Murdered Microsoft employee Jared Bridgen and his The murder suspect’s ex-wife, Shanna Gardner, According to redacted documents published earlier this month, the two exchanged contentious emails in 2017 regarding finances, child therapy and divorce.
Bridgen was shot to death in front of his car after his tire was spotted in the middle of a deserted road on February 16, 2022, in what prosecutors believe was a plot hatched by Gardner and her now-husband, Mario Fernández Saldana. Jacksonville Beach, Florida. His two-and-a-half-year-old daughter was in the backseat at the time.
The documents obtained by Fox News Digital through a records request detail some of the items collected by police from Gardner’s home. West Richland, WashingtonGardner was arrested at home during the execution of the warrant in February 2023, along with phones, an Apple Watch, several laptops and other electronic items. Gardner will be arrested six months later i.e. in August 2023.
Documents show that one of the children who was home at the time of the search told police their mother had put her “important” electronics in her “bedroom closet,” and then had softly spoken to the office “upstairs” while pointing to the ceiling.
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Jared Bridgen (left) was fatally shot in front of his car after a tire appeared in the middle of a deserted road on February 16, 2022, in what prosecutors believe was a plot hatched by Shanna Gardner (right) and her now-husband, Mario Fernandez Saldana, in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. (Handout/Duval County Jail)
The documents also include edited photographs of heated emails exchanged between Bridgen and Gardner in April and May 2017.
In April 2017, Gardner told Bridegan she was sending her children to therapy and that they were “stuck in the confusion of living between two homes.” In another email, Gardner criticized Bridegan for not making therapy sessions a priority or “providing financial support for it,” even though she agreed that her two children needed therapy.
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Attorney Jose Baez appears in court with his client, Shanna Gardner-Fernandez, at the Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville, Florida, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. Gardner-Fernandez was indicted on charges related to her alleged involvement in a conspiracy to murder her ex-husband, Jared Bridgen. (Larry Passy for Fox News Digital)
In return, Bridgen said he would not “pay for things that you and I haven’t already agreed upon.”
The two exchanged several other heated exchanges in emails. Gardner told Bridegan to “put that self-righteous posturing of yours in the mirror.” Bridegan asked Gardner, “Why are you ashamed of who you are, why do you hide all your tattoos in court, why aren’t you proud of the person you’ve become?” She also accused her of mismanaging money and called her a “fool.”
Shanna Gardner-Fernandez and her husband Mario Fernandez are enjoying a family vacation in Hawaii. A photo of the now-estranged couple was posted the day Jared Bridgen was murdered, allegedly by Fernandez and his co-conspirators. (So Shelly Blog)
“Wow beware the devil, you really should have waited to show your hand so soon. I know I am (smiley face),” Bridegan wrote in an email response to Gardner, later adding, “I wonder if you keep underestimating me… or did you think about all those months during our divorce, when you wandered around in the dark on so many nights, and in so many places, with no one around… again, best not to show your hand so soon.”
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Screenshot of an email exchanged between Jared Bridgen and Shanna Gardner, with the subject line “Kids Therapy.” (Dual County)
In May 2017, Brydegan promised his ex-wife that he “wouldn’t find happiness” by breaking up her family.
“You can’t bring us down as a family.”
“(Ed) will be raised in a Christ-centered home. You will not fail this,” he wrote. “You cannot bring us down as a family. I realize you live a life without the Spirit, without the priesthood and without the blessings of the temple. You will not find happiness by breaking us up. I will not allow you to do that.”
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Shanna Gardner (right) and her husband Mario Fernandez Saldana (inset) allegedly offered $150,000 to an assassin to kill Gardner’s ex-husband, Microsoft manager Jared Bridgen. (Handout/© Bob Self/Florida Times-Union/USA TODAY NETWORK)
Fox News Digital has reached out to Gardner’s attorney, Jose Baez, and the State Attorney’s Office for the 4th Judicial Circuit for comment.
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Gardner and Fernandez-Saldana are accused of paying $150,000 to accused hitman Henry Tennon, Fernandez-Saldana’s former tenant, to murder Bridgegan. Tennon is accused of ambushing and shooting Bridgegan in Jacksonville Beach on Feb. 16, 2022.
Both Gardner and Fernandez-Saldana have pleaded not guilty to Bridgen’s murder. Tennon pleaded guilty to the shooting and agreed to testify against the other suspects.
