The Fight for Melissa
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Real people, real crimes, real life drama. Melissa Caluszinski is innocent. She should be freed now. Tonight, new developments in the fight to free Melissa. I didn't do anything. She didn't do it. She's not a baby killer. She's a good kid. I would never do anything to a child. I would never do that, ever. Now, a new hearing could set her free. A suburban woman serving a 31-year sentence for the 2009 death of a toddler could get a new trial. I can't wait for my baby to come home. This is my time to let everybody know, and for my lawyers, to show everybody that I do not commit this crime. What she told the police was that she threw him to the floor. You threw him on the floor? Yeah, really hard. Showing how hard you threw him on the ground. Who went like that? Melissa says, "The confession is false." I'm not a baby killer. Nobody was understand. Unless you've been through it. People don't know the facts. The prosecution says Melissa fractured Ben's skull. This child had a fractured skull. There was extensive injuries to this child internally. It's clear that she killed Benjamin. The entire case was based on there being a skull fracture. How wrong were they state's medical witnesses? They were very wrong. There's definitely no skull fracture here. Did someone tamper with Ben's x-rays? So this is the original. That's your original. This is what the defense team was given. This is what the defense team was given. They were manipulated, and what our computer experts been able to do is reveal how it was done. Why would someone want to do that? To obscure whether there was a skull fracture. Was a prosecution witness telling the truth? He talked about the violent trauma, the raggedy fracture. He touched it. He looked at it. It was unbelievable what he saw. The only problem is he never saw any of it. You believe he bent the truth to help the prosecution convict someone. I believe he flat out lied. What does this revelation at this hearing mean for Melissa's case? Saver life. Saver from a life in prison. I'm Erin Moriarty. Tonight I'm 48 hours. The fight for Melissa. [music] [music] Every day Melissa Kalyuzinski wakes up in an Illinois prison, a convicted child killer. I had nothing to do with it, and I'm going to keep continuing to say that. Because I had nothing to do with Ben's stuff. In January 2009, 16-month-old Benjamin Kingen died after being in daycare. Melissa, the last person to care for him, was found guilty of his murder two years later.
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A day care worker says she loved kids, yet she's in prison for killing one.