Tristyn Bailey was stabbed 114 times in an unspeakable murder. A Snapchat selfie caught her killer classmate
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Nearly three years on from brutal Mother’s Day murder, Aiden Fucci has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the first-degree murder of his former classmate. Bevan Hurley explains the horrifying case
Friday 24 March 2023 19:44
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Tristyn Bailey, 13, was murdered on Mother’s Day 2021 by classmate Aiden Fucci
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T ristyn Bailey was supposed to help make a special Mother’s Day breakfast for mom Stacey on the day she was reported missing on 9 May 2021.
Recalling the day at a memorial service exactly one year later, her father Forrest said that Tristyn’s sister Sophia had already begun preparing the meal before they noticed anything was awry.
“Shortly after that, our day was shattered,” Forrest Bailey told the service, according to WJXT-TV.
The family reported Tristyn, a 13-year-old seventh grade student at Patriot Oaks Academy, missing at around 10am to the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office who put out an urgent missing person’s alert.
The alert said Tristyn had last been seen at 1.15am that day at the Durbin Amenity Center in northwest St Johns County, and that she was wearing a white cheerleading skirt and dark shirt.
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Her body was found at about 6pm that night near a retention pond at the end of Saddlestone Drive, south of Jacksonville.
She had been stabbed 114 times, the sheriff’s department would later say, including 49 defensive stab wounds on her arms and right hand.
Tristyn is seen in her cheer uniform
(Bailey family)
Sheriff Rob Hardwick told The St. Augustine Record it was a horrific, brutal murder.
“I hate to use the words, but — it’s our worst nightmare,” he said.
Nearly two years later, Tristyn’s classmate Aiden Fucci pleaded guilty to her murder in February. He is now in the midst of sentencing, where he faces 40 years to life in prison.
Here’s everything to know about the chilling case:
Snapchat selfies
Aiden Fucci, a 14-year-old classmate who lived half a mile from where the body was found, was arrested that night while the search for Tristyn was still underway.
As he was sat in the back of a patrol car, he took a selfie and posted it on Snapchat.
“Hey guys has anybody seen Tristyn lately,” the caption read.
The State Attorney’s Office later released several Snapchat videos taken and uploaded while Fucci was in the police vehicle.
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“We’re having fun, in a fing cop car,” Fucci said while looking into the camera and smiling.
In a separate Snapchat video Fucci appears to be alone in the cop car, and says: “Guess who’s in a fing cop car. tripping, dude.”
Aiden Fucci entered a plea of guilty at the start of his first-degree murder trial over the death of Tristyn Bailey
(WJXT News4Jax (screen grab))
The St Johns County Sheriff’s Office would later release CCTV footage of Fucci walking with the 13-year-old on the night she was killed. He was later seen in the footage running by himself.
On the night of Fucci’s arrest, investigators searched his home and found a sheath of a Buck knife in his bedroom, along with a white Nike shoes with bloodstains, a T-shirt with blood on it