Terrifying & True | Sylvia Likens: The 1965 Murder and Ivan Rogers’s Memorial

Sylvia Likens was sixteen when she was murdered in Indianapolis in 1965. This Terrifying & True account by John Oak Dalton examines Gertrude Baniszewski’s household, the abuse others witnessed and the trial that followed. It also traces a less familiar connection: filmmaker Ivan Rogers, a child in the city at the time, later worked to preserve Sylvia’s memory through a public memorial. The episode contains graphic accounts of child abuse and torture. How did a neighborhood fail Sylvia—and how did one man choose to remember her? We're telling that story tonight.

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