When Sylvia Likens was killed, part of our childhoods died, too
But I am going to die. I can tell it." -Sylvia Likens to her sister Jenny. It was the 26th of October 1965. A Tuesday. Police received a call from fifteen year old Richard Hobbs. He told them that he believed a girl was dead. Police arrived at 3850 East New York Street, Indianapolis, United States. It was the home of thirty seven year old.
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William Oates/The Star Nov. 30, 1966. Gertrude BAniszewski says goodbye to her son John, 13, after both were sentenced May 25, 1968 in the torture slaying of 16-year old Sylvia Likens. Baniszewski.
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In July of 1965, Sylvia and her younger sister Jenny Likens moved into the home of Gertrude Baniszewski, to be cared for while their parents were working out of state. On October 26th, 1965, 16-year old Sylvia Likens succumbed to injuries from months of humiliation, neglect and torture. In this podcast, we examine the details of the case, and.
Sylvia Likens Murder Case
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. The abuse lasted for three months, occurring incrementally, before Likens died from her extensive injuries and malnourishment on October 26, 1965, in Indianapolis.
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Paula Baniszewski was part of a family notorious for torturing a teen in 1965. Oct. 24, 2012 -- An Iowa teacher's aide has been fired from her job following the revelation that she was a member of.
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Jenny Likens was a tragic witness, and sometime target, of the abuse heaped upon her sister Sylvia. It is widely believed that Sylvia took the brunt of the abuse to shield her 15-year-old sister Jenny. Jenny was younger and weaker than her big sister, having survived a bout with polio but still dealing with the after-affects..
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Sylvia Likens' death at the Baniszewski house has been made into a television drama, "An American Crime," and was the premise of "The Girl Next Door," by Jack Ketchum. The Associated Press.
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Sylvias Eltern hatten sie und ihre jüngere Schwester, Jenny Likens, im Juli bei Gertrude in Pflege gegeben. »Die Schläge und Mißhandlungen, die Sylvia während der Sommermonate erleiden mußte.
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The torture and murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens at the hands of the woman entrusted to care for her stands as one of the most harrowing and unthinkable atrocities in the annals of American crime. It is a nightmare come to life — and death — in 1965 Indianapolis.
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Additionally, Jenny Likens died on June 23, 2004. She was only 54. She had lived to watch her sister tormented to death. Unfortunately, she struggled to get through life and leave her past behind. In 2007, a movie about the murder of Sylvia Likens was released. It was titled An American Crime and starred Ellen Page and Catherine Keener.
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Fifteen-year-old Jenny had polio and wore a leg brace, so Sylvia offered to help around the Baniszewski house, making sure the chores were done for both of them. There was little discipline and the girls fitted into the family well, regularly attending church and Sunday school with Gertrude's children, Paula, 17, Stephanie, 15, John, 12.
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Jenny Likens's polio was not an old story muffled in the amnesia of her babyhood. It was an ongoing drama of hospitalizations. I can only speculate on how this affected her will to act. It was Sylvia who had been her protector. In September, the girls met their older married sister, Dianna Shoemaker, in a park. They told her that they had.
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Sylvia Likens and her sister Jenny were put into the care of their neighbour Gertrude Baniszewski, What followed was one of the most grotesque acts of abuse,.
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It was called the most terrible crime ever committed in Indiana, and half a century later, that title still holds. 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.
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Likens' father, impoverished and traveling to make a meager living for his family, had placed the girl and her sister, Jenny, in the care of Baniszewski. Bedwell, the older sister, was 18 at the.
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Dianna Bedwell, the older sister of American murder victim Sylvia Likens, survived on a tiny amount of food - including a pie and oranges - left in her car. Her husband, Cecil Knutson, died before.