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Episode 190 - Sylvia Likens: The Girl in the Basement

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Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

On 26 October 1965, in the basement of a house in Indianapolis, the police found the body of 16 year old Sylvia Likens. Her remains were covered in over 150 wounds consistent with unspeakable cruelty, torture and sexual abuse.


As the truth came out behind just who had been responsible, the nation looked on in disbelief...


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0:00.0

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0:14.5

I'm Sruti. I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded. Back, back, back again. How do we cough? Kind of, you still got an episode? Good fun.

0:24.6

Oh, yeah, I didn't even remember that we'd taken a week off. Honestly, right? What even is a week?

0:30.1

That's how much that week off was needed, people. Honestly, there's just, we'll talk about it later,

0:34.9

but there's a lot that's been going on. Workwise, good things, not like we've been having some sort of drama,

0:40.4

though I did just tell Hannah, I think I got like, cleaning product in my eye, so they are incredibly

0:47.9

irritated and just feels like they're full of fucking sand, loose sand, just rubbing about on my

0:56.2

cornea. That's what it feels like. And if that feels like a painful image, then it's a good setup

1:01.6

for this episode. Oh, God, yeah. On your own heads, this one. Hundreds of you, and I'm not exaggerating,

1:08.2

literally hundreds of you have asked us to do this. It is not going to be fun for anybody involved.

1:14.2

If you do find it enjoyable, go and see someone, but you asked for it, so you're going to get it,

1:19.6

because although we're not a total democracy, we like to make you feel like it is sometimes,

1:25.7

like a fascist, like a flawed democracy. Exactly. We're the house of lords.

1:33.5

You are like one of the chill, the chill ones, like Baroness Lawrence. She's cool. I like her.

1:38.3

Excellent. I'll take that. But before we kick off into this fucking night,

1:43.4

mere fuel episode that you have forced us into doing, very quick announcement. If you would like to

1:50.1

get some merch, it's only going to be up on the store for like another few weeks. I can't really

1:55.9

see very clearly, so I can't see the calendar or check when that isn't to be, but it's soon.

2:01.3

Okay. This is my ominous warning to you that the merch shall soon be disappearing. So if you

2:06.9

would like some, go get some. It's at redhandedshop.com. That's it. That's all. Exactly. Get your

2:15.4

grubby little mitts on our squeaky clean merch, because it's new. It's not going to get like a

2:21.6

gross jumper in the post. I'm going to stop. Not a lot of sleep or eating is happening at the moment.

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