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The widow of slain Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan came face to face Monday with the man accused of helping to plan his killing, recounting the bitter custody conflict and final phone call that preceded the roadside ambush.Kirsten Bridegan took the witness stand as Mario Fernandez Saldana’s murder trial got underway in Florida.Prosecutors allege Fernandez Saldana helped plan and finance the killing and that Henry Tenon was the gunman.Fernandez Saldana has pleaded not guilty, and his attorneys say the state cannot prove he solicited or intended Bridegan’s death.Kirsten’s testimony detailed a fractured co-parenting relationship among Bridegan, his ex-wife Shanna Gardner-Fernandez and Fernandez Saldana.SLAIN MICROSOFT EXEC'S FAMILY FACES HIS EX, SUSPECTED OF ORCHESTRATING HIS MURDER, FOR FIRST TIME IN COURTA family portrait of Jared and Kirsten Bridegan.
(Infinite Focus Photography/Madeline Insignares)"There’s absolutely no trust," Kirsten told jurors, saying the families relied almost entirely on texts and emails to communicate.Kirsten described disputes over parenting time, medical expenses, schooling and religious decisions involving Bridegan’s twins.Prosecutors say the years-long conflict helped fuel the alleged murder-for-hire plot.Bridegan, 33, had just dropped off the twins after taking them and his daughter Bexley to dinner when the ambush unfolded, prosecutors say.
Kirsten testified that the Wednesday outing was a long-standing routine, Bexley always went with him and Bridegan typically drove the black Volkswagen Atlas.Kirsten said she spoke to Bridegan after he dropped off the twins and Bexley excitedly told her they had gotten ice cream.The call then ended in an unusual silence, she testified.Kirsten Bridegan testifies during the murder trial of Mario Fernandez Saldana in Jacksonville, Florida, on Aug.
17, 2026.(USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect)"It was strange.
I remember feeling like it was strange because after I was like, ‘All righ...