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Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings

Behind Closed Doors Part 3

Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings

Jim Chapman

True Crime

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast by Kelly Jennings brings you part 3 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.

0:53.6

Warning, unspeakable is intended for mature audiences.

1:27.8

If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all. Kelly Jennings here back for another episode of Unspeakable. What's going on? I know it's been a whole week and y'all were like, girl, hurry up and finish this episode. We want to know what happens in the end. I'm getting there, y'all. I'm getting there. I'm also getting sick still. So I sound kind of like a, I smoked a crack pipe before I started, but it didn't. I'm just, I'm very sultry. Let's go around. But hey, hey, I wanted to say hey to everybody, came out to Fall Fest and came and saw me at my booth and said, hey, to me, we took some pictures. I posted some of those online. And I had a really good time meeting y'all. I love it when people come up to meet me.

1:31.2

And I can put your faces to your names. And when we talk online and then I get to meet you in person. That's really fun for me. I even got to meet one of my listeners, but former students, Maggie, her aunt and her mama, no, her aunt, I don't know, her whole family, a bunch of short

1:45.2

ladies came up to meet me and made me look like a giant because they were all T-T-T-Tiny little ladies. But I just was so tickled to meet all of you. And so we're going to be doing some more stuff out in the public and just stay tuned for that and come, come see me, y'all. when I tell you I'm a beast somewhere, come say, hey, it'll be a lot of fun.

1:43.3

So today, I'm going to be

2:01.8

jumping back into part three of behind closed doors but I have a little personal statement that I want

2:06.6

to throw out there and I hope everybody will pay attention to it but um I have given plenty of time

2:12.7

behind the scenes for law enforcement in rosdale louis to handle their business. And this is regarding a

2:21.3

friend of mine that died, and yes, it was a drug overdose. However, just because she died of a

2:26.1

drug overdose does not make her less than. It makes her, if anything, someone who needed people

2:31.4

to fight for her and to find justice for her. And that didn't happen.

2:35.6

So officially today on this episode, I would like every single human being in Rosdale, Louisiana,

2:41.6

to know that a 5'4 white criminal justice teacher female from Livingston Parish, Louisiana,

2:48.4

is about to come after that ass. And that is not a threat.

2:51.6

That is a promise to every heroin dealer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who is sending your shit to

2:57.5

Rosedale, Louisiana. I got you. I have phone records and I have it in your own words. So I hope

3:03.9

when you hear this, I hope whenever you're dealing your shit out there in Rosedale, Louisiana, and you're killing people, including my friend, I hope when you hear this, I hope whenever you're dealing your shit out there in Rosdale, Louisiana, and you're killing people, including my friend, I hope now you look

3:12.2

over your shoulder when you ride your bicycle to people's houses to deliver it.

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