Murder of Sylvia Likens - Wikipedia 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 Torture and Murder of Sylvia Likens - True Crime Edition Sylvia Likens had been brutally abused by the woman who promised her parents she’d look after her, and she wasn’t the only one who took part in the torture — there was an entire community of people behind the cruelty
The Murder of Sylvia Likens 50 Years Later - Indianapolis Monthly 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
The Baniszewski Kids: What Happened to Them? In Indianapolis, Indiana, Sylvia Marie Likens — a young 16-year-old girl — died a brutal death on October 26, 1965, after experiencing weeks of torture and abuse When the police found her malnourished body at the Baniszewski house, it was bearing numerous injuries from burns to cuts and bruises
Sylvia Likens Murder Case - Encyclopedia of Indianapolis Sylvia Likens was a teen who was tortured and murdered in Indianapolis in the 1960s Her murderer, Gertrude Baniszewski, was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment
Sylvia Likens The Tragic Story And Its Lasting Impact Sylvia Likens, a 16-year-old girl, was subjected to unimaginable torture and abuse at the hands of Gertrude Baniszewski and her children The abuse, which took place over several months, involved physical beatings, starvation, sexual assault, and psychological torment The details are so graphic and disturbing that they remain etched in the
Sylvia Likens: The Harrowing Case of Abuse, Torture, and Murder at the . . . The horrific torture and murder of Sylvia Likens in 1965 stands as one of the darkest cases of abuse in American history Sylvia, a 16-year-old girl left in the care of Gertrude Baniszewski, endured unspeakable torture and neglect that ultimately led to her death