Sylvia Likens, 16, died in October 1965 after months of torture at the hands of her caregiver and multiple others Sylvia's Child Advocacy Center Content warning: The following article contains ...

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This story was originally published in 2015. On Oct. 26, 1965, Indianapolis police were called to a home on East New York Street where they found the body of a 16-year-old girl. A coroner later ...

It had all the earmarks of schoolyard bullying gone horribly out of control. A group of children ganged up on another child, and tortured her to death. But instead of a schoolyard, the scene of the ...

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 victims, ...

The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office in Iowa received an ominous voice mail earlier this month: A teacher’s aide at the local high school was a member of an Indianapolis family that tortured and killed ...