EXCLUSIVE DETAILS — WEST RICHLAND, Wash. — The ex-wife of slain Microsoft government Jared Bridegan has moved 2,800 miles from Florida to the Pacific Northwest as investigators are about to announce that an arrest is imminent in the unsolved murder, Fox News Digital has realized.
Nearly one 12 months after the daddy of 4 was executed in front of his toddler, Bexley, in north Florida, Shanna Gardner-Fernandez quietly uprooted her 10-year-old twins with Jared and relocated to West Richland, Washington.
When requested Monday to touch upon the numerous growth in the case, she responded, “No, I’m sorry.” Minutes later, she was noticed in her white Tesla in a grocery retailer parking zone, talking on her cellphone.
Jared’s second spouse, Kirsten Bridegan, with whom he shares 3-year-old Bexley and 1-year-old London, mentioned she was shocked Gardner-Fernandez had moved so distant.
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The West Richland, Washington, residence the place Shanna Gardner-Fernandez (inset) moved after her ex-husband, Jared Bridegan, was murdered in north Florida.
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“Honestly, I was shocked,” she instructed Fox News Digital in an interview Monday. “First, the twins lost their dad, then they were completely cut off from their own sisters, and now they’re being taken away from their school, friends, their sports teams. They are so isolated, and that’s what concerns me.”
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Jared had custody of the twins each different week, however quickly after his murder, Gardner-Fernandez ended all contact along with his household, in keeping with Kirsten.
“It’s been an added loss,” she mentioned. “On top of losing Jared, my children have lost their siblings. I’ve lost my step-kids. I have tried for months and months to make contact and have gotten nowhere.”
A household portrait of Jared and Kirsten Bridegan
(Infinite Focus Photography / Madeline Insignares)
Gardner-Fernandez, 35, and Bridegan, 33, divorced in 2016 — however they continued to battle over funds and custody of the twins in household courtroom till his dying on Feb. 16, 2022.
A law enforcement source instructed Fox News Digital that an arrest is anticipated as early as Wednesday however wouldn’t elaborate.
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Gardner-Fernandez and her second husband, Mario Fernandez, stay suspects in the mysterious killing, in keeping with a second supply.
After the murder, the couple retained high-powered legal protection lawyer Henry Coxe III, who declined to remark for this story Monday.Â
Shanna Gardner-Fernandez is proven in Washington state on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. She is the ex-wife of Jared Bridegan, who was murdered in Florida in 2022.
(Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
Less than one 12 months after the youngsters traumatically misplaced their father, Gardner-Fernandez pulled them out of their personal Jacksonville Beach faculty and moved them right into a six-bedroom, four-bathroom home in the Tri-Cities area of southeastern Washington.
Property information present that the trendy ranch residence was bought in September for $1 million by Whitesand LLC, which lists the Alpine, Utah, handle of her dad and mom, Shelli and Sterling Gardner.
Shelli Gardner based the paper-craft firm Stampin’ Up, which has an estimated annual income of greater than $100 million a 12 months, in keeping with IncFact.
Kirsten and Jared Bridegan are proven at their marriage ceremony in 2017. Jared Bridegan was gunned down Feb. 16, 2022, in an upscale suburb of Florida.
(Courtesy Kirsten Bridegan)
Her dad and mom are outstanding fixtures in the Mormon group referred to as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS).
They have been in West Richland this previous week visiting their daughter and grandchildren — and attended a service solo Sunday at an area LDS church.
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Jared was a religious adherent of the religion. Gardener-Fernandez drifted from the faith after their 2010 marriage after which allegedly had an affair, triggering their acrimonious break up, Fox News Digital beforehand reported.
A photograph mixture of Jared and Kirsten Bridegan, left, and Shanna Gardner-Fernandez exterior her residence in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
(Courtesy of Kirsten Bridegan)
Her second marriage can also be faltering. Shortly after the murder, neighbors mentioned they not noticed Fernandez on the couple’s $1 million Jacksonville Beach residence, which they co-own, and he didn’t be a part of her for the cross-country transfer.
It was listed on the market Oct. 27 then taken off the market Jan. 3, public information present.
Gardner-Fernandez’s major connection to West Richland seems to be a pal she met at a baking convention in 2020, Marla Rogers, who owns the house subsequent door.
Shanna Gardner-Fernandez is seen in a video on Instagram
(Instagram / Marlascookico)
Rogers runs Marla’s Cookie Co. out of her home very like Gardner-Fernandez operated her personal now-shuttered baking firm, Beach Baked 904, from her residence in Florida.
Gardner-Fernandez made a short look Sunday in a video Rogers posted to her firm’s Instagram page.Â
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As Rogers is seen cleansing up after educating a cookie adorning class, Gardner-Fernandez enters her kitchen carrying a shirt emblazoned with the phrase, “PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME DO STUFF!”
A poster publicizes a $55,000 reward for information in regards to the unsolved murder of Jared Bridegan.
(Jacksonville Beach Police Department)
Jared was gunned down Feb. 16, 2022, in Jacksonville Beach after taking his twins and Bexley, then 2, to dinner.  The software program engineer had simply dropped off the twins at their mom’s home when he encountered a tire in the one-way street.
He stepped out of his Volkswagen Atlas to maneuver it and was repeatedly shot by an unknown assailant as Bexley watched from her automotive seat.
“She has good days where she’s happy,” Kirsten mentioned. “But it’s going to be a lifetime for her of processing those feelings and the trauma of what she went through.”
Jared and Kirsten Bridegan with Bexley. Jared was gunned down Feb. 16, 2022, in north Florida.
(Courtesy Kirsten Bridegan)
Few particulars have been launched in regards to the investigation, a joint effort by the Jacksonville Beach Police Department and the State Attorney’s Office for the Fourth Judicial Circuit led by Melissa Nelson.
Early in the probe, police requested for the general public’s assist figuring out a dark-blue Ford F-150 captured on surveillance footage close to the crime scene, and there’s a $55,000 reward for information resulting in an arrest.
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Kirsten mentioned she and her daughters try to heal however New Year’s was significantly difficult.
“We ended the last year that we were a complete family and started an entirely new year that will not have those memories or Jared in them,” she mentioned. “That was very difficult.”