The Girl on New York Street: The True Crime Story of Sylvia Likens (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798254613848)

She was sixteen years old. She was placed in a house by her parents. She never left it alive.

On October 26, 1965, police entered a modest frame house at 3850 East New York Street in Indianapolis, Indiana and found Sylvia Likens on a mattress on the floor. She had been there for one hundred and thirteen days.

What happened inside that house - and how it was allowed to happen - became one of the most devastating true crime cases in American history. Five people stood trial. A city was forced to confront what it had ignored. And the laws governing child protection in Indiana were permanently rewritten in the aftermath.

The Girl on New York Street follows Sylvia Likens from the beginning - her childhood, her family, the summer arrangement that placed her at that address, the four months that followed, and the trial and legacy that extended across decades. Every fact in this account is drawn from court transcripts, trial testimony, police records, and historical documentation.

This is the case that changed Indiana law.
This is the street that a city could not forget.
This is the story of the girl who lived there.

Author: Hahn S. Albritton
ISBN-13: 9798254613848
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2026
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d