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House of Evil: The Indiana Torture Slaying (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

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At a formal pretrial hearing held on March 16, 1966, several psychiatrists testified before Judge Saul Isaac Rabb as to their conclusions regarding psychiatric evaluations they had conducted upon three individuals indicted in Likens's murder. These experts testified that all three were mentally competent to stand trial. [111] Trial [ edit ] a b "The Torturing Death of Sylvia Marie Likens: Was She a Masochist?". TruTV Crime Library. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Wilson, Colin (1985). Encyclopedia of Modern Murder: 1962–1982. Bonanza Books. ISBN 978-0-517-66559-6.

Richard Hobbs died of lung cancer on January 2, 1972, at the age of 21—less than four years after his release from the Indiana Reformatory. In the years between his release from the Indiana Reformatory and his death, he is known to have suffered at least one nervous breakdown. [176] As previously instructed by Gertrude, Jenny Likens recited the rehearsed version of events leading to Likens's death to police, before whispering to the officers: "You get me out of here and I'll tell you everything." [95] [94] Bowman, Forrest Jr. (2014). Sylvia: The Likens Trial. California: CreateSpace. ISBN 978-1-502-58263-8. Well thanks for your input Diane your right that house is touched by evil by some dark sinnister fear and that fear seems to have been neatly wrapped up inside a b c "Life Sentences for Torture Murder". The Canberra Times. May 26, 1966 . Retrieved March 27, 2019.In response to questioning relating to whether she had physically abused the Likens sisters, Gertrude claimed that although she had "started to spank" Likens on one occasion, she was emotionally unable to finish doing so, and had not hit the child on any further occasions. [127] She denied any knowledge of Likens having ever endured any beating, scalding, branding, or burning within her home. [128] Gertrude later taunted Likens by claiming she would never be able to marry due to the words carved on her stomach, stating: "Sylvia, what are you going to do now? You can't get married now. What are you going to do?" [74] Weeping, Likens replied, "I guess there's nothing I can do." [75] Later that day, Likens was forced to display the carving to neighborhood children, with Gertrude claiming she had received the inscription at a sex party. [76] The injuries discovered upon and around Likens's fingernails would later be described as most likely having been inflicted via her "desperate scratching motions" at the trial of her tormentors and murderers. [60] a b Flowers, R. Barri; Flowers, H. Lorraine (January 2004). Murders in the United States: Crimes, Killers and Victims of the Twentieth Century. Taos, New Mexico: Paradise House Press. p.120. ISBN 0-7864-2075-8.

Although exuberant, Likens always kept her mouth closed when smiling due to a missing front tooth, which she had lost while roughhousing with one of her brothers during a childhood game. [17] She was also fond of music, particularly The Beatles, and was notably protective of her markedly more timid and insecure younger sister. [18] On several occasions, the two sisters would visit a local skating rink, where Sylvia would help Jenny skate by holding her hand, while Jenny skated on her unaffected foot. [19] July 1965 [ edit ] The abuse escalated sharply, and Sylvia bore the brunt of it, most of it in the basement of a home described by the Indianapolis Star as "a rundown, gray frame rental house."Referring to the sentimental closing arguments made by various defense counsels regarding reasoning and motivation for their clients' actions, their attempts to divert responsibility to other defendants or participants, and their clients' collective failure to either help Likens or to notify authorities, New added: "All we hear is whining appeal, anything but blame where the blame belongs." He then speculated as to the reason Likens did not try to escape from the Baniszewski household prior to the abuse increasingly escalating in the final weeks of her life, stating: "I think she trusted in man ... I think she did not believe these people would do this and continue to do it." [146] Naso, Ronald C.; Mills, Jon (2016). Humanizing Evil: Psychoanalytic, Philosophical and Clinical Perspectives. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-82853-7.

The 1965 Torture and Murder of Sylvia Likens". The Indianapolis Star. October 26, 2018 . Retrieved April 21, 2019. Police Told of Tortured Girl's Last Days". The Indianapolis Star. October 28, 1965 . Retrieved June 4, 2022.

Lived Like a Slave: Police Told of Tortured Girl's Last Days". The Indianapolis Star. October 28, 1965 . Retrieved May 23, 2019. Section of Deputy Prosecutor Marjorie Wessner's closing argument at the trial of Gertrude Baniszewski. [138]

Ammeson, Jane Simon (2017). Murders that Made Headlines: Crimes of Indiana. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-02983-6.

“Every myth explains too much, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t truths to be found in the story.”

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, Indiana.

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