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
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?
Knew that his client story about mickey dying after some sort of accident, now sounded like a cover-up of a cold blooded murder. and, therefore, tony s testimony who part of tony fried a statement, in which she said that, at some point in time in this killing, mckayla is set up in the grave and said, am i still here? can i go home? devastating. yeah. which is why, just weeks before the trial, he decided to plead guilty to first degree murder. that was the safest way to go. that was the way that would presented least a possibility that cody would see daylight again. and, it would take the death penalty off the table. with cody sentencing, in front of the packed courtroom, he made his case for a vengeful parole, pleading with the judge for mercy and begging mickey s family for forgiveness. and, then for the first, time cody spoke about his fiancée an apparent partner of the murder, the woman he protected in his conviction never revealing that she was there at the whi
Able to find her at the time. that she had just gone off to be with a friend and been irresponsible for once? we didn t know whether she d met with foul play or if she d been restrained and held somewhere against her will. it was obvious we had more than just a runaway, but we just didn t know how far it had gone. police started talking to everybody who knew mickey. like her boyfriend, javier. called him down to the station for questioning. how she d been acting lately? she s been acting pretty fine. if something was wrong, she s not one of those girls that hides her feelings. puts her emotions in her. that they believe the boyfriend? when they pulled mickey s cell phone records, something odd stood out. at the very time she disappeared. there was a lot of checks and phone calls transpiring just immediately after school and up till just after five. and then they stopped? abruptly stopped right at the time she had left the school. those calls and texts, pinging off t
Okay. so, said anne kody mickey did get into the car with him, voluntarily. they drove around for a while said kody. then they picked up tony. they all headed to the gravel pits. and, what did kody tell the da but would have been there? well, it turned out, nothing. because, just the fact the two met, confirmed briefly and kody stop talking. he had changed his mind, rejected the plea deal and never told the story again. and, his statement was filed away. but, olson, who was never disputed that cody was involved a safer than opinion about what probably happened at the gravel pit. my guess would be that there was an opportunity for toni to confront micaela. and they went out to have the confrontation in the desert away from. i a bad idea that became a