Free Melissa Calusinski
Melissa Calusinski is a young lady who worked for a daycare in IL. She was wrongfully convicted and put in jail for a murder of a child as a daycare worker. If justice doesn’t prevail she will spend up to 31 years for a crime which I feel she did not do! She was interrogated for hours . She has a disability which caused her to not understand what was going on during this interrogation or interview. We feel was badgered to admit she did the crime. The catch is, as more evidence came out the cause of the child’s death is Not the cause of his death, proving she did Not murder this child. Xrays of childs brain that surfaced proves this to be so. She has been interviewed on TV episodes. We need a new trial hearing which allows the new evidence to be seen.
THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO WATCH THE 48 HOURS PROGRAMS ON MELISSA HERE ARE THE LINKS!
Here again are the programs Blaming Melissa and The Fight for Melissa from 48 hours in case you would like to watch them again or share them with your family or friends. Pass the word around share this with everyone you know!!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-melissa-calusinski-was-a-day-care-worker-coerced-into-a-murder-confession/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-fight-for-melissa-calusinski-was-day-care-worker-convicted-in-toddler-ben-kingans-death-wrongly-convicted/
In 2009 a young woman working at an Illinois daycare was coerced into confessing to murdering a 16 month old. Her case was recently aired on 48 hours. The court documents and interrogation can be found online. I don't personally know her, but felt enraged after the case was presented. She was interrogated for 9 hours and after out loud dening any wrong doing 79 times, she confessed. During the interrogation she was lead by police, bullied, sworn at, and denied use of the bathroom. Melissa has a low verbal IQ which means it is hard for her to express herself. It also affects her interpretation of what others say. In this case law enforcement preyed on that. Her confession had many discrepancies including her claiming there was another caregiver just feet away when she tossed the child on the ground. That women denies seeing anything like that. Her confession changes several times, before she ultimately recants. Besides the confession the only other evidence in the case is the coroner's report stating the child had a skull fracture that had occured that day. Based on that alone Melissa Calusinski was convicted of first degree murder and was sentenced to serve 31 years in prison. Years later the new coroner took a look at this case and determine the skull fracture was healing at the time of death meaning it was an old injury. Upon further investigation it was discovered that weeks before the death daycare workers had noticed a large bump on the child's head. The new coroner believes that that bump caused some kind of brain injury that eventually cased death. Even with this new evidence the District Attorney refuses to reopen the case. I believe she is innocent and at the very least deserves a new trial. I think that with some public out cry we can get this young women some justice. Melissa is current being represented by Kathleen Zellner a Chicago lawyer who has gained the exoneration and release of 17 men. The fact that Zellner has taken on the case says a lot about Melissa's innocence. Zellner is also very well known for her work on the Steven Avery case. Avery has recently gained much notoriety from the Netflix documentary series "Making a Murderer." She is currently representing Avery as well as Melissa Calusinski.
IF YOU WANT TO WRITE TO MELISSA HERE IS THE ADDRESS: MELISSA CALUSINSKI R88005
LOGAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER PO Box 1000 LINCOLN, IL 62656
Make sure to put that number next to her name!
Here is Paul's address if you want to send magazines or soft covered books to him to give to Melissa:
PAUL CALUSINSKI 528 APACHE AVE. CARPENTERSVILLE IL 60110 You can also send MONEY ORDERS to Paul and Cheryl at this address.
You can also send funds to Melissa through Kathleen Zellner. How to do it that way is posted below:
Make it out to Kathleen and put in the memo that it is for Melissa Calusinski. It might even be a good idea to put a little note with it just to make sure she knows it is for Melissa's fund!
Kathleen T. Zellner & Associates
1901 Butterfield Road, Suite 650
Downers Grove, IL 60515
Below I have added important links.
Here are the excerpts from the interrogation tapes:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/questioning-melissa-calusinski/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/questioning-melissa-calusinski/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/questioning-melissa-calusinski/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/questioning-melissa-calusinski/
Here is the Twitter Feed her Zellner's office put together:
https://twitter.com/MelissaCJustice
Here is Zellner's Twitter Feed if you would like to follow that also: https://twitter.com/ZellnerLaw
Melissa's public FB page put together by her attorneys https://www.facebook.com/
We will fight for her until she comes home. From Melissa aunt-She was wrongly accused she would never hurt a child. Hopefully we can bring her to justice and help all the others out there who have been wrongly convicted! She has a great defense team with Kathleen Zellner in charge.
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