Mom Accused Of Murdering Her Newborn Let Out On $5,000 Bond, Gets Pregnant Again.
GRACE: After a judge lets her loose, she walks free on bond after she`s charged with murdering her first baby, 26-year-old Melissa Mitin gets pregnant again. Tonight in a shocking turn, another baby, a second baby is gone. Mitin`s brand new infant son goes missing. Mitin refusing to reveal where the second baby is and tonight, she`s caught on video flashing a big smile for the cameras.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A mom accused of murdering her newborn is let out on a $5,000 bond, gets pregnant and has another baby that`s gone missing.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She doesn`t remember. She didn`t know where the baby was.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now, Mitin is back behind bars but her newborn son is still missing.</s>GRACE: Okay, it`s hard for me to take in, Steve Gruber, host of the Steve Gruber Show, Michigan Talk Network. Steve, that she actually is charged. Okay, there is the smile. She`s ready for her close up. She`s actually charged with killing the first infant after giving birth. Then a judge lets her out. She walks free on bond. I can`t wait to hear who that judge was. Lets her walk free and she immediately gets pregnant again. I guess this is the one where she says, I didn`t know I was pregnant. You know what, I don`t know how that`s possible, but then the second baby goes missing, a little infant baby boy. What is going on, Steve Gruber? Not one but two infants dead?</s>STEVE GRUBER, HOST OF STEVE GRUBER SHOW: Nancy, it`s pretty clear here. This is a mom who didn`t want to be a mom. She was more interested in putting two babies in the garbage. I mean, let`s be honest here, she`s out like you said on bond for murdering her infant daughter who her mother, the daughter`s grandmother, finds in the trash can of their friend`s house upside down -- umbilical cord, placenta -- just a horrifying scene. And then she`s released on bond for $5,000 as you mentioned Nancy. While she`s out, they figure out she`s not acting quite properly and through the course of their investigation, to find out she`s pregnant in early December -- 35 weeks pregnant. A couple of --</s>GRACE: Thirty five weeks pregnant. That`s kind of hard to believe you`re 35 weeks pregnant and you don`t know anything about it. What you`re seeing right there is the actual trash bin where the first baby was killed. Justin Freiman, how was the first baby killed?</s>JUSTIN FREIMAN, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Well Nancy, the first baby was killed and it was put in this trash bag in a can where family members were staying with a friend and the family members actually found it there and of course, as we know, down the road she`s accused of placing another baby in trash.</s>GRACE: Joe Scott Morgan joining me, certified death investigator and professor of forensics at Jacksonville State University. The first baby, the little baby girl was reportedly put face down and then smashed down in this trash can in these people`s home in their bathroom, that she gives birth, doesn`t tell anybody about it and murders the baby. Now, how does that work?</s>MORGAN: Well, the baby is placed face down in a trash can, Nancy, and the baby was breathing at the time. The child would have died as a result of what`s called positional asphyxia. That means literally, the baby was suffocated by its own weight being pressed down into the trash. As we all know, infants can`t move very well, wouldn`t have been able to move its head to the left or the right so that it could breathe. Horrible way to die.</s>GRACE: Everyone, you are seeing the trash can that was brought into court where the first baby was killed. Marc Klaas joining me, president and founder of Klaas Kids Foundation. How did a judge let her walk on bond after murdering a baby? If she had murdered an adult that would never have happened.</s>KLAAS: Yeah, there`s no question about that, Nancy and I think this is more about murdering an individual than having a baby because there is a million ways that one cannot have a baby this (ph). I mean you can start with an abortion. You can give it away for adoption. You can leave it at a police station. There is so many ways to deal with this. This woman simply wanted to kill someone and the easiest way for her to do that without even leaving her own bedroom was to give birth, twice.</s>GRACE: Unleash the Lawyers, Robin Ficker, defense attorney out of Maryland, Austin Dove, defense attorney out of L.A. First to you Mr. Ficker, at this point, she`s a serial killer. She is lying about the second baby, refusing to reveal where it is, claiming I don`t recall. How can you not recall where your second baby is after you`ve already been charged with killing your first baby?</s>ROBIN FICKER, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: We need a psychological evaluation. Obviously, this is a case of postpartum depression. You see her smiling but she`s not smiling inside. She has a very serious psychological problem. It`s evident, I`m sure you can see it, Nancy.</s>GRACE: No, actually. I can`t see it. What I do see is a woman that has the blood of two infants on her hands. Okay Dove, what`s your defense?</s>AUSTIN DOVE, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: listen, Nancy, any thorough defense goes back -- you have to rewind the clock and go back into what is inside of her mind? We conclude just by the presence of the baby and the circumstances that this is a foregone conclusion that is murder. We got to back the tape up and really look what was in her mind? Every defense --</s>GRACE: That`s not true.</s>DOVE: -- as it happens, starts in the mind. We got to be -- yes, there are also ...</s>GRACE: Hold on, Austin. Hold on.</s>DOVE: There are also outward manifestations but you got to look back and say what happened in her mind. And as my colleague pointed out, there could be something to do with postpartum depression ...</s>GRACE: Could be. Okay, Austin.</s>DOVE: ... infirmities envision her mind that has this act to happen. The downside way before the ...</s>GRACE: Austin, you`ve said the same thing like four times in a row, something about rewinding a tape. Okay, let me remind both of you of the law. Just because you want to be the way you`re saying, that doesn`t mean that`s what the law is. The law states in black and white that the state is not required to prove motive. That is the law. The law does not require anyone to get into the mind of a defendant and figure out why. As a matter of fact, Patricia Saunders, clinical psychologist who I`m really worried about their state of mind is Judge Mark Bloomer, the magistrate that let this woman go on $5,000 bond, which equals in our world $500. She walks free, rushes out, there you go -- thanks, judge and she gets pregnant again. I guess she doesn`t know where babies come from because she says she didn`t know she was pregnant at 35 weeks. Okay, it`s just a big lie and now is refusing to reveal where the baby is. Patricia, did you see where she told someone behind bars about killing the baby?</s>PATRICIA SAUNDERS, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: Yes, I did. She`s lying through her teeth. You know, it`s embarrassing and absurd that a defense attorney would talk about this woman having postpartum depression. She shows no signs of it. We`ve read nothing about it. Her defense attorneys would trap that out immediately. She was also found competent to stand trial. The issue is --</s>GRACE: I`m glad you brought that up, Dr. Saunders.</s>SAUNDERS: Yes.</s>GRACE: Competent to stand trial. That means her defense shrink, her psychiatrist or psychologist has said she`s competent to stand trial. The state has and probably a court-appointed psychiatrist has done the same. So, all this business about debilitating depression is not true.</s>SAUNDERS: No, it`s not and there is no way that they can try the Hail Mary pass of an insanity defense.</s>GRACE: You know, Steve Gruber joining me. Steve, why did a judge let her walk free on a $500 bond after killing the first baby only for her to get pregnant and kill the second baby? Why?</s>GRUBER: Well, you know, that`s going to be a hard question to answer and that`s a question that magistrate`s going to have to answer now in the light of this evidence.</s>GRACE: Let`s remember, American hero Army Private First Class Anthony Alex Gaunky, just 19 -- Sparta, Wisconsin, bronze star purple heart, loved Star Wars, Monty Python, and riding bike trails. Donated his organs so others can live including an 11-year-old little girl. Parents Lorrie and David, three brothers. Anthony Alex Gaunky, American hero. Thank you for being with us. Nancy Grace signing off. I`ll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp eastern and until then, good night friend. END