The Apple and the Tree : Aiden Fucci

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Season 18 : Killer Kids

Aiden Fucci was obsessed with knives and the idea of stabbing someone to death. He didn't care who, so when Tristyn Bailey end up alone with him one night in 2021, she unfortunately became the target of his murderous desire.

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0:00.0	On Mother's Day, May 9th, 2021, 13-year-old Tristan Bailey disappeared from her home in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:09.0	One of Tristan's siblings went to wake her up in the morning, but she wasn't there.
0:14.0	After she was reported missing, the entire community came out to help look for her.
0:19.6	Flyers were put up and people scoured the neighborhood.
0:23.0	Then the police found a video from a residential door camera
0:27.5	with Tristan walking by the night before
0:30.0	with the last person who would ever see her alive.
0:33.0	This is monsters. Oh, Aiden Fuji was born on November 17th, 2006 in Florida to Jason Fuchi and Crystal Smith.
1:07.9	His parents were not together and each were married to other partners, giving Aidan a stepmother and stepfather and a number of siblings.
1:16.0	According to a letter his parents would later write to the judge, Aidan was well liked by everyone.
1:22.3	He enjoyed working on cars and baking. Like most teenagers he liked
1:27.2	video games and the family would all download mobile games and play them together. In 2021, Aidan had a girlfriend who remained
1:36.1	unnamed during the case due to her age, but one of Aidan's friends mentions her
1:40.9	name during a recorded interview.
1:43.9	Of course, Aidan's home life wasn't perfect and his biological father had a criminal record of
1:49.4	his own.
1:50.6	He was convicted of child abuse in 2004 and was arrested in 2016 for battery following a fight at a gas station in the presence of one of his children.
2:01.0	Crystal would go on to be convicted of evidence tampering after being caught trying
2:05.8	to clean her son's bloody clothes after he committed murder. So it seems like Aidan didn't grow up with the
2:11.8	greatest of role models.
2:14.3	Aidan's best friend was Trey Abshire and he agreed to a recorded interview with investigators
2:19.8	after the arrest.
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