Florida teen claims he was commanded by 'demon spirits' to kill cheerleader using a knife as the murder weapon. The killer then proceeded to stab his victim a hundred times with a blade, as told by demonic whispers.
Cheerleader Killed as Urged by Demon Spirits
A deranged Florida teenage boy claimed that voices whispered and urged him to murder a 13-year-old classmate in a fatal attack. The accused killer, Aiden Fucci, now 16 was only 14 years old at the time of the crime, reported Express UK.
He told the slain girl's family that he regretted it and that he stabbed her 114 times, leaving the corpse in the wooden area in a quiet neighborhood of Jacksonville.
Details show that Tristyn Bailey was a cheerleader at Patriot Oaks Academy where she studies with Fucci. She and the boy were captured on CCTV walking on May 9, 2021, in St. Johns County. The same camera revealed that then-suspect Fucci had walked back alone. Authorities said the body was found in a woodland area about three miles away from the Fucci's residence. The teen girl's skull has a blade fragment, but the other parts of the murder weapon were found in a nearby pond, noted Yahoo News soon after Fucci got arrested on May 10.
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Fucci later admitted he was with the victim on the night of the slaying even as he first misled the court intentionally based on trial records. In a search for evidence in the suspect's residence, they found what he wore during the murder with blood stains.
Florida Teen Charged with Murder of Cheerleader
Fucci was 14 when he killed his classmate but was charged as an adult though the death penalty cannot apply to him when the murder occurred. But to change the outcome of the possible verdict, he altered his plea on the day the jury was to start the first-degree murder trial but on Monday. It is a guilty plea now, citing Jacksonville.
Fucci stated, in court last Monday, that he admitted to the crime and asked forgiveness from the Baileys, his own family. Early during the trial, the teen kept mumbling not to let demons take his soul, as mentioned by First Coast News.
Friends remarked to investigators that the suspect had imagined violence and murderous intent and wanted to slay something in the woods, says sources. He would draw pictures of mutilated corpses and tell friends that whispers were convincing him to take a life away.
When he killed Bailey, he had no regret then and loved the attention from it, posting Snapchat videos while in the backseat of a patrol car before the first interrogation. Sources alleged that he took credit for a terrible crime and even threatened other prisoners and staff in the jail waiting for trial.
His mother, Crystal Smith, was charged with altering evidence when the detectives discovered her washing the blood-stained clothes in the bathroom sink. It was taken by video, but she had posted bond and was scheduled in court on April 4.
Due to the severity of his crime, Fucci could get an entire life sentence, though, in 25 years, he could get a review.
