House of EvilJohn DeanLabel: St Martin's PressDescription: In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid 1960's through a twist of fate and fortune a pretty young girl came to live with a thirty-seven-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens' parents and Gertrude Baniszewski turned into a crime that would haunt cops prosecutors and a community for decades to come...When police found Sylvia's emaciated body with a chilling message carved into her flesh they knew that she had suffered tremendously before her death. Soon they would learn how many others-including some of Baniszewski's own children-participated in Sylvia's murder and just how much torture had been inflicted in one House Of Evil.
