Microsoft Exec Murder: Was Ex-Wife the Mastermind?

According to prosecutors, this is a murder for hire, and there are three defendants in the case, three people who prosecutors say engaged in this conspiracy.

First, you have the gunman, Henry Tennant, or the alleged gunman.

He was renting a property from Mario Fernandez, and Mario Fernandez has been alleged to have been sort of the middleman in all this, coordinating the hit with Henry Tennant.

Mario Fernandez is married to Shanna Gardner.

She is the money behind all of this.

She is the one with the alleged motive.

to get rid of Jared Bright again so she could raise her children the way she wanted to raise them without having to go back to court over and over again year after year.

Now, originally, Henry Tennant took a deal and pleaded guilty, but he now has taken back his plea.

So he now goes back to ground zero, square one, where he is an accused defendant admitting to nothing, despite the fact that he originally admitted to everything and had taken a deal.

So he's retracted his plea.

He is one defendant in this case.

Mario Fernandez is another, and he's the first one facing trial.

So three defendants, not tried at the same time, but being tried separately.

Mario Fernandez, the first to go.

Shanna Gardner, obviously, in all this is the big fish, right? For prosecutors, this is the one with the motive.

This is the one with the money.

But this may be the one that is the most difficult to prosecute because she is the furthest away from this alleged conspiracy in terms of communications with the alleged hitman, the gunman, Henry Tennant.

So let's get into the first trial.

Mario Fernandez, Mario Fernandez Saldano, also known as, is the defendant.

Let's take a listen to the prosecutor outline what they believe the evidence is going to show in the case against Fernandez.