{"id":824134,"date":"2026-07-24T23:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824134\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T23:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:44:17","slug":"jury-hears-3-hour-police-recording-in-trial-of-montreal-man-charged-with-daughters-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824134\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury hears 3-hour police recording in trial of Montreal man charged with daughter&#8217;s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story was reported by Lohr McKinstry and originally published in Plattsburgh N.Y.\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/news\/jury-hears-3-hour-police-recording-in-frattolin-trial\/article_dc0bc9ae-f4de-483c-b75c-eca8dc20b238.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Press-Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. \u2014 The <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/news\/jury-hears-3-hour-police-recording-in-frattolin-trial\/article_dc0bc9ae-f4de-483c-b75c-eca8dc20b238.html\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/news\/jury-hears-3-hour-police-recording-in-frattolin-trial\/article_dc0bc9ae-f4de-483c-b75c-eca8dc20b238.html\">second day of the Luciano Frattolin murder trial<\/a> Friday featured a three-hour recording made by police as they drove Frattolin around to try to find the place where he said his daughter was kidnapped.<\/p>\n<p>The July 19, 2025, recording was made inside a Warren County Sheriff\u2019s Department vehicle as officers searched for Frattolin\u2019s missing 9-year-old daughter, Melina.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d reported she was kidnapped from an I-87 southbound Capital District rest area by two men in a white van, a story police said turned out to be false.<\/p>\n<p>Her body was found in a marsh in the town of Ticonderoga, and an autopsy said she\u2019d been drowned.<\/p>\n<p>Frattolin, 46, of Montreal, is charged with killing his daughter and has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse.<\/p>\n<p>The recording captured the exchanges between Frattolin and officers who drove him up and down I-87.<\/p>\n<p>On the recording, Frattolin says none of the places look familiar and that he could not recognize the site where Melina was allegedly taken.<\/p>\n<p>Frattolin and his daughter were returning to Canada from a vacation in the United States when she went missing.<\/p>\n<p>The girl lived in Montreal with her mother, Kali Galanis, who is expected to testify.<\/p>\n<p>The trial will continue Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story was reported by Lohr McKinstry and originally published in Plattsburgh N.Y.\u2019s\u00a0Press-Republican. ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. \u2014 The second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-824134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824134","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=824134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}