79: True Crime Theater: Sylvia Likens

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we start our new series titled "True Crime Theater" where we discuss movies that were inspired by real crimes or movies that inspired people to commit crimes. The first episode is the abuse and death of Sylvia Likens, a 16 year old teenager living with a large family while her own parents worked with the travelling carnival. The movie "An American Crime" is based on her story and is available on Amazon Prime.

Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"

Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"

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Transition Music by:
Nick Scarantino
Scarytino.com

Sources:
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/history/retroindy/2013/10/24/sylvia-likens/3178393/
https://www.indystar.com/videos/news/history/retroindy/2018/10/08/1965-torture-murder-16-year-old-sylvia-likens/1565519002/
https://www.indianapolismonthly.com/features/looking-back-indianas-infamous-crime-50-years-later/
https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-the-people-guilty-of-the-torture-and-murder-of-Sylvia-Likens
https://historyandotherthingsweb.wordpress.com/2018/06/25/sylvia-likens/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sylvia_Likens
https://www.thescarechamber.com/sylvia-likens/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone's Jen.
0:25.0	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.2	And welcome back to Corpus Delecti.
0:29.0	We are officially back on a brand new series, super excited.
0:33.1	And we have talked about it.
0:35.3	And we are going with murders or crimes that inspired movies.
0:40.6	So.
0:40.9	Or vice versa.
0:42.0	It could be like movies that inspired people to commit a crime.
0:46.7	Yes.
0:47.1	So definitely, if you're a movie buff, you know, once we talk about this on the podcast, go watch the movie. But I will warn you,
0:56.5	some of them are a little bit scary. So if you don't like scary movies, you might just want
1:01.6	to listen to the podcast. And we're going to title the series, True Crime Theater. And we haven't
1:07.4	really decided yet. There could be some TV thrown in there, like TV shows.
1:12.4	We haven't decided yet, but it'll be on the screen, things on screen.
1:17.3	So guys, I'm going to apologize.
1:18.9	First and foremost, for my throat.
1:21.0	I am not sick.
1:23.3	I am just exhausted.
1:26.0	I think that is the only way to put this.
1:29.4	I am thoroughly and utterly exhausted.
1:32.9	So I think Lindsay's going to be my boat in the next couple of weeks, but we're going to make it through together, aren't we?
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