Authorities say the father initially said his daughter had been kidnapped, triggering an Amber Alert and multi-state investigation.

State Police went over their process for issuing Amber Alerts in the wake of this weekend’s notification of a missing 9-year-old who later was found dead. Many people received the alert on their phone around 1:30 a.

New York State Police say just before 10 p.m. Saturday, Warren County 911 received a call from Canadian resident 45-year-old Luciano Frattolin reporting his 9-year-old daughter Melina Frattolin missing in a possible abduction, leading to an AMBER alert being issued.

An IAN Alert was issued in Kentucky on Tuesday for a missing 5-year-old boy, and now troopers say he has been found dead.

Police in Warren County issued an AMBER Alert early Sunday for a young girl that was missing. Sources have confirmed to NewsChannel 13’s Mark Mullholland that the girl has been found dead. Police have not yet released any information about where the child was found dead.

A Canadian man was charged with murder in the death of his 9-year-old daughter in upstate New York, authorities said. Her body was found in a shallow pond.