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One day. That's how long it took for the Bridegan case to get more complicated, not less. Mario Fernandez was convicted of first-degree murder and solicitation in the killing of Jared Bridegan, shot in a staged carjacking outside his Jacksonville Beach home in 2021. Jurors took under four hours to convict; Fernandez faces life without parole. Then, a day later, prosecutors filed two entirely new felony charges against him involving children — cases with no connection to Bridegan, one tied to a girl who was around eight when the alleged conduct began. Shanna Gardner's trial, set to begin days later, got pushed to May 2027. Judge London Kite granted the continuance so her defense can investigate whether the new charges point to a motive of Fernandez's own — a theory made more interesting by the fact that Fernandez reportedly told police the twins were "better off" with Bridegan "out of the picture" long before any of this surfaced. The delay changes nothing about what's already sitting in evidence against Gardner: her own texts. A friend messaged a contact about finding Gardner "a guy" who "performs permanent disappearing acts on certain people." A detective testified the plot dates back to 2015. Gardner still faces murder, conspiracy, solicitation, and a fourth charge connected to her twins. Her attorney, Jose Baez, has a Casey Anthony acquittal on his record and is already accusing prosecutors of mischaracterizing evidence. The jury pool has doubled to 500 people to manage publicity from Fernandez's conviction. Two defendants, one case, and the story is still moving. LINKS Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/  Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod  X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod DISCLAIMER This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #JaredBridegan #ShannaGardner #MarioFernandez #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #JoseBaez #BrideganCase #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #HenryTenon 

Jared Bridegan's killer is going to prison. His wife's trial just got more complicated than anyone expected. Mario Fernandez was convicted of first-degree murder and solicitation for shooting Bridegan in a Jacksonville Beach street in 2021, staged to look like a carjacking. Jurors took less than four hours. He's facing life without parole. Then, one day after that verdict, prosecutors filed two brand-new felony charges against Fernandez — both involving children, unrelated to Bridegan's murder, one tied to a girl who was around eight when the alleged conduct began. Shanna Gardner's own trial was supposed to start days later. Instead, Judge London Kite granted a continuance to May 2027 so her defense can investigate whether the new charges reveal a motive of Fernandez's own — separate from, or tangled up with, hers. Fernandez had already told police the twins were "better off" with Bridegan "out of the picture," a comment that predates the new charges by years. None of that changes what prosecutors already have waiting for Gardner's jury: her own text messages, read by prosecutors as evidence of intent rather than frustration. A friend, Kim Jensen, texted someone about finding Gardner "a guy" who "performs permanent disappearing acts on certain people." A detective testified the plot goes back to 2015. Gardner still faces murder, conspiracy, solicitation, and a fourth charge connected to her twins. Her attorney, Jose Baez, already has Casey Anthony's acquittal on his résumé, and he's accusing the state of mischaracterizing evidence before a single juror is seated. The jury pool has been doubled to 500. May 2027 is a long way off, and the story keeps changing before it gets there. LINKS Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod  X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod DISCLAIMER This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #JaredBridegan #ShannaGardner #MarioFernandez #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JoseBaez #BrideganCase #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #HenryTenon 

Shanna Gardner's trial was supposed to start this week. Then Mario Fernandez's conviction blew a hole in the timeline. Fernandez was found guilty of first-degree murder and solicitation for killing Jared Bridegan — a plot prosecutors say Gardner set in motion. The jury deliberated less than four hours and Fernandez is facing life without parole. But one day after that verdict, prosecutors filed two new felony charges against him, both involving children and both unrelated to Bridegan's death. That's what pushed Judge London Kite to grant Gardner's defense a continuance, moving jury selection to May 2027. Her attorneys say they need time to investigate whether the new allegations point to a motive of Fernandez's own — something that could reshape the entire narrative around who wanted Bridegan dead and why. Fernandez had already told police the twins were "better off" with Bridegan "out of the picture," a line that predates the new charges considerably. The delay doesn't touch the evidence prosecutors already have against Gardner directly: her own text messages. One exchange has a friend describing a search for someone who "performs permanent disappearing acts on certain people." A detective testified the plan traces to 2015. Gardner faces murder, conspiracy, solicitation, and a fourth charge tied to her children. Her attorney is Jose Baez — the lawyer who got Casey Anthony acquitted — and he's already fighting the state over how it's characterizing the evidence. The jury pool has been doubled to 500 people. May 2027 is the new date. Whether it holds is another question entirely. LINKS Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/  Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod  X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod DISCLAIMER This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #JaredBridegan #ShannaGardner #MarioFernandez #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #JoseBaez #BrideganTrial #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #HenryTenon 

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It's like getting to the end of a movie and discovering the twist, then going back to the beginning because every scene means something else. That's what I've been doing all week with the Rick and Tanya Fernandez interviews. This time we're looking at Shelbey Fernandez's surgeries, what the doctor told police in 2019, and new audio from Shelbey Fernandez herself, recorded before her arrest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Twenty-four hours separated a murder conviction from new felony charges involving crimes against children. Mario Fernandez was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder in the killing of Jared Bridegan. On Wednesday, prosecutors filed two new counts against him.The timing reshaped Gardner's case immediately. Her trial was days from jury selection. Judge Kite granted a continuance to May 2027. The defense filing says the new charges may connect to a motive Fernandez had on his own — separate from Gardner. If Fernandez feared the custody dispute would expose his alleged crimes, he had a personal reason to want Bridegan out of the picture.The defense needs more than motive to make this work. Florida courts require direct probative value, not character evidence. The investigation would need to connect the allegations to Bridegan specifically. Meanwhile, the prosecution holds Gardner's own texts from years before the first child's allegations began. The state has proposed joining Gardner and Tenon for a single trial in 2027.END_LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#MarioFernandez #JaredBridegan #ShannaGardner #BrideganCase #JoseBaez #HenryTenon #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime

New felony charges against Fernandez were filed the day after his murder conviction. Both involve crimes against children. Gardner's trial, set to begin this week, has been pushed to May 2027 after an unopposed defense continuance.Gardner's defense indicated the new charges may give Fernandez an independent motive for Bridegan's murder. She married Fernandez in April 2018, months after he received an other-than-honorable discharge from the Army following allegations involving a recruit. Both told police they barely knew each other. Gardner called it a marriage of "convenience" tied to the custody arrangement.The prosecution's answer runs through the timeline. Gardner's messages go back to 2015 and 2016, years before the first child's allegations began in April 2020. A friend told investigators Gardner said Fernandez could "take care of" Bridegan. The state has proposed trying Gardner alongside alleged gunman Henry Tenon in May 2027.END_LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#MarioFernandez #JaredBridegan #ShannaGardner #BrideganCase #JoseBaez #HenryTenon #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime

Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comToday I'm so honored to have back on the show once again: Cult and cult abuse survivor, overcomer and whistleblower, Vice President of the non-profit Tucson Pops Orchestra, freelance social media photographer, future cosmetology school graduate, Penn State University alum, former Digital Content Creator for KGUN 9, artist, creative, and an incredible hero who has stepped up to break the silence on cult abuse and to educate on how victims can take steps to get out: Caleb Fernandez A little bit about Caleb if you're new here, if you missed his first testimony episode or if you need a little refresher:Born into a Southern California cult that wove its tendrils through generations, Caleb entered this world already entangled in a web of ritualized abuse, mind manipulation and control, and the haunting machinery of coercion. Church leaders were not distant figures but active participants in his suffering and trauma. He endured the silent screams of childhood trauma, brushes with human trafficking disguised as “mission trips,” and the insidious grip of unclean spirits that he boldly names within the walls of Calvary Chapel - an organization he unflinchingly calls a cult whose chains must be shattered and exposed so others can breathe free.Yet even as a little boy, a light inside of him refused to be extinguished. While others bowed under the weight of fear and dogma, Caleb discovered a secret language louder than any threat: the power of creation. From his earliest school days, he poured his entire being into musical theater, where performance, music, and collective artistry became his sanctuary. On stage, under lights that felt like an escape from reality, he found a voice that could not be silenced. That creative current - raw, resilient, and radiant - carried him forward like a river carving through stone. It led him to Penn State University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in advertising and public relations, armed with the tools of storytelling and influence. From there, he soared to New York City, mastering production, photography, and art direction - skills that would later become both his personal expression and his weapons of advocacy.Today, at 33, Caleb stands as living proof that survival is not mere endurance - it is alchemical transformation. His escape, hard-won and culminating in 2025, was no quiet exit but a triumphant breaking of chains. Every step forward has been an act of radical courage. Now free, he channels that hard-won wisdom into lifting others up as a dedicated survivor advocate and whistleblower. As vice president of the nonprofit Tucson Pops Orchestra, he turns music into medicine and community into sanctuary - proof that the same hands once bound by control can now conduct symphonies of healing. He continues as a freelance social media photographer and strategic digital creative, drawing on expertise in still and moving images, retouching, scripting, editing, event planning, and brand representation. With cosmetology school on the horizon, his creative vision expands ever outward, crafting beauty from the very places where darkness once tried to claim him.ButCaleb is so much more than a survivor. He is a living harmony of resilience - a man who gathered the shattered notes of his past and composed a future filled with purpose, artistry, and fierce advocacy. His testimony is not only deeply moving; it is irrefutable evidence and an urgent beacon: Calvary Chapel operates as a cult, and there are practical, life-saving steps anyone still trapped inside can take to break free. He gives a voice to the silenced and a torch to the weary. His story reminds every person who has ever felt trapped, silenced, or broken that the light inside you is stronger than any cult, any abuse, and any chain.From the depths of unimaginable darkness, Caleb has risen—not merely to survive, but to sing, to create, to lead, and to show others the way out. His voice carries the unmistakable frequency of freedom, and that sound is changing lives. In him, we see not just the power of one soul to reclaim itself, but the promise that every shattered life can become a masterpiece of hope. Rise with him. Hear his song. And know that freedom is possible.

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Fernandez's conviction validated the prosecution's theory that a web of circumstantial evidence can prove a murder-for-hire without direct proof of the ask. Gardner's trial tests whether that same theory holds when the defendant is one more step removed from the gunman — but left a trail of her own words behind.Gardner's texts to Kim Jensen expressed violent desire regarding Bridegan in language prosecutors will read to the jury. Jensen texted a contact in July 2016 about finding Gardner someone who "performs permanent disappearing acts." Johns testified at a pretrial hearing that multiple people came forward saying Gardner had solicited them. A tattoo shop employee told investigators Gardner said she needed someone to "shut Jared up."The marital privilege that blocked Jensen from testifying in Fernandez's trial flips in Gardner's case. Gardner's statements to Jensen aren't spousal communications — they're friend-to-friend conversations. The prosecution's most important witness may be fully admissible this time. Gardner's attorney Jose Baez has argued the texts are mischaracterized humor and accused the prosecution of withholding evidence. The jury pool has been expanded to 500 prospective jurors.END_LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#ShannaGardner #JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #BrideganTrial #JoseBaez #HenryTenon #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime

The most revealing moment of closing arguments in Mario Fernandez's murder trial wasn't a piece of evidence. It was defense attorney Jesse Dreicer telling the jury he almost fell out of his chair. Prosecutor Stifler, he said, had claimed Fernandez moved $50,000 from Shanna Gardner's account to his own after the killing. Dreicer walked the jury back through Detective Johns' financial testimony and said the records showed only two small transfers.Dreicer spent over two hours dismantling the prosecution's circumstantial web. He played a recorded phone call where Fernandez praised Tenon for handyman work eleven months after the murder — captured without Fernandez's knowledge — and called it the strongest proof the checks were for legitimate labor. He pointed out that investigators found six 10mm Glocks at a single pawn shop and never checked whether any connected to the case. He reminded the jury that Tenon is alive, could have testified, and the prosecution chose not to call him.The prosecution's rebuttal came down to one frame. Fernandez is connected to every thread of evidence. His phone went dark during the hour of the murder. He wiped it after Tenon's arrest. He never called Shanna when police announced they'd caught the killer. Either all of that is coincidence, the prosecutor argued, or it's guilt. The jury begins deliberations Wednesday.END_LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #ShannaGardner #BrideganTrial #ClosingArguments #HenryTenon #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime

The man the prosecution called the only link between Bridegan and the gunman was convicted in under four hours. Gardner's jury selection starts August 31 — and the evidence profile is a different case entirely.Against Fernandez, the prosecution had financial records and phone data but no evidence he ever expressed a desire to harm Bridegan. Against Gardner, prosecutors have her own texts to friends expressing exactly that. They have Jensen's messages about finding someone for Gardner. They have wiretaps from Gardner's phone and Apple Watch that survived a defense motion to suppress.But Gardner's connection to Henry Tenon runs through Fernandez. She never paid Tenon directly. Her case requires the prosecution to prove she directed the killing, not just that she wanted it. Jose Baez has been fighting pretrial harder than Fernandez's defense team did — accusing the state of withholding evidence, challenging the wiretaps, and arguing the texts are taken out of context. The conspiracy charge Fernandez didn't face at trial is still live against Gardner. Deliberations in Fernandez's case took four hours. Gardner's trial is scheduled for three weeks.END_LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#ShannaGardner #JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #BrideganTrial #JoseBaez #HenryTenon #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime

Day 7 ended Mario Fernandez's murder trial with closing arguments from both sides and a prosecution rebuttal. The defense had called just two witnesses — staff from the Discovery School who described Fernandez and Gardner as caring, involved parents — before resting its case.The prosecution's closing asked the jury to see the totality: the checks, the trust clause, the phone gaps, the January visit to the man who once owned the murder weapon type. Stifler told them Fernandez is the thread connecting every piece of evidence. Dreicer fired back, accusing the prosecution of misstating the financial evidence and presenting two theories about Fernandez that contradict each other. He reminded the jury that Henry Tenon is alive and could have testified but the prosecution chose not to put him on the stand.Mizrahi closed the day with the prosecution's final words: this defendant is not the unluckiest man alive, he's just guilty. Deliberations begin Wednesday.END_LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #ShannaGardner #BrideganTrial #ClosingArguments #HenryTenon #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime

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Mario Fernandez's murder trial hit its most consequential moment on Day 6 when the prosecution rested and the defense challenged the court to identify a single piece of direct evidence that Fernandez solicited Henry Tenon to kill Jared Bridegan. The judge denied the acquittal motion, but the prosecution's argument revealed how far circumstantial evidence has to stretch without a confession, a cooperating witness, or a recorded conversation.The state's financial case centers on three checks from Fernandez's business to Tenon after the February 2022 killing. They total $10,000, with memo lines reading "landscaping," "roofing," and "kickstarter good luck." The prosecution says no invoices exist for the described work. The defense says Tenon did legitimate work on Fernandez's properties and no payments were made before the murder, making the timing consistent with delayed compensation.The gun thread hit its biggest obstacle when John Biggerstaff, the man investigators believe once owned the murder weapon, denied giving any firearm to Fernandez. His son Juan, a former police officer, backed the denial despite having recorded his father at his department's instruction. The prosecution landed circumstantial counters: Biggerstaff's online searches, shifted stories about the gun's location, and a statement to his son that police only cared about the 10mm. Closing arguments start Tuesday afternoon.END_LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #ShannaGardner #HenryTenon #BrideganTrial #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JuryDeliberation

Day 6 of the Fernandez trial ended with the prosecution resting and the defense asking Judge London Kite to throw the case out. The motion argued what the defense has pressed all trial: the solicitation charge requires evidence of a communicative act, and six days of testimony produced nothing showing Fernandez asked Tenon to kill Bridegan. No message, no witness, no recording. The prosecution's answer was the boldest legal theory of the trial. An "earnest ask" isn't needed, they told the judge, because the murder is the proof. Fernandez is the only connection between the alleged gunman and the victim. The checks, the trust clause, the phone data gap during the hour of the shooting, and a January visit to the man who once owned a 10mm Glock matching the shell casings form the web. That web, prosecutors argued, is the communicative act. Judge Kite denied the motion. Before the jury entered the courtroom that morning, prosecutors had tried one more thing. Kim Jensen, a friend of Gardner'

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On February 16, 2022, somebody ambushed and murdered Jared Bridegan. Today, the jury found Mario Fernandez-Saldana guilty on all counts.START FROM THE BEGINNING of our Jared Bridegan coverage here: https://murdersheetpodcast.com/jared-bridegan-shanna-gardner-mario-fernandez-saldanaCheck out our upcoming book events and get links to buy tickets here: https://murdersheetpodcast.com/eventsPre-order our book on Delphi here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/shadow-of-the-bridge-the-delphi-murders-and-the-dark-side-of-the-american-heartland-aine-cain/21866881?ean=9781639369232Or here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Shadow-of-the-Bridge/Aine-Cain/9781639369232Or here: https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Bridge-Murders-American-Heartland/dp/1639369236Join our Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/c/murdersheetSupport The Murder Sheet by buying a t-shirt here: https://www.murdersheetshop.com/Check out more inclusive sizing and t-shirt and merchandising options here: https://themurdersheet.dashery.com/Send tips to murdersheet@gmail.com.The Murder Sheet is a production of Mystery Sheet LLC.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Prosecutors handed a Duval County jury a chart on August 21 mapping every month of contact between Mario Fernandez and Henry Tenon across 2022. It starts at 26 communications in January, peaks at 37 in February, the month Jared Bridegan was ambushed in front of his toddler, and lands on zero by August. A 27-minute phone call the day after police published photos of the suspect truck sits inside that slide, and so does a factory reset that erased Fernandez's device six months after the killing. The state told jurors the reset phone never carried another Tenon message.The other half of the day happened without the jury. At 9:30 that morning, Judge London Kite stopped the trial because Jared's widow, Kirsten Bridegan, refused to surrender her own phone for extraction by Shanna Gardner's defense. The subpoena reaches her messages with Gardner's minor children, who are on the witness lists, along with a witness known in court papers as E.F. and the Justice for Jared social accounts. Kite ordered Kirsten to explain why she shouldn't be held in contempt; an appellate court froze everything by late afternoon. The victim's widow and the man accused of arranging his death spent the same day fighting over the same kind of evidence, with very different results.There's more the jury didn't see. Prosecutors auditioned a jailhouse witness who claims Fernandez called the killing his own idea, a claim the defense labeled unworthy of belief and the judge has yet to rule on. The defense also scored real points in open court, because the analyst who built the chart agreed gaps implicate no one, and $10,000 in checks between the men carried memo lines about landscaping and roof work. Fernandez says he is innocent of every allegation. The verdict may come down to how this jury reads all that silence.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #TrueCrimeToday #KirstenBridegan #ShannaGardner #TrueCrime #MurderForHire #FloridaTrial #TrueCrimePodcast #JusticeSystem

Two phones defined August 21 in the Jared Bridegan murder case, and the court could only reach one of them. The first belongs to Kirsten Bridegan. A judge halted Mario Fernandez's trial mid-testimony because Kirsten defied an order to surrender that phone for extraction on behalf of Shanna Gardner's lawyers. Gardner's attorneys say the material includes Kirsten's messages with the two children Gardner shares with Jared, both listed as witnesses, and argue the phone may show whether testimony was influenced. The show-cause order that followed put Jared's widow one hearing away from a contempt finding, until an appeals court stepped in hours later and gave her three business days to fight. The second phone belonged to Fernandez, and according to a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office detective, it was factory reset on August 26, 2022, six months after the killing and the same day as a T-Mobile store purchase. Prosecutors say Fernandez kept right on using the wiped device, logged back into 35 ac

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On this episode of Closed!, Lee sits down with New York State Senator Nathalia Fernandez, who represents the 34th Senate District covering parts of the Bronx and Westchester, to discuss the Fair and Transparent Real Estate Listings Act and the debate over pocket listings in New York real estate.Senator Fernandez breaks down what pocket listings are, why private or limited-access listings can leave sellers without full information and buyers without a fair chance to compete, and how her bill seeks to bring more transparency into the home sale process. Rather than banning private listings outright, the legislation would require sellers to be informed about where their property is being marketed and to provide written consent before a listing is kept off broadly accessible platforms.The conversation also explores the fair housing implications of hidden listings, how restricted access can shape who sees available homes, what brokers and agents should be preparing for if the bill becomes law, and why transparency is becoming a larger theme in real estate policy. Senator Fernandez also discusses the rise of AI-altered listing photos, “house fishing,” and the broader need to make sure buyers and sellers know what is real, what is available, and what choices they actually have.To learn more about Senator Nathalia Fernandez and her work, visit nysenate.gov or follow her on Instagram at @senfernandez34 and @fernandez4ny To learn more about Lee and Bergstein Flynn Knowlton & Pollina PLLC, visit bfkplaw.comTo find out more about Bergstein Flynn Knowlton & Pollina PLLC, visit our website at bfkplaw.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Henry Tenon confessed to murdering Jared Bridegan and signed a deal because of it — second-degree murder, a fifteen-year floor, and testimony against the two people accused of putting him up to it. Then, in February 2026, he stood in front of a judge and backed out. He wants a trial. The confession the state was counting on is no longer his to give away. That leaves Mario Fernandez, Tenon's former landlord, fighting first-degree murder and solicitation charges largely on circumstantial ground. An FBI agent traced Tenon's phone on a Saturday eighteen days before the murder, tracking a drive from Fernandez's rental toward Bridegan's neighborhood and his kids' gymnastics facility before ending in Jacksonville Beach — Fernandez's own phone stayed put the whole time. Prosecutors call it a practice run; the defense calls it a renovation trip, with video of Fernandez meeting contractors at that property. No DNA, no fingerprints, no surveillance ties Fernandez to the truck used in the ambush, and detectives admit the property where that truck was found was never searched. Three checks from Fernandez to Tenon, ten thousand dollars total, are dated about six weeks after the killing, marked "landscaping" and "Kickstarter Good Luck!!" — the defense argues one might actually say "roofing." A prosecutor also acknowledged a second, still-uncharged person was at the scene that night. Bridegan was thirty-three, a father of four, gunned down on a dark road after stopping to move a tire, his two-year-old daughter in the back seat. Shanna Gardner's trial starts in September, Tenon's in 2027, and Bridegan's widow is preparing to sit through all of it. LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #HenryTenon #ShannaGardner #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #BrideganTrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast 

A man who already confessed to killing Jared Bridegan stood up in a Jacksonville Beach courtroom in February 2026 and asked for a trial. Henry Tenon had pleaded to second-degree murder, agreed to fifteen years minimum, and signed on to testify against the two people prosecutors say paid him to do it. Then he changed his mind — and turned his own confession into something the state now has to prove without his cooperation. The man on trial in his place, for now, is Mario Fernandez, Tenon's former landlord, charged with first-degree murder and solicitation to commit a capital felony. An FBI agent walked jurors through Tenon's phone on a Saturday eighteen days before the murder — a drive from Fernandez's rental property toward Bridegan's neighborhood and his kids' gymnastics facility, then back. Prosecutors call it a rehearsal. The defense calls it a renovation errand and points to video of Fernandez meeting contractors at the property that same window. No DNA, fingerprints, or surveillance ties Fernandez to the truck linked to the ambush, and the lead detective has already conceded there's no physical evidence tying him to the gun. Three checks from Fernandez to Tenon, ten thousand dollars total, are dated weeks after Bridegan was killed — memo lines reading "landscaping" and "Kickstarter Good Luck!!" And a prosecutor let slip that a second person was there the night Bridegan died, someone still uncharged. Bridegan was thirty-three, a father of four, killed after stopping on a dark road to move a tire while his two-year-old rode in the back seat. Gardner's trial starts in September. Tenon's comes in 2027. His widow is watching all three unfold. LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #HenryTenon #ShannaGardner #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #BrideganTrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast 

Henry Tenon admitted he killed Jared Bridegan. He took the deal that came with that admission — second-degree murder, fifteen years minimum, and a promise to testify against the two people accused of hiring him. In February 2026, he walked that away. He told the judge he wants a trial. The confession that was supposed to close this case now has to be proven all over again, without him helping. Mario Fernandez is the one in the courtroom now, on trial for first-degree murder and solicitation, accused of hiring his former tenant to kill a man he'd never met. An FBI agent testified that Tenon's phone made a run eighteen days before the murder — out of Fernandez's rental, past Bridegan's neighborhood and his children's gymnastics facility, and on to Jacksonville Beach, while Fernandez's own phone never left the property. Prosecutors call that a dry run. The defense calls it a workday, backed by video of Fernandez with contractors at the same address. Still, no DNA, no fingerprints, and no surveillance put Fernandez anywhere near the truck used in the ambush, and investigators never even searched the property where that truck was later found. Then there's the money — three checks, ten thousand dollars, written to Tenon roughly six weeks after Bridegan died, marked "landscaping" and "Kickstarter Good Luck!!" And a prosecutor's aside that a second, unnamed person was at the scene that night. Bridegan was a thirty-three-year-old father of four, shot after stopping to move a tire on a dark road with his toddler in the car. Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski dig into what Tenon's reversal really costs the state, with Gardner's trial next and Tenon's own trial still two years out. LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #HenryTenon #ShannaGardner #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #BrideganTrial #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast 

Mario Fernandez's defense can show exactly where he was on January 29, 2022: at his own rental property on Potomac Avenue in Jacksonville, meeting contractors, hauling construction materials, on camera. In the Jared Bridegan murder trial's fourth day of testimony, prosecutors used that same day against him. FBI Agent Bobby Blythe traced Henry Tenon's phone leaving that exact property and running a route through Bridegan's life — his neighborhood, his children's gymnastics facility, Jacksonville Beach — eighteen days before Bridegan was shot dead beside a tire left in the road. The state calls it a practice run launched from the defendant's own address. The defense calls it a workday.The rest of the day belonged to what investigators don't have. No DNA, fingerprints, or surveillance connect Fernandez to the blue Ford F-150. No physical evidence shows John Biggerstaff supplying him a 10mm, and records showed six 10mm purchases at a single Jacksonville gun store. Nobody ever searched the property where the truck was found — an omission detectives explained with 2023 information, disputed by the defense, that the weapon was destroyed shortly after the shooting.Fernandez is charged with first-degree murder and solicitation as the alleged hirer, and the state's proof runs through a lease, a route, and $10,000 in checks to Tenon written in the six weeks after the murder. Jurors heard Fernandez's recorded calls from the days around Tenon's arrest and his 2022 police interview calling Bridegan "a keyboard warrior more than anything." Tony Brueski breaks down which side actually won Day 4 — and why the answer depends on which job the jury thinks is on trial. Testimony runs through August 28.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #HenryTenon #ShannaGardner #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #FernandezVerdictWatch

Two timelines now sit in front of the jury deciding Mario Fernandez's fate in the Jared Bridegan murder-for-hire trial. Before the killing: January 29, 2022, when FBI records show Henry Tenon's phone leaving Fernandez's Potomac Avenue rental and tracing Bridegan's world — his neighborhood, his kids' gym, Jacksonville Beach — while Fernandez's phone pinged around the property. After the killing: three checks from Fernandez to Tenon, $2,000 and $3,000 dated March 28, 2022, and $5,000 dated April 4, with "landscaping" and "Kickstarter Good Luck!!" on the memo lines. Prosecutors read those two timelines as a rehearsal and a payoff. The defense reads them as a renovation day and a bill for property work — one memo, it argues, may actually say "roofing."Day 4 also produced the trial's sharpest concessions. Lead Detective Chris Johns agreed no DNA, prints, or footage put Fernandez in the blue F-150. ATF Agent Mike Stengel agreed investigators never searched the home where the truck turned up — and then told the jury investigators were informed in 2023 that the gun was destroyed shortly after the shooting. The defense disputes that account.Fernandez is charged as the orchestrator: first-degree murder and solicitation to commit a capital felony, for allegedly hiring his former tenant to kill his wife's ex-husband. Tony Brueski walks through why evidence that would sink a gunman means little against this charge, why the quiet cellphone testimony bears on it directly, and what it means that all three defendants — Fernandez, Shanna Gardner, and Henry Tenon — will face juries in the span of months. The verdict watch starts when testimony ends August 28.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #HenryTenon #ShannaGardner #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #FernandezTrial

Taylor Kutis testified via Zoom on Day 3 of the Jared Bridegan murder trial and described conversations with Mario Fernandez that preceded the killing. Fernandez told Kutis he had "a special set of skills" from his time in the Army and mentioned "a contract with Gardner's family." After Bridegan was shot and killed on February 16, 2022, Fernandez described the murder to Kutis as "a hit-and-run."Kutis never called law enforcement. She heard what amounted to advance knowledge of a killing and a reframing of the murder afterward, and she never reported any of it.ATF agent Glenn Fahrig testified about DNA recovered from shell casings found at the murder scene. The DNA on the casings matched Jared Bridegan — not Mario Fernandez, not Shanna Gardner-Fernandez.Detective Johns faced cross-examination that targeted the prosecution's physical evidence. No cell phone data places Fernandez with Henry Tenon during the alleged rehearsal drive or on the day Bridegan was killed. No Fernandez DNA was recovered from the truck used in the ambush. Tenon originally pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and agreed to cooperate but later withdrew the plea and faces his own trial in 2027. The prosecution's "dry run" theory took direct fire, with Johns conceding gaps under questioning.Three Glock 10mm handguns were sold at Beaches Pawn Shop one month after the murder. Bridegan was killed with a 10mm round, but no forensic link to the murder weapon has been established. Victor Quiroz testified he met Fernandez a month after the killing with no discussion of the murder. Custody documents and family group chats framed Fernandez as an involved stepfather.The jury will not be sequestered. The trial continues with the prosecution's words set against a physical evidence trail full of gaps.END LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandezSaldana #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #BridgeganTrial #ShannaGardner #JacksonvilleBeach #TaylorKutis #MurderForHire #ShellCasingDNA

The prosecution revealed that Henry Tenon was not alone the night Jared Bridegan was shot and killed on a road in Jacksonville Beach. Someone fled on foot. Someone else drove a truck away from the scene. Tenon's DNA was found on the tire placed in the road to force Bridegan to stop. But prosecutors say he didn't drive the truck. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke take the listener questions this case is producing. Tenon confessed to the killing, took a plea deal in exchange for testimony against Mario Fernandez and Shanna Gardner, and then reversed everything — telling the judge his confession was false and demanding a trial of his own. The defense says Fernandez paid Tenon for handyman work, not murder. The prosecution says ten thousand dollars in checks went to a man whose only connection to the victim runs through the defendant. Fernandez's trial is happening now in Duval County. Gardner goes next in September. Tenon won't face a jury until 2027. Three trials, three separate juries, and three people pointing in different directions while Kirsten Bridegan — Jared's widow, who has carried this for four years — sits in the gallery and waits for the truth.END_LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #ShannaGardner #HenryTenon #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #BrideganTrial

The prosecution told the jury that the only connection between Jared Bridegan and the man accused of shooting him is Mario Fernandez. Fernandez allegedly wrote three checks totaling ten thousand dollars to Henry Tenon in the weeks after the killing. The defense says those checks were for legitimate property work — tile, tree removal, landscaping — and showed video of Tenon doing exactly that. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke work through the listener questions hitting hardest on this case. A prosecutor revealed in a pretrial filing that Tenon was not alone the night Bridegan was killed. Someone fled on foot and someone else drove a truck from the scene. If a fourth person was involved and hasn't been charged, what does that do to the entire theory of the case? Tenon confessed, took a plea deal, and then withdrew it — telling the judge he wanted a trial and that his prior testimony was false. He won't be tried until 2027. Gardner starts in September. Fernandez is on trial now. Jared was a thirty-three-year-old Microsoft employee, a father of four, and a man killed with his two-year-old daughter ten feet away. Kirsten Bridegan is about to sit through three trials to find out who is telling the truth.END_LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #ShannaGardner #HenryTenon #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #BrideganTrial

Taylor Kutis testified via Zoom on Day 3 of the Jared Bridegan murder trial and described conversations with Mario Fernandez that preceded the killing. Fernandez told Kutis he had "a special set of skills" from his time in the Army and mentioned "a contract with Gardner's family." After Bridegan was shot and killed on February 16, 2022, Fernandez described the murder to Kutis as "a hit-and-run."Kutis never called law enforcement. She heard what amounted to advance knowledge of a killing and a reframing of the murder afterward, and she never reported any of it.ATF agent Glenn Fahrig testified about DNA recovered from shell casings found at the murder scene. The DNA on the casings matched Jared Bridegan — not Mario Fernandez, not Shanna Gardner-Fernandez.Detective Johns faced cross-examination that targeted the prosecution's physical evidence. No cell phone data places Fernandez with Henry Tenon during the alleged rehearsal drive or on the day Bridegan was killed. No Fernandez DNA was recovered from the truck used in the ambush. Tenon originally pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and agreed to cooperate but later withdrew the plea and faces his own trial in 2027. The prosecution's "dry run" theory took direct fire, with Johns conceding gaps under questioning.Three Glock 10mm handguns were sold at Beaches Pawn Shop one month after the murder. Bridegan was killed with a 10mm round, but no forensic link to the murder weapon has been established. Victor Quiroz testified he met Fernandez a month after the killing with no discussion of the murder. Custody documents and family group chats framed Fernandez as an involved stepfather.The jury will not be sequestered. The trial continues with the prosecution's words set against a physical evidence trail full of gaps.END LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandezSaldana #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #BridgeganTrial #ShannaGardner #JacksonvilleBeach #TaylorKutis #MurderForHire #ShellCasingDNA

In February 2026, Henry Tenon stood in front of Judge London Kite in Duval County and said he wanted a trial. He had already confessed to killing Jared Bridegan. He had taken a deal. He had agreed to testify that Mario Fernandez and Shanna Gardner hired him to carry out the shooting. Then he took all of it back. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke sit down with the listener questions this audience cannot stop debating. What would make a man who admitted to murder reverse course and risk life in prison? The prosecution says the only link between Tenon and Bridegan is Fernandez, and that three checks totaling ten thousand dollars prove a murder-for-hire arrangement. The defense says Tenon was a handyman who did real work at the property and showed video to prove it. A prosecution filing revealed that someone else was at the scene the night Bridegan was killed — a detail that raises questions about who else was involved and whether additional charges could follow. Jared Bridegan was shot with his two-year-old daughter in the back seat. A bullet narrowly missed her. Fernandez is on trial now. Gardner starts September 7. Tenon in 2027. Three juries will hear three different versions of the same night.END_LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #ShannaGardner #HenryTenon #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast #BrideganTrial

The jury in the Jared Bridegan murder trial watched a fifty-minute police interview with Mario Fernandez Saldana on Tuesday. He called the murdered father a keyboard warrior and speculated about the killing like a man discussing a stranger's misfortune.The interview was recorded before Fernandez became a suspect. He sat in a chair wearing an orange shirt and talked about Bridegan with casual contempt, the kind that only makes sense if he believed nobody would ever connect him to what happened on that Jacksonville Beach road.Day 2 in the Duval County courtroom opened with physical evidence from the murder scene. Crime scene detective Shane Jarman played his walkthrough video showing a tire placed in the road to force Bridegan out of his vehicle, shell casings on the pavement, and his body next to his SUV. DNA collected from that tire matched Henry Tenon.Surveillance footage tracked a blue Ford F-150 through Jacksonville Beach to the exact stretch where Bridegan was killed on February 16, 2022. Twenty seconds separated the truck and Bridegan's SUV in the same camera frame. Eight minutes after the shooting, the truck backed into a dead-end and a figure climbed out on foot.Defense attorney Jesse Dreicer drove a thirty-two-minute gap in the surveillance where no camera captured the truck. Lead detective Chris Johns answered with a gait comparison matching Tenon's walk to the figure on the murder scene footage.Business check stubs inside the F-150 showed ten thousand dollars paid to Tenon six weeks after the killing. The memo lines read landscaping, roof upkeep, and Kickstarter Good Luck. The money came from a company funded through the Gardner family trust, the same trust prosecutors say was the motive for murder.Tenon has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is expected to testify later in the trial.END LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandezSaldana #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #BridgeganTrial #ShannaGardner #JacksonvilleBeach #HenryTenon #MurderForHire #StampinUp

The jury in the Jared Bridegan murder trial watched a fifty-minute police interview with Mario Fernandez Saldana on Tuesday. He called the murdered father a keyboard warrior and speculated about the killing like a man discussing a stranger's misfortune.The interview was recorded before Fernandez became a suspect. He sat in a chair wearing an orange shirt and talked about Bridegan with casual contempt, the kind that only makes sense if he believed nobody would ever connect him to what happened on that Jacksonville Beach road.Day 2 in the Duval County courtroom opened with physical evidence from the murder scene. Crime scene detective Shane Jarman played his walkthrough video showing a tire placed in the road to force Bridegan out of his vehicle, shell casings on the pavement, and his body next to his SUV. DNA collected from that tire matched Henry Tenon.Surveillance footage tracked a blue Ford F-150 through Jacksonville Beach to the exact stretch where Bridegan was killed on February 16, 2022. Twenty seconds separated the truck and Bridegan's SUV in the same camera frame. Eight minutes after the shooting, the truck backed into a dead-end and a figure climbed out on foot.Defense attorney Jesse Dreicer drove a thirty-two-minute gap in the surveillance where no camera captured the truck. Lead detective Chris Johns answered with a gait comparison matching Tenon's walk to the figure on the murder scene footage.Business check stubs inside the F-150 showed ten thousand dollars paid to Tenon six weeks after the killing. The memo lines read landscaping, roof upkeep, and Kickstarter Good Luck. The money came from a company funded through the Gardner family trust, the same trust prosecutors say was the motive for murder.Tenon has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is expected to testify later in the trial.END LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandezSaldana #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #BridgeganTrial #ShannaGardner #JacksonvilleBeach #HenryTenon #MurderForHire #StampinUp

The first witness the jury heard in the Jared Bridegan murder trial wasn't a detective. It was a woman named Jonelle Cruz who found Bridegan's two-year-old daughter Bexley alone in a car seat on a dark Jacksonville Beach road, shaking and asking about her dad.Prosecutors opened Monday in a Duval County courtroom by calling the killing a targeted ambush. Mario Fernandez Saldana, a former Army drill sergeant who married Bridegan's ex-wife Shanna Gardner, is the first of three defendants to face a jury. He sat listening to the evidence without visible expression.Assistant State Attorney Christina Simak Stifler told the jury Fernandez recruited a man named Henry Tenon for the job. GPS data from a vehicle linked to Tenon showed two trips along Bridegan's exact route before the murder on February 16, 2022. A dark blue Ford F-150 with a tire in its bed was seen near the road an hour before the shooting.Stifler explained the motive: a family trust. Gardner's parents founded Stampin' Up!, a company generating hundreds of millions in annual revenue. An irrevocable trust blocked Gardner from becoming trustee while she had legal entanglements with Bridegan. As long as he was alive fighting for custody of their twins, she couldn't touch the money.After Bridegan was dead, ten thousand dollars in checks from a company funded through the trust were deposited into accounts linked to Tenon. Phone records show thirty-five calls between Fernandez and Tenon in February 2022 alone.Defense attorney James Hill pushed back. No eyewitness places Fernandez at the scene. No DNA ties him to the road. Checks the prosecution calls payment for murder carry memo lines reading landscaping and roof upkeep.Bridegan's wife Kirsten took the stand and told the jury she knew who was responsible before police named a suspect. Bexley described the shooting in her own words: Boom, Boom, Boom, Daddy on the ground.Three defendants face separate trials for one murder. Gardner's trial starts in September with Jose Baez as her attorney. What happens in this courtroom reshapes both cases that follow.END LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandezSaldana #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ShannaGardner #BridgeganTrial #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #StampinUp #TrustFund

The first witness the jury heard in the Jared Bridegan murder trial wasn't a detective. It was a woman named Jonelle Cruz who found Bridegan's two-year-old daughter Bexley alone in a car seat on a dark Jacksonville Beach road, shaking and asking about her dad.Prosecutors opened Monday in a Duval County courtroom by calling the killing a targeted ambush. Mario Fernandez Saldana, a former Army drill sergeant who married Bridegan's ex-wife Shanna Gardner, is the first of three defendants to face a jury. He sat listening to the evidence without visible expression.Assistant State Attorney Christina Simak Stifler told the jury Fernandez recruited a man named Henry Tenon for the job. GPS data from a vehicle linked to Tenon showed two trips along Bridegan's exact route before the murder on February 16, 2022. A dark blue Ford F-150 with a tire in its bed was seen near the road an hour before the shooting.Stifler explained the motive: a family trust. Gardner's parents founded Stampin' Up!, a company generating hundreds of millions in annual revenue. An irrevocable trust blocked Gardner from becoming trustee while she had legal entanglements with Bridegan. As long as he was alive fighting for custody of their twins, she couldn't touch the money.After Bridegan was dead, ten thousand dollars in checks from a company funded through the trust were deposited into accounts linked to Tenon. Phone records show thirty-five calls between Fernandez and Tenon in February 2022 alone.Defense attorney James Hill pushed back. No eyewitness places Fernandez at the scene. No DNA ties him to the road. Checks the prosecution calls payment for murder carry memo lines reading landscaping and roof upkeep.Bridegan's wife Kirsten took the stand and told the jury she knew who was responsible before police named a suspect. Bexley described the shooting in her own words: Boom, Boom, Boom, Daddy on the ground.Three defendants face separate trials for one murder. Gardner's trial starts in September with Jose Baez as her attorney. What happens in this courtroom reshapes both cases that follow.END LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandezSaldana #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ShannaGardner #BridgeganTrial #JacksonvilleBeach #MurderForHire #StampinUp #TrustFund

On February 16, 2022, somebody ambushed and murdered Jared Bridegan. Today, the first of three trials on the case begins.This summer, in anticipation of multiple upcoming trials, we start our deep dive into this murder case.START FROM THE BEGINNING of our Jared Bridegan coverage here: https://murdersheetpodcast.com/jared-bridegan-shanna-gardner-mario-fernandez-saldanaCheck out our upcoming book events and get links to buy tickets here: https://murdersheetpodcast.com/eventsPre-order our book on Delphi here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/shadow-of-the-bridge-the-delphi-murders-and-the-dark-side-of-the-american-heartland-aine-cain/21866881?ean=9781639369232Or here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Shadow-of-the-Bridge/Aine-Cain/9781639369232Or here: https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Bridge-Murders-American-Heartland/dp/1639369236Join our Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/c/murdersheetSupport The Murder Sheet by buying a t-shirt here: https://www.murdersheetshop.com/Check out more inclusive sizing and t-shirt and merchandising options here: https://themurdersheet.dashery.com/Send tips to murdersheet@gmail.com.The Murder Sheet is a production of Mystery Sheet LLC.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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A rental company owned by two people accused of hiring Jared Bridegan's killer wrote him a check with "Good luck!" on the memo line. Seven weeks after the murder. That detail is now part of a Jacksonville trial that started with its confessed gunman refusing to cooperate. Henry Tenon told investigators he pulled the trigger and signed a plea deal to testify against Mario Fernandez and Shanna Gardner. Four years and one day after Jared Bridegan was shot, Tenon stood before a judge and asked for a trial of his own instead. Prosecutors did not object. Bridegan was 33, worked at Microsoft, and had four children. He was killed on February 16, 2022, after dropping his twins at Gardner's home and stopping to move a tire off the road, his two-year-old daughter still in the car. A bullet missed her by inches. A grand jury charged Fernandez with a count that existed only because that child was in the vehicle. Prosecutors quietly dropped it two weeks before jury selection. Days later, the same prosecutor told the court the state has overwhelming evidence of a conspiracy — and that an unidentified second person drove away from the scene in a pickup truck. Fernandez's defense says every check the family company wrote, including the $10,000 that reached Tenon's account within weeks of the killing, paid for legitimate landscaping and roof work. Prosecutors counter with three dozen calls between Fernandez and Tenon that same month and a jailhouse informant who says Fernandez tried to pin the murder on Jared's widow. Fernandez has pleaded not guilty. Trial runs August 17 through 28. LINKS, DISCLAIMER & HASHTAGS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #HiddenKillers #ShannaGardner #HenryTenon #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #TrueCrime #DuvalCounty #JuryTrial 

Henry Tenon confessed to killing Jared Bridegan, took a plea deal, and agreed to testify against the two people prosecutors say hired him. Then, four years and one day after the shooting, he stood in front of a judge and asked for a trial instead — and prosecutors let him. That reversal opened the Bridegan murder-for-hire trial in Jacksonville, a case already missing pieces prosecutors haven't explained. A grand jury charged Mario Fernandez on four counts, one of them tied directly to the fact that Bridegan's two-year-old daughter was in the car when he was shot. Prosecutors dropped that count two weeks before jury selection and gave the court no reason. Bank records tell their own story. Tenon had 52 cents to his name in January 2022. Within weeks of the killing, $10,000 in checks from a rental company owned by Fernandez and Shanna Gardner landed in his account — memo lines reading "landscaping and cleaning" and "keeping up with the roof." A later $5,000 check allegedly carried the memo "Kickstarter" and "Good luck!" Fernandez's defense says the payments covered real property work and that nothing was paid before Bridegan died. Prosecutors point to more than three dozen calls between Fernandez and Tenon during the month of the shooting, an unidentified second person who drove away from the scene in a pickup truck, and a jailhouse informant who claims Fernandez described the conspiracy from behind bars and tried to pin it on Jared's widow, Kirsten. Fernandez has pleaded not guilty. His trial runs August 17 through 28. Gardner's trial follows, and Tenon now waits for a March 2027 date of his own. LINKS, DISCLAIMER & HASHTAGS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #HiddenKillers #ShannaGardner #HenryTenon #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #TrueCrime #DuvalCounty #JuryTrial 

A prosecutor stood in court and dropped the one charge that existed because Jared Bridegan's two-year-old daughter was in the car when he was shot. Four days later, that same prosecutor told the judge the state has overwhelming evidence of a conspiracy — and that someone else drove away from the murder scene in a pickup truck. Nobody has been charged with driving it. That contradiction sits at the center of the Bridegan murder-for-hire trial, which opened in Jacksonville after its star witness upended the case. Henry Tenon confessed to being the gunman and agreed to testify against Mario Fernandez and Shanna Gardner as part of a plea deal. Four years and one day after the shooting, he asked a judge for a trial instead, and prosecutors didn't object. Fernandez's defense has spent three years cutting into the state's case — half the original charges dropped, the death penalty removed, and a judge blocking testimony under a spousal privilege ruling. Their explanation for the money is simple: checks from a family rental company covered landscaping and roof repairs, and nothing was paid before Bridegan died. One of those checks, for $5,000, allegedly carried the memo "Kickstarter" and "Good luck!" The state answers with more than three dozen calls between Fernandez and Tenon during the month of the killing, and a jailhouse informant who says Fernandez laid out the conspiracy himself and tried to pin the murder on Jared's widow. Fernandez has pleaded not guilty. His trial runs August 17 through 28, with Gardner's case and Tenon's own March 2027 date still to come. LINKS, DISCLAIMER & HASHTAGS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #HiddenKillers #ShannaGardner #HenryTenon #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #TrueCrime #DuvalCounty #JuryTrial 

Before Mario Fernandez's murder trial begins in the Jared Bridegan case, his defense has already reshaped the field. The alleged triggerman withdrew his confession. A judge blocked testimony about a private conversation between Fernandez and his estranged wife. Prosecutors dropped two of four charges without explanation.But the state kept the financial records. Fernandez's property company issued three checks to the man prosecutors say shot Bridegan, totaling roughly $10,000 after the killing. One was a $5,000 payment dated April 4, 2022, allegedly carrying the words "Kickstarter" and "Good luck!" on the memo line. The defense argues these covered legitimate property maintenance and that no money went to the alleged gunman before the crime occurred.Phone records document 35 calls between Fernandez and the alleged shooter in February 2022, the month of the killing, with 30 more the following month. A prosecutor told the court in late July that a second individual left the scene in a pickup truck and has not been publicly identified. An inmate who spent nearly a year near Fernandez in the Duval County jail told the state that Fernandez spoke openly about the conspiracy, assigned roles to the participants, and allegedly proposed a plan to shift blame onto Jared's widow Kirsten after the inmate's release.Prosecutors say they offered the inmate no deals on his own pending case. The defense contends the state's cooperating witness was coerced into his original confession and that jailhouse informants are inherently unreliable.Fernandez denies all charges. Trial runs August 17 through 28 in Duval County. Gardner's trial is scheduled for the end of August. Tenon goes to trial in spring 2027.END_LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #HiddenKillers #ShannaGardner #HenryTenon #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #DefenseStrategy #TrueCrime #DuvalCounty

Mario Fernandez's defense team in the Jared Bridegan murder case has been winning before the trial started — charges dropped, death penalty gone, a key witness blocked from the stand, and the state's cooperating gunman withdrawing his plea deal entirely. Then prosecutors pulled the financial records.Three handwritten checks from Fernandez's company to the alleged triggerman Henry Tenon total $10,000 and arrived after the murder. Two were issued on the same day in March 2022. The third, dated April 4, allegedly carried the memo "Kickstarter" and "Good luck!" on a $5,000 payment written seven weeks after Bridegan was ambushed on Sanctuary Boulevard.Fernandez's attorneys say those checks paid for landscaping and roof repairs on a rental property and that no money changed hands before the crime. Phone records showing 35 calls between Fernandez and Tenon in February 2022, 30 in March, and continued contact into June form another pillar of the state's case. At a late-July hearing, prosecutor Alan Mizrahi disclosed that two people left the crime scene the night Bridegan was killed. One fled on foot, one drove a pickup truck. Tenon's DNA was on the tire. He was not driving.A fellow inmate also alleges Fernandez described the conspiracy from inside the Duval County jail, identified his own role, named Gardner as the planner, and asked for help framing Kirsten Bridegan through letters mailed to reporters and law enforcement after release.Fernandez has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and solicitation. Jury selection began August 10 and trial is set to begin August 17. Gardner's trial follows at month's end. Tenon faces his own trial in March 2027.END_LINKSListen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #MarioFernandez #HiddenKillers #ShannaGardner #HenryTenon #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #DefenseStrategy #TrueCrime #DuvalCounty

Henry Tenon had a deal. Plead guilty to second-degree murder, testify truthfully against Shanna Gardner and Mario Fernandez Saldana, and face a sentencing range that started at 15 years. He signed it in March 2023. He walked away from it in February 2026 and is now charged with first-degree murder.Four years on, Tenon has never been sentenced for anything.Jared Bridegan was a 33-year-old Microsoft employee and a father of four. He was killed on a Jacksonville Beach street on February 16, 2022, minutes after dropping his twins at his ex-wife's house. A tire had been placed in the road to make him stop. His 2-year-old was behind him in a car seat.We walk the bank records: 52 cents in Tenon's account in January 2022, three checks totaling $10,000 from a company owned by Fernandez and Gardner in the weeks after, and a detective's testimony that the promised figure was $150,000, structured as an investment in a pallet business. Defense attorneys say the checks paid for landscaping and roof work.Mario Fernandez Saldana's jury was picked in August. Shanna Gardner's follows days after his verdict is read aloud. Each of the three defendants has pleaded not guilty, and each is presumed innocent.END_LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#JaredBridegan #HenryTenon #HiddenKillers #ShannaGardner #MarioFernandezSaldana #PleaDeal #MurderForHire #JacksonvilleBeach #TrueCrime #FloridaCourts

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For almost five years, the Fernandez family told me their doctor's husband was terrorizing them. Threatening messages, unpaid pizza deliveries, police at the door for crimes that never happened. Three weeks ago, Peoria police surrounded their house with a search warrant and seized every device inside. Nobody was arrested that day. Then this week, one of the Fernandez children was booked into a Maricopa County jail on more than thirty counts, including stalking, making a terrorist threat, and sexual exploitation of a minor. All charges are allegations. No one has been convicted, and the case is ongoing. Catch up on the full series here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/41KG24W8b5Lz0dzHsU3LoP?si=3aaeef5a367d4c2d Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez issued the documents on behalf of Pope Leo XIV announcing the excommunication of the SSPX. What does it mean to be excommunicated by a man who is a known public heretic like Fernandez?Sponsored by Pray Latinhttps://praylatin.comSources:https://substack.com/@returntotradition1Contact Me:Email: return2catholictradition@gmail.comSupport My Work:Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/AnthonyStineSubscribeStarhttps://www.subscribestar.net/return-to-traditionBuy Me A Coffeehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/AnthonyStinePhysical Mail:Anthony StinePO Box 3048Shawnee, OK74802Follow me on the following social media:https://www.facebook.com/ReturnToCatholicTradition/https://twitter.com/pontificatormax+JMJ+#popeleoXIV #catholicism #catholicchurch #catholicprophecy#infiltration