Overview
- Luciano Frattolin is charged with second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse in the death of his nine-year-old daughter, Melina, and has pleaded not guilty.
- Prosecutors presented autopsy findings that ruled drowning the cause of death and played dive-team and scene evidence showing the body partially covered by a fallen tree with a rock on the chest.
- The prosecution showed a lengthy route-recreation video and recorded interrogations that it says expose inconsistencies in Frattolin’s claim that two men in a white van abducted his daughter.
- The defense called witnesses but Frattolin did not testify and both sides made final arguments before the judge instructed the jury to begin deliberations.
- Frattolin remains held without bail and a verdict will decide whether he faces a possible conviction and sentence while the case continues to draw attention in Montreal, where the family lives.