ITV's TikTok Murder Gone Viral returns to cover Tristyn Bailey case

ITV’s true-crime series TikTok Murder Gone Viral returns on Monday evening with an episode examining the 2021 killing of 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey in Jacksonville, Florida, part of a three-installment second series that airs at 9 p.m. The programme, which the broadcaster said "will explore what pushed these young people to murder other young people in such a violent way and why," focuses on cases in which both victims and suspects were teenagers and on the role social media played as each case spread online.

Bailey disappeared on May 9, 2021, the family reported, and was last seen on residential surveillance footage at about 1:45 a.m. that night. Police investigation later established that 14-year-old Aiden Sean Fucci had obtained Bailey’s telephone number from a friend and persuaded her to meet him. A second clip from the same camera showed someone running away holding white shoes at 1:52 a.m., authorities said. Bailey’s body was found that evening at a retention pond. Medical examiners reported she had suffered more than 100 stab wounds, dozens of which were defensive wounds, and investigators said the words "karma" and a smiley face were found written on her ankles.