this. why did you do this? why did this happen? and he just said, i don t know. i can t tell you anything. i don t know. but by now, kody s lawyer had told him, stop talking. tough case. real tough case. because the chances of his getting that death penalty were quite high. i think they were very high. it was the identity of the victim, it was the brutality of the killing. it was the poignancy of some of the photographs from the kids. we just broke your heart. not to mention, kody s confession, which made a defense all but impossible. i think he really regretted doing that, because he their confession early on was the strongest piece of evidence against kody. what kody had in mind, we told him when he was involved in the killing, or that he did the killing, god knows. but the more he studied kody s confession, the more ohlson came to believe, just like mickey s family did, that something about it didn t add up. so, hired ohlson a season
yes. and here from the lips of this quite little teen, gave a horrifying story. kody was it the only color. it began for her, she said, with a text from kody saying, i have her. meaning mickey was with him in an suv he had borrowed. he wanted toni to join them. kody picture up, she said. then the three drove around. and it up at the gravel pits. 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, deci
school. invited her friends and that was the hardest day, next to finding out she was murdered. apparently murdered by a childhood friend, kody patten. he d confess. was sitting in jail. the death penalty a distinct possibility. or so everyone thought. but as they celebrated mickey s life, there was something about her death they didn t know. several days earlier, kody s legal team had a surprise visitor, kody s fiancée, toni fratto. she arrived with kody s father at her side. said she was ready to tell the lawyers the story. so, are you willing to proceed? i think so, yeah. we talked and we recorded that conversation with her permission. and it was dynamite. you re about to hear the whole new version of mickey s murder that would turn the case upside down. am i to believe that you in fact were present when the girl got killed?
family, it was more puzzling than that. it was simply inexplicable. he would never hurt her. i don t understand why he and it up confessing to it. i m still like there s something more to this story. more partly because, kody s story of what happened just didn t make any sense. especially that bit about how the mickey penn demanded kody dump his fiancée toni and date for instead. impossible, said cecilia. had mickey her own steady boyfriend, and out of respect for toni, had been going out of her way to avoid getting anywhere near kody. micaela never liked confrontation. she did not like drama. she hated drama. if it was going to cause an issue, she would stay away. and we, everybody knew about kody and toni s engagement. saw them flash their engagement rings. he, the six foot six, soon to be marine. she, the wee slip of a thing who made it her business to tame his temper and set him on