The tragic case of a Utah woman who took the lives of her parents has concluded with a hefty prison sentence. Mia Bailey has been sentenced to two consecutive 25-year terms for the murder of her parents, Joseph and Gail Bailey, in addition to a separate five-year term for assault. This decision was handed down by a Salt Lake City judge, as reported by KUTV.

The incident occurred on June 18, 2024, when Bailey broke into her parents’ home in Washington City and committed the unthinkable. According to CrimeOnline, during the violent spree, she also attempted to shoot her brother by firing through his locked bedroom door. Fortunately, he was able to alert authorities by calling 911.

Following this heinous act, Bailey was spotted near Horseman Park. When approached by law enforcement, she brandished a gun and pressed it to her head while walking away. The police temporarily lost her in a dense area of brush, but managed to find her the next morning near the Latter Day Saints temple in St. George.

Upon her arrest, Bailey chillingly confessed, expressing no remorse for her actions. “I would do it again. I hate them,” she reportedly told the officers. The gravity of her statement underscores the cold-blooded nature of the crime.

Evidence from a neighbor’s security camera played a crucial role in the investigation. It captured Bailey arriving and leaving her parents’ home in a yellow Kia Soul. An arrest affidavit revealed that she described the murders in startling detail, admitting that she began shooting at her mother almost immediately after entering the house.

According to an arrest affidavit, a neighbor’s security camera captured Bailey’s arrival and departure in a yellow Kia Soul at her parents’ residence. She later told police vivid detail of the murders, saying “that she entered the house and almost immediately began shooting at her mother.”

“Mia stated that her father … heard the shots and began walking toward her,” the affidavit read. “Mia stated that she shot her father in the head and that he immediately dropped to the ground.”

Court documents indicated that Bailey shot her father two times in the head and shot her mother four times. Police said Bailey admitted she shot her father the second time to “to make sure that he was dead,” according to KSL.

“While doing that, Mia … walked back over to her mother and shot her in the head to make sure that she was dead.”

Bailey later agreed to a plea deal, in which she admitted to both aggravated murder and aggravated assault. FOX 13 Salt Lake City reports she also acknowledged she was mentally ill, which is not the same as an insanity plea.

Bailey stayed quiet during sentencing, while her attorney read a statement, indicating that she had since changed her mind about the killings, and now felt remorse.

“It makes me want to die, because I can’t live with myself,” the statement read. “I am sincerely, deeply sorry to my family that I committed this atrocity.”

One of Bailey’s brothers, Dustin Bailey, told the court that the family supported the sentencing, but highlighted that the defendant had struggled with mental health issues and had not been “stable, safe or adequately supported.”

[Feature Photo: Mia Bailey/Washington County PD]