Transgender Teen Who Murdered Parents Asks to “Tuck” During Police Interrogation

In a bare bones interrogation room at the Washington City Police Department, Mia Bailey stood there in a light-colored Friends TV show t-shirt and jeans, gesturing with her hands like it was just another conversation. Just hours after allegedly admitting to shooting both her parents, the 28-year-old casually asked the officers if she could reach into her pants to “tuck” because it was uncomfortable.

“I don’t want you to see this thing,”

She said. The officer, caught off guard, just went “Oh…” and told her not to touch anything since the search wasn’t done yet.

Out of nowhere, that odd 20 second bodycam snippet started spreading fast X first, then TikTok, soon after YouTube. Strange vibes fill the short video, a tense sort of unease settling in. Suddenly, attention swings back to the full tragedy, pulled forward again by shaky images.

Bailey entered her family home close to St. George on June 18, 2024, a place tucked inside Washington City, Utah. That day unfolded with violence when she opened fire on her parents without warning. Joseph Bailey, aged seventy, took two bullets directly to the head. His wife also died in the attack, caught in the same sudden storm of gunfire. Her mom, Gail, 69, was hit multiple times. She also fired through a locked bedroom door at her brother Cory and his wife. Thankfully, they weren’t hurt. Cory called 911, and Bailey took off in a yellow Kia Soul. She was arrested the next day.

During questioning, she was calm almost eerily calm. She straight-up told detectives she didn’t regret it, that she’d do it again, and that she hated them. She blamed her mother for supposedly interfering with a gender-transition surgery she had scheduled, calling it “the last straw.”

Bailey was born Collin Troy Bailey in 1995 and legally changed her name and gender in 2023. She had a long, well-documented history of serious mental health problems schizophrenia, psychosis, autism diagnosed at age four, depression, anxiety, and multiple stays in psychiatric hospitals. Family members said they’d been dealing with her struggles for years.

In the interrogation, she explained how she believed her mom had called the hospital and canceled the surgery, something she saw as absolutely critical.

In November 2025, she pleaded guilty and mentally ill to two counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated assault. A judge sentenced her on December 19, 2025, to two consecutive 25-years-to-life sentences, plus more time for the assault. She’s looking at at least 50 years before she can even think about parole. She’s currently being housed in a male prison unit.

Her surviving brothers spoke at sentencing, clearly devastated. They said they’d lost both their parents and their sibling. They described their mom and dad as loving people who had tried hard to support Bailey’s mental health needs.

Truth is, some folks online jumped fast to blame transgender people after what happened. Not right at all. What we saw was one person struggling hard with serious mental health issues schizophrenia, years without treatment not their gender identity. Specialists say it’s dangerous to twist such a painful event into fuel for prejudice. Many videos floating about cut things short just enough to spark anger, leaving out real layers like broken family ties, deep psychological pain, and total collapse.

Sad thing, really how everything tangled together: her mind struggling, the family hurting, then jail stepping in. Though she did speak out loud about being mad when surgery got canceled, what stands out more is how clearly she’d been needing steady mental care way earlier than anyone noticed.