Florida police to announce a forthcoming arrest in the unsolved murder of slain Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan as his ex-wife was spotted in Washington state.
After the murder, the couple retained high-powered criminal defense lawyer Henry Coxe III, who declined to comment for this story Monday. Shanna Gardner-Fernandez is shown in Washington state on Monday, Jan.
23, 2023. She is the ex-wife of Jared Bridegan, who was murdered in Florida in 2022. Less than one year after the children traumatically lost their father, Gardner-Fernandez pulled them out of their private Jacksonville Beach school and moved them into a six-bedroom, four-bathroom house in theProperty records show that the modern ranch home was purchased in September for $1 million by Whitesand LLC, which lists the Alpine, Utah, address of her parents, Shelli and Sterling Gardner. Shelli Gardner founded the paper-craft company Stampin' Up, which has an estimated annual revenue of more than $100 million a year, according to IncFact. Kirsten and Jared Bridegan are shown at their wedding in 2017. Jared Bridegan was gunned down Feb. 16, 2022, in an upscale suburb of Florida. Her parents are prominent fixtures in the Mormon community known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . They were in West Richland this past week visiting their daughter and grandchildren — and attended a service solo Sunday at a local LDS church.Jared was a devout adherent of the faith. Gardener-Fernandez drifted from the religion after their 2010 marriage and then allegedly had an affair, triggering their acrimonious split, Fox News Digital previously reported. A photo combination of Jared and Kirsten Bridegan, left, and Shanna Gardner-Fernandez outside her home in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Her second marriage is also faltering. Shortly after the murder, neighbors said they no longer saw Fernandez at the couple’s $1 million Jacksonville Beach home, which they co-own, and he did not join her for the cross-country move.It was listed for sale Oct. 27 then taken off the market Jan. 3, public records show. Gardner-Fernandez’s primary connection to West Richland appears to be a friend she met at a baking conference in 2020, Marla Rogers, who owns the home next door.Rogers runs Marla’s Cookie Co. out of her house much like Gardner-Fernandez operated her own now-shuttered baking company, Beach Baked 904, from her home in Florida.
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