• Gertrude Baniszewski's
• Daughter Paula Pace
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• By Lynn A. Granata

On October 24, 2012 an Iowa school teacher was fired from her job. Her name, Paula Pace.

The person connected to this case is none other than the queen of sadism herself, the former Paula (nee) Baniszewski.

Yes, that's right, that Paula, oh...

She certainly has gotten old looking so fast? Is it really her? When you look at the shape of her face, her nose in the photograph to the left looks less pugnacious than it does in the right picture taken of her while she was still very much in her youth. Could she have had plastic surgery? The ridge of her nose in the picture to the right is much more narrower than it is in the left photograph. The shape of her forehead is higher in the right picture and more domal than in the second picture. Her forehead is flatter in her more recent picture. As far as her eyes, she appears to have less life in them than in the young picture. They're even shaped differently too. In her young mugshot photo her eyes are much wider and somewhat larger than in the middled aged picture. Then her hairline in the young photograph is much more receding than in her picture on the left. The only thing that hasn't changed much are her eyebrows. Save for the fact that they're lighter now that she is older.  Also, she has obviously gained a considerable amount of weight, not to say that she was ever predestined to be thin anyway. You could argue the point all day long if these pictures clandestinly match her identity. Something still doesn't quite fit here. There is one thing that is for certain about the physiology of the human face and that is that it doesn't change in shape regardless of the age. I wouldn't rule out plastic surgery though, it can do wonders, especially if you have committed a crime that was so heinous and atrocious that the whole world remembered. You can run Paula, but you just can't hide.

She was fired when it was found out right away thank God! She was working as a teacher's aid at an elementary school in the physical education department for special education students! Imagine having to send your child to school everyday to be at the mercy of the former Elizabeth Bathory.

However, when her profile on Facebook was discovered, then it became apparent that she was the Paula who was the daughter of Gertie Baniszewski and the accomplice to the grisly murder of their peer, Sylvia Likens, 16 in the summer and fall of 1965. Her pictures posted on Facebook explained she had been living in a small 4 room house in an Iowa hamlet. However the thing that gave it away about her connection to Sylvia Likens was the mention of her maiden name Baniszewski. Yes, oh... It was that Paula.