Melissa Calusinski interrogation: Six hours later | Forensic Files

we want to clear the air and we want to know now because now it's credible in a few days it's not gonna be properly I to
be honest I have yelled like said not nice but he was sitting up and he just like drops and like you like I heard him
hit his head the extent of the injury under no circumstances to be caused by their minor above an event phone bill
please don't make us drag everything makes it seem like it's okay but you gotta tell us this how high off the
ground you think he was this is all going to make sense don't exaggerate story the doctor
showing us that there's a lot more to this than just that there just didn't closet I dropped him I admit that
how hard did you drop him though that's a big deal in here that's the big deal how hard did you drop him I just let go
of him how far up I mean this is a bad bad injury this is a skull fracture that story you're giving us is a longish now
we're at a point where this is absolutely quick that may have happened yeah that may have happened but that's
not what caused the injury I don't know what caused the injury that's what happened I don't know what caused the
injury you're crossing the line now into intent now I'm gonna have to start believing that you're completely
covering up something that won't be rolling I don't know all you need to do is tell us the truth and we're done
we're not going anywhere until we get the facts you don't make me please don't make me call the state's attorney with
all this garbage it's a prosecute it's a person who decides if you should get charged with
the remaining or not you know being charted a crime is in this since it's not good no I know we need to
know what happened and we need to move on from there

Melissa Calusinski was 22 when she was accused of taking the life of a toddler in her care in 2009. Initially, she insisted to investigators that she had nothing to do with the crime, but after six hours of questioning, her story changed.

Brief Summary

A tense discussion about a serious skull fracture injury and the need for truth.

Key points

The Injury Revelation. A serious skull fracture raises urgent questions about how it happened.
The Truth Demand. The tension escalates as the need for honesty becomes critical.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

We want to clear the air.

WatchMar 1, 2015

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