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EPISODE · Aug 20, 2026 · 16 MIN

A Jury Watched Fernandez Talk About Bridegan Like He Was Nobody

from True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · host Real Story Media

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

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