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Hello hidden gems. It is hidden hour. We're so grateful to be with you today because we are going to talk about a new case, an important case, a case that John and I have been behind the scenes investigating extensively.

It is the, it is a very heartbreaking story. It is a story of Jared Brightigan. You've probably seen the headlines. The headlines are often framed Microsoft exec data for gun down murdered in front of his two-year-old daughter.

And that is all true. But we're going to definitely tonight go much deeper than the headlines. Three people have now been arrested in Jared Brightigan's death. It happened at Jacksonville Beach, Florida, as he was driving home to his home in Saint Augustine.

He had just dropped off his twins, his oldest children at his ex-wife's home after a date night with them. He was returning to his new wife, who he had to young children with the two-year-old, Bexley being the oldest, and then they had a six-month-old named London at home.

And he called his wife Kirsten and said, I'll be on my way home, honey. And as he was making his way home, it was a drive he knew he was on a one-way street where the street narrowed it grew darker.

And there was a tire in the middle of the road. He stopped. He had no other choice but to stop. Bexley again was in the back seat in her car seat.

The moment he stepped out, he took one step out of his car. He was gunned down, shot multiple times in the back. So yes, murdered in front of his young daughter, who was alone for minutes until help arrived.

That happened. That date was February 16, 2022. So it has been a year and a half since this young father of four was murdered. Since that time, three people have been arrested.

The first person arrested was in January, a tenant, Henry Tenon. Is that correct John Henry Tenon?

Yep, Tenon.

The second person was arrested in March of this year. That is Mario Fernandez. That is Mario Fernandez sold.

And he was the new husband of Jared Brightigan's ex-wife, Shana Gardner Fernandez.

So all eyes turned to Shana. Could you have done this? Could you have really possibly been a part of this murder for hire that was starting to unfold?

But no arrest, no arrest, no arrest until this month. And just a couple weeks ago, or just a week ago, Shana Gardner Fernandez was arrested, charged in her ex-husband's murder, the children of her father.

Shana Gardner Fernandez is an interesting character, and we have been delving into who she is and her past. And that is what we're going to talk about tonight.

Before we begin, and we're going to start with some body language in an interview that Shana Gardner Fernandez did, the one and only interview since her ex-husband was murdered.

Yeah, we normally don't focus a lot on body language because for one thing, it's not admissible in court. So I think body language analysis is always a very, very small piece of the puzzle.

But I think in this case that the interview she gave, I think there's a really obvious read on body language here.

You know, the interview asked her the most pertinent question that everyone wants to know. And let's see what she said.

And along, he was still the father of my kids. So I asked Shana the question, did you have anything to do with Jared's murder? No, I did not have anything to do with his murder.

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