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Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

The Torture & Murder of Sylvia Likens

Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

Allison and Mike

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This is the heartbreaking story of the murder & torture of Sylvia Likens which took place in Indianapolis, Indiana in October of 1965. The 16 year old girl was tortured & beaten over a three week period by at least 10 people.  Big trigger warnings in this story due to child abuse & sexual torture.

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References:

  • Peoplepill.com: Murder of Sylvia Likens. American Torture & Murder Victim.
  • The Disturbing Death of Sylvia Likens by Heather Monroe
  • True Crime Edition: The Torture & Murder of Sylvia Likens
  • Retro Indy: The Murder of Sylvia Likens, as told over 50 years ago
  • Wikipedia

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    Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

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    Transcript

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    0:00.0

    Hey everybody, welcome back to crime and coffee.

    0:07.1

    I'm Allison.

    0:08.1

    And I'm Mike.

    0:09.2

    And we're glad to have you back here.

    0:10.8

    Yeah.

    0:11.1

    Hey, we've had some decent success here just launching, what, a week ago or two weeks ago now.

    0:17.1

    Yeah.

    0:17.7

    Time kind of just slips by.

    0:19.2

    So I think it's been about less than two weeks.

    0:21.2

    Yeah.

    0:21.5

    Yeah.

    0:21.8

    So we've got a good amount of downloads.

    0:24.4

    We're active on Instagram and Twitter.

    0:26.7

    You can find us at Crime and Coffee too because somebody took Crime and Coffee and is just

    0:31.6

    sitting on it.

    0:32.3

    I think two different people on two different platforms.

    0:34.5

    Maybe they have some big plans.

    0:36.1

    Yeah.

    0:36.5

    Maybe they do.

    0:37.0

    Who knows?

    0:39.6

    And who are we to take that from them?

    0:40.3

    I don't know.

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