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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 ...
Sylvia Marie Likens (January 3, 1949 – October 26, 1965) was the third of five children born to carnival workers Lester Cecil Likens (1926–2013) and his wife, Elizabeth "Betty" Frances (née Grimes; 1927–1998).
Jayme Closs, kidnapped after her parents' murder and held for 88 days, discovered on 10 January 2019.; Murder of Sylvia Likens, a teenager tortured and repeatedly held captive in the basement by her caretaker and her children and their friends for three months, discovered on 26 October 1965.
Nearly every year (the Covid-19 pandemic years notwithstanding) the city of New Orleans descends in to a chaotic flurry of crowds, colorful masks, and beads galore all in celebration of Mardi Gras.
A 70-year-old convicted serial killer from Lake Elsinore has confessed to another slaying in Southern California, putting an end to a decades-old cold case, authorities announced Tuesday.
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has been imprisoned for nearly 50 years.. Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band ...
(a.) The Petitioner was not required to lay a preliminary foundation for his motion, showing inconsistency between the contents of the reports and the testimony of the government agents, because a sufficient foundation was established by their testimony that their reports were of the events and activities related in their testimony. [2] (b.)
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.