On the night of February 16, 2022, Jared Bridegan stopped his car on a quiet road in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, to move a tire out of the lane. His two-year-old daughter was in the back seat. He never got back in. Four shots were fired — two into Jared, two into the SUV where his toddler sat.

Prosecutors say it wasn't a robbery or a road-rage killing. They say it was a planned, rehearsed ambush — and that the people behind it were Jared's ex-wife, Shanna Gardner, and her second husband, Mario Fernandez Saldana. Both have pleaded not guilty. As of this recording, their trials haven't begun.

This episode is different. Instead of telling you what someone wanted and why, I lay out the two competing stories about what was inside a human mind — the state's and thedefense's — and I don't choose for you. Years of text messages. A nickname. "Funeral potatoes." A confessed triggerman who took the trigger back. A case that either proves premeditation or proves only that a woman was cruelto her best friend in the dark.

The tire proves someone planned this. It does not prove whose. And in a Duval County courtroom this fall, twelve people are going to have to decide the hardestquestion in criminal law: did wanting become doing?

I made this episode before the verdict, on purpose. Come sit in the gap with me.

⚠️ Content note: discusses gun violence, the killing of a parent in front of a child, and a contested legalprocess. Every charged individual is presumed innocent. Please take care of yourself while listening.

🎙️ Written, researched, and produced by Carman Carrion.

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