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 37-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens' 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.
Author Biography
John Dean is a former newspaper reporter who has had articles published in Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the Chicago Journalism Review.
![A Narative [sic] of the Suffeirngs [sic], Preservation and Deliverance of Capt. John Deane &c. as It Was Printed in 1711, and Now Reprinted in 1722. by John Dean](https://d3fa68hw0m2vcc.cloudfront.net/da4/283818041.jpeg "A Narative [sic] of the Suffeirngs [sic], Preservation and Deliverance of Capt. John Deane &c. as It Was Printed in 1711, and Now Reprinted in 1722. by John Dean")
