New evidence released in the first-degree murder case against Aiden Fucci, 14, showed that the teen’s mother allegedly wiped the blood of 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey, took off her son’s jeans.
Fucci is accused of fatally stabbing Bailey in St. Johns County, Florida, on Mother’s Day earlier this year. The coroner’s findings concluded that Bailey was stabbed 114 times.
A new surveillance video released Tuesday showed Fucci’s mother, Crystal Smith, in the upstairs bathroom of her family’s home rubbing a pair of jeans. Prosecutors said it’s the same pair of pants that tested positive for blood. early this year.
Smith was arrested in June with tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony, and pleaded not guilty.
Among the new evidence released this week was surveillance video, which police say captured the last time Bailey was seen alive.
One video shows Fucci and Bailey allegedly entering their Durbin Crossing neighborhood the night the girl was stabbed to death. Another shows someone, which investigators say is Fucci, fleeing the same wooded area, alone, a few hours later.
Prosecutors also posted Snapchat videos of Fucci and a friend in the back of a police car after Bailey disappeared.
“They put us in a fucking police car… man tripping,” Fucci tells the camera.
“We’re having fun, in a fucking police car,” Fucci is heard saying in another. “Tristyn, if you f ** king get out of there …”
At the time of Bailey’s disappearance, Fucci posted a selfie from the back seat of a police car with a message that read “Hey guys, someone has seen Tristyn lately.”
While the two teens attended Patriot Oaks Academy together, it’s unclear if the two were friends. Fucci told investigators he and Bailey had a fight earlier that day, prompting him to forcefully shove her to the ground and hit her on the back. head.
In May, state prosecutor RJ Larizza told reporters the location of the stab wounds. He indicated that they were “defensive in nature.”
“The bottom line is that premeditation can certainly be inferred from the large number of stab wounds Tristyn Bailey had to suffer,” Larizza told a press conference.
The state attorney also said several witnesses told investigators that Fucci had said he was planning to kill someone “by taking him into the woods and. This is a brief summary.
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