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[INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: This time, on
''Killers Caught on Camera''. In the US, Florida, a
13-year-old girl is discovered
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with more than 100 stab wounds. MAN: There's one stab
wound for every second. That's almost two minutes
of just sheer violence.
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NARRATOR: And in
Colorado, a student goes missing after
accepting a ride home in a windowless white van.
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Dad turns detective. MAN: The smell of bleach
was so overpowering, it just stopped me in my tracks.
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[INTRIGUING MUSIC] MAN: It just sounds
like something bad is happening to her. WOMAN: We know what
happened because the video
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tells us what happened. MAN: I heard some gunshots. POLICE: Drop it. Whatever it is, drop it.
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MAN: That does not prove
that I killed my wife. MAN: The camera doesn't lie. NARRATOR: Jacksonville, Florida.
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20 miles south of the city lies
Durban crossing, a newly built, close-knit community
where kids outnumbered
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adults and crime was rare. NARRATOR: It was home
to Stacy and Forrest Bailey and their five children.
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FORREST BAILEY: We've
always told our kids that the best thing that
we could ever give them
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was a sibling. And they've always
taken that to heart, they've always been incredibly
close with one another.
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NARRATOR: 13-year-old
Tristyn was the youngest of the Bailey clan. STACY BAILEY: I would describe
her as fun, loving, super kind
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and a little bit sassy. She's also a really
popular girl. She could be friends
with everyone.
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FORREST BAILEY: Tristyn
gave the world her best. She was very outgoing,
she wanted to put
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a smile on people's faces. She was very energetic,
she was very determined and extremely supportive.
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NARRATOR: From a young
age, Tristyn was determined to excel at cheerleading. STACY BAILEY: In
like kindergarten,
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first grade, she kept
saying, ''I want to be on the cheerleading team''. And she taught
herself how to do so
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many skills that I
couldn't say no to her, and the rest was history. She ended up on three teams.
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She just dedicated
her life to that. NARRATOR: Life as a family
of seven was incredibly busy,
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but they always made time to
be together at the weekends. FORREST BAILEY: We had what was
known as Bailey family fun day.
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And I can tell you that there
was nothing better in the world just hearing the family
interact with each other,
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seeing all the personalities
come out to play. And it was just filled with
so much fun and laughter.
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NARRATOR: Saturday,
May 8th, 2021. The Bailey family went
for a meal together. It was the night
before Mother's Day.
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FORREST BAILEY: We went out and
had a great dinner together, and then we went home.
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I remember when I went to bed
that evening, telling, telling Tristyn that I loved her.
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NARRATOR: Sunday, May 9th, 2021. Mother's Day morning,
Tristyn and her sister Sophia
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were supposed to make a special
breakfast for their mom. STACY BAILEY: I wasn't allowed
to come out of my room,
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but it got to be like 9:30
that day, and I was like, gosh, I can't sit-in here anymore.
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So I went out and
Sophia was making this breakfast by herself. And I was like, where's Tristyn?
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And she said, she's
still sleeping. And I asked my son to tell
Tristyn to come downstairs.
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And he came downstairs
and he said, mom, I didn't see Tristyn in her room. FORREST BAILEY:
Instantly, me that I
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was like, that's, that's weird. I checked every room
and we started yelling. She wasn't there.
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So I went out the front door
and I called the police. [911 CALL] NARRATOR: Curt Hannon was
a Sergeant with the St
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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
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is the last person
that saw them, where's the last
place they were seen. NARRATOR: Police interviewed
Tristyn's sister,
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Sophia, who was the
last person to see Tristyn at around midnight. [SOPHIA'S VOICE]
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[POLICE VOICE] [SOPHIA'S VOICE] NARRATOR: But it became
clear that Tristyn had left home just after midnight.
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At 12:02 a.m., she was spotted
on surveillance footage a couple of streets away from her home.
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NARRATOR: People in
the local community did everything they could to
help in the search for Tristyn.
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FORREST BAILEY: Our
community was unbelievable. I don't know how many people
set aside their Mother's
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Day plans to help find Tristyn. NARRATOR: Jennifer Dunton is
an Assistant State Attorney.
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JENNIFER DUNTON: As her parents
are reaching out to her friends, trying to find out who she
could have gone out with.
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They discovered a name of Tre. Law Enforcement officers
responded out to Tre's house
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and he said, no, I
haven't seen her. They left, they kind of
followed up on leads again,
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Trey just kept coming up. So they went back
to Tre's house. And at that point, he
decided to tell them
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that, OK, she was at
my house last night with my friend Aiden Fucci. JENNIFER DUNTON:
And that they had
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both left together, Aiden and
Tristyn, at about 1 o'clock AM. NARRATOR: Police
tracked down Aiden.
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KURT HANNON: Aiden story was
that he and Tristyn went down her street to her house and
Aiden kept on walking and they
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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
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to get back home to his
house, it's not that far away. So we kind of pressed
him on his timeline
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and said, well, you
know, why did it take you so long to get home. And he said, well,
I was just kind
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of walking around for a while. And we were, well, show me
where you're walking around at.
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NARRATOR: The police took
Aiden in a patrol car. So he could show them the
route that he and Tristyn
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took after leaving Tre's house. JENNIFER DUNTON: They
took Aiden to Tre's house and then put both
of them in a vehicle
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and drove them around and left
them for a period of time. NARRATOR: In the
patrol car, Aiden
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posted a video on social media. It's in a [BLEEP]
cop car, guys. Tripping, dude.
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Having fun in a [BLEEP] cop car. Yep. JENNIFER DUNTON:
Aiden is laughing, joking very light hearted.
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He's saying, Tristyn,
where are you? They're showing the firearms and
things that are in the police
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officer's vehicle. AIDEN: God damn, dude, has
flashbangs [BLEEP] back there. JENNIFER DUNTON: Not normal
behavior in those circumstances.
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NARRATOR: As well as
posting on social media, Aiden's version of
events from the night
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before started to change. JENNIFER DUNTON:
He said, you know, what I said earlier wasn't true.
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Aiden's new story was
given to the patrol officer in the police car. [POLICE VOICE]
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[AIDEN'S VOICE] [POLICE VOICE] JENNIFER DUNTON: He said they
were kissing, she grabbed him
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and he didn't like it
and he pushed her down. She hit her head and he left
in the opposite direction
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and doesn't know
what happened to her. That obviously erased
investigators suspicions.
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So he's detained. DR. JULIA SHAW: Changing
your story isn't inherently an indicator of guilt, but if
you change important elements
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of the story and you
keep changing it, then that starts to be
correctly interpreted
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as evidence that something's
something's wrong. This person is intentionally
concealing something from you.
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NARRATOR: While
Aiden was detained, the community was
still frantically searching for Tristyn.
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At 6:00 PM that
evening, 18 hours after Tristyn went missing,
911 dispatchers received a harrowing call.
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[911 CALL] NARRATOR: Police
responded immediately. JENNIFER DUNTON: It was clear
that she had been stabbed.
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There was some blood in
the surrounding area. She had her cell
phone on the ground.
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I believe a vape pen, some
money laying around her. KURT HANNON: It's one of those
things where I remember exactly
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where I was and I can remember
the feeling of just the sinking gut wrenching, oh
my god, this is not
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what we were expecting at all. This is now a homicide
investigation. NARRATOR: A dive team searched
the pond for evidence.
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They recovered a knife
with a missing tip. Tristyn's body was
taken for an autopsy.
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KURT HANNON: Following
a six hour autopsy, I had to go and tell a mother
and a father, and a family
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that their daughter
has been murdered. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] STACY BAILEY: I remember the
police showed up at my house.
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They asked me if I could go
inside, and I begged them, I begged them not
to take me in there.
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I knew if I went in there that-- They didn't tell me she wasn't-- She wasn't OK.
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KURT HANNON: How do you tell
somebody that their daughter has been stabbed 114 times?
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If you think that there's one
stab wound for every second, that's almost two minutes
of just sheer violence.
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STACY BAILEY:
Detective Hannon told my husband and I.
I just remember screaming uncontrollably.
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And my family just fell
apart at that point. NARRATOR: The police needed to
work out exactly what happened.
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The area was well
covered with surveillance cameras, which helped the
police to build a timeline.
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NARRATOR: The day before
Tristan's body was found, Saturday, May 8th, Aiden
Fucci was caught on camera
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close to 7 p.m.,
skateboarding around the area with his girlfriend. KURT HANNON: One of the
questions that we try to answer,
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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,
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and he's got white sneakers on. So those are things we may
be looking for in the future.
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He is skateboarding and he's
going towards Tre's house. KURT HANNON: So if this
house here is Trey's house.
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And you'll see Aiden coming
up on the skateboard. The video from the Ring
doorbell footage is very clear,
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you can very clearly identify
Aiden Fucci in this video. NARRATOR: Aiden arrived at
Tre's house just after 8 p.m.
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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
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yet. NARRATOR: But crucial footage
was recovered after dark, just after 1:00 AM on Sunday,
May 8th, the same time Aiden
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and Tristyn left Tre's house. KURT HANNON: These
videos, they show two figures who we determined
to be Aiden and Tristyn.
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This is the last
known video footage that we were able to
find of her still alive.
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And they're walking towards
the direction of where she was ultimately murdered. NARRATOR: An hour and a half
later, the same camera captured
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an individual in a hurry. KURT HANNON: He's
running in a direction now away from the pond.
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And this is the first time
anybody returns from that area. This one was key
to us because it
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shows that one person carrying
something in his hands. NARRATOR: On Sunday,
May 9th at 8:00 pm,
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two hours after
Tristyn's body was found, Aiden Fucci was brought in
for further questioning,
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accompanied by his parents. [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S DAD] NARRATOR: As they
waited for an attorney,
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their conversation was recorded. [AIDEN'S DAD] KURT HANNON: These parents
made comments to him
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that they knew that
the room was recorded and they told him
not to say anything.
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[AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S DAD] [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S DAD]
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[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
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and what may have happened. [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S DAD]
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[AIDEN] [AIDEN'S DAD] [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S DAD] DR. JULIA SHAW: By the time
he's in the holding cell,
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you can see his demeanor
is quite different from the first time we see him. And he's taking it more
seriously, although possibly
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still not seriously
enough, which is why his parents then come in
and say basically smarten up.
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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,
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9th. [AIDEN'S DAD] [AIDEN] KURT HANNON: By
that statement, that basically identified himself
as the person carrying
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the shoes in that video. KURT HANNON: We saw the
person on the previous video carrying something in
his hands, and now we
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see a person coming to
Aiden's house carrying shoes that we can clearly see has
a black Nike swoosh on it.
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This was a key foundational
piece of evidence right here. [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] [AIDEN'S MOM]
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[AIDEN] [AIDEN'S DAD] JENNIFER DUNTON: So
it was clear to us that his parents
knew he was lying,
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you know, they're sort
of very skeptical. They're questioning him. [AIDEN'S MOM]
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[AIDEN] JENNIFER DUNTON: They
understand the gravity. He doesn't seem to
or doesn't care.
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NARRATOR: While
Aiden and his parents were in the holding room, the
police searched the family home
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and looked through
the security footage. Unusual behavior by Aiden's
mom was discovered by police.
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KURT HANNON: Here in the
video, we see Crystal, she's going upstairs
to Aiden's room.
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She's just come out of
Aiden's room carrying something in her hands and is
now in the bathroom at the sink.
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And we believe,
based on her motions, that she's scrubbing
something in the sink.
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Here we can see it looks
like a pair of jeans. NARRATOR: Aiden and
his mom were unaware
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that the police had
discovered unusual behavior recorded upstairs. [AIDEN'S MOM]
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[AIDEN] [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN'S DAD] [AIDEN] KURT HANNON: She's asking him,
were you wearing blue jeans
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or were you wearing khakis? [AIDEN'S MOM] [AIDEN] KURT HANNON: And then
she tries to convince
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him that he's wearing khakis. [AIDEN'S MOM] KURT HANNON: And then she
goes back to the jeans
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and asks if there's
anything on them. And he kind of
gave her this look. [AIDEN'S MOM]
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[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
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and help him out
and protect him. DR. JULIA SHAW: It's
an ethical dilemma. And we know from
research settings
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that when presented
with saving even five people or your own family
member or loved one,
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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,
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even if it's directly harmful to
other children and other people. NARRATOR: At Aiden's
house, the police recovered
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vital pieces of evidence. JENNIFER DUNTON: He had
a closet in his room and there was a dresser
pushed back in his closet.
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To the right of that
dresser was like just a large pile of clothing that
you'd expect a teenager to have.
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And as detectives
dug through that, they found the white Nike
tennis shoes that were damp.
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[INTRIGUING MUSIC] JENNIFER DUNTON:
They found a piece of paper that looked like it
had red blood stains on it.
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We pull that dresser out. Shoved behind it, it was a
white t-shirt that appeared
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to have red brownish stains. And then a pair of jeans,
also damp that appeared to have some staining on them.
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There were several
knives in his room. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] JENNIFER DUNTON: And
there was a empty knife
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sheath in that same dresser. JENNIFER DUNTON: All the items
are tested for presumptive blood
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and the shirt, the
shoes, the piece of paper and the jeans come back
that has got blood on it.
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His bathroom sink,
drain and pipes also tested positive for blood. NARRATOR: A recorded interview
with Aiden's girlfriend
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revealed Aiden's
fascination with knives. [AIDEN'S GIRLFRIEND'S VOICE] [POLICE VOICE]
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[AIDEN'S GIRLFRIEND'S VOICE] [POLICE VOICE] [AIDEN'S GIRLFRIEND'S VOICE] [POLICE VOICE]
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[AIDEN'S GIRLFRIEND'S VOICE] DR. JULIA SHAW: I think a lot of
teens quite like taboo things.
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And knives can be one
manifestation of that. I think that there's
a social cloud
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that comes with that that a
lot of teenagers would enjoy. NARRATOR: Aiden's girlfriend
also explained how
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much he talked about killing. [POLICE VOICE] [AIDEN'S GIRLFRIEND'S VOICE] [POLICE VOICE]
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[AIDEN'S GIRLFRIEND'S VOICE] [POLICE VOICE] DR. JULIA SHAW:
Homocidal ideation is defined as fantasizing
about murdering somebody.
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And research on children,
even in extreme circumstances, has found that only
about 0.09% of children
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fantasize about killing people. And that matters, because
it's really unusual to even have those
thoughts, never
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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.
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But once you add in enacting
fantasies of killing people, once you've got that
level of planning,
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then we're talking about
something much more severe. NARRATOR: The autopsy
revealed the full extent
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of Tristyn's last moments. JENNIFER DUNTON:
It was discovered that she had 114 sharp
force wounds, some of which
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are stab wounds, some of
which are slashing wounds. A large portion of those were
defensive in nature, meaning
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on her arms, her forearms. A majority of them were
surrounded by her head, her neck, her upper back.
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So clearly a vicious
attack that appeared to come from above, front and
back with her defending herself.
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At one point, when the knife
entered her skull, the tip of it broke off. So during the examination,
the medical examiner actually
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found a little silver metal
fragment like a triangle and remove that from her skull.
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NARRATOR: This was the
missing piece of the jigsaw. JENNIFER DUNTON: The
knife and the tip
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were matched to be
one and the same. NARRATOR: The surveillance
footage was crucial for building
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the case against Aiden Fucci. KURT HANNON: Surveillance
video is monumental. The best part
about it is, is you
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can't refute it, because it
shows exactly what happened. And collecting all
the videos together,
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we're building this
trail of breadcrumbs and so we actually able to
assemble a video timeline,
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if you will, from
Tre's house going in the direction of
that pond, and then only one person running.
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And so that video footage
was key in determining the timeline of events. JENNIFER DUNTON: Cameras
don't lie, people lie.
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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
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without the cameras. NARRATOR: With overwhelming
evidence against him, Aiden Fucci was charged
with first degree murder.
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[POLICE VOICE] NARRATOR: Aiden was
only 14 years old at the time of the murder,
but due to the brutality
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of the crime, he was
charged as an adult. FORREST BAILEY: Thankfully, the
judge really weighed everything
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and came out with
him being in a state where he should never be able
to hurt anybody else again.
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NARRATOR: Aiden Fucci was
sentenced to life in prison. In court, the judge
said in quotes,
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''this crime had no motive''. DR. JULIA SHAW: What's unusual
about this case is in some ways
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that there is no
mitigating circumstances. So it's not that she rejected
him and he killed her in anger.
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The only reason he did it
was because he wanted to. And that is something
that is harder to grasp,
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but psychologically is
certainly still motive. JENNIFER DUNTON:
We have no evidence
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that it was against Tristyn,
if that makes sense, that she was picked for any
reason or the other, other than
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opportunity. NARRATOR: Aiden Fuchs
mother also faced charges. JENNIFER DUNTON: We
ultimately charged her
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with tampering with evidence,
which is a third degree felony in Florida. She was sentenced
after Mr. Fucci
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to a period of county
jail and probation. [MELANCHOLIC MUSIC] STACY BAILEY: As a mom, it's--
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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
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that she had in her, her
perseverance, her determination. She was a really good student.
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She was an amazing daughter
and an amazing friend. FORREST BAILEY: It's impossible
for me to say the biggest things
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that I miss about my daughter. There aren't words. There's not three words,
there's not 30 words,
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there's not 3,000, 30,000. There is the pure essence
of that individual and what they have.
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She had a smile and she had a
laugh, that are some of the best things of being alive.
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And some days are
hollow without it. But I can't put into words. NARRATOR: Tristyn Bailey was a
victim of multiple stab wounds,
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a behavior known as overkill. DR. JULIA SHAW:
Overkill can result from different kinds of emotions
and different kinds of reasons.
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I mean, it's inherently
an emotional reaction to keep stabbing someone
or keep injuring someone
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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
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to waste this
opportunity if he didn't live it out to the fullest. DR. JULIA SHAW: It's
about making it worth it.
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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,
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why would I do it? NARRATOR: In our
next case, the idea of sadistically enjoying
murder is taken a step
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further by a repeat offender. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: The state of Colorado
and its capital, Denver.
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Home to nearly 100,000
students, known as Mile High City with a vibrant nightlife.
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It was home to
19-year-old, Kenia Monge. Kenia was born in Honduras
and moved to Denver aged 11,
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after her mother, Maria, married
her second husband, Tony Lee. NARRATOR: Maria and Tony
had two more children,
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Kenia's brother and sister. TONY LEE: It clicked from the
first second that I met her.
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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.
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NARRATOR: Kenia was academically
gifted and keen to take charge of any situation.
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Kenia even set up a kids
club at the local church. TONY LEE: She had
those kids rehearse
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and put on a church play. They all knew the songs
that they needed to sing and things like that, you know.
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And it was little things like
that that just kind of really, really impressed me about her.
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She had this leadership ability. NARRATOR: Kenia
loved the outdoors. She became a whitewater
rafting guide, while she
00:30:05
was still at high school. TONY LEE: The dangerous
sports, dangerous activity, she loved it.
00:30:11
She liked that prestige of being
out front and being the one called guide and boss.
00:30:20
NARRATOR: On March,
31st, 2011, Kenia and a group of friends went for
a night out in Downtown Denver.
00:30:29
But Kenia never returned
home to the apartment she shared with her boyfriend. TONY LEE: It just
kept getting stranger
00:30:38
and stranger and stranger that
nobody had heard from her. NARRATOR: Tony spoke
to Kenia's friends.
00:30:47
TONY LEE: Her friends
were telling me Kenia had become so
intoxicated that her and this guy who
was dancing with her
00:30:57
were kicked out of the club. That is the last time that
they had seen her that evening.
00:31:05
NARRATOR: It left
Kenia vulnerable. Dr. Roberta Babb is a
clinical psychologist.
00:31:12
DR. ROBERTA BABB: Kenia is
now in an unexpected situation of not having her belongings,
not being able to make
00:31:18
contact with her friends. So her ability to
make her way home had been significantly
compromised.
00:31:27
NARRATOR: After
leaving the nightclub, Kenia was spotted
on surveillance cameras in the lobby of
an apartment building.
00:31:37
NARRATOR: Ray Evans
is a forensic image analyst who works with law
enforcement around the world.
00:31:44
RAYMOND EVANS: We can see
approximate hairstyle, shape. We can see approximate
clothing that she's wearing,
00:31:50
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.
00:31:59
Kenia was never spotted
again on camera. Tony reported her
missing to the police.
00:32:08
NARRATOR: Kenia's
friends dropped off her phone and belongings. Tony turned
detective and started
00:32:16
calling Kenia's contacts. TONY LEE: I'm trying to
figure out what do you know. Have you seen her?
00:32:22
Nobody heard anything. Then this message came
through and said, hey, this is Travis, the guy
in the creepy white van.
00:32:31
It sounded to me
like, OK, this Travis guy sounds like this is the
last person who she was with.
00:32:40
TONY LEE: I didn't
sleep that night. And I called him every
hour for the next 24 hours.
00:32:45
NARRATOR: Finally, he
got through to Travis. He said he dropped
Kenia at a gas station.
00:32:52
Tony arranged to meet him
there, but took precautions. TONY LEE: I went
up to my bedroom,
00:32:58
I grabbed a 9 millimeter
pistol and I told her, I'm taking this with me. NARRATOR: Kenia's
mother was so concerned
00:33:05
that she called the police. TONY LEE: She said, my husband
is coming down to this gas
00:33:11
station at this location. He has a gun. He's a black guy. So that puts the Denver Police
Department on high alert,
00:33:18
so they need to get there before
I got there, and they did. NARRATOR: Tony finally
got to meet 31-year-old
00:33:27
Travis Forbes face to face. TONY LEE: Six foot, blond hair,
blue eyes, good looking guy.
00:33:34
If somebody going to
pick my daughter up, I think this is what I
would want him to look like.
00:33:40
I noticed he's crying and he's
telling me, you know, I'm sorry. I didn't think that
any of this would,
00:33:48
you know, would end up
like this with, you know, with her missing
and all of that.
00:33:53
NARRATOR: While the police were
taking a statement from Travis, Tony took a look at the
creepy white van Travis
00:34:01
mentioned in his text message. TONY LEE: I got
within ten feet of it. The smell of bleach
was so overpowering,
00:34:09
it just stopped me in
my tracks right there. NARRATOR: Tony got the police
officer to investigate.
00:34:18
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,
00:34:25
because it was showroom clean. There was bleach that had dried
up running down, down the walls,
00:34:33
and it was just overpowering. NARRATOR: But with no
evidence of wrongdoing, the police let Travis go.
00:34:42
Kenia's family were still
frantically searching for her, handing out missing
person flyers to try
00:34:48
and jog people's memories. On April, 4th, the police
officially launched a missing
00:34:56
persons investigation. NARRATOR: Travis
was their only lead. Police visited the
bakery where he worked.
00:35:06
After a search, there
was no sign of Kenia. But detectives were shown
footage of the freezer area.
00:35:16
RAYMOND EVANS: We see the
suspect coming into this room dragging this large container.
00:35:23
NARRATOR: Black duct
tape sealed the box shut. It was unusual and
not normally required.
00:35:30
RAYMOND EVANS: The question is,
what's inside that container. And we know that very
shortly after this sequence,
00:35:38
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?
00:35:47
[INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: The footage was
suspicious, but inconclusive. And Kenia was still missing.
00:35:58
Travis was brought
in for an interview. Detectives wanted
to know more details about how Kenia was that night.
00:36:07
[DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE]
[TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS]
00:36:40
[DETECTIVE] NARRATOR: According to Travis,
their journey in the early hours was only interrupted
by an unscheduled
00:36:48
stop off for a smoke. [TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] DR. ROBERTA BABB: There's
a number of things that
00:37:17
can be read into this text. It's a way for him to lay the
seed in terms of his concern
00:37:23
about her getting home and to
show that he is a caring citizen who's just checking up on
someone that actually he
00:37:30
helped in their time of need. DR. ROBERTA BABB:
It's interesting that he actually, in
the text, explicitly
00:37:36
names white van and creepy. So there's an awareness
that this might be an inside joke for them.
00:37:44
I think there's something
about this text helping the sender hide in plain sight.
00:37:51
NARRATOR: During the interview. Travis revealed details
about his criminal past.
00:37:58
[TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] NARRATOR: At the
age of 17, Travis was caught stealing
more than $15,000
00:38:21
from homes and businesses. Searches of his room turned up,
vandalized women's underwear.
00:38:28
Other charges in
his 20s included carrying a knife and throwing
stones at women out jogging.
00:38:36
DR. ROBERTA BABB:
This really highlights how disturbed Travis's
relationship was with women.
00:38:41
Vandalizing underwear
really signifies a wish not only to hurt a woman, but
potentially to humiliate them,
00:38:49
because ultimately, underwear
covers a very vulnerable part of a woman's anatomy.
00:38:55
NARRATOR: The police
tracked Travis's movements using his cell phone. Shortly after
Kenia went missing,
00:39:02
his phone records showed
that he was near Keansburg, 40 miles from Downtown Denver.
00:39:11
NARRATOR: Police recovered
surveillance footage, which showed Travis
running through a gas
00:39:16
station in the same area. But with no evidence he'd
done anything criminal, Travis was released.
00:39:29
NARRATOR: Almost
three months later, in July, 60 miles north
of Denver in Fort Collins,
00:39:36
a woman was raped. Her attacker covered her
body and apartment in bleach, and set the property on fire.
00:39:45
Incredibly, she jumped out
of a second story window and survived the attack. When the police took samples
from her fingernails,
00:39:55
the DNA matched. Travis Forbes. NARRATOR: He was arrested and
questioned about his latest
00:40:02
attack on the woman
in Fort Collins and the night he picked up
Kenia three months earlier.
00:40:09
This time he made a
harrowing confession about what happened in the
back of his van with Kenia.
00:40:17
[TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] NARRATOR: Travis attempted
to excuse his actions.
00:41:30
[TRAVIS] DR. ROBERTA BABB: I haven't got
a sense of the confession being, because he genuinely felt
remorse and guilt and shame.
00:41:47
I think that's potentially
about him trying to rewrite the
narrative as someone who
00:41:53
is a victim to these impulses. Therefore, it's not
his fault. So he's trying to potentially distance
himself from responsibility
00:42:00
and accountability,
because this was an urge that he couldn't control. As opposed to really
connecting with a sense
00:42:08
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
00:42:17
and dispose of Kenia's body. [TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] [DETECTIVE] [TRAVIS] NARRATOR: Travis
went with the police
00:43:10
to show them exactly
where he'd buried Kenia. The location was
near the gas station
00:43:16
where police had
recovered the surveillance footage in mid April. They now believed
he'd been checking
00:43:22
on Kenia's shallow grave. TRAVIS: Right there. Right there. NARRATOR: The police notified
Tony that they'd found her body.
00:43:42
TONY LEE: My wife
was in bed asleep. I woke her up. I told her, they found Kenia.
00:43:50
And she just immediately
said to me, is she OK? Where is she? And I had to tell
her she was dead.
00:44:02
And she lost it. NARRATOR: The surveillance
footage from the bakery confirmed Travis's story.
00:44:15
NARRATOR: Under a plea deal,
Travis Forbes received a life sentence for Kenia
Monge's murder
00:44:20
and an additional 48
years for his attack on the woman in Fort Collins. But the question remained,
why did he do it?
00:44:31
Travis even pondered
this question himself. [TRAVIS' VOICE] [TRAVIS' VOICE] [TRAVIS' VOICE]
00:45:00
DR. ROBERTA BABB: If we look at
the wider picture with Travis, we see a pattern of behavior
which really, I think,
00:45:07
highlights his problematic
and disturbed relationship with women, which is
probably underpinned
00:45:12
by negative and hostile
attitudes to women. And if we think about it, a
sense of sexual entitlement
00:45:19
to women's bodies,
which we see escalating and ultimately contributes
to the murder of Kenia.
00:45:26
[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC] TONY LEE: There's no such
thing as closure at all. And we will never have closure.
00:45:38
You think about
this every second of every day for the
rest of your life. She had these
qualities that were
00:45:46
just different, exceptional. And I think that's one of the
things that still bothers me
00:45:53
is that I never told her that. [MELANCHOLIC MUSIC] [END CREDITS MUSIC]