An American Crime

An American Crime

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

200797 min7.3 / 10

A harrowing true-crime account of systematic child abuse and torture in a suburban home, told with unflinching darkness and moral weight.

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

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