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BITTER EX-WIFE BUSTED IN MURDER OF MICROSOFT HUBBY, DAD OF 4 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 2: In the last hour's bombshell, a Microsoft executive, a father,
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Speaker 2: a loving husband, ambushed, found dead on a lonely one
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Speaker 2: way street. Mystery ensued, and in the last hours, his
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Speaker 2: bitter ex wife indicted in connection with his murder. Justice
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Speaker 2: I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for
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Speaker 2: being with us here at Fox Nation and Serious X
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Speaker 2: one eleven. First of all, take a listen to this.
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Speaker 3: For five hundred and forty seventy's we have hoped and
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Speaker 3: prayed that this day would come. Our hearts will always
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Speaker 3: be full of deep attitude for the men and women
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Speaker 3: who've work tirelessly to bring justice forward in Jared's case.
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Speaker 3: We're also deeply grateful for the prayers that have been
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Speaker 3: offered on our behalf. Shannon's arrest ends one horrific chapter
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Speaker 3: of our pursuit for justice for Jared, and now we
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Speaker 3: open a new one. This next chapter will be excruciating.
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Speaker 3: We are confident in the ability of the State's Attorney's
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Speaker 3: office and law enforcement to bring truth to light. We
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Speaker 3: expect to see justice carried out to the fullest extent
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Speaker 3: of the law.
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Speaker 2: You are hearing the voice of Jared's widow Kirsten Broddigan,
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Speaker 2: and joining us right now is Kristen Broddigan and Jared's
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Speaker 2: brother Adam.
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Speaker 4: Thank you to both of you for being.
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Speaker 2: With us on this day following such upheaval in your lives. Kirsten,
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Speaker 2: when I hear your voice, you're talking about justice and
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Speaker 2: this mark in your pursuit of justice, that being the
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Speaker 2: arrest of your husband's ex wife.
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Speaker 4: How did you.
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Speaker 2: Feel when you learned a formal charge against her had
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Speaker 2: been filed?
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Speaker 5: Nancy, really mixed feelings. There was elation, you know, celebration.
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Speaker 5: There was a heartache when I immediately thought about what
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Speaker 5: that means for the twins. There was caution and anxiety
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Speaker 5: about has everything been done by the book who just
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Speaker 5: want everything to stick? So that it was a very
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Speaker 5: mixed bag, but overall a good feeling that justice is
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Speaker 5: moving forward for our family.
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Speaker 2: Throughout these proceedings. Did you have any doubt that your
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Speaker 2: husband's ex wife would be brought to justice.
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Speaker 5: I have had an oddly calm sense that things would
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Speaker 5: work out since very early on. But in addition to
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Speaker 5: that feeling that don't worry, it'll work out, there have
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Speaker 5: been moments where I have had concerns that if she
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Speaker 5: will ever face charges for what she's done, what I
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Speaker 5: had thought she'd done, and just hoping and praying very
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Speaker 5: very hard for the last almost a year and a
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Speaker 5: half that my feeling would be accurate and that we
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Speaker 5: would see this day and more importantly, that you will
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Speaker 5: see a conviction.
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Speaker 2: Kirsten, you said that you believe your road a head
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Speaker 2: is going to be and I quote excruciating. I know
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Speaker 2: this is not going to make it better, but you're right.
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Speaker 2: Living through the murder trial of the guy that shot
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Speaker 2: my face Ice was I will never forget it as
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Speaker 2: long as I live. But it's necessary for your children
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Speaker 2: to grow up one day and remember their mother took
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Speaker 2: the hit. Their mother was brave and went through this
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Speaker 2: for them. Can you imagine how it would be for
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Speaker 2: your children if there was no justice.
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Speaker 5: I can't.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 5: That's a big reason why I've been fighting so hard
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Speaker 5: from day one is I want them to know who
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Speaker 5: did this to our family, and I want them to
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Speaker 5: know that they are safe, that those people are behind
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Speaker 5: bars and cannot hurt us further than they already have.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to an all star panel to make sense
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Speaker 2: of what we know right now and why finally, after
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Speaker 2: all of these months, this indictment goes down against the
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Speaker 2: bitter ex wife of this fine father and husband. Also
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Speaker 2: with me in addition to Kirsten is Adam Bridigan. This
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Speaker 2: is Jared's brother, Adam. What went through your mind when
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Speaker 2: you learned that your brother's ex had finally been indicted.
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Speaker 7: It's such a surreal place to be in, is the
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Speaker 7: best way for me to describe it, right. I think
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Speaker 7: anyone listening would have kind of the common human emotions
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Speaker 7: of elation and happiness. But it really is mixed in
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Speaker 7: the sense that we feel peace knowing that we have answers,
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Speaker 7: and that we have peace for our family knowing that
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Speaker 7: these individuals are now behind bars. But it's the pain
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Speaker 7: is as you outlined in your story, it's incomprehensible for
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Speaker 7: regular people who haven't experience this type of laws, right,
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Speaker 7: the ripple effect that this has on lives. It brings
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Speaker 7: us so much pain knowing that these four children have
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Speaker 7: to grow up and they have to hear about this
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Speaker 7: story right for the rest of their lives. That they
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Speaker 7: will when they learn about the trial and they learn
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Speaker 7: about all the evidence. We as adults have to endure
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Speaker 7: this right, But they will be exposed to it and
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Speaker 7: they will have to learn about this and that is
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Speaker 7: for us as a family. It is truly gut wrenching
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Speaker 7: right to know that they will have to hear about
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Speaker 7: these things in the media, they will have to read
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Speaker 7: about them and study about them, and that part and
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Speaker 7: knowing that the family has been ripped apart, that's the
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Speaker 7: really pain that we feel. So to answer your question,
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Speaker 7: it really is a mixed bag of emotion.
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Speaker 4: Now, Kirsten and panel plays, just hang tight. I mean,
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Speaker 4: just one moment. I'm going to get right back with
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Speaker 4: you all.
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Speaker 2: You know, Kirsten, Adam, it changes everything, which I don't
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Speaker 2: know if you get that yet, because you've had to
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Speaker 2: deal with the shock of the murder, the funeral, the investigation,
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Speaker 2: the dragging it out, the prolongment of the investigation. And
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Speaker 2: I heard you say crossing t's and dotting eyes, and
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Speaker 2: I believe that's what law enforcement was doing during these
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Speaker 2: months prior to your husband's ex being indicted.
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Speaker 4: But it really affects the way.
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Speaker 2: You live from now on, like how you raise your children,
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Speaker 2: how you live your life. It's going to affect your children,
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Speaker 2: how they grow up, how they raise their children.
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Speaker 4: God willing they get the joy of having children.
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Speaker 2: Because I know, in my case, I watch my like
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Speaker 2: a hawk, because I'm afraid something else horrible will take
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Speaker 2: away the thing I love the most them.
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Speaker 4: So it's you know, it's it's a balancing act. But
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Speaker 4: that's a long way ahead of you.
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Speaker 2: Now we have the tile to deal with and getting
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Speaker 2: your family through that.
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Speaker 1: Time. Stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 2: For those of you just joining us in the last hours. Finally,
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Speaker 2: and indictment of the bitter ex wife of a wonderful man,
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Speaker 2: Jared Bright again, a father, a husband, full of love,
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Speaker 2: everything centered around his family. What more do we know
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Speaker 2: at this hour? Take a listen to the Florida States Attorney.
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Speaker 8: This investigation has uncovered the truth of Jared's murder. Henry
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Speaker 8: Tennant did not act alone, Mario Fernandez did not plan alone,
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Speaker 8: and Shannah Gardner's indictment acknowledges her central and key role
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Speaker 8: in the cold, calculated and premeditated murder of Jared Bright.
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Speaker 9: Again, please say In February twenty twenty two, Bridingen got
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Speaker 9: out of his car to move a tire in the
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Speaker 9: road when he was shot multiple times. Two possible connections
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Speaker 9: to Tennen and bright Agan are record showing Tennen rented
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Speaker 9: a house from a man who is married to Brdigan's
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Speaker 9: ex wife, and Tenant told News for Jacks that Tennon
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Speaker 9: drove a blue color or two toned f one point fifty,
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Speaker 9: a similar description of a truck investigators believe was involved
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Speaker 9: in the murder.
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Speaker 2: You're also just then hearing our friends over at WJXT two.
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Speaker 2: Renowned professor of forensics at Jacksonville State University, author of
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Speaker 2: Blood Beneath My Feet, host of a hit series Body
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Speaker 2: Bags with Joseph Scott, Morgan, Joe Scott. Do you remember
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Speaker 2: how we would push it out, push it out, push out,
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Speaker 2: talk about it, talk about it, talk about it, trying
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Speaker 2: to get somebody to remember seeing that vehicle. Do you
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Speaker 2: remember that on that dark night when shared was essentially
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Speaker 2: ambushed on that one way street.
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Speaker 10: Yes, I do. Nancy and I got to say, there's
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Speaker 10: no potential here. He was, he was out and out,
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Speaker 10: hambushed this. This was planned. You and I had talked
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Speaker 10: about this extensively on you know, this darkened stretch of
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Speaker 10: road where there's no cameras, there's no lighting. You've got
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Speaker 10: wooded areas on literally both sides of the road road
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Speaker 10: kind of.
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Speaker 4: Dips down the vehicle that was the key.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, it was the vehicle. And you know they had
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Speaker 10: the grainy, the grainy videography for a period of time.
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Speaker 10: And this ties back to this central character in all
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Speaker 10: of this, where you know, we have a piece that
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Speaker 10: ties all this back and a lot of this is
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Speaker 10: going to hinge on this Henry Tennant that has previously
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Speaker 10: been arrested.
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Speaker 4: Kristen Bright again and Adam Bright again, wife and brother.
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Speaker 2: We hear the state's attorney general speaking of uncovering the truth.
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Speaker 4: All right, from the get.
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Speaker 2: Go, many of us believed that the ex Shanna Gardner,
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Speaker 2: Shanna Gardner Fernandez, who comes from a lap of luxury,
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Speaker 2: our parents' millionaires. I mean, why couldn't this woman be happy,
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Speaker 2: was behind the murder of your husband. When the state's
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Speaker 2: attorney talks about uncovering the truth, what truth? What do
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Speaker 2: you believe is the state's attorney's theory in this case?
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Speaker 4: Kirsten.
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Speaker 5: They've been very tight left about a lot of evidence
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Speaker 5: in things that they have in this case. So I
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Speaker 5: can't really speak to that, but I have confidence that
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Speaker 5: they know what they're doing and we'll see it play
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Speaker 5: out in court.
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Speaker 4: I understand what you're saying.
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Speaker 2: At this juncture, we don't want Kirsten or Adam or
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Speaker 2: anyone else connect you to the case blurting out information
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Speaker 2: that the state's attorney wants to keep secret.
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Speaker 4: That said, there's got to be in a resta warrant
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Speaker 4: for the X.
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Speaker 2: And can I ask you this, Kirsten, why has she
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Speaker 2: been so angry and bitter? She's the one that caused
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Speaker 2: all the problems in the marriage, So she gets a divorce, fine,
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Speaker 2: have it.
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Speaker 4: Why couldn't Jared just go be happy with you?
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Speaker 5: That's the question I had myself, you know, every time
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Speaker 5: we were dragged back to court over the dumbest things,
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Speaker 5: things that we had tried to work out via email
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Speaker 5: or text, we asked ourselves of the same question, like
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Speaker 5: why can't we have a good coparenting relationship. Why can't
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Speaker 5: we just focus on the kids being happy? Why can't
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Speaker 5: she be happy in her life and we be happy
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Speaker 5: in ours? I wish I knew, but I don't know
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Speaker 5: what goes on inside of her head. I think that
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Speaker 5: would be a very dark place to be, and I
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Speaker 5: just I don't know.
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Speaker 4: Joining us.
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Speaker 2: Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News Digital investigative reporter author off at
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Speaker 2: any cost, and you can find her at Rebecca Fayrosenberg
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Speaker 2: dot com. Rebecca, thank you for being with us. Any
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Speaker 2: idea what the state's theory is going to be? I
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Speaker 2: can tell you this much. There's one co defendant that's
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Speaker 2: going to turn state's evidence, and it's been very clear
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Speaker 2: that there will be a death penalty sought in this case.
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Speaker 4: You've got the ex wife.
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Speaker 2: Shanna Gardner Fernandez, aged thirty five, charged with murder one.
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Speaker 2: They've got Henry Tinnan, who we believe pulled the trigger
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Speaker 2: at the behest of the ex wife, and we've got
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Speaker 2: Mario Fernandez Saldonna, thirty four, the new husband. So what happened?
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Speaker 2: What was the straw that broke the camel's back? What
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Speaker 2: was the final piece of evidence that has resulted in
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Speaker 2: an indictment?
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Speaker 11: Hey, Nancy, thank you for having me. You know, I
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Speaker 11: really don't know. As Kirsten said, the Citytoon's office has
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Speaker 11: been very tight. Lift it was kind of surprised when
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Speaker 11: the indictment came down against her, but they definitely started
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Speaker 11: in this circle with Henry Tennen first, who they said
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Speaker 11: they believe it was the shooter, and then it led
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Speaker 11: to the next arrest of her husband, Mario Fernandez, and
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Speaker 11: then now it's her. So I would imagine they have
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Speaker 11: the most evidence against Tennin and they're working their way in.
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Speaker 11: But I think the big question now is that the
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Speaker 11: pressures on between Shannon Gardner Fernandez and her husband Mario Fernandez,
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Speaker 11: will one of them flip on the other. They're both
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Speaker 11: now in jail art and potentially facing the death penalty.
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Speaker 11: You have to imagine somebody's going to reach for life draft.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we've already got We're going to get
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Speaker 2: the testimony from Tenin, and I can tell you anybody
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Speaker 2: jump in. Robert Christpin joining me, private investigator, joining us,
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Speaker 2: Crispin Special Investigations, former Federal Task Force officer with the
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Speaker 2: Department of Justice, also with a DEA and Miami former
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Speaker 2: homicide and Crimes against Children invest gator, and you can
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Speaker 2: find him at Crispininvestigations dot com. Crispin I'll tell you
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Speaker 2: how they did it. I mean, I don't have to
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Speaker 2: be a brain surgeon to figure this out. You've got
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Speaker 2: the alleged triggerman, Henry Tennin. What does Henry Tennan drive.
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Speaker 2: Henry Tennon drives a blue color or two toned F
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Speaker 2: one fifty. You can spot an F one fifty or
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Speaker 2: a Taco or Tacoma Toyota Tacoma, those two highly popular trucks.
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Speaker 2: You can spot an F one fifty a mile away.
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Speaker 2: It is very distinctive. All right, So this guy's driving
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Speaker 2: a blue or two toned F one fifty and there
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Speaker 2: is evidence that the shooter was driving an F one
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Speaker 2: fifty blue in color. So then you circle back and
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Speaker 2: did it tenen rent from the new husband something like that?
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Speaker 6: Sure, So this all starts un rebel once they get
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Speaker 6: locked onto it, once they get the truck, once they
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Speaker 6: get him, and don't forget, Florida has the death penalty,
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Speaker 6: and what a great negotiation tool to grab a defendant.
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Speaker 2: Hey, screw that technical legal term. Screw negotiating tool. If
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Speaker 2: they're going to see the death penalty, get the death penalty.
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Speaker 6: And I understand that wholeheartedly. And you know this as
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Speaker 6: a prosecutor. Sometimes that death penalty is going to be
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Speaker 6: that one ounce of what you need to crack that
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Speaker 6: one defendant that's going to lead you to two or
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Speaker 6: three other ones, as obviously it did in this case. Now,
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Speaker 6: obviously the indictment is still sealed so we don't have
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Speaker 6: the facts, but I can tell you from working these
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Speaker 6: types of cases and working homicide cases, you're going to
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Speaker 6: find a theory of a few different things. Because they
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Speaker 6: grabbed tenant first, what a tenant do. I would imagine
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Speaker 6: he probably did a controlled telephone call. I would imagine
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Speaker 6: he potentially went and met the co defendants while he
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Speaker 6: was wearing a wire and wearing a digital recorder, and
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Speaker 6: he talked about the evidence. He talked about the crime,
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Speaker 6: which led to the next defendant, which led to the
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Speaker 6: next defendant, and lo and behold, all the evidence starts
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Speaker 6: to come together and the indictment starts to come in.
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Speaker 6: I think you're going to find that. In the hardest part,
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Speaker 6: I should say, is for the families being so long
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Speaker 6: and taking so long and thinking nothing is going on,
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Speaker 6: There's so much going on behind the scenes that you
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Speaker 6: see what happens when it all comes together, they get it.
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Speaker 2: Right to Dale Carson joining me, high profile criminal defense
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Speaker 2: attorney out of the Jacksonville jurisdiction, former FBI agent, former
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Speaker 2: cop Miami Dade, never lack of business there and author
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Speaker 2: of Arrest Proof Yourself. You can find them at del
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Speaker 2: Carson Law dot com. Dale Carson, I'm so glad you're
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Speaker 2: with us today. This is something I had to argue
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Speaker 2: to a couple of couple of juries before. I don't
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Speaker 2: like cutting deals with the co defendant. Again technical legal term.
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Speaker 2: They can all go to hell together, stew it in
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Speaker 2: the same bot till they get to the devil's supper table.
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Speaker 2: But that said, I've often argued sometimes you got to
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Speaker 2: go to hell to get the witness to put the
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Speaker 2: devil in jail. And in this scenario, the state clearly
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Speaker 2: believes the devil in this murder for hire is the
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Speaker 2: ex wife, that she is the mastermind.
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Speaker 4: How about this, Dale Carson?
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Speaker 2: Was it seventy phone calls between the new husband, Fernandez
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Speaker 2: Seldonna and the alleged trigger man Tenen? Seventy phone calls?
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Speaker 2: Where were they talking about? Shopping at Target? And three
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Speaker 2: checks from Fernando Celdanna to Tenon, Hello, what more do
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Speaker 2: I need?
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Speaker 12: It wasn't the weather that they were talking about, that's
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Speaker 12: for sure. And when you think about this from the
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Speaker 12: very beginning, and we've been covering this yere closely, who
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Speaker 12: would know that Jared would have the kindness to stop
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Speaker 12: in the middle of the road in the middle of
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Speaker 12: the night and remove a tire so it didn't struct
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Speaker 12: other people driving down the road. Here probably is only
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Speaker 12: one person in the world who knew that about him
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Speaker 12: and was angry at him. And so those combination of events,
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Speaker 12: including the DNA that's going to be found on that
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Speaker 12: tire ultimately, and those kinds of things start putting this
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Speaker 12: all together. And there's no question that the original trigger
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Speaker 12: puller he flipped almost immediately. And in Florida, and you know,
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Speaker 12: there's a spousal privilege. The spousal privilege is held not
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Speaker 12: by one spouse against another, but only by that spouse.
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Speaker 12: So if the new husband wishes to testify against her,
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Speaker 12: it's not a problem because he can remove that tendency
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Speaker 12: did not talk about somebody else and allow his information
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Speaker 12: in order to avoid the death penalty to go into
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Speaker 12: the investigation against her. And remember this, there are tech messages,
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Speaker 12: there are phone calls, there are locations, there are any
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Speaker 12: number of things.
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Speaker 2: The way the tire was set up, was it not
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Speaker 2: Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News Digital in the middle of the road,
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Speaker 2: was that he had to get out of the car
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Speaker 2: to go around It was an sev he was driving,
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Speaker 2: leaving his little baby girl strapped in the car in
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Speaker 2: a car seat. Who Kirsten didn't She keep saying, bang bang,
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Speaker 2: Daddy's down.
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Speaker 5: She would repeat the bang banged daddy on the ground
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Speaker 5: phrase quite often early.
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Speaker 2: On, Rebecca Rosenberg, jump in. Wasn't that tire in the
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Speaker 2: middle of the road so he had to get out
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Speaker 2: and move it? And only the wife, the ex wife,
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Speaker 2: would have known that was his route home.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, and that's what prosecutors say, that they
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Speaker 11: intentionally put that tire in the road to lure him
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Speaker 11: from the car. And what I have always found incredibly
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Speaker 11: haunting about this case is that there was no concern
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Speaker 11: for Bexley, who is to at the time when tennon
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Speaker 11: electrically shot Jared. Several bullets were lodged in the interior
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Speaker 11: of the car.
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Speaker 4: Well then anches and Braxley just like you're saying, sitting
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Speaker 4: there helpless in a CARSI, Rebecca Rosenberg, you're right now.
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Speaker 4: According to some there is a heavenly hand at work
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Speaker 4: in this prosecution. Take a listen at our cut forty five.
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Speaker 13: There's not a doubt that Jared has been working over
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Speaker 13: time amongst the family but also helping in the investigation.
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Speaker 13: There's been a lot of really incredible breaks that had
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Speaker 13: to happen for this day to come. And if you
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Speaker 13: knew Jared, you knew that he does not give up.
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Speaker 13: He's very focused, and he would make sure that our
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Speaker 13: family got justice while while we're still living. So I'm very,
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Speaker 13: very grateful for that.
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Speaker 2: And I writ again, that's your voice. Do you see
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Speaker 2: your brother's hand in this investigation? Do you feel his presence.
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Speaker 7: Without a doubt one hundred percent. Jared has been working
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Speaker 7: over time, to say the least, not only on us
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Speaker 7: as a family, on the healing side and trying to
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Speaker 7: help us have the patience to endure the last eighteen
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Speaker 7: months and helping us to keep the faith and to
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Speaker 7: have the strength to keep fighting when we wanted to
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Speaker 7: just say maybe we'll never know, maybe we will never
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Speaker 7: get the answers, but he gave us the courage and
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Speaker 7: the strength to do that. But when it comes to
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Speaker 7: the investigation, absolutely, and I think in the future, when
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Speaker 7: a lot of this comes to light and stories are
22:53
Speaker 7: able to be shared, I think there's going to be
22:56
Speaker 7: some really touching moments that we hear about where certain
23:03
Speaker 7: things happened and miracles ensued, and obviously were people of
23:08
Speaker 7: faith and that means a.
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Speaker 12: Lot to us.
23:09
Speaker 7: But if you knew Jared and just how determined he
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Speaker 7: was to do something when he set his mind to it,
23:17
Speaker 7: I might call that stubborn, but that's just how he was.
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Speaker 7: And I know that he wanted to make sure that
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Speaker 7: we as a family got answers to the questions because
23:26
Speaker 7: I'm sure it was very painful for.
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Speaker 2: Him, especially for his children, to know exactly what happened
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Speaker 2: and to know that someone cared and sought justice for
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Speaker 2: their father.
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Speaker 4: What exactly do we know about the arrest? Take listen
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Speaker 4: nowur Coat thirty seven. This is the Florida State Attorney.
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Speaker 8: A fourth Circuit grand jury indicted Shanna Gardner for first
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Speaker 8: degree murder, conspiracy to commit first degree murder, solicitation to
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Speaker 8: commit first degree murder, and child abuse, all related to
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Speaker 8: the murder of Jared Bright, again Shanna's ex husband. Gardner
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Speaker 8: was shortly after and taken into custody by ATF Washington
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Speaker 8: Field Division agents in West Richland, Washington. Gardner will be
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Speaker 8: extradited to Duval County to face these charges. We will
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Speaker 8: be filing a notice of our intent to seek the
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Speaker 8: death penalty, as we have also done in the case
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Speaker 8: of Mario Fernandez.
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Speaker 2: I'm very curious what led to the arrest of the
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Speaker 2: X at this juncture, after so many months, Shanna Gardner Fernandez.
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Speaker 2: For those of you just joining us now indicted, do
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Speaker 2: we have any idea how the arrest went down?
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Speaker 4: Where was she? What happened?
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Speaker 12: What do we know?
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Speaker 4: Any idea? Rebecca Rosenberg?
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Speaker 11: We know it was about nine am.
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Speaker 14: It was a complete surprise.
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Speaker 11: She was at inside her West Richland home that her
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Speaker 11: parents bought for her late last year.
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Speaker 2: White a minute, White a minute. Her parents are still
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Speaker 2: footing the bill. The woman is thirty five years old
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Speaker 2: and her parents are still paying her way.
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Speaker 11: They have supported her of her life.
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Speaker 15: Very wealthy age.
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Speaker 2: Let me just get my head around something, Kirsten Bride again.
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Speaker 2: You know, the love of money is the root of
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Speaker 2: all evil. Many people say, where did her family get
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Speaker 2: all those millions?
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Speaker 5: I don't know the complete history of their finances, but
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Speaker 5: I do know that her parents own a very successful
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Speaker 5: company based out of Riverton, Utah called Stamping Up, and
25:30
Speaker 5: I believe that a lot of their success comes from that.
25:33
Speaker 2: Isn't like a paper product company, Yeah, it's an.
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Speaker 5: MLM that sells paper and.
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Speaker 4: Stamped Okay, got it, got it.
25:43
Speaker 2: So all that money and at age thirty five, they're
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Speaker 2: still fitting the bill. I mean, Adam bridegain did she
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Speaker 2: ever have an actual job?
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Speaker 7: Honestly, I have no idea. I can't speak to that,
25:59
Speaker 7: but yes, it's a great question.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, the idle hand is a devil's workshop,
26:04
Speaker 2: so I'm just wondering what she's been doing. I know
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Speaker 2: she took the children, the other children of Jaris out
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Speaker 2: of the jurisdiction after his death. Back to you, Rebecca Rosenberg,
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Speaker 2: what were you saying about the arrest?
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Speaker 4: Nine am, Yeah.
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Speaker 11: Nine am.
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Speaker 16: I believe local officials and ats executed it and she
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Speaker 16: was not expecting them.
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Speaker 11: It was a complete surprise. They arrested her, took her
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Speaker 11: into custody. We know her mother, Shelley Gardner, was home
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Speaker 11: at the time. I'm not just the kids from there,
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Speaker 11: and she was taken into custody and now she's in
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Speaker 11: the local jail awaiting extradition.
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Speaker 12: The ATF involvement indicates a u FAB, which is unlawful
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Speaker 12: flight to avoid prosecution, and it's an interest that ATF
26:56
Speaker 12: was handling it because there may be a firearm connection
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Speaker 12: to this matter, and why the search was so.
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Speaker 2: Abrupt, very very good insight that's coming from Dale Carson.
27:07
Speaker 2: I recognize his voice speaking of eating a dirt sandwich
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Speaker 2: in corn, having to go to Hell to get the
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Speaker 2: witness to put the devil in jail.
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Speaker 4: Take a litten hour cut fifty two our friends at
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Speaker 4: wj XT.
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Speaker 6: Thirty four year old Mario Fernandez is still in Orange
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Speaker 6: County in the jail tonight.
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Speaker 17: Thirty four year old Fernandez is married to Jerry brid
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Speaker 17: Again's ex wife, Shanna Gardner Fernandez.
27:28
Speaker 4: Brdagan was ambushed on a dark.
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Speaker 17: Jacksonville Beach road minutes after dropping his older two children
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Speaker 17: off at their mother's house. Fernandez is accused of plotting
27:38
Speaker 17: the murder with this rental property tenant, sixty one year
27:41
Speaker 17: old Henry Tennant. Yesterday, Tenant pleaded guilty and agreed to
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Speaker 17: testify against anyone he worked with for this crime.
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Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Grease.
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Speaker 2: Joining me right now, boy, do I need a shrink?
28:11
Speaker 2: Doctor Angela Arnold joining us out of the Atlanta jurisdiction.
28:14
Speaker 2: You can find her at Angela Arnold MD dot com.
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Speaker 2: This conjures up quite the image, these three like witches
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Speaker 2: around a cauldron. You've got the ex wife Shanna Gardner Fernandez,
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Speaker 2: her brand new husband Mario Fernandez Saldana, and then the
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Speaker 2: alleged triggerman, Henry Tennon. He's the one that had all
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Speaker 2: those seventy phone calls and three checks.
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Speaker 4: I mean, really, you write a check.
28:42
Speaker 2: It reminds me of Jesse Smillett, who wrote his fake
28:46
Speaker 2: attackers actual checks. The Osendaro brothers, I mean a check. Okay,
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Speaker 2: like we can't find that, but I can just see
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Speaker 2: the three of them plotting and planning this. Never give
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Speaker 2: a thought to the repercussions. As Adam said earlier, the
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Speaker 2: ripple effects they're going to occur because of their heinous act,
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Speaker 2: the three of them.
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Speaker 15: Well, and Nancy, she doesn't have to give a thought
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Speaker 15: to the repercussions because, as you've laid out today, her
29:17
Speaker 15: parents are still taking care of her at thirty five
29:19
Speaker 15: years of age. I am typically when that goes on,
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Speaker 15: that person has never had to suffer any repercussions for
29:26
Speaker 15: any of their actions. So they basically trained her that
29:30
Speaker 15: whatever she did, she would get away with. And you know,
29:34
Speaker 15: I don't know if they know this or not, but
29:36
Speaker 15: unconsciously that's what they were telling her every time they
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Speaker 15: bailed her out, bought her a house, whatever they did,
29:43
Speaker 15: so she doesn't feel like there are any consequences for
29:45
Speaker 15: her actions. She also feels like she can have whatever
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Speaker 15: she wants. So she wanted him dead, so she was
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Speaker 15: going to make it happen, and I'm sure she never
29:55
Speaker 15: thought she was going to get caught.
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Speaker 2: You know, to Christian Bright again, this is Jared's wife
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Speaker 2: and you can find her on instace at Justice for
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Speaker 2: Jared B. She has created the Brydigan Foundation. Kirsten, isn't
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Speaker 2: it true that the ex wife's parents have.
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Speaker 4: The children.
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Speaker 5: I believe so, Nancy, because her mother, Shelley, was at
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Speaker 5: the home when Shannon was arrested. I believe that they
30:28
Speaker 5: would stay with them. I do not see them relinquishing
30:35
Speaker 5: the kids, so I would expect that they will try
30:38
Speaker 5: to maintain custody. I don't know if Shanna even maybe
30:43
Speaker 5: gave them guardianship. That's all things that I don't know,
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Speaker 5: but I would not be surprised.
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Speaker 2: Have Since Shanna Gardner Frnandez took off out of the
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Speaker 2: jurisdiction with Jared's other two children, Abby and LIAMB has
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Speaker 2: there been any attempt to get the four brothers and
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Speaker 2: sisters together, Brexley and London, your children with Abby and Liam.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I have sent a countless I can't even tell
31:12
Speaker 5: you how many texts and emails to Shanna Sterling and
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Speaker 5: Shelley Gardner asking for a minimum of a phone call
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Speaker 5: or face time, and since April of twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 5: I have been denied and ignored every single time.
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Speaker 2: That's going to be a legal battle right there about
31:32
Speaker 2: brother sister sibling rights because you biologically do not have
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Speaker 2: a claim on Abby and Liam. Their closest living relatives
31:44
Speaker 2: I assume are their grandparents on Shanna Gardner's side. But
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Speaker 2: your children, Brexley and London do have a biological client.
31:55
Speaker 4: But they're miners.
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Speaker 2: So that's a whole other can of worms for you
31:58
Speaker 2: to sort out later. Right now, your eye on the
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Speaker 2: prize of justice. So what is the connection between these
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Speaker 2: three witches storing their cauldron?
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Speaker 4: Take a listen to hour cut fifty three WJXT.
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Speaker 18: Thirty four year old Mario Fernandez and sixty one year
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Speaker 18: old Henry Tennan are both charged with conspiring to murder
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Speaker 18: Jared Bright again. According to an affidavit, Fernandez paid three
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Speaker 18: handwritten checks to Tenant, who rented a room from Fernandez,
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Speaker 18: but didn't have any direct ties from the victim, investigators say.
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Speaker 18: Detectives also found the two suspects had thirty five phone
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Speaker 18: contacts the month Bright again was killed, and continued to
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Speaker 18: stay in touch afterward. A murder weapon has not been recovered.
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Speaker 2: Seventy calls in all. Back to Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News
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Speaker 2: Digital investigative crime reporter, what happens now.
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Speaker 11: Well, now we wait for Shanna to be extra guided
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Speaker 11: to Florida, and then she will go before a judge
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Speaker 11: and interplea and the discovery process begins. I mean, I
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Speaker 11: think the real thing that everybody's waiting for is is
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Speaker 11: Mario or Shanna going to try to get a plea
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Speaker 11: deal and turn on the other one? And how does
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Speaker 11: that work legally with the two being married?
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Speaker 5: Is that going to be an issue on the other.
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Speaker 12: As soon as he's arraigned, we'll get or she's arraigned,
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Speaker 12: we'll get full discovery, which means the support affidavit for
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Speaker 12: the arrest want and that will give us details about
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Speaker 12: it that we don't know.
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Speaker 4: You're absolutely right. Take a listen to our cut fifty
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Speaker 4: four w JS.
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Speaker 18: The state attorney says Tenant admitted to shooting Bright again,
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Speaker 18: pleading guilty to second degree murder.
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Speaker 4: Fall Getter says it's now unlikely ten And.
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Speaker 18: Will be facing the death penalty, but for Nandez might
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Speaker 18: there's a.
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Speaker 14: Very heenus crime and a contract murder deserves the death
33:51
Speaker 14: penalty and or appropriate circumstances.
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Speaker 5: But second of all, if the ye.
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Speaker 4: Was involved, they would want to bring her to justice,
33:57
Speaker 4: so that would put pressure on them, rightfully, so Fernandez.
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Speaker 18: His wife, SHANEA. Gardner Fernandez, has previously denied being involved
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Speaker 18: in the murder.
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Speaker 2: Don't you know this guy, the alleged trigger man, is
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Speaker 2: singing as loudly as he can behind bars in his
34:14
Speaker 2: attempt to escape the death penalty himself. And I guarantee
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Speaker 2: you the state has him locked in and a written confession,
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Speaker 2: a video confession, the works.
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Speaker 4: I'm very curious.
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Speaker 2: I doubt that Shannon Gardner Fernandez is going to challenge
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Speaker 2: extradition back to Florida where the crime occurred. Kristen Bright again,
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Speaker 2: right now? What is your frame of mind? What are
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Speaker 2: your thoughts? What's keeping you going?
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Speaker 7: Jared?
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Speaker 19: Is you know from day one I have been determined
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Speaker 19: to find justice for him, for our children, I am
34:55
Speaker 19: still on that path. Obviously, there's things I can't do
34:58
Speaker 19: that I need to rely on law enforcement in the
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Speaker 19: Stage Attorney's office to.
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Speaker 12: Do for us.
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Speaker 5: But whatever I can do, I will be doing.
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Speaker 14: We will continue to pray for Liam and Abbey that eventually,
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Speaker 14: it's not soon, we will be able to be reunited,
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Speaker 14: that they can have the support of their family on
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Speaker 14: their dad's side, who loves them and cares about them
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Speaker 14: and wants them to have a relationship with their entire family,
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Speaker 14: not just one side. And that's our focus right now
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Speaker 14: is just keep the eye on the prize and let's
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Speaker 14: get justice.
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Speaker 4: We wait as God willing justice unfalls. Goodbye friend,