What happened during that family trip to Lake George?
That’s what police and an entire community are struggling to understand.
Luciano Frattolin, a 45-year-old from Montreal, is now facing murder charges.
His 9-year-old daughter, Melina, was found dead in a pond near Ticonderoga, New York.
Just days earlier, Frattolin had called 911, claiming strangers had abducted his daughter from a parking lot.
An Amber Alert followed. But police quickly spotted holes in his story. “He first said she vanished.
Then it was a kidnapping. None of it added up,” said State Police Capt. Robert McConnell.
What Happened There?
Surveillance video showed the pair calmly walking in Saratoga Springs just hours before Melina’s death.
She even spoke with her mother on the phone without raising alarms.
Investigators now believe Melina was killed shortly after that call. Her body was found the next day, hidden beneath a log in a pond.
Frattolin had no prior criminal record and called himself a “loving father” online.
His coffee company website once described Melina as “the light of his life.”
Now, authorities say that light was extinguished by the very person who claimed to cherish it. The question remains—why?
