Police have charged Melina's father Luciano Frattolin with murder in the case. The medical examiner said her death was a homicide and caused by drowning.

GLENS FALLS - Melina Galanis Frattolin, the 9-year-old subject of a weekend Amber Alert which triggered a frantic, region-wide search before her father was later arrested and charged with her murder, died by drowning, State Police announced Tuesday afternoon.

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.

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

A Lake George hotel owner believes he may have stumbled upon a crucial piece of evidence in the case of 9-year-old Melina Frattolin —

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,

A Canadian man was charged with murder in the death of his 9-year-old daughter in upstate New York, authorities said. Her body was found in a shallow pond.