House of Evil: The Indiana Torture Slaying

House of Evil: The Indiana Torture Slaying
ISBN-10
0312946996
ISBN-13
9780312946999
Category
True Crime
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2008-07-29
Publisher
Univ. of Queensland Press
Author
John Dean

Description

Details the brutal 1965 torture slaying of Sylvia Likens and the abuse to which the victim had been subjected by Gertrude Baniszewski, the woman with whom she had been staying, as well as some of Gertrude's children and neighbors.

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