am i still alive? and then kody ordered her to get in the car, she said, and sitting by herself, toni said she heard the last sounds of mickey costanzo s life and then she said it was over. kody buried mickey by himself. once in the car, according to toni, they drove back into town and went to mcdonald s for a cold drink and then later they cruised across the state line into utah, pulled off into the desert and burned mickey s clothes and belongings. you can t tell me to this day why this happened? no. he never told you that? no. and with that, toni had her deal. the sworn statement she provided would now comprise much of the d.a. s case against her fiance, kody patten. in this new version of her story, kody was the killer and orchestrated the whole thing and she, terrified of kody s murderous rage was forced to go along for the awful ride. not at all like her original confession.
this. was this version of her story finally the truth? perhaps, and in any event, mickey s family would have to be satisfied with what small consolations toni fratto offered. i know sorry is not enough and if i could go back and protect her and make sure this wouldn t happen and everything that she would still be here today. do you see her face now in your mind s eye? in some places, yeah. you ll probably be seeing her for a long time. for the rest of my life. reporter: and with that, our interview ended. toni fratto never wavering from her story, the one she told when she cut that deal with the district attorney. the deal that could set her free by the year 2030.
i i apologize for everything. moments later, his sentence, a chance at parole after maybe 25 years. i sentence you for a term of life in the nevada department of corrections. there shall be no possibility of parole. it was justice, said mickey s family. but an odd feeling lingered. you have to sit there and go oh, my god. this person that i knew so well will never, ever have a chance at anything. you re conflicted. i see the good in him. i see what he did. i want him to be punished for what he did, but i see that good side of him.
glgoasw. now the tv trucks roared in from salt lake and all around northern nevada, poking about a little west wendover. demanding an answer. exactly what happened to that perfect dr.. that pretty and popular 16 year old, mickey costanzo. just his demanded an answer. the police chief supplied an answer for the evening news. we don t have a suspect and we don t have a person of interest, but we are getting leads all the time. that we can tell you now, there were a couple of things 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.
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