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Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings

Jim Chapman

True Crime

4.8 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast by Kelly Jennings brings you 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.
1:01.9	Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all. KJ here back for another episode of Unspeakable. How are you doing?
1:06.4	You probably notice I sound a little stuffy, but that's because I got something going on.
1:13.0	But I'm going to fight through just for you. I'm going to tell a good story today, but before I start, I have to give some shoutouts to some people because we got some new patron members in the house.
1:17.5	Let's start with Miss Carly Henson from Bruley, Louisiana,
1:22.3	and Charlene Bordlawn from Walker, Louisiana.
1:25.5	I mean, hello, Louisiana peeps.
1:28.7	I've also got Tracy Ray from the Great, I was about to say the great state, but from the great area of Denham Springs,
1:34.2	Louisiana, all my Louisiana people, what's up? Super glad to have you. Now, I also have Ms.
1:40.2	Brianna Jones and Lee S. No last name for Lee, but hey, Lee, you know who you are.
1:46.7	Hey, remember, if you didn't put your address on Patreon, I can't send you your awesome little
1:50.7	gifts that I like to send out. So go in there and make sure that you have your address for me
1:54.9	so I can get everything to you. And then from the great state of Texas, I've got Ms.
1:59.8	Shelly Fane and Ms. Sharon Dixon. How are y'all doing over there? Hey, y'all. And then Alabama, I cannot support your team. I'm sorry, Ms. Jamie. I can't do it. I was born against it, but I can support you. And you can support me. How about that? So, Ms. Jamie Patterson, how are you doing?
2:19.3	Then I, I can't believe it.
2:20.6	Ohio.
2:21.5	How you doing Ohio?
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