Aaron….can be super charismatic, his swagger gives teammates the ultimate confidence BUT,” he wrote, “why can’t he shoulder ALL the blame in the media and then get behind closed doors with Mike Williams or the whole offense or the whole team or anyone else that isn’t doing their job and tell them he needs more out of them.FOX NEWS DIGITAL SPORTS NFL POWER RANKINGS AFTER WEEK 6 OF 2024 NFL SEASON”The need to set the record straight at the expense of someone lesser than just hurts me.”Williams has not practiced since the final play on Monday for personal reasons. Trade rumors have swirled around him since the team acquired Davante Adams from the Las Vegas Raiders.New York has a chance to get its season back on track on Sunday night when they take on the Pittsburgh Steelers.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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