Panaca bomber’s ex-wife says they had ‘good times,’ but she feared him

Three marriages ended in divorce for Glenn Jones.

On Wednesday, his third ex-wife told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that she remembers fearing he would shoot her with one of his guns. The woman, Sue Ellen Hogan, said Jones had two big gun cases that he kept locked.

“One reason I left him was because I was so scared of him, because of all the guns that he had,” she said.

In a telephone interview from Walsenburg, Colorado, where she lives, Hogan said she had not talked to Jones since their 2012 divorce, which was granted in Clark County.

Though Jones scared Hogan, she said he never hurt her. That’s why she was shocked when she learned he had set off two bombs last week in the small Nevada town of Panaca before fatally shooting himself.

“I could never even imagine that,” she said. “I couldn’t even imagine himself shooting himself in the head.”

The couple was married for four years. Their relationship ended after Hogan reported that Jones had stolen drugs from a nursing home in Pahrump, where he was employed as a nurse. She said she found them at their apartment in Henderson. She remembered that the packaging had bar codes.

“The company that he was working for denied it. But I saw it at home.” said Hogan, a certified nursing assistant at the time.

“I had evidence, and that’s the only reason he settled,” she said of their divorce.

Hogan, who is now retired, said she never saw Jones using drugs.

By early 2012, she had already moved back to Walsenburg, where the two had met as co-workers at a veterans nursing home.

A Clark County Family Court order required the two to meet one last time to exchange items — he had a gun that had once belonged to her dead ex-husband, and she had his mother’s teapot. They never spoke again.

Hogan, 64, said Jones, 59, had no children.

“When we first got married we were so happy,” she said. “And we really did have a lot of good times together.”

The couple married in Las Vegas on Nov. 22, 2008.

About twice a week, they ate dinner at a buffet. Every night, they walked their chocolate cocker spaniel, Charlie. For recreation, they hiked in the mountains, especially Mount Charleston. Her sister and brother-in-law, who had their own business, would visit often. Hogan and Jones also would visit Jones’ mother in Aztec, New Mexico.

In 2010, Jones’ only sibling, Ray, had a heart attack while driving and died after crashing at the age of 56. Hogan dropped everything, leaving work abruptly, so she could be with her husband during his time of grief.

She said she loved Jones once, but she never fully trusted him. He used to tell her he had served in the military, but she had doubts. “I never saw any papers,” she said.

And while Jones had a reputation for being nice, he also had a temper, she said.

“You had to live with him to know his dark side,” Hogan said.

Contact Adelaide Chen at achen@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0281. Find @adelaide_chen on Twitter.