A 9-year-old Canadian tourist was found dead in upstate New York Sunday afternoon — hours after an apparently bogus kidnapping report from her father, cops said. Melina Galanis Frattolin’s ...

Cathy Krauseneck was found dead in bed in Brighton, New York, with an ax still lodged in her head when first responders ...

Luciano Frattolin — a 45-year-old debt-riddled neat-freak — was charged with second-degree murder and unlawful disposal of a corpse after the tragic child was found dead in a shallow waterway ...

Police say girl found dead in upstate New York, no signs of possible abduction as father reported The death of a 9-year-old girl whose father initially said she was missing and possibly abducted ...

The child was identified as Melina Frattolin, age 9, and the caller as her father, Luciano Frattolin, age 45, both residents of Canada," a New York State police press release says.

The death of a 9-year-old girl whose father initially said she was missing and possibly abducted is being investigated amid what New York State Police call inconsistencies in the father's account.