{"id":25782,"date":"2025-07-21T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/25782\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:38:08","slug":"subject-of-amber-alert-found-dead-police-say-9-year-old-was-not-abducted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/25782\/","title":{"rendered":"Subject of AMBER Alert found dead, police say 9-year-old was not abducted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TICONDEROGA, NY (WKRC) &#8211; A 9-year-old girl was found dead after an AMBER Alert was issued but police now believe she was never abducted.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Luciano Frattolin called 911 to say his daughter Melina had been abducted in Lake George, New York.  The pair was from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>A search was launched but  law enforcement identified inconsistencies in the father\u2019s account of events and the timeline he provided.<\/p>\n<p>Several law enforcement agencies searched for Melina and they found her dead in Ticonderoga, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Police say there is no indication that an abduction occurred. They have not said anything about charging the father yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TICONDEROGA, NY (WKRC) &#8211; A 9-year-old girl was found dead after an AMBER Alert was issued but police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[22549,22547,23,8329,22548,3,22550,1583,6826,22551,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-25782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-9-year-old","tag-amber-alert","tag-america","tag-father","tag-found-dead","tag-news","tag-not-abducted","tag-police","tag-search","tag-ticonderoga","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}