Some said the cleancut kid had another side. He would yell at her. He would be pushing her around. Murder solved. Another classmate was about to blow that idea apart. We recorded that conversation and that was dynamite. What secrets lurked in these high school hallways. She would just yell and holler and call her every name imaginable. And what really happened out here . A bad idea that became a horrible idea. Bad idea that went very, very bad. Under the desert sky. Welcome to dateline, everyone. Im lester holt. A lot of teenagers have stuff they keep from their parent, but not the girl youll hear about tonight. She was a great student, star athlete that always used her cell to check in. Something sinister at the local high school was uncovered and an entire town would wonder what some other good kid his really been up to. Heres keith morrison. He waved at you for miles, the big neon cowboy. Wendover will is what they called him and his job these last 60 years is to tempt travelers off
kody patten? who is he. certainly not her boyfriend. but as any kid who had been all wendover knew perfectly well, was kody a friend. in fact, one of mickey s all this friends. they grew up together. they were friends. did they ever date mickey s micaela? no, micaela was not allowed to date till she was 16. but i m sure it was probably like puppy love. what i call puppy love. was kody an 18 year old senior at mickey s high school. big, handsome kid. football player. he was lived in the same apartment complex as the costanzo family. now he was engaged to another girl and lived with his fiancée s parents. police brought in kody for a top as well. when is the last time you seen her was? about 5:30. and that was where? at the school. she was with somebody? just some i thought it was her boyfriend. because it was her boyfriend name jair? yes, but kody was it sure it was half a year. but he seemed and probably was exhausted. he made up the night before searchi
about the murder the chief did not disclose when he spoke to the media. it s true, there were no here s our fibers or fingerprints pointing to any particular suspect. that there was a person of interest. we started doing a little digging. we went back to the school. we obtained some video surveillance. remember what s mickey s kody patten said, that he saw her leaving the school that day with someone he assumed was her boyfriend, have a year. now the video showed kody, was right, had mickey indeed been with someone. just prior to her leaving from the back of the school, and we saw kody patten leave. the same doorway. kody patten, that s the someone she was with. kody, the childhood friend who had been calling and texted with mickey just before she disappeared. was kody patten probably the last person to have seen her
investigator. a former secret service agent named bill savage. asked him to find out what he could about kody, the murderer. and that boys confession. some of the details that mr. patten reported, didn t quite pack quite passed a sniff test. me mickey s, swoons, so severe, so brutal. they certainly didn t seem to be the result of an accident, as kody had claimed. or from a shovel of all things. horrible. slicing, disfigurement to mickey s face. what did that say to you? a great deal of reach by someone. why would kody have done that to a childhood friend? had to be more to the story. attorney ohlson wondered if kody s fiancée, toni fratto, might provide some insight. had kody already talked to the police during the routine interviews with people who knew mickey. kind of curious, where is mickey? what s going on? you know? where could she have gone? so, ohlson spoke to toni himself. did she have any idea why? absolutely not. no idea. was she as devastated as other
this entire town suffered as if this town was her parent. it really means a lot that all of you came here. because we can all see how many people loved her. like we did. and one by one they went as they said goodbye. and remembered micaela so cruelly murdered, as the ideal young woman, the pride of west wendover high. she was many things too many people. a friend, a fellow student, 18 meat, and an inspiration. in fact, perhaps the only friend who didn t attend the public funeral, didn t witness is outpouring of emotion and grief, was one of her illness friends, kody patten. kody, of course, was in a jail cell. awaiting trial for murdering her. naturally, a lot of people in town had come to see that boy as evil incarnate. the villain who d snuffed out the life of their princess. and yet, even to mickey s