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.

Gertrude Baniszewski, 31, a divorced mother of six. Mrs. Baniszewski had offered to board the Likens girls, whom her children had met at a neighbor’s house, for $20 a week while their par ents ...

On October 26, 1965, Indiana caretaker Gertrude Baniszewski brutally murdered 16-year-old Sylvia Likens after torturing her for months with help from neighborhood kids.

Sylvia’s caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, claimed to police that Sylvia had been attacked by a group of boys, per the Indy Star.

Sylvia’s caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, claimed to police that Sylvia had been attacked by a group of boys, per the Indy Star. She even showed them a note, purportedly written by Sylvia, that seemed ...

Sylvia’s caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, claimed to police that Sylvia had been attacked by a group of boys, per the Indy Star.

Both Sylvia Likens and Gertrude Baniszewski are real, and the harrowing and utterly disturbing events shown in An American ...

The hosts Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat explain how 16-year-old Sylvia Likens was tortured and murdered by her caretaker, Gertrude Baniszewski.