{"id":948065,"date":"2026-07-20T19:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/948065\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:29:23","slug":"jury-selection-begins-for-man-accused-of-killing-daughter-in-northern-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/948065\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury selection begins for man accused of killing daughter in Northern NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Jury selection began Monday for a man charged with killing his 9-year-old daughter while on vacation in the Adirondacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Luciano Frattolin reported his daughter, Melina, missing near Lake George last summer, later saying she was kidnapped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Inconsistencies in his story led investigators to look into him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Court documents say they found Melina strangled and hidden in a pond off a state highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Luciano Frattolin is charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jury selection started Monday in Essex County Court in Elizabethtown, New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Opening statements in his trial are expected to begin later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Jury selection began Monday for a man charged with killing his 9-year-old daughter while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":948066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,9958,356,4219,379202,54496,19277,13155,19089,381753,381754,9620,635,405,403,50,5226,5225,17354,103883,5228,5227,11247,12433,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,47139,636],"class_list":["post-948065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-country","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-elizabethtown","tag-frattolin","tag-george","tag-jury","tag-lake","tag-luciano","tag-melina","tag-murder","tag-new","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-north","tag-northern","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-selection","tag-trial","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wcax","tag-york"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116953964033053570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948065","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=948065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}