Melina Frattolin’s killer dad Luciano kept bizarre notes, condoms in rental car used to dump 9-year-old’s body: prosecutors
Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesELIZABETHTOWN, NY – Luciano Frattolin appeared to be hatching a diabolical plan to regain custody of his daughter based on newly revealed notes presented in court Thursday that police found the night the killer dad is accused of murdering the 9-year-old.
Frattolin penned a bizarre 10-year “father’s report” that was stashed in the glovebox of his rental car along with scribbled notes for “Plan A” and “Plan B,” according to the evidence presented by prosecutors on Day 6 of the murder trial in Essex County Court.
A cryptic document titled “closure/confession” was also found in the Toyota Prius where Melina Frattolin was last seen before authorities allege her father dumped her body in a muddy swamp in the Adirondacks on July 19, 2025.
Frattolin, 45, is charged with his daughter’s grisly murder.
“Kali is simply the queen of evil,” Luciano slammed his ex-wife in a draft press release addressed to Canadian media outlets — in the event that he won custody of his daughter — that was discovered by authorities in a pile of documents.
“You were not supposed to be a mother for a reason,” the “confession” note, an apparent transcript of a fight between Frattolin and Kali reads, though it’s unclear if the dispute ever actually took place.
“Death is better than living with you. Your Dad is the only one who can control you,” one part of the brutal transcript reads.
“The problem was never me it was always your mental illness.”
Included in the trove of documents discovered by authorities — most of which was stashed in an Ikea grocery bag — were user manuals for a Porsche, pictures of his ex-wife and baby photos of Melina.
The findings introduced by the prosecution drew pushback from Frattolin’s legal team, causing his attorneys to raise objections that Judge Tatiana Cottinger overruled only after 25 minutes of closed-door deliberations.
The items were discovered while police scoured the rental car for clues hours after Frattolin reported his daughter’s bogus kidnapping on July 19, 2025, by men in a white van along the side of Interstate 87, triggering an amber alert.
Frattolin was arrested on July 21, 2025.
State police investigator Jacalyn Sommer, who led the team digging through the Prius, provided testimony to accompany dozens of photographs snapped of Frattolin and Melina’s belongings that were shown to jurors.
The dad’s bags included a laptop and several condoms in gold packaging.
Sommer told the courtroom that several items of clothing, including two stained pairs of Melina’s underpants and a pair of shorts and shirt belonging to Frattolin, showed signs of “seminal fluid.”
The underwear was sent to a forensics lab for further testing, but an investigator who testified earlier in the trial said “there was no semen found in that underwear.”
Luciano’s clothing has not been tested further, Sommer added.
Frattolin is due back in court Friday.
