House of Evil: The Indiana Torture Slaying

ISBN-13:	9780312946999
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/29/2008
Series:	St. Martin's True Crime Library
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	81,076
Product dimensions:	4.00(w) x 6.80(h) x 1.00(d)

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 HOUSE OF EVIL