They met maybe in the spring of 2016 and it wasn't until the fall of 2016 that

Miss Gilman proposed the idea that if her ex-husband was no longer alive that she

would benefit from a vast amount of money as a beneficiary to a life insurance

policy.

In a suburb outside of Salt Lake City in a town called Haramon, a 69 year old woman

named Linda Gilman hired a man named Christian Olson to do some repairs on her condo.

After months of working together, Linda Gilman asked for Christian's help with a different

sort of project.

If he was willing to help find somebody to do the job, she would pay him.

And sure enough, she gave him a $5,000 check.

He kept stringing her along.

There's no doubt about that.

He was a person that was down on his luck, needed to make a quick buck and she was willing

to pay.

And so he would string her along, indicating that he had lined somebody up and there were

some fanciful stories that he came up with that she believed.

And it was in late December of 2016 that she had told him that enough's enough and that

she had found somebody else that would do the job and she no longer needed him to do

it for her.

This is Mark Mathis, a deputy district attorney at the Salt Lake County DA's office.

The first thing that Christian did actually was hop in his truck and drive over to Linda's

ex-husband's house.

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