A 9-year-old girl from Canada found dead in an upstate New York pond after her father reported her missing was drowned, according to preliminary autopsy results released Tuesday. Luciano Frattolin, 45,

Police allege that Luciano Frattolin murdered his 9-year-old daughter Melina in upstate New York. Her cause of death has now been revealed.

GLENS FALLS - Melina Galanis Frattolin, the 9-year-old subject of a weekend Amber Alert which triggered a frantic, region-wide search before her father was later arrested and charged with her murder, died by drowning, State Police announced Tuesday afternoon.

New York State Police said the father of a 9-year-old girl who was initially the subject of an Amber Alert and was later found dead has been charged with her murder.

Melina Galanis Frattolin’s body was recovered in Ticonderoga, New York – roughly 30 miles away from Lake George, where her father originally reported she was last seen.

A Lake George hotel owner believes he may have stumbled upon a crucial piece of evidence in the case of 9-year-old Melina Frattolin —

Luciano Frattolin, the father of Melina Frattolin, faces charges of second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse.

Luciano, who divorced Melina’s mother in 2019, stopped answering the mom’s messages after she asked one heartbreaking question.