Boy, 14, charged with murdering cheerleader ‘was proud of what he did’
The 14-year-old boy charged with murdering a 13-year-old cheerleader Tristyn Bailey was held in custody on Tuesday morning for another three weeks while prosecutors decide whether to charge him as an adult and police revealed more of their case against him.
Aiden Fucci, 14, was been named by police as the suspect in the killing of 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey.
On Sunday night, he took a selfie in the back of a cop car which he then posted on Snapchat with the caption ‘Hey guys has inybody (sic) seen Tristyn lately’. It was before her body was found in woods.
Now, police say they will use that ‘egregious’ selfie as evidence against him and that it proves he was ‘proud of what he did’.
‘I know it looks egregious with him making those statements in that car, but that is now evidence that we gather and use against him. So that just makes our case a better case to present to the State Attorney’s office and to present to a jury down the road saying this was his mindset.
‘This is what he’s doing, was he’s proud of what he did. So, you know, this is going to help our case and make it stronger to, you know, his intentions,’ St. Johns County Sheriff Robert Hardwick said in an interview on Tuesday with local outlet WOKV before Fucci’s first court appearance.
On Tuesday, Fucci appeared via Zoom before Circuit Judge Michael Orfinger, who said there was probable cause to charge him in Tristyn’s death. He held him in custody and gave prosecutors until May 31 to decide whether or not to charge him as an adult.
In the meantime, Judge Orfinger banned photos of Fucci in his courtroom.
The teenager appeared in a black jail sweatshirt. He looked relaxed throughout the hearing and put both of his hands behind his head at one point.
Aiden Fucci, 14, has been named by police as the suspect in the killing of 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey (pictured) whose body was found on Monday
NewsJax, a local site, cites police sources who say this selfie which Fucci took in the back of a squad car is part of the investigation. He posted it on Snapchat after her death
His parents Jason Fucci and Crystal Smith were both on the call. They spoke briefly to confirm that they had hired him a lawyer.
None of Tristyn’s relatives spoke during the hearing.
Her cousin told The Sun that she hopes Aiden confesses to killing her.
‘I have cried my eyes out… I’m happy they made an arrest and hope they try him as an adult.
‘Tristyn was a sweetheart, she loved cheerleading, I’m an emotional wreck, my husband and I didn’t sleep well last night,’ Connie Stull said.
Tristyn’s body was found in woods on Sunday night, less than 12 hours after her family reported her missing.
It’s unclear how she died but police say her body was found fully clothed - she was wearing a dark top and white cheer skirt.
She was last seen at 1.12am on Sunday, and was reported missing at 10am. She and Aiden were classmates at Patriot Oaks Academy.
‘We have arrested a suspect by the name of Aiden Fucci, 14 year old. He is currently in custody charged with second degree murder.
‘This is a long process, we’re in the very early stages of this.
‘The suspect is in custody - there are no further threats to this case,’ Sheriff Robert Hardwick said at a press conference on Monday morning.
Tristyn’s family reported her missing on Sunday at 10am. She was last seen at midnight by them, and cops say she was last accounted for at around 1.15am. By 6pm on Sunday, her body had been found
Police have not shared any more information about the kids, including what they were doing on Saturday night before Tristyn vanished.
After she was reported missing, dozens of local volunteers joined in the search for her.
The man who found her body was one of them - police say he’d seen on the news that she was missing and went out to look for her.
She was last seen at the Durbin Amenity Center in St John’s at 1.15am. It’s unclear what she was doing there or if Aiden was with her.
The center has an outdoor pool and tennis courts. It is next to a lake and there are woods nearby.
In a statement on Monday afternoon, a spokesman for the state’s attorney’s office said: ‘As Sheriff Hardwick stated in his press conference today, our office will continue to investigate the case to determine both the appropriate charges going forward, and whether or not (Fucci) will be charged as an adult.’
She was last seen at the Durbin Amenity Center in St John’s at 1.15am. It’s unclear what she was doing there or if Aiden was with her
Aidan Smith’s TV week: The Pact, Halston, Innocent, Delia - the Myths and the Legendary Tapes
A drunken prank for Laura Fraser and her co-workers in The Pact goes disastrously wrong.
Maybe instead of The Pact it should have been called Big Little Leeks and Reece Witherspoon’s long-lost cousin from Swansea - Rhys, of course - could have played one of the quartet. Instead we have our own Laura Fraser plus Julie Hesmondhalgh, Eiry Thomas and Heledd Gwynn as workmates at a brewery, though there seems to be acknowledgement of the glitzy American drama when someone says: “This is Wales, Gwen, not Los Angeles.”
The boss is a proper perisher. He’s abusive to Thomas’ Louie and she’s his aunt. He’s dismissive of Fraser’s Anna when she goes for a promotion and at the brewery’s centenary bash is soon groping the successful candidate on the dancefloor. Later, after trying it on with another girl, he falls down drunk and coked out of his head so our foursome chuck him in the boot of a car and dump him in the woods. The photos of him with his hands tied and trousers round his ankles have to be quickly deleted because in the morning he’s found dead.
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Should they ’fess up right away to their prank? No of course not, this is a six-parter. What, even though Anna’s husband is a policeman quickly promoted to a detective to investigate the case? “Stick to the story, stick together,” urges Hesmondhalgh’s Nancy.
Ewan McGregor boogies on down as fashion whizz Halston
The tec by the way is played by Jason Hughes. Remember him as This Life’s Warren? He left for a bit but made a memorable, one-word return for the moment when Milly socked Rachel in the face at a wedding: “Outstanding!” Now, The Pact is not outstanding but there are some funny lines, such as when Louie is told by a catty colleague: “Sharon Osbourne rang - she wants her hair back.” I suspect, though, that the humour will go as the foursome’s leeks - sorry, lies - become more and more difficult to keep secret.
I wish that line could be adapted for Halston (Netflix). Someone could easily say to Ewan McGregor’s character: “Warren Beatty rang - he wants his blow-dried bouffant back.”
But who would dare? Roy Halston Frowick - known just by his middle name - was the American fashion designer who shot to fame when Jackie Kennedy wore one of his hats and in this biopic he’s tough on his staff.
Except … I was maybe hoping for more bitchiness, more tyrannical behaviour. Apart from dismissing the suggestion he cuts down on flowers around the studio with “Orchids are part of my process - you can’t put a budget on inspiration” there’s a shortage of memorable dialogue and the 1970s-set story is oddly uninvolving. McGregor had not heard of Halston before he agreed to play him. I knew the name from the Sister Sledge disco classic “He’s the Greatest Dancer” - “Halston, Gucci, Fiorucci” - but no more than that. Maybe in my ignorance I wanted the drama to be more like Zoolander but Halston takes women’s fashion very seriously and gets excited when he discovers “ultra-suede” which the rain can’t ruin.
Caroline Catz as Delia Derbyshire who dreamed up the greatest-ever TV theme - Doctor Who
The Pact isn’t the week’s only new crime drama, or indeed the only new crime drama with lots of drone camerawork, watery locations and a two-note piano refrain signifying, in case you didn’t know, a psychological aspect.
Innocent (ITV1) is written by Chris Lang who, as fans of Unforgotten relish, likes to arrange multiple suspects for a game of bagatelle. Teacher Sally (Katherine Kelly) is innocent of the murder of a 16-year-old student with whom she was rumoured to be having an affair. Well, having been freed from jail on appeal she must be, yes?
Suspicion lingers in Keswick where she attempts to reclaim her job and her ex-husband who’s about to remarry. One by one, fresh contenders are positioned on the board only to be knocked over and ruled out. But in a Lang whodunnit no one is really safe from the finger being pointed at them. Not Halston, Gucci or even Fiorucci.
Given that the sinister plinky-plonk of shows like Innocent and The Pact is almost incessant, Delia Derbyshire has a lot to answer for. Sadly the wizardess of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is not around for the debate about her influence because she died in 2001.
Succumbing to alcoholism, she’d been largely forgotten as a pioneer of electronic music. She’d arranged the theme for Doctor Who but her name never appeared on the credits. Then a discovery: fragments of tape stuffed in cereal boxes. She was namedropped by young bands in thrall to the weird and wonderful. Now there’s the Arena docu-drama Delia - the Myths and the Legendary Tapes (BBC4) with Caroline Catz writing, directing and starring as Derbyshire.
Decca Records, who of course turned down the Beatles, wouldn’t employ her as women weren’t allowed in their studios. Within the Corporation the Radiophonic Workshop had traditionally been a place of banishment but Derbyshire, spotting one of its boffins writhing on a bed of pebbles in pursuit of sonic strangeness, knew she’d found her home. “I’d like to create sounds that have never existed anywhere in the world before,” she declared. And, with male admirers christening her “Psyche-delia” she did. The Radiophonic Workshop couldn’t exist anywhere but the Beeb and this programme couldn’t exist anywhere but the closure-threatened BBC4.
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