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MICAELA "Mickey" COSTANZO - 16 yo - West Wendover (UT border-US 80) NV
by TomTerrific0420 Sun Mar 06, 2011 8:34 pm
Police say they have called off their search for a missing teenager after the discovery of what appears to be a shallow grave.
Human remains were found about five miles west of
West Wendover at about 10:30 a.m., although police did not immediately
disclose the exact location.
Micaela "Mickey" Costanzo, 16, was last seen leaving
school Thursday at 5:15 p.m. She lives with her mother in an apartment
just a few blocks away. West Wendover Police Sgt. David Wiskerchen said
police have no way of determining yet whether the body is hers.Police did confirm
Saturday that Micaela's mother had been to the grave.
Late Saturday, Micaela's family released a very brief
statement saying that they were waiting for confirmation on the ID of
the body and that for now, asked that people keep them in their prayers.
West Wendover Police Chief Ron Supp informed a group
of about 200 searchers shortly before noon of the discovery and told
them their efforts would be suspended.
Friends Saturday said Costanzo is a good student at school and well liked.
"When things are bad, she always has something good
to say to you. She always makes you feel good about everything," said
Heidi Thompson, a junior at West Wendover High School.
The Elko County Sheriff's Office has taken over the
investigation. In a brief statement released Saturday night, the
sheriff's office said the possible grave site was found outside the city
limits of West Wendover and the Washoe County Forensic Crime Scene Unit
would be assisting with the investigation.
"If it turns out to be something other than what we
think it is, we'll put the word back out and go from there," Police Chief Ron Supp said.
"We have not terminated the search efforts. We have
suspended them to allow teams to get in there and take a look at what's
been discovered and to make an assessment from there," said Wiskerchen.
Saturday, the high school was opened to students and staff until 10 p.m.
"It's very solemn," said high school counselor Anne
Crawford. "There's lots of tears and there's a lot of people very scared or nervous."
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705368095/Remains-found-search-for-missing-West-Wendover-girl-called-off.html
Human remains were found about five miles west of
West Wendover at about 10:30 a.m., although police did not immediately
disclose the exact location.
Micaela "Mickey" Costanzo, 16, was last seen leaving
school Thursday at 5:15 p.m. She lives with her mother in an apartment
just a few blocks away. West Wendover Police Sgt. David Wiskerchen said
police have no way of determining yet whether the body is hers.Police did confirm
Saturday that Micaela's mother had been to the grave.
Late Saturday, Micaela's family released a very brief
statement saying that they were waiting for confirmation on the ID of
the body and that for now, asked that people keep them in their prayers.
West Wendover Police Chief Ron Supp informed a group
of about 200 searchers shortly before noon of the discovery and told
them their efforts would be suspended.
Friends Saturday said Costanzo is a good student at school and well liked.
"When things are bad, she always has something good
to say to you. She always makes you feel good about everything," said
Heidi Thompson, a junior at West Wendover High School.
The Elko County Sheriff's Office has taken over the
investigation. In a brief statement released Saturday night, the
sheriff's office said the possible grave site was found outside the city
limits of West Wendover and the Washoe County Forensic Crime Scene Unit
would be assisting with the investigation.
"If it turns out to be something other than what we
think it is, we'll put the word back out and go from there," Police Chief Ron Supp said.
"We have not terminated the search efforts. We have
suspended them to allow teams to get in there and take a look at what's
been discovered and to make an assessment from there," said Wiskerchen.
Saturday, the high school was opened to students and staff until 10 p.m.
"It's very solemn," said high school counselor Anne
Crawford. "There's lots of tears and there's a lot of people very scared or nervous."
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705368095/Remains-found-search-for-missing-West-Wendover-girl-called-off.html
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Re: MICAELA "Mickey" COSTANZO - 16 yo - West Wendover (UT border-US 80) NV
by kiwimom Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:30 am
Police: Body tentatively ID'd as missing Nev. girl
WEST WENDOVER, Nev. (AP) — Police say a body found in a shallow grave
in the desert near the Utah border has been tentatively identified as
that of a teenager who went missing while walking home from her high
school last week.The Deseret News quoted West Wendover police
Sgt. Dave Wiskerchen during a press conference Sunday night as saying
the body was "tentatively been identified as Micaela Costanzo." Salt
Lake's KTVX-TV carried a similar report. Investigators with the police
and the Elko County Sheriff's Office couldn't be reached for comment
late Sunday.The 16-year-old girl was last seen leaving West Wendover High School on Thursday evening.More
than 100 volunteers helped search for Costanzo on Saturday. A searcher
discovered the freshly dug grave about five miles west of the town, and
authorities set up tents and worked at the site on Sunday. Elko County
Sheriff's Cpl. Jim Carpenter said local detectives worked on the
excavation with investigators from western Nevada's Washoe County.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j2iBXOpbxfZ8gn6uXrh06G_q6ExQ?docId=e3f867e4829b41c7b9aca491f3627140
WEST WENDOVER, Nev. (AP) — Police say a body found in a shallow grave
in the desert near the Utah border has been tentatively identified as
that of a teenager who went missing while walking home from her high
school last week.The Deseret News quoted West Wendover police
Sgt. Dave Wiskerchen during a press conference Sunday night as saying
the body was "tentatively been identified as Micaela Costanzo." Salt
Lake's KTVX-TV carried a similar report. Investigators with the police
and the Elko County Sheriff's Office couldn't be reached for comment
late Sunday.The 16-year-old girl was last seen leaving West Wendover High School on Thursday evening.More
than 100 volunteers helped search for Costanzo on Saturday. A searcher
discovered the freshly dug grave about five miles west of the town, and
authorities set up tents and worked at the site on Sunday. Elko County
Sheriff's Cpl. Jim Carpenter said local detectives worked on the
excavation with investigators from western Nevada's Washoe County.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j2iBXOpbxfZ8gn6uXrh06G_q6ExQ?docId=e3f867e4829b41c7b9aca491f3627140
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Re: MICAELA "Mickey" COSTANZO - 16 yo - West Wendover (UT border-US 80) NV
by kiwimom Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:21 am
WEST WENDOVER, Nev. »
A high school senior was arrested Monday as a suspect in the killing of
a 16-year-old schoolmate whose body was found in a shallow desert grave
near the Utah-Nevada line.
Police said they arrested Kody Patten, 18, about 2 a.m. and booked him into the Elko County Jail on suspicion of murder.
He was being held without bail in the death
of Micaela "Mickey" Constanzo, a popular student-athlete at West
Wendover High School who disappeared after track practice Thursday.
School officials confirmed the two knew each other but released few other details.
Patten had talked of trying to enlist in the
military upon graduation in the spring, with an eye on the Marine Corps,
Vice Principal Craig Kyllonen said.
"You are talking about a school of 300 kids,
so they all kind of know each other," Kyllonen told The Associated Press
on Monday.
He said he could not confirm earlier reports
that the two had once dated, but he knew Patten currently has a
different girlfriend.
Elko County Sheriff’s Deputy Jim Carpenter
told the AP that Patten and Costanzo were acquaintances "of some kind"
but declined to comment further. He said no initial court appearance had
been scheduled, and he did not know if Patten had obtained a lawyer. He
said the cause of death had not been determined.
Mugshot at link.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/51379329-78/kodypatten-micaelacostanzo-patten-booked.html.csp
A high school senior was arrested Monday as a suspect in the killing of
a 16-year-old schoolmate whose body was found in a shallow desert grave
near the Utah-Nevada line.
Police said they arrested Kody Patten, 18, about 2 a.m. and booked him into the Elko County Jail on suspicion of murder.
He was being held without bail in the death
of Micaela "Mickey" Constanzo, a popular student-athlete at West
Wendover High School who disappeared after track practice Thursday.
School officials confirmed the two knew each other but released few other details.
Patten had talked of trying to enlist in the
military upon graduation in the spring, with an eye on the Marine Corps,
Vice Principal Craig Kyllonen said.
"You are talking about a school of 300 kids,
so they all kind of know each other," Kyllonen told The Associated Press
on Monday.
He said he could not confirm earlier reports
that the two had once dated, but he knew Patten currently has a
different girlfriend.
Elko County Sheriff’s Deputy Jim Carpenter
told the AP that Patten and Costanzo were acquaintances "of some kind"
but declined to comment further. He said no initial court appearance had
been scheduled, and he did not know if Patten had obtained a lawyer. He
said the cause of death had not been determined.
Mugshot at link.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/51379329-78/kodypatten-micaelacostanzo-patten-booked.html.csp
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Re: MICAELA "Mickey" COSTANZO - 16 yo - West Wendover (UT border-US 80) NV
by kiwimom Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:23 am
Male high school student arrested in death of Micaela Costanzo, teen found in shallow grave:
Monday, March 7th 2011, 1:08 PM
Elko County Sheriff's Office
Kody Cree Patton, 18, was arrested in
connection with the murder of Micaela Costanzo, 16, whose body was found
buried in a shallow grave in Nevada over the weekend.
A high school senior was arrested Monday in the death of a former gal pal whose body was found in a shallow desert grave in Nevada, local police said.Kody Cree Patten, 18, was arrested on suspicion of murder at around 2 a.m. by police hunting for the killer of Micaela Costanzo, 16, according to the Elko County Sherriff's Office.Costanzo's body was found Saturday in a freshly dug hole about 5 miles west of West Wendover.Vice Principal Craig Kyllonen said Patten and the murdered teen had once dated."They were friends," Kyllonen told Deseret News. "We do know that they had a past relationship where they did date each other at one point."Students
at the tight-knit school were devastated by the announcement, which
came just hours after Costanzo's body was positively identified by
police."They're tired. Emotionally, they're spent," Kyllonen told the paper.Costanzo, a popular two-sport athlete, was last seen leaving West Wendover High School
after track practice on Thursday evening, according to published
reports. She was reported missing on Friday, prompting more than 100
volunteers across the state to search for the teen.The searcher who found the grave said he was driving on a rural road near the Utah border Saturday when he noticed some ground had been dug up.Investigators responded to the scene and set up tents while they carefully excavated the site.Her body was taken to a medical examiner's office, but authorities hadn't released a cause of death by Monday afternoon.School officials brought in grief counselors to meet with students, and a candlelight vigil was planned for 6 p.m. Monday."It's very solemn," said high school counselor Anne Crawford. "There's lots of tears and there's a lot of people very scared or nervous."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/03/07/2011-03-07_male_high_school_student_arrested_in_death_of_nevada_teen_girl_found_in_desert_g.html#ixzz1FyFrMMNW
Monday, March 7th 2011, 1:08 PM
Elko County Sheriff's Office
Kody Cree Patton, 18, was arrested in
connection with the murder of Micaela Costanzo, 16, whose body was found
buried in a shallow grave in Nevada over the weekend.
A high school senior was arrested Monday in the death of a former gal pal whose body was found in a shallow desert grave in Nevada, local police said.Kody Cree Patten, 18, was arrested on suspicion of murder at around 2 a.m. by police hunting for the killer of Micaela Costanzo, 16, according to the Elko County Sherriff's Office.Costanzo's body was found Saturday in a freshly dug hole about 5 miles west of West Wendover.Vice Principal Craig Kyllonen said Patten and the murdered teen had once dated."They were friends," Kyllonen told Deseret News. "We do know that they had a past relationship where they did date each other at one point."Students
at the tight-knit school were devastated by the announcement, which
came just hours after Costanzo's body was positively identified by
police."They're tired. Emotionally, they're spent," Kyllonen told the paper.Costanzo, a popular two-sport athlete, was last seen leaving West Wendover High School
after track practice on Thursday evening, according to published
reports. She was reported missing on Friday, prompting more than 100
volunteers across the state to search for the teen.The searcher who found the grave said he was driving on a rural road near the Utah border Saturday when he noticed some ground had been dug up.Investigators responded to the scene and set up tents while they carefully excavated the site.Her body was taken to a medical examiner's office, but authorities hadn't released a cause of death by Monday afternoon.School officials brought in grief counselors to meet with students, and a candlelight vigil was planned for 6 p.m. Monday."It's very solemn," said high school counselor Anne Crawford. "There's lots of tears and there's a lot of people very scared or nervous."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/03/07/2011-03-07_male_high_school_student_arrested_in_death_of_nevada_teen_girl_found_in_desert_g.html#ixzz1FyFrMMNW
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Re: MICAELA "Mickey" COSTANZO - 16 yo - West Wendover (UT border-US 80) NV
by twinkletoes Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:18 am
WTF is wrong with people? Does no one value human life anymore? What kind of person murders someone they purport to love? I hope she wasn't pregnant.
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Re: MICAELA "Mickey" COSTANZO - 16 yo - West Wendover (UT border-US 80) NV
by TomTerrific0420 Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:22 am
---If she was that's three lives wasted. I sometimes forget that the perp is done for now too.twinkletoe wrote:WTF is wrong with people? Does no one value human life anymore? What kind of person murders someone they purport to love? I hope she wasn't pregnant.
They like his kind in big boy prison. Maybe life without parole isn't such a bad idea.
Then he can go to bed every night with a similar horror that befell her.
His name would be Bubba, he's your new cellmate, asshat!
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Re: MICAELA "Mickey" COSTANZO - 16 yo - West Wendover (UT border-US 80) NV
by angelm07 Fri May 04, 2012 1:27 pm
Mormon teenager 'helped fiancé beat his ex-girlfriend to death with shovel'
- Young couple 'drove to swimming pool to clean up after killing' - then went to McDonald's
- 16-year-old was murdered 'because she tried to get back together with ex-boyfriend'A Mormon teenager will stand trial for allegedly helping her lover to kill his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend, a judge has ruled.
Toni
Fratto, 19, and Kody Patten, 18, are accused of hitting Micaela
Costanzo over the head with a shovel, cutting her throat and then
burying her body in a shallow grave just outside West Wendover, Nevada.
Prosecutors
claim the couple, who were planning to get married, murdered Micaela
because she had been texting Patten asking to get back together with
him.
After the killing the pair drove to a nearby swimming pool to 'clean up' - and then went to McDonald's, the court heard.
Patten
was charged just days after the murder in March, but Fratto was
arrested more than a month later, after she allegedly confessed to
Patten's father and his lawyer.
On Thursday a judge ruled she, too, will now stand trial alongside her boyfriend on murder and kidnapping charges.
In the taped confession, which
Fratto's lawyer has dismissed as 'wholly rubbish', she told lawyers the
couple had arranged to speak to Micaela after she sent Patten text
messages asking to get back together.
The pair had dated a couple of years previously, but had broken up before Patten and Fratto began their relationship.
In January he was baptised as a Mormon so they couple could get married at the Temple.
Fratto told lawyers Patten picked her
and Micaela up and then drove out of town because Micaela, described as
a popular student, 'didn't want anyone to see us or anything.'
As they drove, Micaela became more and more agitated, according to Fratto.
When
they stopped, Micaela and Patten got out of the car to talk. The
conversation soon descended into a shouting match, and the pair began
shoving each other, Fratto claims.
'Everything from there on out was kind of a blur to me. It went downhill from there'
Toni Fratto
She told lawyers: 'I looked away, and then heard a loud thud on the car.'
Fratto
got out and saw the 16-year-old lying on the ground. She said:
'Everything from there on out was kind of a blur to me. It went downhill
from there.'
According to Fratto, they started 'freaking out' and they didn't know what to do.
So she allegedly hit Micaela in the back with a shovel, and then together she and Patten cut the girl's throat, she said.
Then they buried her body in a shallow grave and drove away.
Fratto
said they were both in shock, and asked themselves repeatedly: 'What
did we just do? What do we do? We didn't know what we had just done.'
According to Patten's father, Kip,
Fratto told him the pair went to a local swimming pool to 'clean up' -
and then went to McDonald's.
But Fratto's defence lawyer claims that the recording wasn't credible, and parts of it were completely made-up.
He
claims some details of the confession did not tally with how Micaela
was killed, and surveillance cameras at the school only show Patten, not
Fratto.
He also said
Patten's father drove Fratto to his lawyer's office to make her
confession when her parents were out of town, as he knew they didn't
want her to speak to an attorney without them being present.
Under cross-examination, Kip Patten testified: 'She said she wanted to come forward with it. She
didn't want Kody to pay for something they both participated in.'
There is no forensic evidence linking Fratto to the murder, the court heard,
A two-day preliminary hearing for Patten is due to start on August 2.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2015367/Mormon-girl-Toni-Fratto-helped-teenage-lover-beat-ex-girlfriend-death-shovel.html#ixzz1tuJNihAp
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Re: MICAELA "Mickey" COSTANZO - 16 yo - West Wendover (UT border-US 80) NV
by angelm07 Fri May 04, 2012 1:32 pm
West Wendover teen sentenced to up to life for killing
Court » Toni Fratto must serve at least 18 years behind bars
Toni Collette Fratto, 19, reacts to her
sentencing Monday, April 16, 2012, in Elko District Court, Elko, Nev.,
for her involvement in the murder of Micaela Costanzo, 16, last year.
(AP Photo/Elko Daily Free Press, Ross Andreson).Elko, Nev. • Nightmares interrupt Celia Costanzo’s sleep.
The West Wendover woman hasn’t worked a full
week in nearly a year. She cannot bring herself to go the restaurants
where she once met her daughter for lunch. She can seldom cooks at home
because she was teaching Mickey to cook when the 16-year-old was killed.
"There’s a part of me that’s just been ripped
away and I’m not whole," Celia Costanzo said Monday, as she asked for
the maximum sentence for one of the two teens officials say murdered
Micaela "Mickey" Costanza.
"There’s not a day, not a moment, not a second that I don’t think about her," said her mother.
A few feet away in court, 19-year-old Toni
Fratto sat with her attorneys, listening with her head down. Earlier,
Fratto’s parents watched as the petite 19-year-old dragged her ankle
shackles across the hardwood floors in Elko District Court.
It’s been just over a year since
prosecutors say Fratto and her boyfriend, 19-year-old Kody Cree Patten,
took Micaela Costanzo into the desert outside West Wendover and killed
her with a camping shovel.
Fratto was not a suspect until she came
forward to Patten’s attorneys and offered a confession. Earlier this
year, Fratto took a plea deal that removed the possibility of a death
penalty in exchange for her testimony against Patten.
She said she sat on Costanzo’s legs as Patten slashed her throat.
In a tearful hearing Monday, Judge Dan Papez sentenced Fratto to up to life in prison, with parole possible after 18 years.
Elko County District Attorney Mark
Torvinen called the slaying as "horrific a murder as I suspect you will
ever see," made only worse because Costanzo was as "innocent a victim as
you could imagine."
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53922826-78/fratto-costanzo-patten-elko.html.csp
Court » Toni Fratto must serve at least 18 years behind bars
Toni Collette Fratto, 19, reacts to her
sentencing Monday, April 16, 2012, in Elko District Court, Elko, Nev.,
for her involvement in the murder of Micaela Costanzo, 16, last year.
(AP Photo/Elko Daily Free Press, Ross Andreson).Elko, Nev. • Nightmares interrupt Celia Costanzo’s sleep.
The West Wendover woman hasn’t worked a full
week in nearly a year. She cannot bring herself to go the restaurants
where she once met her daughter for lunch. She can seldom cooks at home
because she was teaching Mickey to cook when the 16-year-old was killed.
"There’s a part of me that’s just been ripped
away and I’m not whole," Celia Costanzo said Monday, as she asked for
the maximum sentence for one of the two teens officials say murdered
Micaela "Mickey" Costanza.
"There’s not a day, not a moment, not a second that I don’t think about her," said her mother.
A few feet away in court, 19-year-old Toni
Fratto sat with her attorneys, listening with her head down. Earlier,
Fratto’s parents watched as the petite 19-year-old dragged her ankle
shackles across the hardwood floors in Elko District Court.
It’s been just over a year since
prosecutors say Fratto and her boyfriend, 19-year-old Kody Cree Patten,
took Micaela Costanzo into the desert outside West Wendover and killed
her with a camping shovel.
Fratto was not a suspect until she came
forward to Patten’s attorneys and offered a confession. Earlier this
year, Fratto took a plea deal that removed the possibility of a death
penalty in exchange for her testimony against Patten.
She said she sat on Costanzo’s legs as Patten slashed her throat.
In a tearful hearing Monday, Judge Dan Papez sentenced Fratto to up to life in prison, with parole possible after 18 years.
Elko County District Attorney Mark
Torvinen called the slaying as "horrific a murder as I suspect you will
ever see," made only worse because Costanzo was as "innocent a victim as
you could imagine."
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53922826-78/fratto-costanzo-patten-elko.html.csp
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Re: MICAELA "Mickey" COSTANZO - 16 yo - West Wendover (UT border-US 80) NV
by angelm07 Fri May 04, 2012 1:35 pm
I haven't been able to find a trial date for Kody Cree Patton.
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Re: MICAELA "Mickey" COSTANZO - 16 yo - West Wendover (UT border-US 80) NV
by twinkletoes Mon May 07, 2012 12:03 am
A two-day preliminary hearing for Patten is due to start on August 2.
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