On Oct. 26, 1965, police found the body of Sylvia Likens, and Gertrude Baniszewski became Indy's face of evil. ... 2 Sob As They Get Life Terms In Likens Case. Indianapolis News, May 24, 1966.

This case was somehow more disturbing than other crimes, perhaps because: * The abuse was carried out not just by the caregiver — the notorious Gertrude Baniszewski — but also by her own ...

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 ...

Baniszewski had been entrusted with the care of Sylvia and her sister, Jenny, 15, in July 1965, when the girls’ parents, Lester and Betty Likens, fell on hard times and could not support their ...

With both An American Crime and The Girl Next Door being inspired by one of the most shocking crimes in US history, which is ...

Sylvia Likens, 16, died in October ... Sylvia’s caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, ... Sylvia’s case was instrumental in the Indiana law mandating that every person who knows of child abuse must ...

An American Crime is an incredibly difficult movie to watch and, unfortunately, the true story is just as harrowing - if not more so.Both Sylvia Likens and Gertrude Baniszewski are real, and the ...

Likens, 16, and her 15-year-old sister, Jenny, were sent by their parents to live with Gertrude Baniszewski and her seven children in summer 1965. Paula, then 17, was the oldest child at the house.

On this day, Oct. 26, in 1965, Sylvia Likens was tortured to death in a case that was later described by a prosecutor as "the most terrible crime ever committed in the state of Indiana." Sylvia ...

All were charged with the protracted death by torture of pretty Sylvia Marie Likens, 16, who with her younger sister Jenny had boarded in the Baniszewski home. The Last Day.