Toni Fratto
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Five months after she was sentence to life in prison convicted murderer Toni fratto is still in the Elko County Jail and not in the Nevada Prison system.
“I have no idea why she has not been transferred,” said Prison system spokeswoman Maxine Blackwell. “And even if I did I could not release that information.”
White Pine District Judge Dan Papez imposed the harshest sentences he could on the West Wendover teen of life in prison plus 20 years for Fratto’s part in the vicious killing last year of 16 year old Micaela Costanzo, April 18th.
Under the order of Elko District Attorney Marc Torvinen, Fratto was kept at the Elko County Jail until the sentencing hearing of her boy friend Kody Patten. That hearing was held August 24 and Patten has already entered the system with his first stop at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City for evaluation.
While he could conceivably stay at the medium security prison given the violent nature of his crime as well as his life without parole sentence it is far more likely he will end up at the maximum security Ely State Prison known as the ‘Graveyard” by inmates.
According to law Fratto must serve at least 10 years of her life sentence before she is eligible for parole and then at least eight years of the enhancement for use of a deadly weapon before she could see a release from prison. With her time already served in the Elko County Jail taken into account Fratto could conceivably serve just 17 more years in prison before she is released.
But while possible it is considered extremely unlikely that Fratto will serve the bare minimum of her sentence. Most first parole requests especially for violent crimes such as Fratto’s are denied almost as a matter of course. In addition, relatives of the victim are always notified and invited to attend and participate in parole hearings by the board.
Most would agree that anyone from Mickie Costanzo’s family will plead with the board to release their daughter’s killer early is an extremely unlikely scenario. Much more likely would be a passionate request to keep Fratto behind bars longer.
The biggest factor in just how long Toni Fratto will remain behind bars is of course Toni Fratto and even the most generous assessment of the girl’s character does not bode well for an early release.
Fratto a girl with no history of any child abuse from a large family and a loving home and a devout religious upbringing helped commit the most violent, vicious murders in Wendover’s history.
While her few defenders have blamed Kody Patten’s influence on the girl, the fact remains that Fratto came from a place few inmates in the Nevada woman’s prison can imagine let alone dream about.
And yet surrounded by this broad deep support network, Toni Fratto slaughtered a 16 year old girl because as suggested by her psychological report Kody Patten told her to or as suggested by Patten’s lawyers Fratto was cold calculating evil girl.
Whether as sheep or black widow Fratto’s personality does not bode well for keeping out of serious trouble at the Florence McClure Women’s Correctional Center.
The prison located in North Las Vegas houses all Nevada women felons from those convicted of so called victimless crimes to the most brutal vicious women in the state.
According to its website there are currently 880 inmates in the facility which has the capacity for 950. While the prison boast several rehabilitation programs entry into them is reserved for good nonviolent inmates.
Although not as stressful or as violent as a men’s prison the facility has seen its share of inmate on inmate violence and even inmate on staff violence.
If Toni Fratto is a sheep there are easily over 100 female Kody Paten’s at Florence McClure to get her to do their bidding and if she is a black widow she will be one among many.
Either way Fratto could rack up a list of infractions that would kill her chances of an early release.
The enhancement part of Fratto’s sentence also puts her in the precarious position of being on parole while in prison. The eight year clock on the weapon enhancement only starts ticking after she wins parole on her second degree murder conviction. If she commits another crime or commits an infraction grievous enough to merit the revocation of her parole, the enhancement clock stops until or if she wins parole again for second degree murder.
“People look at the minimum time she could serve and might feel it isn’t enough,” said an attorney close to the case. “But that is the minimum if she becomes a model prisoner. Yes it is possible. But the thing is she already proved she was anything but a model citizen.”
A prison official interviewed ten years ago put it this way.
“For a very few of the inmates here, the minimum is a real goal and they keep their noses clean,” he said. “But you have to understand you aren’t dealing with normal people. They really don’t have control over their impulses. Most of the inmates here will serve everyday of their maximum sentence.”
In Fratto’s case her maximum is life.
Still trying to milk as much out of this event as possible. Conviction and sentencing over and still trying to get hits off a dying story. Maybe consider moving to a bigger city where stuff like this happens every day. Then you’ll have plenty of negativity to gossip about. Of course, your paper couldn’t survive in a bigger town. I don’t know how it survives in a small one.
I agree with Alumnus. Old news, who cares. It’s done and over with. Maybe next week there could be a story about how she got an extra helping mashed potatoes when she shouldn’t have.
Who cares? Really? That’s damn cold! Although this news source needs done serious improvements, this event is still very fresh to many. Yes, sentences have been handed down. Yes, they can chill out on this story. But the whole “who cares” nonsense is very cold. So many people are still hurting over all this, and for some, the pain will never stop.
You are right that comes off cold but that’s not what I mean.
I meant who cares that she hasn’t been transferred to a prison. The comment Who cares was not meant to insinuate that we shouldn’t stop caring about what happened.
I am mainly disturbed by the articles because people need to heal and move forward. It’s kind of hard for some when it pops up in the paper time and time again over dumb stuff. And it pops up over minute, lame details that most people don’t care about. That’s what I meant by ” Who cares”.
Now that, I can agree with. Constantly bringing it up will not help anyone heal and move forward. And I could care less where Toni or Kody are. Justice is being served. They’re not on the streets.
BREAKING NEWS: Toni Fratto is on the move. According to the DOC website she is no longer at Elko County Jail. Where will she go next? Stay Tuned!”
This ugly and horrible big-nosed woman with cat face deserves go to a prison for the rest of her life. Kody will die at Ely S.P. and she shall stay in prison for at least 50 years.
The day she´ll be released I hope she´ll be at least 60 and the first afternoon she´ll go to a bar, taking a drink suffering when she discovers the life that she has lost. And remembering Kody still behind bars until his passing.
These cold-blooded killers are a shame for Nevada. Their families have to be very proud.
Is this really old news? Or the ONLY news. You do understand that the national interest in this story centers around The Fratto Family. To many they truly represent the moral values of the Mormon community.
As if we needed more proof of the extreme activities of cult like behavior. LIARS in the name of religion. Such bizarre rationalization. Do the people of this community trust the Fratto family?
I have never seen such internal and external ugliness.
I think the justice system in this case is fascinating and much can be learned. If you are tired of it, why are you reading it and posting comments. Re-evaluate your interests.