But when the girls father failed to pay as promised, Gertrude Baniszewski paddled the girls. She was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lebanon. Relationships Stephanie Baniszewski has been in a relationship with Coy Hubbard. We cant say their name. You may wish to switch to the. He changed his name to John Blake and drifted aimlessly before experiencing a religious epiphany that, he said, helped him see the error of his ways. Figures Florida would have somebody like that as a teacher. The attacks, focused almost exclusively on Sylvia, grew ever more violent and sadistic. I am happy about that., Benny Likens died only four months after his mother. Quill quit after a week and Forrest Bowman assumed Hubbards case as well as John Baniszewsis. Here is Gertrude's Baniszweski daughter Stephanie. She changed her last name to Pace and moved to Iowa where she worked as a teacher's aide. The Gertrude Baniszewski home where Sylvia Marie Likens was tortured. Many years later, John Baniszewski was to tell a reporter that he actively enjoyed being on trial. He said he received a Facebook message a month ago, detailing Paula's previous life. But in 1965, prosecutors painted her as one of the ringleaders in the torture of Sylvia Maria Likens, a 16-year-old who moved in with the Baniszewskis while her mother was on the road as a traveling entertainer, according to the Indianapolis Star. Was thinking of Shirley who disappeared. She divorced Lester in 1967, remarried, and died on May 29, 1998, at age 71. TIME SERVED: NONE. Paula, he said, was also very close with his mother. Founded in 2010, Thought Catalog is owned and operated by The Thought & Expression Company, Inc. For over a decade, we've been at the bleeding edge of media, pioneering an infrastructure for creatives to flourish both artistically and financially. Paula, however, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter to avoid another trial. NEW: How many times was she disobedient to you? Gertrude Baniszewski moved in with her daughter in the mid-1980s, he said. She reportedly changed her name, married, had children, worked as a teacher, and now lives in Florida. Though she admitted to participating to some degree in Sylvia's abuse, she was granted a special trial, and then all charges against her were dropped, likely because she agreed to turn state's evidence against her family. Further, Her 17 years of age sister was condemned to seven years of detainment, though his 12 years of age brother got two years of prison for killing Sylvia. From the beginning, she had opportunities to tell neighbors what was going on, but she didnt because she feared she would make things worse. According to Mrs. Baniszewskis testimony, a girl came to her door looking for Darlene MacGuire, who often visited the Baniszewski kids. The charges of injury to person were dropped against the younger juveniles. The main torturers of Sylvia were two females and three males as is the case in Adams. Finally, the murderers burn Barbara with a hot poker before finishing her off. In a display of filial devotion, Paula named her child Gertrude. Betty Likens died in 1999 at the age of 71. She had heard her mother order Sylvia down to the basement. Most of her claims have later been found to be lies. Millett foolishly reads all kinds of cosmic implications into it and projects her own beliefs pacifist as much as feminist onto the dead girl in ways that defy credibility. Neighborhood children began to crowd the home to participate in the torture. 2023 www.indystar.com. As indicated by an alternate source, it appears Stephanie Baniszewski has changed her name and relocated to Florida, where the report recommends that she is hitched and has youngsters. She was quiet and reserved but she also made him nervous. Johnson sets his story in affluent suburbia. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. She never took responsibility for her crimes, claiming she couldnt remember her actions. She really did get away with torture/murderremember reading a newspaper article from the trial which said that because she turned state's witness, her life would just go on as normal and she would resume taking classes at Arsenal Tech high school! Her expression was understandably somber. In this case, they had an adult supervising what they were doing. Further, People have been pondering her current area. At least a dozen children participated or at least watched, and none felt sufficiently disturbed to tell their own parents. Sylvias carnival-worker parents boarded her and her sister Jenny with Baniszewski for $20 a week. I know that's not the news you would like to hear. A post mortem on her body revealed more than 150 wounds on her body, allegedly inflicted by Getrude and her children. It came as a shock to an Iowan school when they discovered that one of their own faculty members, Paula Pace, had once been convicted of second degree murder. Follow her on Twitter: @stephaniewang. In a masterpiece of understatement, he once told a reporter that My mom was a very selfish, self-centered woman.. Performance & security by Cloudflare. When he spoke publicly for the first time about Sylvias death he said he still could not adequately explained why he and the others turned on the girl the way they did. Weeks of escalating horror followed. John Baniszewski and two other boys ages 16 and 15 were convicted of manslaughter. The second-oldest of the Baniszewski children, Stephanie, was 15 at the time of the crime. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. "She was like a normal person. Her eyes were blurred with tears as she got into the witness box. Perpetrated in California, that crime, like this one, would be called the worst crime ever committed against one victim in the states history.. Several of Baniszewskis children and a gaggle of neighborhood kids, some as young as 10, watched or joined in. In 1940, she witnessed her father's sudden death from a heart attack. The next day Marie was cross-examined by New. Stephanie, you guessed it was the task master of the scalding baths in order to "cleanse" Sylvia of her filthiness. She appealed and was granted a new trial in which she was again convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. The death penalty in Indiana at the time was carried out by the electric chair. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Other adults occasionally came to the Baniszewski house for various reasons and saw Sylvias battered appearance. Gertrude tried to paddle Sylvia, but was too weak and had to call Paula to finish the job. In 1965 then Paula Baniszewski helped aid in the torture of teenage girl named Sylvia Likens, which ultimately lead to the young girl's death. Five days before she died, according to a 1965 story by the Indianapolis Star, Gertrude Baniszewski ordered one of the neighbor boys to etch, with a three-inch, red hot needle, I am a prostitute and I'm proud of it into Sylvias stomach. She has even posted on some forums claiming her innocence. It wasnt children going wild. How come she still alive??? Marie had seen other kids do all those things but Mom wasnt present; she was in bed sick. The mothers name is Not Available. It was called the most terrible crime ever committed in Indiana, and over half a century later, that title still holds. They burned her skin with their cigarette butts. She reportedly still lives in Indiana. This comment has been removed by the author. 26 . Add a bio, trivia, and more. She moved to Iowa, changed her name to Nadine Van Fossan, and died of lung cancer on June 16, 1990. She appeared in court in a blue pastel dress with eyelet sleeves. A neighborhood kid and Stephanie Baniszewskis boyfriend, Hubbard was a full participant in Sylvias torture. Coy Hubbard was, at first represented by Joseph Quill. Stephanie is the member of the Baniszewski clan that has made the most statements about the crime. He was forty-nine and had been mentally troubled for some time. She worked in the sewing shop and tended to make favorable impressions upon both prison staff and other inmates. Mrs. Baniszewski. In 1971, the Indiana Supreme Court overturned the convictions, saying jurors had been prejudiced by publicity and that the trials should have been held separately. The Indiana Department of Corrections records indicate she was sentenced in August 1971 to a sentence of two to 21 years. I immediately said, No, I could not take care of you children. I said she would not mind at all. Will we allow such brutality on a human being? If you go below the death penalty in this case, you will lower the value of human life by that much for each defendant.. Sylvias carnival-worker parents boarded her and her sister Jenny with Baniszewski for $20 a week. | She started working at the school district in 1998 and was, most recently, an aide to a high school counselor. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Some of The Basements fictionalized passages are both lyrically intense and utterly believable: they burn a hole in the page (Nadine Gordimer once said this is the point of fiction) and mind. Rest in peace. All; Titles; TV Episodes; Celebs; Companies; . Truly brutal and heinous crimes, the kind you usually see in horror or slasher movies, do happen in real life. And despite what you may think, they are not a recent phenomenon. One of the film's primary departures from reality is the sympathetic portrayal of Paula Baniszewski; interviews conducted after her arrest revealed that Paula was fully compliant in Likens' torture, and at one point had even taken to literally rubbing salt in Likens' wounds, independent of . The Basement is an odd combination of nonsense and brilliance, of fact and fiction together with the authors personal reactions to the crime. She had been branded in one spot by a hot metal object, and the words I am a prostitute had been etched on her stomach. She changed her last name to Pace and moved to Iowa where she worked as a. [But] I take full responsibility for whatever happened to Sylvia. She left prison December 4, 1985. The children took turns practicing their judo on Sylvia, hurling her against a wall. In 1971, the Indiana Supreme Court overturned the convictions of Gertrude and Paula, saying that jurors had been prejudiced by publicity and that the trials. He is happily married and the father of three although he is now disabled by diabetes. Be that as it may, she has not showed up in the public space before long. There is no adult ringleader. Another Baniszewski tale again. The details of her demise, revealed at the 1966 trial, defy belief. A group of kids ranging in age from seventeen to ten tie up Barbara, their 20-year-old babysitter. quit hating on stephanie she wasnt the evil. But the cops could tell by the condition of the victim that this had been no single incident. I hope they suffered, God forgive me.. How in the world could all these neighborhood kids do this and not ever tell? Although tried together, the attorneys for the defendants often worked at cross-purposes. Sylvia also suffered from extreme malnutrition. They dropped her into a tub of scalding water, then rubbed salt into her raw skin. The neighborhood kids were having a great time. He commented, I took a kind of delight in it. Sylvia herself and her younger sister Jenny had opportunities to tell adults at school or church they even had adult relatives living nearby. 1966, the year when this book was published, was not a good time for books about true murder cases. Mrs. Baniszewski testified in her own defense. Pace/Baniszewski, the mother of two grown sons, wasnt charged with any additional crimes but was fired from her job for providing false information on her employee application. After working at a school under an assumed name for 14 years, Paula's identity has been revealed. Bedwell, the older sister, was 18 at the time and married to her first husband. The ghastly details of the brutalization of Sylvia that came out during the trial were incomprehensible. Stephanie Baniszewski changed her name after the episode and left for Florida, where she filled in as an educator for a very long time. Dianna made headlines recently when she and her husband, Cecil Paul Knutson, both diabetics, got lost in the California backcountry and were stranded in their car for two weeks with nothing to sustain them but rainwater, a pie, and some oranges. Bedwell is the older sister of Likens, whose torture and slaying captured the sympathy of the public in the decades after the horrific crime, Bedwell's stepdaughter told The Indianapolis Star. We have no more information about his spouse. An anonymous caller phoned the high school in Conrad, Iowa to reveal that teacher's aide Paula Pace, 64, was in fact Paula Baniszewski, who was convicted of killing Sylvia Likens in Indiana in 1965. A lot of people have compared this to Lord of the Flies, says attorney Natty Bumppo, a former Indianapolis Star reporter who covered the case. The daughter of Gertrude Baniszewski, who tortured and murdered Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1965, known as the worst crime ever commited in the state of Indiana, lives here. Believing that the girls were simply grumbling, Dianna initially ignored the plea. Standing trial for first degree murder in Indianas most sensational case ever were five people: one adult, Gertrude Baniszewski and four minors, Paula Baniszewski, John Baniszewski, Richard Hobbs, and Coy Hubbard. It is not known whether or not she had contact with her paroled mother. Or tried to one time. Although the 10-year-old heated a needle that was used to burn the victim, she was never charged with any crime. In an exchange with the prosecutor, the accused insisted that Sylvia was unremittingly rebellious. You must be thinking. She also married and had kids as did Paula who moved to Iowa and is said to live on a small farm there. Stephanie Baniszewski: 15 years old at the time of Sylvia's death. On October 26, 1965, police found Sylvia Likenss emaciated corpsecovered with more than 150 wounds ranging from burns to cutssprawled on a filthy mattress in the Indianapolis home of 37-year-old Gertrude Baniszewski, mother of seven and the architect of the girls gruesome death. Mrs. B. went to the door with Darlene and the visitor related to Darlene she wanted to know whether she knew where she could get hold of Sylvia Likensthe reason this woman was hunting for Sylvia was supposed to have been Sylvia had been out with her husband Darlene brought Sylvia Likens over to our home two days later and introduced her as the girl this other girl was looking for. Interestingly, SLAM was founded by Patti Linebaugh, the grandmother of Amy Sue Seitz, a two-year-old molested, tortured, and murdered by convicted child molester Theodore Frank. Sometimes Gertrude felt too weak from her asthma to discipline the girls properly, so her 17-year-old daughter, Paula, helped. She served time and was released from prison in 1972. IE 11 is not supported. Although women lawyers were still a rarity in those days, the thinking was that it was good to have a female on hand in cases involving women and child defendants and witnesses. What I really wanted was love but I took the attention instead.. This Paula (2012) looks absolutely reptilian. Marie testified that she had seen her Mom hit Sylvia only when she was bad. She went on to swear that she had never seen her mother kick the girl, burn her, or mistreat her in any other manner. No charges were brought against her. More at IMDbPro. Ketchum believably depicts Davids confusion of conscience and his reluctance to take a stand against the others and stop the show until it is too late. On October 26, 1965, police found Sylvia Likenss emaciated corpsecovered with more than 150 wounds ranging from burns to cutssprawled on a filthy mattress in the Indianapolis home of 37-year-old Gertrude Baniszewski, mother of seven and the architect of the girls untimely gruesome death. Jenny Likens enrolled in a Job Corps program in 1966 and later got a job in a bank. He reportedly died in February 2013 at the age of 86 in Fontana, California. Years of poverty and abuse had worn Baniszewski down and although she was thirty-six years old, she weighed only 100 Near the end, Sylvia was no longer permitted to leave the house. ! She hobbled to the witness stand in a new dress and, in a voice sometimes firm, sometimes halting, and often choked with tears, detailed the horrors she and her sister had suffered. The second-oldest of the Baniszewski children, Stephanie was 15 at the time of the crime. However, she did participate in the cruelty and torture of her friend Sylvia. Baniszewski was born on September 19, 1929, in Indianapolis, Indiana, as Gertrude Nadine Van Fossan, the third of six children. Blake claims he turned his life around after finding God. The second-oldest of the Baniszewski children, Stephanie, was 15 at the time of the crime. A tour of the house This case was somehow more disturbing than other crimes, mainly because the abuse was carried out not just by the caregiver but also by her own children, some as young as 10, and by other children in the neighborhood. Of all the Baniszewski offspring, the least is known about him. Gertrude and Paula Baniszewski were sentenced to life terms at the Indiana Womens Prison in Indianapolis. The elementary school aged child was tearful right from the start. Lester apparently believed her, because during several subsequent trips to the housethe last on October 5, just weeks before his daughters deathhe noticed nothing out of order. I dunno; it's hard for me to feel her kids were entirely responsible for their actions considering the parent they had. I have too many of my own and too many worries and too many responsibilities without adding any more. Much of the testimony was sensational and pathetic, often at the same time. He was the son of Gertrudes lover, Dennis Lee Wright Sr., who abandoned the family shortly after his namesakes birth. The prosecution was seeking the death penalty for all the accused and it was widely expected that, at least in Mrs. Baniszewskis case, they would get it. I hear a song; relief. That was punishment, allegedly, for having spread rumors that the elder two Baniszewski girls, including Paula, were prostitutes. He decided to come forward to say that there is hope for young murderers and that they can turn their lives around. A never-published play called Hey, Rube was also inspired by this slaying and that leads us to a most bizarre coincidence. Sylvia Likens died at the hands of Getrude Baniszewski, a woman who was supposed to take care of her. She firmly denied all the terrible acts attributed to her. Will we allow such acts? When Wessner gently asked her why she hadnt sought help, young Likens replied, I was scared. Damn old Gertrude died. Patte Wheat brought the story into the 1970s in By Sanction of the Victim. She also recalled slapping a misbehaving Sylvias hands. However, even as Gertrude testified for herself, she often seemed to be testifying against the dead Sylvia. Look it up. But that is not the only detail that makes Sylvias case so brutal and so sad. It was children doing what they were told.. Also, we have no information about his son and daughter. Exclusive Events + Special Offers. According to the afterward in The Indiana Torture Slaying, Lester Likens found out his son was dead when a letter the father had written to Benny was returned marked Deceased., The people of Indianapolis have not forgotten Sylvia. When Gertrude, a sickly asthmatic, didnt feel up to disciplining Sylvia, she relied on her oldest child, Paula, to help out. Here, a peek at the lives of the participants in the murder of Sylvia Likens 50 years later. It was called the most terrible crime ever committed in Indiana, and half a century later, that title still holds. Makes me ill to know that people are so consumed by evil and glad to know that there will be Divine judgement. The Grundy County Sheriffs Office in Iowa received an ominous voice mail earlier this month: A teachers aide at the local high school was a member of an Indianapolis family that tortured and killed a girl in 1965. He also reportedly lost his job in 2007 when the movie An American Crime, about the Sylvia Likens case, debuted. When Baniszewski realized Sylvia might be dying, she forced her to write a note saying a gang of boys beat her. It is possible, although not certain, that the Likens case served as an inspiration for Mendal Johnsons only novel, Lets Go Play at the Adams.The parallels are not nearly as strong as in The Girl Next Door and By Sanction of the Victim. Community. If we wanted to go outside and play, shed let us, and maybe shed come out and mess around and play, joke around. Everyone that participated in the beating of Sylvia Likens, and the people who knew about it should all die of abuse. Sylvia was seriously tormented to the demise by Gertrude Baniszewski, where Gertrude likewise elaborate a portion of her kids and two area kids in tormenting Sylvia. Managed by: Private User Last Updated: May 23, 2018: View Complete Profile . How can she be around children? Dianna contacted social services, but when a worker showed up at the Baniszewski residence, Jenny told her (on threat of punishment from Gertrude) that Sylvia had run away. Shitty house for a shitty person, hope that she as a shitty life too. Baniszewski told them the girl had been attacked by a gang of boys, and she even produced a note written in Sylvias own hand that seemed to confirm that story. She was released after a few years. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a14b38ec90c0bd6 She wrote that she was able to speak with her mother on the phone, and they told each other, "I love you.". As Gertrude and a gang of teenagers watched, Sylvia was forced to undress in the living room and insert an empty Coke bottle into her vagina. The third-oldest of the Baniszewski children and an active participant in Sylvias torture, John was 12 when she died. Add or change photo on IMDbPro. 2010 The Thought & Expression Company, LLC. I condemn her for being a murderess, thats what I do, Erbecker said, but I say shes not responsible because shes not all here! He pointed to his head. However, a court ruled that the boards hearing had not been properly open to the public and a new vote had to be taken. 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