Utah Woman's Parents Arrested for Allegedly Aiding in Husband's Murder Cover-Up
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🗓️ 7 November 2024
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Circuit Court Judge Gray Tollison handed down the sentence on Tuesday, following Alexandria M. Griste’s conviction for imperfect self-defense manslaughter in the 2022 killing of 32-year-old Corey Lyles. Jurors deliberated for three hours before finding Griste guilty after a three-day trial, according to The Oxford Eagle.
The fatal shooting occurred around 12:15 a.m. on June 8, 2022, at the couple’s home on South Lamar Boulevard in Oxford. Griste, 31, called 911 after the incident and was initially charged with first-degree murder.
According to trial testimony, the argument began the evening before when Griste became upset with Lyles for leaving the house without telling her. Text messages revealed the couple arguing over McDonald’s, with Griste sending a message warning Lyles that if he returned, he would be "dead."
When Lyles arrived back at the house, Griste retrieved a 9 mm handgun. She told police she fired three warning shots when Lyles approached aggressively, then fired a final shot through the window of the front door, striking him in the chest.
Griste’s defense argued she acted in self-defense, claiming she was trying to protect herself and her children. “What kind of world is it if a woman can’t protect herself and her children?” her attorney, Steve Farese, said during closing arguments.
However, prosecutors argued that Lyles posed no danger to Griste and that she had provoked him intentionally. District Attorney Ben Creekmore told the jury, “It went from a heart in a text message to a bullet in his heart.”
The couple had a tumultuous relationship, with witnesses reporting they argued publicly the day before the shooting.
Griste was convicted of imperfect self-defense manslaughter, a charge that indicates her actions were not justifiable but lacked the malice required for a murder conviction. She will serve 20 years in a state correctional facility.
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| 0:00.0 | Some people have a knack for making friends, others for making bodies disappear. |
| 0:05.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brusky. |
| 0:08.0 | That's kind of what the parents of the perpetrator in our next story. |
| 0:17.0 | We're trying to make happen, or at least assist in happening with the body. |
| 0:22.5 | The parents of a Utah woman accused of murdering her husband after he confronted her about an alleged affair |
| 0:28.8 | have now been arrested for allegedly in assisting in cleaning up the crime scene. |
| 0:36.1 | Thomas Glethill 70 and Rosalie Gledhill 67 were taken into custody on Thursday, October 24th during traffic stops in Salt Lake County. |
| 0:46.6 | According to a press release from the Cottonwood Heights Police Department, |
| 0:50.1 | they've been booked on multiple felony accounts of obstruction of justice in connection with the September death of Matthew Johnson. |
| 0:58.6 | Their daughter, Jennifer Gledhill, whose 38, was arrested last week in charge with first-degree murder and other offenses related to her husband's killing, |
| 1:06.7 | including obstruction of justice, felony drug possession, witness tampering, and desecration of a human body. |
| 1:13.6 | Authorities allege that on September 20th, Johnson confronted Gled Hill about an extramarital affair. |
| 1:19.4 | The following day, she allegedly shot him while he slept in their home. |
| 1:24.5 | According to Salt Lake County District Attorney, Sim Gill, Gledhill then placed Johnson's body into a rooftop storage container, slid it down the stairs, and loaded it in the back of their minivan. She's accused of driving north, digging a hole, and burying him in a shallow grave. |
| 1:46.2 | Johnson was reported missing by Gledhill on September 28th. |
| 1:49.5 | However, a man who claimed to have been involved in an affair with her came forward telling |
| 1:54.8 | police that Glutthill confessed to killing her husband. |
| 1:58.1 | He stated that she told him Johnson had yelled at her about the affair and that she shot him as he slept, |
| 2:04.6 | prosecutor said. |
| 2:06.7 | Oh, can't take a little bit and yell that after you cheat on your husband and you got to kill him. |
| 2:13.2 | Okay. |
| 2:14.4 | Investigators allege that Gled Hill destroyed Johnson's phone, abandoned his truck in a different |
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