Crystal Smith (left), the mother of Aiden Fucci (top right), was released on $25,000 bond by the St. John s County Sheriff s Office in Florida. Fucci has been charged in murder of Trisyn Baiey (bottom right).
Tristyn, 13, was stabbed 114 times and had 49 defensive wounds on her hands and arms
The medical examiner found the tip of Aiden s knife in her scalp - the rest of the knife was found in a pond
Fucci was taken into custody on second degree juvenile charges on May 10
He is accused of stabbing Tristyn a horrific number of times then leaving her body in the woods on May 9
Prosecutors have spent the last few weeks mulling over whether to upgrade those charges
They decided to on Thursday - now he s charged with first degree murder as an adult and faces life without parole
St. Johns County Sheriff Rob Hardwick says the 14-year-old boy suspected of stabbing 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey to death was cooperative when the investigation was a missing person case and then changed hats when he became a murder suspect.
A Florida judge ordered the teenage boy charged in the brutal stabbing death of a 13-year-old girl held without bond Friday.
Aiden Fucci, 14, appeared before a judge via a virtual court hearing on his first-degree murder charge in the death of Tristyn Bailey. Fucci s public defender didn t object to the judge s ruling but said a motion for bond could be filed at a later date, WKMG-TV reported.
Tristyn, 13, was stabbed 114 times and had 49 defensive wounds on her hands and arms
The medical examiner found the tip of Aiden s knife in her scalp - the rest of the knife was found in a pond
Fucci was taken into custody on second degree juvenile charges on May 10
He is accused of stabbing Tristyn a horrific number of times then leaving her body in the woods on May 9
Prosecutors have spent the last few weeks mulling over whether to upgrade those charges
They decided to on Thursday - now he s charged with first degree murder as an adult and faces life without parole
The Florida teenager accused of murdering 13-year-old cheerleader Tristyn Bailey before dumping her body in a wooded area earlier this month will be tried as an adult, authorities said Thursday. Aiden Fucci, 14, was hit with the charge this week for allegedly fatally stabbing Bailey in the early morning of May 9 after the pair were caught on surveillance video walking away from a home on Saddlestone Drive, according to online court records. The.