It had all the earmarks of schoolyard bullying gone horribly out of control. A group of children ganged up on another child, and tortured her to death. But instead of a schoolyard, the scene of the ...

Unpleasant at every turn and about as enlightening as the newspaper recap following the death of Gertrude Baniszewski, who oversaw the torture and eventual murder of a teenage girl in her home. By ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa teacher’s aide has been suspended after school officials learned she was the member of an Indianapolis family who tortured and killed a girl in the basement of their ...

PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - Would anyone have greenlighted "An American Crime," a movie about a real-life female sicko, were it not for the success of "Monster?" Sign up here. The Gertrude ...

Sylvia, 16, the daughter of circus workers, was left for several months in the care of neighbor Gertrude Baniszewski, who took out her anger on Likens. Baniszewski kept Sylvia hostage and tortured her ...

DES MOINES, Iowa – An Iowa teacher's aide was fired Tuesday after school officials recently learned she was the member of an Indianapolis family who tortured and killed a girl in the basement of their ...

CONRAD, Iowa -- The students who worked with Paula Pace knew a quiet,friendly educator who helped them with test questions and homeworkassignments. They didn't know Paula Baniszewski, the woman ...

Even the most skillful actors occasionally find themselves saddled with roles they can’t make sense of. This is Catherine Keener’s misfortune in “An American Crime,” a dramatization of a horrific act ...

DES MOINES, Iowa—An Iowa teacher’s aide was fired Tuesday after school officials recently learned she was the member of an Indianapolis family who tortured and killed a girl in the basement of their ...