{"id":12081,"date":"2025-07-21T04:29:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12081\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T04:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:29:19","slug":"canadian-girl-found-dead-in-upstate-new-york-no-signs-of-possible-abduction-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12081\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian girl found dead in upstate New York, no signs of possible abduction, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The death of a nine-year-old girl whose father initially reported she was missing and possibly abducted is being investigated amid \u201cinconsistencies\u201d in his account, police said Sunday after the girl\u2019s body was found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/topics\/new-york\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/topics\/new-york\/\">New York State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Melina Frattolin was reported missing from near Lake George in northeast New York late Saturday evening by her father, Luciano Frattolin, according to New York State Police. Both father and daughter were identified by authorities as residents of Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">No charges have been announced in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The girl\u2019s body was discovered Sunday in the area of Ticonderoga, about 50 kilometres east of Lake George near the state line with Vermont during a search, state police said. Police said K9 and aviation units were involved in the search.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Ticonderoga also is about 400 kilometres north of New York City in a popular resort area in the Adirondack Mountains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cAs the case progressed, law enforcement identified inconsistencies in the father\u2019s account of events and the timeline he provided,\u201d state police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cAt this time, there is no indication that an abduction occurred, and there is no threat to the public,\u201d the agency added. The agency did not elaborate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Law enforcement officials said a news conference is scheduled for Monday. Luciano Frattolin\u2019s whereabouts weren\u2019t clear late Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Frattolin, 45, did not immediately respond to requests for comment sent via LinkedIn, Instagram and his company website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Frattolin describes himself as a \u201cloving father\u201d on his Instagram profile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">On the website of a coffee company said to be founded by Frattolin, a post says that his daughter Melina is \u201cthe light of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cShe is the inspiration for \u2026 well, everything,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death of a nine-year-old girl whose father initially reported she was missing and possibly abducted is being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,2922,11488],"class_list":{"0":"post-12081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-noastack","12":"tag-nohp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}