Behind Closed Doors Part 4

Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings

Jim Chapman

True Crime

4.8 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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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.
0:56.3	If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl.
1:01.4	Listing discretion is advised. Hey y'all, KJ here back for another episode of Unspeakable. What's going on? I can tell you one thing that's going on. All my people on Patreon, good Lord have
1:07.2	mercy. There are a bunch of people I have to give a shout out to today. And let me just
1:12.4	get going because there's a list. Now, what's cool about it is it's all girls and one boy.
1:18.9	And I just have to say I'm a pretty big fan of the boy, the man that signed up because his last
1:25.2	name is Jennings. My own husband signed up. And so Blake Jennings,
1:30.9	this is your shoutout. Yes, he's here. You get a shout out from your wife. Thank you so much for
1:37.9	joining in, sir. It means so much that you support me. All right. But some other names I got to give a shout out to
1:45.4	Brittany Goshae, Christy Vogel, Sharon Dixon, Sarah Brown, and I also have to give a shout
1:56.1	out to Cecilia. Now, Cecilia, girlfriend, I have butchered your last name.
2:02.5	I've gotten it wrong about a hundred times, so I googled your last name.
2:06.0	Check it out.
2:08.3	Sutendbook?
2:09.4	Suttonbook?
2:10.3	Am I right this time?
2:12.0	Cecilia, Suttonbook?
2:14.0	Did I get you right this time?
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