Melissa Calusinski, a day care worker imprisoned for murder, hopes Illinois governor will free her based on new evidence
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Former day care worker Melissa Calusinski has served 16 years of a 31-year prison sentence for a crime she insists she didn't commit — a murder that may not have even happened.
She was convicted in 2011, at the age of 25, of murdering Benjamin Kingan, a 16-month-old whom she cared for at an Illinois day care center. Over the years, her appeals have failed, but as "48 Hours" reports in a broadcast airing Saturday, Jan. 18 at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount +, she has now taken her fight out of the court system and straight to the Illinois Governor JB Pritzker.
This is a case "48 Hours'" correspondent Erin Moriarty has been reporting on for more than a decade, and Moriarty's latest report, "Unraveling the Case Against Melissa," features new interviews and never-before-reported information.
