PLEA DEAL: 13-Year-Old Cheerleader Stabbed Dead, Classmate Sentenced LIFE IN PRISON

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 1 April 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A judge sentenced Aiden Fucci, now 16, to life in prison after his conviction of first-degree murder for stabbing a 13-year-old girl over 100 times. Fucci entered his guilty plea earlier this year.

During the investigation surveillance photos show the mother of teen murder suspect Aiden Fucci washing his clothes the day Tristyn Bailey was murdered. Crystal Smith was arrested and charged with tampering with evidence in connection to the 14-year-old's death. The former classmates had grown up in the same neighborhood but it does not appear that Fucci targeted Bailey specifically, though friends later said Fucci claimed he would kill someone in the near future. Surveillance video appears to show the pair walking together early the morning of May 9. Fucci is later seen running, alone, from the same area.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Troy Slaten - Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney, Slaten Lawyers, APC, Twitter @TroySlaten
Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, www.drbethanymarshall.com, New Netflix show: 'Bling Empire'
Dr. Tim Gallagher - Medical Examiner State of Florida www.pathcaremed.com, Lecturer: University of Florida Medical School Forensic Medicine. Founder/Host: International Forensic Medicine Death Investigation Conference
Karen L. Smith - Forensic Expert, Lecturer at the University of Florida, Host of Shattered Souls Podcast, @KarensForensic, barebonesforensic.com
Ray Caputo - Lead News Anchor for Orlando's Morning News, 96.5 WDBO

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0:00.0	The
0:05.0	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
0:13.1	The tearful sister of a 13 year old cheerleader drops 114 stums into a jar as she sits
0:27.2	in a quiet courtroom. Why? She drops 114 stums into a jar to match the number of times
0:38.2	her sister, her little sister, was stabbed as her killer issues a sniveling apology.
0:54.0	While the victim's mother insists, Aiden Fucci, now 16 is quote, beyond saving. Let that
1:06.8	sink in, a 13 year old little middle school cheerleader is stabbed 114 times. Why? For a
1:17.2	thrill kill to see what it felt like. Well, he's going to rot in hell, but you'll have a little
1:24.6	pit stop and the CI Correctional Institute, Penitentiary. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
1:32.0	Thanks for being with us here at Fox Nation in Sirius XM111, Alexis Bally takes to the stand
1:38.4	in a Florida courtroom. You could have heard a pen drop to crying and emotionally dropping 114 green
1:49.4	heart shaped stones into a glass jar, representing the 114 stab wounds her sister, Tristan Bally,
1:58.9	had to endure when she was murdered on May 9. Fucci, chickened out, facing trial and
2:09.6	pled guilty to murdering 13 year old Tristan. He did that. He murdered her when he was just 14. He's
2:17.6	now facing a minimum of 40 years behind bars. How in the world did we land here? Tristan Bailey was
2:27.0	reported missing by her family on Sunday morning. Hours later, her body was found in a wooded area
2:32.1	near her neighborhood. The medical examiner says she was stabbed to death later that day. A jogger
2:37.6	in the neighborhood found a young girl's body, bloody in the neighborhood's woods. The medical
2:42.3	examiner's report released Wednesday indicates Bally had been stabbed 114 times and had defensive wounds.
2:49.7	That report also revealed the suspected weapon a knife was found in a pond only 140 feet from the
2:55.7	body. The knife missing its tip, the tip found in Tristan's skull. The knife so violently used to
3:04.0	murder this little cheerleader just 13 years old. The tip of the knife is still embedded in her
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