Bridegan Murder Trial: Fernandez's Interview Revealed WHAT?!

**Tony Brueski** (0:10)
The jury in the Jared Bridegan murder trial watched a 50-minute police interview on day 2 with Mario Fernandez Saldana. This is the man who's on trial right now. Remember, trying to keep you up to date here. New and updates every day on this case, on this trial because Mario's going first. Then it's Shanna's turn to take the heat and jury. And then at the very end, Tenon, the man who's accused of actually pulling the trigger, who had the deal with prosecutors initially, then withdrew that. He's going to be going early next year, but this is going to get us well into fall. So buckle up if you want to follow the Jared Bridegan murder case. This is the great place to do it. We're going to be bringing you trial audio and such. Just as soon as the Clancy case wraps up, we're going to be shifting over to that. And of course, we're going to be bringing you daily updates and discussing this case on a daily basis. So what's going on as Mario Fernandez Saldana, this is, as you remember, the husband, the new husband of Shanna Gardner after she got divorced from Jared. This is the new hobby. This is the one that's trying to make Shanna happy, going to great lengths to do that, apparently. This is his trial. Fernandez called Bridegan a keyboard warrior and said he was passive aggressive.
Said he took Gabba Penton for headaches the night Bridegan was shot and killed on a Jacksonville beach road. The same jury had just finished watching 50 minutes of surveillance footage, tracking a blue Ford F-150 pickup truck through Jacksonville beach to the exact spot where Bridegan was ambushed on February 16th of 2022 The interview was conducted before Fernandez became a suspect in the killing. He sat in a chair wearing an orange jumpsuit, gray shorts and red sneakers. A detective sat across the table and asked about the dead man. Fernandez talked about him like a nuisance. He was glad to be finished dealing with the kind of casual contempt that only makes sense if he believed nobody would ever connect him to what happened on that road. The judge told the jury the recording had been edited to remove irrelevant portions. What remained ran 50 minutes and played in a Duval County courtroom. The defendant sat listening without any sort of visible reaction. Day two. It started with the physical evidence from the murder scene. Prosecutors moved through five witnesses before lunch. Each one carrying a piece of the chain linking the crime scene to the defendant and his associates. Crime scene detective Shane Germain from Jacksonville Beach Police played his video walkthrough for the jury. The tire placed in the road to force Bridegan out of his vehicle. Shell casing scattered on the pavement. Bridegan's body next to his SUV in the dark. Jarman used sterile tools to collect DNA from the tire at the scene. That processing produced a match. The jury would hear about within the hour. Corporal Bryan Wallace identified the blue two-tone F-150 from neighborhood surveillance cameras. He tracked the truck through multiple angles across Jacksonville Beach but could never read the license plate. No plate readers existed in that area in February of 22 Wallace collected videos from restaurants, businesses and residential ring cameras along the route. He pieced together a timeline of the truck's movements on the night of the murder. Detective Brett Burrell connected the tires. He responded to the Gardner Fernandez residence hours after the killings and later removed a second tire from a rental property at 5238 Potomac Avenue owned by Fernandez and Shanna Gardner. Both tires matched through Bridgestone factory records. Same DOT numbers, same manufacture date, same production facility. DNA on the crime scene tire matched Henry Tenon. What a weird coincidence that must be. You had nothing to do with this crime. And yet you actually have the very same line of tires that came out of the factory.
That were at the crime scene or produced in the factory right next to those ones. It's like, this is like what? Take that detail alone. People have been convicted on less.
Tenon was not listed as a tenet at the Potomac property. At that moment in time, Burl observed him there during the investigation. Ring camera footage from Gardner's house confirmed Tenon had access to a Ford Lariat F-150 registered to his father. Prosecutors then played their 50-minute surveillance compilation. The video tracked the F-150's route through Jacksonville Beach on the night of February 16th, minute by minute, camera by camera, showing the jury where that truck went, where it was from, and where it was going. 20 seconds separated the truck passing through the frame and Bridegan's SUV appearing behind it on the same road. At 7.52 that evening, the last shot was fired. The first 911 call came in four minutes later at 7.56.