An American Crime

The true story of a child's punishment that became a woman's crime.

Plot Summary

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

7.3 /10

2007

US

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rape

carnival

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dysfunctional family

basement

murder

teenage girl

torture

church

single mother

true crime

watching tv

jumping on a bed

1960s

mistreatment

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