Consider this episode a warning, please make sure you are looking into the people you leave your children with. Or, as Janelle would say, just don’t have kids.
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Research Links here!:
Wikipedia – “Sylvia Likens”
Murderpedia – “Gertrude Baniszewski”
Indianapolis Monthly – “Looking Back On Indiana’s Most Infamous Crime, 50 Years Later”
All That’s Interesting – “Sylvia Likens: The Story Of A 16-Year-Old Tortured And Murdered By A Neighborhood”
Indy Star – “The 1965 torture and murder of Sylvia Likens”
Indy Star – “The murder of Sylvia Likens”
“House of Evil: The Indiana Torture Slaying” by John Dean (Amazon)
The Village Voice – “Kate Millett on the Sylvia Likens Case: The Sexual Aesthetic”
A&E – “The ‘Killer Nanny’ Case: What Drives Some Babysitters to Murder”
ABC 7 – “Naperville woman guilty in stabbing death of 2 children”
CBS Chicago – “Elzbieta Plackowska”
Daily Herald – “Psychiatrist: Plackowska “had all the money and no hugs” growing up in Poland”
WBBM News Radio – “Double Homicide Conviction Upheld For Naperville Woman Who Killed 2 Children, 2 Dogs”
Daily News – “Illinois mother said ‘black shadow’ told her to kill children she stabbed more than 100 times”
People – “Illinois Woman Allegedly Stabbed Kids More Than 100 Times Believing They Were Possessed: Defense”
The People of the State of Illinois v. Elzbieta M. Plackowska
