# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sylvia-likens
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:08:22.681Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sylvia-likens"
name: "Sylvia Likens"
slug: "sylvia-likens"
description: "Sylvia Marie Likens was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighborhood friends. The abuse lasted for three months, occurring incrementally, before Likens died from her extensive injuries and malnourishment on October 26, 1965, in Indianapolis, Indiana."
tagline: "American torture and murder victim (1949–1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sylvia_Likens_c._1965.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1949-01-03"
deathDate: "1965-10-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.63
  momentum:             0.5449600318583218
  historical:           12.403
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Sylvia Likens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "سيلفيا ليكنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens"
    title: "Sylvia Likens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens"
    title: "Sylvia Likens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens"
    title: "Sylvia Likens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens"
    title: "Sylvia Likens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens"
    title: "Sylvia Likens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens"
    title: "Sylvia Likens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens"
    title: "Sylvia Likens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9"
    title: "スィルヴィア・ライケンス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens"
    title: "Sylvia Likens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens"
    title: "Sylvia Likens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens"
    title: "Sylvia Likens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens"
    title: "Sylvia Likens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1515355"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump