Police are on the Adirondack Northway to look for evidence related to their investigation in to the death of 9-year-old Melina Frattolin.

Alleged killer dad Luciano Frattolin didn’t like being “tied down” by his young daughter, whom he sometimes only saw once a year, according to a former friend. Frattolin, 45, who

State Police are searching the path Luciano Frattolin may have taken along the Northway before his daughter was killed this weekend.

A community shaken after nine-year-old Melina Frattolin was found dead in the small New York town of Ticonderoga on Sunday. Her death was ruled a homicide. Her father, Luciano Frattolin of Montreal is being charged in her death.

TICONDEROGA, NY — Hundreds of locals from the close-knit upstate community where 9-year-old Melina Frattolin was allegedly murdered by her father mourned the little girl in a heartbreaking vigil Tuesday.

Luciano, who divorced Melina's mother in 2019, stopped answering the mom's messages after she asked one heartbreaking question.

A 9-year-old girl from Canada found dead in an upstate New York pond after her father reported her missing was drowned, according to preliminary autopsy results released Tuesday. Luciano Frattolin, 45,