January 31, 2023 • 34 mins
On the evening of February 16th, 2022 Jared Bridegan is dropping off his daughter at his ex-wife’s home. On the drive over he has to stop because there’s a tire in the middle of the road and he cannot go around it. He steps out of the car to go and move it whereupon he is shot multiple times. Henry Tenon has been charged with Bridegan’s murder. His only known connection to Bridegan is that he is a former tenant of a property owned by Bridegan’s ex-wifes current husband.
In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the longevity and complexity of this case, the logistics of the shooting itself, the charges against the suspect, the evidence found from the tire and shell casings, and much more.
Show Notes:
0:00 - Intro
1:18 - Background and overview of the case
3:25 - The logistics of the shooting
6:25 - Charges against the suspect
10:00 - Tenon’s truck
11:15 - Evidence from the tire
13:15 - Car rims and fingerprints
15:40 - Planning and pre-meditation
20:20 - The choke point and Florida climate
24:55 - Shell casings
30:15 - Video surveillance and tracking down the owner of the blue truck
32:45 - The longevity and complexity of this case
35:00 - Outro
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Body backs with Joseph Scott Morgan. Imagine if you will,
You've spent the weekend with your children. You're having to
take them back home to their mother with whom they live.
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You've got your other child in the back of the
car because they wanted to ride along to be with
their siblings. And then all of a sudden, in the darkness,
there's something in the middle of the road that causes
you to stop. You don't see a way around it.
You open the door, and the last thing you hear
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there's a loud explosion and you are no more. Today
we're going to talk about the homicide of Jared Bright again.
I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this his body backs joining
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me today again is my about Jackie Howard, executive producer
of Crime Stories. When Nancy Grace Jackie, We've been looking
at Jared's case now for lord over a year, I guess,
And suddenly we've got movement in this case. We do.
There has been an arrest made in the murder of
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Microsoft executive Jared Bright. Again. He was killed in front
of his two year old daughter on his way to
drop off as you said, his twins to his ex
wife who lived not too far away. They had a
regular routine of drop off and pick up so that
they shared custody. Henry Tannan is accused by police of
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hunting down the thirty three year old father. We know
that bright Again was shot. He was on his way
home after dropping the twins off, and this is a
one way street that he is coming down, and it
is a route he routinely took after dropping his twins
off with his ex wife. His daughter is in the
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back seat. There is a tire in the roadway again
one way street, and the tire is in the middle
of the road. He cannot go around it. There's not
enough shoulder on either side to go around this tire,
so he stops, gets out to move it, and at
that point he is shot. The two year old who
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was in the back seat, Bexley, comes home when she's
returned to her mother, which is Jared bright Again's now wife, Kirsten,
and she tells mommy daddy on the ground. So this
child has a memory of what happened before. We talk
about the evidence that led to an arrest. Remind me
of what would have happened to bride Again when he
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was shot. Where was he shot, what was his wounds
and is it likely that he died instantly? It would
seem that this went down pretty quickly, Jackie, that he
was killed in place, and the one bit of information
that the police have released in in this case relative
to his injuries is that they were at close range. Now,
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what we do know is that it was close range
and that there were multiple of them. As a matter
of fact, not only have they talked about that there
were multiple gunshot wounds, but they have found multiple casings
on the ground pretty much adjacent to his remains. They've
been very non specific about this about the absolute anatomical
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location of these injuries. But he was essentially found deceased
immediately outside of the car, so it's not like he
ran some great distance. And right you were when you
mentioned little Bexley in the back of the car, she
was close enough that the shots rang out in her ears.
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She could actually hear them at that moment, Tom, And
she also talked about her father going down, So you
have to really wonder, as this goes to proximity, did
she actually hear her father impact the ground in her
own two year old little mind. Is that something that
she has a memory of Remember, she says boom boom,
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daddy on the ground. So it's one thing to hear
gunshot wounds, but to actually hear her say daddy on
the ground. Does that mean that she heard him impact
the ground or did she actually witness or maybe a
combination of both him going down and it happened immediately
outside of the car Jackie right adjacent to this little
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baby strapped in that car seat. She's only two years old.
Police estimate that the little girl sat in the back
seat for a least three minutes before a passer by
called police. The suspect in this arrest is Henry Tennant
to eat N O N and again he is accused
by cops of gunning down the thirty three year old
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father of four. When the announcement of appending arrest was made,
the first thing people expected was that the suspect was
going to be his ex wife, and that is Shanna
Gardner Fernandez. After the divorce, Gardner married a trainer, Mario Fernandez.
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Now we find out that Shannah Gardner Fernandez has moved
across the country without her husband, without Mario Fernandez. Learning
that it was not the announcement that most people suspected,
and again, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Police charged
Tennan with, among other things, conspiracy to murder, but that's
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not all. What were his charges, Joe, We come to
find out that he's he's charged first off with second
degree murder with a weapon, all right, So that means
when you break that down, you begin it's kind of
self explanatory, but you can murder someone without a weapon,
all right. So they're specifying that in this charge that
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it was a second degree murder. It wasn't like he
choked somebody, so he had a weapon that he used
to facilitate the death. And then here's what's very interesting
about this to me is that he is charged with
conspiracy to commit and murder. If you have a conspiracy,
that means that you don't just have one person, You've
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got one, two, maybe three people that are attached to
this event. So people are conspiring to enter into an
agreement to perpetrate a homicide. In addition to that, and
this this goes to the position of Bexley, and you
remember we're talking about what she heard and maybe what
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she saw. This other charge is actually child abuse. And
then he's also charged with being an accessory after the fact.
So we have the facts of the case here. We
know that we have a death that is at his hand.
He hasn't you know, been proved guilty yet, but he
has an awareness, he has knowledge of this event. This
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all according to the prosecutor's office. So they've got a
lot of information on this man, specific tie backs. And
let's think about how long did it take them to
bring all of this together. They have been taking their
time because I think a lot of people, you know,
when we've talked about this case on air in the past,
particularly with Prime Stories with Nancy, we really thought I
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think many of us thought that this case was going
to be turned around and solved very quickly. But it
has taken a long time. And I don't think that
it was necessarily because they didn't have leads. I think
that they had to put all of the pieces together.
They had the pieces, they just had to begin to
put them together, and they wanted to make sure that
they had a rock solid case. One thing that we
need to remember, just because he is charged with conspiracy
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to commit murder does not necessarily link him back to
the ex wife. Don't be making that assumption, because right
now all we know is that police believe there was
a conspiracy, but they're not naming anyone that they thought
might be in on this. Shannon Gardner Fernandez has adamantly
stated and denied any role in Jared bright Agan's death.
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Henry Tannan had a rap sheet. He was actually staying
with the roommate, who described him as a quiet, hard
working man. But he also recalls four separate police visits
to their home after Tennon was arrested on unrelated charges
last August. He said police kicked down the door at
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least one time to turned the whole place over. They
were looking for a gun, his truck. They took all
of his clothes through it. Says he was also taken
in for questioning and grilled for about four hours for
any information that he knew about Tennin's role in bright
Agen's death. Of course, he said he had no idea
about what was going on. What I find interesting about
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learning this is the role of this truck that they
were looking for, because we did have reports of a
blue truck being spotted near the scene of bright Agen's murder.
The truck is going to be key in this case,
I have I have no doubt and we've been hearing
about this for many, many months now that they have
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CCTV footage of this, and the footage that was released
was kind of blurry. I really wonder as this investigation
has progressed, if they were able to kind of tighten
down those images a little bit, and maybe they had
other views of this vehicle. Perhaps they sent clips that
they had to another agency for them to kind of
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refine them so that they could use them better to
identify this vehicle. What we do know is a specific
make that we're looking for forward f one fifty, and
that is going to lead back, I think to a
key piece of evidence in this case, and this goes
back to the tire. People keep talking about the tire
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that was in the roadway that initially blocked Jared's progression
down the road, and we have to keep in mind
something here, and this is again a major major bit
of evidence. So the fact that it's not just a tire.
Keep hearing reports in the media and I read them
over and over again where they keep saying tire, It's
not simply a tire. Okay, what does that matter? Well,
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it matters tremendously because this is a tire that's set
on a rim. And so not only do you have
a tire that, from an equipment stand point, can be
tied back to a particular type of vehicle that would
take that size tire, but you also have a rim
that has pre drilled holes in it that attaches onto
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the lug bolts that are fixed on a vehicle, so
it can be mounted that way, and that's very specific.
You'll have manufacturer marks they're on a rim, not to
mention the markings that are on the tire, and so forensically,
when you begin to look at this thing, you think, well,
what's going to make this particular item or items if
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you refer to the rim and the tire together, what's
gonna make them unique? Well, first off, you have to
look at the manufacturer. You have to look at the
date that these things were produced. When you go to
the tire itself, you begin to think about, well, how
much wear is there on this tire? That's there because
it was a warm tire. This image is all over
the internet and you can see that it has been
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well worn, it's covered in dust, and it will have
a specific wear pattern. If you have a tire like
this that has a specific wear pattern. That wear pattern
might be very distinctive to the vehicle that it was
used upon because the alignment on the vehicle might be wrong.
You might have tires are not necessarily going to match
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perfectly if it's a replacement tire, and so it's going
to cause this vehicle to drive in a very particular way.
So you've got multiple points along here that can tie
back to a specific car. I will continue to be
watching this very closely because I want to know if
this ties back to Tennant's vehicle, this specific tire, did
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it originate out of the bed of his truck? And
you know, we haven't even unpacked more specific forensic evidence
that goes back to say the rim itself. If I
understand what you're saying, there's enough evidence here besides touch
DNA to link Tennan to this murder. I think that
probably touch DNA is the least of these in this
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particular case. Yeah, it might very well be there, and
if it is there, bully for them. I'm I'm happy
that they have that. Listen to our listeners. I would
urge anybody with your vehicle, if you have a vehicle,
go outside and take a look at the rim. That's
the inner portion you know, of your wheel there on
your vehicle, and you'll have brake dust that's on there
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many times, and it's this kind of gray dust that
is a perfect sourcing for latent prints, believe it or not.
So if he put his hand on that rim itself, okay,
just featured this for a second, on that rim itself
and just dropped it off in the middle of the road,
his print might very well be there. And that's that's
pretty fascinating when you begin to think about that, that
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he could have left a print in the dust on
that tire, on the rim itself, and when you look
at the images that are floating around out there, you'll
see the thing is just crusted with dirt. So that's
a potential that's there. If there's grease on the back
side of that rim, you can leave behind what's referred
to as a plastic print, and means that when you
have grease or oil and those sorts of things and
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you apply your finger to that area and you pull
it away, you'll actually leave you'll leave a print in
that grease or whatever whatever else is there as well. Grease, oil,
that sort of thing. Road deposits carbon build up. Think
about when we were kids, if you had a substance
like play dough or silly putty or something like that.
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When you're a kid and you press your finger down
onto that surface and you pull it away, Well, that's
what a plastic print looks like. You actually have it
frozen in that for just a second when you're a kid,
and you can kind of stretch it and play with
it and that sort of thing. Same principle here with
this rim. He very well may have left a print there.
So you know that tire is going to be an
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absolute just bevy of data for them to examine and
perhaps to tie back to this fellow an examination of
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this case, it offers up more than just simply a tire.
There's a lot of forensics that they have in this case,
in my opinion, and things that have led to an
arrest and I think personally have led to an idea
that maybe there was a conspiracy of foot in this case.
I'm interested in talking about and backing up to talk
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about the scene again, not just the tire and the truck.
There were some very specific points that you would have
to pay attention to and know about this area where
he was stopped where he was ambushed. Basically, this was
a one way street, so whoever set this up would
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have to know it's a one way street, would have
to realize that there is not enough room for two cars,
and knowing that the landscape around him would not support
going around this tire. So there actually was a little
bit of thought put into this that goes to an
element of premeditation. And let's let's kind of put this
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into military terms, because you mentioned the word ambush earlier, Jackie.
You know, the military will go out and recon an area,
conduct reconnaissance, and I think that that's probably what happened
here because the geography, and I'm talking about the physical
landscape out here is very particular. First off, you have
to identify the fact that Jared Bridigan took a specific
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route to and from his home to convey his children
to his ex wife's home. It's the route that he chose.
It's maybe the most direct route to get back to
his home. But what's so helling about this is the
fact that along this way there's a one way stretch,
and this one way stretch is very narrow. And when
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I say narrow, there there's narrow when we begin to
think about maybe a street in the city where we've
got sidewalks on both sides and those sorts of things.
But in this context you're talking about in the environment
in Florida, and when you take a look at the
way the land kind of lays. On one side of
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the road, you've got this low growth of vegetation with
a few trees in this area that would be perfect
for concealment covering concealment. How metto bushes are in there,
you see some old growth oak that look like they're
sitting in the back. Back there, maybe a few pine trees.
And then on the other side you've got it got
this depressed area that kind of slopes away from the
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road and it looks very marshy wet. So if you've
got an element in the middle of the road that
is impeding your ability to pass through the area, you
don't have a choice. You have to get out and
remove that item because you can't go up on either
shoulder of the road because you might run off into
the weeds, or you very well might go off into
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the swampy area and get stuck. And this is not
like he was driving a gigantic forward drive truck. This
is a Volkswagen platform. That sounds as though that it's
kind of one of these quasi suv type small suv
type vehicles that he would not have the ability with
this vehicle to essentially just kind of climb over the tire.
It's not going to pass him the vehicle. He is
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compelled at this point in time by virtue of this
item in the road to get out and remove the tire.
So what does that do? Well, as soon as you
do that, you become very vulnerable to anyone that wishes
to do you harm. You're outside the confines of the vehicle.
You don't have a door or even a windshield that
is protecting you in any way. So once you have
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stopped the vehicle, and if I remember correctly, when he
stopped the vehicle, he put his flashes on, he had
the presence of mind put Asher's own exit vehicle, opens
up the door in order to get out there to
remove this impediment, and it's at that point in time
that he's essentially executed. Executed. Let me say they're working
executed in the middle of the road right there. It
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just wasn't one shot. It's not like somebody randomly fired
out of the woods or something. Now someone was up
close on him, because they have mentioned the term close
range and they mentioned the term multiple shots. As an investigator,
you can automatically exclude anybody that just would have been
randomly firing a weapon off in the distance. And this
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poor fellow happened to be on the receiving end of
the round in. And that's not what happened here. Somebody
specifically targeted him and essentially killed him in the middle
of the road with his little babysitting right there strapping
in coarse Joe, you and I have had a lot
of conversations, and one of the things that I tell
you a lot is that I am geographically challenged. I
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don't travel a lot, so I don't always not that
about other regions, but have learned through the years that
the landscape in Florida is a little bit different. And
one thing is you don't have a lot of basements
because of the water table and the water content in
the soil in Florida. Given that he had to be
stopped at a specific point and the perpetrator set it up,
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I'm going to throw out the turn choke point only
because you have talked to me about that before. So
this perpetrator set up a choke point, knowing that the
landmass surrounding where this stopped would not support the weight
of a truck. Am I right, You're absolutely on target again.
Using the term choke point, that's a military term. It's
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a point of vulnerability. If if folks at home will
just kind of envision a funnel and how funnel narrows down,
that's a choke point. You get to a point where
it restricts movement. And if you're looking to ambush somebody,
you want to get them in an area where they
cannot defend themselves. They can't run away. It's narrowed down
to that specific spot. So you've kind of got them
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captured at that moment time and you can do with
them as you wish. What's kind of interesting about this,
I think is that if that theory holds water, which
I believe that it does, you would have the perpetrator
standing on either side of the road. If I were
a betting man, I'd bet that they would be on
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the side of the road adjacent in that kind of
semi wooded area that kind of rises above it slightly
has a rise to it. Above the roadbed, you can
look down on an area and if you step down
out of the shadows, no one can remember. This is
at night and it's not a lighted area. Another reason
to pick this area because the individual that you're trying
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to attack would essentially be blind to anything that's around them.
You don't have street lights out there, so they could
emerge out of the shadows once he has stopped that
vehicle to remove the tire and fire upon him. In
this case, fire upondered. But what's interesting is that this
individual that would have perpetrated this would have had to
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have stood there for a while. And what happens when
you stand in place, particularly on this soft, loamy soil
of us have been in Florida, I know, throughout the
day any time of the year, you can essentially get
a rainstorm, so the soil many times will remain quite
moist and very malleable. And so if he's standing in
one place for a protracted period of time, just waiting
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and waiting and waiting for Jerry to pass by headed
on his way home, there might be footprints out there.
There could also be evidence of activity in addition to footprints,
because you're trying to find a spot where you'd have
broken vegetation, where you get branches snapped off. Remember there's
a low growth brush out there as well, these palmetto
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bushes that I mentioned other kind of grassy elements that
are out there. People that are keen to this and
are whare of where they're going on, you can see
where this these items are are either snapped off or
pressed down into that area, and that gives you an
idea of activity out there. You know, we think a
lot in forensics about blood trails and all that stuff,
but you can also get an ideas to what happened
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at a scene by virtue of whearing individuals oriented relative
to their shoes, and of course shoes they're going to
be very very specific in this case. And remember what
you said earlier, Jackie. When they went out and they
served the search warrant on this fellow's house, what did
they get. Well, they went out there and the roommates
says they ainked all of his clothes out of there.
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What are they looking for? I think clothes probably involves
shoes more than likely, maybe they've taken that all back.
If they found footprints out there, they could have cast
those and if they have work boots or athletic shoes
or I don't care if it's Sunday, go to meet
and shoes, they're gonna leave a distinctive print. And they
can compare that back at the lab once they've lifted
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those cast out of the soil and give them an
idea or at least from a circumstantial standpoint that these
shoes use are consistent with the prints that we found
left behind at the scene. In our world, there is
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no such thing as a perfect crime. Those do not exist.
Some are more difficult to solve, but you know, here's
the thing. Perpetrators are always going to leave behind some
essence of who they are or what they have done,
or what they brought into the scene. And I think
that this case is no different. It's a bit more
difficult to work because it's an outdoor scene. This is
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not like walking into a house and an apartment somewhere
where you're going to have a blood suck scene. And
you might have a lot of fiber evidence out there
that you could find, but still significant evidence can be
found out yere. And I've got an idea about a
few of these things, and I think that you're going
to leave some trace behind. And I gotta tell you,
I think that there are several items that we have
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yet to discuss that could lead deeper and deeper into
this investigation and point certainly to this perpetrator and maybe
potentially to others. Let me see if I can guess
what some of those things might be. We've talked about
the tire and the possibility of prints. We've talked about
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possibly finding a nest or an area nearby where the
perpetrator may have watched while waiting on his victim. And
we've talked about the truck a little bit. What about
the possibility of shell casings there on the scene. Depending
on what kind of a weapon you're using, the shell
casings get ejected you unless you have lots of time
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to look, you may not necessarily know where it is
ejected to were there shell casings found? Joe, Yeah, and
I'm glad that you made that plural case scenes. That's
what the police have said over and over again. And
I can tell you a big piece of this that
that we might can safely speculate on. This is probably
gonna be a semi automatic weapon because you've got multiple
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ejected shell casings. Now, it's possible that you could have
used a revolver, and you can eject shells from a
revolver with an ejection rod that you kind of you
open up the cylinder and you push them out and
it drops on the ground. But those are becoming fewer
and fewer nowadays. Most people are going to be carrying
a semi automatic handgun, and so where you have shell
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casings that are ejected out of the side, people need
to be very careful when you start to talk about
the relationship between shell casings and say the decedent that
that is the person that has passed away, the homicide victim.
Many people will get an idea that when you see
these ejected shell casings it might be an indication of
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movement of the perpetrator as their firing the weapon. That
is a falsehood because you can have a distribution of
shell casings all over the place, particularly on a very solid,
hard surface. Remember this is on an an asphalted surface
and a road. So when those spent metal casings eject
out of that ejection port and they hit the ground,
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it's anybody's guess as to where they're gonna wind up,
and they'll bounce all over the place. Even in an
individual that stays static, that means stands still while they're firing,
These spent casings can bounce all over the place. You
can't even there's no way to even do the mathematical
computation that would be involved to try to make a
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guess at to where one one one case and will
land as opposed to another. So that shouldn't be an
indication of movement of the individual, whether they were static
or moving around. It's just going to give you an
idea of an approximation as to where the perpetrator was.
It sounds as though, based upon what the police have said,
is that it was perpetrated very close to the open
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car door that Jared had had stepped out of. Remember
he put his flashers on, opened the door and stepped
out and then boom boom. So you've got the shell
casings that are lying about semi automatic we believe, and
it will essentially go back to a particular weapon. Now
here's here's what the police are looking for. Hopefully they
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can find this weapon, because if they do and deepen
it upon the track of the wounds and the rounds
that passed into Jared, if they recovered any of those
rounds whatsoever, they can tie that back to the barrel.
We've talked a lot about ballistics on body backs, so
that's certainly something that would help us identify the weapon
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and potentially put it into the hand of the person
that possessed it at the time of this crime. Also,
you would begin to look at these aforementioned casings that
have been spent because they have marks on them too.
They have extraction marks, to have ejector marks. It's soft metal.
So as the process is happening where that around is
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being that spent cation is being pulled out of the
weapon by this force as it's flying through the air
and just before it's literally grabbed within the weapon slid back,
and those markings are distinctive to that weapon. That's important
because not only if you get the weapon, you can
tie the projectile ballistically back to the weapon, but you
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can look at the markings on the casing and tie
that back to the same weapon. You're not just looking
at what's coming out of the barrel, You're also looking
at what's coming out of the ejection board as well,
because those are very distinctive. Scientifically, speaking of scientifically. How
about something that we kind of take for granted every
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day and people kind of dismiss and don't realize how
scientific it really is. And that is the like the
hood of video from every angle. I mean, you're gonna
have houses that are gonna have doorbell cameras, You're gonna
have businesses usually are going to have some kind of
surveillance cameras. So we know that it was reported that
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there was a blue truck. How do you think that
they pinpointed or narrowed down on the truck that it
belonged to Tennan. I got one better for you than
just simply seeing the truck on video the night of
Remember how we talked about going out and reconning an
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area like the military Wood. What if they were able
to put that truck out there during the daytime hours
where it's passing through this area up down the road
searching for that choke point as we mentioned, what if
they got that truck captured on video by rain camp.
And look, I don't know how much folks know about
this area, but this is a high dollar area where
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this took place. Now I know that it We made
it sound very vacant and it is in this particular area.
But up and down this road you've got homes that
are far nicer than anything that I live in, very
very high end real estate. And what do high end
real estate owners tend to have on their homes, Well,
they like security. I don't think the police are just
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simply reliant upon what happened that night. They're relying upon
what happened the days leading up to this event. And
they may have gone to all of these homes up
and down this road and said, well, sir, ma'am, can
we pull your video footage here? We were looking in
this case. We want to look back several days. Maybe
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they had an eyewitness, maybe they saw a strange truck
that wasn't part of that neighborhood, and somebody came to
the police and said, you know what, there's been a
truck that's been driving back and forth through here for
the past week. We don't know who the guy is,
but you know I heard about the description. I didn't
see it that night. Man. A truck just like that's
been driving up and down the road preceding the event.
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So that could be part and parcel of what the
police are looking for as well, or have identified in
this particular case, certainly enough to create a search warrant
perhaps and then finally an arrest warrant in this particular case.
I think all the things that you've told us about
today Joe really puts together and solidifies for people how
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long it truly can take to solve a murder case.
I mean, we're looking at over a year now before
an arrest was made in this case, Yes we are.
And God blessed Hert's wife to go through what she's
gone through with these children day in and day out,
wondering all of his family that have been so united
in this case, and finally they get this one ray
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of hope here because it has been an uphill struggle
and there's been a lot of questions that have been asked,
and that that doesn't go to the police don't know
what they're doing. I take it exception anytime somebody says
that the police are being careful, particularly you know, because
the word conspiracy has come up in this case. That
adds a whole another level of complexity to a case.
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That means that you just don't have one individual that
you're looking at, You're looking at multiple individuals. So it
increases it by a specific factor, and it makes it
very layered. You know, we haven't even even touched on certainly,
I think maybe many of us kind of take it
for granted. We haven't touched on on the fact that
the perpetrator may have been carrying cell phone with him.
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What if there were text messages that were going back
and forth. What if he's painting off the towers. For
all I know, this individual left their phone at home,
but just what if, just what if they were lying
in wait out there as Jared is traveling home to
go back home to his precious family with that precious
angel in the back seat, and he's sitting out there
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in those bushes waiting for him to come back. He's
got his phone in his pocket, and all the while,
all the while, they're able to tide back to a
specific perpetrator, and that thing is bringing off of those towers,
giving them a specific identification and location as to where
he was the entire time. You brought up to conspiracy again, Joe,
So let me say it one more time. We are
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not jumping to conclusions. No one has been named as
a co conspirator in this case. No one has been
arrested as a co conspirator in this case so far
has been Henry Tannan. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this
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is body Backs.
Body backs with Joseph Scott Morgan. Imagine if you will,
You've spent the weekend with your children. You're having to
take them back home to their mother with whom they live.
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You've got your other child in the back of the
car because they wanted to ride along to be with
their siblings. And then all of a sudden, in the darkness,
there's something in the middle of the road that causes
you to stop. You don't see a way around it.
You open the door, and the last thing you hear
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there's a loud explosion and you are no more. Today
we're going to talk about the homicide of Jared Bright again.
I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this his body backs joining
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me today again is my about Jackie Howard, executive producer
of Crime Stories. When Nancy Grace Jackie, We've been looking
at Jared's case now for lord over a year, I guess,
And suddenly we've got movement in this case. We do.
There has been an arrest made in the murder of
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Microsoft executive Jared Bright. Again. He was killed in front
of his two year old daughter on his way to
drop off as you said, his twins to his ex
wife who lived not too far away. They had a
regular routine of drop off and pick up so that
they shared custody. Henry Tannan is accused by police of
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hunting down the thirty three year old father. We know
that bright Again was shot. He was on his way
home after dropping the twins off, and this is a
one way street that he is coming down, and it
is a route he routinely took after dropping his twins
off with his ex wife. His daughter is in the
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back seat. There is a tire in the roadway again
one way street, and the tire is in the middle
of the road. He cannot go around it. There's not
enough shoulder on either side to go around this tire,
so he stops, gets out to move it, and at
that point he is shot. The two year old who
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was in the back seat, Bexley, comes home when she's
returned to her mother, which is Jared bright Again's now wife, Kirsten,
and she tells mommy daddy on the ground. So this
child has a memory of what happened before. We talk
about the evidence that led to an arrest. Remind me
of what would have happened to bride Again when he
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was shot. Where was he shot, what was his wounds
and is it likely that he died instantly? It would
seem that this went down pretty quickly, Jackie, that he
was killed in place, and the one bit of information
that the police have released in in this case relative
to his injuries is that they were at close range. Now,
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what we do know is that it was close range
and that there were multiple of them. As a matter
of fact, not only have they talked about that there
were multiple gunshot wounds, but they have found multiple casings
on the ground pretty much adjacent to his remains. They've
been very non specific about this about the absolute anatomical
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location of these injuries. But he was essentially found deceased
immediately outside of the car, so it's not like he
ran some great distance. And right you were when you
mentioned little Bexley in the back of the car, she
was close enough that the shots rang out in her ears.
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She could actually hear them at that moment, Tom, And
she also talked about her father going down, So you
have to really wonder, as this goes to proximity, did
she actually hear her father impact the ground in her
own two year old little mind. Is that something that
she has a memory of Remember, she says boom boom,
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daddy on the ground. So it's one thing to hear
gunshot wounds, but to actually hear her say daddy on
the ground. Does that mean that she heard him impact
the ground or did she actually witness or maybe a
combination of both him going down and it happened immediately
outside of the car Jackie right adjacent to this little
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baby strapped in that car seat. She's only two years old.
Police estimate that the little girl sat in the back
seat for a least three minutes before a passer by
called police. The suspect in this arrest is Henry Tennant
to eat N O N and again he is accused
by cops of gunning down the thirty three year old
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father of four. When the announcement of appending arrest was made,
the first thing people expected was that the suspect was
going to be his ex wife, and that is Shanna
Gardner Fernandez. After the divorce, Gardner married a trainer, Mario Fernandez.
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Now we find out that Shannah Gardner Fernandez has moved
across the country without her husband, without Mario Fernandez. Learning
that it was not the announcement that most people suspected,
and again, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Police charged
Tennan with, among other things, conspiracy to murder, but that's
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not all. What were his charges, Joe, We come to
find out that he's he's charged first off with second
degree murder with a weapon, all right, So that means
when you break that down, you begin it's kind of
self explanatory, but you can murder someone without a weapon,
all right. So they're specifying that in this charge that
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it was a second degree murder. It wasn't like he
choked somebody, so he had a weapon that he used
to facilitate the death. And then here's what's very interesting
about this to me is that he is charged with
conspiracy to commit and murder. If you have a conspiracy,
that means that you don't just have one person, You've
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got one, two, maybe three people that are attached to
this event. So people are conspiring to enter into an
agreement to perpetrate a homicide. In addition to that, and
this this goes to the position of Bexley, and you
remember we're talking about what she heard and maybe what
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she saw. This other charge is actually child abuse. And
then he's also charged with being an accessory after the fact.
So we have the facts of the case here. We
know that we have a death that is at his hand.
He hasn't you know, been proved guilty yet, but he
has an awareness, he has knowledge of this event. This
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all according to the prosecutor's office. So they've got a
lot of information on this man, specific tie backs. And
let's think about how long did it take them to
bring all of this together. They have been taking their
time because I think a lot of people, you know,
when we've talked about this case on air in the past,
particularly with Prime Stories with Nancy, we really thought I
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think many of us thought that this case was going
to be turned around and solved very quickly. But it
has taken a long time. And I don't think that
it was necessarily because they didn't have leads. I think
that they had to put all of the pieces together.
They had the pieces, they just had to begin to
put them together, and they wanted to make sure that
they had a rock solid case. One thing that we
need to remember, just because he is charged with conspiracy
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to commit murder does not necessarily link him back to
the ex wife. Don't be making that assumption, because right
now all we know is that police believe there was
a conspiracy, but they're not naming anyone that they thought
might be in on this. Shannon Gardner Fernandez has adamantly
stated and denied any role in Jared bright Agan's death.
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Henry Tannan had a rap sheet. He was actually staying
with the roommate, who described him as a quiet, hard
working man. But he also recalls four separate police visits
to their home after Tennon was arrested on unrelated charges
last August. He said police kicked down the door at
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least one time to turned the whole place over. They
were looking for a gun, his truck. They took all
of his clothes through it. Says he was also taken
in for questioning and grilled for about four hours for
any information that he knew about Tennin's role in bright
Agen's death. Of course, he said he had no idea
about what was going on. What I find interesting about
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learning this is the role of this truck that they
were looking for, because we did have reports of a
blue truck being spotted near the scene of bright Agen's murder.
The truck is going to be key in this case,
I have I have no doubt and we've been hearing
about this for many, many months now that they have
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CCTV footage of this, and the footage that was released
was kind of blurry. I really wonder as this investigation
has progressed, if they were able to kind of tighten
down those images a little bit, and maybe they had
other views of this vehicle. Perhaps they sent clips that
they had to another agency for them to kind of
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refine them so that they could use them better to
identify this vehicle. What we do know is a specific
make that we're looking for forward f one fifty, and
that is going to lead back, I think to a
key piece of evidence in this case, and this goes
back to the tire. People keep talking about the tire
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that was in the roadway that initially blocked Jared's progression
down the road, and we have to keep in mind
something here, and this is again a major major bit
of evidence. So the fact that it's not just a tire.
Keep hearing reports in the media and I read them
over and over again where they keep saying tire, It's
not simply a tire. Okay, what does that matter? Well,
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it matters tremendously because this is a tire that's set
on a rim. And so not only do you have
a tire that, from an equipment stand point, can be
tied back to a particular type of vehicle that would
take that size tire, but you also have a rim
that has pre drilled holes in it that attaches onto
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the lug bolts that are fixed on a vehicle, so
it can be mounted that way, and that's very specific.
You'll have manufacturer marks they're on a rim, not to
mention the markings that are on the tire, and so forensically,
when you begin to look at this thing, you think, well,
what's going to make this particular item or items if
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you refer to the rim and the tire together, what's
gonna make them unique? Well, first off, you have to
look at the manufacturer. You have to look at the
date that these things were produced. When you go to
the tire itself, you begin to think about, well, how
much wear is there on this tire? That's there because
it was a warm tire. This image is all over
the internet and you can see that it has been
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well worn, it's covered in dust, and it will have
a specific wear pattern. If you have a tire like
this that has a specific wear pattern. That wear pattern
might be very distinctive to the vehicle that it was
used upon because the alignment on the vehicle might be wrong.
You might have tires are not necessarily going to match
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perfectly if it's a replacement tire, and so it's going
to cause this vehicle to drive in a very particular way.
So you've got multiple points along here that can tie
back to a specific car. I will continue to be
watching this very closely because I want to know if
this ties back to Tennant's vehicle, this specific tire, did
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it originate out of the bed of his truck? And
you know, we haven't even unpacked more specific forensic evidence
that goes back to say the rim itself. If I
understand what you're saying, there's enough evidence here besides touch
DNA to link Tennan to this murder. I think that
probably touch DNA is the least of these in this
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particular case. Yeah, it might very well be there, and
if it is there, bully for them. I'm I'm happy
that they have that. Listen to our listeners. I would
urge anybody with your vehicle, if you have a vehicle,
go outside and take a look at the rim. That's
the inner portion you know, of your wheel there on
your vehicle, and you'll have brake dust that's on there
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many times, and it's this kind of gray dust that
is a perfect sourcing for latent prints, believe it or not.
So if he put his hand on that rim itself, okay,
just featured this for a second, on that rim itself
and just dropped it off in the middle of the road,
his print might very well be there. And that's that's
pretty fascinating when you begin to think about that, that
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he could have left a print in the dust on
that tire, on the rim itself, and when you look
at the images that are floating around out there, you'll
see the thing is just crusted with dirt. So that's
a potential that's there. If there's grease on the back
side of that rim, you can leave behind what's referred
to as a plastic print, and means that when you
have grease or oil and those sorts of things and
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you apply your finger to that area and you pull
it away, you'll actually leave you'll leave a print in
that grease or whatever whatever else is there as well. Grease, oil,
that sort of thing. Road deposits carbon build up. Think
about when we were kids, if you had a substance
like play dough or silly putty or something like that.
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When you're a kid and you press your finger down
onto that surface and you pull it away, Well, that's
what a plastic print looks like. You actually have it
frozen in that for just a second when you're a kid,
and you can kind of stretch it and play with
it and that sort of thing. Same principle here with
this rim. He very well may have left a print there.
So you know that tire is going to be an
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absolute just bevy of data for them to examine and
perhaps to tie back to this fellow an examination of
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this case, it offers up more than just simply a tire.
There's a lot of forensics that they have in this case,
in my opinion, and things that have led to an
arrest and I think personally have led to an idea
that maybe there was a conspiracy of foot in this case.
I'm interested in talking about and backing up to talk
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about the scene again, not just the tire and the truck.
There were some very specific points that you would have
to pay attention to and know about this area where
he was stopped where he was ambushed. Basically, this was
a one way street, so whoever set this up would
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have to know it's a one way street, would have
to realize that there is not enough room for two cars,
and knowing that the landscape around him would not support
going around this tire. So there actually was a little
bit of thought put into this that goes to an
element of premeditation. And let's let's kind of put this
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into military terms, because you mentioned the word ambush earlier, Jackie.
You know, the military will go out and recon an area,
conduct reconnaissance, and I think that that's probably what happened
here because the geography, and I'm talking about the physical
landscape out here is very particular. First off, you have
to identify the fact that Jared Bridigan took a specific
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route to and from his home to convey his children
to his ex wife's home. It's the route that he chose.
It's maybe the most direct route to get back to
his home. But what's so helling about this is the
fact that along this way there's a one way stretch,
and this one way stretch is very narrow. And when
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I say narrow, there there's narrow when we begin to
think about maybe a street in the city where we've
got sidewalks on both sides and those sorts of things.
But in this context you're talking about in the environment
in Florida, and when you take a look at the
way the land kind of lays. On one side of
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the road, you've got this low growth of vegetation with
a few trees in this area that would be perfect
for concealment covering concealment. How metto bushes are in there,
you see some old growth oak that look like they're
sitting in the back. Back there, maybe a few pine trees.
And then on the other side you've got it got
this depressed area that kind of slopes away from the
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road and it looks very marshy wet. So if you've
got an element in the middle of the road that
is impeding your ability to pass through the area, you
don't have a choice. You have to get out and
remove that item because you can't go up on either
shoulder of the road because you might run off into
the weeds, or you very well might go off into
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the swampy area and get stuck. And this is not
like he was driving a gigantic forward drive truck. This
is a Volkswagen platform. That sounds as though that it's
kind of one of these quasi suv type small suv
type vehicles that he would not have the ability with
this vehicle to essentially just kind of climb over the tire.
It's not going to pass him the vehicle. He is
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compelled at this point in time by virtue of this
item in the road to get out and remove the tire.
So what does that do? Well, as soon as you
do that, you become very vulnerable to anyone that wishes
to do you harm. You're outside the confines of the vehicle.
You don't have a door or even a windshield that
is protecting you in any way. So once you have
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stopped the vehicle, and if I remember correctly, when he
stopped the vehicle, he put his flashes on, he had
the presence of mind put Asher's own exit vehicle, opens
up the door in order to get out there to
remove this impediment, and it's at that point in time
that he's essentially executed. Executed. Let me say they're working
executed in the middle of the road right there. It
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just wasn't one shot. It's not like somebody randomly fired
out of the woods or something. Now someone was up
close on him, because they have mentioned the term close
range and they mentioned the term multiple shots. As an investigator,
you can automatically exclude anybody that just would have been
randomly firing a weapon off in the distance. And this
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poor fellow happened to be on the receiving end of
the round in. And that's not what happened here. Somebody
specifically targeted him and essentially killed him in the middle
of the road with his little babysitting right there strapping
in coarse Joe, you and I have had a lot
of conversations, and one of the things that I tell
you a lot is that I am geographically challenged. I
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don't travel a lot, so I don't always not that
about other regions, but have learned through the years that
the landscape in Florida is a little bit different. And
one thing is you don't have a lot of basements
because of the water table and the water content in
the soil in Florida. Given that he had to be
stopped at a specific point and the perpetrator set it up,
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I'm going to throw out the turn choke point only
because you have talked to me about that before. So
this perpetrator set up a choke point, knowing that the
landmass surrounding where this stopped would not support the weight
of a truck. Am I right, You're absolutely on target again.
Using the term choke point, that's a military term. It's
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a point of vulnerability. If if folks at home will
just kind of envision a funnel and how funnel narrows down,
that's a choke point. You get to a point where
it restricts movement. And if you're looking to ambush somebody,
you want to get them in an area where they
cannot defend themselves. They can't run away. It's narrowed down
to that specific spot. So you've kind of got them
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captured at that moment time and you can do with
them as you wish. What's kind of interesting about this,
I think is that if that theory holds water, which
I believe that it does, you would have the perpetrator
standing on either side of the road. If I were
a betting man, I'd bet that they would be on
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the side of the road adjacent in that kind of
semi wooded area that kind of rises above it slightly
has a rise to it. Above the roadbed, you can
look down on an area and if you step down
out of the shadows, no one can remember. This is
at night and it's not a lighted area. Another reason
to pick this area because the individual that you're trying
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to attack would essentially be blind to anything that's around them.
You don't have street lights out there, so they could
emerge out of the shadows once he has stopped that
vehicle to remove the tire and fire upon him. In
this case, fire upondered. But what's interesting is that this
individual that would have perpetrated this would have had to
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have stood there for a while. And what happens when
you stand in place, particularly on this soft, loamy soil
of us have been in Florida, I know, throughout the
day any time of the year, you can essentially get
a rainstorm, so the soil many times will remain quite
moist and very malleable. And so if he's standing in
one place for a protracted period of time, just waiting
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and waiting and waiting for Jerry to pass by headed
on his way home, there might be footprints out there.
There could also be evidence of activity in addition to footprints,
because you're trying to find a spot where you'd have
broken vegetation, where you get branches snapped off. Remember there's
a low growth brush out there as well, these palmetto
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bushes that I mentioned other kind of grassy elements that
are out there. People that are keen to this and
are whare of where they're going on, you can see
where this these items are are either snapped off or
pressed down into that area, and that gives you an
idea of activity out there. You know, we think a
lot in forensics about blood trails and all that stuff,
but you can also get an ideas to what happened
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at a scene by virtue of whearing individuals oriented relative
to their shoes, and of course shoes they're going to
be very very specific in this case. And remember what
you said earlier, Jackie. When they went out and they
served the search warrant on this fellow's house, what did
they get. Well, they went out there and the roommates
says they ainked all of his clothes out of there.
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What are they looking for? I think clothes probably involves
shoes more than likely, maybe they've taken that all back.
If they found footprints out there, they could have cast
those and if they have work boots or athletic shoes
or I don't care if it's Sunday, go to meet
and shoes, they're gonna leave a distinctive print. And they
can compare that back at the lab once they've lifted
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those cast out of the soil and give them an
idea or at least from a circumstantial standpoint that these
shoes use are consistent with the prints that we found
left behind at the scene. In our world, there is
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no such thing as a perfect crime. Those do not exist.
Some are more difficult to solve, but you know, here's
the thing. Perpetrators are always going to leave behind some
essence of who they are or what they have done,
or what they brought into the scene. And I think
that this case is no different. It's a bit more
difficult to work because it's an outdoor scene. This is
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not like walking into a house and an apartment somewhere
where you're going to have a blood suck scene. And
you might have a lot of fiber evidence out there
that you could find, but still significant evidence can be
found out yere. And I've got an idea about a
few of these things, and I think that you're going
to leave some trace behind. And I gotta tell you,
I think that there are several items that we have
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yet to discuss that could lead deeper and deeper into
this investigation and point certainly to this perpetrator and maybe
potentially to others. Let me see if I can guess
what some of those things might be. We've talked about
the tire and the possibility of prints. We've talked about
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possibly finding a nest or an area nearby where the
perpetrator may have watched while waiting on his victim. And
we've talked about the truck a little bit. What about
the possibility of shell casings there on the scene. Depending
on what kind of a weapon you're using, the shell
casings get ejected you unless you have lots of time
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to look, you may not necessarily know where it is
ejected to were there shell casings found? Joe, Yeah, and
I'm glad that you made that plural case scenes. That's
what the police have said over and over again. And
I can tell you a big piece of this that
that we might can safely speculate on. This is probably
gonna be a semi automatic weapon because you've got multiple
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ejected shell casings. Now, it's possible that you could have
used a revolver, and you can eject shells from a
revolver with an ejection rod that you kind of you
open up the cylinder and you push them out and
it drops on the ground. But those are becoming fewer
and fewer nowadays. Most people are going to be carrying
a semi automatic handgun, and so where you have shell
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casings that are ejected out of the side, people need
to be very careful when you start to talk about
the relationship between shell casings and say the decedent that
that is the person that has passed away, the homicide victim.
Many people will get an idea that when you see
these ejected shell casings it might be an indication of
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movement of the perpetrator as their firing the weapon. That
is a falsehood because you can have a distribution of
shell casings all over the place, particularly on a very solid,
hard surface. Remember this is on an an asphalted surface
and a road. So when those spent metal casings eject
out of that ejection port and they hit the ground,
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it's anybody's guess as to where they're gonna wind up,
and they'll bounce all over the place. Even in an
individual that stays static, that means stands still while they're firing,
These spent casings can bounce all over the place. You
can't even there's no way to even do the mathematical
computation that would be involved to try to make a
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guess at to where one one one case and will
land as opposed to another. So that shouldn't be an
indication of movement of the individual, whether they were static
or moving around. It's just going to give you an
idea of an approximation as to where the perpetrator was.
It sounds as though, based upon what the police have said,
is that it was perpetrated very close to the open
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car door that Jared had had stepped out of. Remember
he put his flashers on, opened the door and stepped
out and then boom boom. So you've got the shell
casings that are lying about semi automatic we believe, and
it will essentially go back to a particular weapon. Now
here's here's what the police are looking for. Hopefully they
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can find this weapon, because if they do and deepen
it upon the track of the wounds and the rounds
that passed into Jared, if they recovered any of those
rounds whatsoever, they can tie that back to the barrel.
We've talked a lot about ballistics on body backs, so
that's certainly something that would help us identify the weapon
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and potentially put it into the hand of the person
that possessed it at the time of this crime. Also,
you would begin to look at these aforementioned casings that
have been spent because they have marks on them too.
They have extraction marks, to have ejector marks. It's soft metal.
So as the process is happening where that around is
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being that spent cation is being pulled out of the
weapon by this force as it's flying through the air
and just before it's literally grabbed within the weapon slid back,
and those markings are distinctive to that weapon. That's important
because not only if you get the weapon, you can
tie the projectile ballistically back to the weapon, but you
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can look at the markings on the casing and tie
that back to the same weapon. You're not just looking
at what's coming out of the barrel, You're also looking
at what's coming out of the ejection board as well,
because those are very distinctive. Scientifically, speaking of scientifically. How
about something that we kind of take for granted every
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day and people kind of dismiss and don't realize how
scientific it really is. And that is the like the
hood of video from every angle. I mean, you're gonna
have houses that are gonna have doorbell cameras, You're gonna
have businesses usually are going to have some kind of
surveillance cameras. So we know that it was reported that
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there was a blue truck. How do you think that
they pinpointed or narrowed down on the truck that it
belonged to Tennan. I got one better for you than
just simply seeing the truck on video the night of
Remember how we talked about going out and reconning an
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area like the military Wood. What if they were able
to put that truck out there during the daytime hours
where it's passing through this area up down the road
searching for that choke point as we mentioned, what if
they got that truck captured on video by rain camp.
And look, I don't know how much folks know about
this area, but this is a high dollar area where
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this took place. Now I know that it We made
it sound very vacant and it is in this particular area.
But up and down this road you've got homes that
are far nicer than anything that I live in, very
very high end real estate. And what do high end
real estate owners tend to have on their homes, Well,
they like security. I don't think the police are just
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simply reliant upon what happened that night. They're relying upon
what happened the days leading up to this event. And
they may have gone to all of these homes up
and down this road and said, well, sir, ma'am, can
we pull your video footage here? We were looking in
this case. We want to look back several days. Maybe
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they had an eyewitness, maybe they saw a strange truck
that wasn't part of that neighborhood, and somebody came to
the police and said, you know what, there's been a
truck that's been driving back and forth through here for
the past week. We don't know who the guy is,
but you know I heard about the description. I didn't
see it that night. Man. A truck just like that's
been driving up and down the road preceding the event.
(32:04):
So that could be part and parcel of what the
police are looking for as well, or have identified in
this particular case, certainly enough to create a search warrant
perhaps and then finally an arrest warrant in this particular case.
I think all the things that you've told us about
today Joe really puts together and solidifies for people how
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long it truly can take to solve a murder case.
I mean, we're looking at over a year now before
an arrest was made in this case, Yes we are.
And God blessed Hert's wife to go through what she's
gone through with these children day in and day out,
wondering all of his family that have been so united
in this case, and finally they get this one ray
(32:49):
of hope here because it has been an uphill struggle
and there's been a lot of questions that have been asked,
and that that doesn't go to the police don't know
what they're doing. I take it exception anytime somebody says
that the police are being careful, particularly you know, because
the word conspiracy has come up in this case. That
adds a whole another level of complexity to a case.
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That means that you just don't have one individual that
you're looking at, You're looking at multiple individuals. So it
increases it by a specific factor, and it makes it
very layered. You know, we haven't even even touched on certainly,
I think maybe many of us kind of take it
for granted. We haven't touched on on the fact that
the perpetrator may have been carrying cell phone with him.
(33:35):
What if there were text messages that were going back
and forth. What if he's painting off the towers. For
all I know, this individual left their phone at home,
but just what if, just what if they were lying
in wait out there as Jared is traveling home to
go back home to his precious family with that precious
angel in the back seat, and he's sitting out there
(33:55):
in those bushes waiting for him to come back. He's
got his phone in his pocket, and all the while,
all the while, they're able to tide back to a
specific perpetrator, and that thing is bringing off of those towers,
giving them a specific identification and location as to where
he was the entire time. You brought up to conspiracy again, Joe,
So let me say it one more time. We are
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not jumping to conclusions. No one has been named as
a co conspirator in this case. No one has been
arrested as a co conspirator in this case so far
has been Henry Tannan. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this
(34:36):
is body Backs.
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Joseph Scott Morgan
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