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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.
Gertrude Baniszewski, also known as The Torture Mother, was an Indiana divorcee who oversaw and facilitated the prolonged torture, mutilation, and murder of Sylvia Likens, a teenage girl she had taken into her home in 1965. Baniszewski was sentenced to life in prison.
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 20, 2023 · After being left in the care of family friend Gertrude Baniszewski, 16-year-old Sylvia Likens was brutally tortured and ultimately murdered in Indianapolis on October 26, 1965.
May 19, 2023 · 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.
Oct 24, 2013 · Gertrude and Paula Baniszewski were sentenced to life terms at the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis. The boys were sentenced to two-to-21-year terms at the Indiana State Reformatory in ...
Jul 16, 2024 · The 2007 film, ‘An American Crime,’ depicts the harrowing torture and murder of a sixteen-year-old girl, Sylvia Likens, at the hands of her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski.
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.
May 24, 2021 · Gertrude and Paula Baniszewski were sentenced to life in prison on the 25th of May 1966. Richard Hobbs, Coy Hubbard and John Baniszewski Jr. were given 2- 21 years in prison at the Indiana Reformatory due to their ages.
Oct 23, 2015 · Indianapolis Star, Oct. 31, 1965. Gertrude Baniszewski told police that Sylvia had spread rumors at Tech High School that two of the mother's children by a previous marriage, Paula Baniszewski,...
