[SoCal Pubbie]

The Klan hold on Indiana was largely a power move by the local leader, D.C. Stephenson. He was a real piece of work. Anyway, the Klan in the 20s was less worried about about blacks than immigrants and Catholics.

[colorado tanker]

I spent a week in law school studying the Stephenson case. His kidnapping, rape and torture of a young woman and her resulting suicide is one of the seminal cases establishing “depraved heart murder” (or “extreme indifference” to deadly danger) as a second degree homicide crime. After his conviction the Indiana Klan rapidly declined.