Post Mortem | Unraveling the Case Against Melissa
48 Hours
CBS News
3.9 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 27 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.
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| 0:52.7 | Welcome back to postmortem. I'm your host, Anne-Marie Green. And today we're looking at the case of Melissa Kajusinski. |
| 0:57.1 | She was a daycare worker who was convicted of murder in 2009 in the death of a 16-month-old baby boy, Benjamin Kingin. |
| 1:02.1 | Now, Melissa remains in prison, |
| 1:04.1 | and she's already served 16 of the 31-year sentence that she received, |
| 1:10.6 | but she's long insisted that she is innocent. So today, |
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