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Woman Freed After 17 Years of Imprisonment Dyes Hair to Mark Fresh Start

Mitch de Leon   |

Oct 12, 2014 11:52 PM EDT

Nothing beats a new hairstyle to mark the beginning of a new chapter in any girl's life. On her first day of living as a liberated woman, Susan Mellen visited a hair salon to have her hair colored. Wasting no more time following the 17 years she spent in prison for a crime she did not commit, the 59-year-old wrongly convicted woman strode towards May Hair Salon and sought the expertise of Eby Carillo, a hair stylist.