Behind Closed Doors Part 2

Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings

Jim Chapman

True Crime

4.8 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast by Kelly Jennings brings you part 2 of the disturbing case of the torture mother.

Gertrude Baniszewski was an Indiana divorcee who oversaw and facilitated the prolonged torture, mutilation, and eventual murder of Sylvia Likens, a teenage girl she had taken into her home.

The case is unique in that, while Baniszewski did play an active role in Likens' death, the majority of the torture that eventually brought about Likens' demise was carried out by Baniszewski's teenage children and other neighborhood children.

Although Baniszewski did instruct the children on several occasions, it was later discovered that they took a large degree of Likens' torture into their own hands, in what would later be called a Lord of the Flies scenario come to life. When she was convicted of first degree murder in 1965, the case was called "the single worst crime perpetuated against an individual in Indiana's history".
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0:00.0	Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims,
0:11.7	whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering, how is this even real?
0:30.9	I use my experiences in law enforcement, corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts.
0:34.4	Some so evil, many feel they are unspeakable.
0:50.4	The unspeakable. Warning, unspeakable is intended for mature audiences.
0:54.0	If you are easily offended, then I'm not your
0:56.0	girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all. Kelly Jennings here back for another episode of
1:00.7	Unspeakable. What are you doing? Guess what? I'm getting over this cold finally. So I think I'm
1:05.8	doing better. And I got a good episode for you today. But before I start, I got to give some shoutouts to some new patron members, Patreon. So all the way from Blue Ridge, Illinois, Miss Donna,
1:17.5	Graham. Hey, Ms. Donna, thank you so much for joining. And I've got some people from Texas, which I like Texas because my sister lives there,
1:25.4	Ms. Carla Griffith, all the way in Tyler, Texas, along with Crystal Hill in Tomball, Texas.
1:33.0	Hey, y'all.
1:33.6	Thanks for holding it down over there and for listening to my show.
1:36.9	And I've got some people from the great state right here of Louisiana, Miss Shelby
1:41.4	Highsmith from Independence.
1:43.2	Hey, girl, what's up? Bella Robo. Belarobo, I remember
1:48.3	Bella Robo from Walker, Louisiana, and Caitlin Matranga from Denham Springs, Louisiana. This is the
1:54.6	ultimate, oh my God, y'all, I taught these two kids. I remember y'all, and I'm going to talk
1:58.7	about it, but I remember y'all, and to have kids
2:02.0	join your Patreon after they had to suffer through your class for a whole year because they want to
2:06.0	keep listening to you. That's just, I don't know, that's awesome, and I appreciate it. And
2:11.2	Caitlin, you remember me calling you Gupta Darday? I do. Now the world knows. She worked at a
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