A Florida teen was sentenced to life behind bars Friday for the gruesome murder of a 13-year-old cheerleader who was stabbed 114 times and left dead in woods in May 2021.
St. Johns County Circuit Judge Lee Smith reviled Aiden Fucci, now 16, for plotting to kill Trystin Bailey who suffered a “painful, horrifying death from someone that she trusted.”
“This was not done out of greed. It was not done in retaliation or retribution or revenge. It was not a crime of passion,” Smith said.
“It was not a crime that was committed because he felt rejected by her. It was not done in a fit of uncontrollable anger. There was no reason. There was no purpose.”
“It was done for no other reason than to satisfy this defendant's internal desire to feel what it was like to kill someone.”
the Judge described the case as one of the “most difficult and shocking cases” that he had witnessed in his 16-year career adding that there was only “one appropriate sentence in this case.”
