Lying in Wait - The Homicide of Jared Bridegan

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:19.8	Imagine if you will, you've spent the weekend with your children.
0:25.7	You're having to take them back home to their mother with whom they live.
0:32.0	You've got your other child in the back of the car because they wanted to ride along
0:37.0	to be with their siblings and all of a sudden in the darkness there's something in the
0:43.4	middle of the road that causes you to stop.
0:46.6	You don't see a way around it.
0:49.0	You open the door and the last thing you hear is a loud explosion and you are no more.
0:59.1	Today we're going to talk about the homicide of Jared Britegan.
1:06.2	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags.
1:15.7	Joining me today again is my pal Jackie Howard, executive producer of Crime Stories
1:21.6	with Nancy Grace.
1:23.6	Jackie, we've been looking at Jared's case now for Lord over a year, I guess.
1:30.8	And suddenly we've got movement in this case.
1:33.2	We do.
1:34.2	There has been an arrest made in the murder of Microsoft executive Jared Britegan.
1:40.2	He was killed in front of his two-year-old daughter.
1:43.4	In his way to drop off, as you said, his twins to his ex-wife who lived not too far away,
1:51.3	they had a regular routine of drop off and pick up so that they shared custody.
1:57.8	Henry Tenon is accused by police of gunning down the 33-year-old father.
2:02.8	We know that Britegan was shot.
2:06.6	He was on his way home after dropping the twins off and this is a one-way street that he
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