Jared Bridegan's Killer Backed Out on THIS

Henry Tenon confessed to murdering Jared Bridegan and signed a deal because of it — second-degree murder, a fifteen-year floor, and testimony against the two people accused of putting him up to it. Then, in February 2026, he stood in front of a judge and backed out. He wants a trial. The confession the state was counting on is no longer his to give away.
That leaves Mario Fernandez, Tenon's former landlord, fighting first-degree murder and solicitation charges largely on circumstantial ground. An FBI agent traced Tenon's phone on a Saturday eighteen days before the murder, tracking a drive from Fernandez's rental toward Bridegan's neighborhood and his kids' gymnastics facility before ending in Jacksonville Beach — Fernandez's own phone stayed put the whole time. Prosecutors call it a practice run; the defense calls it a renovation trip, with video of Fernandez meeting contractors at that property. No DNA, no fingerprints, no surveillance ties Fernandez to the truck used in the ambush, and detectives admit the property where that truck was found was never searched.
Three checks from Fernandez to Tenon, ten thousand dollars total, are dated about six weeks after the killing, marked "landscaping" and "Kickstarter Good Luck!!" — the defense argues one might actually say "roofing." A prosecutor also acknowledged a second, still-uncharged person was at the scene that night.
Bridegan was thirty-three, a father of four, gunned down on a dark road after stopping to move a tire, his two-year-old daughter in the back seat. Shanna Gardner's trial starts in September, Tenon's in 2027, and Bridegan's widow is preparing to sit through all of it.
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