The Torturing Death of Sylvia Marie Likens

Archives of The Indianapolis Star and the defunct The Indianapolis News.

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Johnson, Mendal; Let's Go Play at the Adams.'

Ketchum, Jack; The Girl Next Door; Overlook Connection Press, Woodstock, GA, 1996.

Millett, Kate; The Basement; Simon and Schuster, New York, 1979.

Wheat, Patti; By Sanction of the Victim.

The author thanks Tommy O'Haver for giving an interview.

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"For Sylvia Likens." http://forsylvialikens.yuku.com/directory

"For the film THE GIRL NEXT DOOR." WilliamMMiller.net.

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"Sylvia Marie Likens." http://sylvia-marie.memory-of.com/About.aspx