The Girl Next Door is loosely based on the real-life experience of Sylvia Marie Likens, an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of ...

Sylvia and Jennie Fae Likens, the two daughters of traveling carnival workers are left for an extended stay at the Indianapolis home of single mother Gertrude Baniszewski and her six children.

An enduring nightmare: The 1965 torture and murder of Sylvia Likens In Doctor ... as the 17th Best True-Crime Podcast of All ...