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Murder of Sylvia Likens. 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 ...
Sylvia Likens died Oct. 26, 1965. Cause of death was determined to be brain swelling, internal hemorrhaging of the brain and shock induced by Sylvia's extensive skin damage. Sylvia also suffered ...
Sylvia Likens was just sixteen years old when she died. After enduring months of abuse, torture and humiliation, her body eventually gave up. This wasn’t just abuse from a family member as we saw in Dave Pelzer’s A Child Called “It”; thiswas torture from a neighbourhood that didn’t care about a person’s life.
Published May 20, 2023. Updated March 12, 2024. In 1965, Sylvia Likens and her sister Jenny were left in the care of family friend Gertrude Baniszewski — who tortured Likens to death and got her own children to help. Wikimedia Commons Sixteen-year-old Sylvia Likens before staying with Gertrude Bansizewski and after being tortured to death.
On October 26, 1965, police found Sylvia Likens’s emaciated corpse—covered with more than 150 wounds ranging from burns to cuts—sprawled on a filthy mattress in the Indianapolis home of 37-year-old Gertrude Baniszewski, mother of seven and the architect of the girl’s gruesome death. The details of her demise, revealed at the 1966 trial ...
Sylvia Likens spent the last weeks of her life shut in the basement of the house without access to food or water. Neighbors who were aware of Likens’ condition in the Baniszewski household had not interfered. Gertrude Baniszewski pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. She was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life ...
Sylvia Likens. In October 1965, 16-year-old Sylvia Likens died after being held captive for nearly three months. Her death sparked action across police departments, prosecution, and the halls of the Indiana General Assembly, plus movies and books. Before leaving for a lengthy work-related trip and undergoing immense financial stress, Sylvia’s ...
Sylvia Foresaw Death, Sister Sobs. Indianapolis News, May 2, 1966. The sobbing sister of Sylvia Marie Likens today quoted her as saying, "Jenny, I know you don't want me to die.
Remembering Sylvia Likens, a case that shocked Indy. James Briggs. Gertrude Baniszewski (left), in custody of a police matron, weeps after a jury delivered a guilty verdict against her and four teenagers in the torture slaying of 16-year-old Sylvia Liken on May 19, 1966. Photo: Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Images.
The 1965 case of one young girl might be one of the most horrific cases of babysitting gone wrong in recorded history. Advertisement. According to the IndiStar, a teen named Sylvia Likens, 16, and her younger sister Jenny were left in the care of her neighbor by her parents as they traveled for work.
Sylvia Likens is surely a ghost, with or without “professional paranormal investigators.” She lives on in the stories and in the books and in the true-crime watchers and in me because the case is fascinating and terrifying, and because I do not think it is as aberrant or unusual as is comforting to believe.
The crime, we would find out later, was the murder of a 16-year-old girl named Sylvia Marie Likens. Her body was found by a police officer at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 26, 1965, at a home on the 3800 block ...
All were charged with the protracted death by torture of pretty Sylvia Marie Likens, 16, who with her younger sister Jenny had boarded in the Baniszewski home. The Last Day. Though Sylvia’s fate ...
What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens's parents and Gertrude Baniszewski turned into a crime that would haunt cops, prosecutors, and a community for decades to come… When police found Sylvia's emaciated body, with a chilling message carved into her flesh, they knew that she had suffered tremendously before her ...
Released on December 4, 1985. Died on June 16, 1990. Gertrude Baniszewski (1929–1990), also known as Gertrude Wright and The Torture Mother, was an Indiana divorcee who oversaw and facilitated the prolonged torture, mutilation, and eventual murder of Sylvia Likens, a teenage girl she had taken into her home.
Sylvia Likens was 16 years old when she was tortured to death in the basement of Gertrude Baniszewski’s house. Pic credit: Family photo. Sylvia Likens, also known as “Cookie,” was a teenage girl whose tortuous murder by Gertrude Baniszewski and several other juveniles inspired the movie The Girl Next Door.
An American Crime: Directed by Tommy O'Haver. With Elliot Page, Hayley McFarland, Nick Searcy, Romy Rosemont. The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
Sylvia Likens' death at the Baniszewski house has been made into a television drama, "An American Crime," and was the premise of "The Girl Next Door," by Jack Ketchum. The Associated Press ...
Betty Likens, together with daughters Sylvia and Jenny, had recently moved into one of the many rundown, boxlike little houses in the neighborhood. Betty and Lester Likens were recently separated. The family moved often as their father searched for jobs to keep the family above water financially. They had previously resided in this very area.
Sylvia Marie Likens was an American teenager tortured to death by her mother, siblings, and even other children in the neighborhood. Being in a troubled family, Sylvia Likens received very little attention from her parents. Because of this, she began to spend more and more time with Gertrude Baniszewski, a sort of paid babysitter who would ...