{"id":834006,"date":"2026-07-29T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834006\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:22:09","slug":"new-york-police-diver-testifies-about-discovery-of-nine-year-old-montreal-girls-body-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834006\/","title":{"rendered":"New York police diver testifies about discovery of nine-year-old Montreal girl\u2019s body | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785342129_746_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Luciano Frattolin is taken away in custody from the Essex County Courthouse in Elizabethtown, N.Y., Thursday, July 23, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Christopher Katsarov<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 29, 2026 | 8:10 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>ELIZABETHTOWN \u2014 A New York State Police sergeant has testified about how officers discovered the body of a nine-year-old Montreal girl submerged in shallow, muddy water in a rural area last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Moeller was part of the police dive team that found the body of Melina Frattolin who died in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Moeller\u2019s testimony opened the latest day of a trial that began last week.<\/p>\n<p>The girl\u2019s father, Luciano Frattolin, is facing charges of second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luciano Frattolin is taken away in custody from the Essex County Courthouse in Elizabethtown, N.Y., Thursday, July 23,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2338,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-834006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-montreal","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834006","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=834006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}