The Indiana Torture Slaying: Sylvia Likens' Ordeal and Death
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A republication of the 1965 Bee-Line Books nonfiction thriller that shocked the world: The story of how Gertrude Baniszewski and a coterie of neighborhood children tortured 16-year-old Sylvia Likens to death in a lower middle class Indianapolis home.
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