With Friends Like These: Kirsten Costas

Part 2 of the Sylvia Likens case examines the heartbreaking final hours of Sylvia Likens, one of the most horrific child abuse and murder cases in American history. On October 26, 1965, after months of unimaginable torture inside a home in Indianapolis, Indiana, 16-year-old Sylvi ...  Show more

Police arrived at the New York Street house and quickly realized the story didn’t add up. Within hours, Gertrude Baniszewski, her children, and neighborhood teens were arrested in the torture of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens. In court, everyone pointed fingers—mother against children ...  Show more

Today our story is from Cumbria in 2012. When one person wants more from a friendship events take a sinister turn with tragic results.

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They met in High School and became popular and inseparable. One of them was even voted “Miss Irresistible.” 

Fifteen-year-old Kirsten Costas was popular, athletic, and a cheerleader. She was everything fellow classmate Bernadette Protti wanted to be. And when Bernadette couldn’t get the attention she wanted from Kirsten, she killed her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone. ...  Show more

Joe West and Oscar Lee Morris were childhood friends. They grew up together in South LA, came of age together, and soon followed one another into a life of petty crime. But in 1979, those crimes became more serious. Deadly serious. Suddenly, their friendship is tested to breaking ...  Show more