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Sylvia Marie Likens (January 3, 1949 – October 26, 1965) was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighborhood friends.
In 1965, a pair of professional carnival workers named Lester and Betty Likens have two children, sixteen-year-old Sylvia Likens and Jenny, her disabled fifteen-year-old sister. Lester and Betty need to go on tour so they ask Gertrude Baniszewski to care for their children. Gertrude is a church acquaintance and the mother to Paula, Johnny ...
Likens’ cellphone last communicated with cell towers in the area around 3:40 a.m., before its service was cut, according to the complaint. Likens’ phone has yet to be recovered.
English: Sylvia and Jenny Likens, pictured with three friends in Long Beach, California, Easter Sunday 1965, as depicted in the Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis Star on 15 May 1966. Direct link here Date
Feb. 22—A Hermitage woman is facing charges after officers with the Humane Society of Mercer County removed about 28 animals from her home. Joyce Likens, 70, of 1849 N. Water Ave., Hermitage, is ...
An image of Jenny Joseph modeling for a reference photo used by artist Michael Deas as the basis for the Columbia Pictures logo, shot in the New Orleans apartment of photographer Kathy Anderson ...
An American Crime: A film which leans more in the direction of a true crime portrayal of Likens's murder. This film was scheduled for release at roughly the same time, but was not released until a Showtime premiere on May 10, 2008.
Douglas Garland was the brother-in-law of Alvin's son Allen. Prior to the murders he had been convicted for running a meth lab on the rural property he lived on with his parents, [6] and had used the stolen identity of a teenager who died in a car crash in Cardston to evade the law throughout the 1990's. [7]