The Murder of Jared Bridegan

True Crime Society

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In February 2022, father of four, Jared Bridegan, was returning home after dropping two of his kids off to their mother, his ex-wife. He had his 2 y/o daughter Bexley in the car with him. On a quiet, residential street, Jared came across a tire laying in the road. He stopped his vehicle and carefully got out to move the obstacle. Almost as soon as he opened the door to his vehicle, he was brutally murdered. His daughter thankfully was unharmed in the incident.

Join us for this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast as we discuss the unsolved murder of Jared Bridegan.

Jared split from his first wife Shanna Gardner in 2015. Shanna came from a very wealthy family and is the heiress to the ‘Stampin’ Up’ fortune.

Their eventual split was very messy – the court filing for their divorce includes over 300 documents. It has been reported that Shanna asked if there was someone who could ‘shut him up’, in reference to Jared.

Shanna and Jared both remarried. Jared had two more children with his second wife Kirsten. The last court filing in regards to his divorce with Shanna was made just four months before his murder (7 years after the initial divorce started!)

Was Jared murdered in a random attack? Or was it orchestrated by someone close to him?

Read our blog for this case – https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2022/08/09/the-unsolved-murder-of-jared-bridegan/

This episode is sponsored by:

Thuma – Create that feeling of checking in to your favorite boutique hotel suite, but at home, with The Bed, by Thuma. And now go to Thuma.co/CRIME and use the code CRIME to receive a twenty-five dollar credit towards your purchase of The Bed plus free shipping in the continental U.S.

Mind Bullet – Want to increase your energy levels and creativity? Visit mindbullet.com and use code TCS at checkout for 25% off your first order.

Java House - Cold brew coffee is a better cup of coffee. Visit JavaHouse.com and use code TCS for 10% off.

June’s Journey – There is a detective in all of us! Available on Android and iOS mobile devices, as well as on PC through Facebook Games.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The True Crime Society podcast contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:23.5	What's up guys? I'm Tanya, episode of the True Crime Society podcast with Stephanie and Olivia.
0:28.8	It's August 11th. I'm back from vacation as you guys can hear.
0:36.4	I'm sure you're all wondering how it was. It was really fun. I had a great time.
0:40.8	Really sad to be back at real life. Nothing makes you realize how much you hate being a part of the
0:47.9	rat race like going on vacation. When I had the post, totally come down. It's the real thing.
0:53.5	This is the only year, though, where I didn't cry after vacation for the past couple of years.
1:00.2	As much as I don't like working in general, I don't mind my job at the moment,
1:03.6	but there's years in the past where I really hate my job. So once vacation was over and I got back home,
1:08.5	I would literally just start crying and my could be like, what's wrong with you? And I'm like,
1:11.8	I just don't want to go back to work. It's the one downside is not having to go back to real life.
1:18.7	It's like very when you finally really start to relax, then you're like, oh my god,
1:22.4	it's halfway over. I know, I know that's me. Yeah, I totally get it.
1:28.9	Yeah, it just like, it goes by, it seems like it goes by as slow like when you first get there,
1:32.6	like a high stuff. So many days left. And then all of a sudden, you're like, oh my god,
1:35.6	I only have two days left. And then the last day he's always spent packing up, getting ready to go.
1:40.1	Yeah, I feel like that shouldn't even count as a vacation though. Well, and for me,
1:43.6	because I went to North Carolina from New York, like we drive, so you waste like half of two days.
1:48.8	Driving, because it's like a 10 hour drive at least. On like a good day,
1:54.8	which luckily we made good time. So I didn't have, there's been times where it would take us like
1:59.3	12 hours, 13 hours to get down there, to get back too much wasted time.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from True Crime Society, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of True Crime Society and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.