Gertrude Baniszewski
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1929 – 1990
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Who was Gertrude Baniszewski?
Gertrude Nadine Baniszewski, also known as Gertrude Wright and Nadine Van Fossan, was an Indiana divorcée who, with the aid of most of her own children and neighborhood children, such as Ricky Hobbs and Coy Hubbard, oversaw and facilitated the prolonged torture, mutilation, and eventual murder of Sylvia Likens, a teenaged girl she had taken into her home. When she was convicted of first-degree murder in 1966, the case was called "the single worst crime perpetrated against an individual in Indiana's history".
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- Born
- Sep 19, 1929
Indianapolis - Also known as
- Gertrude Nadine Baniszewski
- Nadine van Fossan
- Gertrude Wright
- Gertrude van Fossan
- Gerty
- Parents
- Spouses
- Edward Guthrie
- Dennis Lee Wright
- John Baniszewski Sr.
(1945 - 1955)
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Indiana
- Died
- Jun 16, 1990
Laurel
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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