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Dec 10, 2019 · 9 The Murder of Sylvia Likens. The brutal and cruel murder of Slyvia Likens still disturbs Indiana more than fifty years later. In 1965, police officers found the body of 16-year-old Likens laid on a filthy mattress; she was covered in more than 150 burns and cuts.
Oct 25, 2015 · Before us were copies of crime scene photos. 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...
Sylvia Likens was a happy, beautiful 16-year-old when her parents left her and her sister in the care of Gertrude Baniszewski while they went on the road for work. Within a few short months, Sylvia was beaten, humiliated, and ultimately left to die from neglect and severe abuse.
Jan 29, 2024 · On October 26, 1965, Sylvia Likens was discovered dead at Gertrude Baniszewski’s house. She was brutally beaten and was found to be tortured and murdered. Gertrude presented the authorities...
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- Apoorva Jujjavarapu
Sylvia is burned, bruised, beaten and sodomized, the horrors magnified by the viral quality of her steward’s sadism. Before long, it isn’t merely Baniszewski drawing the blood, but her lot of...
Apr 17, 2020 · Several adolescents in the neighborhood were involved in the constant abuse of Sylvia – punching, gagging, kicking, humiliating her, scalding her with hot water, burning her with cigarettes, and...
Apr 23, 2010 · The installation marks Millett’s response to the horrific 1965 torture and murder of sixteen-year-old Sylvia Likens by the Baniszewski family and their neighborhood friends.
