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Human Monsters

Child Abuse Part 10: Gertrude Baniszewski and & The Tragedy of Sylvia Likens

Human Monsters

Morgan Rector & Glassbox Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

3.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Summary

Gertrude Baniszewski was the foster mother from Hell, and unfortunately Sylvia Likens became a victim of her wrath at a time when she was most in need of compassion. Please contribute to my Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/humanmonsters/human-monsters-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a Blast Box Media Podcast.

0:05.0

From our sponsor Genius Books and Media. The result of my investigation indicate that you are the guy who raped those women.

0:21.3

Collins stiffened and began to shake even harder.

0:25.0

I thought I heard his teeth chattering.

0:29.0

The farmer was visibly shaken by what he had seen. As he walked up, he blurted out.

0:39.0

I knew it was that little boy. My God, it's awful, that poor little boy. The reports describe a

0:50.4

man who showed no remorse or guilt and confided to doctors that he couldn't stop.

0:58.0

One of the psychiatrists noted,

1:01.0

you don't cure people like this, you try to isolate them from opportunities to have this happen.

1:10.0

Those are three snapshots from Captain Dean T. Olson's 30-year career in law enforcement.

1:16.8

Now retired, Olson was commander of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Douglas County Sheriff's Department in Omaha, Nebraska.

1:25.0

He has seen some of the most horrible crimes committed by one person against another,

1:31.0

and he has arrested some of the worst sexual predators the nation has ever seen.

1:37.0

He has written a memoir about his experiences as an investigator called Evil Desire, recolollections of a Sex Crimes Detective.

1:46.0

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2:29.0

See, I've started this Kickstarter campaign for the purpose of raising $500 to buy a very good high-end

2:37.6

microphone and pop-guard.

2:40.1

I know what you're thinking.

2:41.7

Why should I give you any money? What's in it for me?

2:45.7

I knew you'd think that. I'll tell you how you will benefit from your donation.

2:50.9

The most common complaint I've gotten is that people can hear my lips smack together.

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