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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
and she's not home. and i said, come down. she says, you're probably just missing her. >> christina tried calling mickey, too. no answer. >> and i'm thinking, maybe for the first time in her life she's being a normal teenager. >> was mickey the youngest of cecilia's three girls. she was a star student, an athlete. mature beyond her years. she liked write poetry, short stories. and she was pretty. and a very popular. >> she was the one out of all three of us girls that was just going down the path you would want any child to go down. she was doing it the right way. stereotypically. >> right, talented, good-looking. a trifecta. >> yes, she had it all. >> one of those special kids, said cecilia. born happy. >> she was always positive. she just had a different approach to life.
due to the fact that she left through the southwest doors and he was in the area. >> now why didn't kody tell them that? the detectives went to mickey's mother cecilia, to find out a little more about kody. >> kody is a very interesting young men. kody could be the sweetest person in the world. and then turn right around and just not be okay. kody has a tough temper. kody as a hot temper. >> had kody been struggling at school and at home with his parents. so much so that kody left and moved in with his fiancée, toni fratto and her parents, and cassie, claude, mormon family. very devout. >> i wanted to extend a hand to him to help him get through school. >> we became second family. and more importantly, we were really invested in his success. >> but you really cared for him, right?
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 the gravel pits. >> so close. had mickey called out, her sister would have heard her. but of course, that was it possible.
that girl would check in with me all the time. so, we have a routine. i'm changing. i'm going to be heading out. and heading out the back. and heading home. i'm home. >> always kept in touch? >> always. to a fault. >> as the sun began to set, cecilia was still working at one of the local casinos, expecting mickey's usual check-in call. >> she did not call me to tell me track practice was over and she was getting ready. she didn't call me to tell me she was walking home. so, i started calling her phone. and it rang and rang and rang, the first time. and then i called it right back, because that was unusual. and it was like you hit the ignore button. this is so not her. >> now cecilia called christina 400 miles away in las vegas, to see if she had heard from mickey. >> and i said, mom, she's probably at practice. she says, no, practice ended
of wendover will. it was a thursday afternoon. a windy, late winter day in the high desert. here at the local high school, star runner micaela costanzo cleaned up after truck practice. "mickey" as everybody called 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 you're going to have a way 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. >> it's micaela not your typical teenager.
family, it was more puzzling than that. it was simply inexplicable. >> he would never hurt her. i don't understand why he and it up confessing to it. i'm still like -- there's something more to this story. >> more partly because, kody's story of what happened just didn't 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 like drama. she hated drama. if it was going to cause an issue, she would stay away. >> and we, everybody knew about kody and toni's engagement. saw them flash their engagement rings. he, the six foot six, soon to be marine. she, the wee slip of a thing who made it her business to tame his temper and set him on