Grandma who saw accused killer dad Luciano Frattolin tormented by thought she could have saved his daughter
'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.
'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.'
4 Luciano Frattolin has been accused of drowning his daughter after reporting a hoax kidnapping.
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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.
4 Rebecca Kulickowski told The Post she keeps replaying the moment she saw him in her head.
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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.
4 Little Melina Frattolin's body was found in Eagle Lake pinned under a log on Sunday.
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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.
4 Frattolin appeared in court on Monday charged with murder and concealment of a corpse.
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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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