"She's always been on my mind," Lawrence told The Star. In 2008 a film about Sylvia Likens' murder, "An American Crime," aired on Showtime. The Baniszewski house, which was frequently vacant and ...

But instead of a schoolyard, the scene of the crime was a family home ... on a filthy mattress was a dead teenager. She was Sylvia Likens, 16, a boarder at the house. Baniszewski told police ...

It was called the most terrible crime ever committed in Indiana, and half a century later, that title still holds. On October 26, 1965, police found Sylvia Likens’s emaciated corpse—covered with more ...

Both took different approaches to recounting the shocking events that took place in the murder of Sylvia Likens, but which ...

It has been the most enduring nightmare in Indianapolis True Crime history — the Oct. 26, 1965, torture-murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens. Other crimes have involved a greater number of ...

The older sister of Sylvia Likens ... is the older sister of Likens, whose torture and slaying captured the sympathy of the public in the decades after the horrific crime, Bedwell's stepdaughter ...

Not even the considerable talents of lead thesps Catherine Keener and Ellen Page can alleviate the artistic nullity that is “An American Crime ... 16-year-old Sylvia Likens (Page) and ...