{"id":72030,"date":"2025-08-16T16:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=72030"},"modified":"2025-08-16T16:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:47:19","slug":"tragic-death-of-9-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=72030","title":{"rendered":"Tragic Death of 9-Year-Old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"501\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-596.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-596.png 501w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-596-300x257.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Luciano Frattolin, 45, has been charged with second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse after his 9-year-old daughter, Melina, was found<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>dead in a shallow pond in Ticonderoga, New York. The pair had traveled from Montreal for vacation, and Melina was due to return to her mother on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frattolin first claimed Melina was abducted, but his conflicting accounts quickly raised suspicion. Surveillance footage showed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melina dining calmly in Saratoga Springs on Saturday and later speaking with her mother by phone. Hours afterward,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frattolin reported her missing near Lake George, citing a white van and kidnappers\u2014claims investigators found false.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, search teams found Melina\u2019s body hidden under a log. The autopsy determined she died from drowning,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and her death was ruled a homicide. Authorities believe the crime happened between her last phone call and the 911 report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frattolin, a Canadian coffee entrepreneur with no prior record, pleaded not guilty and remains in custody. His felony hearing is set for July 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melina\u2019s death has sparked grief and outrage online, with many mourning the loss and demanding justice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in a case that began as a missing child alert and ended in tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71986\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luciano Frattolin, 45, has been charged with second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse after his 9-year-old daughter, Melina, was found dead in a shallow pond&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72032,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72030\/revisions\/72032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}