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Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

Pleading Guilty to Brutality - The Heartbreaking Story of Tristyn Bailey

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 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.

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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Transcript

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0:00.0

BODY Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

0:20.0

with me today is Dave Mac. He's a reporter, a crowned reporter for Cromon Line. David

0:48.0

had an insight into this case and I think the whole country has for a while now we had an expectation that there was going to be a trial that maybe some viable explanation could be offered up to us as to why someone would want to perpetrate this kind of act on this child but I think that we're going to be left wanting.

1:16.0

I think you're 100% right Joe here we're talking about a 13 year old girl and at the time of 14 year old boy and the crime is so heinous that the 14 year old is going to be tried as an adult he's now 16.

1:33.0

You mentioned saying I'm sorry what does it really mean well that's what he did yesterday we're getting ready for the trial thought we might find some answers there but no we have a gruesome attack 13 year old Tristan Bailey went out for an evening of celebration with her family they got home around 11.45 p.m. and she was seen by a sibling around midnight Tristan was supposed to be sleeping in her bedroom but the following morning mother's day Tristan didn't come out of her room for breakfast and it was discovered she was not in her room Tristan

2:03.0

her mother calls 911 around 10 a.m. and a search begins while police friends and neighbors search for Tristan on foot investigators locate security videos of the area and put together a timeline of what happened in the early morning hours security video shows Tristan walking in the neighborhood at 12.30 a.m. about 30 minutes after her siblings are in her bedroom at 114 a.m. Tristan Bailey is seen on video walking with what appears to be 14 year old Aiden Fushi at 145 a.m. a home surveillance camera on satellite

2:33.0

Charleston Drive captures the two teens walking east on the sidewalk at 3.30 a.m. that same surveillance camera catches Aiden Fushi walking alone heading in the opposite direction carrying white Nike shoes minutes later video shows Aiden Fushi entering his home carrying white Nike shoes Tristan was not with him between the time Tristan is last seen on video alive at 145 a.m. and when Fushi is seen on video going into his home less than two hours later investigators say Fushi

3:03.0

were most basta Tristan with the knife stabbing her 112 times and then tossing the knife into pawn we have a gruesome a tac

3:11.7

that happened in a quiet neighborhood a 13 year old cheerleader in a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida and a boy who is disturbed he's got drawings of crazy stuff and he's told friends

3:26.5

I'm thinking about I could kill somebody and I will take them into the woods.

3:30.8

I'll lure them into the woods and I will slice their throat.

3:33.7

I will stab them to death at 14.

3:36.5

That's how he's talking to friends.

3:38.5

It always amazes me.

3:39.9

I think that looking back on my career as a medical legal death investigator and

3:46.1

the stuff that I was exposed to certainly a professional perspective.

3:51.1

But the things that I viewed out there that I would come in contact, not just on a

3:56.1

weekly basis, but only daily basis many times.

3:59.1

These things that you don't want to talk about.

4:02.9

You don't want to kind of expose, particularly your loved ones to.

4:08.4

But yet you'll have a boy essentially that longs, that actually

4:13.9

longs to perpetrate something like this.

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