House of Evil

A true crime history of the 1965 torture and murder of Indiana teenager Sylvia Likens, the case that served as basis for the film An American Crime.

In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid-1960s, through a twist of fate and fortune, a pretty, young girl came to live with a thirty-seven-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens’s parents and Gertrude Baniszewski turned into a crime that would haunt cops, prosecutors, and a community for decades to come . . . When police found Sylvia’s emaciated body, with a chilling message carved into her flesh, they knew that she had suffered tremendously before her death. Soon they would learn how many others—including some of Baniszewski’s own children—participated in Sylvia’s murder, and just how much torture had been inflicted in one HOUSE OF EVIL.

Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.