The Murder Of Jared Bridegan: The Case Against Shanna Gardner

Jared Bridegan was one mile from home. A Microsoft executive, a father of four, a man who tried through every available channel to communicate that something was wrong. The chain that reached him on February 16th, 2022 had multiple links. Multiple people. Multiple moments where a different choice produces a different night. Every one of those moments passed without anyone using it. Part 5 — the fi...

Jared Bridegan had tried to make himself heard before it was too late. He filed concerns. He documented things. He used every available channel to communicate that something was wrong with the situation around him. The system received his communications. The arrangement continued. Kirsten Bridegan came into the aftermath of those failures and refused to let them stand. Within days of Jared's murde...

Bexley Bridegan was two years old on February 16th, 2022. She was in the backseat when her father was murdered. She was returned to her mother without him. She will one day be old enough to read everything written about that night — including this. Part 3 of One Mile From Home is dedicated to the children in Jared Bridegan's story. All of them. Bexley, who was present on that road. And the twins —...

Mario Fernandez never knew Jared Bridegan as a person. He knew him as a function — the problem in his wife's story, the obstacle in the custody arrangement, the reason things were hard. He never got the version of Jared who coached his kids and built a genuine second life. He received a character in someone else's grievance narrative. And allegedly, over time, he made that grievance his own. Part...

February 16th, 2022 didn't begin on that road. It began years earlier — in a courthouse, in a custody filing, in the slow construction of a psychological framework that allegedly made what happened to Jared Bridegan feel, to someone, like a solution. Part 1 of One Mile From Home is dedicated to understanding the psychological arc that prosecutors allege preceded Jared's murder — not from the night...

The Jared Bridegan case has taken another sharp, chaotic turn — and it all comes down to the one person prosecutors absolutely need: the man who says he pulled the trigger. In today’s episode of Hidden Killers , Tony Brueski breaks down the stunning courtroom moment when confessed shooter Henry Tenon suddenly claimed his own sworn statement was “false,” only to reverse himself the very next day. T...