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    An American Crime

    R2007 · Crime drama · 1h 38m

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  1. 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.

  2. An American Crime is a 2007 American crime drama film directed by Tommy O'Haver and starring Elliot Page 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.

  3. 4 days ago · The Real-Life Abuse Case at the Heart of An American Crime. Written by director Tommy O’Haver and his co-writer Irene Turner, ‘An American Crime’ is based on a 1965 true crime event involving the abuse and murder of a 16-year-old girl, Sylvia Marie Likens. Aware of the story, O’Haver wanted to bring Sylvia’s life to the screen by ...

  4. Oct 21, 2015 · 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.

  5. 2 days ago · The True Story Behind An American Crime and The Girl Next Door. The crime that rocked the people of Indianapolis, Indiana in 1965, the murder of Sylvia Likens was a case of such brutal excess that ...

  6. Dec 7, 2007 · 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.

  7. Oct 24, 2013 · It has been the most enduring nightmare in Indianapolis True Crime history — the Oct. 26, 1965, torture-murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens.

  8. Jan 30, 2023 · An American Crime: The movie depicts the true story of Sylvia Likens. An American Crime was directed by Tommy O’Haver. It was released in 2007, and it sheds light on Sylvia’s life as well as the events that led up to her death.

  9. In December 1965, a grand jury indicted Gertrude Baniszewski, her daughters Paula, 17, and Stephanie, 15, and her son John Jr., 12, and two neighbors, Coy Hubbard and Richard Hobbs, both 15, on charges of first-degree murder. The highly publicized April 1966 murder trial drew national attention.

  10. The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s. Based on a true story that shocked the nation in 1965, the film recounts one of the most shocking crimes ever committed against a single victim.

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