Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: The Heartbreaking Story of Tristyn Bailey
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🗓️ 18 February 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On May 9th, 2021, in St. John’s County, Florida, 13 year old Tristyn Bailey goes missing. She was last seen by her sister just after midnight and is reported missing that morning by her family. The police and community begin searching for her that same day and at 6 p.m. that night her body is found by a neighbor in a remote area in the woods. She had been stabbed more than 100 times.
In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and special guest co-host Dave Mack discuss the timeline of this case, how police track and identify suspects using surveillance footage, the different kinds of stab wounds, the importance of taking photographs of potential suspects, and more.
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Show Notes:
0:00 - Intro
1:32 - Background and overview of case
3:40 - Thrill killing
6:20 - The timeline
8:50 - How can investigators get blood out of something that’s already been washed?
13:30 - How do police identify and track a suspect from footage used for evidence?
16:00 - Mother’s day and siblings not finding Tristyn in her bedroom
17:40 - Different kinds of stab wounds
23:00 - Presenting medical evidence in court and defensive vs. non-defensive wounds
26:10 - Tristyn attempting to fight off the killer
27:20 - Importance of taking photographs of potential suspects and all parts of their body
30:40 - Aiden Fucci
32:50 - Aspects of premeditation and Fucci’s mother’s awareness of the crime
34:50 - Fucci pleading not guilty, his story constantly changing, and then finally pleading guilty
36:30 - Wrap-up and outro
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| 0:00.0 | Body bags with Joseph Scott Morgan. |
| 0:20.1 | With me today is Dave Mack. |
| 0:42.7 | As a reporter, a crime reporter for Crime Online, David, you've at least had an insight |
| 0:50.0 | into this case. |
| 0:51.0 | I think the whole country has for a while now. |
| 0:54.0 | We had an expectation that there was going to be a trial that maybe some viable explanation |
| 1:01.7 | could be offered up to us as to why someone would want to perpetrate this kind of act |
| 1:11.1 | on this child. |
| 1:13.1 | But I think that we're going to be left wanting. |
| 1:16.8 | I think you're 100% right, Joe. |
| 1:19.1 | Here we're talking about a 13-year-old girl and at the time a 14-year-old boy. |
| 1:26.1 | And the crime is so heinous that the 14-year-old is going to be tried as an adult. |
| 1:32.7 | He's now 16. |
| 1:34.1 | You mentioned saying, I'm sorry. |
| 1:35.7 | What does it really mean? |
| 1:36.7 | Well, that's what he did yesterday. |
| 1:38.1 | We're getting ready for the trial. |
| 1:39.3 | That's all we might find some answers there. |
| 1:41.6 | But no, we have a gruesome attack. |
| 1:44.9 | 13-year-old Tristan Bailey went out for an evening of celebration with her family. |
| 1:48.9 | They got home around 11.45 pm and she was seen by a sibling around midnight. |
| 1:53.5 | Tristan was supposed to be sleeping in her bedroom. |
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