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Jan 19, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Stephanie Slifer
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.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
cbsnews.com | Erin Moriarty |Stephanie Slifer
Sneak peek: Unraveling the Case Against Melissa Melissa Calusinski has served 16 years of a 31-year prison sentence for the death of Benjamin Kingan, a 16-month-old whom she cared for at an Illinois day care center. She has long insisted she is innocent. "This is not where I belong," Calusinski told "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
msn.com | Stephanie Slifer
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
cbsnews.com | Stephanie Slifer
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.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
msn.com | Stephanie Slifer
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Erin Moriarty |Stephanie Slifer |Emily Wichick Hourihane
This story originally aired on Nov. 26, 2022. It was updated on July 8, 2023. Michael Politte was just 14 years old when he was charged in 1998 with murdering his mother, Rita Politte, who died after being hit in the head and set on fire in her Missouri home. More than three years after the crime, he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder, though he maintained he was innocent.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Erin Moriarty |Judy Rybak |Stephanie Slifer
This story first aired May 18. It was updated Sept. 7, 2019One year after Rachael DelTondo was shot to death, there are plenty of theories, but no arrests, leaving some to wonder if the case will ever be solved. The case shook Aliquippa and remains the ninth unsolved murder in a city with an underfunded and understaffed police department.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Erin Moriarty |Stephanie Slifer
Editor's note: On Oct. 19, 2022, Brandon Pettit's conviction was overturned after an appeals court found that his statements to police should not have been admitted at his trial. Prosecutors say they plan to retry the case. [This story first aired on May 15, 2021.]The morning of August 8, 2013 had started out full of promise for then-28-year-old Lauren Pettit, who was living in Los Angeles.
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Mar 2, 2024 | 
aol.com | Stephanie Slifer
Lyle and Erik Menendez have been behind bars in California for more than three decades for the 1989 killing of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez. They were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in the notorious case that captured the nation's attention. Now, the brothers are hoping that new evidence will reopen their case and set them free.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
cbsnews.com | Stephanie Slifer
Lyle and Erik Menendez have been behind bars in California for more than three decades for the 1989 killing of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez. They were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in the notorious case that captured the nation's attention. Now, the brothers are hoping that new evidence will reopen their case and set them free.
