Fiendish father Luciano Frattolin penned a deranged “press launch” earlier than being nabbed for murdering his 9-year-old daughter upstate — portray himself as God’s reward to mankind, jurors had been instructed Monday.
The 46-year-old accused kid-killing psycho fantasized within the twisted rambling screed that his ex-girlfriend had been hauled off to jail, he had landed a brand new spouse and he was making ready to retire from his multibillion-dollar empire to dedicate his life to elevating daughter Melina and serving to the mentally sick.
“I had my 1st child, actually from the worst ladies on the earth. Hopefully, I’ll get my second child from the very best ladies on the earth,’’ learn the creepy missive, which was riddled with unhealthy grammar and alternated between first and third individual.
“I pray twice a day to go to church on Sundays,’’ wrote the allegedly demented fallen espresso entrepreneur from Canada — whereas additionally congratulating himself for being “outgoing, good, beneficiant, and humble.”
Hailing himself as “a courageous father,’’ Frattolin added that he would “most likely the first [stet] to donate 100% of his social media revenue to charity.’’
The sick weird doc was recovered from the suspect’s rented white Toyota Prius — which he allegedly used to dump his daughter’s physique close to Ticonderoga.
The missive was learn aloud in Elizabethtown courtroom by New York State Police Investigator Brendan Frost.
Prosecutors provided no rationalization for why Frattolin wrote the undated assertion or what he meant to do with it.
Frattolin is accused of killing Melina throughout a court-approved trip in upstate New York in July 2025 earlier than concocting a false kidnapping story involving her that sparked an enormous manhunt throughout the Adirondacks.
His self-styled press launch opens with a mock breaking-news bulletin falsely asserting that his ex and Melina’s mom, Kali Galanis, had been arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in jail for terrorizing him for greater than a decade.
The doc repeatedly depicts a life in which Frattolin has full custody of Melina. It talks about acquiring an Italian passport for the 9-year-old, arranging play dates and sleepovers, discovering a brand new spouse to assist increase her and ultimately leaving Canada collectively.
It additionally claims the little woman at all times needed to be known as “Layla.”
The doc in the meantime constructs a larger-than-life model of Frattolin himself.
He portrays himself as a global enterprise titan who claims to have shelved a $15 billion challenge, spent years creating multibillion-dollar ventures throughout three continents and sacrificed extraordinary wealth to guard his daughter.
On the similar time, he recasts himself as a humanitarian.
The assertion claims Frattolin deliberate to donate 100% of the proceeds from his social media accounts and half the earnings from his espresso enterprise to United Nations mental-health applications.
It says he hoped to spend his retirement serving to folks affected by severe psychological sickness and selling mental-health consciousness around the globe.
It even consists of prolonged quotations attributed to a lawyer praising Frattolin’s parenting and accusing Galanis of manipulating the authorized system earlier than ending with Frattolin thanking “my six legal professionals and their staff” for believing in him.
He tells readers his three largest flaws are that he’s “naive, beneficiant, and half black.”
He ends with what it calls “the ethical of this story”: “By no means, ever hand over, and don’t attempt to outsmart the legislation.”
