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
Melissa Calusinski, a day care worker imprisoned for murder, hopes Illinois governor will free her based on new evidence
