what person popped into your head? kody s dad. kody s father, kip patten, the man who delivered toni to a meeting with kody s lawyers, denied a request to appear on the program, but he insisted toni told him what happened and it was her idea to meet with kody s attorneys. he just drove her there because toni s parents were out of town. do you think sometimes that she thought i can t do this with my parents present. i have to wait until they re gone before i can go and confess to this terrible thing? i don t know. possibly so, but we ve always been very, very open. or possibly a misguided attempt to save kody? but she d only succeeded in incriminating herself. she doesn t believe that she s confessing to the law enforcement. she s talking to kody s attorneys, asking them if it s going to help. but toni didn t have an
kody looked determined and angry, she said and wouldn t talk to her. as they approached the gravel pits, said toni, kody right beside her in the driver s seat sent her a text. it said, we have to kill her. just kind of looked at him and kind of lipped, well, why? kody pulled over, said toni and ordered her to stand guard as he dug a hole and he took mickey from the car and pushed her from the ground and demanded that toni hit her. all i remember is him pulling her hair back and i went up and had hit her in the face. in this new and entirely different version of her story, toni claimed she was an unwilling participant and insisted she backed off while kody started punching and kicking mickey and then he issued an order. i remember looking up at kody
he was constantly trying to get her to get her to go out with him and toni. and she was fully aware that she was public enemy number one as far as toni was concerned. she just said i don t i don t get it. it s not right. something s just wrong. costanzo family said mickey would never have gone with kody and toni voluntarily and there is evidence of that. the zip tie found around mickey s arm. something else, mickey s family is convinced that toni and kody knew that the few days around the time of the murder were the only days they d find mickey alone after school. the timing was too perfect. it was the one time, the one time that d.j. was at college. christina and donald were at nascar. i was at work. it s the one time in all of this time that micaela would have
after another. including one that seemed more than just a prank. he had a little box cutter blade and he swiped it across her arm, and at first she said i didn t even know and i looked down and i m bleeding and i look at him and he s laughing. is that kind of the straw that broke the camel s back with her? that was. she said he s not worth it. and that i really don t want a person like that in my life at all. and from then on mickey avoided kody, never spoke to him, cut him out of her life. he grew really angry at her after that. would do things to try to make her mad, just so she d talk to him. it was a real shock to him to all of a sudden have her there through thick and thin and then never have her. an angry and abandoned kody, a jealous toni? maybe that s why mickey had been so worried, said d.j., about what those two might be up to. she said he keeps trying to get me to go with him.
client s story of mickey dying after some sort of accident sounded like the cover-up for a cold-blooded murder and therefore that toni s testimony could send kody who was still facing trial, to death row. part of toni fratto s statement and what she said that at some point in time at this killing micaela sat up in the grave and said to kody, am i still here? can i go home? devastating. yeah. which is why, just weeks before the trial kody decided to plead guilty to first-degree murder. that was the safest way to go. that was the way that would present at least a possibility that kody would see daylight again, and that would take the death penalty off the table. at kody s sentencing in front of a packed courtroom he made his case for eventual parole, pleading with the judge for mercy and begging mickey s family for forgiveness. the unimaginable pain.