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Victim of torture murder. 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. The abuse lasted for three months, occurring incrementally, before Likens died from her ...
An American Crime. An American Crime is a 2007 American crime drama film directed by Tommy O'Haver and starring Elliot Page [a] and Catherine Keener. The film is based on the true story of the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens by Indianapolis single mother Gertrude Baniszewski. It premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Gertrude Baniszewski was an American murderer who, with the aid of most of her own children and neighborhood children, oversaw and facilitated the prolonged torture, mutilation, and eventual murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens, a teenage girl she had taken into her home. When she was convicted of first-degree murder in 1966, the case was called ...
From the horrific murder of Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis to the I-70 Strangler, true crime fans can learn more about these cases from podcasts. Indiana true crime podcasts for your road trip: How ...
Her body was found in the desert 10 days after her abduction. The exact cause of death remains undetermined, but was ruled a homicide. [7] 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: September 15, 1963 11–14 Birmingham, Alabama Solved Four girls killed in a bombing by the Ku Klux Klan. [8] Sylvia Likens: October 26, 1965 16 Indianapolis, Indiana Solved
Jack Ketchum 's The GIRL Next Door (also known as Jack Ketchum's Evil) is a 2007 American psychological horror - thriller film directed by Gregory M. Wilson from a screenplay by Daniel Farrands and Philip Nutman. It is based on Jack Ketchum 's 1989 novel of the same name, [1] which was inspired by the real-life murder of Sylvia Likens, to whom ...
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. Jaycee Dugard , kidnappers Phillip and Nancy Garrido, Antioch, California, US, 18 years, discovered on 26 August 2009.
From the start, 14-year-old murder victim was identified as transgender. Father says that's not the case. Surveillance videos lead to charges in murder of 14-year-old Pauly Likens of Sharon