Started: 11/8/20
Finished: 11/13/20
Year: 2008
Pages: 231
Type: Mass Market Paperback
Genre: True Crime
Grade: C
Reason for reading: booksfree.com book
Blurb (from back cover): "In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid 1960's, 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..."
Opinion: A truly horrible traumatic experience and no real reason behind it. No true motive was ever demonstrated in this of why Sylvia was tortured and eventually murdered. This needed more for me to give it a higher grade.
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