I want you to take a look at the following written apology and not only listen to the
words written but also take a good look at the handwriting.
As usual, make sure you let your intuition take the wheel and be very attentive to how
does this make you feel.
Dear Judge Smith, my name is Aiden Fucci, I am 16 years old.
First off I want to say that I'm sorry.
I'm sorry for all the pain I caused to the Bailey family.
I'm sorry to the friendsi brothers and sisters, mom, dad and any other family relatives.
I'm sorry that you didn't get to know her that long.
You did not have any long relationships with Tristyn and for that I'm sorry.
For the community, I'm sorry I brought all this pain on everybody and I'm sorry and I
know my apology will not fix anything or bring her back but I hope it helps in someway.
It's important that you learn to listen to the feeling of that first impression.
That gut reaction that tells you so many things are off.
And, well, in that regard, this case is as gruesome as it gets.
After two days of graphic an often emotional testimony, 16 year old Aiden Fucci was sentenced
to life in prison for killing his 13 year old schoolmate in the early morning hours
of Mother's Day in 2021.
Fucci who was 14 at the time of the crime pleaded guilty to first-degree murder admitting
to brutally stabbing Tristyn Bailey more than 100 times in the woods.
We are going to take a closer look at this apology.
By the end of this video you will have a better understanding of the signals that you should
pay attention to in written evidence, but also how the tone of any communication, wether
is written or spoken, can reveal the true intentions that people try to conceal.
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Let’s get down to it!
Even if we already know this kid is a monster and what he has done, there are clues to his
personality and most important, his motivations to write such a letter.
But first I want you to focus on the signals that allow you to compare his own handwriting
on a word by word basis.
First, upon that initial reading of his written apology, you might have noticed that he never
refers to Tristyn directly.
Of course it's obvious that Tristyn is not here anymore but it is still a signal dad
there is a detachment from what he has done, and of course the pain that he has caused
to her family and friends.
That might be the reason why this apology is addressed directly at them.
So even if at first sight it sounds like a genuine apology, it's completely impersonal
in terms of the victim.
He just goes around the topic and that's because that first impression falls flat.
You cannot help but think that this was some kind of last resort, or last minute strategy
to aim for a "time served" sentence instead of prison for life.
That is the only explanation for the timing, since this was issued just 24 hours before
the sentencing.
It's always relevant to remember that in this kind of statements such as apologies the timing
can reveal a lot about the intentions of the person.
In terms of the actual handwriting, perhaps the most important distinction is between
how he writes his own name and how he writes the name of the victim.
If this is an apology, a heartfelt apology you might think that he would feel guilty
in any way and upon that feeling, the writing of the victim's name should be at the very
least as detailed as his own.
But you can see that Tristyn's name is just some garbled letters it's barely legible.
It's possible that he didn't even know exactly how her name was spelled, that's a possibility
that definitely does not look very remorseful in itself.
But still, even if he got her name wrong he might at least write the letters in a way
that one can understand them.
In other cases, I would think that maybe he's ashamed of writing her name.
That since he actually feels guilty of what he has done, he doesn't feel like he's worthy
of mentioning the victim.
But since we are talking about such a monstrous murder, I can only imagine that he was actually
jealous of writing her name.
I'm going to talk about the times he has mentioned himself in this letter later in this video
and how this points to plain, sick narcissism, and that would explain why he had such a hard
time writing her name.
It's because he just didn't want her to appear in the apology.
You should also take a look at the second part:
To my mom I want to send my apology as well.
I'm sorry that she had to move her house because people were sending threats to the house and
my family.
And that my little brother and sister had to change schools because of me.
Mom now I miss your lemon pepper chicken.
I miss your hugs.
I miss you.
The longer I'm in here the more I forget, the more memories I lose.
I'll never forget you love me.
Yeah, that absolutely sounds like he's trying to pull at the hearstrings.
There is another pattern that I've mentioned many times that is the "family man".
Someone mentions his family in someway so he can inspire pity on others.
For example Will Smith did exactly the same when he was apologizing to Chris Rock.
In Fucci's case he wants to stress his relationship with his mother, the inconvenience that this
has been for his brother and sister, and for his family, and make a connection to life
at home.
Even mention lemon pepper chicken.
It's like he has spent way more time talking to his own family, and what HE misses, than
addressing the family of the victim, let alone addressing Tristyn directly.
Now, you might have noticed that the letter is full of typos and mistakes, and it can
give you a very good idea of Fucci's educational level.
But the typos and mistakes is a way to confirm that this was written by himself, mistakes
and all, so we can also guess that these are his words, the way that he writes, and it's
not that somebody dictated it or somebody wrote it for him.
Now it's interesting that being this an apology, it has so many references to himself.
Yes, I understand that he might not have any other words besides "I'm sorry" which obviously
points to himself, but especially the last part, when he gives so much emphasis to his
relationship with his mom.
It's not the amount of times he says "I", but the focus of each letter section.
It's also worth noting that when he writes 'mom' at the start of that second part, he
uses a lowercase letter, but when he refers to his brother and sister, he capitalizes
them, when it's not needed at all.
Also for all the spontaneity that we can see in those mistakes and typos and think that
he wrote this letter on a single sitting, it's suspicious that it's divided in two parts.
It's not a single scan.
And that could mean that these two pieces were not written in the same circumstances,
or even in the same day.
Notice that the general slant of many lines is different in both pieces.
In the first couple paragraphs there is barely any slant to the right, while in the second
part, there are many lines with a noticeable slant to the right.
And this is regardless the area of the page that he was writing on.
It has more to do with emotional states.
There's also the spacing of the words and letters.
In the first part when he is addressing Tristyn's family, the space in between the letters and
the words is much tighter.
While in the second part when he's addressing his mom, his hous,e his brother and sister,
the spacing is much more loose.
Well, it's obvious that he should feel much more comfortable addressing his own family
than the family of the girl he murdered, but that reinforces the possibility that he wrote
this letter just by suggestion of his attorneys, and perhaps the second part was much more
important to this effect than the actual apology to Tristyn's family.
Did you see any other details in this written apology?
Don’t forget to share your thoughts in the comments.
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Much Love, and Bliss.