the road to righteousness. she d even persuaded him to convert to the mormon church. she was determined to be kody s savior, as you will. a person that helped him to graduate. she was going to make him happy. to help him be happy. the person that helped him she took that responsibility. the person that helped him got into the marines. she encouraged that. she encouraged him to do his school work. she encouraged him to keep on track to graduate. she encouraged him to try and be a better person. now the man toni so badly wanted to save was facing the death penalty. but she stuck by him. send him love letters. promised to be faithful andrew. and often drove the four hours it took to visit him in jail. they talked on the phone sometimes, too. and, this being jail, those calls were recorded. not to see you every day and talk to you. like, things to think and everything. hold you in my arms or anything. it s just hard. yeah, i know it s hard for me, too. it really is.
about the murder the chief did not disclose when he spoke to the media. it s true, there were no here s our fibers or fingerprints pointing to any particular suspect. that there was a person of interest. we started doing a little digging. we went back to the school. we obtained some video surveillance. remember what s mickey s kody patten said, that he saw her leaving the school that day with someone he assumed was her boyfriend, have a year. now the video showed kody, was right, had mickey indeed been with someone. just prior to her leaving from the back of the school, and we saw kody patten leave. the same doorway. kody patten, that s the someone she was with. kody, the childhood friend who had been calling and texted with mickey just before she disappeared. was kody patten probably the last person to have seen her
investigator. a former secret service agent named bill savage. asked him to find out what he could about kody, the murderer. and that boys confession. some of the details that mr. patten reported, didn t quite pack quite passed a sniff test. me mickey s, swoons, so severe, so brutal. they certainly didn t seem to be the result of an accident, as kody had claimed. or from a shovel of all things. horrible. slicing, disfigurement to mickey s face. what did that say to you? a great deal of reach by someone. why would kody have done that to a childhood friend? had to be more to the story. attorney ohlson wondered if kody s fiancée, toni fratto, might provide some insight. had kody already talked to the police during the routine interviews with people who knew mickey. kind of curious, where is mickey? what s going on? you know? where could she have gone? so, ohlson spoke to toni himself. did she have any idea why? absolutely not. no idea. was she as devastated as other
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