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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.
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.
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.
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.
Aug 27, 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. File Photo. The corner home of Gertrude...
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...
