Grim new allegations detail how Melina Frattolin’s dad hid her body after drowning her
ELIZABETHTOWN — Luciano Frattolin, the father accused of murdering his 9-year-old daughter in upstate New York, pinned the little girl’s under a rock and a fallen tree, a newly-released indictment has revealed.
Frattolin was already facing charges of second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse related to the death of his daughter, Melina, whose body was found in a shallow pond outside Ticonderoga on July 20.
He appeared in court in Essex County on Wednesday morning in a gray suit and shirt without a tie, where he was held without bail.
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Frattolin concealed his daughter’s body “by placing it in a wooded area in water, near a fallen tree with a rock on top of the corpse,” the indictment reads.
Frattolin entered an initial plea of not guilty last week.
He is accused of murdering his daughter on July 19 while on a vacation from Canada to the United States, before making a fake kidnapping report.