Grandma who saw accused killer Luciano Frattolin wonders if could have saved his daughter
A New York grandmother who believes she spotted accused killer dad Luciano Frattolin is tormented by the thought she should have saved his 9-year-old daughter, Melina, she told The Post.
“This is really bothering me,” Rebecca Kulickowski said of driving past a “skinny, tall guy” around the same time and location as Frattolin is accused of drowning his daughter in Ticonderoga on Saturday.
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“I’ve kept playing that moment back in my head, asking why we didn’t stop?” Kulickowski said — saying is plagued by wondering, “If we had, she’d still be alive.”
Lulickowski previously revealed how she had been driving through Ticonderoga toward Schroon Lake on Saturday when she saw a Toyota Prius stopped in the road.
“It only caught my eye because as I was driving past the car, I seen a skinny, tall guy,” she told News 10. “And he was running up a hill that he was parked next to and there was a wooded area on the bottom of it,” she said.
“I just didn’t feel right, there was something about him, I don’t know, our eyes locked when I drove by, he looked at me,” she said.
The next day, Kulickowski got an Amber Alert about little Melina and immediately contacted police.
“We got an alert and I was like, ‘God no.’ I can’t even tell you what I felt in that moment, it was horrible,” she said.
The alert was triggered by the girl’s dad claiming she’d been kidnapped, which officials later said appeared to be a hoax. The alert was called off when Melina’s body was discovered pinned under a log in Eagle Lake, between Ticonderoga and Schroon Lake, close to where Kulickowski saw the suspicious man.
Frattolin, who had custody of his daughter for the week, was charged on Monday with second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse.
He is alleged to have strangled his daughter to death around an hour after she spoke to her mother, and some two and a half hours before he called in a missing persons report at around 10 p.m. Saturday.
Frattolin was arrested early on Monday morning and appeared in court later that day, when he pleaded not guilty.
He is due back in court again on Friday.
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