August 18, 2022 • 39 mins
The search continues for the person who ambushed 33-year-old Jared Bridegan as he drove home with his 2-year-old daughter. Bridegan had dropped of his then 9-year old children to his ex-wife and was on his way home when shots rang out. Bridegan's ex, Shanna Gardner-Fernandez, has been under intense scrutiny. Reports say the Bridegan's marriage broke up after Fernandez had an affair. She denied it, but the fitness trainer alleged in the affair, confirms he did have a relationship with Fernandez.
Also a tattoo artist has come forward say that Fernandez said her life would be better if Jared Bridegan could "just ‘shut up.’ Fernandez then asked if any of the salon employees knew anybody that could ‘shut him up.’”
So far, the Jacksonville Beach Police Department hasn’t named a suspect in connection with the case and Gardner-Fernandez maintains her innocence.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Kirsten Bridegan - Victim's Wife, Instagram: @JusticeForJaredB
- Kathleen Murphy - Family Attorney (North Carolina), NCDomesticlaw.com, Twitter: @RalDivorceLaw
- Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst (Beverly Hills, CA), DrBethanyMarshall.com, New Netflix show: 'Bling Empire' (Beverly Hills)
- Dr. Michelle DuPre - Former Forensic Pathologist, Medical Examiner and Detective: Lexington County Sheriff's Department, Author: "Homicide Investigation Field Guide" & "Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide", Forensic Consultant, DMichelleDupreMD.com
- Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan"
- Rebecca Rosenberg - Fox News Digital Crime Reporter, Author: "At Any Cost", RebeccaFayeRosenberg.com, Twitter: @ReRosenberg
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Crime Stories with Nancy Greece, a loving father of four
seemingly ambushed on his way home one evening on an
isolated road. Why did that happen? Why does his little
girl still say boom boom, Daddy's on the ground. The
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other stunning tragedy is that his little girl, age two,
was actually stripped in the car seat in the back
of the suv when daddy was murdered. But in the
last days a stunning twist in the case. I Nancy Grace,
this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us
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here at Fox Nation, and Sirius XM one eleven. First
of all, take a listen to this. Who killed Jerry
Bride again? Questions have been raised in the media over
whether his ex wife, Shanna Gardner Fernandez, was somehow involved.
They had a contentious divorce and custody battle, but did
reach a settlement before his death. Police have not named
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anyone as a suspect. Do you think that Jared's ex
wife has something to do with this? I'm not comfortable
saying yes definitely unless there's evidence to back that up.
But I believe her actions since his murder have been
very suspicious and they don't sit well with me you
we're hearing our friends at Inside Edition along with victim
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to thirty three years old, a devout Mormon trying the
best he can to raise his children along with his
knee bride. Why would anyone want to gun him down
on a remote one way road with his little daughter
Becksley in the backseat. In the last hours, As I
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mentioned to you, focus has been now pinpointed on his
ex wife, who of course declares her innocence, as does
her lawyer. With me an all star panel to make
sense of what we know right now, but two special
guests joining us Jared's wife, his now widow, Kirsten Brightigan.
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Thank you for being with us, and you can find
her at Justice for Jared B. Kristen, it must seem
surreal to even hear the word widow attached to your name.
It is you know, I just took my daughter to
her annual exam and on the farms you have to
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check that box and that that was very difficult to do. Guys,
Kirsten is raising two little children and I don't know
how you do it every day. Also, Jared has two
older children from his first marriage, and that is the X.
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Somehow focus is now attached to with me, Rebecca Rosenberg,
Fox News Digital crime reporter, author of At Any Cost,
and you can find her at Rebecca fey Rosenberg dot com. Rebecca,
it's so wonderful to have you with us, because I
tell you, I am stunned at what we are learning now.
First of all, take a listen to our cut from
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crime online dot com. The Florida ex wife of murdered
Microsoft manager Jared Bridigan denied having an affair that ended
their marriage, but her former personal trainer, who says he
was her one time lover, contradicted her claim in an
interview with Fox News Digital. As a Christmas gift in
late twenty fourteen, Bridigen bought his then wife, Shanna Gardner Fernandez,
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a package of training sessions, but the fitness instruct you
said their relationship turned romantic just weeks later. Okay, her
weightlifting lover now says they were an item before the divorce,
before that divorce was final. Now you know what to you,
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Rebecca Rosenberg, having an affair does not a murder make
and if that's your only evidence, you're up the creek
without a paddle. But what makes this really concerning is
the lying about it. When you are in the middle
of a homicide investigation, that is the time not to lie,
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because that makes it seem so much more nefarious. Rebecca,
listen again to our forensic crime online. The former personal trainer,
said Shannah Gardner for Nandez, whose family owns the multimillion
dollar papercraft company called Stamping Up, told him that she
and brit Again were separated for months when their sessions
allegedly took an unprofessional turn. The instructor, who asked that
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his name be with hel to protect his privacy, said quote,
they weren't really speaking. They were living in opposite ends
of the house. She said she had grown up Marmon
and didn't want that anymore. Bride Again, on the other hand,
remained a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter day Saints. Rebecca Rosenbarre, there's so much happening
right now on the Bride Again investigation. I want to
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start with the affair again. You know, half the people
on the jury, if there ever is a jury, will
have had an affair at some point in their life,
whether they cheated on a boyfriend or a girlfriend, a
husband and X, or they may have been a victim
of their loved one having an affair. That again does
not a murder make, but lying about it, if in
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fact she did lie about it in a homicide investigation
regarding the father of her two children, that's a big deal. Yes, Nancy,
I think that really is the point. I mean, again,
this is this is seven years ago that this allegedly happened.
And like you said, people have affairs all the time. Well, Rebecca,
I certainly hope not all the time. And in fact,
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I'm going to call my husband and the break and
make sure he's at work where he's supposed to be alone. Okay,
go ahead, But I do think that if you and
I in the article, I included a quote from a
long time Manhattan homicide prosecutor who said, that is really
really troubling, especially when she's represented by a criminal defense attorney,
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to give a public interview and make a statement that
you know that is allegedly not true. It could be
so easily proven as false because there's another party there
who says that this, you know, that's happened. So I
think that's kind of you know, it's just it just
is not a good look to Kirsten Bright again. This
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is Jared's wife, his current wife. He had an EXI
that's what we're talking about right now, that reportedly cheated,
had a sex affair with a personal trainer. I don't
give a flying fig if she had an affair, but
lying about it, if in fact she did lie about
it when you were in the middle of a homicide investigation,
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that changes everything in my mind, Kristen, Did he know
she cheated during the marriage, if in fact she did, Yes,
Jared had always told me when I had asked him
about the divorce, that he had found emails and screenshots
of sexually explicit messages and photos between the two of them,
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and he had told me that he confronted her about it,
and that's when things unraveled. It was not before they
were not separated before, according to Jared. According to Jared,
it happened after he found those and that's what initiated
Shanna filing for divorce in February with me, you know, Kirsen, Rebecca,
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don't move, but I've got to go to a shrink.
Doctor Bethany Marshall joining me, renowned psychoanalysts joining us out
of Beverly Hills. Never like a business there, Doctor Bethany
Marshall dot com and star of a new Netflix show,
Bling Empire. Doctor Bethany, I really don't know a nice
way to put this. Why are people so stupid? First
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of all, you have an affair, but then you exchange
text messages and send explicit photos from your phone that
your spouse can just look at. I mean, doctor Bethany,
every time I turn around, my children are like two monkeys.
They're constantly They even either have my iPad or my
phone or am I whatever in their hand. They know
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all the codes and they're like all over it. I
couldn't keep a secret from them if they had to.
But to number one, have the affair, because you're gonna
get caught. But number two make it so easy and
so hurtful for the spouse to find out. That's the
last thing I want to do is look at my
husband's fine and say, some other woman's breasts on there
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are really any breasts on there, but especially some other
woman's breasts. Absolutely, it shows lack of empathy, lack of
conform who whoa, whoa whoa? Slow down? Okay, lack of
empathy right there, You're so right. I mean, I don't
ever want to hurt David, my husband, And the last
thing I would do is leave something out for him
to find that I know would hurt him. But you know, Nancy,
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people who have affairs do ultimately leave something out so
that they are found out. It happens all the time.
Here's an interesting thing about affairs. When a person has
an affair, it's not because they love the object of
the affair or they want to be with that person.
They like how that person makes them feel. They're creating
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an experience with that person. Oh, dear Lord and him.
And when you start with the experience, it's sex. Okay,
I mean really, Doctor Bethany, I know you're the expert,
but let me just jump in. Could somebody do something
to surprise me, Like, the man has a midlife crisis,
no offense, Joe Scott Morgan. The man has a midlife
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crisis and he runs out with the secretary or in
a case I covered where the mom was ultimately murdered
with the clerk at G and C. You know, Jackie.
They start the exercising and the tanning and the new
haircut and the sports car, and they start taking vitamins.
I know it's clich shaped. But don't look at me
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like that, Jackie. It happens, and he actually starts the
affair with the checkout lady at the G and C.
And here the wife. If it's true, She says it's not,
but the trainer says it is. She starts personal training
and then starts an affair with the trainer. I mean,
surprise me just once I'm through with my tirade, Bethany, Okay,
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there are no surprises. It was a sex affair. She
was becoming a new person with him. She was getting tattoo,
she was working out, she was bulking up. Do you
see the pictures of her. I mean, she went on
a journey to become a new person, a highly sexualized,
eroticized person. And who is she going to do it
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with the personal trainer? You know that the idea that
she wanted to experience herself is something different does seem
to link back to the fact that she grew up
in a very religious Mormon family. Oh, I was just
waiting for you to blame the Mormons. Okay, here's the
other thing, though. Listen to Kirsten Branegan. She's in the
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middle of trying to solve this horrific tragedy. This torn
her family apart, and now the affair the ex wife
had with the trainer has become an issue Time Stories
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with Nancy Grace Christian Bright again again. I don't care
who sleeps with who, doesn't matter unless it touches on
a homicide investigation. And to lie you said, now what
seven years later, still lying about it while we are
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trying to solve a murderer? Are you surprised? I'm not.
From my experience, things are never what they seem with Shanna.
So if what Jared told me is true, if what
the trainer has now said is true, I am not
surprised that she denies it. Let's talk about what the
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trainer is now saying. Rebecca rosenburr Um Fox and He's
digital crime reporter author has been on this case from
the beginning. What is the trainer actually saying. We are
not staying the trainer's name because he does not want
his name out there. We've already got one dead body.
What is he saying exactly, Rebecca, He just said that
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when he met that her husband had purchased he had
been husband had purchased these sessions. They started in an affair,
but he thought that they had been separated for a
very long time beforehand, and so he didn't realize she
was still in a relationship with him. But family members
and I'm sure Kristen can Land on this Um told
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Fox that that simply wasn't true. They only separated right
before the divorce in February twenty fifteen. So Um, and
he said that he actually, you know, at a certain point,
was like, you know, I told her she's got to
kind of go do her own thing now because she
just has too much going on with this split, and
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it wasn't really good for them to pursue that relationship
at that time. Okay, who said, what can you say
that again? And he's Chiner ex wife and Jared, will
you tell me that one more time? Yea. So the
trainer said that they dated for a few months, but
at a certain point he told her that, you know,
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they had to take a break because she was so
distracted by this acrimonious split from Jared Brittigan now dating
and my mind, Rebecca Rosenberg means you go out for
dinner in a movie. Were they having sex during the
merits before the divorce? According to the trainer, yes, they
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she also started teaching classes. He said. After he trained her,
she started teaching classes at the same where he worked out,
and they remained friendly even after they broke up. Jesscot
Morgan joining me, professor forensic Jacksonville State University, author of
Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon, and star of an
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incredible news series, Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan on iHeart
Joe Scott again. I can't say it enough. I couldn't
care less who's sleeping with who, not my concern. My
concern is how it touches on a murder investigation. Jared
Brynigan was ruthlessly murdered. For any listener or viewer that
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forgot the circumstances, please give me a nutshell. Joe Scott
as to what happened to Jared just thirty three years old,
four children to raise the night he left his ex
wife's home, dropping the two older children off. When I
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say older, they're not that old. Bexley two at the
time and London just six months at the time. Their
dad is murdered. He's Joe Scott leaving the two older
children aged either twins at the excess, and driving. I
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guess about a twenty minute drive home to Kristen who
is with us today and the two babies. And there's
a one way road you take it from there, Joe
Scott one way road, and you know, very very narrow,
and it's it's a familiar area he runs. He runs
this route, you know, relatively often because you know he's
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he has to interact with the X with his children.
And he is going down this road, tree Line Street,
and he comes across debris in the roadway, which was
actually at tire. I think, what's still a rom attached
to I remember seeing an I mentioned this, yes, and
you know, what are you gonna do? You know, you
can't drive over this thing. You're gonna have to get
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out of the vehicle and remove it from the roadway,
because first off, you'll tear up your car. And he
sounds like a really decent guy. He's probably kind of
guy that wouldn't want anybody else to hit this thing.
As he's out of the car, he's gunned down right
there with the baby in the back seat. Gunned down,
not robbed, not sex assaulted, not carjact. The person was
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lying in wait for him to come by the tire
in the middle of the road to make him get
out because you couldn't get around it on the one
way road. This is an ambush murder. Kathleen Murphy joining
me high profile family lawyer out of North Carolina at
NC Domestic Law dot com. Kathleen Murphy. When a murder
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case rears his ugly head, and that's the time when
you start telling the truth about your background, about everything
to do with you as it relates to the murder victim. Again,
could somebody have an affair that surprises me? Not the secretary,
the assistant, the cashier at the vitamin supplement store, the
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personal trainer. It doesn't make a murder, but I mean
Kathleen Murphy. It certainly doesn't help that she lied about it.
It doesn't help that she lied about it, and it
makes me believe that she's also lied to the courts
in the civil section too, because in the civil trial
where they had their custody matters, she put a lot
of information in pleading on a regular basis, and like
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Kristen had reported earlier, on one hand, she would agree
to something and they would end up in court because
she's not a person of her word. And Nancy, I
also have to add to what Joe Scott Morgan said,
this particular area, it was an ambush because to the
right of the tire is a sign that's right in
the road, and to the left of the tire trees.
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You absolutely cannot go past it without getting out of
your carm. So with respect to an affair, it is
an indication of character. It is an indication if she's
lying to the police and she's lying about other things.
Another major development and Kristen Bridigan, this is Jared's wife
joining us, the mother of his two children, trying to
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put her life back together and solve the murder of
her husband. Take a listen to our cut forty nine,
Katie Jeffrey's first Coast news in the national media. Though
there has been much speculation about Bridigan's acrimonious divorce from
his first wife, Shana Gardner Fernandez, one story claimed that
she asked a local tattoo artist about someone who could quote,
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shut him up and quote. In an interview with our
news partners at the Florida Times Union, she called the
implications that she was involved sensationalistic and inaccurate, and she
felt threatened by the scrutiny Kirsten Bridigan. The thought that
there is now a tattoo artist stating that your husband's
ex was looking for someone to quote shut him up.
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That has got to stab you to the core. Yeah,
you know, I am so grateful that he came forward
because to me, that's huge. There's been people that said, oh,
people say things like this when they're getting divorced. I've
had several friends get divorced and none of them have
said something like that. And on top of it, in
her interview, she also says that her criminal law defense
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attorney was referred to her by several friends, and she
even like hints at, you know, we run in different circles,
almost trying to make it seem sketchy, like Jared was
involved in some sketchy circles. But when you think about it,
I'm like, none of my friends would be able to
refer us to a criminal defense attorney. So yeah, we
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do run in different circles. They are very different. What
does that mean to you? Kirsten Bright again and she
said you run in different circles. I took that as
an attempt to doubt on what Jared may had been
involved in or who he ran with, which is just
insane to me if you knew Jared, and that's why
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I'm trying to help people know who he was. He's
not involved in anything like that. He's the goofiest, most
fun loving man. And so to try and throw that
out there, but then at the same time say that
her friends, multiple friends, referred her to a criminal defense attorney.
I think that flipped on her and wasn't what she
may have wanted that to be. Kathalie Murphy, we're a
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high profile family lawyer joining us out of North Carolina,
but also familiar with this area. Jump in regarding the
location of the shooting death. So, Nancy, this is my hometown.
This is where my siblings still lived to this day,
and it is not a busy road. When Jared dropped
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his children off at his ex wife's house, he literally
drove down very quiet roads, their back roads, and he
drove through a one way access road to get to
an exit ramp to get on a highway if you will,
to cross over that made your highway to get to
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his side of town. And so for this to be
considered non personal would be very unusual. It was personal.
There's nobody out there at that time, in my experience,
it's very quiet, and it is a one way road
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and it's secluded, and I don't understand why it would
not be something that was specifically targeted as to Jared. Well,
obviously in my mind it was. Guys. I want to
focus falling up on what we have just heard from
Kathleen Murphy. I want to focus back on telling a
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tattoost And I believe Rebecca Rosenberg she was in the
middle of getting her genitals pears Is that correct? Yeah,
it's very odd. Actually, she filed to divorce on February
twenty third, and then went into this tattoo parlor the
next day and got a genital piercing and the staffer
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who worked there, but it was so noteworthy because she
didn't have any tattoos yet, she didn't have any other
unusual piercing, and she went straight for this kind of
extreme pierceing that normally people get after having these other ones.
It was just kind of unusual, almost like she was
going through some sort of transition, I guess. And genital
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parsing is something you work up too normally, I think,
if you ever work up to it at all. But
I don't think usually people get just that piercing, so
he noted it as being quite unusual graduate to general piercing.
Not judging, don't care what I care about. It's what
she said reportedly to the tattoo artists. You know, this
is reminding me of doctor Bethany. It's reminded me of
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tot Mom Casey Anthony, who had Italian the Italian fries
for the Sweet Life. I think it was ladolsha Vita
tattooed on her arm while her two year old taught girl,
Kayley was missing translation murdered by her. Do you remember that, Nancy?
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I remember it. Not only that, not only the Sweet
Life tattooed on her body, dancing on a stripper pole,
buying the low cut outfits and lingerie at the local target.
I think she stole her roommate, I think check book
in order to make that a good memory. Yeah, your
baby's missing, and what do you want to push out
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bras in a case of beer? Okay, that's right. So
what I am seeing with Shanna is this dramatic personality transformation.
It really is typical of what we see with women
who have a borderline personality disorder. I was just waiting
for you to say she a personality disorder, that's not insanity.
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But think about it. Think about it that people of
borderline personality have both cleaning and rejecting behavior. Because she
probably stalked him during the divorce, she was preoccupied with him,
but she's also rejecting him, lying, taking him to court
for every little till somebody's jumping in. Is that Rebecca?
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Now this is Kathleen. When I see litigation at this level,
I really have to equate a lot of litigation at
this level to personality disorders. It is very significant as
a red flag that this heavy litigation, that she was
engaged and he was responsive mainly is indicative of that
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personality disorder that you're discussing. Okay, you know what, guys,
I really appreciate all the info about the personality disorder,
but unless it rises to a mental defect or insanity,
which is a defense at trial, don't care. I don't
care if she was a narcissistic and thought only about herself.
I don't care if she was histrionic, which means you're
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a drama queen or a king. All the pathological liar,
a sex a blah blah. What matters is a father
four is dead on a remote highway, and now the
ex wife seemingly is caught and a really big fat
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lie again not about having sex with somebody else during
the marriage, but about credibility, because if you're lying during
a homicide investigation, that is a big red flight. I mean,
Doctor Michelle Dupree, a forensic pathologists medical examiner, author of
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Homicide Investigation Field Guide, Doctor Dupree, I have reason to
believe that bright Agan, Jerry bright Agan, was shot at
close range. This wasn't a like an accidental shooting inside
a car, which has happened in the past. This was targeted.
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How can I tell if it was close range as well?
There's a couple of plays stancy and one, of course,
as we look at the actual wound itself, we look
at any gunshot residue that may be on the clothing.
We looked for signs that the weapon was within a
certain distance from that person, and we can tell that
again by the wound and by the gunshot residue that
may be on the clothing. But the really interesting thing is,
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and you've said it, you know this was targeted. I
mean someone had to know his route. This is a
remote area It's a little bit of an unusual way
to go home. The tire was obviously staged and placed
them in the road that he would get out and stop.
He was shot almost immediately as he got out, and
he was shot several times. This is up close and personal.
This was intentional. I'm also thinking about the affair with
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the trainer during her marriage to Jared. Maybe she's lying
about it because it makes her look bad. Okay, I
can understand that. But once you get into the homicide
investigation stage, that changes things for me. It's no longer
a time that you can continue a facade again. She
says that didn't happen. The lover has come forward and said, oh, yes,
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it did. I want to talk about something else, Jackie,
would you please play Katie Jefferies from First Coach and
News one more time. In the national media, though there
has been much speculation about Bridigan's acrimonious divorce from his
first wife, Shana Gardner Fernandez, one story claimed that she
asked a local tattoo artist about someone who could quote,
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shut him up, and quote. In an interview with our
news partners at the Florida Times Union, she called the
implications that she was involved, sensationalistic and inaccurate, and she
felt threatened by the scrutiny, according to the tattoo artist.
He states she told us her life could just be
better if if he could just quote shut up, and
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asked us if we knew anybody that could quote shut
him up end quote. Also, I did not take it
at the time as anything nefarious. In hindsight, I can
see how that can be taken differently now to Dr
Bethany Marshall, psychoanist. You know, and all the years I
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have been with my husband David, I've never once ever
threatened to do him harm, much less something like this.
I think that's a very thin line when you're at
the point you're actually wishing your husband or your ex
to be quote shut up her ex husband, Nancy, it
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does cross to me a very thickcline of amorality hatred
towards him. To me, when she says something like this,
it's shows first of all, that she feels she's above
everybody else, she can say whatever she wants with impunity.
It tells me that she is preoccupied with him, wanted
him gone, that her his very presence on this earth
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was unbearable. To her, that's why people commit domestic homicide.
The fact that the other person is alive is unbearable
because it makes them feel all kinds of feelings lost,
bad feelings about themselves, rage, jealousy, the feeling the other
person has a better life than they have. But why
the she was the one that was shaving, didn't she
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started the whole divorce? Yeah, I see. I think sometimes
people cheat because they're trying to seek revenge on the
other person for imagine slights and injuries. So if I
have this crazy sex affair and I document it for
you to see, I'm going to show you that I'm
better than you. I'm desirable to another person. You may
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not desire me and the way I want, but I'm
going to demonstrate that this a fair person desires me.
I'm sure he did desire her. I'm sure it was
a perfectly nice person. She just sounds really unstable him.
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Time Stories with Nancy Grace Rebecca Rosenberg joining us from
Fox needs a digital According to the tattoo parlor employee,
they the two of them, tattoo employee and ex wife
go to dinner at a Jacksonville restaurant called The Flying Iguana,
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and at that time she was talking about her divorce.
Told the employee her life would quote be better if
bride could just shut up, and did we know anyone
that could quote shut him. She also complained that Brian
again was trying to quote take all her money, Isn't
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it true? Rebecca Rosenberg and the ex wife comes from
a very very wealthy family. Yes, she comes from a
prominent family in Utah that has a papercroft company called
stamping Up. One report estimated that it has revenue of
one hundred million a year. And her parents had always
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supported them until he finished school, until Jared Britigan finished school.
They financially supported them, helped them buy their first two homes.
They have always supported Shanna. She has lived off the
money from that business. So I think at the very
beginning when they began their divorce, there was a lot
of wrangling over her possibly pain, alamony, this, you know,
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back and forth. So that was definitely a concern of
hers because I don't think he was working yet at
that point. And I just do want to add one thing,
you know, I think with she Ana, what you're seeing
is a lot of suspicious things that are piling up,
you know, it's not just you know, you take each
of these things in isolation, it's a little less noteworthy.
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But when you look at you know, a lot of
sort of odd behaviors, like she was, you know, always
speaking poorly of and to the school. There was just
so much acrimony there. And then after the murder, she
requested his death certificate from his widow, which is just
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a very odd thing to do, uh and totally unnecessary.
And and had also demanded that Kirsten Britigan give her
the children's library book school library books that were at
her house. I think it was less than two weeks
after the murder, claiming the librarian had existed on getting
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them bath, which is just kind of absurd. What librarian
is in just an on getting library books back from
to children who just tragically lost their father. So I
think some of these details are just adding up where
investigators are kind of focusing on Shanna because of these behaviors.
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Let's talk about forensics, what their remains forensics. Take a
listen to our friends at wj XT. So it looks
like someone purpocifically set out to kill Jared Brad Again, Yes,
it does look that way. That's what evidence is leading
us to believe investigators processed to that tire, sent bullet
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casings to a ballistics lab, and they are still looking
for this Ford F one fifty scene in the area
around the time of the crime. What kind of digital
footprint is there? Are their phone records, so their GPS
or there's searches that might play into this case. So
all I can say is there's a lot of forensic
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evidence that we're going through. I can't get specific with it, okay,
jos got Morgan, Professor Forensics, Joe Scott. The first thing
I would do forensically, of course, once I process the
scene is get cell phone data for everyone connected to
the victim, including his current wife, his ex wife, known associates,
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because I'd want to know who, if anyone, they were
calling back and forth the day of the murder. At
the time of the murder. I would also want to
know the movements of the cell phones and any nav
system within these people's cars, not just the ex wife,
but the current wife, everyone connected to Jerry Bridigan. And
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what if anything would that show me, excluding the possibility
of a burner phone. Go ahead, Yeah, when you look
at this, the watchword for this is specificity, and for me,
I think that the electronic footprint is important. However, remember
what we just heard. She said that there is a
lot of forensic evidence. There's another type of footprint, and
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that other print that I'm interested in right here, if you,
like Kathleen was mentioning, this is kind of a tree
lined area. It's a tight area. And if you look
at this from a military standpoint, this is what the
military refers to from an ambush perspective as a choke point.
That means, you got it. There's precision here in Nancy.
It's narrowed down. You put an obstacle in the road
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and the person has no other choice but to go
around it, pick it up, do whatever. If they are
laying in weight, which we have to assume they were,
that truck is not necessarily visible where they standing over
in the bushes. Do we have footprints there that could
lead you back to a specific person, say, if it's
a male, he's wearing a size ten and a half
(37:05):
boot or something like that. And I'd also be very
interested when you talk about precision, because this goes to planning.
This is not some kind of hair on scare on
kind of event I'd like doctor Duprie had mentioned range
of fire. I'd like to know about the shot grouping
on his body. They just talked about multiple gunshot wounds,
but I'd like to know where the placement of those
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rounds were. Let's say, you know, from a military perspective, again,
two in the chest, one in the head. You know
where exactly was he shot? And also earwitnesses. Now we
have the baby in the back of the seat, you know,
the back seat. Unfortunately, God bless her. She's saying, I heard,
you know, boom, boom, boom. But what did the neighbors here?
Was it a quick succession like you would think precision
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is associated with this? Was there shouting screaming? Was there
only one shout, one scream? Or where there multiple people screaming?
Because if somebody is doing this, they are purposed, they
are they know what they're doing. They're bold enough to
take a tire and throw this thing out in the
middle of the road. What else did they do? In
planning and sometimes in forensics, the planning, as detailed as
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it is, that can be the one place where you
catch the individual. What happened to Jared Bride? Again, take
a listen to our cut eight our friend Jim Murray
at Inside edition two three goat. These are the last
images at Microsoft executive Jared bridagaan goating on his young
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children before he was viciously shot to death in an ambush.
Now mystery surrounds who was behind the assassination on the
father of four in this upscale neighborhood in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
Jared Bridagan was driving home with his two year old
daughter strapped in her car seat when police say he
stopped his vehicle to remove a tire left in the road.
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That's when he was gunned down at close range, right
in front of his daughter. Police believed the tire was
left in the middle of the street to lure him
out of his car. Whoever did this is just vile
and cowardly. I spoke to Jared's heartbroken widow Irison. Investigators
say it appears this was a hit or an ambush. Yeah,
that is how it appears. If you have information or
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think you have information, please dial eight sixty six eight
four five tips eight six six eight four five eight
four seven seven. SHANEA. Fernandez and her attorney deny that
Fernandez has any involvement in Jared Brightigan's murder. No one
has been charged or named a person of interest by police.
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Goodbye Frien
Crime Stories with Nancy Greece, a loving father of four
seemingly ambushed on his way home one evening on an
isolated road. Why did that happen? Why does his little
girl still say boom boom, Daddy's on the ground. The
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other stunning tragedy is that his little girl, age two,
was actually stripped in the car seat in the back
of the suv when daddy was murdered. But in the
last days a stunning twist in the case. I Nancy Grace,
this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us
(00:52):
here at Fox Nation, and Sirius XM one eleven. First
of all, take a listen to this. Who killed Jerry
Bride again? Questions have been raised in the media over
whether his ex wife, Shanna Gardner Fernandez, was somehow involved.
They had a contentious divorce and custody battle, but did
reach a settlement before his death. Police have not named
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anyone as a suspect. Do you think that Jared's ex
wife has something to do with this? I'm not comfortable
saying yes definitely unless there's evidence to back that up.
But I believe her actions since his murder have been
very suspicious and they don't sit well with me you
we're hearing our friends at Inside Edition along with victim
(01:37):
to thirty three years old, a devout Mormon trying the
best he can to raise his children along with his
knee bride. Why would anyone want to gun him down
on a remote one way road with his little daughter
Becksley in the backseat. In the last hours, As I
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mentioned to you, focus has been now pinpointed on his
ex wife, who of course declares her innocence, as does
her lawyer. With me an all star panel to make
sense of what we know right now, but two special
guests joining us Jared's wife, his now widow, Kirsten Brightigan.
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Thank you for being with us, and you can find
her at Justice for Jared B. Kristen, it must seem
surreal to even hear the word widow attached to your name.
It is you know, I just took my daughter to
her annual exam and on the farms you have to
(02:49):
check that box and that that was very difficult to do. Guys,
Kirsten is raising two little children and I don't know
how you do it every day. Also, Jared has two
older children from his first marriage, and that is the X.
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Somehow focus is now attached to with me, Rebecca Rosenberg,
Fox News Digital crime reporter, author of At Any Cost,
and you can find her at Rebecca fey Rosenberg dot com. Rebecca,
it's so wonderful to have you with us, because I
tell you, I am stunned at what we are learning now.
First of all, take a listen to our cut from
(03:32):
crime online dot com. The Florida ex wife of murdered
Microsoft manager Jared Bridigan denied having an affair that ended
their marriage, but her former personal trainer, who says he
was her one time lover, contradicted her claim in an
interview with Fox News Digital. As a Christmas gift in
late twenty fourteen, Bridigen bought his then wife, Shanna Gardner Fernandez,
(03:56):
a package of training sessions, but the fitness instruct you
said their relationship turned romantic just weeks later. Okay, her
weightlifting lover now says they were an item before the divorce,
before that divorce was final. Now you know what to you,
(04:17):
Rebecca Rosenberg, having an affair does not a murder make
and if that's your only evidence, you're up the creek
without a paddle. But what makes this really concerning is
the lying about it. When you are in the middle
of a homicide investigation, that is the time not to lie,
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because that makes it seem so much more nefarious. Rebecca,
listen again to our forensic crime online. The former personal trainer,
said Shannah Gardner for Nandez, whose family owns the multimillion
dollar papercraft company called Stamping Up, told him that she
and brit Again were separated for months when their sessions
allegedly took an unprofessional turn. The instructor, who asked that
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his name be with hel to protect his privacy, said quote,
they weren't really speaking. They were living in opposite ends
of the house. She said she had grown up Marmon
and didn't want that anymore. Bride Again, on the other hand,
remained a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter day Saints. Rebecca Rosenbarre, there's so much happening
right now on the Bride Again investigation. I want to
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start with the affair again. You know, half the people
on the jury, if there ever is a jury, will
have had an affair at some point in their life,
whether they cheated on a boyfriend or a girlfriend, a
husband and X, or they may have been a victim
of their loved one having an affair. That again does
not a murder make, but lying about it, if in
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fact she did lie about it in a homicide investigation
regarding the father of her two children, that's a big deal. Yes, Nancy,
I think that really is the point. I mean, again,
this is this is seven years ago that this allegedly happened.
And like you said, people have affairs all the time. Well, Rebecca,
I certainly hope not all the time. And in fact,
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I'm going to call my husband and the break and
make sure he's at work where he's supposed to be alone. Okay,
go ahead, But I do think that if you and
I in the article, I included a quote from a
long time Manhattan homicide prosecutor who said, that is really
really troubling, especially when she's represented by a criminal defense attorney,
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to give a public interview and make a statement that
you know that is allegedly not true. It could be
so easily proven as false because there's another party there
who says that this, you know, that's happened. So I
think that's kind of you know, it's just it just
is not a good look to Kirsten Bright again. This
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is Jared's wife, his current wife. He had an EXI
that's what we're talking about right now, that reportedly cheated,
had a sex affair with a personal trainer. I don't
give a flying fig if she had an affair, but
lying about it, if in fact she did lie about
it when you were in the middle of a homicide investigation,
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that changes everything in my mind, Kristen, Did he know
she cheated during the marriage, if in fact she did, Yes,
Jared had always told me when I had asked him
about the divorce, that he had found emails and screenshots
of sexually explicit messages and photos between the two of them,
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and he had told me that he confronted her about it,
and that's when things unraveled. It was not before they
were not separated before, according to Jared. According to Jared,
it happened after he found those and that's what initiated
Shanna filing for divorce in February with me, you know, Kirsen, Rebecca,
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don't move, but I've got to go to a shrink.
Doctor Bethany Marshall joining me, renowned psychoanalysts joining us out
of Beverly Hills. Never like a business there, Doctor Bethany
Marshall dot com and star of a new Netflix show,
Bling Empire. Doctor Bethany, I really don't know a nice
way to put this. Why are people so stupid? First
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of all, you have an affair, but then you exchange
text messages and send explicit photos from your phone that
your spouse can just look at. I mean, doctor Bethany,
every time I turn around, my children are like two monkeys.
They're constantly They even either have my iPad or my
phone or am I whatever in their hand. They know
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all the codes and they're like all over it. I
couldn't keep a secret from them if they had to.
But to number one, have the affair, because you're gonna
get caught. But number two make it so easy and
so hurtful for the spouse to find out. That's the
last thing I want to do is look at my
husband's fine and say, some other woman's breasts on there
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are really any breasts on there, but especially some other
woman's breasts. Absolutely, it shows lack of empathy, lack of
conform who whoa, whoa whoa? Slow down? Okay, lack of
empathy right there, You're so right. I mean, I don't
ever want to hurt David, my husband, And the last
thing I would do is leave something out for him
to find that I know would hurt him. But you know, Nancy,
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people who have affairs do ultimately leave something out so
that they are found out. It happens all the time.
Here's an interesting thing about affairs. When a person has
an affair, it's not because they love the object of
the affair or they want to be with that person.
They like how that person makes them feel. They're creating
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an experience with that person. Oh, dear Lord and him.
And when you start with the experience, it's sex. Okay,
I mean really, Doctor Bethany, I know you're the expert,
but let me just jump in. Could somebody do something
to surprise me, Like, the man has a midlife crisis,
no offense, Joe Scott Morgan. The man has a midlife
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crisis and he runs out with the secretary or in
a case I covered where the mom was ultimately murdered
with the clerk at G and C. You know, Jackie.
They start the exercising and the tanning and the new
haircut and the sports car, and they start taking vitamins.
I know it's clich shaped. But don't look at me
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like that, Jackie. It happens, and he actually starts the
affair with the checkout lady at the G and C.
And here the wife. If it's true, She says it's not,
but the trainer says it is. She starts personal training
and then starts an affair with the trainer. I mean,
surprise me just once I'm through with my tirade, Bethany, Okay,
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there are no surprises. It was a sex affair. She
was becoming a new person with him. She was getting tattoo,
she was working out, she was bulking up. Do you
see the pictures of her. I mean, she went on
a journey to become a new person, a highly sexualized,
eroticized person. And who is she going to do it
(11:24):
with the personal trainer? You know that the idea that
she wanted to experience herself is something different does seem
to link back to the fact that she grew up
in a very religious Mormon family. Oh, I was just
waiting for you to blame the Mormons. Okay, here's the
other thing, though. Listen to Kirsten Branegan. She's in the
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middle of trying to solve this horrific tragedy. This torn
her family apart, and now the affair the ex wife
had with the trainer has become an issue Time Stories
(12:14):
with Nancy Grace Christian Bright again again. I don't care
who sleeps with who, doesn't matter unless it touches on
a homicide investigation. And to lie you said, now what
seven years later, still lying about it while we are
(12:36):
trying to solve a murderer? Are you surprised? I'm not.
From my experience, things are never what they seem with Shanna.
So if what Jared told me is true, if what
the trainer has now said is true, I am not
surprised that she denies it. Let's talk about what the
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trainer is now saying. Rebecca rosenburr Um Fox and He's
digital crime reporter author has been on this case from
the beginning. What is the trainer actually saying. We are
not staying the trainer's name because he does not want
his name out there. We've already got one dead body.
What is he saying exactly, Rebecca, He just said that
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when he met that her husband had purchased he had
been husband had purchased these sessions. They started in an affair,
but he thought that they had been separated for a
very long time beforehand, and so he didn't realize she
was still in a relationship with him. But family members
and I'm sure Kristen can Land on this Um told
(13:43):
Fox that that simply wasn't true. They only separated right
before the divorce in February twenty fifteen. So Um, and
he said that he actually, you know, at a certain point,
was like, you know, I told her she's got to
kind of go do her own thing now because she
just has too much going on with this split, and
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it wasn't really good for them to pursue that relationship
at that time. Okay, who said, what can you say
that again? And he's Chiner ex wife and Jared, will
you tell me that one more time? Yea. So the
trainer said that they dated for a few months, but
at a certain point he told her that, you know,
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they had to take a break because she was so
distracted by this acrimonious split from Jared Brittigan now dating
and my mind, Rebecca Rosenberg means you go out for
dinner in a movie. Were they having sex during the
merits before the divorce? According to the trainer, yes, they
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she also started teaching classes. He said. After he trained her,
she started teaching classes at the same where he worked out,
and they remained friendly even after they broke up. Jesscot
Morgan joining me, professor forensic Jacksonville State University, author of
Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon, and star of an
(15:13):
incredible news series, Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan on iHeart
Joe Scott again. I can't say it enough. I couldn't
care less who's sleeping with who, not my concern. My
concern is how it touches on a murder investigation. Jared
Brynigan was ruthlessly murdered. For any listener or viewer that
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forgot the circumstances, please give me a nutshell. Joe Scott
as to what happened to Jared just thirty three years old,
four children to raise the night he left his ex
wife's home, dropping the two older children off. When I
(15:59):
say older, they're not that old. Bexley two at the
time and London just six months at the time. Their
dad is murdered. He's Joe Scott leaving the two older
children aged either twins at the excess, and driving. I
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guess about a twenty minute drive home to Kristen who
is with us today and the two babies. And there's
a one way road you take it from there, Joe
Scott one way road, and you know, very very narrow,
and it's it's a familiar area he runs. He runs
this route, you know, relatively often because you know he's
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he has to interact with the X with his children.
And he is going down this road, tree Line Street,
and he comes across debris in the roadway, which was
actually at tire. I think, what's still a rom attached
to I remember seeing an I mentioned this, yes, and
you know, what are you gonna do? You know, you
can't drive over this thing. You're gonna have to get
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out of the vehicle and remove it from the roadway,
because first off, you'll tear up your car. And he
sounds like a really decent guy. He's probably kind of
guy that wouldn't want anybody else to hit this thing.
As he's out of the car, he's gunned down right
there with the baby in the back seat. Gunned down,
not robbed, not sex assaulted, not carjact. The person was
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lying in wait for him to come by the tire
in the middle of the road to make him get
out because you couldn't get around it on the one
way road. This is an ambush murder. Kathleen Murphy joining
me high profile family lawyer out of North Carolina at
NC Domestic Law dot com. Kathleen Murphy. When a murder
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case rears his ugly head, and that's the time when
you start telling the truth about your background, about everything
to do with you as it relates to the murder victim. Again,
could somebody have an affair that surprises me? Not the secretary,
the assistant, the cashier at the vitamin supplement store, the
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personal trainer. It doesn't make a murder, but I mean
Kathleen Murphy. It certainly doesn't help that she lied about it.
It doesn't help that she lied about it, and it
makes me believe that she's also lied to the courts
in the civil section too, because in the civil trial
where they had their custody matters, she put a lot
of information in pleading on a regular basis, and like
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Kristen had reported earlier, on one hand, she would agree
to something and they would end up in court because
she's not a person of her word. And Nancy, I
also have to add to what Joe Scott Morgan said,
this particular area, it was an ambush because to the
right of the tire is a sign that's right in
the road, and to the left of the tire trees.
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You absolutely cannot go past it without getting out of
your carm. So with respect to an affair, it is
an indication of character. It is an indication if she's
lying to the police and she's lying about other things.
Another major development and Kristen Bridigan, this is Jared's wife
joining us, the mother of his two children, trying to
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put her life back together and solve the murder of
her husband. Take a listen to our cut forty nine,
Katie Jeffrey's first Coast news in the national media. Though
there has been much speculation about Bridigan's acrimonious divorce from
his first wife, Shana Gardner Fernandez, one story claimed that
she asked a local tattoo artist about someone who could quote,
(19:39):
shut him up and quote. In an interview with our
news partners at the Florida Times Union, she called the
implications that she was involved sensationalistic and inaccurate, and she
felt threatened by the scrutiny Kirsten Bridigan. The thought that
there is now a tattoo artist stating that your husband's
ex was looking for someone to quote shut him up.
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That has got to stab you to the core. Yeah,
you know, I am so grateful that he came forward
because to me, that's huge. There's been people that said, oh,
people say things like this when they're getting divorced. I've
had several friends get divorced and none of them have
said something like that. And on top of it, in
her interview, she also says that her criminal law defense
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attorney was referred to her by several friends, and she
even like hints at, you know, we run in different circles,
almost trying to make it seem sketchy, like Jared was
involved in some sketchy circles. But when you think about it,
I'm like, none of my friends would be able to
refer us to a criminal defense attorney. So yeah, we
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do run in different circles. They are very different. What
does that mean to you? Kirsten Bright again and she
said you run in different circles. I took that as
an attempt to doubt on what Jared may had been
involved in or who he ran with, which is just
insane to me if you knew Jared, and that's why
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I'm trying to help people know who he was. He's
not involved in anything like that. He's the goofiest, most
fun loving man. And so to try and throw that
out there, but then at the same time say that
her friends, multiple friends, referred her to a criminal defense attorney.
I think that flipped on her and wasn't what she
may have wanted that to be. Kathalie Murphy, we're a
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high profile family lawyer joining us out of North Carolina,
but also familiar with this area. Jump in regarding the
location of the shooting death. So, Nancy, this is my hometown.
This is where my siblings still lived to this day,
and it is not a busy road. When Jared dropped
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his children off at his ex wife's house, he literally
drove down very quiet roads, their back roads, and he
drove through a one way access road to get to
an exit ramp to get on a highway if you will,
to cross over that made your highway to get to
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his side of town. And so for this to be
considered non personal would be very unusual. It was personal.
There's nobody out there at that time, in my experience,
it's very quiet, and it is a one way road
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and it's secluded, and I don't understand why it would
not be something that was specifically targeted as to Jared. Well,
obviously in my mind it was. Guys. I want to
focus falling up on what we have just heard from
Kathleen Murphy. I want to focus back on telling a
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tattoost And I believe Rebecca Rosenberg she was in the
middle of getting her genitals pears Is that correct? Yeah,
it's very odd. Actually, she filed to divorce on February
twenty third, and then went into this tattoo parlor the
next day and got a genital piercing and the staffer
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who worked there, but it was so noteworthy because she
didn't have any tattoos yet, she didn't have any other
unusual piercing, and she went straight for this kind of
extreme pierceing that normally people get after having these other ones.
It was just kind of unusual, almost like she was
going through some sort of transition, I guess. And genital
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parsing is something you work up too normally, I think,
if you ever work up to it at all. But
I don't think usually people get just that piercing, so
he noted it as being quite unusual graduate to general piercing.
Not judging, don't care what I care about. It's what
she said reportedly to the tattoo artists. You know, this
is reminding me of doctor Bethany. It's reminded me of
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tot Mom Casey Anthony, who had Italian the Italian fries
for the Sweet Life. I think it was ladolsha Vita
tattooed on her arm while her two year old taught girl,
Kayley was missing translation murdered by her. Do you remember that, Nancy?
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I remember it. Not only that, not only the Sweet
Life tattooed on her body, dancing on a stripper pole,
buying the low cut outfits and lingerie at the local target.
I think she stole her roommate, I think check book
in order to make that a good memory. Yeah, your
baby's missing, and what do you want to push out
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bras in a case of beer? Okay, that's right. So
what I am seeing with Shanna is this dramatic personality transformation.
It really is typical of what we see with women
who have a borderline personality disorder. I was just waiting
for you to say she a personality disorder, that's not insanity.
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But think about it. Think about it that people of
borderline personality have both cleaning and rejecting behavior. Because she
probably stalked him during the divorce, she was preoccupied with him,
but she's also rejecting him, lying, taking him to court
for every little till somebody's jumping in. Is that Rebecca?
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Now this is Kathleen. When I see litigation at this level,
I really have to equate a lot of litigation at
this level to personality disorders. It is very significant as
a red flag that this heavy litigation, that she was
engaged and he was responsive mainly is indicative of that
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personality disorder that you're discussing. Okay, you know what, guys,
I really appreciate all the info about the personality disorder,
but unless it rises to a mental defect or insanity,
which is a defense at trial, don't care. I don't
care if she was a narcissistic and thought only about herself.
I don't care if she was histrionic, which means you're
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a drama queen or a king. All the pathological liar,
a sex a blah blah. What matters is a father
four is dead on a remote highway, and now the
ex wife seemingly is caught and a really big fat
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lie again not about having sex with somebody else during
the marriage, but about credibility, because if you're lying during
a homicide investigation, that is a big red flight. I mean,
Doctor Michelle Dupree, a forensic pathologists medical examiner, author of
(26:54):
Homicide Investigation Field Guide, Doctor Dupree, I have reason to
believe that bright Agan, Jerry bright Agan, was shot at
close range. This wasn't a like an accidental shooting inside
a car, which has happened in the past. This was targeted.
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How can I tell if it was close range as well?
There's a couple of plays stancy and one, of course,
as we look at the actual wound itself, we look
at any gunshot residue that may be on the clothing.
We looked for signs that the weapon was within a
certain distance from that person, and we can tell that
again by the wound and by the gunshot residue that
may be on the clothing. But the really interesting thing is,
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and you've said it, you know this was targeted. I
mean someone had to know his route. This is a
remote area It's a little bit of an unusual way
to go home. The tire was obviously staged and placed
them in the road that he would get out and stop.
He was shot almost immediately as he got out, and
he was shot several times. This is up close and personal.
This was intentional. I'm also thinking about the affair with
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the trainer during her marriage to Jared. Maybe she's lying
about it because it makes her look bad. Okay, I
can understand that. But once you get into the homicide
investigation stage, that changes things for me. It's no longer
a time that you can continue a facade again. She
says that didn't happen. The lover has come forward and said, oh, yes,
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it did. I want to talk about something else, Jackie,
would you please play Katie Jefferies from First Coach and
News one more time. In the national media, though there
has been much speculation about Bridigan's acrimonious divorce from his
first wife, Shana Gardner Fernandez, one story claimed that she
asked a local tattoo artist about someone who could quote,
(28:45):
shut him up, and quote. In an interview with our
news partners at the Florida Times Union, she called the
implications that she was involved, sensationalistic and inaccurate, and she
felt threatened by the scrutiny, according to the tattoo artist.
He states she told us her life could just be
better if if he could just quote shut up, and
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asked us if we knew anybody that could quote shut
him up end quote. Also, I did not take it
at the time as anything nefarious. In hindsight, I can
see how that can be taken differently now to Dr
Bethany Marshall, psychoanist. You know, and all the years I
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have been with my husband David, I've never once ever
threatened to do him harm, much less something like this.
I think that's a very thin line when you're at
the point you're actually wishing your husband or your ex
to be quote shut up her ex husband, Nancy, it
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does cross to me a very thickcline of amorality hatred
towards him. To me, when she says something like this,
it's shows first of all, that she feels she's above
everybody else, she can say whatever she wants with impunity.
It tells me that she is preoccupied with him, wanted
him gone, that her his very presence on this earth
(30:15):
was unbearable. To her, that's why people commit domestic homicide.
The fact that the other person is alive is unbearable
because it makes them feel all kinds of feelings lost,
bad feelings about themselves, rage, jealousy, the feeling the other
person has a better life than they have. But why
the she was the one that was shaving, didn't she
(30:35):
started the whole divorce? Yeah, I see. I think sometimes
people cheat because they're trying to seek revenge on the
other person for imagine slights and injuries. So if I
have this crazy sex affair and I document it for
you to see, I'm going to show you that I'm
better than you. I'm desirable to another person. You may
(30:56):
not desire me and the way I want, but I'm
going to demonstrate that this a fair person desires me.
I'm sure he did desire her. I'm sure it was
a perfectly nice person. She just sounds really unstable him.
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Time Stories with Nancy Grace Rebecca Rosenberg joining us from
Fox needs a digital According to the tattoo parlor employee,
they the two of them, tattoo employee and ex wife
go to dinner at a Jacksonville restaurant called The Flying Iguana,
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and at that time she was talking about her divorce.
Told the employee her life would quote be better if
bride could just shut up, and did we know anyone
that could quote shut him. She also complained that Brian
again was trying to quote take all her money, Isn't
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it true? Rebecca Rosenberg and the ex wife comes from
a very very wealthy family. Yes, she comes from a
prominent family in Utah that has a papercroft company called
stamping Up. One report estimated that it has revenue of
one hundred million a year. And her parents had always
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supported them until he finished school, until Jared Britigan finished school.
They financially supported them, helped them buy their first two homes.
They have always supported Shanna. She has lived off the
money from that business. So I think at the very
beginning when they began their divorce, there was a lot
of wrangling over her possibly pain, alamony, this, you know,
(32:55):
back and forth. So that was definitely a concern of
hers because I don't think he was working yet at
that point. And I just do want to add one thing,
you know, I think with she Ana, what you're seeing
is a lot of suspicious things that are piling up,
you know, it's not just you know, you take each
of these things in isolation, it's a little less noteworthy.
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But when you look at you know, a lot of
sort of odd behaviors, like she was, you know, always
speaking poorly of and to the school. There was just
so much acrimony there. And then after the murder, she
requested his death certificate from his widow, which is just
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a very odd thing to do, uh and totally unnecessary.
And and had also demanded that Kirsten Britigan give her
the children's library book school library books that were at
her house. I think it was less than two weeks
after the murder, claiming the librarian had existed on getting
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them bath, which is just kind of absurd. What librarian
is in just an on getting library books back from
to children who just tragically lost their father. So I
think some of these details are just adding up where
investigators are kind of focusing on Shanna because of these behaviors.
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Let's talk about forensics, what their remains forensics. Take a
listen to our friends at wj XT. So it looks
like someone purpocifically set out to kill Jared Brad Again, Yes,
it does look that way. That's what evidence is leading
us to believe investigators processed to that tire, sent bullet
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casings to a ballistics lab, and they are still looking
for this Ford F one fifty scene in the area
around the time of the crime. What kind of digital
footprint is there? Are their phone records, so their GPS
or there's searches that might play into this case. So
all I can say is there's a lot of forensic
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evidence that we're going through. I can't get specific with it, okay,
jos got Morgan, Professor Forensics, Joe Scott. The first thing
I would do forensically, of course, once I process the
scene is get cell phone data for everyone connected to
the victim, including his current wife, his ex wife, known associates,
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because I'd want to know who, if anyone, they were
calling back and forth the day of the murder. At
the time of the murder. I would also want to
know the movements of the cell phones and any nav
system within these people's cars, not just the ex wife,
but the current wife, everyone connected to Jerry Bridigan. And
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what if anything would that show me, excluding the possibility
of a burner phone. Go ahead, Yeah, when you look
at this, the watchword for this is specificity, and for me,
I think that the electronic footprint is important. However, remember
what we just heard. She said that there is a
lot of forensic evidence. There's another type of footprint, and
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that other print that I'm interested in right here, if you,
like Kathleen was mentioning, this is kind of a tree
lined area. It's a tight area. And if you look
at this from a military standpoint, this is what the
military refers to from an ambush perspective as a choke point.
That means, you got it. There's precision here in Nancy.
It's narrowed down. You put an obstacle in the road
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and the person has no other choice but to go
around it, pick it up, do whatever. If they are
laying in weight, which we have to assume they were,
that truck is not necessarily visible where they standing over
in the bushes. Do we have footprints there that could
lead you back to a specific person, say, if it's
a male, he's wearing a size ten and a half
(37:05):
boot or something like that. And I'd also be very
interested when you talk about precision, because this goes to planning.
This is not some kind of hair on scare on
kind of event I'd like doctor Duprie had mentioned range
of fire. I'd like to know about the shot grouping
on his body. They just talked about multiple gunshot wounds,
but I'd like to know where the placement of those
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rounds were. Let's say, you know, from a military perspective, again,
two in the chest, one in the head. You know
where exactly was he shot? And also earwitnesses. Now we
have the baby in the back of the seat, you know,
the back seat. Unfortunately, God bless her. She's saying, I heard,
you know, boom, boom, boom. But what did the neighbors here?
Was it a quick succession like you would think precision
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is associated with this? Was there shouting screaming? Was there
only one shout, one scream? Or where there multiple people screaming?
Because if somebody is doing this, they are purposed, they
are they know what they're doing. They're bold enough to
take a tire and throw this thing out in the
middle of the road. What else did they do? In
planning and sometimes in forensics, the planning, as detailed as
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it is, that can be the one place where you
catch the individual. What happened to Jared Bride? Again, take
a listen to our cut eight our friend Jim Murray
at Inside edition two three goat. These are the last
images at Microsoft executive Jared bridagaan goating on his young
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children before he was viciously shot to death in an ambush.
Now mystery surrounds who was behind the assassination on the
father of four in this upscale neighborhood in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
Jared Bridagan was driving home with his two year old
daughter strapped in her car seat when police say he
stopped his vehicle to remove a tire left in the road.
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That's when he was gunned down at close range, right
in front of his daughter. Police believed the tire was
left in the middle of the street to lure him
out of his car. Whoever did this is just vile
and cowardly. I spoke to Jared's heartbroken widow Irison. Investigators
say it appears this was a hit or an ambush. Yeah,
that is how it appears. If you have information or
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think you have information, please dial eight sixty six eight
four five tips eight six six eight four five eight
four seven seven. SHANEA. Fernandez and her attorney deny that
Fernandez has any involvement in Jared Brightigan's murder. No one
has been charged or named a person of interest by police.
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