THE MURDER MINUTE - GERTRUDE BANISZEWSKI, THE TORTURE MOTHER

02/14/21 • 1 min

Welcome to the True Crime IRL Murder Minute, hosted by Kelli Berens-Brink. It's one murder, in one minute. Let's go! In 1965 police found the body of 16-year-old, Sylvia Likens. She was covered in cigarette burns and sprawled out on a filthy mattress in the home of 37-year-old Gertrude Baniszewski. This is the story of The Torture Mother.

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