DEADLY WOMEN | Born Bad | Gertrude Baniszewski | S3E11
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- In 1965 Indianapolis, Gertrude Baniszewski tortured and murdered sixteen year-old Sylvia Likens and got her children to help do the dirty work.
Antoinette Frank was a killer cop who shot a fellow officer and two owners of a Vietnamese restaurant she helped guard at nighttime.
And Sharon Kinne traded her life as a suburban mom for a life of crime and still may be among us today.
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Those neighborhood kids who helped Gertrude torture Sylvia are sadists. I don't care if they're "only teens." They should have told their parents about what was happening in that house.
Lol yes, the documentary is like "she recruted INNOCENT children to play her sadistic game" uhmm, sorry but not THAT innocent. The way they painted her son, LOL, the sadistic bastard CARVED words into her flesh and had nooo shame admitting it to the police (yeah lol, the documentary says it's Gertrude who did it, both her and her son did it, he admitted it to the police himself). He wasn't some scared little boy, Jesus.
Just as her own children. Even her ten year old daughter carved Sylvia's stomach. There must have been seriously wrong with those kids and surely they weren't just innocent and manipulated by Gertrude.
unfortunately all kids if given the chance or encouraged are exactly like that. Have you seen how kid that age bully? It might sound harsh but kids are vile and can be far worse than adults if not taught the right things. The main difference is that adults rationalise their despicable behaviour while kids act on intstict. In this case their own mother encouraged them to do so which makes it even worse. "Like father (mother in that case ) like son".
According to Jenny's testimony, the neighborhood kid, Ricky, finished carving the words in Sylvia, not John, the son.
Αρσέν Λουμπέν Um, but not ALL kids would actually do that. The children involved were in a small loop with Gertrude and her children. They probably had bad upbringings, too. They didn't even have the conscience as far as telling their parents. If I was a kid, I would CRY if I had to make someone suffer - either right then or hours after. It wouldn't leave my mind. My conscience would've gotten to me. So yeah....please don't say and declare "all" children may do that.
Paula Baniszewski, Gertrude's oldest daughter who was a sadist like her mother and participated in much of the torture of Sylvia was also convicted of murder (though she plea bargained down to manslaughter during an appeals trial). She is now free and goes by Paula Pace and is living in Conrad, Iowa. She was in the news a couple of years ago because she had been working as a teacher's aide for special needs children and was fired after the school board found out about her criminal record, which she had concealed. You can find a contemporary picture of her if you google Paula Pace, if you live in central Iowa make sure you know what she looks like and keep your children away from her, she is a child murderer and no children should ever be in her care.
Thank u for the info... I was trying to find out more about Baniszewski children....
She should be locked up to this day.
+misstantrix the other children are all either in jail or dead. The friend who flipped Sylvia and used her for judo practice was actually sentenced to life for an unrelated murder. Out of all the kids involved the ONLY one to express remorse was the younger brother. He was really young and was basically forced to do things by his mom.
+Leah Marie thx hun
tinkerbelladonna I love in central Iowa ☹️
This documentary didn't say that Gertrude Baniszewski didn't serve her full life sentence. They released her on parole after not even serving 20 years in prison. So wrong. She should have stayed in til the day she died.
And her evil little spawn, Paula, who managed to lie and get a job in an elementary school. Both of them should have been killed.
Taticat NineLand
Yep she sure did. She's fired now, thank goodness. I don't want her around any kids of mine. She never apologized for her actions once. In fact, Johnny is the only one that ever did.
Amen to that. If I were the parent of one of those children Paula was an aide for, I'd sue. What she and her mother did was *so* perverted and removed from anything that occurs in society that I'd stay up nights, wondering what that heifer might have said to my child. ::shivs::
DisWldFrk90 Gertrude Baniszewski died in 1990 from lung cancer
fairyqueen520
Yep I know. 4 and a half years after she got out of jail. She should have stayed in jail and died from lung cancer there.
I live very, very near to to where the house was in which poor Sylvia was murdered. The house was torn down some time in the past 10 years. I used to drive by it all the time, and I'd often say a prayer for Sylvia as I did. Poor girl...
TDawg736 may her soul rest in peace...
Do they know about this crime today in the neighbourhood?
The house is said to be haunted, there a video of two guys going to the house and they captured screams saying "help me, somebody help", "HELP" or "STOP!" the video is on youtube.
Gertrude should have been sentenced to death penalty. 20 years in prison aren't enough for what she did.
Yep! She should have hanged!!
nope same tortured!
What a sick women. she should have never been granted parole. RIP Sylvia.
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Gertrude Baniszewski is the reason why I never allow anyone to look after my children. I will also never look after anyone's children or allow sleepovers. I don't trust anyone.
Victor R. Thanks. Too many idiots trust people, they barely know.
Victor R. People think I'm paranoid and neurotic. I wouldn't want my kids dead or recieving life long therapy.
I think ur a good mom I won't let anybody watch my baby either .....better to be safe than sorry......
Suzie Shackles COMPLETELY agree with you. i dont have kids of my own, but i always tell my mother that when i do, i will NEVER use those stupid babysitting websites to find a random stranger to look after my kids. i will either ask a very trusted relative to watch them, and if worst comes to worse, they'll come with me to the place im going. never will i let them be watched by a stranger who is sweet and nice to my face, but the second i leave starts bashing my kids without me knowing. people think im paranoid and have a stick up my butt and need to "loosen up" about these kinds of things, but i dont think im being paranoid at all. you have to be very very VERY careful with strangers. they can turn out to be another Gertrude Baniszewski behind closed doors.
Suzie Shackles A healthy skepticism is good but trusting no one is bad. Most people feel just like you.
This documentary asserts that Likens died from depression and infection from the injuries inflicted upon her body. Partially this is true, but actually she died from a brain hemmorage and shock. One of the boys literally beat her to death. If anything, it sounds like Likens was fighting to stay alive, but her injuries just proved too severe. Poor girl! May you rest well in the next life.
+Jonathan Porter Please don't denegrade what she went through by making it trivial.
+EmperorZelos In no way what he was saying was it trivial...
GrimSei He did, by talking about afterlife he trivialize the suffering because, if there is an afterlife who cares about the suffering? This life is completely fucking pointless and everything that happens in it is insignificant and meaningless.
I'm pretty sure he didn't mean it that way.. He said May you rest well in the next life, meaning that he wishes her no pain or torment.
GrimSei the implication of that it trivilizes the pain and suffering she went through.
The first story is the most disturbing I've ever seen on this show. I'm rewatching episodes and this was the one that really stuck with me.
Few things make me as purely and uncontrollably angry as the story of Sylvia Likens' murder does. It's not even solely about the fact that this poor child was tortured inexplicably. It's about the fact that the "justice" system FAILED her. I read up a lot on the story after watching "The Girl Next Door", and this "woman", Gertrude virtually got a tap on the wrist. She received early parole, and by the time that she got out, her fellow inmates called her "Mom" because of how "caring" she was, and this helped her get parole because of good behavior. On top of that, upon her release, she had the AUDACITY to claim that she barely even remembered Sylvia and couldn't understand why she would've tortured and murdered her in the first place. Like....FUCK. It's a somewhat similar situation for everyone else who was involved in the crimes as well. NO ONE received the death penalty, and nearly everyone got out much sooner than what their original sentences spelled out. All of them are dead by now, except for Paula, the eldest daughter who lives in Iowa living a peachy life. Fuck her. Honestly, the ONLY silver lining is that most of these people died from Cancer, Diabetes, and Heart Attacks that wiped them from this world well before their time. And to that, I say good fucking riddance.
For me it's a tie between this and the Shanda Sharer story.
Whoa I'm so shocked to see that is what happened 😳 so sad Sylvia didn't get her full justice 😢
speak it! 👊
Their graves should be vandalised for doing stuff like this to an innocent woman
@@TheMazer-pk5bo *girl. Sylvia was just a girl :(
They left out A LOT of stuff with the Likens case:
1. Jenny was in a wheelchair due to Polio
2. Gertrude would make them write letters telling their parents they were fine
3. When Jenny did try to defend Sylvia, she was beaten BRUTALLY
4. Gertrude and Paula forced Sylvia to shove bottles up her vagina
5. Jenny told their older sister who straight-up called her a liar and didn't do anything
6. She was branded because she said Paula was pregnant, which Paula denied...and then gave birth during the trial
7. During the trial, the kids said Gertrude made them do it
8. Gertrude said it was all the kids and said that she was so sick she could barely leave her bed and the kids did it on their own
9. Gertrude was always talking about how she was a showgirl but got knocked up and she thought all girls who slept with men outside of wedlock were whores
10. Paula slept around and then said Sylvia did, which is why Sylvia was always getting beaten
Leah Harageones I don't remember reading that the older sister (I think her name was Diane or something like that) refused to help them. She tried but was denied access to the house by the she-devil and after a while she had to leave . Still I think she had something to do with the police checking the place out.
1. Jenny had a metal brace on her leg, she was not in a wheelchair. This is said by herself in her court testimony and can be seen in photos after the trial.
2. There is no evidence to suggest any letters were written to the parents other than the two Sylvia was forced to write. They saw their parents a few times during their stay and neither parent saw anything wrong with it.
3. Jenny was only hit with the board of the police belt. She did not receive the same abuse Sylvia did and she was not beaten 'brutally' that is an over exaggeration.
4. This did happen twice, but it was Gertrude who made her do it.
5. Sylvia and Jenny told Diana what was happening in September and she thought they were over-exaggerating because they were young. When Jenny met her on the street a few weeks later, she muttered that she would get in trouble if she spoke to her. I also read that Diana tried to visit the house but was denied by Gertrude.
6. Sylvia was branded after rumours went around that she said Paula was a prostitute, the same for Stephanie. There is no evidence to suggest these rumours actually existed or that Sylvia said anything. Before the branding, Gertrude said 'you branded my daughters, so now I have to brand you'. It had nothing to do with Paula being pregnant.
7. The kids did blame Gertrude for their role in the crime, but most were convinced they were simply punishing her for what they thought she said.
8. That's also true, she denied having hurt Sylvia despite what her own children had said.
9. This seems a little embellished as the youngest child Gertrude had was out of wedlock and with someone several years older than Paula. I don't remember reading that she was a showgirl, that seems like it happened in the Jack Ketchem film 'The Girl Next Door' which is in no way accurate to the actual story. Gertrude was only 18/19 when she had Paula.
10. We know Paula was pregnant after running off to Kentucky with a married man, however, there is nothing to suggest she slept around during the abuse period. Sylvia's abuse stemmed from rumours created by Paula and Gertrude and then fed to the other kids. There were also rumours about her eating with her brother, which Sylvia denied, and a whole list of other things that lead to the abuse.
9. Gertrude can say all she wants but when she was young she looked like a troll.
Leah Harageones j
Leah Harageones ...Thanx for the info
Oh my god that poor girl. How horrifying. And nobody not even a kid from the neighborhood could say anything or do anything? What a messed up world.
Alice R apparently one kid said to his mother , but the mother said that like this bad kids are punished !
One child tried. She told her mother, but her mother just said "Well sounds like their punishing her for her misdeeds aren't they?"This was the 60s. Gertrude told everyone she was punishing Sylvia for being a prostitute although the coroner found she was a virgin.
People are f*cked.
she's jealous of young kids
I was 6 or 7 years old. In my town in the 70's kids could go without problem not far from home. That day I was walking in the street (I was going to look for a friend for play time) when I heard a woman screaming inside a house and a man yelling to her. I heard horrible noises, as if the man was beating her. I got so scared I run to my house as fast as possible. I arrived home screaming and crying. I told my mother what I have heard and where. My mother said to me "stay home!" and she went out and with other neighbours she went to that home and rescue a young woman who apparently was a prostitute and a man was hurting her really bad. After that day I still can hear the woman screams in my head even if I had heard just few seconds and I did not saw nothing. I was 6 or 7 years old. This ""kids" and "teenagers" have no souls. I really can't understand or try to justifie why nobody or them did not said nothing to somebody, why they did not tried to help poor Sylvia. This case really hurt my sensibility, and just thinking that poor girl was completly alone, without somebody having mercy for her, knowing nobody will help her, suffering in extreme physical, mental and emotional pain ....BURN IN HELL GERTRUDESHIT, YOU AND YOUR EVIL SPAWNS AND THEIR FRIENDS!!!!
Jenny, too, was another victim of Gertrude Baniszewski. Not as much as Sylvia, but she barely made it through. I don't believe she bears any responsibility in her sister's death. Jenny was fifteen, frail, disabled and lived in a time when children were unprotected, when abuse was considered discipline and scandal was swept under the rug. Let's remember how Jenny saw all the tortures inflicted on Sylvia, how helpless she must have felt, how guilty and how scared, and let's remember her courage for facing all of her sister's killers in court. It seems to me that some people forget that Jenny was disabled and managed to contact her and Sylvia's older sister, Diana, who was married and had a family of her own. Jenny outlined the horrors that she and Sylvia were experiencing, and instructed Diana to contact the police to come rescue them. Diana ignored the letter, believing that Jenny was simply displeased with being punished and that she was making up stories so that she could come live with her. Also around this time, one of the neighborhood children who had been by to see Sylvia, a twelve year old named Judy Duke, went home and told her mother "they were beating and kicking Sylvia." The girl's mother replied that was what happened when someone was punished. Shortly thereafter, the Baniszewski's reverend, Roy Julian, visited them as part of a program he had set up to see each of his parishioners at their homes. While he and Baniszewski drank coffee, she complained to him that Sylvia had been an intense burden on her, claiming that the girl was a prostitute who had been servicing married men and had gotten pregnant. Although at the time Paula Baniszewski was several months pregnant, Gertrude Baniszewski insisted that her daughter was a virgin and that Sylvia was attempting to pass off her own misdeeds onto the pure Paula. Baniszewski and the reverend prayed for Sylvia's salvation before the reverend left. When the reverend returned again a few weeks later, Paula told the reverend during prayers that she had "hatred in [her] heart" for Sylvia, to which Baniszewski interjected that the opposite was true. Shortly after this, Diana came by to visit her sisters. Baniszewski refused to allow her into the home, at first telling her that Lester had contacted her and instructed her not to allow Diana into the home. When Diana questioned this, Baniszewski threatened to call the police and have her arrested for trespassing. Diana hid nearby the house until she spotted Jenny outside, and then approached her. Jenny told her older sister that she was not allowed to talk to her and then ran away. Concerned, Diana contacted social services. When a social worker arrived at the home, Baniszewski informed her that she had kicked Sylvia out of the house for being physically unclean and a prostitute, and that Sylvia had since run away. Baniszewski then managed to get Jenny alone long enough to inform her that if she told the social worker the truth, Jenny would join her sister naked in the basement. Jenny then told the social worker that Sylvia had indeed run away. The social worker returned to her office, where she filed a report stating that no more calls needed to be made to the Baniszewski home.
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Thank you for this! It's easy to judge somebody and this makes me think about it from an other perspective.
Thanks 🙏🙇
Thanks for the extra info and the link . All the horrors that that poor girl went through & the killers barely do a few years time in jail. All of the ones involved in ANY of her abuse should have done jail time & for the ones who did the most harm to her a hell of a lot more jail time than what they did.
Ugh disgusts me the amount of times this girl was ignored and how many mistakes were made! I hope that everybody who let her down gets their karma
Thanks for the information!
I researched Sylvia's case when I was in grade 11, it was really tragic and disturbing. I think Gertrude was really jealous of Sylvia's youth and beauty
And happiness...💔
Yes
The drawing thing that Gertrude did REALLY creeped me out tbh.
Yeah I couldn't watch that part only listened and that was bad enough
I did an essay on Sharon Kinne - the last woman - in college and wanted to add a fact that Deadly Women didn't: her husband, James Kinne, was a WONDERFUL man. He was shy, humble, and he and his parents did everything they could to please Sharon, but since she was pure evil, it didn't matter to her. Even when she cheated on him, he still wanted to be the best husband he could be to her. He devoted his life to her, but in the end she only saw him as a money object, so she shot him. She was DEFINITELY born bad and a despicable excuse of a human. I just wanted to recognize what a great man James Kinne was.
What a lovely comment, its nice to see someone say something so nice about a victim.
The Greek Pianist Sharon Kinne is still out there-nobody has been able to find her.
bloodyrose1985 Oh yes, I have no doubt she’s still out there...considering how cunning and manipulative she is. She’s a psychopath!
Sylvia would be 67 today
Liam Blackman her bday is Jan 3rd
@Zeroday Liam commented this 2 years ago so thats why the age would be different now.
70 İn 2019
71 now :')
@@rimalam6914 That's it
im not gonna lie I did PLENTY of research before watching this and they sugar coated the story about Sylvia. what they said was nothing compared to what really happened...
they had to if they showed what really happened they could not put it on CZcams
Lexy Monique Well, this show "Deadly Women" profiles three women per episode, and they have roughly 15-18 minutes to cover each case, so they can only scratch the surface, you know? I think they gave good information, though. I only saw An American Crime about the case prior to this, and they shared things the movie didn't
Crazy that the reporter and a fbi lady makes so many mistakes.
@Zeroday Not only was she physically abused she was sexually abused.
Gertrude would make Sylvia shove bottles up her vagina infront of everyone to watch.
If you look into the case it really is horrifying.
@@annehart7836 you can only fit so much information into such short episodes of each woman. besides, if they did put everything that really happened in there, it probably would be able to be shown on CZcams.
That Sylvia Likens story gets me everytime. That and the Shanda Sharer case have kept me up at night
the actress plays sylvia is so pretty
What's her name?
Kk Conta i just found it. Her name is jessica pilon .. now jessica pilon - summons
@@daisyolano6739 thank you
I can’t decide who looks more like Sylvia: this actress or Ellen Page from An American Crime
She along with Ellen Page, I think to me they both look exactly like Sylvia.
i think they could have easily done a whole episode on The Sylvia Likens case. Like they did with Lizzie Borden.
+2cute 4you There's actually a movie called "American Crime" that's based on Sylvia's death.
+Huda Doski There's two. The Girl Next Door (based loosely on Sylvia) and An American Crime. Both make me cringe.
For sure.... I watched 2 movies based on her story. Very interesting and heartbreaking.
+misstantrix I will love Jenny for ever she was my love
+misstantrix i only saw The Girl Next Door
Torture is an understatement for this case.
Not only do I feel terrible for Sylvia,but also for her sister
She had to watch her sister get tortured and couldn't do a thing because Gertrude would've done the same to her. Heartbreaking.
How did their father not pay and not come back for them?!! 🤦♀️ he should have went to prison as well!!
‘CheLe America1st he did send the money but it came a day late!
It was disappointed that their father didn't do anything
@@maryh561 still weird he didny came from time to time.to.visit. also dumb leaving her with someone he barely knew.
Gertrude was a pick of the iceberg... EVERYBODY seemed to fail that poor little girl, God bless her hurting soul 😪
Hell is a special place for some people
The first story is a lot more cruel than what they told here. & that's just worse. Ugh. Disgusting! The death penalty should've been given in that case!
RIP Sylvia.
Now this angers me to the core. I feel so messed up for her.she had no one to help her and lost the will to live. the mother should've been tourchered in that same manner while she was in prison. she's not fucken human. the sad thing is that there's more out there like her. all of them should be found and did like the Romans use to do people back in the days. so sad for Sylvia. I can feel her sence of fading away.
Nah, screw the Romans, they just _crucified_ people. I say bring back *Medieval Torture* instead for these monsters!
As far as Sylvia Likens _parents_ - they should have been imprisoned alongside that Demonic bitch and her Satanic _offspring_ because those people are the ones who are truly responsible for their childs death and her sister Jenny's emotional, psychological and physical abuse/torture. Everyone is GUILTY in this poor girls death.
Here is more info regarding this case which was not covered in this video :
In August of 1965, the vacant house next door to the Baniszewski residence was purchased by a middle-aged couple named Phyllis and Raymond Vermillion. Phyllis, seeing the number of children Baniszewski cared for, believed that Baniszewski would make a good babysitter for her two young children, and that she would also be helping Baniszewski out by paying her for her services.
The Vermillions arranged a backyard barbecue so that the two families could get to know one another. During the course of the barbecue, Phyllis noticed Sylvia wandering around the yard with a pronounced black eye; Paula proudly announced to Phyllis that she was the one who had given it to her. Then, under Baniszewski's supervision, Paula approached Sylvia with a glass of steaming water and threw it in Sylvia's face. Neither of the Vermillions reported this incident to the authorities.
Two months later, Phyllis went to the Baniszewski home to borrow something. Over the course of the few minutes she was there, she noticed Sylvia wandering around as in a daze with swollen lips and a black eye that had swollen shut. To demonstrate how this had happened, Paula took her belt off and began to beat Sylvia with it in front of Phyllis. Phyllis again neglected to report anything to the authorities.
Escalation
Around the time that Phyllis Vermillion witnessed Paula beat Sylvia, Sylvia came home from school and told Baniszewski that she needed a sweat suit for gym class. When Baniszewski told Sylvia that they could not afford one, Sylvia stole one from the school. Baniszewski questioned Sylvia about her new gym outfit, eventually coercing Sylvia into confession.
Baniszewski inexplicably segued from the topic of Sylvia stealing into the topic of Sylvia being a prostitute, and threw Sylvia onto the ground, where she repeatedly kicked her in the crotch before once more returning to the topic of theft; to "cure" Sylvia of her "sticky fingers," Baniszewski burned the tips of each of Sylvia's fingers with a lit cigarette.
Afterwards, she made Sylvia bend over while she whipped her with a belt. After this incident, the smokers in the Baniszewski home began arbitrarily putting their cigarettes out on Sylvia's body as a reminder for her not to steal.
Sometime later, Likens went out again to sell old soda bottles for money. When she returned home, Baniszewski accused her of prostitution. Baniszewski took her into the living room of her home and forced Sylvia to strip naked in front of her sons and several neighborhood boys, on the threat of beating Jenny. Once Sylvia was fully naked, Baniszewski handed her a glass Coca Cola bottle, and forced Sylvia to masturbate with it for the boys.
The Basement
Following the Coke bottle incident, Sylvia became incontinent; as a result, Baniszewski decided that she was no longer fit to live with humans, and locked her in the basement. The lack of a toilet in the basement forced Sylvia to defecate and urinate on the floor. When Baniszewski saw this, she began a "bathing regime" to "cleanse" Sylvia, whom she began calling "dirty girl."
The "regime" consisted of filling Gertrude's claw-footed bathtub with scalding water, binding Sylvia's wrists and ankles, and then dunking Sylvia into it. The regime was administered arbitrarily, sometimes once or many times a day, somedays not at all. Following the baths, Paula Baniszewski would rub handfuls of salt over Sylvia's nude body.
During this period Baniszewski took on 14 year old Ricky Hobbs, a neighborhood boy, as her "personal assistant" when dealing with Sylvia. Hobbs, an honor student from a middle class family with no previous legal trouble, experienced a sudden shift in personality upon becoming Baniszewski's assistant, blindly following whatever orders she gave him; crime reporters have since speculated that Hobbs was Baniszewski's lover, and that she had seduced the boy into becoming her henchman.
Baniszewski's children turned Sylvia into a money-making opportunity, charging neighborhood children a nickel to gawk at the nude Sylvia or to push her down the stairs to the basement, where she was now kept when not being bathed or put on display. She was kept constantly naked and rarely fed; when she was allowed to eat, it was in some bizarre fashion (such as the instance in which Baniszewski insisted that she eat soup with her fingers).
Often, Baniszewski and her twelve-year-old son John Jr. would make Sylvia "clean" the basement by "allowing" her to eat her own feces, and gave Sylvia a container in which she could collect her urine, which she was then made to drink.
*Hell is empty - because all the Demons are HERE.*
This doesnt even begin to touch on the true horrors of what Silvia likens endured. The whole story would leave you shell shocked.
Gertrude is sick, evil, depraved beyond all comprehension. She should never be released from prison. Who the f. released her, who let her walk free after what she'd done? Sick.
I was married to Jenny Likens sister of Sylvia Likens as her first husband and there mother and father didn't give a dame about their daughters and I was her first husband and meet Sylvia Likens at 16 when I was 15 in Lebanon,Indiana in 1965 and I ask her to go out with me and Sylvia said I was to young to go out with her and to think that she was killed that same year and Jenny's twain brother Benny was my friend and that is how I meet Jenny and fell in love with her and married her after I came back from Viet Nam in 1970 but Betty controlled Jenny and Sylvia like a puppet and got Jenny to get rid of me after 10 years of marriage but I still loved her till and Jenny told me everything about her sister Sylvia but Jenny died in 2004 and I talk to her two weeks on the phone before she died and I will go to my grave loving her and no one can stop me from doing that
Cool story bro
They didn't have a brother lol
+Sarah Mcguinness they had brother with name benny and he was twin brother with jenny likens...
+Ford,sr Robert i just want to ask why jenny didnt tell anything to someone all this time when they was in that house and her sister had all those bad treatments...why didnt help her???
+destination7777 she did. Nobody believed her. she even told her older sister and the older sister called her a liar. I believe the police DID come at one point but Gertrude had Sylvia chained in the basement and told them that she ran away and they never looked into it
this is a terrible case, but there is another which is worse, if thats even possible, the case of Junko Furuta, a 17 yr old Japanese girl who was kidnapped and held hostage for 44 days in 1988, she was tortured in horrific ways and raped by many teenage boys over 400 times, the story is totally unbelievably awful, and they got sentences of just 7 yrs for her murder because of their ages and they are all now walking free
!!!!!!
Oh God, I heard about that case... It was so horrible and painful even to hear about, I can't imagine how terrible it must have been to that poor girl. She was in so much horrific pain, I can't believe another human being can be that cruel and evil to do that to one another. I hope the poor girl is in a better place now :(
They won't be free for long heheheehe.... Hahahahahha
That story was featured on a podcast I often listen to. I am a true crime fan, I have heard/read about some really horrible things....but I couldn't listen to what happened to that poor girl It was too much. Especially when I heard that the parents of the kid whose house she was held hostage in didn't do a damn thing to help that poor girl.
Pussycatfeathers while seeing this I thought about the case of Junko...
LifeInPink999 same
She didn't even hit them for the money ! She was just looking for an excuse to hurt them and get pleasure 😡😡😡😡😡
I cannot understand the "Carnival parents just "Hi there nice to meet ya ,btw here raise my kids and bye." If anyone would have seen she had limited resources already a bunch of her own to care for the house was way too small from the description ... why in anyone's logic is this a better place for your child? Her actions were those of a monster I'll never understand those but the parents I know they will have this very bad decision on their hearts a very long time
Gotta remember, it was also a different time. Incidents like that were few and far between. People were quick to trust strangers. Anyone with children who has taken them to daycare faces a possibility like that. Not nearly as prolonged since the girls lived with them but still.
Brittni Smith my family owns a daycare and we have cameras going 24/7. Home daycare is much more dangerous
They were desperate for money and at the time Sylvia had made friends with Paula and wanted to stay the night there so he thought that was an answer to their problems of needing to do the carnival circuit to make ends meet. He even told Gertrude to take a firm hand with them and not let them be naughty. :-( He told Gertrude their mother spoiled them. :-( Actually I think their mother was in prison at the time so it was only their dad's decision.
Brittni Smith hi
This from a person named "Terri Storms" ...statement's a joke.
The sad part is that Sylvia's torture was so much more worse than what they could put in this documentary. Look it up on Wikipedia and read the full extent of it. It will make your jaw drop. All I can say is, rest in peace sweet child. Your pain is finally over.
How sad
I've literally in the last 20 minutes learned about this horrendous series of events. how cruel and evil . I hope peace can be found with her eternal rest. I won't forget you now I know what you went through , Sylvia. xxx
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Thank you very much for uploading this interesting documentary!!
The story of poor sylvia made me sick. The fact that Jenny had tried to get help several times for her sister and noone believed her is grotesque. what kind of parents ditch their children with a women they dont know anyway!?
Is there a Deadly Men? This series is truly fantastically made, almost Hollywood tier, but it's a shame not getting to see takes on Bundy, Alcala, etc.
No one is "born bad." These women CHOSE to be evil.
+Victor R. I don't agree. I think people are born with a "tabula rasa." How you are raised especially in the early years and your parents effects you A LOT.
+Monica G I think you may need to do some research on sociopaths narcissists and psychopaths. The issue here is not what you think the case is but more what the facts actually are.This nature Vs nurture thing may apply to most of us but some like psychopaths have a genetic components that predisposes them to certain activity. Not all of these people that fall into these categories end up killing but some rape our pockets when they become the CEO at banks. So the other real issue is what level of " bad " are we as people prepared to put up with before changes are made for our benefit instead of lining the pockets of others in control. I am one of those people raised badly by 2 nasty violent alcoholic. parents. CHEERS
+Noevilea OK fair enough. I am also sorry about your parents. Everyone deserves two loving and nurturing parents but sadly few end of with that.
+Monica G **up sorry
Monica G No need to apologize about my parents - you didn't do anything.
I only point at those I blame.
I rank rather highly on certain criteria that should lend me to a disposition of not being very nice, however I did make a choice around 8 that I wasn't going to be like them.
And I actually have a conscience for most things and my ethics are better than my families. I`m actually too honest for my own good - but it helps to do a bit of sorting of friends I may not need.
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i am so sad for sylvia
I wish I could get my hands on vile creatures such as this evil parasite! This horrific sub human got off too easy, after what she had done how can her case get turned over and she gets paroled? That is such BS! She should've died in prison being beaten to death or slowly tortured like she did on this sweet innocent child!!!
+Helen Hines I will love Jenny for ever she was my love
I hope Gertrude saw sylvias face when she closed her eyes,, scared her for the rest of her life.
She never admitted what she did ever and they still paroled her. She always said "Oh I was on drugs I do't remember any of it, the girls beat her up, I never beat her." Then she said Stephanie lied about not doing things when she was angry about Stephanie testifying against her so so much for not remembering anything.
It's not a coincidence that Gertrude took Silvia to the basement and not her sister... Silvia's sister was disabled and Gertrude wasn't jealous of her. On the other hand Silvia made her furious because she was everything that Gertrude wanted to be. Like it's Silvia's fault that Gertrude had a lot of kids and choose the wrong men...
WTF kind of coward would pin shooting somebody on a toddler?! ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS?!?!
ihatefacebook31184 as crazy as it sounds, kids do find guns. Especially if they’re not stored properly.
But yes, very cowardly to do this.
I always wondered if Sylvia hadn't gotten killed at such an early age because of naive and evil people around her I thought she would live quietly with children and live life peacefully
Everyone is born with free will. What they do with that free will is up to them.
Also, it is my understanding that Gertrude had been receiving the checks all along. She was lying, saying that she wasn't receiving them to have an excuse to torture Sylvia. There is an amazing movie called the American Crime that is through Silvia's point of view. It is a lot more detailed, personal, and the ending is amazing. I recommend watching it. It is on putlocker.
Omg, this is from the movie " The Girl Next Door " Based on a True Story.
I was looking for this comment. I knew it was that case when I saw the words being carved into her. That poor girl.
This movie made me sick to my stomach. Rest angel poor baby girl
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Are you sure?
Thinking the same thing. There is also a book about this by jack ketchum. Same title 🤯🤯🤯
Sylvia's case in this episode actually shows just how cruel and monstrous Gertrude was in real life than it does in An American Crime where they make her and the kids even Paula sympathetic characters which is an insult to the brutality that Sylvia went through becuz they didn't care about her pain everyday. They hardly showed how dark and evil they were in real life like the people here in this show actually do
"Behind the badge is a killer cop?!" NO WAY! I don't believe it!
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it's pretty sad the people in that neighborhood did nothing to help poor Sylvia. but in the end Sylvia got revenge on all of her abusers most of them have past
The actress that plays Gertrude in the first case looks a lot like Catherine Keener, who happens to play her in the film An American Crime
They're many more Antionette Frank's out there
queeie718 But she the first cooker ass cop every....
Why am I watching this on Mother's Day?
I think that the first one was the inspiration for the movie, The Girl Next Door (2007).
You're right, it was.
And American Crime
+Lily Rose yes exactly that's the story
Axel Cordova it was called an American crime based on a true story
Not mentioned here in the Antoinette Frank story, there is evidence that she had previously murdered her own father. He went missing about a year before the restaurant murders and human remains were found under her house. The case was not pursued, however, because she was already on death row.
Bfdidc Wow!!
That was told on the short-lived series "Fatal Encounters".
I saw the Frank story on a Snapped several years ago.. I don't remember anything about her possible connection to her father's death it's really hard to believe that this woman was actually a police officer..
I could never stand there and let anyone hurt my sister like that! I get she was scared but she could've told someone. I just can not fathom how she just stood by and watched her own sister being tortured that way. Sick!!!
She could have told any adult on the block what was happening. She watch her own sister tortured. The sister is the sickest of them all.
Candice Dunaway This episode fails to mention that Jenny did do that. The two sisters had an older sister, who Jenny wrote to numerous times. They didn't believe her. They also contacted CPS who Gertrude lied to and made her children lie to, and they closed the case. Didn't even look in the home for Sylvia. Even after adults failed to help numerous occasions, after Sylvia was found, Jenny still spoke up which takes an insane amount of courage. She went through hard abuse too, and the trture her sister went through was much worse than waht was shown on this episode, so the threat of violence was even more despicable than described.
Candice Dunaway well, you have to try and put urself in Jenny's shoes. she DID tell her older sister, who completely ignored her cries for help, and when Jenny told the cops, i believe, Gertrude and her children lied to them and said everything was completely fine. so imagine that you tell the authorities and your sister about all of this, and none of them believe u? and when the abuser finds out you tried to tell on them, they beat you even more. you would be scared out of ur mind! u wouldnt know what to do! because you dont know if your cries will be answered this time, or you will be caught and hurt even more. its a very scary thing to be going through, especially at the delicate age of Jenny's. also, this was the 60s and during that time, law enforcement was, in my opinion, HORRIBLE and they never believed anything a child told them, unless they saw it with their own eyes and of course the abuser wouldnt do any of the things they do to you in private, in public. so she probably felt helpless and terrified, for her life and for her sister's. because im sure if Jenny kept trying to tell others about what was going on, Gertrude would hurt Jenny and Sylvia even more. horrible situation to be in. thats why im forever PISSED off that Gertrude didnt rot in jail like she deserved to and instead got released early. no justice served for that poor Sylvia. may she rest in peace.
I guess I was just brought up different. Me and my younger sister were abused and had to fight daily because of the situation our parents left us in. But I'd always fight for and protect my sister. So like I said,I couldn't and would never do nothing. Even if that meant I died protecting my sister.
Candice Dunaway i guess im on both sides. its a very tough situation to be in, but i think that if my brother was being abused i would definitely take all the beatings for him, even though hes 3 years older than me. it would hurt way too much to see him get hurt. and im sorry about ur childhood ): i hope you spend your adult years much happier! :)
thanks for sharing
rest in peace, sylvia likens. i know you found heaven.
I feel sick she is a horrible woman
I saw the movie with Ellen paige who portrayed Sylvia likens, wow it was gruesome, disturbing and horrible. That despicable woman and all of those who participated with her. She was a monster in the flesh.
Bravo for actors actresses 👏👏👏for making sure , resemblance 👍👏👏👏👏
Thank you
There is a woman just like this woman working in Covington, Louisiana jail house handing out blankets M. Beard.People like Antoinette should not be working on the Police Force under any circumstance. Bad people working in the Police Force.MAY GOD BLESS US All Thank you
In the 1960's... Edward Strain gave his diagnosis or thought something might of been wrong and he still didn't tell the state that Gertrude might not be "mentally stable" to take care of children, blood is on his hands as well.... like seriously, use your degree's man it's not just there for decoration.
Izi Wilson...know, if you paid attention to the story they clearly said she took a psychosis test years before she got the girls in her custody and the test provided information about her mental health too Edward when involved with children.The test recommended she not have children in her custody because she had a sadistic personality but he ignored the paper work.
Izi Wilson...Oh know she got tested years before her trail began she was seeing Edward because she was receiving therapy from him so he gave her the test but didn't say his findings until years later at trial.
Back then children didn't have the type of 'protection' (and I say that loosely) they do today.
Was completely different back then unfortunately.
This hurts me. My mother mentally abused me and had everyone believe I was not worth loving As an adult the lady is still very sick Why we run away ? I thank God I am nothing like her
trust no one demons live among us....
I'm not sure about these other women, but as for Gertrude and everybody else who participated in Sylvia's torture and abuse, they should have been locked in a prison for the rest of their lives. I don't know how the parole board could have let Gertrude out after twenty years. I don't know if she was simply born bad or not, but she lost her right to live freely the day she began this ordeal on Sylvia. If she had truly "changed" while she was in prison, she would've realized she wasn't worthy and/or deserving of freedom ever again.
Those three women are unsexed monsters.
Moral of this story: we are all family. We shouldn't let how closely related or who were married to to dictate who gets to have control over other people. This is how spousal and child abuse has happened and been justified. It does takes a village, your home is not a castle. We're all responsible for each other
I agree.
She wasn’t human. She was a monster. Pure and simple, a monster. And monsters have no place in this world.
Chills ran through me when the doctor asked the first lady to draw a self portrait. The hands were frightening. I've drawn monsters before and ugly people to annoy my sisters, but those types of hands belong on a monster, not a human. Only people who suck at drawing, typically kids, people trying to be funny, or people drawing a monster would add hands like that on someone. But the rest of her body was normal looking.
Leopararouen Do you have your work any where? Are you published?
Leopararouen Okay. Hopefully, you will be done soon. I also write, or try to, but I can never get past the initial idea or a few pages. I currently have about 5 stories in the works.
Yurrah Al-Hadi That drawing was a reenactment just to let you know :) but I agree, it's unsettling
I have seen plenty of gratuitously violent movies deemed "Torture Porn," but an "American Crime" and "The Girl Next Door" made me ill... Because it happened.
Transcubadam BKYLN Yes I agree. I think they showed more sexual abuse in The Girl Next Door which was horrible.
Two movies come to mind when it comes to Syliva Likens. One is An American Crime. They got most of the story right, but with a few exceptions which tick me off. Paula hated Sylvia and never tried to help her, in fact she broke her hand by beating Sylvia one day, and proudly told a neighbor that she had blackened Sylv.ia's eyes when the neighbor asked about Sylvia's black eye . That was Stephaine who tried to help Sylvia by giving her CPR after a warm bath and sending her boyfriend to call 911. The boy who had a crush on Sylvia in the movie (I forget his name at the moment), that never happened either. He was one of the abusers of Sylvia. The second movie is The Girl Next Door. This movie is very very loosely based on the Likens case. This movie out of the two is harder for me to sit through because I know too much about the Likens case.
Grertrude died in 1995 from lung cancer and never took full responisiblity for what she did to Sylvia. Hell she tried to get people to believe it was all the childrens fault for what happened to Sylvia. Paula and Stephanie are still alive. Stephanie cleaned up her act. Paula to this day has lied about the Likens case, and got herself fired from a teaching job due to it. Johnathan wished he hadn't have taken part in what happened, and said he got off easy. As I recall he has sensed passed away. Jenny passed away at the age of 54 due to a heart attack.
The Likens case and the Jurgens case were the two cased that blew the lid off of child abuse cases. If anyone has the time look up the Murder of Dennis Jurgens.
I watch a lot of crime shows and I generally have no strong reaction to most of them, but the first story really got to me. Poor Sylvia 😢
So sad.
How could Gertrude convince the others to help her ? I understand that they feared her but that is the hardest part for me to understand.
If there is anyone out there that hasn't watched the movie "American Crime "watch it.Its this story on ...One of my favorites!!!
Something about this case has always fascinated me, I think due to the fact she went to school when the abuse had started, and how many people were involved. From a psychological point of view it's fascinating all the people that witnessed abuse and neglect and never felt a need to said anything.
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I love Deadly Women!
at 6:38, that was hilarious. "Not exactly there on time". lol
Beautiful film. I like it . Very . Thanks
Poor Sylvia....how much she suffered ...and to think she was only 16...😢😢 ..so heart breaking...hope she is at peace now...😢😢😢😢😢
The two Hollywood films dealing with the torture inflicted on Sylvia Likens could and/or would not even go as far into the real evil, both choosing a watered down, yet different approach, which was no doubt necessary, but that says so much more about the real story.
The girl who played Sylvia is so pretty!
Damn, why are so many of these vids blocked in the US? Friggin CZcams.... 😒😤
Wow...This is bullying to an extreme.
This is so heart breaking, i wish I could've helped all this People, given then a hug told them it would be ok.. World can be such a cruel place
In July, 2015, a Judge overturned the conviction & death sentence of Rogers La Caze, who partnered with New Orleans police officer Antoinette Frank in a triple murder-robbery. La Caze was granted a new trial despite what the Judge called 'overwhelming evidence of his guilt.' The Judge granted a new trial after finding that an original trial juror failed to disclose he was a commissioned police officer, which would have disqualified him as a juror. The New Orleans DA is appealing the Judge's decision.
Antoinette Frank remains on death row.
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Yeah, probably. I feel for the restaurant owners whose children were killed. They are upset about this decision & that 20+ yrs later, neither defendant has been executed.
+chelleoj I wish I had more people like you giving updates on videos like these, lol you should make a youtube doing it. thanks again
+Artemur I usually would but don't have to because of this comment. Hence my comment.
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nice of u to say:)
Isn't he dead?
this is the only one i really can‘t
I'm something of a scholar in the Sylvia Likens case, and I can tell you that the story told here isn't even half of what happened to poor Sylvia. Also, this is the first time I've heard Natty Bumppo ever express sympathy for Sylvia Likens. I've read his book "The Indiana Torture Slaying" and I've been to his personal site several times, and he actually defended Gertrude's daughter Stephanie in his book and defended Sylvia's father Lester in a conversation with another author on his webpage. Sorry if I sound malicious (especially since his book is THE book to read if you want the closest version of the truth), but I speak the truth.
That was so disgusting. It is just sad.
And never trust ur kids with no one
This was really all Sylvia's father's fault! No matter what decade or time period it is, what moron would allow a stranger to take care of their children? Especially a stranger who si totally sadistic.
No not Sylvia father fault to what happen to Sylvia got to understand Lester didn't fully check the house and the Gertrude only let him in the living ,Only people at fault is Gertrude and Paula and the children who help torture Sylvia
Yes Gertrude, Paula and the other children were all fucking evil cunts but that does not excuse the father for leaving his 2 daughters in the home of a stranger, especially a already broke woman with 6 kids, whose barely making ends meet already.
Really I blame the mom, they was her daughter's she should have kept them closer to her point blank.
The actress who played Gertrude is amazing!
That Sylvia Likens story still makes me so damned mad!!!!! GRRRRRRR!
The majority of viewers won't even know how SICK, UNBELIEVABLE n TWISTED her actual torture was. It's irritating to watch these experts calmly discuss her case, all the while ignoring that this child had partially severed her lower lip, and every last fingernail had been broken backward, in the convulsions from such consistent, hellish torture!
I don't even know how she lasted a week, let alone 3 mths! Shame on those neighbors who must have surely heard her consistent screams!