Photo that was taken of my daughter, i saw. i saw it all. because i did not want to go into a courtroom and see my daughter like that for the very first time. there were separate hearings for tony and cody. two occasions for cecilia to hold up under question. it s right over there, and he s wearing a red jumpsuit. two occasions to hear a motion and incriminating confessions. i tried to, like, check her pulse on stuff. and i couldn t get anything and she was just flopping. cody, no surprise, was bound over for trial which everybody knew he could face the death penalty. and tony, pale and gaunt in her black jumpsuit, she listen to her own excerpts of her stunning confession. after that, she wasn t really breathing or anything. and so we we kind of just stood there. we re crying because we didn t know what we had just done. it was brutal, it was
Penalty. and, in exchange, he would have to testify against tony. cody took the deal. and, just as suddenly changed his mind. instead, cody decided to take s chances in court. but just one day later, the da offered tony a deal. not the same deal. better. i ve tony agreed to testify against codi, she d be allowed to plead to second degree murder, with a chance of parole after just 18 years. by then, tony would be just 36. and, tony offered a chance to save her own skin by throwing cody under the bus said, yes. she signed the plea papers, right away. she said, you know what, enough is enough. the truth needs to be told and i am going to tell. so, on a chilly january day, tony was led from her jail cell to an office at the tourist apartment to tell her story. , and put her hand on the bible and promised to tell the truth. i am a person to tell the truth, and deep down i want people to know the truth because i knew cody wasn t
Crying. and then a few minutes later, the detective walked back into the interview room. his father told him he needs to tell us what happened. be a man. yeah. no telling when a lawyer would ve told cody paton, but this is a father who had just heard the worst news of his life from the lips of his own son. and so here is what he said to cody. you ve got to start fixing this now, as much as you can. but you did is heinous, kody, i don t abandon you at all, okay? you ve got to do what s right, for mckayla as well. and this is what cody told him, that he picked up mickey at the school, and then when he started driving, mickey insisted you d be a cup of his fiancée toni fratto, and be with her, when he refused. she started yelling at me, and senators because i m not leaving tony, and then she started like pounding on my chest and stuff. by this time, said kody, they re out of the car, she hit him, and he pushed her. she fell down and hit her head and she just laid bare
A murder that could send her to death row. my immediate thought was that she s been coursed into saying this. somebody s meter? yes. what person popped into? police that. cody s father, the man who delivered cody to the meeting. they had requested to appear on our program, but he insisted, tony told him what happened. and it was her idea to come forward and to meet with tony s