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>> what did that say to you? >> a great deal of rage by someone. >> he looked like your average high school student. tall, clean cut, polite. >> a teenager with two sides. >> he would yell at her. he would be pushing her around. >> a puzzle seemingly solved, then blown apart. >> we recorded the conversation and it was dynamite. >> micaela was on the ground and she wasnt really moving. >> to unravel the mystery, investigators would follow a trail through high school hallways, teaming wi...

She was afraid that she would be the one lying next to micaela if she did not follow his orders that evening. >> to which kodys attorney john olson responded. >> baloney. >> why do you say that? >> baloney. theres nothing in their relationship ever that would indicate that she was ever abused by kody. >> and when hr -- her parents support the idea she was abused, why would her parents do such a thing? >> i dont think you abuse someone into committing murder. ive never heard of someone being abus...

I dont understand why he and it up confessing to it. im still like -- theres something more to this story. >> more partly because, kodys story of what happened just didnt 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...

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 didnt attend the public funeral, didnt witness is outpouring of emotion and grief, was one of her illness friends, kody patte...

Attractive and popular mickey costanzo. we might as well break up so he can get back together with her. he will be happier and can see her a lot. a lot more than he will ever see me. theyre perfect for each other. >> toni was jealous of mickey, and if she were out of the picture then kody and toni would be together. >> she was everything toni wasnt. >> yes. absolutely. >> they would be so happy together if i didnt steal him away. i know in my heart he really doesnt love me. >> the diary disclose...

>> toni used to get so upset if micaela was seen talking to kody and she would just yell and holler and say horrible things to micaela, you know. dont talk to him and call her every name imaginable. >> an intensely jealous young woman said d.j. >> he couldnt be around girls especially my sister, but he couldnt go do certain things. she couldnt go do certain things and if one did what the other didnt like it was world war iii. >> and kody was, said christina, on a very tight leash. >> i must have...

Around wendover. so much space to get lost or to hold a person against her will. or god knows. to hide a body. >> cecilias last hopes had been seeing mickey show up at school that morning, wondering what the fuss was about. >> when she didnt go to school on friday morning, i knew i wouldnt see my daughter a life. i felt like a failure. as a parent. not just for micaela but, for gdp, too. because i couldnt make her better. >> i went to my moms house and i told her that i was going to not go find ...

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 wasnt really moving at that point. >> she said, kody started digging what appeared to be a grief. and when hed finished, with mickey lying semiconscious on the ground, they both started kicking...

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 the local cell phone tower, were all from one number. >> definitely having communication back and forth. >> there was something going? on >> something. the last calls were made to kody patten. >> kody patten? who is he. certainly not her boyfriend. but as any kid who had been all wendo...

Her, intended to walk home. not far, about a mile. her usual ride, her sister christina, was out of town. >> before we had left, me and or my husband would always pick up micaela from school. so, we were like, are you sure youre going to have a weak home? >> this is something you do every day? >> this is something i do every day. it was the first time i left her. >> with mickey 16. a junior. clockwork reliable. said her mother cecilia. >> its micaela not your typical teenager. that grill would c...