Melisa McManus

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Clara Rector

In April 2004, friends of 48-year-old Tommy Hope became concerned after not hearing from him for several days. When they went to his Camdenton, Missouri, home, they discovered Tommy brutally murdered inside. Investigators learned that Tommy’s troubled past, struggles with addicti ...  Show more

Eric Plunkett and Benjamin Varner

Gallaudet University freshman Eric Plunkett was beaten and strangled to death inside his dorm room just weeks after arriving on campus. Months later, fellow freshman Benjamin Varner was found brutally murdered in the same dorm, leaving the close-knit university terrified that a k ...  Show more

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Murder Made Me Famous: "Prom Mom" Melissa Drexler
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18-year-old Melissa Drexler attended high school in New Jersey where she was impregnated by her boyfriend in 1997. Ignoring her stomach cramps, Drexler arrived at her school’s Prom and gave birth to her son in a bathroom stall. The miraculous moment turned into murder when the te ...  Show more

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Melissa was 15 years old when she found out her father was a serial killer, and the news couldn’t have arrived at a worse time: she just found out she was pregnant. Melissa confronts her high school boyfriend to get a better grasp on the time.

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January 14, 2009, Lincolnshire, IL. At the Minee Subee Daycare, 16-month-old Ben Kingan crawled to a bouncy chair, fell asleep, and never regained consciousness. The cause of death was ruled a homicide due to a skull fracture and brain bleeding from blunt force trauma to the head ...  Show more

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48 Hours Correspondent Erin Moriarty and Producer Stephanie Slifer discuss the death of 16-month-old Benjamin Kingan and the questionable conviction of Melissa Calusinski. They talk about the anonymous phone call that revealed a surprising discovery years after the trial, the hou ...  Show more