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.
Yup, he really was the Klan in Indy back on those days. That’s why it’s an aberration from the normal Democrat operation.