A 9-year-old girl from Canada found dead in an upstate New York pond after her father reported her missing was drowned, according to preliminary autopsy results released

The preliminary findings of the autopsy, which were released on Tuesday but will have to be confirmed by further laboratory testing, found she died by asphyxia due to drowning and her death was a homicide.

A Montreal businessman has been charged with second-degree murder and the concealment of a corpse after the body of his nine-year daughter, Melina, was found over the weekend in New York state, where the two were are vacation.

Luciano Frattolin, a Montreal entrepreneur who once proudly highlighted his devotion to his daughter and commitment to socially conscious business values, is now at the center of a heartbreaking and deeply disturbing criminal case in upstate New York.

A Quebec man has been charged with killing his nine-year-old daughter in upstate New York and then disposing of her body.