The Tragic Murder of 13-Year-Old Tristyn Bailey | Killers Caught On Camera | Forensic Files

[INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: This time, on ''Killers Caught on Camera''. In the US, Florida, a 13-year-old girl is discovered
with more than 100 stab wounds. MAN: There's one stab wound for every second. That's almost two minutes of just sheer violence.
NARRATOR: And in Colorado, a student goes missing after accepting a ride home in a windowless white van.
Dad turns detective. MAN: The smell of bleach was so overpowering, it just stopped me in my tracks.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC] MAN: It just sounds like something bad is happening to her. WOMAN: We know what happened because the video
tells us what happened. MAN: I heard some gunshots. POLICE: Drop it. Whatever it is, drop it.
MAN: That does not prove that I killed my wife. MAN: The camera doesn't lie. NARRATOR: Jacksonville, Florida.
20 miles south of the city lies Durban crossing, a newly built, close-knit community where kids outnumbered
adults and crime was rare. NARRATOR: It was home to Stacy and Forrest Bailey and their five children.
FORREST BAILEY: We've always told our kids that the best thing that we could ever give them
was a sibling. And they've always taken that to heart, they've always been incredibly close with one another.
NARRATOR: 13-year-old Tristyn was the youngest of the Bailey clan. STACY BAILEY: I would describe her as fun, loving, super kind
and a little bit sassy. She's also a really popular girl. She could be friends with everyone.
FORREST BAILEY: Tristyn gave the world her best. She was very outgoing, she wanted to put
a smile on people's faces. She was very energetic, she was very determined and extremely supportive.
NARRATOR: From a young age, Tristyn was determined to excel at cheerleading. STACY BAILEY: In like kindergarten,
first grade, she kept saying, ''I want to be on the cheerleading team''. And she taught herself how to do so
many skills that I couldn't say no to her, and the rest was history. She ended up on three teams.
She just dedicated her life to that. NARRATOR: Life as a family of seven was incredibly busy,
but they always made time to be together at the weekends. FORREST BAILEY: We had what was known as Bailey family fun day.
And I can tell you that there was nothing better in the world just hearing the family interact with each other,
seeing all the personalities come out to play. And it was just filled with so much fun and laughter.
NARRATOR: Saturday, May 8th, 2021. The Bailey family went for a meal together. It was the night before Mother's Day.
FORREST BAILEY: We went out and had a great dinner together, and then we went home.
I remember when I went to bed that evening, telling, telling Tristyn that I loved her.
NARRATOR: Sunday, May 9th, 2021. Mother's Day morning, Tristyn and her sister Sophia
were supposed to make a special breakfast for their mom. STACY BAILEY: I wasn't allowed to come out of my room,
but it got to be like 9:30 that day, and I was like, gosh, I can't sit-in here anymore.
So I went out and Sophia was making this breakfast by herself. And I was like, where's Tristyn?
And she said, she's still sleeping. And I asked my son to tell Tristyn to come downstairs.
And he came downstairs and he said, mom, I didn't see Tristyn in her room. FORREST BAILEY: Instantly, me that I
was like, that's, that's weird. I checked every room and we started yelling. She wasn't there.
So I went out the front door and I called the police. [911 CALL] NARRATOR: Curt Hannon was a Sergeant with the St
Johns County Sheriff's Office. KURT HANNON: The first thing we try and do is find out who do they have contact with normally, who
is the last person that saw them, where's the last place they were seen. NARRATOR: Police interviewed Tristyn's sister,
Sophia, who was the last person to see Tristyn at around midnight. [SOPHIA'S VOICE]
[POLICE VOICE] [SOPHIA'S VOICE] NARRATOR: But it became clear that Tristyn had left home just after midnight.
At 12:02 a.m., she was spotted on surveillance footage a couple of streets away from her home.
NARRATOR: People in the local community did everything they could to help in the search for Tristyn.
FORREST BAILEY: Our community was unbelievable. I don't know how many people set aside their Mother's
Day plans to help find Tristyn. NARRATOR: Jennifer Dunton is an Assistant State Attorney.
JENNIFER DUNTON: As her parents are reaching out to her friends, trying to find out who she could have gone out with.
They discovered a name of Tre. Law Enforcement officers responded out to Tre's house
and he said, no, I haven't seen her. They left, they kind of followed up on leads again,
Trey just kept coming up. So they went back to Tre's house. And at that point, he decided to tell them
that, OK, she was at my house last night with my friend Aiden Fucci. JENNIFER DUNTON: And that they had
both left together, Aiden and Tristyn, at about 1 o'clock AM. NARRATOR: Police tracked down Aiden.
KURT HANNON: Aiden story was that he and Tristyn went down her street to her house and Aiden kept on walking and they
left about 1 o'clock in the morning and he said he got home about 3:00, 3:30. It wouldn't take two hours for him
to get back home to his house, it's not that far away. So we kind of pressed him on his timeline
and said, well, you know, why did it take you so long to get home. And he said, well, I was just kind
of walking around for a while. And we were, well, show me where you're walking around at.
NARRATOR: The police took Aiden in a patrol car. So he could show them the route that he and Tristyn
took after leaving Tre's house. JENNIFER DUNTON: They took Aiden to Tre's house and then put both of them in a vehicle
and drove them around and left them for a period of time. NARRATOR: In the patrol car, Aiden
posted a video on social media. It's in a [BLEEP] cop car, guys. Tripping, dude.
Having fun in a [BLEEP] cop car. Yep. JENNIFER DUNTON: Aiden is laughing, joking very light hearted.
He's saying, Tristyn, where are you? They're showing the firearms and things that are in the police
officer's vehicle. AIDEN: God damn, dude, has flashbangs [BLEEP] back there. JENNIFER DUNTON: Not normal behavior in those circumstances.
NARRATOR: As well as posting on social media, Aiden's version of events from the night
before started to change. JENNIFER DUNTON: He said, you know, what I said earlier wasn't true.
Aiden's new story was given to the patrol officer in the police car. [POLICE VOICE]
[AIDEN'S VOICE] [POLICE VOICE] JENNIFER DUNTON: He said they were kissing, she grabbed him
and he didn't like it and he pushed her down. She hit her head and he left in the opposite direction
and doesn't know what happened to her. That obviously erased investigators suspicions.
So he's detained. DR. JULIA SHAW: Changing your story isn't inherently an indicator of guilt, but if you change important elements
of the story and you keep changing it, then that starts to be correctly interpreted
as evidence that something's something's wrong. This person is intentionally concealing something from you.
NARRATOR: While Aiden was detained, the community was still frantically searching for Tristyn.
At 6:00 PM that evening, 18 hours after Tristyn went missing, 911 dispatchers received a harrowing call.
[911 CALL] NARRATOR: Police responded immediately. JENNIFER DUNTON: It was clear that she had been stabbed.
There was some blood in the surrounding area. She had her cell phone on the ground.
I believe a vape pen, some money laying around her. KURT HANNON: It's one of those things where I remember exactly
where I was and I can remember the feeling of just the sinking gut wrenching, oh my god, this is not
what we were expecting at all. This is now a homicide investigation. NARRATOR: A dive team searched the pond for evidence.
They recovered a knife with a missing tip. Tristyn's body was taken for an autopsy.
KURT HANNON: Following a six hour autopsy, I had to go and tell a mother and a father, and a family
that their daughter has been murdered. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] STACY BAILEY: I remember the police showed up at my house.
They asked me if I could go inside, and I begged them, I begged them not to take me in there.
I knew if I went in there that-- They didn't tell me she wasn't-- She wasn't OK.
KURT HANNON: How do you tell somebody that their daughter has been stabbed 114 times?
If you think that there's one stab wound for every second, that's almost two minutes of just sheer violence.
STACY BAILEY: Detective Hannon told my husband and I. I just remember screaming uncontrollably.
And my family just fell apart at that point. NARRATOR: The police needed to work out exactly what happened.
The area was well covered with surveillance cameras, which helped the police to build a timeline.
NARRATOR: The day before Tristan's body was found, Saturday, May 8th, Aiden Fucci was caught on camera
close to 7 p.m., skateboarding around the area with his girlfriend. KURT HANNON: One of the questions that we try to answer,
if he's a suspect, is what was he wearing. So here we see him in the afternoon. He's wearing a dark colored hoodie, blue jeans,
and he's got white sneakers on. So those are things we may be looking for in the future.
He is skateboarding and he's going towards Tre's house. KURT HANNON: So if this house here is Trey's house.
And you'll see Aiden coming up on the skateboard. The video from the Ring doorbell footage is very clear,
you can very clearly identify Aiden Fucci in this video. NARRATOR: Aiden arrived at Tre's house just after 8 p.m.
On Saturday, May 8th. KURT HANNON: Aiden is just coming over to his house. At this point in time, Tristyn is not coming to the picture
yet. NARRATOR: But crucial footage was recovered after dark, just after 1:00 AM on Sunday, May 8th, the same time Aiden
and Tristyn left Tre's house. KURT HANNON: These videos, they show two figures who we determined to be Aiden and Tristyn.
This is the last known video footage that we were able to find of her still alive.
And they're walking towards the direction of where she was ultimately murdered. NARRATOR: An hour and a half later, the same camera captured
an individual in a hurry. KURT HANNON: He's running in a direction now away from the pond.
And this is the first time anybody returns from that area. This one was key to us because it
shows that one person carrying something in his hands. NARRATOR: On Sunday, May 9th at 8:00 pm,
two hours after Tristyn's body was found, Aiden Fucci was brought in for further questioning,
accompanied by his parents. [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S DAD] NARRATOR: As they waited for an attorney,
their conversation was recorded. [AIDEN'S DAD] KURT HANNON: These parents made comments to him
that they knew that the room was recorded and they told him not to say anything.
[AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S DAD] [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S DAD]
[AIDEN'S MOM] KURT HANNON: And then they started asking him questions that kind of gave us some more insight into what was going on
and what may have happened. [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S DAD]
[AIDEN] [AIDEN'S DAD] [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S DAD] DR. JULIA SHAW: By the time he's in the holding cell,
you can see his demeanor is quite different from the first time we see him. And he's taking it more seriously, although possibly
still not seriously enough, which is why his parents then come in and say basically smarten up.
This is a really big deal. NARRATOR: The digital forensics team also retrieved footage from the Fucci family home in the early hours of May,
9th. [AIDEN'S DAD] [AIDEN] KURT HANNON: By that statement, that basically identified himself as the person carrying
the shoes in that video. KURT HANNON: We saw the person on the previous video carrying something in his hands, and now we
see a person coming to Aiden's house carrying shoes that we can clearly see has a black Nike swoosh on it.
This was a key foundational piece of evidence right here. [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S MOM]
[AIDEN] [AIDEN'S DAD] JENNIFER DUNTON: So it was clear to us that his parents knew he was lying,
you know, they're sort of very skeptical. They're questioning him. [AIDEN'S MOM]
[AIDEN] JENNIFER DUNTON: They understand the gravity. He doesn't seem to or doesn't care.
NARRATOR: While Aiden and his parents were in the holding room, the police searched the family home
and looked through the security footage. Unusual behavior by Aiden's mom was discovered by police.
KURT HANNON: Here in the video, we see Crystal, she's going upstairs to Aiden's room.
She's just come out of Aiden's room carrying something in her hands and is now in the bathroom at the sink.
And we believe, based on her motions, that she's scrubbing something in the sink.
Here we can see it looks like a pair of jeans. NARRATOR: Aiden and his mom were unaware
that the police had discovered unusual behavior recorded upstairs. [AIDEN'S MOM]
[AIDEN] [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN'S DAD] [AIDEN] KURT HANNON: She's asking him, were you wearing blue jeans
or were you wearing khakis? [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] KURT HANNON: And then she tries to convince
him that he's wearing khakis. [AIDEN'S MOM] KURT HANNON: And then she goes back to the jeans
and asks if there's anything on them. And he kind of gave her this look. [AIDEN'S MOM]
[AIDEN] KURT HANNON: You can hear it in the audio, she whispers. [AIDEN'S MOM] KURT HANNON: His mother was trying to cover up for him
and help him out and protect him. DR. JULIA SHAW: It's an ethical dilemma. And we know from research settings
that when presented with saving even five people or your own family member or loved one,
most people will choose their own. And so when these kinds of dilemmas happen, we often act in ways that defend and protect the ones we love,
even if it's directly harmful to other children and other people. NARRATOR: At Aiden's house, the police recovered
vital pieces of evidence. JENNIFER DUNTON: He had a closet in his room and there was a dresser pushed back in his closet.
To the right of that dresser was like just a large pile of clothing that you'd expect a teenager to have.
And as detectives dug through that, they found the white Nike tennis shoes that were damp.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC] JENNIFER DUNTON: They found a piece of paper that looked like it had red blood stains on it.
We pull that dresser out. Shoved behind it, it was a white t-shirt that appeared
to have red brownish stains. And then a pair of jeans, also damp that appeared to have some staining on them.
There were several knives in his room. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] JENNIFER DUNTON: And there was a empty knife
sheath in that same dresser. JENNIFER DUNTON: All the items are tested for presumptive blood
and the shirt, the shoes, the piece of paper and the jeans come back that has got blood on it.
His bathroom sink, drain and pipes also tested positive for blood. NARRATOR: A recorded interview with Aiden's girlfriend
revealed Aiden's fascination with knives. [AIDEN'S GIRLFRIEND'S VOICE] [POLICE VOICE]
[AIDEN'S GIRLFRIEND'S VOICE] [POLICE VOICE] [AIDEN'S GIRLFRIEND'S VOICE] [POLICE VOICE]
[AIDEN'S GIRLFRIEND'S VOICE] DR. JULIA SHAW: I think a lot of teens quite like taboo things.
And knives can be one manifestation of that. I think that there's a social cloud
that comes with that that a lot of teenagers would enjoy. NARRATOR: Aiden's girlfriend also explained how
much he talked about killing. [POLICE VOICE] [AIDEN'S GIRLFRIEND'S VOICE] [POLICE VOICE]
[AIDEN'S GIRLFRIEND'S VOICE] [POLICE VOICE] DR. JULIA SHAW: Homocidal ideation is defined as fantasizing about murdering somebody.
And research on children, even in extreme circumstances, has found that only about 0.09% of children
fantasize about killing people. And that matters, because it's really unusual to even have those thoughts, never
mind to go through with it. DR. JULIA SHAW: While having a collection of knives isn't typical, I'd still say it's not inherently suspicious.
But once you add in enacting fantasies of killing people, once you've got that level of planning,
then we're talking about something much more severe. NARRATOR: The autopsy revealed the full extent
of Tristyn's last moments. JENNIFER DUNTON: It was discovered that she had 114 sharp force wounds, some of which
are stab wounds, some of which are slashing wounds. A large portion of those were defensive in nature, meaning
on her arms, her forearms. A majority of them were surrounded by her head, her neck, her upper back.
So clearly a vicious attack that appeared to come from above, front and back with her defending herself.
At one point, when the knife entered her skull, the tip of it broke off. So during the examination, the medical examiner actually
found a little silver metal fragment like a triangle and remove that from her skull.
NARRATOR: This was the missing piece of the jigsaw. JENNIFER DUNTON: The knife and the tip
were matched to be one and the same. NARRATOR: The surveillance footage was crucial for building
the case against Aiden Fucci. KURT HANNON: Surveillance video is monumental. The best part about it is, is you
can't refute it, because it shows exactly what happened. And collecting all the videos together,
we're building this trail of breadcrumbs and so we actually able to assemble a video timeline,
if you will, from Tre's house going in the direction of that pond, and then only one person running.
And so that video footage was key in determining the timeline of events. JENNIFER DUNTON: Cameras don't lie, people lie.
So you're able to verify stories and see things that only the cameras can see. You definitely wouldn't have had a complete story
without the cameras. NARRATOR: With overwhelming evidence against him, Aiden Fucci was charged with first degree murder.
[POLICE VOICE] NARRATOR: Aiden was only 14 years old at the time of the murder, but due to the brutality
of the crime, he was charged as an adult. FORREST BAILEY: Thankfully, the judge really weighed everything
and came out with him being in a state where he should never be able to hurt anybody else again.
NARRATOR: Aiden Fucci was sentenced to life in prison. In court, the judge said in quotes,
''this crime had no motive''. DR. JULIA SHAW: What's unusual about this case is in some ways
that there is no mitigating circumstances. So it's not that she rejected him and he killed her in anger.
The only reason he did it was because he wanted to. And that is something that is harder to grasp,
but psychologically is certainly still motive. JENNIFER DUNTON: We have no evidence
that it was against Tristyn, if that makes sense, that she was picked for any reason or the other, other than
opportunity. NARRATOR: Aiden Fuchs mother also faced charges. JENNIFER DUNTON: We ultimately charged her
with tampering with evidence, which is a third degree felony in Florida. She was sentenced after Mr. Fucci
to a period of county jail and probation. [MELANCHOLIC MUSIC] STACY BAILEY: As a mom, it's--
It's very difficult to accept the fact that she's-- She's never coming home. But I want people to remember her by the kindness
that she had in her, her perseverance, her determination. She was a really good student.
She was an amazing daughter and an amazing friend. FORREST BAILEY: It's impossible for me to say the biggest things
that I miss about my daughter. There aren't words. There's not three words, there's not 30 words,
there's not 3,000, 30,000. There is the pure essence of that individual and what they have.
She had a smile and she had a laugh, that are some of the best things of being alive.
And some days are hollow without it. But I can't put into words. NARRATOR: Tristyn Bailey was a victim of multiple stab wounds,
a behavior known as overkill. DR. JULIA SHAW: Overkill can result from different kinds of emotions and different kinds of reasons.
I mean, it's inherently an emotional reaction to keep stabbing someone or keep injuring someone
after they're dead. But in this case, I think it's also that he'd rehearsed it so many times it feels like it would be going
to waste this opportunity if he didn't live it out to the fullest. DR. JULIA SHAW: It's about making it worth it.
It's about making sure that if I'm going to do this murder, that I get what I'm looking for out of it, because otherwise,
why would I do it? NARRATOR: In our next case, the idea of sadistically enjoying murder is taken a step
further by a repeat offender. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: The state of Colorado and its capital, Denver.
Home to nearly 100,000 students, known as Mile High City with a vibrant nightlife.
It was home to 19-year-old, Kenia Monge. Kenia was born in Honduras and moved to Denver aged 11,
after her mother, Maria, married her second husband, Tony Lee. NARRATOR: Maria and Tony had two more children,
Kenia's brother and sister. TONY LEE: It clicked from the first second that I met her.
She says, you're my dad and I'm your daughter. It was just normal and natural for me for her to call me that.
NARRATOR: Kenia was academically gifted and keen to take charge of any situation.
Kenia even set up a kids club at the local church. TONY LEE: She had those kids rehearse
and put on a church play. They all knew the songs that they needed to sing and things like that, you know.
And it was little things like that that just kind of really, really impressed me about her.
She had this leadership ability. NARRATOR: Kenia loved the outdoors. She became a whitewater rafting guide, while she
was still at high school. TONY LEE: The dangerous sports, dangerous activity, she loved it.
She liked that prestige of being out front and being the one called guide and boss.
NARRATOR: On March, 31st, 2011, Kenia and a group of friends went for a night out in Downtown Denver.
But Kenia never returned home to the apartment she shared with her boyfriend. TONY LEE: It just kept getting stranger
and stranger and stranger that nobody had heard from her. NARRATOR: Tony spoke to Kenia's friends.
TONY LEE: Her friends were telling me Kenia had become so intoxicated that her and this guy who was dancing with her
were kicked out of the club. That is the last time that they had seen her that evening.
NARRATOR: It left Kenia vulnerable. Dr. Roberta Babb is a clinical psychologist.
DR. ROBERTA BABB: Kenia is now in an unexpected situation of not having her belongings, not being able to make
contact with her friends. So her ability to make her way home had been significantly compromised.
NARRATOR: After leaving the nightclub, Kenia was spotted on surveillance cameras in the lobby of an apartment building.
NARRATOR: Ray Evans is a forensic image analyst who works with law enforcement around the world.
RAYMOND EVANS: We can see approximate hairstyle, shape. We can see approximate clothing that she's wearing,
the short coat and the dark shoes. We can be fairly sure that it is her. NARRATOR: Three minutes later, she was seen leaving alone.
Kenia was never spotted again on camera. Tony reported her missing to the police.
NARRATOR: Kenia's friends dropped off her phone and belongings. Tony turned detective and started
calling Kenia's contacts. TONY LEE: I'm trying to figure out what do you know. Have you seen her?
Nobody heard anything. Then this message came through and said, hey, this is Travis, the guy in the creepy white van.
It sounded to me like, OK, this Travis guy sounds like this is the last person who she was with.
TONY LEE: I didn't sleep that night. And I called him every hour for the next 24 hours.
NARRATOR: Finally, he got through to Travis. He said he dropped Kenia at a gas station.
Tony arranged to meet him there, but took precautions. TONY LEE: I went up to my bedroom,
I grabbed a 9 millimeter pistol and I told her, I'm taking this with me. NARRATOR: Kenia's mother was so concerned
that she called the police. TONY LEE: She said, my husband is coming down to this gas
station at this location. He has a gun. He's a black guy. So that puts the Denver Police Department on high alert,
so they need to get there before I got there, and they did. NARRATOR: Tony finally got to meet 31-year-old
Travis Forbes face to face. TONY LEE: Six foot, blond hair, blue eyes, good looking guy.
If somebody going to pick my daughter up, I think this is what I would want him to look like.
I noticed he's crying and he's telling me, you know, I'm sorry. I didn't think that any of this would,
you know, would end up like this with, you know, with her missing and all of that.
NARRATOR: While the police were taking a statement from Travis, Tony took a look at the creepy white van Travis
mentioned in his text message. TONY LEE: I got within ten feet of it. The smell of bleach was so overpowering,
it just stopped me in my tracks right there. NARRATOR: Tony got the police officer to investigate.
TONY LEE: He went around to the back of the van and opened up. And we both just looked in there and we looked at each other,
because it was showroom clean. There was bleach that had dried up running down, down the walls,
and it was just overpowering. NARRATOR: But with no evidence of wrongdoing, the police let Travis go.
Kenia's family were still frantically searching for her, handing out missing person flyers to try
and jog people's memories. On April, 4th, the police officially launched a missing
persons investigation. NARRATOR: Travis was their only lead. Police visited the bakery where he worked.
After a search, there was no sign of Kenia. But detectives were shown footage of the freezer area.
RAYMOND EVANS: We see the suspect coming into this room dragging this large container.
NARRATOR: Black duct tape sealed the box shut. It was unusual and not normally required.
RAYMOND EVANS: The question is, what's inside that container. And we know that very shortly after this sequence,
the suspect took the time and the effort to turn off the CCTV camera. The question is, it's not his bakery, why would he do that?
[INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: The footage was suspicious, but inconclusive. And Kenia was still missing.
Travis was brought in for an interview. Detectives wanted to know more details about how Kenia was that night.
[DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS]
[DETECTIVE] NARRATOR: According to Travis, their journey in the early hours was only interrupted by an unscheduled
stop off for a smoke. [TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] DR. ROBERTA BABB: There's a number of things that
can be read into this text. It's a way for him to lay the seed in terms of his concern
about her getting home and to show that he is a caring citizen who's just checking up on someone that actually he
helped in their time of need. DR. ROBERTA BABB: It's interesting that he actually, in the text, explicitly
names white van and creepy. So there's an awareness that this might be an inside joke for them.
I think there's something about this text helping the sender hide in plain sight.
NARRATOR: During the interview. Travis revealed details about his criminal past.
[TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] NARRATOR: At the age of 17, Travis was caught stealing more than $15,000
from homes and businesses. Searches of his room turned up, vandalized women's underwear.
Other charges in his 20s included carrying a knife and throwing stones at women out jogging.
DR. ROBERTA BABB: This really highlights how disturbed Travis's relationship was with women.
Vandalizing underwear really signifies a wish not only to hurt a woman, but potentially to humiliate them,
because ultimately, underwear covers a very vulnerable part of a woman's anatomy.
NARRATOR: The police tracked Travis's movements using his cell phone. Shortly after Kenia went missing,
his phone records showed that he was near Keansburg, 40 miles from Downtown Denver.
NARRATOR: Police recovered surveillance footage, which showed Travis running through a gas
station in the same area. But with no evidence he'd done anything criminal, Travis was released.
NARRATOR: Almost three months later, in July, 60 miles north of Denver in Fort Collins,
a woman was raped. Her attacker covered her body and apartment in bleach, and set the property on fire.
Incredibly, she jumped out of a second story window and survived the attack. When the police took samples from her fingernails,
the DNA matched. Travis Forbes. NARRATOR: He was arrested and questioned about his latest
attack on the woman in Fort Collins and the night he picked up Kenia three months earlier.
This time he made a harrowing confession about what happened in the back of his van with Kenia.
[TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] NARRATOR: Travis attempted to excuse his actions.
[TRAVIS] DR. ROBERTA BABB: I haven't got a sense of the confession being, because he genuinely felt remorse and guilt and shame.
I think that's potentially about him trying to rewrite the narrative as someone who
is a victim to these impulses. Therefore, it's not his fault. So he's trying to potentially distance himself from responsibility
and accountability, because this was an urge that he couldn't control. As opposed to really connecting with a sense
of remorse and guilt and essentially taking ownership of what he did. NARRATOR: He had tried to find a way to cover up what he'd done
and dispose of Kenia's body. [TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] NARRATOR: Travis went with the police
to show them exactly where he'd buried Kenia. The location was near the gas station
where police had recovered the surveillance footage in mid April. They now believed he'd been checking
on Kenia's shallow grave. TRAVIS: Right there. Right there. NARRATOR: The police notified Tony that they'd found her body.
TONY LEE: My wife was in bed asleep. I woke her up. I told her, they found Kenia.
And she just immediately said to me, is she OK? Where is she? And I had to tell her she was dead.
And she lost it. NARRATOR: The surveillance footage from the bakery confirmed Travis's story.
NARRATOR: Under a plea deal, Travis Forbes received a life sentence for Kenia Monge's murder
and an additional 48 years for his attack on the woman in Fort Collins. But the question remained, why did he do it?
Travis even pondered this question himself. [TRAVIS' VOICE] [TRAVIS' VOICE] [TRAVIS' VOICE]
DR. ROBERTA BABB: If we look at the wider picture with Travis, we see a pattern of behavior which really, I think,
highlights his problematic and disturbed relationship with women, which is probably underpinned
by negative and hostile attitudes to women. And if we think about it, a sense of sexual entitlement
to women's bodies, which we see escalating and ultimately contributes to the murder of Kenia.
[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC] TONY LEE: There's no such thing as closure at all. And we will never have closure.
You think about this every second of every day for the rest of your life. She had these qualities that were
just different, exceptional. And I think that's one of the things that still bothers me
is that I never told her that. [MELANCHOLIC MUSIC] [END CREDITS MUSIC]

In Florida, 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey goes missing one night and her family desperately searches for her. Their search comes to a tragic end when they discover Tristyn’s lifeless body and a shocking connection to 16-year-old Aiden Fucci.

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Killers Caught On Camera is a true-crime series with a voyeuristic twist: video footage from home security cameras, CCTV, and dashcams take center-stage, helping detectives catch perpetrators in moments of criminal intent to acts of pure evil. Family members of victims and law enforcement provide first-hand accounts of how these chilling events unfold while experts like Criminal Psychologist Dr. Julia Shaw dissect the darkest corners of the mind.

Brief Summary

Tristyn Bailey was murdered in Florida, and Kenia Monge went missing in Colorado, leading to shocking confessions from their killers.

Key points

The Disappearance of Tristyn Bailey. A 13-year-old girl goes missing after a night out, prompting a frantic search.
Aiden Fucci's Changing Story. The suspect's inconsistent accounts raise suspicion during the investigation.
The Discovery of Tristyn's Body. Tristyn's body is found, leading to a homicide investigation.
Aiden Fucci Charged with Murder. With overwhelming evidence against him, Aiden is charged as an adult.
The Tragic Case of Kenia Monge. Kenia Monge, a vibrant 19-year-old, goes missing after a night out in Denver.
A Father's Desperate Search. Tony Lee's frantic efforts to find his missing daughter lead him to a chilling discovery.

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There's one stab wound for every second.

A chilling statistic about the violence of the crime.

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