Post Mortem | A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder

48 Hours

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True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.9 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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48 Hours Correspondent Erin Moriarty and Producer Stephanie Slifer discuss the death of 16-month-old Benjamin Kingan and the questionable conviction of Melissa Calusinski. They talk about the anonymous phone call that revealed a surprising discovery years after the trial, the hours-long police interrogation that led to Melissa's confession, and what's next in the case. This episode originally aired on 1/21/25. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:31.3	Welcome back to postmortem. I'm your host, Anne-Marie Green. And today we're looking at the case of Melissa Kajusinski. She was a daycare worker who was convicted of murder in 2009 in the death of a 16-month-old baby boy, Benjamin Kingin. Now, Melissa remains in prison, and she's already served 16 of the 31-year sentence that she received, but she's long insisted that she is innocent. So today, joining me is
1:40.2	48-hourst correspondent Aaron Moriarty, who has been reporting on this case for more than a decade.
1:45.7	And producer Stephanie Sleifer, who also worked on this case with us. Welcome, ladies.
1:51.3	We love being here. This is one of those very complicated cases. So an opportunity to talk more about it, I'm in.
1:59.5	Yes. Thank you so much for having us. And Stephanie, I want to thank you,
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