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Young Widow Speaks Out After Microsoft Hubby, Dad of 4, Ambushed, Shot Dead · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a high power next Microsoft
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Speaker 1: executive and more important in my mind, a father, a
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Speaker 1: young man in the prime of his life is gunned
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Speaker 1: down in an obscure setting at night, on a scheduled
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Speaker 1: return from a pickup of his children that he visits
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Speaker 1: from his first wife. How did this happen and how
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Speaker 1: was no trace of evidence left behind? What happened to
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Speaker 1: Jared joining us today? Jared's wife, the mother of his children.
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Speaker 1: I Nancy Grace, this is kind Stories. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: being with us here at Fox Nation. In series XM
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Speaker 1: one eleven. Why did this young man early thirties, prime
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Speaker 1: 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: shouldren from another marriage 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 who? Why is it not solved yet?
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Speaker 1: First of all, let's take a listen to our friends
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Speaker 1: at WJ A X and this you'll hear it sound
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Speaker 1: from his ex wife, with whom he is in a
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Speaker 1: bitter custody battle. At the time of his murder. Just
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Speaker 1: minutes after leaving Shanna's house, just over two miles from
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Speaker 1: her home, in a quiet neighborhood with few security cameras,
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Speaker 1: attire was rolled out into the street. Jared got out
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Speaker 1: of his car to move it and was shot dead.
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Speaker 1: His two year old daughter sat in the car, strapped
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Speaker 1: into her car seat alone for three minutes before someone
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Speaker 1: came to help. I was shocked. I felt at the
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Speaker 1: floor because I was devastated for what I was going
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Speaker 1: to have to tell my kids. Jared died in that street,
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Speaker 1: leaving behind four children and a heartbroken family. They were
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Speaker 1: I think in shock. Join me right now, special guest,
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Speaker 1: this is Jared's wife, Kirsten Brdigan. You have two year
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Speaker 1: old Bexley and at the time six month old London.
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Speaker 1: Bexley was actually strapped in the car while her dad
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Speaker 1: was shot, and she keeps saying I believe boom boom
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Speaker 1: or bang bang. Yeah, she often says boom boom, boom,
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Speaker 1: daddy on the ground when she talks about that night.
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Speaker 1: Let me ask you, we were just hearing your husband's
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Speaker 1: ex wife who was crying about the death of her ex.
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Speaker 1: Now that evening, let me understand, Jared had just left
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Speaker 1: her house right brag. She had just dropped Boom and
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Speaker 1: Addie back off at her home. His twins. Yeah, nine
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Speaker 1: years old at the time. Yes, was that, may I
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Speaker 1: ask you, Kirsten. Was that a scheduled visit? Yes? So,
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Speaker 1: Jared and Shanna had fifty fifty custody of Liam and Abbey,
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Speaker 1: so every other week they were with the alternating parents.
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Speaker 1: So when they were with their mom, Jared would pick
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Speaker 1: them up every Wednesday that she had them to take
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Speaker 1: them out on what was referred to as date nights,
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Speaker 1: and then when they were at our home for the week,
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Speaker 1: Shannon would come to our house and pick them up
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Speaker 1: Wednesday nights before date night. And it was every single week,
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Speaker 1: So you would have them when you're home for a week,
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Speaker 1: and then they go back to their mom. Can I
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Speaker 1: back Chack just a little bit, Kurston, could you tell
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Speaker 1: me how you and Jared met? Yeah, so I had
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Speaker 1: moved out to Charlotte, North Carolina to start working for
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Speaker 1: Microsoft and News SI Area. A friend it's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: should you know, just get on this dating app and
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Speaker 1: it's a good way to meet people. So I did,
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Speaker 1: and Jared's profile was one of the first ones that
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Speaker 1: I saw. And what impressed me about him is that
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Speaker 1: his first picture with him and Leam and Abbey. He
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Speaker 1: was proud to be a dad. He's proud of his kids,
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Speaker 1: and he made it clear like these people are important
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Speaker 1: to me and it's a package deal. Anyway, we started
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Speaker 1: talking and we talked on the phone for hours, and
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Speaker 1: then he actually drove six and a half hours from
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Speaker 1: Florida up to Charlotte to take me on a date.
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Speaker 1: And the rest is history. Okay, wait a minute, he drove.
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Speaker 1: He just gave me chill bumps down my right arm.
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Speaker 1: He drove six and a half hours from Florida to
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Speaker 1: Charlotte to take you on a date. He did. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that must have been some day. What did you do
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Speaker 1: on the day? Everything? But we fit in as much
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Speaker 1: as we could. We often referred to it as a
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Speaker 1: marathon date because we met at a museum, winner on
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Speaker 1: the museum for a few hours, and we went out
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Speaker 1: and got some food and we went bowling, and then
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Speaker 1: we tried to an escape or like we did everything.
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Speaker 1: We just couldn't get enough time together, especially since you know,
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Speaker 1: it was a long distance relationships, so we made the
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Speaker 1: most of the time that we opposendgether. You know, something
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Speaker 1: you just said really sticks out of my mind. We
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Speaker 1: just couldn't get enough time together. Yeah, when did you
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Speaker 1: know that he was the one? I think it's when
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Speaker 1: I met as kids. Just seeing him as a dad,
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Speaker 1: you know, the way he treated me, I knew how
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Speaker 1: that wasn't it was amazing. But then to see him
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Speaker 1: as a father and how invested he was in them,
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Speaker 1: how much she loved them, that just kind of stealed
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Speaker 1: it from me. You know, Like I wanted to have children,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to have a family, and I wanted someone
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Speaker 1: who wanted it just as much as I did. And
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Speaker 1: it was clear that that he shared those values and
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Speaker 1: those those desires. You know, as much as you might
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Speaker 1: love somebody if they don't want a family and you do,
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Speaker 1: or vice versa, that's a pretty good, pretty big obstacle
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Speaker 1: to overcome, and so you knew at the very beginning
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Speaker 1: he wanted a family and he loved his children. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was very clear. How long for the first time
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Speaker 1: you started dating until you guys got married. We started
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Speaker 1: dating January February of two thousand seventeen, and we got
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Speaker 1: married in October of that same year, so it was
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Speaker 1: pretty quick ten months about. Yeah. Now, at the time
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Speaker 1: you guys met, he was already divorced, right, Yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: been divorced for a couple of years at that point. Okay,
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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 a
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Speaker 1: happy moments. I don't recall any happy moments between the
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Speaker 1: two households that that was not a thing. What was
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Speaker 1: there the I mean, I understand the drama, back and forth,
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Speaker 1: back and forth, wake on, wake off, and the scheduling.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's why he couldn't mist he couldn't move
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Speaker 1: to be with you in Charlotte because his children in Florida.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever seen, Okay, down the rabbit hole? Have
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Speaker 1: you ever seen parent trap? Yes? I have. Okay, have
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Speaker 1: you seen the remake? I don't think so. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's two. There's the old one with Hailey Meals and
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Speaker 1: then there's the new one with Lindsay Lohan. Oh, Linda,
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Speaker 1: Lindsay Lohan. One to me is the original. I guess
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Speaker 1: you gotta look at the old one, just say you
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Speaker 1: can compare and contrast. But remember when he was about
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Speaker 1: to he was going to get married to the new woman.
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Speaker 1: She's such a brite, okay, And she said to him
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Speaker 1: about his children, Lindsay Lohan, it's either them or me,
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Speaker 1: and he paused for like two seconds, and he went them.
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Speaker 1: I picked them. I mean, I love my husband so much,
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Speaker 1: but there's really no question it's them. It's them, because
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Speaker 1: there's just some thing about a mom and her children.
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Speaker 1: It's it's them. So he was not He could not
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Speaker 1: leave his twins. So you end up moving down there, right, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So I got permission to work remote, so I left
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Speaker 1: the office and just worked from home so that we
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Speaker 1: could start our family together here in Florida. And you did,
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Speaker 1: because now you have Bexley and you have London. Correct. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's two little girls. Time Stories with Nancy Grace Rebecca Rosenberg,
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Speaker 1: thank you for waiting because I know you are swamped.
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Speaker 1: Rebecca Rosenberg is joining me from Fox News Digital. She's
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Speaker 1: a senior staff reporter with a New York Post. She's
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Speaker 1: an author of At Any Cost, and you can find
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Speaker 1: her at Rebecca Fay Rosenberg dot com. But Rebecca, I
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Speaker 1: just I don't know if you're like me, but to me,
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Speaker 1: every detail matters. What do you want to ask Kirsten?
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Speaker 1: I know you want to move up to the murder,
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Speaker 1: but I'm just fascinated. Can you imagine I'm back, how
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Speaker 1: long I would spend with victims and witnesses and their families.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it would be an all night ordeal because
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Speaker 1: I have to go all the way to the back
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Speaker 1: to get to the beginning of the story, to get
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Speaker 1: to where we are right now. What do you want
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Speaker 1: to ask Kirsten, Well, I'd like to ask Kriston. Well,
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Speaker 1: I've been talking to Kristal a lot, so you know,
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Speaker 1: it's I guess, like, how are you feeling about the
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Speaker 1: pace of the investigation at this point? You know, do
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Speaker 1: you feel do you feel hopeful that they are getting
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Speaker 1: close to finding anything or finding any suspects in this
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Speaker 1: What is your feeling about that. I have a lot
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Speaker 1: of faith in the detectives that are working the case.
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Speaker 1: I do know that they're working hard. I know that
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Speaker 1: they're invested and they care about our families that very
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Speaker 1: strongly from them. Unfortunately, just the process of gathering evidence,
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Speaker 1: of waiting for DNA, of waiting for cell data, that
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Speaker 1: takes a lot of time, and I know they're equally
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Speaker 1: as frustrated with how long that takes as I am.
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Speaker 1: But I do believe they're they're doing their best, they're
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Speaker 1: working hard, and they haven't forgotten about Jared. And I
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Speaker 1: know your husband also recently had a birthday. His birthday
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Speaker 1: passed recently, which was mere Father's Day, and would you
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Speaker 1: be able to tell us a little bit about how
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Speaker 1: what that was like for you, kind of reaching that
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Speaker 1: milestone with Adam here. Yeah, honestly, the whole month of
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Speaker 1: June was it really hard because as you said, there
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Speaker 1: was Father's Day and then on the twenty ninth was
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Speaker 1: Jared's birthday. So I had been thinking about ways that
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Speaker 1: we could think it special and honor him. And Jared
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Speaker 1: was always the guy that was helping a neighbor. I
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Speaker 1: can't even count the times he lent tools to people,
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Speaker 1: and when he lent the tools, he often doesn't go
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Speaker 1: to their house and show them how to use it
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Speaker 1: and then just get involved in their projects. So the
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Speaker 1: girls and I set out in months in June to
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Speaker 1: do access service in Jared's name. You know, he turned
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Speaker 1: thirty four or would have been thirty four, So we
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Speaker 1: did thirty four access service in honor of Jared, and
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Speaker 1: we invited the community to do the same. So there
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Speaker 1: was people all over the country doing access service in
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Speaker 1: honor of Jared. You know, that week was made a
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Speaker 1: little bit harder because the local news station decided to
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Speaker 1: interview with X Life, which in and of itself I
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Speaker 1: have no problem with. What upset me is that they
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Speaker 1: picked his birthday week to tise it for five days
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Speaker 1: and then air the day afters verse, like a week
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Speaker 1: that's already extremely hard. They decided to do that, and
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Speaker 1: I let them know, Hey, don't do this to a
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Speaker 1: victims family in the future. This is not okay. That's
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Speaker 1: an extremely emotional of sensitive time. Do it any other week,
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Speaker 1: but not you know, an anniversary or a birthday. That's
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Speaker 1: just not appropriate. Now I'm hearing what you're saying, Kirsten
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Speaker 1: Branigan with me. This is Jared's wife also with me,
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Speaker 1: Rebecca Rosenberg from Fox News Digital, Anne York Post, Jo
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Speaker 1: Scott Morgan, Jacksonville State University, forensics expert, doctor Angie Arnold,
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Speaker 1: psychiatrists out of Atlanta, and high profile lawyer out of Atlanta,
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Speaker 1: Daryl Cohen Kristen. You were talking about the terse exchanges,
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Speaker 1: the contentious relationship between your family Jared and his ex.
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Speaker 1: Didn't that seep into the children's life? Didn't they know
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Speaker 1: about the hostility and what was it over? They did?
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Speaker 1: You know? And that was something that Jared and I
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Speaker 1: we thought so hard to keep Leam and Abbey out
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Speaker 1: of things. There's so many text messages and emails where
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Speaker 1: we plead with his ex wife and her husband did
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Speaker 1: not involve the children, because often they would come home
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Speaker 1: saying mom and Mario said X. And we would be like,
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Speaker 1: you shouldn't even be involved in these conversations and would
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Speaker 1: again reach out to his ex wife and her husband
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Speaker 1: and ask them he don't involve the kids, like, let's
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Speaker 1: keep this between adults. They don't deserve to be pulled
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Speaker 1: into this. So it's heart leaching, you know, having a
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Speaker 1: split home like split family spending one week here and
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Speaker 1: one week there. It's hard enough. They don't need the
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Speaker 1: added stress of being involved in adult conversation. What was
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Speaker 1: the ongoing battle? I mean, did they X? What full
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Speaker 1: custody and why? I mean, the court records will speak
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Speaker 1: for themselves. It is very combative over a few of things.
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Speaker 1: You know, one week as this, the next month it's
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Speaker 1: something else. She took us to court often, as the
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Speaker 1: record will show. And one thing that just continually surprised
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Speaker 1: us and our attorney was the language that was used
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Speaker 1: in the motions filed. It was not professional. It had
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Speaker 1: outrageous claims such as the father doesn't care for his
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Speaker 1: childlizard eyes, which is absolutely false, and these are just
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Speaker 1: so skewed. It was just shocking that they would even
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Speaker 1: put that type of language in something, especially when it
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Speaker 1: was based on why absolutely nothing nays take a listen
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Speaker 1: to our friends at crime online dot com. Just twelve
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Speaker 1: days after Jared Bridigan was gunned down in front of
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Speaker 1: his two year old daughter, his widow received an email
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Speaker 1: from his ex wife asking for his death certificate. The
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Speaker 1: terst email sent to Kirsten Bridegain on February twenty eighth
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Speaker 1: by Shanna Gardner Fernandez said, quote, my attorney has requested
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Speaker 1: a copy of Jared's death certificate for the family court.
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Speaker 1: You can send it to me or to him and
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Speaker 1: his paralegal directly, whichever you prefer. The thirty one year
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Speaker 1: old widow said she was shocked by the email. I
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Speaker 1: was in my car, My hands were shaking, my heart
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Speaker 1: was beating so fast. I was like, who does this?
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Speaker 1: This is so evil. Here I am planning a funeral
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Speaker 1: and she's asking for a death certificate to Daryl Cohen
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Speaker 1: joining me, high profile lawyer that practices all over the country.
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Speaker 1: You can find him at Daryl Cohen dot TV. Daryl,
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Speaker 1: can't you go to public records and get a death certificate?
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Speaker 1: Of course you can, Nancy, But that's not what this
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Speaker 1: was designed to do. This was designed to take the
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Speaker 1: dagger and drop it deeper and deeper and deeper, and
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Speaker 1: then twist it and then make sure you twist it
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Speaker 1: some more. That's what this is about. Nothing else, nothing more.
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Speaker 1: At this point, you know, Daryl Coh and I know
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Speaker 1: you're a high profile lawyer, but I was going to
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Speaker 1: you for a legal question about how you get a
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Speaker 1: death certificate. It's really easy you go to public records
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Speaker 1: and you have to pay about five dollars for the
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Speaker 1: xerox copy. But doctor Angela Arnold, although he is a
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Speaker 1: JD not an MD psychiatrist like you, he may be
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Speaker 1: right Doctor Angie, Oh, I think he's I think he's
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Speaker 1: right on Nancy. We can, all of us can look
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Speaker 1: at human behavior, and as this story unfolds, it's just
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Speaker 1: it's everything that this ex wife does, from from keeping
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Speaker 1: them in court while they you know, while he was alive,
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Speaker 1: now to this it's just it's so abusive. It's abusive
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Speaker 1: to the to the mother of the children, and his wife.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's his widow, it's it's to me, it's horrific.
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Speaker 1: And I think that as human beings, we can all
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Speaker 1: see this, and I think that's why Darrel was speaking
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Speaker 1: to that. I just am trying to imagine Kristen Kirsten
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Speaker 1: right again, is with us, guys. This is Jared's widow
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Speaker 1: and the mother of two of his children. He was
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Speaker 1: not even married yet. And if she has a lawyer
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Speaker 1: who's directing her to get a death certificate, she could
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Speaker 1: just get one from county records. It's not hard. But
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Speaker 1: she called you while you were planning the funeral for
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Speaker 1: you to send her a death certificate. Yeah, and that's
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Speaker 1: that's why I was upset. But I a lot of
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Speaker 1: the time she wouldn't even talk to without her attorney.
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Speaker 1: She'd have her stay talked to my attorney, email my attorney.
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Speaker 1: Yet she reaches out to me personally asked for a
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Speaker 1: death certificate that I don't even have copies of yet,
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Speaker 1: Like I didn't have any at that point in time.
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Speaker 1: She already filed through her attorney two days prior on
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Speaker 1: the I think it was the twenty faith off the
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Speaker 1: double check that date. Yeah, the twenty fits. She already
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Speaker 1: filed the suggestion of death with family courts, that was
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Speaker 1: already done. And in addition to that email a few
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Speaker 1: minutes prior, email me asking me to return library book.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, as a matter of fact, take a listen
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Speaker 1: to again our friends at crime online dot com. Eight
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Speaker 1: minutes before sending an email message requesting the death certificate
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Speaker 1: of Jared Bradigan, his ex wife, Shanna Gardner Fernandez sent
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Speaker 1: another email to Kirsht and Brine again. This email asked
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Speaker 1: the grieving widow to return a set of school library
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Speaker 1: 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 Bright again said that
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Speaker 1: after losing her husband in such a brutal way and
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Speaker 1: only twelve days earlier, returning a couple of library books
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Speaker 1: wasn't on her list of priorities at the time. Okay,
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Speaker 1: let me understand, because, Kirsten, when my fiance was murdered,
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Speaker 1: I dropped out of school. I couldn't eat, didn't eat,
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Speaker 1: stopped everything. I couldn't even think straight. And I don't
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Speaker 1: know how long really haven't counted up the months that
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Speaker 1: I was like that. But I didn't have children that
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Speaker 1: I had to be strong for at that time. You do,
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Speaker 1: so let me understand this. While you're planning the funeral,
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Speaker 1: you 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 failing. 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 two 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 no.
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Speaker 1: Since April, Kristen, what happened in your world the night
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Speaker 1: that Jared was murdyred? You were at home with the children?
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Speaker 1: What exactly? So? Our youngest daughter London had started going
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Speaker 1: to bed, you know, order doing sleep training, and she
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Speaker 1: would go to bed, you know, before seven pm. So
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Speaker 1: I wasn't on date night with Jared and kids, but
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Speaker 1: Becksley always went with him. She was always there. And
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Speaker 1: so he had called me right after he dropped him
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Speaker 1: an Abbey off at their mom's house and just said
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Speaker 1: we had a good date night. Beckfully said that they
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Speaker 1: got ice cream and she was still eating it, and
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Speaker 1: then you know, she said, okay, I love You'll see
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Speaker 1: you soon. And then time kept going and I started
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Speaker 1: to feel on eavy. I kept looking at the clock, thinking,
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Speaker 1: as you should be home by now, He's always home
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Speaker 1: by now. Something's not right. And my parents were our
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Speaker 1: home and I remember telling them like I know something's wrong,
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Speaker 1: Like something is not okay. I kept calling and calling.
21:50
Speaker 1: I texted, and it's not like him to pick not
21:52
Speaker 1: pick up, especially if he's in the car, like he's
21:54
Speaker 1: not doing something else, he's just driving. He would answer
21:57
Speaker 1: his phone. I started looking at traffic reports to see
22:02
Speaker 1: if there was an accident or anything, and wasn't see anything.
22:05
Speaker 1: So I got in the car. I took my mom
22:08
Speaker 1: with me and my dad stayed at home with London,
22:11
Speaker 1: and started driving out to the beach where I knew
22:14
Speaker 1: he had been last you know, he had just dropped
22:15
Speaker 1: with him an abby off at the last point I
22:17
Speaker 1: knew he was, so I started driving that way and
22:20
Speaker 1: while I was driving, I kept calling his phone, and
22:23
Speaker 1: after you know, four or five tries, it picked up.
22:27
Speaker 1: So it wasn't jeared. It was a police officer who
22:31
Speaker 1: just kept telling me and coming to the station as
22:34
Speaker 1: I kept asking if my husband okay, my husband okay,
22:37
Speaker 1: and he said, please come to the Jacksonville Beach Police Department.
22:41
Speaker 1: Your daughter's fine, But he would not answer me about
22:44
Speaker 1: my husband, and that just confirmed me Jared was not okay.
22:48
Speaker 1: My mom was trying to call me down. She said,
22:50
Speaker 1: nabs an accident. You know, we don't know what happened,
22:54
Speaker 1: but I knew. I knew when I gut that Jared
22:56
Speaker 1: wasn't okay. And when we got there, I saw Bexley
23:02
Speaker 1: and then it clicks. I'm like, if this was a
23:03
Speaker 1: car accident, Bexley would be taken to the hospital to
23:06
Speaker 1: get checked out. Like this is not a car accident,
23:08
Speaker 1: because why is she here at the station? And then
23:12
Speaker 1: it was a long night. I had wait a while
23:14
Speaker 1: until they confirmed that Jared had been killed, talk to detectives.
23:19
Speaker 1: I had to call itge family that night. So it was,
23:22
Speaker 1: you know, like my whole world just came crashing down.
23:25
Speaker 1: And I never remember the Saint Kirsten who told you
23:30
Speaker 1: that Jared had been killed? A detective informed me. You know,
23:37
Speaker 1: at first, when I was sitting in the break room
23:41
Speaker 1: at the police station with my daughter, my mom, a
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Speaker 1: female officer, I kept asking, like what happened? Can I
23:48
Speaker 1: see him? You know, I didn't know for sure if
23:50
Speaker 1: he had died. I didn't know any details that. They
23:52
Speaker 1: just told me it's a death investigation, and I said,
23:56
Speaker 1: is it him or someone else? They wouldn't answer. They
23:59
Speaker 1: asked me to what my husband looked like. So then
24:03
Speaker 1: after a while I was taken into another room away
24:06
Speaker 1: from my daughter and my mom and informed that Jared
24:10
Speaker 1: hasn't shot. Jessica Morgan is joining me, not just professor forensic's,
24:17
Speaker 1: an author and hosts, but a death investigator, you know,
24:21
Speaker 1: Joe Scott. Hearing Kirsten describe that night, it just makes
24:27
Speaker 1: my chest hurt, imagining her in the car and not
24:32
Speaker 1: being able to find Jared and wonder where's Beckley where?
24:37
Speaker 1: And then they say Becksey's all right? And then why
24:40
Speaker 1: do I have to go to the police station? And
24:42
Speaker 1: nobody will tell her? And the mad rush to get
24:45
Speaker 1: to the police station, and then getting there and nobody
24:48
Speaker 1: will tell her. But yet she knows, she knows, but
24:52
Speaker 1: she doesn't want to know. I have dealt with so
24:56
Speaker 1: many crime victims and they know. I don't know how
24:59
Speaker 1: they know. I don't know how I knew, but I knew.
25:04
Speaker 1: How often have you encountered that, Joe Scott? Very often?
25:07
Speaker 1: And you know, when people's hearts are knwed together in
25:10
Speaker 1: love like that, I think that that you have a
25:14
Speaker 1: you have a sense about you of what's happening with
25:17
Speaker 1: the other person, and it's an overwhelming I've seen it
25:20
Speaker 1: played out in you know, in my world as a
25:23
Speaker 1: death investigator, over and over and over again, and it
25:26
Speaker 1: does happen. And it's quite striking, you know, because it
25:29
Speaker 1: there's that sense of dread. You know that that this
25:33
Speaker 1: horrible thing, this news, even though it hasn't officially been
25:36
Speaker 1: delivered to you, Um, you know that it's it's it's
25:40
Speaker 1: there because you know you're running through all of these
25:42
Speaker 1: scenarios as as a victim of what had happened, what
25:47
Speaker 1: had happened, and suddenly you know you're worsening fruition right
25:51
Speaker 1: for your eyes. Kirsten, did you go back to the scene,
25:57
Speaker 1: Did you go back and see where you're husband was ambushed? No?
26:01
Speaker 1: In fact, when I left the police station, and I
26:05
Speaker 1: was there several days in a row, I had to
26:09
Speaker 1: go another way. I couldn't. I couldn't go there. I didn't.
26:12
Speaker 1: I didn't know if there would still be blood on
26:14
Speaker 1: the street. I didn't. I didn't want to go there. Um.
26:17
Speaker 1: It wasn't until a few weeks after that I went
26:20
Speaker 1: back with a friend because I had printed a big
26:23
Speaker 1: sign of the truck asking for people to call in
26:27
Speaker 1: if they knew and thing, and I put it on
26:29
Speaker 1: that street. And that was the first time I was back,
26:32
Speaker 1: and I to this day, avoid that road. Can I
26:35
Speaker 1: tell you something, I've never gone to the scene where
26:39
Speaker 1: my fiance was murder and I don't want to. I
26:43
Speaker 1: don't want to see it. I heart's enough as it is.
26:47
Speaker 1: I don't want to go back and see that and
26:49
Speaker 1: have that in my mind too. So I completely understand.
26:54
Speaker 1: And for me it was just my own pain. You're
26:59
Speaker 1: having to feel the pain and your children too. Rebecca
27:03
Speaker 1: Rosenberg joining us from Fox News Digital and New York Post.
27:08
Speaker 1: Rebecca described to me the scene and what we believe
27:12
Speaker 1: happened the night Jared was ambushed and murdered. Okay, so um,
27:18
Speaker 1: he had just dropped his children off at his ex
27:21
Speaker 1: wife and he was maybe five to ten minutes from
27:24
Speaker 1: her home, but probably closer to five minutes, and he
27:29
Speaker 1: had Bexley in the car, and he was he just
27:33
Speaker 1: entered this wooded stretch of Sanctuary Sanctuary Way Boulevard that
27:40
Speaker 1: even though there's homes on the other side of the woods,
27:44
Speaker 1: you really can't see the car or see the houses
27:47
Speaker 1: from where he was. He encountered a tire in the road.
27:50
Speaker 1: In order to continue down that road, he had to
27:54
Speaker 1: get out of the car to move the tire. When
27:56
Speaker 1: he stepped out of the car, he was shot, peated
28:00
Speaker 1: Lee in front of his in front of Bexley, and
28:04
Speaker 1: the assailant fled and just three minutes later a good
28:10
Speaker 1: samaritan pulled up and got Baxley out of the car
28:14
Speaker 1: and the police were called. But there's no surveillance footage.
28:17
Speaker 1: There was I believe they ring doorbell that captured the
28:22
Speaker 1: sounds of the shot, so they know exactly when he
28:26
Speaker 1: was killed. But there's no surveillance footage of the actual crime.
28:32
Speaker 1: And there is a an F one fifty truck that
28:37
Speaker 1: was captured I guess near there, and the police are
28:39
Speaker 1: calling it a vehicle of interest in the crime. I'm
28:43
Speaker 1: very curious. Take a listen to our cut twenty four
28:47
Speaker 1: our friends at w j A x SO. I asked
28:51
Speaker 1: Shanna at the question did you have anything to do
28:53
Speaker 1: with Jared's murder? No, I did not have anything to
28:57
Speaker 1: do with his murder. Shannah says she has no idea
29:00
Speaker 1: if the murder was targeted or what Jared was involved in,
29:04
Speaker 1: saying they ran in different circles. But actually News Jack's
29:07
Speaker 1: reported in June Shannah had hired criminal defense attorney Hank Cox.
29:11
Speaker 1: He was referred to me by several friends and ultimately
29:17
Speaker 1: my kids images and videos were being used in the
29:20
Speaker 1: media without consent. Shannah said Cox was hired to protect
29:23
Speaker 1: her kids. I asked her if she thinks she will
29:26
Speaker 1: face criminal charges. She says no, that she's cooperated with detectives.
29:31
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that Ford f one fifty take lest
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Speaker 1: to our cut to our friends at w j XT.
29:36
Speaker 1: Before his death, Ryan against twins from a previous marriage,
29:40
Speaker 1: had just been dropped off and he was taking a
29:43
Speaker 1: routine round home. Actually talked to him on the phone
29:47
Speaker 1: right after he dropped his twins off, and he just
29:52
Speaker 1: told me that they had had a good day. A
29:54
Speaker 1: home security camera picked up gunshots that rang out around
29:57
Speaker 1: the same time that Bryan again was murdered. Right Agan's
30:00
Speaker 1: two year old daughter was in the car when her
30:03
Speaker 1: father was murdered, and she told her mother this, so
30:07
Speaker 1: she'll say, you know, boom, boom, boom, and then she'll
30:10
Speaker 1: say daddy on the ground. So far, no arrests have
30:13
Speaker 1: been made. A possible clue, a blue F one fifty
30:16
Speaker 1: pickup truck is caught on a nearby surveillance camera. With
30:21
Speaker 1: each passing day, a reward of five thousand dollars end
30:24
Speaker 1: of twenty five thousand dollars is being offered for information
30:28
Speaker 1: leading to the arrest of the murderer or murderers. Bright
30:32
Speaker 1: Again's family waits for closure, wondering who killed this father, husband, son,
30:38
Speaker 1: and friend. You know what I'm thinking, specifically, Jessica Morgan,
30:42
Speaker 1: Professor forensics, Jackson State University and author of the Molly
30:46
Speaker 1: Tibots case and then the Kendra Hatcher case, both of
30:50
Speaker 1: them murders, both of them solved after a distinctive marking
30:56
Speaker 1: was saying on the purp's vehicle. Molly Tipbots was raped
31:01
Speaker 1: and murdered as she was jogging. Kendrew was going into
31:06
Speaker 1: her high rise parking deck when she was followed by
31:09
Speaker 1: a vehicle that had a marking on the side of it,
31:12
Speaker 1: much as in the Molly Tibbots case. Joe Scott, how
31:15
Speaker 1: can we use the video of that four f one fifty.
31:19
Speaker 1: It's you know, the images that I have seen, the
31:21
Speaker 1: screen captures that I've seen have been grainy at best,
31:26
Speaker 1: and I think that they're going to have to truly
31:29
Speaker 1: be enhanced. However, However, this is the saving grace I
31:34
Speaker 1: think from an evidentiary stand What's fascinating is the fact
31:39
Speaker 1: that we've got this tire and it's not just a
31:41
Speaker 1: tire with the wheel, and they're going to be identifiers
31:46
Speaker 1: on this thing, Nancy, that are very specific to points
31:49
Speaker 1: of origin relative to that tire. Could you please break
31:52
Speaker 1: it down in regular talk, Where was the tire bought?
31:54
Speaker 1: What kind of tire was it? Are there prints on it?
31:57
Speaker 1: Can we trace it back to a particular store, And
32:00
Speaker 1: just looking at the image of the tire, there is
32:04
Speaker 1: where on the tread you know it's been worn down. However,
32:08
Speaker 1: each tire has a dot number that's assigned to it
32:11
Speaker 1: that gives it, that gives it back to a specific
32:15
Speaker 1: location or origin of that tire. Who when it was manufactured,
32:19
Speaker 1: how long it's been around, and what distributor, what local distributor,
32:25
Speaker 1: and then we start narrowing down neighborhoods and who may
32:28
Speaker 1: have bought it and when. Then we start looking for
32:31
Speaker 1: surveillance video if it even still exists based on the tread,
32:34
Speaker 1: it may not still exist, but maybe it does. And
32:38
Speaker 1: if you buy tires there once, I always get tires
32:41
Speaker 1: at the same place. Always has there been a repeat
32:44
Speaker 1: customer that gets that same tire, that same type that's
32:49
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Yeah, and not only that, but there's
32:52
Speaker 1: a rim associated with this, Nancy, a rim the wheel
32:56
Speaker 1: in the center that was also there as well. And
32:59
Speaker 1: that's quite fascinating because that's got specific markings on it,
33:02
Speaker 1: not only markings but tool markings, Nancy, because it didn't
33:06
Speaker 1: have the nuts with it. It's been dropped off. If
33:09
Speaker 1: you can tie that back and put that into the
33:11
Speaker 1: hands potential perpetrated as powerful of them crime stories with
33:27
Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, I want to go back to Jared's wife,
33:35
Speaker 1: the mother of two of his children, joining us, Kirsten
33:38
Speaker 1: Bright again, and as you have heard, this is not
33:42
Speaker 1: easy for her to discuss, but she's doing it to
33:46
Speaker 1: find justice. In fact, you can find her on insta
33:50
Speaker 1: at Justice for Jared b at Justice for Jared b B.
33:58
Speaker 1: As a brother christ and I want to talk about
34:02
Speaker 1: if you can bring yourself to do it. There was
34:05
Speaker 1: there any robbery, was anything taken from him? No, his wallet, stone, watched,
34:10
Speaker 1: wedding ring, all of that was still at the scene,
34:13
Speaker 1: so it did not appear anything was taken. It appears
34:16
Speaker 1: that the main point was, or the only point was
34:21
Speaker 1: to kill Jared and he was shot. Your husband after
34:27
Speaker 1: that marathon day, after a whirlwind romance. You have children together,
34:32
Speaker 1: and your husband was shot at point blank range. He
34:37
Speaker 1: was shot three to four feet away. Yeah, and nothing
34:41
Speaker 1: was stolen, The car wasn't stolen, nothing, nothing, I you know,
34:47
Speaker 1: like what it's really hard to process. If not only
34:51
Speaker 1: did they murderer my husband, a good man, an amazing father,
34:58
Speaker 1: he did it in front of our daughters. And if
35:01
Speaker 1: this was a set up, if this was planned, they
35:04
Speaker 1: knew Bexley would be there because she's always with her
35:07
Speaker 1: dad on date nights. Who knew who would know that
35:12
Speaker 1: he was dropping the children off, his twins eighty nine
35:16
Speaker 1: at the time. Who wouldn't know that he was dropping
35:19
Speaker 1: Abbey and Liam off that night? You? Your family? Yeah, myself,
35:24
Speaker 1: his ex wife and her husband, and then anyone that
35:29
Speaker 1: was told by one of us three. How far is
35:31
Speaker 1: the drive from your house to Abbey and Liam's home,
35:35
Speaker 1: depending on traffic, thirty five to forty five minutes between
35:39
Speaker 1: the two homes. Where was the crime scene as it
35:42
Speaker 1: relates to Abbey and Lilliam's home and your home? Was
35:46
Speaker 1: it closer to their home, closer to their mom's home. Yes,
35:49
Speaker 1: so she only lives a few miles down the road
35:52
Speaker 1: from where this happened. Jared dropped him off, and then
35:55
Speaker 1: he took the route from her house to the on
35:57
Speaker 1: lamp that we take every time, and it was, you know,
36:02
Speaker 1: to get from her house to where he was shot,
36:04
Speaker 1: you wind through neighborhoods, so there's cameras all along from
36:07
Speaker 1: home until this one road is the only stretch from
36:11
Speaker 1: her house to the highway that there are no cameras.
36:16
Speaker 1: Was right there, right there where he was murdered. Where
36:20
Speaker 1: was the Ford F one fifty coming from when it
36:23
Speaker 1: was caught on video. I'm not sure where it was
36:25
Speaker 1: coming from, but I know that one of the cameras
36:28
Speaker 1: that picked it up was on the police station, which
36:30
Speaker 1: is just around the corner from his ex wife home. Guys,
36:34
Speaker 1: take a listen to our cut three our friends at
36:36
Speaker 1: w j XT. This is the first time that detectives
36:40
Speaker 1: are telling us that they believe this murder was a
36:43
Speaker 1: targeted one. They believe that someone intentionally set out to
36:47
Speaker 1: kill this father of four. Detectives obviously very passionate about
36:51
Speaker 1: solving this case. I've been speaking with them every day
36:54
Speaker 1: and they say that they are going to leave no
36:56
Speaker 1: stone unturned. This as the family and the community are
37:01
Speaker 1: really upset and concerned about this. We just found this.
37:05
Speaker 1: It is a cross that says justice for Jared, showing
37:08
Speaker 1: how many people are concerned about this. And just moments
37:12
Speaker 1: ago we learned that a reward has been increased to
37:15
Speaker 1: eight thousand dollars for information leading to an arrest. An
37:19
Speaker 1: eight thousand dollar reward. Dial nine zero four two seven
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Speaker 1: zero sixteen sixty one if you have or think you
37:27
Speaker 1: have information, or eight sixty six eight four five eight
37:32
Speaker 1: four seven seven eight thousand dollar reward. I also want
37:36
Speaker 1: you to hear our cut four our friends at wj EXT.
37:39
Speaker 1: This is pretty much where the scene was. Detective Sergeant
37:42
Speaker 1: to David Young tells us this is where drivers found
37:45
Speaker 1: a thirty three year old at Jared Bride Again shot
37:48
Speaker 1: to death next to his SUV, which was also struck
37:52
Speaker 1: inside the man's two year old daughter. He says, it's
37:56
Speaker 1: a miracle that she wasn't hurt. Anytime there's a child involved, worse,
38:01
Speaker 1: you know, the child could have been hit. Yeah, it
38:05
Speaker 1: gets to you, it does. It gets to you. Bright
38:08
Speaker 1: again had his SUV's emergency flashersig and this spare tire
38:13
Speaker 1: was in the road, which is why police believe his
38:16
Speaker 1: killers set him up. There was a reason there was
38:19
Speaker 1: a tire in the middle of the road, so we
38:22
Speaker 1: think that and that asked me. We think he was targeted.
38:25
Speaker 1: We believe that the shooter was was less than four
38:29
Speaker 1: feet three feet from him. That's cold blooded. Yes, yeah,
38:35
Speaker 1: so especially with a two year old in car. So
38:37
Speaker 1: this person wanted him dead. Yes, was anything stolen? We
38:42
Speaker 1: don't think this is a robbery. Two. Rebecca Rosenberg joining
38:46
Speaker 1: us in Fox News Digital. Is it true that on
38:50
Speaker 1: one occasion, at least one the deceased data Four Jared
38:55
Speaker 1: Brydakin claims at his ex Shann Gardner, had you a
39:00
Speaker 1: tracking device on his car and put a voice activated
39:04
Speaker 1: recorder in his home. Yes, but it's true during their divorce,
39:09
Speaker 1: when they were both living in the same home, but
39:11
Speaker 1: sort of on opposite parts of the house, she had
39:15
Speaker 1: put baby mart He allected that she put baby monitors
39:20
Speaker 1: under One was under one of the children's beds. That
39:23
Speaker 1: didn't need to be there. There was already a monitor
39:26
Speaker 1: in the room. There was no reason for it to
39:28
Speaker 1: be hidden in this strange location in addition to what
39:31
Speaker 1: was already there. And and she'd also put some sort
39:36
Speaker 1: of tracking device on his car, and I just want
39:40
Speaker 1: to go back a little bit and mention one thing
39:42
Speaker 1: that I find kind of troubling is um you know,
39:47
Speaker 1: Chris and her family, they've raised like sixty five thousand
39:51
Speaker 1: dollars in reward money to help, you know, find any
39:55
Speaker 1: information that will lead to this the killer. And even
39:59
Speaker 1: though Shena her family, she comes from a very wealthy family.
40:03
Speaker 1: Her parents have a company that has that earns over
40:07
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars a year in revenue, they haven't
40:11
Speaker 1: contributed a penny to this reward fund. To Christian Bryan again,
40:18
Speaker 1: do you believe Jared was targeted? I do. Let me
40:22
Speaker 1: point out to everyone that the ex wife has not
40:26
Speaker 1: been named a suspect, our person of interest, a target
40:31
Speaker 1: in any way. Kristen, what can you tell me about
40:36
Speaker 1: the reward for information regarding your husband's death? Currently, it's
40:42
Speaker 1: a total of fifty five thousand dollars through crime Stoppers,
40:46
Speaker 1: where you can remain anonymous. It's fifty thousand dollars for
40:49
Speaker 1: a tip leading to an arrest, and then there's an
40:52
Speaker 1: additional five thousand dollars for a tip leading to an
40:55
Speaker 1: arrest and conviction through the Bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and
40:59
Speaker 1: fire arms. So it had started out is three thousand dollars,
41:03
Speaker 1: and then myself and my brother in law raised money
41:07
Speaker 1: to get it up to fifty fifty five thousand dollars.
41:10
Speaker 1: So the reward is now fifty five thousand dollars. Kirsten,
41:16
Speaker 1: do you believe this was a professional hit? And if so,
41:19
Speaker 1: why I do? The fact that they knew where to
41:26
Speaker 1: stop Jared where there would not be cameras, where he
41:29
Speaker 1: could not just go around the tire. And anyone that
41:33
Speaker 1: knows Jared knows that he's a good guy, like he
41:36
Speaker 1: would stop and move the tire so that someone else
41:39
Speaker 1: didn't have to you know, someone else wouldn't have to
41:41
Speaker 1: get their car there's raining and move the tire. They
41:45
Speaker 1: knew him, they knew his route, they knew his character,
41:50
Speaker 1: and they planned this and they murdered him in front
41:54
Speaker 1: of our daughters. Again, if you have information, please dial
41:58
Speaker 1: nine zero four seven zero sixteen sixty one or eight
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Speaker 1: sixty six eight four to five tips eight sixty six
42:08
Speaker 1: eight four five eight four seven seven. Kirsten, how do
42:13
Speaker 1: you explain to your children that Daddy isn't there? Once
42:19
Speaker 1: you got the Harst part, you know one who's too
42:22
Speaker 1: little to even know her dad, So we'll have that
42:26
Speaker 1: conversation when she hold hers But Bexley did. Bexley was
42:30
Speaker 1: Jared Shadow. She loved him so much. Just why she
42:35
Speaker 1: was always with them. And some days she seems to understand.
42:39
Speaker 1: You know, we talk about Dad's in heaven. Gad's body
42:42
Speaker 1: got hurt. For a while. She she would pull out
42:45
Speaker 1: her little play doctor kitt and Sam and go fix
42:48
Speaker 1: my dad. Oh, we had to talk about Beddy's body
42:54
Speaker 1: didn't get better. That's a really gone. But we'll see
42:56
Speaker 1: him when we're at cheven And some days she seems
42:59
Speaker 1: to grasp that. But then other days, like this past week,
43:03
Speaker 1: they made dinner and it was, you know, a smaller portion,
43:06
Speaker 1: and she said, why didn't we meet more? He says,
43:09
Speaker 1: just those three didn't She asked, when Daddy comes back
43:14
Speaker 1: to me, make some more. So her understanding and her
43:20
Speaker 1: grasp of what's happened kind of goes in and out,
43:22
Speaker 1: and it's a conversation we have over and over again,
43:26
Speaker 1: and it's heart Regie Kris, and I'm so sorry, just
43:32
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry for what you're going through, what your
43:35
Speaker 1: family is going through. And the only thing we can
43:38
Speaker 1: do for you now. Is trying to help you and
43:41
Speaker 1: your children get justice, if there even is such a thing.
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace Crime Story, signing off goodbye friend,