MONTREAL - On a nice day in July 2025, a man and his daughter were nearing the end of their trip to the United States, with the girl set to return home to Montreal that night. She never made it back. Her father reported her missing and her body was found, hours later, in a marsh in rural New York.

On Aug. 10, Luciano Frattolin was found guilty of the murder of his nine-year-old daughter, Melina Frattolin, and of concealment of her corpse.