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Finally an Arrest! Microsoft Hubby, Dad of 4, Ambushed, Shot Dead · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Bombshell. In the case of
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Speaker 1: a loving husband and father Jared Brightigan, he was ambushed
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Speaker 1: and murdered after dropping off his twins after a visit
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Speaker 1: with his ex wife. As you will recall, that evening,
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Speaker 1: on the way home to his new wife and children,
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Speaker 1: he was driving along one way road in the dark
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Speaker 1: stripe in the back seat his three year old little girl, Bexley,
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Speaker 1: when he noticed that someone had pulled a giant tire
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Speaker 1: into the middle of the one road. He stops the
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Speaker 1: car with Bexley still inside, gets out, and the dad
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Speaker 1: begins to pull the tire off the road to get
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Speaker 1: home when he is ambushed and murder. Imancy Grace, this
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Speaker 1: is Crime Stories, Thank you for being with us here
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Speaker 1: at Fox Nation and Serious XM one eleven. In the
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Speaker 1: last days of Bombshell, after alluding to a breakthrough, we
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Speaker 1: now learn a convicted felon has been arrested for the
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Speaker 1: murder of Microsoft executive, loving husband and father, devout Mormon
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Speaker 1: Jared Bright Again take a listen. Henry Tennant was arrested
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Speaker 1: for the following crimes conspiracy to commit murder, secondary second
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Speaker 1: degree murder with a weapon accessory after the fact to
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Speaker 1: a capital felony, and chiloges all directly related to the
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Speaker 1: murder of Jared. Conspiracy to commit murder we know Henry
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Speaker 1: Tennan did not act alone. Conspiracy to commit murder is
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Speaker 1: a first degree felony punishable by up to thirty years
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Speaker 1: in prison, accessory after the fact to a capital felony.
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Speaker 1: This charge is based on Henry Tennant's actions in the
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Speaker 1: days after Jared's murder. This crime is also a first
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Speaker 1: degree felony punishable by up to thirty years in prison.
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Speaker 1: Child abuse This charge stems from the fact that Hairson
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Speaker 1: and Jared's then two year old daughter was directly in
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Speaker 1: harm's way when her father was shot and killed in
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Speaker 1: front of her. This is a third degree felony, punishable
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Speaker 1: by up to five years in prison. Second degree murder
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Speaker 1: this crime is a first degree felony punishable by up
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Speaker 1: to life in prison, and due to Henry Tennant's participation
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Speaker 1: in the murder of Jared Bright Again, Tennan will have
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Speaker 1: his first appearance in court tomorrow morning. Thereafter, we will
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Speaker 1: present his case to a grand jury in order to
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Speaker 1: seek an indictment for first degree murder. This, of course,
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Speaker 1: will carry a punishment of mandatory life in prison. That's
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Speaker 1: why the convicted Ellen has been arrested for the murder
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Speaker 1: of Jared Brigen. Now here's the tricky part. The felon
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Speaker 1: arrested for Jared Branigan's murder just happened to be renting
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Speaker 1: his Jacksonville home from Branigan's ex wife's new husband. Wow,
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Speaker 1: that's a coincidence. Let me say that again. The guy
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Speaker 1: arrested for ambushing and murdering this young dad is renting
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Speaker 1: a house from Bridigan's ex wife's new husband. Tenant and
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Speaker 1: custody on charges of second degree murderer and conspiracy to
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Speaker 1: commit murder. Or wait a minute, conspiracy to commit murder.
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Speaker 1: That tells me someone else was involved and Jared's murder
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Speaker 1: you can't conspire with yourself. Also, his wrist warrant is sealed,
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Speaker 1: so details surrounding his case remain unclear. With whom is
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Speaker 1: he conspiring? How did he know the victim, Jared bright Agen?
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Speaker 1: Why would he murder bright Agen? No theft, no sex attack,
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Speaker 1: no carjacking, So what's his motive? The only connection is
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Speaker 1: he knows the husband of bright Agen's ex wife. What
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Speaker 1: happened to Jared? Why did this young man early thirties,
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Speaker 1: prime of his life, good looking, athletic, brilliant, educated, this huge,
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Speaker 1: big life in front of him with his wife and children,
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Speaker 1: shoulder from another man that he saw religiously. Why would
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Speaker 1: somebody want to gun him down literally in the road
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Speaker 1: as part of an ambush attack? Who we know, just
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Speaker 1: the right place to put an old tire in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the road, a place where he couldn't go
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Speaker 1: that way, And he couldn't go that way. He had
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Speaker 1: to get out of the car on this one way street.
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Speaker 1: He had to get out and move the tire in
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Speaker 1: order to get home to his wife and children. And
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Speaker 1: when he did, someone was lying in wait to kill
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Speaker 1: him execution style. Why, first of all, let's take a
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Speaker 1: listen to our friends at WJ A X, and this
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Speaker 1: you'll hear is sound from his ex wife with whom
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Speaker 1: he is in a bitter custody battle. At the time
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Speaker 1: of his murder, just minutes her leaving Shannah's house, just
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Speaker 1: over two miles from her home in a quiet neighborhood
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Speaker 1: with few security cameras, attire was rolled out into the street.
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Speaker 1: Jared got out of his car to move it and
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Speaker 1: was shot dead. His two year old daughter sat in
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Speaker 1: the car, strapped into her car seat alone for three
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Speaker 1: minutes before someone came to help. I was shocked. I
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Speaker 1: felt at the floor because I was devastated for what
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Speaker 1: I was going to have to tell my kids. Jared
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Speaker 1: died in that street, leaving behind four children and a
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Speaker 1: heartbroken family. They were I think in shock. Join me
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Speaker 1: right now, special guest, this is Jared's wife, Hurston Rodigan.
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Speaker 1: You have two year old Bexley and at the time
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Speaker 1: six month old London. Bexley was actually strapped in the
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Speaker 1: car while her dad was shot, and she keeps setting
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Speaker 1: I believe boom boom or bang bang. Yeah. She often
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Speaker 1: says zoom boom, boom, daddy on the ground when she
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Speaker 1: talks about that night. Let me ask you, we were
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Speaker 1: just hearing your husband's ex wife who was crying about
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Speaker 1: the death of her ex. Now that evening, let me understand,
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Speaker 1: Jared had just left her house, right, great, she had
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Speaker 1: just drops Leam and Abbey back off at her home.
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Speaker 1: His twins, yes, nine years old at the time. Yes,
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Speaker 1: was that, may I ask you, Kirsten. Was that a
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Speaker 1: scheduled visit? Yes? So, Jared and Shanna had fifty fifty
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Speaker 1: custody of Leam and Abbey, so every other week they
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Speaker 1: were with the alternating parents. So when they were with
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Speaker 1: their mom, Jared would pick them up every Wednesday that
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Speaker 1: she had them to take them out on what was
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Speaker 1: referred to as date night, and then when they were
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Speaker 1: at our home for the week, Shannon would come to
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Speaker 1: our house and pick them up Wednesday nights before date night.
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Speaker 1: It was every single week, so you would have them
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Speaker 1: when you're home for a week, and then they go
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Speaker 1: back to their mom. Can I back chack just a
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Speaker 1: little bit, Krsten? Could you tell me how you and
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Speaker 1: Jared met? Yeah, so I had moved out to Charlotte,
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Speaker 1: North Carolina to start working for Microsoft and his news
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Speaker 1: the area. A friend I was like, hey, should you know,
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Speaker 1: just get on this dating app and it's a good
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Speaker 1: way to meet people. So I did, and Jared's profile
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Speaker 1: was one of the first ones that I saw. And
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Speaker 1: what impressed me about him is that his first picture
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Speaker 1: was him and Leam and Abbey. He was proud to
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Speaker 1: be a dad, He's proud of his kids, and he
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Speaker 1: made it clear like these people are important to me
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Speaker 1: and it's a package deal. Anyway, we started talking and
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Speaker 1: We talked on the phone for hours, and then he
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Speaker 1: actually drove six and a half hours from Florida up
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Speaker 1: to Charlotte to take me on a date. And the
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Speaker 1: rest is history. Okay, wait a minute, he drove. He
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Speaker 1: just gave me chill mumps down my right arm. He
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Speaker 1: drove six and a half hours from Florida to Charlotte
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Speaker 1: to take you on a date. He did. Yeah, that
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Speaker 1: must have been some day. What did you do on
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Speaker 1: the day? Everything we fit in as much as we could.
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Speaker 1: We often refer to it as a marathon date because
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Speaker 1: we met at a museum. Wenter on the museum for
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Speaker 1: a few hours, and we went out and got some food,
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Speaker 1: and we went fooling and then we tried to an
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Speaker 1: escape or like we did everything. We just couldn't get
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Speaker 1: enough time together, especially since you know it was a
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Speaker 1: long distance relationships that we made the most of the
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Speaker 1: time that we oppu spend together. You know, something you
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Speaker 1: just said really sticks out in my mind. We just
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Speaker 1: couldn't get enough time together. Yeah, when did you know
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Speaker 1: that he was the one? I think it's when I
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Speaker 1: met as kids, just seeing him as a dad, you know,
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Speaker 1: the way he treated me. I knew how that wasn't
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Speaker 1: it was amazing. But then to see him as a
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Speaker 1: father and how invested he was in them, how much
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Speaker 1: she loved them, that just kind of feel it for me,
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Speaker 1: you know, like I wanted to have children, I wanted
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Speaker 1: to have a family, and I wanted someone who wanted
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Speaker 1: it just as much as I did. And it was
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Speaker 1: clear that that he shared those values and those those desires.
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Speaker 1: How was the relationship between him and his ex, Shanna
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Speaker 1: Gardner Fernandez, Yeah, it was a very combative relationship. In
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Speaker 1: her interview, she refers to, you know, we had happy moments.
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Speaker 1: I don't recall any happy moments between the two households.
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Speaker 1: That that was not a thing. What was there the
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Speaker 1: I mean I understand the drama back and forth, back
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Speaker 1: and forth, wake on, wake off, and the scheduling. I
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Speaker 1: mean that's why he couldn't move. He couldn't move to
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Speaker 1: be with you in Charlotte because his children in Florida.
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Speaker 1: So you end up moving down there, right, Yeah? So
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Speaker 1: I got permission to work remote, so I left the
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Speaker 1: office and just worked from home so that we could,
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Speaker 1: you know, start our family together here in Florida. And
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Speaker 1: you did, because now you have Bexley and you have London. Correct. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's two little girls crime stories with Nancy Grace in
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Speaker 1: the last Days a bombshell, a convicted felon arrested and
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Speaker 1: the murderer of a Microsoft executive. A loving husband, a
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Speaker 1: loving father, a devout Mormon, Jared Bridigan gunned down in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the road with three year old daughter
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Speaker 1: Bexley in the back seat. Why oh how I would
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Speaker 1: like to get my hands on that sealed arrest warrant,
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Speaker 1: the arrest warrant for a felon busted in Jared Bridigan's murder.
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Speaker 1: How did the whole thing start? Kristen, you were talking
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Speaker 1: about the terse exchanges, the contentious relationship between your family,
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Speaker 1: Jared and his ex. Didn't that seep into the children's life?
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Speaker 1: Didn't they know about the hostility and what was it over?
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Speaker 1: They did? You know? And that was something that Jared
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Speaker 1: and I we fought so hard to keep Leam and
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Speaker 1: Abbey out of things. There's so many text messages and
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Speaker 1: emails where we plead with his ex wife and her
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Speaker 1: husband did not involve the children because often they would
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Speaker 1: come home saying mom and Mario said X, and we
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Speaker 1: would be like you shouldn't even be involved in these conversations,
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Speaker 1: and would again reach out to his ex wife and
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Speaker 1: her husband and ask them he don't involve the kids, like,
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Speaker 1: let's keep this between adults. They don't deserve to be
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Speaker 1: pulled into this so heartnaging, you know, having a split
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Speaker 1: home like split family, spending one week here and one
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Speaker 1: week there. It's hard enough. They don't need the added
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Speaker 1: stress of being involved in adult conversation. What was the
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Speaker 1: ongoing battle? I mean, did they X? What full custody
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Speaker 1: and why? I mean, the court records will speak for themselves.
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Speaker 1: It is very combative over a few of things. You know,
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Speaker 1: one week to clist, the next month it's something else.
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Speaker 1: She took us to court often, as the record will show.
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Speaker 1: And one thing that just continually surprised us and our
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Speaker 1: attorney was the language that was used in the motions filed.
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Speaker 1: It was not professional. It had outrageous claims such as
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Speaker 1: the father doesn't care for his child lizard eyes, which
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Speaker 1: is absolutely false, and these are just so skewed. It
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Speaker 1: was just shocking that they would even put that type
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Speaker 1: of language in something, especially when it was based on
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Speaker 1: why absolutely nothing. Can guys take a listen to our
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Speaker 1: friends at crime online dot com. Just twelve days after
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Speaker 1: Jared Bridigan was gunned down in front of his two
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Speaker 1: year old daughter, his widow received an email from his
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Speaker 1: ex wife asking for his death certificate. The terrist email,
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Speaker 1: sent to Kirsten Bridegain on February twenty eighth by Shanna
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Speaker 1: Gardner Fernandez, said, quote, my attorney has requested a copy
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Speaker 1: of Jared's death certificate for the family court. You can
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Speaker 1: send it to me or to him and his paralegal directly,
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Speaker 1: whichever you prefer. The thirty one year old widow said
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Speaker 1: she was shocked by the email. I was in my car,
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Speaker 1: My hands were shaking, my heart was beating so fast.
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Speaker 1: I was like, who does this? This is so evil.
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Speaker 1: Here I am planning a funeral and she's asking for
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Speaker 1: a death certificate to Daryl Cohen joining me, high profile
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Speaker 1: lawyer that practices all over the country. You can find
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Speaker 1: him at Darrell Cohen dot TV. Daryl, can't you go
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Speaker 1: to public records and get a death certificate? Of course
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Speaker 1: you can, Nancy, but that's not what this was designed
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Speaker 1: to do. This was designed to take the dagger and
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Speaker 1: drop it deeper and deeper and deeper and then twist
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Speaker 1: it and then make sure you twist it some more.
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Speaker 1: That's what this is about. Nothing else, nothing more at
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Speaker 1: this point. You know, Daryl Cohen, uh, I know you're
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Speaker 1: a high profile lawyer, but I was going to you
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Speaker 1: for a legal question about how you get a death certificate.
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Speaker 1: It's really easy. You go to public records and you
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Speaker 1: have to pay about five dollars for the xerox copy.
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Speaker 1: But doctor Angela Arnold, although he is a JD not
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Speaker 1: an MD psychiatrist like you, he may be right Doctor Angie, Oh,
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Speaker 1: I think he's I think he's right on Nancy. We can,
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Speaker 1: all of us can look at human behavior, and as
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Speaker 1: this story unfolds, it's just it's everything that this ex
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Speaker 1: wife does, from from keeping them in court while they
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Speaker 1: you know, while he was alive now to this it's
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Speaker 1: just it's so abusive. It's abusive to the to the
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Speaker 1: mother of the children, and his wife. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: his widow, it's it's to me. It's horrific. And I
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Speaker 1: think that as human beings, we can all see this.
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Speaker 1: And I think that's why Darrel was speaking to that.
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Speaker 1: I just am trying to imagine Kirsten Bright again is
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Speaker 1: with us, guys. This is Jared's widow and the mother
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Speaker 1: of two of his children. He was not even married yet.
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Speaker 1: And if she has a lawyer who's directing her to
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Speaker 1: get a death certificate, she could just get one from
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Speaker 1: county records. It's not hard. But she called you while
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Speaker 1: you were planning the funeral for you to send her
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Speaker 1: a death certificate. Yeah, and that's that's why I was
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Speaker 1: upset a lot of the time. She wouldn't even talk
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Speaker 1: to us without her attorney. She'd have her stay talked
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Speaker 1: to my attorney, email my attorney. Yet she reaches out
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Speaker 1: to me personally asked for a death certificate that I
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Speaker 1: don't even have copies of yet, Like I didn't have
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Speaker 1: any at that point in time. She already filed through
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Speaker 1: her attorney two days prior on the I think it
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Speaker 1: was the twenty faith off the double check that date. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the twenty bits. She already filed the suggestion of death
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Speaker 1: with family courts. That was already done. And in addition
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Speaker 1: to that email a few minutes prior sail the afternoon
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Speaker 1: to return library book. Oh yeah. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: take a listen to again our friends at crime online
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Speaker 1: dot com. Eight minutes before sending an email message requesting
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Speaker 1: the death certificate of Jared Bridigan, his ex wife, Shanna
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Speaker 1: Gardner Fernandez, sent another email to Kirstian Brian again. This
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Speaker 1: email asked the grieving widow to return a set of
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Speaker 1: school library books that were borrowed by the twins. Shanna wrote, quote,
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Speaker 1: you can drop them off at any public library and
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Speaker 1: they will return them to Miss Stacy or return them
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Speaker 1: to the school directly. Un Christian Bridigan said that after
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Speaker 1: losing her husband is such a brutal way, and only
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Speaker 1: twelve days earlier, returning a couple of library books wasn't
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Speaker 1: on her list of priorities at the time. Okay, let
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Speaker 1: me understand, because, Kirsten, when my fiance was murdered, I
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Speaker 1: dropped out of school. I couldn't eat, didn't eat, stopped everything.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't even think straight. And I don't know how
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Speaker 1: long really haven't counted up the months that I was
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Speaker 1: like that. But I didn't have children that I had
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Speaker 1: to be strong for at that time. You do, so
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Speaker 1: let me understand this. While you're planning the funeral, you
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Speaker 1: get an email from the X about returning library books. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and to me, that was just her pouring salt in
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Speaker 1: the wound. She didn't care how I was feeling. She
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Speaker 1: didn't seem to care about anything except sending those emails
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Speaker 1: to me. Have you had contact with her since the murder? Yes?
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Speaker 1: I have. There's been text messages. I've even seen her
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Speaker 1: in person the following day or to after, and multiple
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Speaker 1: text messages since then. Regarding the majority of them are
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Speaker 1: me requesting the FaceTime with William and Abbey, most of
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Speaker 1: which have gone either ignored or the response has been
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Speaker 1: no U. Since April, Kristen, what happened in your world
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Speaker 1: the night that Jared was martyred? You were at home
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Speaker 1: with the children. What exactly happened? So our youngest daughter,
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Speaker 1: London had started going to bed, you know, we're didn't
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Speaker 1: sleep training, and she would go to bed, you know,
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Speaker 1: before seven pm. So I wasn't on date night with
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Speaker 1: Jared and kids, but Bexley always went with him. She
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Speaker 1: was always there. And so he had called me right
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Speaker 1: after he dropped him and Abbey off at their mom's
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Speaker 1: house and just said we had a good date night.
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Speaker 1: Bexfully said that they got ice cream and she was
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Speaker 1: still eating it, and and you know, said a Koleve
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Speaker 1: you'll see soon. And then time kept going and I
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Speaker 1: started to feel an avy. I kept looking at the clock.
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Speaker 1: I think he means you should be home by now,
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Speaker 1: and he's always home by now. Something's not right. And
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Speaker 1: my parents were our home and I remember telling them
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Speaker 1: like I know something's wrong, like something is't not okay.
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Speaker 1: I kept calling and calling, I texted, and it's not
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Speaker 1: like him to pick not pick up, especially if he's
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Speaker 1: in the car, like he's not doing something else, he's
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Speaker 1: just driving. He would answer his phone. I started looking
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Speaker 1: at traffic full ports to see if there was an
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Speaker 1: accident or anything, and wasn't seeming. So I got in
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Speaker 1: the car. I took my mom with me and my
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Speaker 1: dad stayed at home with London, and started driving out
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Speaker 1: to the beach where I knew he had been last.
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Speaker 1: You know, he'd just dropped with him an Abbey off.
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Speaker 1: That's the last point I knew he was. So I
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Speaker 1: started driving that way and while I was driving, I
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Speaker 1: kept calling his phone, and after you know, four or
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Speaker 1: five tries, it's picked up. But it wasn't years. It
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Speaker 1: was a police officer who just kept telling me to
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Speaker 1: come to the station. As I kept asking if my
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Speaker 1: husband okay, my husband okay, And he said, police, come
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Speaker 1: to the Jacksonville Beach Police Department. Your daughter's fine, Like
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Speaker 1: he would not answer me about my husband, and that
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Speaker 1: just confirmed me Jared was not okay. My mom was
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Speaker 1: trying to call me down. She said, nads, an accident.
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Speaker 1: You know, we don't know what happened, but I knew.
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Speaker 1: I knew when I gut that Jared wasn't okay. And
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Speaker 1: when we got there, I saw Bexley and then it
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Speaker 1: clicked like if this was a car accident, Bexley would
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Speaker 1: be taken to the hospital to get checked out. Like
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Speaker 1: this is not a car accident, because why she heared
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Speaker 1: the station. And then it was a long night. I
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Speaker 1: had wait a while until they confirmed that Jared had
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Speaker 1: been killed, talk to detectives. I had to call it
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Speaker 1: family that night. So it was, you know, like my
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Speaker 1: whole world just came crashing down. And I never remembers
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Speaker 1: saint to who told you that Jared had been killed?
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Speaker 1: A detective informed me. You know, at first, when I
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Speaker 1: was sitting in the break room at the police station
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Speaker 1: with my daughter, my mom, a female officer, I kept asking, like,
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Speaker 1: what happened? Can I see him? You know. I didn't
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Speaker 1: know for sure if he had died. I didn't know
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Speaker 1: any details that. They just told me it's a death investigation.
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Speaker 1: And I said, is it him or someone else? And
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Speaker 1: they wanted to answer. They asked me to describe what
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Speaker 1: my husband looked like. So then after a while I
22:34
Speaker 1: was taken into another room away from my daughter and
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Speaker 1: my mom and informed that Jared hadn't shot Kirsten. Did
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Speaker 1: you go back to the scene. Did you go back
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Speaker 1: and see where your husband was ambushed? No? In fact,
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Speaker 1: when I left the police station, and I was there
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Speaker 1: several days in a row, I had to go another way.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't. I couldn't go there. I didn't. I didn't
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Speaker 1: know if there would still be blood on the street.
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Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't want to to go there. It
23:08
Speaker 1: wasn't until a few weeks after that I went back
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Speaker 1: with a friend because I had printed a big sign
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Speaker 1: of the truck asking for people to call in if
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Speaker 1: a new and scene, and I put it on that street.
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Speaker 1: And that was the first time I was back, and
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Speaker 1: I to this day avoid that road. Can I tell
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Speaker 1: you something, I've never gone to the scene where my
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Speaker 1: fiance was murder and I don't want to. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to see it. That hurts enough as it is.
23:37
Speaker 1: I don't want to go back and see that and
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Speaker 1: have that in my mind too. So I completely understand,
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Speaker 1: and for me it was just my own pain. You're
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Speaker 1: having to feel the pain of your children. To Rebecca Rosenberg,
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Speaker 1: joining us from Fox News Digital and New York Post,
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Speaker 1: Rebecca described to me the scene and what we believe
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Speaker 1: happened the night Jared was ambushed and murdered. Okay, so um,
24:08
Speaker 1: he had just dropped his children off at his ex wife,
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Speaker 1: and he was maybe five to ten minutes from her home,
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Speaker 1: but probably close to five minutes, and he had Bexley
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Speaker 1: in the car, and he was he just entered this
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Speaker 1: wooded stretch of Sanctuary Sanctuary Way Boulevard that even though
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Speaker 1: there's humes on the other side of the woods, you
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Speaker 1: really can't see the car or see the houses from
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Speaker 1: where he was. He encountered a tire in the road.
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Speaker 1: In order to continue down that road, he had to
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Speaker 1: get out of the car to move the tire. When
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Speaker 1: he stepped out of the car, he was shot repeatedly
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Speaker 1: in front of his in front of Bexley, and the
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Speaker 1: assailant fled and just three minutes later a good samaritan
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Speaker 1: pulled up and got Bexley out of the car and
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Speaker 1: the police were called. But there's no surveillance footage. There
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Speaker 1: was I believe they ring doorbell that captured the sounds
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Speaker 1: of the shot, so they know exactly when he was killed,
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Speaker 1: but there's no surveillance footage of the actual crime. And
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Speaker 1: there is a an F one fifty truck that was
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Speaker 1: captured I guess near there, and the police are calling
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Speaker 1: it a vehicle of interest in the crime. Take to
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Speaker 1: listen to our friends at w JAX. This blue Ford
25:38
Speaker 1: truck was a big part of the investigation. Police continually
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Speaker 1: asking for information about it. Detectives thankful for the hundreds
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Speaker 1: of tips that they've already received. Thank you again to
25:49
Speaker 1: everyone who stepped up. It was very helpful. We hope
25:53
Speaker 1: to have more answers to provide you you even if
25:56
Speaker 1: not you cannot be today. It's for Jack spoke to
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Speaker 1: him who asked to stay anonymous, and he said Tannin
26:03
Speaker 1: was his roommate. He also went on to say this,
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Speaker 1: what kind of vehicle did he drive? I drove old
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Speaker 1: fort fein fifty and he had an old Crown Vic.
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Speaker 1: What color was that one fifty? It's blue color, maybe
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Speaker 1: two tone. Police released surveillance video of this blue f
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Speaker 1: one fifty pickup truck after bright Again's murder. They believe
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Speaker 1: it is connected to a stage scene set up to
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Speaker 1: get bright Again to stop on his way home. It
26:29
Speaker 1: was during that stop that the father of four was
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Speaker 1: shot and killed at close range, with his two and
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Speaker 1: a half year old daughter strapped in the back seat.
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Speaker 1: Nearby Prime Stories with Nancy Grace. As you know by now,
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Speaker 1: a major development in the murder investigation of victim Jared Bridigan,
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Speaker 1: a felon arrested in his shooting death, gutting him down
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Speaker 1: right in front of his little daughter, three year old Bexley.
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Speaker 1: Many of the court documents remain sealed. He's charged with
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Speaker 1: murder and conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy with who. What's
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Speaker 1: the connection with j Bridigan? Let's take a listen to
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Speaker 1: our friends at wj a X. Since very early on,
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Speaker 1: detectives have told me this is not a random murder.
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Speaker 1: This case has got national attention and today people are
27:42
Speaker 1: asking what is the connection with the man arrested by
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Beach Police and Jared Bridagan we did some digging
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Speaker 1: and found some disturbing details linking him to Jared Bridagan's
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Speaker 1: ex wife's new husband. Nearly a year after the mysterious
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Speaker 1: shooting of Jared Bride Again, investigators have arrested a suspect.
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Speaker 1: He was gunned down in cold blood. Nothing was stolen
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Speaker 1: from him. His two year old daughter remained strapped in
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Speaker 1: the car seat in the back. This was a planned
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Speaker 1: and targeted ambush and murder, as bright Again's widow and
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Speaker 1: siblings stood by Jacksonville Beach Police Chief Jean Paul Smith
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Speaker 1: and state Attorney Melissa Nelson revealing murder and other charges
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Speaker 1: against sixty one year old Henry Tennan. He'd been in
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Speaker 1: custody on unrelated charges since an August arrest in Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: Prosecutors not releasing many details but telling us they know
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Speaker 1: Tennan did not act alone. Questions about Jared Bridagan's ex wife,
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Speaker 1: Shanna Gardner Fernandez, and her new husband, Mario Fernandez continue
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Speaker 1: right now. We're in northwest Jacksonville, about twenty five miles
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Speaker 1: away from the scene of the shooting in Jacksonville Beach. However,
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Speaker 1: this home behind me is iCal for the investigation. We
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Speaker 1: had the news for Jack's IT team uncovered records showing
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Speaker 1: that Henry Tennan used to live here and the former
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Speaker 1: owner was Mario Fernandez. That's right. The IT team uncovered
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Speaker 1: property records linking the two together, making Fernandez the landlord
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Speaker 1: and Tenan the renter at the time of the murder.
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Speaker 1: Neither has been charged or named as a suspect, but
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Speaker 1: the IT team has confirmed Shawna moved to Washington State
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Speaker 1: with her kids. Sources believe Fernandez is still in Florida.
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Speaker 1: We understand that the ex wife has moved as soon
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Speaker 1: as the development was announced. In the case, the ex
29:42
Speaker 1: wife moves from Florida all the way twenty eight hundred
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Speaker 1: miles across the country to the Pacific Northwest. Why with
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Speaker 1: bright against twins across the country to the Pacific Northwest. Now,
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Speaker 1: sources report that the new husband, Mario Fernandez, did not
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Speaker 1: go with her. What is the connection between these three?
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Speaker 1: The state's attorney, Melissa Nelson states, very clearly, we know
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Speaker 1: convicted felon Henry Tennen did not act alone. I predict
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Speaker 1: somebody's going to be singing for a plea deal. As always,
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Speaker 1: our prayers with the children and the wife and the
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Speaker 1: family of Jared Brighteken and we wait as justice unfals
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace crime story, signing off goodbye friend,