The death of a 9-year-old girl whose father initially reported she was missing and possibly abducted is being investigated amid \u201cinconsistencies\u201d in his account, police said Sunday after the girl’s body was found in New York state.<\/p>\n
Melina Frattolin was reported missing from near Lake George in northeast New York late Saturday evening by her father, Luciano Frattolin, according to New York State Police. Both father and daughter were identified by authorities as residents of Canada.<\/p>\n
No charges have been announced in the case.<\/p>\n
The girl’s body was discovered Sunday in the area of Ticonderoga, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Lake George near the state line with Vermont during a search, state police said. Police said K9 and aviation units were involved in the search.<\/p>\n
Ticonderoga also is about 250 miles (400 kilometers) north of New York City in a popular resort area in the Adirondack Mountains.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the case progressed, law enforcement identified inconsistencies in the father\u2019s account of events and the timeline he provided,\u201d state police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“At this time, there is no indication that an abduction occurred, and there is no threat to the public,” the agency added. The agency did not elaborate.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement officials said a news conference is scheduled for Monday. Luciano Frattolin’s whereabouts weren’t clear late Sunday.<\/p>\n
Frattolin, 45, did not immediately respond to requests for comment sent via LinkedIn, Instagram and his company website.<\/p>\n
Frattolin describes himself as a \u201cloving father\u201d on his Instagram profile.<\/p>\n
On the website of a coffee company said to be founded by Frattolin, a post says that his daughter Melina is \u201cthe light of his life.”<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is the inspiration for \u2026 well, everything,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death of a 9-year-old girl whose father initially reported she was missing and possibly abducted is being…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,54773,54771,54494,405,403,39015,5226,5225,5228,5227,34973,54772,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-79664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-inconsistencies","10":"tag-luciano-frattolin","11":"tag-melina-frattolin","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-state-police","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-state-police","20":"tag-ticonderoga","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114889175234791219","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}