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Dad of 4, Microsoft Executive, Dead After Neighborhood Ambush · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. What does a shadowy figure
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  Speaker 1: seemingly caught on home surveillance video have to do with
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  Speaker 1: a young dad of four being shot dead on the road,
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  Speaker 1: one of his children in the car when he innocently
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  Speaker 1: gets out of the car to pick up a spare
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  Speaker 1: tire that was left in the road. How or do
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  Speaker 1: the two of these connect? And how did that tire
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  Speaker 1: get in the middle of the road. I Nancy Grace,
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  Speaker 1: this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us
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  Speaker 1: here at Fox Station and Serious X one eleven. Let's
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  Speaker 1: kick it off with our friends at w j XT
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  Speaker 1: News for bizarre and frightening twisted the murder of a
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  Speaker 1: local father of four two months ago. The widow of
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  Speaker 1: Jared Bridegain send us this video showing what she believes
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  Speaker 1: is a suspicious person on her property about a week
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  Speaker 1: after her husband slaying. Bridigen was driving home from his
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  Speaker 1: ex wife's house in Jacksono Beach two months ago when
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  Speaker 1: police said he stopped in the road to remove attire
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  Speaker 1: and that's when somebody shot him multiple times with his
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  Speaker 1: two year old daughter in the backseat of a suv.
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  Speaker 1: It is for Jackson What a big mcolouch. He shows
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  Speaker 1: us more of that video. Am spoke with Bridegan's widow.
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  Speaker 1: Take a look for yourself. This is video from the
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  Speaker 1: Bridegan's Knocket driveway. He was recorded around seven fifteen pm
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  Speaker 1: on February twenty fourth, that's a week and a day
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  Speaker 1: after Jared's murder. Here's the person. We have the video
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  Speaker 1: on loop. You can only catch a quick glimpse of them.
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  Speaker 1: It's not enough to identify anyone, but it is frightening
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  Speaker 1: for Jared's widow, Kirston. You can clearly see that it
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  Speaker 1: is a figure walking across the victim's widows yard. Now,
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  Speaker 1: very often there are distortions and for instance, ring cameras
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  Speaker 1: or home surveillance, you can have a moth fly by
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  Speaker 1: at the location of the camera and it could look
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  Speaker 1: like a person. You can slow them down. You can
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  Speaker 1: reach back in time to see who walked across your
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  Speaker 1: front yard three weeks ago. But here you can tell
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  Speaker 1: this is a person. Listen to more of what the
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  Speaker 1: victim's widow has to say. So it's very concerned. It
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  Speaker 1: was so soon after Jared had been murdered and now
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  Speaker 1: someone was at our home. It was not okay, she
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  Speaker 1: tells us. She called nine one one right away and
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  Speaker 1: messaged some of her neighbors and one of my amazing
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  Speaker 1: neighbors ex military team, and he and his dog and
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  Speaker 1: I went through the yard checking to make sure no
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  Speaker 1: one was still there. The Saint John's County Sheriff's office responded,
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  Speaker 1: but there are no leads as to who or what
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  Speaker 1: it was. You'll notice in the video that a neighbor
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  Speaker 1: was pulling out around the same time another person was
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  Speaker 1: on the sidewalk. This could have spooked whoever was on
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  Speaker 1: the bride again. Property deputies have since picked up patrols
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  Speaker 1: watching over the home. Do you have any idea who
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  Speaker 1: this may be? No, no idea. You know, it's so
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  Speaker 1: blurry you can't catch much. So investigators don't know if
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  Speaker 1: this is related to Jared's murder or not. No, you know,
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  Speaker 1: besides the timing, and that timing is just odd. And
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  Speaker 1: we've been here for over two years and nothing of
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  Speaker 1: this sort has ever happened before. So that's what put
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  Speaker 1: me on edge, is the timing. Meanwhile, Jacksonville Beach Police
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  Speaker 1: are still looking for tips and waiting on forensics and
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  Speaker 1: digital evidence to be analyzed. As the widow said, the
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  Speaker 1: timing makes it seemed like more than a coincidence that
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  Speaker 1: there's a strange person right in front of her house
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  Speaker 1: at night, skulking around. And can you imagine having to
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  Speaker 1: deal with the murder of your husband, the father of
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  Speaker 1: your children, and then within a week you've got a
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  Speaker 1: prowler in your front yard. Are they connected? And if so?
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  Speaker 1: Why with me in Austar Pale to make sense of
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  Speaker 1: what we know right now? Kathleen Murphy joining us out
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  Speaker 1: of North Carolina. She's at NC Domestic Law dot com
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  Speaker 1: and this is her hometown, Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Renowned psychiatrists
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  Speaker 1: joining us out of the Atlanta jurisdiction, Doctor Angela Arnold,
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  Speaker 1: you can find her at angela Arnold MD dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath My
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  Speaker 1: Feet on Amazon, and star of a new hit series
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  Speaker 1: Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Morgan with US death investigator Joe
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  Speaker 1: Scott Morgan Butt First, I'm want to go to investigative
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  Speaker 1: reporter joining us out of Orlando, Florida, our longtime colleague
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  Speaker 1: Ray Caputo. Ray, what happened to father of fort Jared Brittigan? Well,
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  Speaker 1: Jared was a sharing custody with his AX. So it
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  Speaker 1: was a Wednesday night. It was a date night where
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  Speaker 1: he had custody of his kids and he took them out. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: wait wait wait wait wait, I thought he lived with
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  Speaker 1: his now with a Kirsten and their children. You're saying
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  Speaker 1: there is an X with him. He had two other twins, right, yes, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and that would be Abby and Liam. Those are the
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  Speaker 1: twins he had with his X. Yes, ma'am. So this
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  Speaker 1: was visit night, Wednesday night. Okay, gotcha, go ahead, this
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  Speaker 1: visit night. You know, it's a blended family. It's a
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  Speaker 1: blended family, so it's not easy. But he picks them
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  Speaker 1: up and he drops the kids off and he's taking
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  Speaker 1: his routine route back to his home. So there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of different routes you can take Nancy in back.
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  Speaker 1: If you put this in Google Maps, that'll take it
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  Speaker 1: through the main thoroughfares. But since Jared has done this
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  Speaker 1: many times, he takes a shortcut through the neighborhood and
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  Speaker 1: it's just a lot of turns that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: straightaways past residential houses. And as Jared is just about
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  Speaker 1: to get out of this neighborhood, he's on this very
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  Speaker 1: narrow stretch of one way road that's going to dump
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  Speaker 1: about onto the main highway, three miles away from where
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  Speaker 1: he dropped the kids off. Okay, you drinking from a
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  Speaker 1: fire hydrant. It's too much, too fast. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: you're telling me. First of all, this is what jumps
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  Speaker 1: out at me and anybody on the panel. Remember this
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  Speaker 1: ain't no party at High Grove. Jump in. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to wait for the queen's butler to come in
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  Speaker 1: with crumpets. Ray Caputo, you said it's a one way street. Yes, no, yes, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's a one way street. Got it. And you said
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  Speaker 1: this is his routine drive home, right? Ye? How far
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  Speaker 1: away was it from his house from where he dropped
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  Speaker 1: the children off? Where where he stopped was about three miles,
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  Speaker 1: So he's closer to where he dropped off the kids,
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  Speaker 1: but he's not on his way back, So he's three
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  Speaker 1: miles back to his current home with his wife and
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  Speaker 1: their two children. Correct. No, that's he's probably about seventeen
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  Speaker 1: eighteen miles. He's not far from where he dropped off
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  Speaker 1: these children, so he's still pretty much in the neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: close to his first wife. Yes, got it, got it? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: three minutes away from his ex wife dropping off their children.
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  Speaker 1: Got it. Okay, hold on, wait, wait a minute, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, one way his usual route home. What time
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  Speaker 1: of the day or night? This is eight pm? Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: People are still up, people are around. It's the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the week. People are going to the gym taking
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  Speaker 1: their kids to practice. If you know, it's not the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night. Ray Ki Pudo. Also, you said
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  Speaker 1: it was eight pm, and according to Farmers Almanac and
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  Speaker 1: other sources, sunset was five fifty six from five to
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  Speaker 1: fifty six pm to six fourteen pm on that day
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, So it was dark. It was dark. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he was driving in the dark and one of his
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  Speaker 1: children was with him. His two year old daughter, Bexley
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  Speaker 1: was strapped into her car seat in the back seat
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  Speaker 1: on with him that night. Okay, this is important to
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  Speaker 1: me right now. Let me understand this. Father, Jared Brittigan,
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  Speaker 1: is thirty three. His wife is Kirsten Brittigan. They have
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  Speaker 1: two children who were twins, Bexley and London. And how
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  Speaker 1: old are they? Bexley in London aren't twins. Bexley is
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  Speaker 1: two years old and London is only seven months old.
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  Speaker 1: That's why she wasn't with him. She's just a pretty
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  Speaker 1: much an infant, Nancy. So she was home with his
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  Speaker 1: new wife. So the children from the second wife who's
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  Speaker 1: married to you right now, is two year old Bexley
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  Speaker 1: and infant London, yes, seven months old. Danny's got the twins,
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  Speaker 1: Abbey and Lamb with the ex wife and that so
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  Speaker 1: he was visiting, yes, and he dropped them just off
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  Speaker 1: before this happened. But he still has his two year
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  Speaker 1: old daughter Bexley in the car. Yep. Okay. Then what happens?
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  Speaker 1: So he stops because he noticed his attires in the roadway.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is again a narrow little stretch of one
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  Speaker 1: way street. He has an SUV, but he you know,
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  Speaker 1: he needs to move this tire, so he gets out
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  Speaker 1: and really nobody saw anything, Nancy. You just hear several gunshots.
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  Speaker 1: There's actually surveillance video from a house and you hear pop,
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  Speaker 1: pop pop. It all happened really quick. Bexley was in
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  Speaker 1: her car seat, miraculously she wasn't hurt. And what happened
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  Speaker 1: to Jared, Nancy is really a crime that's been happening
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  Speaker 1: for thousands of years, as old as roads themselves. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you place an obstruction in the roadway, you lie in wait,
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  Speaker 1: the victim stops and then they were sitting duck. It
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  Speaker 1: was an old fashioned ambush and Jared got murdered. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: take a listen to our cut too. This is Janess
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  Speaker 1: Harris w j XT. Before his death. Ryan against twins
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  Speaker 1: from a previous marriage, had just been dropped off and
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  Speaker 1: he was taking a routine round home. Actually talked to
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  Speaker 1: him on the phone right after he dropped his twins off,
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  Speaker 1: and he just told me that they had had a
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  Speaker 1: good day. Home security camera picked up gunshots that rang
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  Speaker 1: out around the same time that Bright again was murdered.
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  Speaker 1: Bright Agan's two year old daughter was in the car
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  Speaker 1: when her father was murdered, and she told her mother this,
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  Speaker 1: so she'll say, you know, boom, boom, boom, and then
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  Speaker 1: she'll say daddy on the ground. So far, no arrests
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  Speaker 1: have been made. A possible clue a blue F one
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  Speaker 1: fifty pickup truck is caught on a nearby surveillance camera.
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  Speaker 1: With each passing day, a reward of five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: and of twenty five thousand dollars is being offered for
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  Speaker 1: information leading to the arrest of the murderer or murderers.
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  Speaker 1: Bright Agan's family waits for closure, wondering who killed this father, husband, son,
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  Speaker 1: and friend. That reward is climbing. It's currently at fifty
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  Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. Repeat fifty five thousand dollars. The tip
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  Speaker 1: line nine zero four two seven zero sixteen sixty one
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  Speaker 1: repeat nine zero four two seven zero sixteen sixty one.
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  Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Grace. I'm trying to piece everything
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  Speaker 1: together that we are learning. Did you hear doctor Angela
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  Speaker 1: Arnold joining us out of Atlanta? What the little two
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  Speaker 1: year old daughter Bexley says? She says, boom, boom, boom.
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  Speaker 1: Daddy's on the ground. And it reminds me of the
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  Speaker 1: case of Susan Powell, who I believe was murdered by
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  Speaker 1: her husband, Josh Powell. Their two sons were later murdered
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  Speaker 1: during a visit way to go to de Facts Department
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  Speaker 1: Family Children's Services. I won't go into how he murdered
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  Speaker 1: the two little boys, but after the mom went missing,
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  Speaker 1: they drew pictures of mommy in the car trunk with
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  Speaker 1: the two of them in the front seat in the
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  Speaker 1: car with the dad and then said Mommy's with the crystals,
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  Speaker 1: like the crystal minds in that area. Those very young
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  Speaker 1: children drew Mommy in the trunk, and now this two
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  Speaker 1: year old little girl, Bexley is saying, boom boom boom,
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  Speaker 1: Daddy's on the ground and Nancy. What everybody needs to
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  Speaker 1: be very aware of is thus children do not lie.
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  Speaker 1: Children tell us exactly what they saw. They can either
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  Speaker 1: tell us with their words or they can draw pictures
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  Speaker 1: about it. But when children say something, they are telling
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  Speaker 1: the truth of exactly what they saw. They're not making
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  Speaker 1: anything up. The lasting impact that's going to have on
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  Speaker 1: this child, it's her lifetime, the lifetime she's in the
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  Speaker 1: car when daddy's shot down in the road. What if
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  Speaker 1: one bullet had been misfired and the two year old
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  Speaker 1: girl gets killed. Two sounds like somebody was taking a potshot,
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  Speaker 1: waiting either for him or for the next driver to
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  Speaker 1: come along to that tire. Take a listen to our
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  Speaker 1: friend Jim Ray at Inside Edition, But two three goat.
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  Speaker 1: These are the last images of Microsoft executive Jared Bridagan
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  Speaker 1: goating on his young children before he was viciously shot
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  Speaker 1: to death in an ambush. Now mystery surrounds who was
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  Speaker 1: behind the assassination on the father of four in this
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  Speaker 1: upscale neighborhood in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Jared Bridagan was driving
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  Speaker 1: home with his two year old daughter strapped in her
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  Speaker 1: car seat when police say he stopped his vehicle to
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  Speaker 1: remove a tire left in the road. That's when he
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  Speaker 1: was gunned down at close range, right in front of
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  Speaker 1: his daughter. Police believed the tire was left in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the street to lure him out of his car.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever did this is just vile and cowardly. I spoke
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  Speaker 1: to Jared's heartbroak and widow. There's an investigators say it
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  Speaker 1: appears this was a hit or an ambush. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: is how it appears. Straight out to Kathleen Murphy, veteran
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  Speaker 1: trial lawyer joining us out of North Carolina. Kathleen, this
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  Speaker 1: is your hometown, not Jacksonville, but Jacksonville Beach. Correct, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: and my four siblings still live right there. Well, can
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  Speaker 1: you tell me about NaKaT Nakati is a very very
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  Speaker 1: rural area that changed dramatically and has become a large, upscale,
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  Speaker 1: very wealthy area, and it's pretty peaceful and pretty quiet.
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  Speaker 1: The location where the murder happened is actually on the
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  Speaker 1: road that's one way, and on each side of where
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  Speaker 1: the tire was in the road, one side is a
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  Speaker 1: stop sign and the other side is the tree. So
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  Speaker 1: this guy actually could not go around the time you're
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  Speaker 1: on this road at all, right, one side is a
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  Speaker 1: tree and one side is a what a sign? And
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  Speaker 1: so it was well planned out to put the tire
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  Speaker 1: there so that the guy couldn't even drive around the tire,
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  Speaker 1: and so he was ambushed and it was clear that
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  Speaker 1: it was an ambush. The location of where he was
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  Speaker 1: murdered is also the same location where there's a large
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  Speaker 1: community park right on that road, and so the timing
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  Speaker 1: of it was good because it was dark outside and
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  Speaker 1: the children had all gone home by that. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: thinking this through, so it was one way. Just got
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  Speaker 1: Morgan to help me, help me think this through one way,
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  Speaker 1: so the perp would not have to be concerned with
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  Speaker 1: oncoming traffic from the other way and could lay in
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  Speaker 1: wait until this car was spotted. This particular car, I
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  Speaker 1: believe it was an suv. What do you think about that?
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  Speaker 1: At a playground with all those playground toys and getting
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  Speaker 1: on top of the jungle jim, you could see at
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  Speaker 1: a distance. You've got to tree the pert could hide behind.
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  Speaker 1: Do we know what side of the road the perp
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  Speaker 1: was standing on? Do we know that yet, Joe Scott, No,
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  Speaker 1: not to the best of my knowledge. But the one
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  Speaker 1: word that comes to mind for me, Nancy, I keep
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  Speaker 1: hearing the word ambush. In military terms. This is what's
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  Speaker 1: called a choke point where you have to go out
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  Speaker 1: and surveyl this area. They're going to know what the
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  Speaker 1: weak points are. This is in fact an ambush. But
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  Speaker 1: the person that did this was very familiar with this
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  Speaker 1: area and probably where the road and narrows down where
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  Speaker 1: you would have to hop the curve in order to
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  Speaker 1: get around the obstruction. Why not just step out? You
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  Speaker 1: know who thinks that in this area, as Kathleen had mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: that someone is going to come out and gun you down.
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  Speaker 1: And also this is key if you have time. If
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  Speaker 1: you have time, which you know the perpetrator would if
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  Speaker 1: they've got this obstruction, you can close in on the victim.
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  Speaker 1: One report I am reading uses this term, Nancy. They
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  Speaker 1: use the term close range close range. That means this
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  Speaker 1: is not done at a distance. And when you hear
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  Speaker 1: repeated what that little baby said, that was an ear
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  Speaker 1: witness to this. She said, boom, boom, boom, Daddy's down.
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  Speaker 1: So that means that more than likely the person was
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  Speaker 1: laid in weight in an immediate proximity to that tire,
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  Speaker 1: not just off in the bushes, and to that tire.
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  Speaker 1: May be hiding behind a tree, and they had the
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  Speaker 1: guts enough to step out there under the cover of darkness.
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  Speaker 1: Tree stop. They may have known that baby was in
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  Speaker 1: the truck and they blasted him right there and enough.
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  Speaker 1: If this is close range and our classic considerations, that's
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  Speaker 1: going to be within about thirty six inches of your
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  Speaker 1: target point. Here, I want to explain what you just
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  Speaker 1: said when you say we know it's close range thirty
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  Speaker 1: six inches or less. In other words, I'm holding the
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  Speaker 1: gun on Jackie, I'll pull the trigger. If I am
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  Speaker 1: three feet or less, the gunshot residue will be on
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  Speaker 1: her body, most likely if they think to look for it.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you know either GSR gunshot residue, or if
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  Speaker 1: it's contact the gun touching the person, you'll have stippling
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  Speaker 1: or burning around the wound. Because the gun, with the
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  Speaker 1: bullet coming so quickly through the barrel, it actually burns
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  Speaker 1: the skin. That's how they know it's close range? And
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  Speaker 1: he Ray Kaputo joining me, investigative reporter out of Orlando.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it true it was shot multiple times, and not
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  Speaker 1: just once but several times. Yeah. You hear three gunshots
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  Speaker 1: ring out on that surveillance camera, and the forensic folks
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  Speaker 1: say that only three to four feet away, so loose range.
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  Speaker 1: Multiple shots. So the daughter the little tear roll says boom, boom, boom,
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  Speaker 1: and there were three shots. She got that right. You
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  Speaker 1: know another interesting fact. I've been looking at the topography
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  Speaker 1: and trying to learn what I can't about that neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: and I learned that this road was on one of
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  Speaker 1: the few streets where there were no homes hence snow
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  Speaker 1: ring doorbell cams. On this particular stretch, there were no homes.
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  Speaker 1: What about that, Kathleen Murphy, that's correct. But where you
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  Speaker 1: really want to see what happens is when the vehicles leaving,
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  Speaker 1: and right on the road that they believe the truck
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  Speaker 1: escaped on is a substation, a police substation. So two
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  Speaker 1: of the police substations in one home called a truck
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  Speaker 1: leaving the area at the same time. Okay, you know
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  Speaker 1: what that reminds me of Alex Murdog. Why remember Joe
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  Speaker 1: Scott when he got shot by a passer by on
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  Speaker 1: a rural stretch of road and day one, you and
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  Speaker 1: I said no because the route he's taking would have
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: taken him an hour and a half to get where
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: he said he's going, when there was a fifteen twenty
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: minute direct route from where his location to where he
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: was going. So that's total bs. And it was a
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: rural dirt road in South Carolina. And I think we
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: were together and we were talking about, wait a minute,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: there's no video surveillance, but what about at either end
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: of that road? Is there a stop sign? Is there
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: a Mini mart? Is there a gas station or anything.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Turns out there was a church at the end of
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: that dirt road that had surveillance video that would show
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: who else came in and out of that road, just
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: like here, and they catched Ray Kapoodo of two thousand
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: and forty two thousand and eight blew Ford F one
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: fifty correct correct, Nancy Wow. Okay, guys, take a listen
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: again to our friend Jim Murray. At Inside Edition, Kirsten
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: says her husband had just dropped off his twins from
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: a previous marriage at their mother's house. He was driving
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the usual route home that he always drove. Actually talked
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: to him on the phone right after he dropped his
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: twins off, and he just told me that they had
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: a good day. They got ice cream. My daughter in
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the back told me I got an ice cream on
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: and then it said okay, see you soon minutes later
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: he was slain. The sound of gunfire was captured on
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: a neighbor's camera. Now, Bexley, your two year old daughter
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: was in the car when your husband was killed. What
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: has she told you? Mostly it's the sound that she
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: refers to. The boom is how she describes the gunshots.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: So she'll say, you know, boom, boom, boom, and then
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: she'll say daddy on the ground. But it's excruciate and
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: more from our friends at Inside Edition. Kirsten is now
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: speaking out in frustration that the killer is still on
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the loose. I want people to know that the murder's
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: out there. The murders probably watching this and they're living
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: their life and that's not okay. Police say this is
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: one possible clue. Surveillance footage of an older model Blue
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: F one fifty four door truck captured in the area.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: This vehicle can still be local or it could be
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: out of state by now. So that's the big thing
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: is getting the word out so everybody can be looking
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: for this vehicle. Kirston now struggles with how she'll raise
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: her children without their dad. My favorite thing is my
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: dad is kudling. He is an awesome dad. He loved
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: the babies, snuggling with them. He would make up the
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: best bedtime stories. You're hearing the children in the background
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: it and you also heard what I believe to be
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the ring surveillance video where you actually hear the three
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: gunshots ringing out. So Joe got Morgan, what should be
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: move number one for police right now? Well, I think
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: who is familiar with this poor man's routine? I think
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: that that's key here. Who would know? Who would know
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: intimately when he's going to be taking this route at
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: this particular time of day, Because you know, we're creatures
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: of habit, you know, we tend to go on the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: same routes all the time. This is a very specific route.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: We're talking about a one way street. So how does
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: this individual know that he will be in that precise
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: location at that precise time. So as an investigator, that's
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: where I'm headed first, all right, and then when we
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: talk about physical evidence, that sounds you know, when you're
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: talking about boom boom boom, that sounds to me like
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: there is a potential that this may have been a
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: semi automatic weapon, which means you have ejected shell casings.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: And why do you say that, Well, because of the Yeah,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: because of the quick succession of it. If that is
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the case, is so I have to suspect and this
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: is only my thought here that they may have recovered
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: rounds at the scene. I want to know what type
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: of weapon, what type of weapon those rounds came from,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: and can they be paired up with a specific weapon caliber, make, model,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and has this weapon ever been used for any kind
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: of nefarious purpose in the past. They can plug this
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: into the ATF database to check that out too. Ray
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Kaputo joining me, investigative reporter joining us from Orlando. Ray,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: he was coming from the ex wife's home, right, dropping
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: off is two older children? Right? Yes, Okay, what do
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: we know about that relationship? Jared's relationship with his ex
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Shanna Gardner. Take a listen to our friends at crime
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: online dot Com. Friends say the relationship seems to fald
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: her right again, convinces his wife to move to his
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Florida hometown. Meanwhile, he is online for a master's degree
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: at Savannah College of Art and Design. But the relationship
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: continues to decline. Gardner becomes frustrated with her husband. He
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: is focused on twine to start a business and has
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: gained weight. Gardner joins CrossFit after her husband buys a
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: set of personal training sessions as a gift. That's when
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Bright again finds out his wife begins an affair with
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the personal trainer through emails between the two. Despite bright
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Against efforts at reconciliation, after five years of marriage, Gardner
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: files for divorce, telling the court simply, we don't love
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: each other anymore. Even so, neither husband nor wife move
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: out of the family home. Okay, wait, man, that sounds
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: like the War of the Roses the movie. Who was
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the star of that movie? Let's see it was Kathleen
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Turner and Michael Douglas. Yes, and they both end up
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: dead in the end. Not a good ending. Wait who
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: gained weight in this scenario, I'm not sure. From our
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: friends at crime Online, they started arguing Gardner the wife
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: got frustrated with her has been he was focused on
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: started trying to start a business, and somebody gained weight.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Who him or her? It was Jared. He sounds like
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: he was a stressed dad. He had a lot on
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: his plate, so he does the time to go to
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the gym. I hope David doesn't divorce me because I've
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: gained weight. Didn't you say a stressed dad? Yes, he says,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: stressed dad. What's laughable about that? There's no such thing
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: as a stressed dad because moms do everything. Oh okay, well,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I can tell you right now. My husband is way stressed.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: He works, He helps me take care of the twins.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: He helps me take care of my mother who lives
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: with us. He takes care of the dog, the cat,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the guineas right in there with me, and works crazy hours.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: He's stressed out. True, he doesn't do as much around
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: the house and with the twins that I do. Yeah,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: but still, you know, I hear what you're saying. But
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of knocked out by the fact that she
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: got frustrated with him because he was trying to start
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: a business and gained weight. She was into the gym man,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: she was going over there that's one way of putting it.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: She was really into it, and that's when she came
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: out and she had an affair. She had an affair
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: with the personal trainer. According to that reporter. If you
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: see pictures of her now, she is extremely buff. Are
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: we're talking about the first wife, the ex wife? Correct?
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: First wife, the first wife? Okay, So Ray Kaputo, is
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: that correct that she joins a gym and starts an
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: affair with a personal trainer. That's correct, Nancy. Assume these
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: two were going in two different directions. That's certainly putting
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: perfume on the pig. Going in different directions. That's Hollywood
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: or TV talk. We're going in another direction. She was
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: mad at him because he gained weight and got a
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: lover at the gym. I mean, he didn't gain weight.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I like her husband, who's helping her raise the children
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and trying to start a business. You know. Take a
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: listen to more of our Forensic crime online dot com.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: During the divorce negotiations, Gardner demands exclusive incupancy of the
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: home and primary custody. She also accuses Bright again of
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: threatening to take cash from their children's trust funds for
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: his own use. Bright again claims that he deserves primary custody, alimony,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: child support, and exclusive use of their home as she
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: has means to live elsewhere due to her family's wealth.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Bright again also accuses Gardener of spying on him by
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: hiding baby monitors in the children's bedrooms. Bright again says
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: that even though there are monitors in plain sight, he
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: finds monitors under his daughter's dresser and under his son's bed.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: He also accuses Gardener of attaching a tracking device to
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: his car and allegedly placing a voice activated recorder in
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the house. And then there was the lock on the
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: master bedroom door. Bright again says he was not given
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: a key. Bright against most disturbing claim was that Gardner
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: unilaterally canceled their then three year old son's heart surgery
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: after they had waited months for the appointment. That was
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: a lot. Okay, how can I analyze what I discerned? Okay?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I accused his wive number one, I'm attaching tracking devices
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: to his car, a voice activated recorder in the home.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Tracker right, several monitors not only in plain sight, but
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: under a dresser and under the sun's bed. But what
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: also got my attention was that he says and this
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: is the now murder victim, that he should get alimony
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: and custody. That sounds like he was the one taking
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: care of the children. Is that what happened? He ended
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: up taking care of the children, Rakipeda. Well, I can't
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: speculate on that, Nancy, But what I can say to
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: add light to that is she came from a very
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: wealthy family and she wooed Jared. You know, some witnesses
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: would say with money and promise of a really good life.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: So she came from a lot more money than him.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: So that's what I can speculate on the alimony part
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: of this book. Okay, let's go to our domestic lawyer,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Kathy Murphy. When you're asking for full custody and alimony
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and child support, sounds to me like she had the
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: money and he's taking care of the children. That would
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: be true, And it's also true that any gifts from
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: her family members could be considered income to her, and
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: they were living a life that far exceeded their abilities.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: They were leaving living the lifestyle based on all the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: gifts and the income from her family, which were substantial. Okay,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: you guys, take a listen to our cut twenty two
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: from our friends at crime Online. The divorce battle rages
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: on for six years as the parents constantly spar over
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: everything related to their children, where would they go to school,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: modifications of their custody agreements, and child support. During that time,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: both bright Again and Gardner meet and marry other people.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Bright Again Mary's Kerston, whom he met on a dating app.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Gardner marries Mario Fernandez and hyphenates her name. But disagreements continue.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Stop right there, Doctor Angela Arnold her trainer. You know, Nancy,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Oftentimes people don't don't go too far. He was there.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: He was He probably loved the kind of lifestyle that
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: she could possibly she needed that attention her. It sounds
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to me like her initial husband, who has now been murdered,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: the father of her twins, wasn't so impressed by the
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: money that the family had that he was never impressed
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: by that from the get go, even when she was
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: trying to lure him none. So she was seeking someone
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: who was impressed by that and who she could impress
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: by all of the millions that her family of origin
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: brought to the table. He was right there, he you know,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: he was training her times to race with Nancy Grace.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Isn't it true, Ray Kiputo joining us out of Florida
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: that right up until the time that he was murdered,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: they were still in court arguing. I mean, I think
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: their most recent thing was about one of the children's
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: breathing devices. Yeah, I mean, Nancy, this relationship had a
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: lot of highly flammable components. You had Jaded X's young kids,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: new partners, custody issues. I mean, these two are basically
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: in like a six year litigation battle after they were divorced.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was just one thing after another. Just
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: four months before bright Agan's murder, she the X Shannon
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Gardner was fighting about a five hundred and seventy one
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: dollar discrepancy and fighting over a breathing machine that the
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Sun used. A new motions filed just last year that
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: bright Agen would not allow Gardner Fernandez to borrow a
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: small breathing machine for their son for use at high altitude.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Gardner Fernandez has a larger machine, but it's less convenient
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: for traveling, she claims, bright Again, it's just being vindictive.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: A court ruled just four months before bright Again's murder
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: that he would pay Gardener Fernandez five hundred and seventy
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: one dollars but retain exclusive use of the smaller machine.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: It sounds really petty to me that they're still arguing
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: about this six years on Kathleen Murphy and they're trying
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: to make it a point that they're assigned judge. But
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't realize in domestic cases is
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: you have just one judge, and when you have an
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: opportunity of apparent being bad, it doesn't matter the worse
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: of that being bad. You want it brought to your
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: judge's attention. If you are in a litigation mode, you
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: want that judge to know he can't even give me
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: this machine, and he should be fine for not giving
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: me this machine, or he should be rugged if he's
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: got a hundred percent of it. Sounds really petty to
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: doctor Angela Arnold. I would be very concerned if I
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: found out my spouse had spying devices in the home,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: spying on me. But I mean, what does that mean
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: to you? You're the shrink, not me. Wow, it means
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: to me that she, oh my goodness, she's a very
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: untrusting of her ex spouse and she's trying to maybe
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: she doesn't trust that he can take care of the
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: kids properly. Maybe she's trying to find out something about him,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: but she doesn't trust him to. Rika Pude joining us
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: out of Florida. What is the very latest? Well, the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: very latest is that the ex Shanna Gardner, her family
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: or her her she's got a very high powered criminal
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: discus ense attorney. And you can interpret that how you want.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: The defense attorney says it's simply for the twins and
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: to keep them safe, but some other folks are interpret
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: that another way that she may have something to hide. So,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Ray Caputo, you're right, she has hired a gun. She
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: has hired Henry Cox, the third veteran criminal defense attorney
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: and former president of the Florida Bar Is that right,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Ray Caputo? That is correct? Nancy. Why, Well, you've got
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: someone who has a lot of money and a lot
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: to protect. I mean, right now, no matter what happens,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of speculation that this X may have
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: had something to do. I mean, certainly, all the conditions
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: are there, and even if she's completely innocent, that's what
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: a lot of folks are thinking. So she's got a
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: lot on the line right now. Right now, no one
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: has been named a suspect. Cox has stated he was
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: hired by Fernandez and her new husband, Mario to protect
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the privacy of her twins, Abbey and Liam, as the
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: murder case of her ex husband, the children's bio dad,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: remains unsolved. You know, I think the first step in
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: protecting the privacy of your children would be to takedown
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: pictures of them on Facebook. I mean, it's just a
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: suggestion to protect their privacy. Why do you need Kathleen Murphy,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: a high profile defense lawyer, to protect your children's privacy.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Explain to me, you're the domestic lawyer. Explain to me
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: what that means. It means nothing. I don't think there's
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: any protection of these children. The children's grandmother, who is
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: a source of funds for this family, has posted every
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: single professional photograph of the children's service for their father
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: on the beach. It was a separate service, It looked
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: like a garden party, and it's all over the internet.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: So I don't think it's for the benefit of these children.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I don't think that there's any sense. Well, we can't
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: go into their minds and figure out why. But I
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: do know her ex husband's been murdered and she has
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: a criminal defense attorney. Now here's another thing. The root
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: of all evil, according to some, is the love of money.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Let me just throw in here that when their relationship started,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Jared Brightigan and wife Shelley Gardner, her parents co founded
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the Utah based company Stamping Up. It's a paper craft company,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: and her parents business ballooned into a one hundred million
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: dollar venture. That's a lot of wooing right there, one
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: hundred million dollar pot to dip in to. No one
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: has been named a suspect, No one has been named
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: a person of interest at all, and we wait as
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: just as unfalse. Nancy Grace Crime Stories signing off, goodbye friend,