The torture of Sylvia Likens...

Originally Posted by boobies

Sometimes it's disturbing to read/know these things, but sometimes it's also intriguing.

Scary, isn't it? I was really intruiged when reading it. Intruiged and disgusted at the same time, I almost felt guilty for thinking how interesting this was. "This would make a good fictional work. Possibly a movie or a book" I thought, as I read on to find that it had actually been done/is in the makings:

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* Feminist Kate Millett wrote a semi-fictional book relating to the incident, The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice.

* Author Natty Bumppo (aka John Dean) wrote an account of the murder, The Indiana Torture Slaying.

* Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door is a fictional story based on the murder set in the 1950s.

* Patte Wheat's By Sanction of the Victim is a fictional story based on the incident, set in the 1970s.

* It has been suggested that Mendal Johnson's book, Let's Go Play at the Adams' was based on the Likens case. While there are no blatant parallels as in some other books, certain aspects of the story seem to be drawn from the case, such as the ringleader of the abusers having a physical description similar to Baniszewski's.

* An unpublished play called Hey, Rube was written by Janet McReynolds, though was never produced.

* The true-crime encyclopedia Bloodletters and Badmen by Jay Robert Nash contains an entry on Baniszewski and the case, though some details are innaccurate.

* The film An American Crime starring Catherine Keener as Baniszewski, and Ellen Page as Likens is currently in production.

Jam it back in, in the dark.