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Sylvia Likens 1965 file photo. A clipping on the arrest of Gertrude Baniszewski for the Oct. 26, 1965 murder of Sylvia Likens. Sylvia Likens was reported to have slept under this stairway.
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.
May 24, 2021 · 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.
May 20, 2023 · 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.
Aug 27, 2013 · RetroIndy: Torture death of Sylvia Likens. It has been the most enduring nightmare in Indianapolis True Crime history -- the Oct. 26, 1965 torture-murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens....
Oct 23, 2015 · Indianapolis Star, April 30, 1966. A weeping Jenny Likens was led from Criminal Court Division 2 yesterday as huge photographs of the fantastically mutilated nude body of her sister were...
May 19, 2023 · 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.
