The Letter She Was Forced to Write: The Sylvia Likens Case
The Letter She Was Forced to Write: The Sylvia Likens Case
On October 26, 1965, police entered a house at 3850 East New York Street in Indianapolis and found the body of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens, along with a letter, written in her own handwriting, claiming she had run away with a group of boys. The letter was dictated two days before she died. Why was a cover story drafted before the death it explained? How did three months of escalating abuse unfold on a crowded residential block where neighbors admitted they heard screams? And why did the case's only justice depend on a whispered sentence…
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