Joseph Glynn, 70, was arrested
Saturday after he admitted to investigators he killed his wife, Jackie Glynn,
76, on New Year’s Day at their Green Hills, Tennessee home, according to the
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.
The following day, Joseph Glynn
allegedly put his wife’s body inside a plastic cargo box before driving her
remains about 60 miles to the couple’s other property in DeKalb County to dump
her body in a hole previously dug out by contractors.
Joseph Glynn told their
children that their mother had left because she was terminally ill, according
to police.
Husband admits to killing wife
with hammer on New Year day and burying her before lying to kids she left
Suspicious of their father’s
account, the children reached out to their mother’s medical provider and were
told she was not terminally ill.
Her body was discovered in a
freshly covered hole — about six feet wide, ten feet long, and six feet deep —
by the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office on Friday, still inside the cargo box and
covered in new roofing shingles and dirt, Fox 17 reported, citing police.
A Silver Alert was issued for
the missing wife the same day her body was discovered.
Joseph Glynn had a contractor
dig the hole on Dec. 16, claiming it would be used as a burn pit, according to
investigators.
Jackie Glynn’s car was also
found by police in DeKalb County, with her husband suspected of towing her vehicle
in an attempt to hide it.
Joseph Glynn is also accused of
selling items belonging to his wife in the days after he murdered her, as well
as contacting a realtor to sell their DeKalb County property where he had
buried her body, according to Fox 17.
He is currently being held in
the Davidson County Jail on a $1,030,000 bond and also faces charges of abuse
of a corpse and evidence tampering, according to police.
Husband admits to killing wife
with hammer on New Year day and burying her before lying to kids she left
His first scheduled court date
is Tuesday morning.
Jackie Glynn was a beloved
member of the greater Nashville area who owned and operated the historic wedding
venue, the Riverwood Mansion.
Lesli Emmetts, a friend and
vendor regularly hired by Jackie Glynn as a photographer at the venue,
described her friend as a “tiny woman with Big dreams” in a commemorating
Facebook Post.
“Such a sad day with the tragic
news of a friend of over 25 years whose life was horrifically taken,” her
longtime friend wrote.
“Jackie was a tiny woman with
Big dreams, and Bill and I were honored to watch her live, create, build, and
curate her dream of having the most amazing wedding venue where Nashville
Couples could say I Do.”
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