A man was found dead on a Browns Canyon side road in late March. Deputies arrested his 41-year-old wife Wednesday night, and she’s being held without bail at the Summit County jail.
The Summit County Sheriff’s Office is now looking for the woman’s boyfriend who deputies say may have been involved in the man’s death.
Arresting documents show the wife admitted that she and her boyfriend dumped her husband’s body in Browns Canyon early March 26.
She told deputies her husband had been physically abusive and attempted to sexually assault her the night before.
Deputies say she told her boyfriend who then went to her Midvale home and assaulted the husband with a hammer while he slept.
Investigators say they found the hammer and a blood-soaked blanket in the apartment. The autopsy showed signs of blunt force trauma to the head.
The sheriff’s office pulled security camera footage from a building near High View Road where the husband was found dead. Deputies say it shows multiple people removing the man’s body from a car shortly after 2 a.m.
The wife has been arrested on suspicion of desecrating a body and obstruction of justice but had not been formally charged as of April 2.
Deputies were still trying to find the boyfriend as of the afternoon of April 2.
