Word: hobbses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"This," said Prosecutor Leroy New, "has been the most terrible crime ever committed in the state of Indiana." There could be little disagreement from the crowds who had jammed the Indianapolis courtroom for five weeks. What attracted-and repelled-the spectators was the trial of Mrs. Gertrude Baniszewski, 37, two...
The Last Day. Though Sylvia's fate had already been limned in considerable detail (TIME, May 6), the trial shed light on several crucial questions raised by the case. Why, for example, did Sylvia not escape from the Baniszewski house, where police found her lacerated body last October? From...
Slaps & Punches. For two months, things went pleasantly enough. Then one day Paula Baniszewski, now 11, hit Sylvia on the jaw so hard that Paula broke her wrist. Paula's mother took to slapping Sylvia for ever more frequent, if imagined, offenses. She did not complain to her parents...
Brands & Salt. Around mid-October, after Sylvia had wet her bed, Mrs. B. ordered her to sleep thereafter in the basement on a pile of filthy rags, along with the family's two dogs. Later, according to Hobbs, Mrs. B. told Sylvia, "Now I'm going to brand...
In December, a grand jury indicted Gertrude Baniszewski, Paula, Stephanie and John Jr., along with Hubbard and Hobbs, on charges of first-degree murder. (Under Indiana law, minors face the same maximum penalty for murder as adults: the electric chair.) As the trial got under way last week before a...