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 people seem to have been? i would just cry per aspect as deadpan i described her as
but people couldn t help but notice that the two kids told very different stories. remember, kody said he was alone while toni insisted she was with him and they murdered mickey together. toni s parents simply couldn t believe despite her confession that their sweet, diminutive daughter was capable of such a monstrous act. can you imagine her doing those things, perhaps striking with a shovel or with a knife? i don t believe she did anything with the knife. no fingerprints, no dna. she wasn t involved with that. the striking with a shovel was an order from kody. an order from kody. that was the answer to the questions to the frattos and behind it, a terrible secret. over the years, said the frattos, kody had given toni
she didn t know why kody did it, only that she, toni feared he d kill her too, if she didn t go along. why was the question on the lips of just about every breathing, living soul in wendover, the idea that kody would brutally murder a childhood friend didn t make any sense, any more than the idea that toni would go to such trouble to visit kody in jail and whisper sweet nothings on the phone and send him love notes if she was deathly afraid of him as she claims. people had given up on the idea on getting any kind of an answer, when suddenly out of the blue a little gift appeared. toni had been keeping a diary. before she confessed, toni gave it to kody s parents who turned everything over to defense investigator bill savage. in my opinion there was some valuable information in there with regard to toni s
then mickey and kody got out of the car and she started yelling at him. then pushing him. i looked away just for, like, a split second, and then i heard a loud that on the car or whatever. so, i had got out to see what happened. what did you see when you got out? micaela was on the ground and she wasn t really moving at that point. she said, kody started digging what appeared to be a grief. and when he d finished, with mickey lying semiconscious on the ground, they both started kicking her, punching her. hit her with a shovel. she wasn t moving. and, so, we had moved her to the grave. and then, we were kind of standing there, deciding what do we do? we didn t know what we had just done.
am i still alive? and then kody ordered her to get in the car, she said, and sitting by herself, toni said she heard the last sounds of mickey costanzo s life and then she said it was over. kody buried mickey by himself. once in the car, according to toni, they drove back into town and went to mcdonald s for a cold drink and then later they cruised across the state line into utah, pulled off into the desert and burned mickey s clothes and belongings. you can t tell me to this day why this happened? no. he never told you that? no. and with that, toni had her deal. the sworn statement she provided would now comprise much of the d.a. s case against her fiance, kody patten. in this new version of her story, kody was the killer and orchestrated the whole thing and she, terrified of kody s murderous rage was forced to go along for the awful ride. not at all like her original confession.