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
she found that good in everything and everybody. a depressive personality, she was not? no. oh, no. not at all. so, and one more thing, mickey and dj, her middle sister, were inseparable. i consider us twins. everything we did we had to be together. if we weren t, at the same place, we always had to know where the other was at all times. but now nobody seems to know where mickey was. it was getting dark in the desert. dark and cold. cecilia bolted out of work early and rushed home, hoping to spot on mickey the way. her finder at the apartment. but only dj was there. my mom came in and she said, is mickey not here. where is she? because this isn t funny. so i immediately went out and searched for her.
she was an at school. she was it with a friend. she apparently wasn t in town. and it s a very big desert. around wendover. so much space to get lost or to hold a person against her will. or god knows. to hide a body. cecilia s last hopes had been seeing mickey show up at school that morning, wondering what the fuss was about. when she didn t go to school on friday morning, i knew i wouldn t see my daughter a life. i felt like a failure. as a parent. not just for micaela but, for dj, too. because i couldn t make her better. i went to my mom s house and i told her that i was going to not go find my sister. even though she is not okay, i will bring her home. and for whatever reason, in my mind, at that point, i knew that i was going to find her and i wasn t going to find her the way we wanted to. but that i was going to bring her home. all night, christine wrote of the rugged landscape. alone. i stopped and i looked at any little mound of dirt that looked weird. and i went to t
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?
going to come forward. , and for the next three and a half hours, tony told a whole new story about how cody was upset with nikki, how he hated the sound of her voice, that things were building up. then, the tell of the story that did not change, the afternoon of march 3rd with that texan cody. that over 100 to exchange that day. they fully recovered but, this one said tony would burn in her memory. what was the content of it? look from here, the story changed and blame shifted towards cody. as they drove off into the, deserts are cody, they drove back and was stuff back into the mickey look scared, said tony with their hands up to her face. cody look determined, angry she said.