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Jun 2021
26m 55s

Tristyn Bailey: Mother Tries to Cover Up...

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This week, Savannah brings you an ongoing investigation of a brutal murder of an innocent 13-year-old girl, Tristyn Bailey. Tristyn's killer, 14-year-old Aiden Fucci, had talked about his urge to lure someone into the woods and kill them, and it appears that he did just that. When Tristyn's body was discovered, they found that she was stabbed nearly 100 times before succumbing to her injuries. Savannah explores the how investigators were able to link the crime to Aiden, and more unbelievably, how Aiden's mother Crystal Smith attempted to scrub blood from Aiden's jeans in an effort to conceal what her son had done.

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