Content warning: The following article contains disturbing descriptions of abuse. In October 1965, police officers in Indianapolis, Ind., found Sylvia Likens, 16, dead on a mattress in her caretaker's ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa teacher’s aide has been suspended after school officials learned she was the member of an Indianapolis family who tortured and killed a girl in the basement of their ...

Not even the considerable talents of lead thesps Catherine Keener and Ellen Page can alleviate the artistic nullity that is “An American Crime.” Director and co-scripter Tommy O’Haver brings no depth ...

DES MOINES, Iowa – An Iowa teacher's aide was fired Tuesday after school officials recently learned she was the member of an Indianapolis family who tortured and killed a girl in the basement of their ...

No actual murders are nice to hear about, but the vicious killing of teenager Sylvia Likens is especially unpleasant. Sylvia and her sister Jenny were living with a woman named Gertrude Baniszewski ...

DES MOINES, Iowa—An Iowa teacher’s aide was fired Tuesday after school officials recently learned she was the member of an Indianapolis family who tortured and killed a girl in the basement of their ...

In October 1965, police officers in Indianapolis, Ind., found Sylvia Likens, 16, dead on a mattress in her caretaker's home. The teenager's body, emaciated and weak from malnutrition, was covered in ...