House of Evil is the same book.
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Borf Books 270-597-2187 by Bee-Line Books, has been called “Perhaps the rarest true crime paperback” – Mr. Mike’s True Crime Books |
Also from Borf Books: |
AGONY IN INDIANAPOLIS
[publisher’s introduction to first edition, 1966]
![]() ![]() ![]() abused body through a long, agonizing trial – is the almost unbe- lievable story of a woman and children whose sadism shocked the world. |
![]() ![]() ![]() Likens of Indianapolis left their 16-year- old daughter in the care of a total stranger while they went on tour with a carnival. In three months the girl was dead, the victim of savage, extended brutality. ![]() committed by a divorcee and a coterie of sadistic children motivated by mob psychology – shocked grizzled police veterans as well as newspaper readers from coast to coast and overseas. ![]() ![]() ![]() four children – two of them her own – on charges of first degree murder gave com- placent Indiana citizens their most searing courtroom drama in years. |
![]() Sylvia Likens |
![]() ![]() ![]() tion as people read how she was beaten, burned, starved, scalded, tattooed and branded until death mercifully stepped in. ![]() name of the divorcee, Gertrude Baniszewski, alias Gertrude Wright, came to rank alongside that of the Marquis de Sade. ![]() ![]() ![]() the whole story is told in complete, shocking detail for the first time. |
![]() ![]() ![]() teens – knelt over the motionless body of an- other teen-age girl, trying to breathe life back into her mangled, emaciated form. ![]() trying to deny what was already, but for a few last, labored breaths, a fact. ![]() cutor was later to call this death “the most ter- rible crime ever committed in the state of Indi- ana.” |
![]() ![]() ![]() his companion told him when he regained the top of the stairs. ![]() years old, had never looked more serious. ![]() glint of reproach in her eyes told Richard Hobbs that she meant it. |
![]() ![]() ![]() entered the house was the long, thin body of a teen-age girl stretched out on her back on a mattress on the floor of the upstairs bedroom. Although she wore sweater and slacks, her midriff was exposed; and Dixon could plainly see the words “I’M A PROSTITUTE AND PROUD OF IT!” freshly carved on her belly. |
Above that inscription, deeply branded into her chest, was a large, curious “3.” ![]() brown hair was shaggy, disheveled and cut short. ![]() the left side of her face was discolored where the skin had eroded. ![]() also around the markings on her abdomen, and bruises. ![]() |
Other literary works on the case * All those asterisks are for Lavinia Jewel's The Punishment |
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