ID: Who is Aiden Fucci and what happened to him? Details explored ahead of Murder Under the Friday Night Lights 

Aiden Fucci is an 18-year-old teenager who has been sentenced to a lifetime in prison for the stabbing and murder of his classmate Tristyn Bailey.

The latest episode of Murder Under the Friday Night Lights Season 4 on ID dives into this shocking and disturbing crime that involved a juvenile. Titled "Monster Among Trolls" it tracks down the murder of 13-year-old cheerleader Tristyn Bailey from St. Johns County, Florida.

It was on Mother’s Day, May 9, 2021, when Bailey's family reported her sudden disappearance. After a few hours, the teenager's dead body was found near a retention pond in a wooded area around her house.

What's even worse is that Tristyn Bailey was stabbed almost 114 times by her own classmate Aiden Fucci. As revealed in the episode on ID, Fucci and Bailey both attended Patriot Oaks Academy and lived just a few houses away.

As for Fucci's personality, the teenager was known for joking about killing random people. Since he had no prior criminal record, his friends didn't take his jokes seriously. However, when it was revealed that Aiden Fucci killed Tristyn Bailey, his friends opened up about his behaviour.

One of the students who claimed to be close to the young criminal said Fucci would randomly "take his knife out and pretend to stab her with it". Not only this but Aiden Fucci also made disturbing art in which he drew badly injured or disfigured bodies.

Continue reading to know more about Aiden Fucci's crime and what happened to him afterwards.

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New episode on ID explores the murder of teenager Tristyn Bailey

Murder Under the Friday Night Lights is back with Season 4, and the latest episode aired on January 29, 2025, explores the tragic incident on Mother's Day 2021 when a 14-year-old boy stabbed his classmate to death. Aiden Fucci first convinced Tristyn Bailey to leave her house to meet him and a mutual friend.

When the investigation began, surveillance footage captured Bailey and Fucci walking near the place where her dead body was discovered. About 1 hour and 45 minutes later, Fucci was seen running alone.

When asked by the police, Fucci kept changing his stories and said he only argued with Tristyn Bailey. However, the evidence told a much darker story. Per the autopsy report, the teenage cheerleader was stabbed almost 114 times with 49 of them being defensive wounds.

This proved that Bailey tried hard to survive but sustained injuries all over her neck, head, shoulder, arms, and back. Since the attack was relentless, Tristyn Bailey couldn't survive.

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Aiden Fucci was charged with first-degree murder as an adult

Though Fucci was just a teenager at the time of the murder, he brutally killed Tristyn Bailey and even made jokes through his Snapchat account during her disappearance. The investigators got enough evidence including a buck knife near Tristyn’s dead body which was identified to be Fucci's.

At his home, the police discovered wet, bloody clothes, and even a blood-stained drain. Additionally, his notebook was filled with disturbing drawings of people being stabbed.

Even his mother was charged with a third-degree felony as she washed Aiden Fucci's bloody jeans. However, she denied knowing that her son had committed a heinous crime.

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As for Aiden Fucci's sentencing, the juvenile was first given 40 years to life in prison. Later in 2023, Judge R. Lee Smith gave him a lifetime in prison and said:

"It was done for no other reason than to satisfy this defendant’s internal desire to feel what it was like to kill someone... And it was heinous, atrocious, and cruel."

After Aiden Fucci's crime was no longer hidden, he wrote a letter to Bailey's family, expressing regret for stabbing his classmate more than a hundred times. The teenager, now 18 is currently serving his punishment.

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